Lauren Reagan

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!

We have two dogs in the house. Once in a while I’ll find a pile of poop or a puddle of dog pee and I have to tell you that it is becoming a challenge in determining which of the dogs have done the dirty deed of doing their business inside the house. I had a doggy door installed last Spring, so that they can go in and out at their leisure and that has worked wonders, for the most part. But like I said every now and then one of them is not using the doggy door and I’m getting frustrated with trying to figure which one is causing the mess. What a pain!

One of my good customers at the bar and grill that I work at just recently started a job at the biggest Advertising Agency in town. I am so excited for him since he is a single Dad and has been out of work for over a year now. Instead of him coming in and telling such horrible tales of woe he is now coming in with such positive and funny stories to share with us all.

It is interesting to see and here how today’s Advertising Agency employees have turned to the Internet for most of their work. The days of relying on the paper versions of the Yellow Pages and newspapers for the majority of their advertising are long gone. It’s all about going digital. Don’t get me wrong people are still using the old media ways only instead of the paper version they are going online to read and watch so it is a whole new world for the typical Advertising Agency and their clients.

While this particular guy has had some good news to share, he is quite alone in this area. There are still way too many people that are unemployed here in town and all across the country. It has been over 4 years now since our economy went spiraling downhill, I don’t think anyone really thought that we would still be in the horrible situation and there still doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of this long, lonely tunnel. So we will just keep trudging along as best as we can. Thank God for family and good friends to help ride out this massive storm.

I’m sad to see the summer leave us. It always goes way too fast. It’s getting colder and colder, the wind is the worst. I have sensitive ears and the wind can give me an ear ache quickly. The leaves are all ready starting to fall off the trees, sigh…..

I’ve heard much about the Walden University’s online degree programs that are helping so many people get their degrees which ultimately enables them to make the “big” bucks. In these past few darken years of being stuck right smack dab in a major Depression the “big” bucks is what we are all striving for. In order to learn about Walden I spent some time checking them out online, I found that at WaldenU.edu that they have a very intensive website that took some time for me to absorb. You gotta remember, I just barely made it out of High School. College was never really in the picture for me, back in those days. All my mother wanted me to do was to become a secretary and marry the rich boss, she never really got over the fact that I ended up in the food and beverage industry, a bar wench.

Anyway, I’m thinking of getting into the Social Services field since I have a good heart and know how to talk and deal with people. I think that I am a compassionate human being that enjoys assisting people in any way that I can, been known to literally give the shirt off of my back to some one that needs it more than I do. Anyone that is dealing with people in need most definitely require a HUGE dose of compassion and unfortunately what I have found from personal experience and from thousands of horror stories that I have heard from friends, family and my bar customers, is that the majority of these “professionals” are seriously lacking any type of compassion along with a lot of other qualifications that I think are necessary for this type of career. I think anyone that chooses a career (any career really) should enjoy it to a certain extent and not in it just for the money.

I like to think that I help a lot of people while tending the bar, but the tip jar is rarely flowing over from them all. Knowing that I could be doing the same thing and was guarenteed to go home on payday with a sum that would not only pay the rent on a house of my own as well as the utilities, insurance premiums, taxes, and keep gas, oil and decent tires on the car, well it would be awsome. But at the end of the day if I look in the mirror and like what I see because of what I have done for somebody that day that really effected their lives that day well that is just be the ultimate high.