Lauren Reagan

I’ve had a bottle of white wine left over from many months ago, I think it was from Labor Day actually and that has been many months ago. It has been in the bottom of the refrigerator just taking up precious space since. So tonight I decided to open the sucker back up after dinner and drink what was left of it, come hell or high water.

It really wasn’t all that bad but I must say that a fresh bottle tastes a whole heck of a lot better, which reminds me that I need to pick up a bottle for Thanksgiving dinner.

I’m glad that Halloween is on a Saturday this year. It makes it so much easier when it falls on a weekend, don’t you think so? My kids are getting a bit old for trick or treating but they are still wanting to wear a costume and attend the parties that are held at school and church.

I’ll be staying home handing out candy to the neighborhood kids that come up each year. Hope it is nice weather for them, it usually isn’t raining, but it can get chilly when the sun goes down and all the ghosts and goblins come out!

More and more people are drinking bottled water, which is a good thing. The bad thing is that more and more people are just tossing the empty bottles into the trash or worse yet, littering our Mother Earth with the empties. It doesn’t take much effort to put the empties into a recycling bin people!

To further one’s education has always been a good thing. And now with the economy taking it’s toll on so many us, I’m hearing that the number of people enrolling Technical Schools is on the rise. Jobs are hard to come by these days so any type of Technical and/or Trade Schools are a must in order to get a decent paying position for most of us. I’m so pleased that the Internet has made taking college classes so much easier. It all takes time, but by using the Internet it can and does shave a good amount of our precious time off of the whole college process.

Career Colleges, Technical Schools and Trade Schools can be found collegesurfing.com. I have been tinkering with the idea of taking a Culinary Arts Class. I have always enjoyed cooking and am looking for a change of careers in the near future. I’m not in a hurry but want to start researching some of my ideas and be prepared and know what I’m getting into. Home Study is something that I think I can handle, going back to a school room environment just isn’t my cup of tea!

Last Friday I stopped at TGIF Fridays for a drink after work and met the nicest couple at the bar. We decided to share a booth and sat and talked and drank for at least two hours. I know one thing for sure, that I was getting a bit tipsy towards the end. Anyway, turns out they know many of the same crowd that I do. They are a very open and honestly pleasant couple and we hit it off rather well. They invited me to come to a party they were planning, still a month or so off, and that they had intended to invite many of the same friends we share as well. Of course I accepted, being a bit of a party girl myself still.

The kicker of it is that they are having the party out on a lake on their houseboat! Can you believe it? I can’t wait to go, I have always wanted to go on a houseboat. I remember as a little girl I used to fantasize about living on one, sort of like in the movies as in the old black and white, made for TV movie, about “Tammy and the Professor”. It should be fun, I’ll let you know how it turns out.