My older brothers and most of their friends were (and still are) muscle car freaks. There was always at least one car in the back drive way that was being worked on and/or restored and I learned a lot about cars by being surrounded by them growing up. If the car wasn’t from the 60′s or 70′s or earlier they just didn’t hold our interest even though there has been a few cool cars manufactured since then, not many but a few.

We have an annual fair and parade in our town each May and there is always a good amount of muscle cars, antique vehicles, fire engines, hot rods, motorcycles and the like cruising the town in anticipation of participating in the parade. This is a huge parade and people come from all over to watch and to participate in it each year. I enjoy watching the high school bands, the dancers, beauty pageant queens, the civic groups, celebrities and the local politicians that are in the parade, along with various other entries that entertain the large crowds.  But my favorite is when the muscle cars start coming down the street and the Harley Davidsons of course. They just get me going, big time!

It’s cool to see that some of the older model cars are starting to go back to some of the classic looks. The new Mustang the new Corvette and the new Camaro are starting to make more appearances around town now and then. Heads are turning to see how they look from behind and to how they sound. A guy that used to hang around my brothers just bought a new 2010 camaro and is looking for chevy camaro accessories to start souping her up for his fall and winter project.  By next May he may be ready to cruise along the parade route along with the newer good looking cars.

I have the best relationship with my 12 year old niece Brandy. Not only am I her aunt but I’m her god mother as well and I’m loving every minute of since and have been since the day that she was born. Not only is she a great kid, but a good person and a model student in the elementary school that she just graduated from. I can’t believe that she is starting middle school in just over a month.

She spends a good amount of time over at my place so we have decided that she can go ahead and make one of my spare bedrooms her room away from home. She has taken over the challenge of finding the items that she wants and needs to make it her own style and her own private space. She is good on the computer and knows how to research things in order to find what she wants at a good price.

Right now she has her eyes on a nice chenille bedspread that she found using the site of become.com, which is a great product review and price comparison site for all types of products. She is looking for new bed linens and some accent pillows and possibly a cute looking throw rug to go along with the whole scheme of things. I’m sure she will come up with something fabulous, of course everything needs to be approved of by me in the end, but I’m confident enough in her taste and talents to think that this will work out just fine and dandy with us both.

I took my 13 year old niece to see the movie “The Karate Kid” it turned out to be a pretty good movie and now she wants to see the “Karate Kid” movies that came out back in my day. She is looking to find the movies so we can rent them and watch them together some weekend in the near future. Sounds good to me, they were all good flicks.

My mother has been after me to look around for the best insurance coverage for myself. I have been meaning to start this process for over a year and just keep pushing it aside for other matters that keep coming up. So today I found the site for a company Paradiso Insurance that I took a look around at. I found it to be a very user friendly site, they even have a Virtual Agent that you can click on to provide you with all kinds of information. I love that you can get a free quote right online, so much better than having to call around to different agents that have been located in the Yellow Pages.

I know that having a life insurance is very important. We have all heard horror stories about people that didn’t have any coverage and in their passing have left their loved ones in a terrible mess and I wouldn’t want that to happen to my loved ones. I’m going to get off my butt and get this task taken care of and will also get my will planned out and taken care of. Might as well get it all over and done with and get my mother off of my back and there will be one less thing on my list of things to get done.

Such interesting (and some not too interesting) stories are told around the holiday’s dinner table each and every year. There are some stories that will be told over and over each year as well as the new ones that are being formed as we speak.

I’m the type of person that is happy sitting just about anywhere, beside anybody, heck I don’t even mind having to sit at the “kids” table. I always have a blast with the kids and at times enjoy what they are talking about more than the adults are gabbing on and on about! Some years I eat the meal with the big kids and then spend time eating desert with the younger ones of the family, it works out well.

This year I spent the whole meal at the “kids” table. It was a lot of fun, I got to spend time with my nieces and nephews that I normally don’t have a lot of time to do through out the year. Besides all my parents wanted to discuss that night was all the home improvement stories that they have been saving for the Christmas dinner. They have been busy bees around the place and were just bursting to gab about it all. Kinda cute actually, it’s cool to see them that jazzed up about something for a change.

They have been looking for some time at the different Mailboxes that are on the market these days. They had to make sure that their mailbox had their street number on it and came with a good durable lock to keep their mail safe. The neighborhood has been going down hill a bit lately and they have had to deal with mail boxes being vandalized and mail being stolen. Not good, ya know. So they have been doing their home work and utilizing the Internet to their best ability, to learn all they could about Residential Mailboxes and where to get the best product for a good price. My dad was even willing to purchase one of the Commercial Mailboxes if he had to in order to keep their mail safe. They are taking this very seriously and I am proud of them for it. Identity theft is a major issue with our senior citizens, we don’t even want to end up going there.