There used to be a time where I would try nearly any acne treatment under the sun in my quest for clear, blemish free skin. I have pretty much given up on it now though as I have come to the realization and acceptance that my skin shall never be perfect and I have to work with what I’ve got. I was always on the quest for the latest and greatest in everything from toners and moisturizers to cover up and overnight treatments. Needless to say, none of it really worked like it promised on the package. Over the past couple years I have been sticking to one main ‘regime’ so to speak, and it is working pretty good so I don’t plan on veering from it anytime soon. I have also realized that much of my ‘problem skin’ is stress related and when I don’t get too worked up, my skin co-operates, but if I’m having a particularly ‘trying time’ it is basically written all over my face, if you know what I mean. I had hoped this would be something I’d grow out of, but that doesn’t seem to be the truth, so I have to be the grown up and just deal with it!!

I have not wanted to talk about it, or should I say, admit it, but we are going to have to paint our bathroom…AGAIN. I am so sick of that room I would like to toss a grenade in there and walk away from the whole damn thing as starting from scratch is beginning to look like the only way to solve the issues with the walls in there. It wasn’t enough we had to re-paint it once, after a lot of hard prep work the first time, no, we are going to have to do it again. And the thing is, we did even more prep work the second time and followed the instructions and bought the recommended stuff from a paint store, and yet, we have parts of our wall that have an ‘antique, crackle’ finish to them and paint peeling from the ceiling. I wish it was something that could be fixed with an airbrush but it is simply not going to be that easy. The boy says he is not going to re-paint the whole thing and only do the areas where it is ‘crackling’, but we will see what we end up doing. I’m to the point now where I don’t really care anymore and am tempted to just leave it and call it art…

Do you remember when, if you were in business, having personalized pens was a definite must? I mean, what better way to get your company name/logo ‘out there’ in front of many people for a low cost. People used to hand them out all the time and sometimes even mail them out. I remember at my last job, we would get one to two a month in the mail, all from companies wanting our business. In other words, they would send us one pen, sometimes two or a pen and a pencil, with our logo on it in the hopes that we would order a thousand or more. Of course, our boss was so cheap, he never did and whoever opened the mail was the lucky recipient of yet another pen. These days, with so many electronic devices, do people still use pens? Do they still have the same effect or should a person be giving out personalized PDA’s instead?

No, I’m not having memory issues (well, maybe sometimes) but my computer has been, I think. When I purchased this computer a couple years ago, I had some advice from a computer whiz and I thought I was making the right choice as far as memory went, but now I’m starting to wonder as my computer has issues if I try to do too many things at once and it is very frustrating to an impatient person such as myself. I am wondering if it might be time for a memory upgrade. The boy took the memory out of his computer and put it into mine and I don’t seem to be having the issues and error messages that I was getting before and I am quite enjoying it. I don’t know what I’m going to do when he decides he wants to use his computer again, I may have to cry…or I may have to break down and buy more memory. …sigh.