Drink Offering

Pray for our Country and it's leaders!
I will be the first to say I have no clue about how our economy works.
I know how my family's does.
We work Hard.
We get paid.
Everything we have ultimately comes from God.
We give back.
We rely on God to meet all our needs.

I did hear a statement from the White House
"I trust the House and Sentate to move quickly with this rescue plan so Americans can have access to the credit they need to continue to live out their daily lives"
Several years ago my Husband and I found ourselves in a Crisis. My Husband lost his job because the company was sold overseas. Mark had many years vested into this company. Loved his job, performed it well, and had a sizeable 401K. We found ourselves in a financial panic. We did not make all the right choices.
We "bailed out" ourselves with our excellent credit.
House payments, groceries, medical bills..underwear,all on credit.
How stupid we were.
I must say we may not have survived had we not had some access to credit. I don't know.
But when I hear my President say "so Americans can have the credit they need to continue to meet their daily needs" It bothers me.
I want to say to my friends don't meet your daily needs with credit!! Okay, I know the average person needs credit for mortage loans or cars...Just don't ever live off of them. It has taken us years to recover from one years mistakes.
I will continue to pray for things I don't really understand and people I only see on the news. I will also pray for you. Times are hard for all of us.
I must say I am so glad that I have HOPE. I know that my future really lies in the God who supplies all my needs...not in wallstreet or main street.

Okay! I really need to know how often you purchase a hairdryer?

I just spoke with a friend who said she has had the same hairdryer for 6 Years. What am I doing wrong? Is there some unspoken rules for hairdryer opperation that my mother failed to explain to me? Do they come with operation pamphlets that I have failed to read?

Today I blew up my 5th one in 3 years! On average in my adult life I would guess that I have purchased about 17 hairdryers!

Now........you have seen my hair....nothing extraordinary to speak of....just normal wet head that needs to be dry.

My hair is thick....soo on average it takes about 8 minutes to completely dry my hair on high heat. So my hair dryer is used only about 40 minutes a week(assuming 2 days a week I am too lazy to wash my hair) So about 3 hours of hair drying a month. Which means I am receiving approximately 18 hours of dryer performance before sparks begin to fly!

I know what you are thinking... Of course I clean the hair out of the little thingy on the back of the dryer! I learned this after the first 2.
So what is the problem?

I am the only user of my dryer, for the most part. If it has been more than 6 weeks since Mark has had a haircut, he may decide to use it. For about 30 seconds...I have observed that it only takes a second to dry hair that is only an inch long......

Somewhere there is a landfill....full of my hairdryers...
I need a hairdryer repair shop ....Do they recycle hairdryers....

So tomorrow I must go and purchase a new one....
(I have never seen one at the goodwill)
Any suggestions?? I am as lucky with hairdryers as I am cars.

I had to put the dryer in a bag and set it outside....I can't get the smell to fade and now I will lay awake all night waiting for the smoke alarm to go off because of the sparks that must have gone into the wiring of my house from the flames that shot out of my dryer.

If you ever see a copy of Hairdryers for Dummies pick it up for me!