Heres Janie Parrish

I love a three day weekend but it sure is a hard day to go back to work on after one, ya know? Memorial Day should be Memorial Week! After all, it’s supposed to be a day to remember those that have died for us. There should be one day for those that are still considered MIA, a day each for those who died in each war and with all that considered, it should be Memorial Week!

It looks like it might be a good idea to go ahead and seriously look into having a home energy audit done on my parent’s house right now before it gets much hotter out and they end up having to pay such extremely high electric bills again like they did last summer from using their central air conditioner. After all their house is over 55 years old and it really needs a lot of work that my dad just isn’t up to considering  he is now in his mid 70′s. He isn’t a spring chicken any more and is having health issues as most people do when they get up in that age group.

My kid brother has suggested  going online and finding and then hiring one of the local home insulation contractors come over and do the Home energy audit and he is even willing to pay for it, which threw me for a loop considering how cheap my little brother can be. I guess he would rather pay someone to do the energy audit than pitch in and do some manual labor in order to get the house up to speed. But as long as it gets done, I don’t really care how it is handles.

One of the major concerns with folks these days is the issue of stress. Each one of us has been affected by this economical mess that President Obama is trying so desperately to fix. It’s all about the all mighty dollar, it is making people crazy with grief, despair and total stress.

The Stress Institute offers techniques for stress reduction on their website of Stressinstitute.com that are worth taking a look at. I was told about it at work and decided to take a gander at it myself and thought enough of what they have to offer there to pass it along here.

Not that I go out to bars very often, but when I do I always have an issue with what to do with my purse when I am sitting at the bar on a Bar Stool. I hate putting my purse on the floor and there really isn’t much room on the actual bar for my over sized purse that I carry everything under the sun in. So this year for Mother’s Day my sister gave me the coolest little gadget that allows you to hang your purse on so that it is safe and out of the way. And since I love butterflies it is in the shape of a beautiful pink butterfly.

My little sister has decided to take music this year in school. She is having a hard time deciding what instrument she wants to try and master. There are so many to choose from. Personally I would love to learn how to play the drums and with the drums comes the cymbals of course so you basically are learning two musical instruments in one. But I think that the flute would be a good start for her, she could learn the basics on that and maybe go on from there, like maybe to the trumpet or trombone, she has a big mouth and at times is totally full of hot air, but it is totally up to her to decide what she thinks would be the best for her.

I think that the clarinet would be a total challenge for her, I don’t think she is up to that at this point, but I’d love to see her master the saxophone. Many a jazz players woo the crowds with their sax, nothing better than that in my opinion! I’m sure what ever she decides and puts her mind to it will all be good, she is just that way and I love her all the more for it.