Today while I was calling around to wedding supply stores to see if they carried custom aisle runners, I was greeted by a clerk on the phone. When asked if I could order a custom aisle runner at their store, she told me that they had some in stock and if I wanted to come down to confirm my customizations that they could put the order through today.

So I hopped in my car and drove down to wedding supply store. When I asked a clerk at the desk how to place an order for a custom aisle runner I was told that they didn’t carry them in all. I ended up having to talk to the store manager to advise him of what had happened but no one really seemed to care.

I just hate days where you get bad customer service.

So I’ve been going to many different forums and posting a poll to see what others would choose out of the list of some of the best coffee makers on the market. I figured that this would be a smarter way to find out which one is the best as opposed to mistakenly stumbling upon a paid review and being misled with respect to my purchasing decision.

I will be waiting a couple more days before I tabulate the results and purchase some coffee makers for my new restaurant.

For example, when my wife and I were planning our wedding, we found the amount of organization that we needed a little overwhelming.  We had papers all over the house and it was hard to keep track of everything.

I tried to create a spreadsheet containing all of the lists that we had made, but my wife to be just didn’t get it.  So, I decided to look online for some sort of wedding planning software to make our lives easier.

After a bit of hunting I found some products that would work and I also bought a wedding guest list manager to help us try to keep track of all the people we needed to invite.

Thanks to the software, our wedding went smoothly - I hate to think what would have happened had we not found the right tools to plan the wedding.

I loved the fact that he was interested in expanding his horizons by traveling to different country, but I was curious as to how he thought he would be able to afford the trip.  He hadn’t really thought about it up to that point, but he told me that he should be able to find a job in Australia fairly easy.

I decided that I would help him out to find either some sales jobs or construction jobs in Australia and I told him that I would look online and let them know what I found.

So far, it looks that he won’t have much of a problem finding a job when he goes to Australia next summer and I’m actually very interested to see what he ends up doing.

But what I like the best about my career is that for the past twenty years or so, I have had the opportunity to follow my passion of teaching.  This started out at a local hair school in the town that I was born and raised which turned into a position at a regional beauty academy.

I have a couple of years left at the current beauty school that I am working at.  Though the styles and trends have changed over the years, I love the fact that I can come to work everyday and do something new - how many people can say that each day of work has been exciting?

It has become an obsession with her, but I think it is a healthy one. She has friends, a social life and even has people calling the house for her, which has never happened before. She seems to be so much happier and she is bubbly and excited when she talks about her games or her friends.

It was exciting for me when she asked for costume armor for her birthday, as she has never wanted anything besides books before. It is a wonderful new life for her and I feel like a whole new mom.

Unfortunately, the karastan dealer that we had bought the rugs from previously was closed so we had to look for a new supplier.  We did a quick look in the phonebook to see if there was one in town, but as it turned out there wasn’t.

So, we took our search online.  I went to my favorite search engine, and typed in "karastan rug ".  I checked out the many different shops online to find the style that we were looking for.  I found a couple that I like, but I will have to pass them by the wife before we buy it.

Needless to say, once we receive our new rug, our new house will be complete.  I can’t wait until it shows up.

For example, this morning, I was talking about the new line of TV screen protection products that we carry.  It is an easy upsell for customers that purchase a new plasma or LCD television.  It not only helps them to protect their television from damage (a real no-brainer for customers with children), but ensures that their investment will provide them years of enjoyment.

We also discussed some strategies on how to get the customer to buy a TV screen protector and the staff is going to try it out today.  I’ll be interested to see our final sales figures - I bet they will be much better than forecasted.

I had come up with some good topics that really had not been covered, but I quickly ran out of steam.  It could be that the blog isn’t my main blog, but just one that is on the side.  I was just about to give up, when a friend of mine suggested that I could write a review about some of the software that I had been using.

I decided to write up a SpyHunter review, as SpyHunter is the current anti-spyware software package that I am currently using.  I haven’t found that anyone really had a good review of it online, so I knew that it would be a great opportunity.

I think for awhile here, when I am stuck on finding a topic to write about, I think I will do reviews - it is at least something that I know well and can let me stand out from the crowd.

The fact that she is 92, also makes me believe that she knows her stuff.  So, when she tells me I should quit taking wheat grass in favor of barley grass, I listen.

Lately, she has been telling me to take chlorella and spirulina as they are both extremely effective as sources of vitamins and minerals.  I listen to what she tells me as I know that she has done the research to make sure that they are the best choices in terms of what is on the market.

Who knew that I would take health tips from my grandma…