Tony Brewer

Teri wants to buy some flea traps for our place.  We don’t have any pets, but we have allowed some friends to bring their dogs over from time to time when they came to visit, so it is possible that some fleas came into our place with their dogs.  So I will humor her and buy some flea traps.

Teri and I belong to a local business networking group that meets every Wednesday morning at the local Country Cooking restaurant. There are about forty regular members that attend the meeting. We all take a turn standing up and giving a sixty second introduction to ourselves and our business. And every week there is a featured speaker that takes ten minutes to talk about his or her business.

Today the featured speaker was a woman who says that her business is to make people “weller.” She says she is a self-taught practitioner, and she combines a variety of techniques like acupressure and meditation along with health supplements and health drinks like Trivita, Mona Vie, and Xango. She was very enthusiastic about her health drinks. She even had samples of some of the drinks that she passed around.

We didn’t try the drinks right then, they were in little pouches and little bottles and cans.  She suggested that we take them home and put them in the refrigerator for a couple of hours because they taste better cold.  I would be very interested in some of these healthy drinks if they taste good. I have tried a variety of health drinks and found many of them to be completely unpalatable.

I’m not a very good brother; I don’t keep in touch with my sisters very well at all. They send me emails (which I read) but I don’t often reply with more than a very short reply such as “good” or “too bad” or “OK.” It must drive them crazy! My older sister is the best one for keeping in touch, she tries to keep everyone in the family “in the know” about who’s doing what. Hmm…. maybe that classifies her as a gossip?

She tells me that she has been taking belly dancing classes in Winchester a couple of months ago. She was doing it with the goal of having fun and getting out of the house and getting some exercise. She’s always loved to dance, and hates “exercise” so when she found out about these classes she thought it would be a good way to force herself to exercise by having fun. After all, if the exercise is fun she is more likely to keep doing it!

Although the thought of her performing belly dancing routines is mildly amusing to me, she says she is having a ball, so I’m all for it! I hope she keeps it up as long as she can!

If Terri and I ever get it together enough to walk down the aisle and say our marriage vows in front of friends and family we will definitely make sure that we buy tungsten or titanium rings for the occasion. Both of us have issues with the majority of jewelry, there is nothing worse than having your body parts turn green after wearing jewelry for just a few short hours, so we have to be very picky about what we purchase in jewelry. Titanium and tungsten rings are a good choice for folks that have the same reaction and since during a wedding you vow to stay with your spouse for the rest of your life, it would be nice to have rings that we could wear for the rest of our lives as well.

I’m in no hurry to get hitched, mind you. But Terri has been dropping hints for all most a year now and I’m not sure how much longer I can avoid the issue. We have been a “couple” for over 8 years now so I don’t know what the sudden change of heart is all about with her. Neither one of us has been married before and both of us agreed that marriage wasn’t going to be in the “big picture” but leave it to a woman to change her mind, right.

I’ve watched a few episodes of the hit TV show {scrubs}, and I have to say that one of the episodes was really awesome! I absolutely love it. This episode was called “My Musical” and the entire episode was a musical. What a riot! You can see that the cast must have had a great time taping that show! The basic idea behind the show was that a patient had something wrong with their brain so that she thought that everyone was singing and dancing all of the time even in their cotton scrub uniforms that they are always dressed in, much like the kind you can find at http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/Original-Scrubs/.

Of course, they fixed this particular patient, but it was a great episode, watching everyone dancing and singing! I’m sure we’ll be watching that episode again! When we pick up the DVD set of this wacky slap stick show that I somehow entirely missed watching all of these years up until now.