Cheryl Beckham

I can’t believe that the owner of the restaurant and bar that I tend the bar at has, at the last minute decided to have their doors open and welcoming for the day of Thanksgiving. After finding that most of his employees don’t have immediate family members to celebrate the holiday with, he made his decision based on employee availability. He has been asked numerous times by the “regulars” if he would consider this possibility and he grabbed the bait and definitely ran with it. Just wish he had not waited until the last minute.

So the bad news is that I have to tend bar that day. A bar and restaurant filled with all of the other “loners” in the county will certainly be an interesting shift, they better not be stingy with their wallets, due to their loneliness and depression that is known to hit people harder during the family oriented holiday season.

The good news is that we are promised to be paid overtime for the inconvenience and all of our efforts in making this as pleasant as we possibly can.

Still trying to figure out a great gift to buy for my Dad as a Christmas present this year. Men are so hard to buy for and considering that my Dad is at the age where he has most of what he wants and needs all ready it can be a struggle. There is nothing worse that spending time and money on a gift that isn’t appreciated nor will it be used, so I am constantly trying to figure out what to get him each year for Christmas, his birthday and Father’s Day.

I have thought of one thing that I think he might like considering he spends so much time outside on his very noisy tractor, a pair on in ear noise cancelling headphones might be something that he would enjoy. He could also use them for when my daughter has the urge to crank up her teeny bopper music that he on occasion will make a remark on or complain about. So they would get used for several noise control issues. Guess I need to get off of it and get on to finding him a pair online today.

My good friend Janice has been a nurse for a very long time and really loves her job. She became a supervisor not too long ago and has a real good relationship with the other nurses that she has been given the responsibility to supervise. They have become what you could call an extended family to my unmarried and childless friend, which is really cool. Nursing has consumed Janice’s life and she claims that she doesn’t have time for courting and she has found that her professional very fulfilling.

For Christmas she wants to give all of her charges a Christmas present but doesn’t have a whole lot of money to spend since there are so many of them, so she has decided to look into purchasing a boat load of cute but appropriate nursing pins that she has found online at Pinmart.com. I decided to check them out and I have to say that they really do have a great variety of these pins that can be placed on their uniforms to display for the whole world to see and enjoy. And they certainly are affordable and I think that everyone will enjoy receiving one for Christmas.

These two are my favorites, cute right?

I spend a good amount of time outside during the winter months, I have always been the outdoor type of person and having outside fun all year round is just a part of me that takes over. I do notice that I have been having a harder time keeping my feet and hands warm during the winter and have decided to go online and see what there is to offer in the way of heated socks.

I was surprised to find so many different types and brands and prices that I found, making a decision is becoming a pain in the rear. Some times having a larger selection to choose from overwhelms me and I find that I can’t make a decision and it pisses me off.  So I’ve decided to book mark the sites and go back to it at a later date, just not too much later. Winter is rearing it’s ugly head all ready and the good times are waiting right out side my door, there are pirating adventures just ahead!

My old school chum seems to be settling in a bit in her new home base in ontario, canada. I miss her like crazy, thank goodness for email, Facebook, texts, Instant Messaging and of course the good old fashioned cell phone all of which we have been using to stay in touch since she left earlier this summer. She does have her hands full considering that she has twin two year old boys that she is trying to raise so far away from anywhere or anyone that she knows, while her hubby is in the process of finding a good Business Lawyer barrie and coldwater ontario, canada to assist him with setting up his small business and getting it up and running before they run out of money that they had saved up for the move and the new business adventure that took them up that far.

Not sure when I’ll ever see any of them again, which breaks my heart. We have been friends since the 5th grade and I never thought that we would ever become separated so far from one another. It would be nice to win a trip to canada some how, I believe that would be the only way I would ever be able to make a trip that far away to see them. A girl can dream can’t she?