Since finishing high school, I have been working two full-time jobs. I want to make as much money as I can so that I can go to Europe next summer and still have enough money to pay my tuition when I go back to college in the fall. One of the things that I missed the most about working so much, is that I no longer had time to watch my favorite TV shows.

I decided that I was going to buy a Zune and a Zune dock cable, so that I could use it to watch my favorite shows when I had breaks at work. It has turned out really well and I think that I am almost caught up with most of the episodes.

One of the most important accessories is my Zune car charger, as it is the only time I have free to charge up the player so that I can use it when I am at work. I also bought a Zune travel charger, so that it does not matter where I am when it needs to be charged. It was a great investment and now I feel like I am not missing out on everything because of my work.

In one of my four semi-professional productions, I was on stage with a talented young woman during Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” I played Mrs. Potts. She played Belle. That was in 2005.

Fast forward to about a month ago. I was talking to our “Beauty and the Beast” director who had come back to town to guest star in “How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.” After the performance we were talking about mutual friends in the theatre when he mentioned the girl who’d played Belle. He said she was now in the Broadway production of “The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee.” I know a Broadway star!

I headed online right away to see what kind of ticket prices I could get for it with a presale password. But I found out the show had closed. I’m not without hope, however. They may be taking a Broadway touring company around the country, and maybe I can see her in that. Regardless, I can say, “I knew her when…”

When my husband planned our honeymoon, he wanted every single detail to be absolutely perfect. He wouldn’t tell me where we were going, but when I accidentally saw the pamphlet for hummer limos, I knew that it was going to be the best experience that I ever had in my life.

I figured that if he had every detail planned right down to the limo hire, that it would be an incredible adventure for us to start out our married life with. He was incredibly romantic and I knew that would play a big part into the activities that took place over the course of the two weeks in which we were planning on being away.

I did not find out that we were going to Paris until we were at the airport, waiting to board our flight. When we arrived in France, the limousine hire drove us to the most fabulous hotel I had ever seen, with a complete view of the Eiffel Tower. The trip was amazing and I often wonder if Mr. Romantic will ever be able to top that.

Right out of college I was invited to join a bowling league with women who moms of some of my classmates. I never really understood why they asked me, but apparently they were desperate, because I wasn’t that good of a bowler. For that matter, I was never much of an athlete, but I bowled better than I played at any other sport. That should tell you something.

We opted to get golf shirts with our team name stenciled across the back. No one liked the polyester ones.

Gradually I improved. Despite the difference in generations, we had a lot of fun. So what that we weren’t all bowling 200 every game.

Except somehow we won the league. I still don’t know how it happened.

When my daughter saw the trophy, lo these many years later, she was duly impressed. The thing is, I had to ask Mom about it. I didn’t remember winning. Someone was obviously bowling some serious two hundreds when I wasn’t looking! I do know it wasn’t I…

There are a few musical groups that I absolutely love and I listen to their music every single day.  Some of them are new and popular and some of them are older, but I still like their music just the same.  I am really begin to music and always have been and I really do believe that music is the universal language.

For me, there is nothing better in life than to go to live shows and see your favorite performers on a stage.  When I do this, it feels as though they are singing does to me and there’s no place I’d rather be than in the audience mesmerized on what they’re singing.

When I’m in my bedroom listening to CDs, I sometimes like to close my eyes and pretend that I’m just sitting there in the audience as my favorite performer is on the stage.  It is a great fantasy and it is what I like doing best when I am feeling bored or upset.

When I decided that I was going to buy my very first paintball gun, I did not realize that it would be so hard to decide which one to get. As I was only fourteen, I worked very hard, cleaning yards and shoveling snow, so this is a lot of money to me and I always make my decisions very carefully.

I really liked the Tippmann brand of paintball guns and accessories, but I was not sure that it was what I really wanted. They were very expensive, but they would probably be better quality and last longer than some of the cheaper ones. I didn’t want to spend my money on something that was going to break or fall apart.

I also really liked the Spyder paintball guns. It was a really good name in sports equipment and they had a really good warranty on their products. It took me awhile to figure out which one to go with, but eventually, I purchased a Spyder.  Let me just say, it was worth every penny.

I went to do an online search to see where I could find some cheap NBA tickets. I found that I could probably get cheap ones on eBay, but I didn’t want to bid on them and I did not want to wait for the auction to end to find out if I had won them. I would rather just buy them and know that I have them.

I do not buy NBA tickets very often and I really wanted to go to a particular game. I found out that the guy I really like was going to be there and I wanted to just “casually” bump into him while I was there. The things I will do for love. But, in my defense, he is really good looking and seems to be a perfect gentleman.

I talked my friend into going with me. This took some doing, as she thinks it is silly to go out and buy NBA tickets just to try and impress a guy, but she did agree to go if I paid for her ticket. She also admitted that he was really good looking and that if we do fall madly in love she will take back everything she said. I am keeping my fingers crossed because I love it when she is wrong.

It isn’t everyday that your boss turns fifty, and that you have the opportunity to create a surprise birthday party for him.  At least that is the plan around the office - we will see if it executes successfully.

We were at a loss of what we should do for his party.  In prior years, all we had was a cake, and that was it.  This year, we were looking through birthday party ideas online to find something that can make the day unique, and make it appropriate for work.

There is only a few more days until the birthday party, so we need to figure out what we are doing quickly.  I think that the staff are all getting together tonight after work to iron out the details.  I just hope Dan, our boss, appreciates the effort we put into it - after all, you only turn fifty once!

My husband and I finally took our dream honeymoon to Europe this spring and it was definitely a dream come true. We have been married for five years and we had always planned to do this, but for some reason or another, it never worked out until this year. It was definitely worth the wait, that is for sure.

We got to go to six different countries, every one more beautiful than the next. There were, of course, some major highlights of the trip, but the whole thing was very memorable. I will never forget the moment that my husband presented me with London theatre tickets. Going to the theatre had been a dream of mine since I was a child.

I will also never forget the romantic nights we spent together in Tuscany. This will always be one of my favorite parts of the trip. Another would have to be learning to dance in Spain. There was so much to do and we crammed a lot into the little time we had. There is so much more that I want to experience, that I guess we will have to do it again, real soon.

I am looking for some books on scrapbooking page layouts, that I can use to teach scrapbooking classes. I was doing an online search for scrapbooking supplies Canada, in hopes that they would have what I was looking for. I wanted something that taught simple pages that would also look nice.

There were a few places that sold scrapbook supplies Canada that had some books available, but did not show any samples as to what kinds of pages the book contained. It worried me that I would buy the book and not like the pages or that they would be too difficult to create, so I decided not to purchase them.

In the end, I went to a Canadian scrapbook supplies store, where I could actually page through the books and find what I was looking for. I found a couple of really great books and they have helped me so much in deciding how to teach my classes. Who knows, maybe someday I will make my own book and sell it.