Marilyn Muellers Methodology

Life according to Mary

May 19, 2013
by Mary
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Guitars not cars

Knowing that my hubby spends all of his free time in the garage tinkering on his hot rod, or fixing a friend’s vehicle, I wasn’t really surprised when I heard him talking to Morris about fenders. After all, cars have fenders, right? Well, I did think it was strange when I heard him use the phrase “excellent fender custom shop” and I was concerned that he might be spending more money on his hot rod than we had agreed upon!

Didn’t I feel silly when I found out later that they were talking about Morris’s son buying a Fender guitar! Boy was I relieved when I learned it wasn’t something my hubby was going to buy at all!

May 13, 2013
by Mary
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Real Estate

One of my closest friends has been in Real Estate for going on 20 years now. It is something that she always wanted to be into and she has enjoyed it, for the most part. This economic crisis has placed a huge burden on people just like her that depend on a commission, not a salary, to pay their mortgages and monthly bills with. I’ve learned so much from her about Real Estate and she always has funny and entertaining stories to tell about many of her clients and their homes and properties that she has had dealings with through out the years.

She has seen some breath taking homes and I’ve gotten to tag along with her on more than one occasion and have seen some pretty gorgeous ones myself. It’s always exciting to see not only the outside up and close by the inside of these houses as well. Their great looking huge kitchens, along with the most exquisite tiles used in many of them. Even bathroom tiles are really becoming a huge trend that I’ve fallen in love with recently and would like to incorporate in my bathroom.

May 7, 2013
by Mary
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Cigar smoke

Yesterday I was on an elevator with a man who had a familiar smokey scent about him. I closed my eyes for a moment, trying to remember where I had smelled that particular odor before. The scent reminded me slightly of my grandfather, who loved to smoke montecristo cigars whenever there was a special occasion to celebrate. I remember trying to smoke a cigar once or twice as a teenager, but I really didn’t enjoy the taste at all.

May 5, 2013
by Mary
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I miss them

When we moved here from New England, I thought that I’d never want to go back there. Ever. New England was not kind to me. Oddly enough, I find myself thinking back from time to time about some of the things that I miss from up there. For example, down here I don’t seem to ever see any houses with window flower boxes gracing the windows. Up in New England, it seemed that just about every farm house that I’d drive past had window boxes full of colorful annuals brightening up the houses.

I don’t know why people down here don’t seem to have any use for a pretty window box full of flowers. Does the box dry out too quickly? Are the people too hurried to be bothered with watering and caring for them? Whatever the reason, I find that I miss seeing those splashes of color as I drive along the country roads down here.

May 4, 2013
by Mary
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Cigar boxes

One of the things that I enjoy doing is crafting with things that people would normally discard. For example, I would use a discarded cigar box to turn into a pretty purse, or a trinket box. I can remember as a child using a tin that had held macanudo cigars inside as a storage box for my pens, pencils, and crayons. Recently I was given a book about recycling crafts and decided to start looking for cigar boxes to decorate and give as presents. I was disappointed when I went into the local smoke shop and found that they don’t give away their empty cigar boxes, they sell them. Drat.