My Opinion Counts

Today felt like summer. My favorite part of summer is our trips to the ice cream stand. Today we hit the Dairy Queen. I had a Heath Bar blizzard. I try other flavors but that is my favorite. I hate to even try anything else. The only other blizzard that came close to my favorite was the the cherry cordial that was available around Valentine's Day.

When the weather stays hot we will make our trek to the local hard ice cream stand. My favorite item from there are the homemade waffle cones filled with chocolate mint chip ice cream. My favorite brand of ice cream is Atz. It has the creamiest texture and isn't grainy.

Can you tell that I enjoy eating ice cream?

I put off planning a vacation because I just hate to figure out the details of travel. First I have to figure out a destination. That isn't so hard because there are a lot of places I would like to go. I would like to go to Spain or Italy. I love the culture of those two countries. I would like to visit the old cities and taste the native foods. I would like to return to Hawaii. We didn't have time to visit a volcano or go deeper into the back country. I have seen pictures of fantastic waterfalls. I would like to see if we could find those.

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A bee walks across a cell phone Tuesday at the Blackhorse Apiary Beekeeping Center in Woking, England.

I finally found a drink that I like at Starbucks. It is the vanilla bean frappaccino. It is yummy and probably has 1000 calories. Oh well, I have eaten horrible this week so what's another 1000 calories?

Today I made a trashbag/pin cushion for my mom's sewing table. It is cute! It is a little cloth bag that is connected to a pin cushion. The pin cushion has sand in it so it is very heavy. It is very handy to have when you sew. It took me all afternoon to make!

We had to make another trip to the fabric store this evening. We had coupons that were ready to expire! LOL We can't stand to let them go to waste. Joanne Fabric has a lot of their wall hangings and nick nack type stuff from 50% to 70% off. I have to remember to never buy anything there before the season. It just kills me to see something selling for half the price I paid for it right before a holiday. Grrrr.

PayPerPost is up to something again! Just when we start getting used to how things are going and start to settle in, they announce that they have something new in the works. Today I read where next week they will announce that they have acquired a company. Now, does anyone know what company that is? Will it be a company who works with us posties?

I am not worried. The CEO of PayPerPost loves his company. He has our best interests at heart and is only going to acquire a company who will benefit our ability to write online ads. He only wants to see us succeed.

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to ruffle feathers with words? On the Internet it is especially easy to come across in the wrong way because people can't look at our faces and be able to judge whether we are being sarcastic, rude or just plain mean. Meaning of a word can be taken wrong. If someone told you that they thought the paper you wrote was the next Jaws movie, what would you think they meant? Would it mean that they thought the paper was so great that it would be as popular as the movie Jaws? Or did they mean it was so bad it should be shredded? Vocabulary influences how others perceive you. When you say, "I seen the car go by," it lowers the listeners opinion of you because you are using seen in the wrong context. When you spell there instead of their when talking about something that belongs to someone, it looks like you don't know how to use the proper word. Or that you are hurrying and misspell things like I do! In everyday conversation I try to overlook poor grammar because I for one am not perfect. I am not even close! When it comes to applying for a job or being interviewed, I would be sure to take my time to spell correctly. In an interview I would pause long enough to double check what I was going to say to make a good impression.

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