The last set of sheepskin seat covers that I had the pleasure of owning, using and enjoying sitting on in my car were destroyed by a friend’s dog that was left in my car for a mere 15 minutes, while we dashed into a store together on the way home from taking her dog to the vet. I was so totally upset when we discovered what that mutt had done that at that time I wouldn’t have thought twice about putting him down. Of course I mellowed out some after a matter of time, but I am still very disturbed by the whole thing and am still waiting for her to either reimburse me or buy me a new set of these luxury car seat covers made of sheepskin.

I was turned on to the luxury of sheepskin products at an early age. My mother and fathers always had sheepskin seat covers in their cars and when I purchased my own first car, I’ll never forget how weird it felt when I sat down on the regular vinyl covered seat. I was so excited about owning my own car that I just dealt with it, but shortly after I started driving it my mother presented me with my own sheepskin seat covers, which just thrilled me to pieces and I’ve been enjoying seat covers made of sheepskin ever since.

I am a $1 store junkie, but an educated one. I can smell a rat withing 5 minutes of entering any store that advertises one dollar sales and once you get in you find that there are some $1 items, but there is also $2, $3, $4, $5 and up, a plenty,  I’ve seen items marked up to $25 in one such store, all of which to me sounds to much like false advertising.

My favorite of all of them is the Dollar Tree, they have great variety in their selected items that we all need and use and they are truly only $1, you will find nothing in that store that is sold for over $1. Now they do at times have items that are 2 for a dollar, but I can’t fuss about that because that is truly a better deal.

The store at our local mall that advertises $1 purchases really doesn’t have anything but a bunch of crap and they have recently started placing things that are more then one dollar and they are losing business aplenty for it. That is the mall for ya though.

And for the past few years at the local Flea Market there has been a group of Asian guys that have been selling like crazy via hundreds of tub and crates full of $1 items and they are making a killing there, and pissing off some of the other vendors in the process.

The start of the new year means a lot of paper work needs attention, paperwork and I are not the closest of friends and I dread tackling all that is necessary for me to do in order to get everything in order for tax time. Each year I think that I am going to be able to devise a better system in order to make this yearly task easier but it never seems to happen. I’m going to really try this time and make a day of it, possibly this week end if the weather is nasty and I don’t feel like venturing outside.

Facebook has been such a wonderful tool to use to connect with friends and family, old and new. Last night I found out that my uncle just had a stroke, my sister-in-law is taking tap dancing lessons and my nephew had a glass bottle thrown from a car that hit him in the face and now has a broken jaw. So much going on out there that I never would have known anything about if I hadn’t signed up with Facebook.

Last week I managed to find an old high school friend and sent her a friend request that she finally accepted last nigh along with an update of what she has been up to all of these years. She is married and has a set of 3 year old boy twins and is working at an Advertising Agency as a Receptionist and is hoping to work her way up in this Advertising Agency in the next few years to become one of the account managers that get to work directly with the clients to market their companies.

I never thought that she would be working at an Advertising Agency, thought she would be working at a mall some where. But people do change and I’m glad to hear that she is happy in her family life and with her employment goals. We are trying to set up a time and place that we can meet for lunch one day and talk face to face, it’s been way too long.

As I have told you I am an animal lover and I always have several cats around my house. I have been so careful about making sure that every animal that I get that I have it neutered or spayed, but the last cat that I brought home did not get that important piece of surgery, so now I have kittens.

In the middle of the night I was hearing some pretty strange noises, but I was too tired to investigate. The next morning I awoke to find that I know had 4 brand new kittens in the house, 2 are pure black males and the other 2 are a mixture of grey tones and are females.

I will have to start asking around to see if I know anybody that would love a nice little kitten to take home with them. I will be careful though as to who I ask, I don’t want just anyone taking one of these precious critters home, I want to make sure that who ever takes them will provide them with the proper care that they so deserve.