Carl Crossman Blog

One thing that I do every morning is to stop in at a local store and get a large cup of coffee. It’s not for everyone I know, but those who like it like me will swear by it. I just need a large cup of coffee to get my day started.

Coffee is full of caffeine. It is well known that caffeine makes your motor run. People have taken advantage of its properties for many centuries and I believe that it will last for many more. Get your sugar and cream ready, coffee is here to stay.

Since I have this weekend off from work, I thought I would do a little shopping. I know that the malls are full because it is black Friday, but I thought I might be able to find some deals. I went off with high hopes toward the mall. When I got there, I found it was a madhouse. There were people everywhere and I could hardly find a place to park. As I was walking in, I met some people who were coming out. They told me that I should not even bother to go inside.

They said the mall was packed and that the lines were very long to check out. I knew right then that I was wasting my time. I decided to go home and take my chances on the internet. When I arrived home, I went online and started to check out some different sites. I finally found a site I liked and started doing some serious shopping. That’s when I found a hoodie that I really liked.

The price was good and I thought I would order it. After all, why should I go out get something when I can have it delivered to my home. I turned on the T.V. and thought about how much better my time was spent that fighting the traffic and the crowds.

Guest post by Gerard McDaniel

I’m totally addicted to reality television. My whole family makes fun of me because you’d never catch me watching the news or anything of substance. I think my favorite reality show (if you can call it that) is Say Yes to the Dress on TLC which I sometimes stream on the internet that I got through www.CLEAR-INTERNET.com. Its basic premise is that women go to Kleinfeld’s bridal salon in New York City and try on wedding dresses. That’s it! The women inevitably get into fights with their mothers or bridesmaids over their fashion sense and some of the ladies chose the most outrageous, terrible dresses! The consultants try so hard to make the sales, but a lot of these women are just insufferable. I can’t even fathom how much some of these people spend on their wedding dress – I’ve seen women on the show spend up to twelve thousand dollars. FOR A DRESS! Can you even imagine? The fiancés of a lot of these girls have to have patience of steel because a lot of the girls are total princesses. I don’t know if I could make it through one day working at Kleinfeld’s!

Our company has decided that the idea of wearing uniforms has come of age. Starting soon, everyone will be wearing our spiffy new uniforms that bear our companies logo. So far, everyone likes the idea as they will no longer have to wash their clothes as the uniform service does that for us. It’s like a dream come true for as I never have to worry about what I am going to wear to work the next day!

We looked all around in order to find the best deals on medical uniforms. There are quite a few people who sell them, but we think we have found the right ones. We saw a site called blueskyscrubs.com that had many types of cheap scrub uniforms for sale. We knew right away that this was the company for us. They had what we needed and it would be easy to do.

Now that our new policy is in place, we feel that we made the right decision. Everyone looks really good when they go to work and I think everyone takes a little more pride in their work. We even have one girl who wears pink scrubs to work. She looks really great and we are all proud of her. I am looking forward to our next good idea!

Guest post written by my buddy Keith Kramer

Every year Cheryl and I take a full day to go Christmas shopping together. We plan the trip over the phone, about a week before we meet. It’s a standing ritual to make sure that sometime during this phone call we remind each other to set our home security alarms before we leave our houses, always remembering the year I forgot to do that, and had to leave the mall to go back home and adt security home alarm.

We meet at a designated shop at the mall at 9:30 AM, and begin the shopping day separating from each other for about a half hour so we can buy each other something special that we exchange at lunch time at our favorite restaurant. We usually take along a gift bag and tissue paper so we can make the exchange festive without a lot of fuss. We only see each other rarely, and it’s so nice to have the opportunity to see the smiles on each other’s faces at this Christmas shopping luncheon.

Except for that lunch break, we’re serious shoppers until we’re broke or too exhausted to take another step, whichever comes first. It’s an occasion that has become a tradition for the two of us that we look forward to every Christmas season.