Monica Kochelee

Well, we did it!  We drove 64 miles one way to buy a pair of those crazy Z-Coil shoes!  I thought my hubby was planning to buy a pair, too, but when we got to the store and he saw how ugly they were he would not even try a pair on to see how the felt!  I really thought it was too bad, if he had at least tried on a pair and someone someday talks about those shoes he could say “oh yeah, I tried on a pair of those once!”  But he had this look of disgust on his face that would not come off. 

Well, the shoes ARE ugly, but they are comfortable.  So I bought a pair of them for myself.  I NEED a comfortable pair of shoes, I am going to be working in a job where I stand up all day long, and I’m not used to doing that.  So I want the most comfortable pair of shoes I can find!  They cost me over $200, so I sure hope they are worth it and make my feet “happy” when I’m working in them!  If they do, then they will be worth their weight in gold!

When I was a little girl I loved the Nancy Drew Mystery Books.  My sisters and I had a huge collection of them.  Now that I’m thinking about them, I wonder whatever happened to them!  But I digress….  When I had my first son, I thought he would enjoy reading the Hardy Boy books.  So I bought a bunch of them, pretty much as many as I could find.  Well, he never read a single one of them.  And neither did my younger son.  So I have a ton of Hardy Boy Books that have never been read.  Just taking up space on my bookshelf, collecting dust.  From time to time I think about getting rid of them, but being the pack-rat that I am, I am SURE that at some point in time there will be a male relative who wants them!  Maybe I should pack them in a plastic storage box and put some desiccant in the box and store them in the basement.  I could use the shelf they are on the the media room for something else!

I went grocery shopping yesterday and decided to buy a couple of new dog toys for our dogs.  They have squeakers in them, but are largish in size; they remind me of the stuffed animal toys I had as a kid.  Anyway, I had heard that dogs can see a few colors; they gravitate towards blue, so I bought two blue teddy bear squeaky toys.  When I got home with the groceries and had put all the food away, I gave the toys to the dogs.  What fun they have had playing with the toys!  Our big dog has pretty effectively ripped most of the stuffing out of one already in her desperate attempt to kill the squeaky part.  What a mess!  Now I wish I hadn’t bothered to vacuum yesterday!  I’m going to have to vacuum again tomorrow!

I want to find a local contractor to install a cellar bulkhead door to keep water out of the basement stairwell to take care of our flooded basement problem.

I found a website called clicksmart.com that lists certified expert construction contractors that I’m going to use to find some local contractors to get some quotes on the work.  The website is easy to use, you just go to the website and fill in what kind of service you want and what area you need the service done.  For example if I was looking for Hartford Contractors I would go to their website and choose Contractors, then Connecticut, then Hartford.

My youngest son is staying in Philadelphia this summer, doing a college internship job.  My oldest son has never been to Philadelphia and expressed an interest in living there someday.  So last weekend I sent him off to spend the weekend with my youngest.  He took the train to Philly, which worked out wonderfully well.  If I ever send him up there again I will definitely send him by train!  He went up Friday afternoon and came home Monday afternoon.  They saw some sights, ate some good food and watched a few movies.  They both said they had a good time, and I was glad to have them spend some time alone together.