Successful Weekend
I hope that it was – overall – a successful weekend. We snuck out to one of our favorite big box retailers today, not to buy Christmas gifts, but instead to pick up a prescription that was ready. We probably Read More …
Tag: holiday
Shop Till You Drop
Did you do as they wanted you to do? Shop till you drop… it may have not been their motto for the day, but it IS what all the retailers who were open today, wanted. They have been promoting their Read More …
Many Thanks
Today, like everyone (hopefully everyone) in this great country, we celebrated Thanksgiving. A big feast. A gathering of family and friends (siblings and their spouses are our friends, their kids are friends with our kids, too.) Besides the food, the Read More …
Overdone
I have this recurring conversation with people lately… the same, essential belief that the holidays have become more than they should be. Retail holiday decor coating the stores 2 to 3 months in advance of the holiday is just one Read More …
Holiday Plans
All the restaurants are checking in on what you are doing for Thanksgiving through Christmas…What are your holiday plans? You should (apparently) know by now. If you own a restaurant, you should be asking…everyone else is. The school concerts are Read More …
Halloween Planning
It is just 5 days until the biggest kid holiday (after Christmas) and all I can say is that I have not quite completed enough Halloween planning. It’s not that we didn’t know 26 days ago… or even nearly 3 Read More …
Watch…
I don’t wear a watch…even though I have several – a bunch of really cool, hand selected watches – but the last time I tried to wear one, they all needed new batteries.. For years, I have had a device Read More …
One Week
One week since we arrived. (Ok, a week and a day.) If I were the ocean and I was trying to entice people to come to visit me, I would use this week as a promotional video. This is, by Read More …
Just Different
Had a conversation today about beach towns. This one verses that one. In reality, this is not better, and yet not worse than there either; just different. Beaches from east to west and north to south are all similar – Read More …
Safe Holiday
We always want to have a safe holiday and the weekend started out pretty well with UBER promoting holiday revelers and their weekend’s cause marketing sponsor, MADD. Why drive when you can UBER in and out of the city, to Read More …