Though there doesn’t seem like there is ever any free time on the weekend, we found ourselves with some today.  At least we thought that we did until my daughter asked if we could help her pick a wedding location for her and her boyfriend, Michael.

We agreed to help, though they have been talking about getting married for a couple of years now, and honestly, I really don’t know when that will actually happen, if it ever does.  But, since she is our child and we want to help her whenever we can, we sat down with her to figure things out.

She had mentioned that she wanted to look into how to go about having one of those garden weddings like you see on the movies, so we started there.

We were able to find some great wedding locations in QLD, Mackay and we did a search for wedding celebrants Queensland” to create a short list of experts that we could talk to about the next steps we need to take to get this wedding planned.

I just hope that they are serious about it this time…

It seems that no matter what we try, our bedding wears out in about a year.  Whether we buy expensive bedding or cheap bedding, it doesn’t really matter – it never really lasts.

I guess that part of the problem could be that we have kids and our blankets are used for everything from dragging the kids around the house, to making forts – so we get our moneys worth out of them.

Lately, we have been looking at clearance bed in a bag sets as an alternative to the more expensive ones in the stores.  So far it looks like we can save quite a bit of money without having to sacrifice quality – I’ll update you in a year as to how it went.

After purchasing some new phones for the office, I have to say that I was a little disappointed.  You see, we spent a lot of money on the T7316E phones that we purchased and unfortunately, they were not doing what we need them to do.

So, I decided to talk to Comtech Phones, another business phone supplier and get a second opinion.  Maybe I should have done that in the first place, but I didn’t, so I have no one to blame but myself.

After discussing my needs with them, they were able to suggest  some excellent business phones by Toshiba that would work perfectly with our organization.  I purchased the required number of phones and went to the office to set them up.

It was definitely the right choice to get a second opinion, and we are very happy with those phones now.

I’ll be the first to admit that planning our wedding wasn’t the easiest thing for us to do. As it turned out my wife and I had different ideas and expectations of how our wedding should turn out and we ended up butting heads on numerous occasions.

It all started when my wife decided that she wanted to have a custom aisle runner at our wedding ceremony. I didn’t really see the relevance or need to have an aisle runner at all. But she explained to me that all of the celebrities were ordering custom aisle runners for their weddings so we should to.

But it didn’t stop there. She wanted to have specific plates, certain brands of tablecloth and even a famous chef (at least in our city) cater the meal. Though all of these bonuses would have been a nice touch, I told her that we couldn’t spend more than the budget we had decided on as we wanted to put a down payment on a home as well.

All in all, the wedding went alright though I think my wife was a little disappointed. Sometimes she brings it up still, but I guess she’ll have to live with it.

Though I don’t drink coffee every day, I do make the point of having coffee on hand just in case someone stops by. I just recently replaced my coffee maker with the best coffee maker on the market (at least according to the sales person I spoke with).

Unfortunately for me, my supposed best coffee pot wasn’t nearly close to being the best at all. In fact, after the last pot coffee I made, I would be happy to take a hammer to it and smash it into a million pieces. Not only did it make a huge mess all over the counter, but it made the worst pot of coffee ever.

So I think I’ll do some research to figure out which are the best coffee makers available on the market before I head off to the store - I don’t want another piece of junk coffee maker.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always been very artistic.  Whether it was learning how to draw from a young age, to hosting a beauty school for my younger siblings, I always loved to create something unique and wonderful each and every day.

After high school, I attended a hair school that was in our town.  The experience there was wonderful and I excelled at the program, though I really did want to do something a little bit more innovative than just doing hair.

So after I became a hair dresser, I worked for about a year to save up enough money to attend a beauty academy in our province.  According to their website, it was a great place to learn how to craft styles and distinct looks for your clients and that is exactly what I wanted to do.

It was the best choice I could have made and to this day, I get to do what I love for a living - make people look beautiful.

Being a computer programmer at heart, sometimes I find myself coming up with an idea for a new type of software.  This can be a good opportunity to make a quick buck, or just test my skills at creating a new piece of software.

But I make sure to see if someone has already created a software package that addresses the problem.  I don’t feel like there is any point in reinventing the wheel and I am happy to support other programmers if I find something I like.

In fact, I did buy software today.  You see, I was trying to convert a CSV to HTML and instead of whipping up my own application (which would have taken too much time), I just bought it instead.

I also found some wedding planner software that I am sure my future sister-in-law would love.  All in all, it was a good day to find useful software.

One of the goals of the college that I have been working for is to make sure that we can do whatever we can when it comes to finding our students jobs after they are done their degree.  In fact, we take this matter seriously as we want our students to succeed after they leave our school and find the career that they have always dreamed of.

Finding our students a job hasn’t always been easy, but we have been looking for other resources that we could use to help them find a career.

One of these resources has been a job listings website that we found that offers listings from local businesses that specialize in the administration jobs and IT jobs that our school specializes in.

So far, the results have been good with most of our students taking advantage of this new resource.  In fact, it is looking like we will have more graduates employed by convocation than we have ever had in the past.

When my husband and I were married four years ago, we did not take a honeymoon. We decided that we would use the money to buy a house instead. He surprised me at Christmas time with tickets to Las Vegas NASCAR. He said it would be the honeymoon that we never had, as we both love NASCAR and neither one of us had ever been to Vegas before.

We had heard all about the Las Vegas casinos, but we did not realize how much there was to experience, even for someone who does not gamble. Las Vegas is really an incredible city to visit and there was so much more to see there than we could have possibly fit in to our week.

The race was great and our favorite driver won. We think that we should go back every year to experience even more than we got to this time.

I am the first to admit that I don’t know everything.  This was very hard for me to come to grips with it since my parents both think that they know everything.  But, I realized at a young age that there was no way that I would be able to know everything and that from time to time that I would have to rely on others for advice.

So, when my computer started to act funny, I knew that I was going to have to figure out what was wrong with it.  I was able to find an online troubleshooting guide to help me through it and all things pointed to the chance that my computer was infected with spyware.

I went from this point to find as many reviews of spyware removal software that I could, and I decided to follow the advice found in a SpyHunter review article that I read.

Now, I depend on SpyHunter to make sure that my computer is running smoothly and spyware-free.  So far it has worked great.