My girlfriend just invested in some walk in closet organizers for our new apartment. I honestly do not take up that much space in the closet, but she has more clothes than any person I have ever seen in my entire life. I tell her all the time that I highly doubt she has worn all of the things in her closet. I constantly find things hanging in there that still have the tags attached to them. The organizers definitely helped though. She confined me to a small little spot with all those organizers so she could take up the majority of the space herself. Even with all of the organizers, she had a hard time fitting all of her stuff. A lot of what took up all the space was actually all of the shoes she has. I am actually pretty glad the closet is really the only place she gets territorial over. Most of my posters and artwork adorn our walls, and she even lets me display some of my sports collectables. The kitchen is also my turf. She is not much of a cook, so I do all of the cooking, and she usually stays out of my way there.   

Gene Wilde once said “all art is useless.”  Think about it.  Those paintings you have hanging on your walls don’t actually do anything.  That little sculpture or vase sitting on your living room table serves no purpose.  All those novels you’ve read and have kept stacked neatly together on the shelves of your bookcase are just gathering dust.  They all do nothing.  They have no real use. 

            A hammer beats in a nail.  A screwdriver twists in a screw.  A computer processes information, saves information, allows communication, draws, and does dozens and dozens of other things.  A car drives and transports people to places.  All these things are utilitarian.  They were conceived and built to serve a particular purpose.  No one can say the same thing about art. 

            You can argue that it decorates a place, or in the case of novels, movies, and poetry, that it entertains, but those aren’t essential uses.  If you want decoration on your wall, you can just use different paint.  You can live without watching the latest movie at the theater or buying the newest bestselling mystery novel that’s just hit all the bookstores and newsstands.  You can’t use art to pay your rent or put food on your table.  And you can’t eat art either.  It won’t clean your bedroom, pay your bills, or wake you up in the morning. 

            But that’s not to say that art has no place in the world.  It’s not essential to anyone’s life, but it is needed.  How would you feel making the hour-long drive to work without being able to listen to the music on your car radio?  And doesn’t that brilliant painting a bright blue sky make you feel revived and fresh every morning?  Don’t tell me there’s any better way to call it a night than tucking yourself into bed and then reaching over to finish that book you’ve been plowing through all week long. 

            We need the arts to inspire, entertain, and, in some cases, educate us.  Without it, our lives would have no flavor.   We’d just wake up, ear, march off to work, come home, eat again, and sleep.  We would have nothing to look forward to and nothing to make us feel special. 

            And, regardless of what anyone else says, the arts are hard work.  Not just anyone can sit down and write ten pages of a story and have it all make sense and be riveting.  Not just anyone can splash paint against a canvas and have it end up a meaningful painting.  In fact, not just anyone can work with paint at all and use it to make a clear, recognizable picture. 

            And without having different tastes in music, art, movies, and more, we would have nothing else to define and separate us from everybody else.  We’d all dress the same, live in places that all look the same, and all dream the same dreams.  That’s why we need the arts in our lives, even if they have no essential, obvious use.  The arts just are and we love them for it. 

Tara had become the neighborhood expert on hair and hair loss.  When Jim and Sues's dog, Bill, started to lose his hair, Sue walked him over and had Tara look at him.  What was a good dog hair loss treatment, Sue wanted to know.  Tara was upfront with her, saying that she had studied humans only, due to my hair loss.  But of course this was a new project of Tara, so like all missions she gets started on, she dug right in.  There were obvious causes, like mange and other parasites.  Sometimes dogs even suffer from hormonal problems.  The first thing to do was to take Bill to the vet and see if he was okay physically.  It turned out that both Jim and Bill went to get a check up on the same day, and since Jim's appointment time was different from Bill's, he was able to take the dog to the vet.  The vet said that there was nothing wrong with Bill.  Jim didn't get a clean bill of heath, though.  He as diabetes, it turns out.  Tara was sitting aound that night thinking about Bill.  She went online and spent about an hour looking up information on dogs.

Another area of business was bedroom closet organizers.  When we had finished the huge closets in the master bedrooms we were usually retained to help out with the other bedrooms.  This was easy, compared with the master bedroom.  The master bedroom was the most important, and it was kind of a showcase.  If the owners were satisfied with the master bedroom then we could almost count on getting at least one more room to do.  It was a rare house where we only did one closet.  It got to the point that we had to end up taking off from our regular jobs to do what was supposed to be our part time business.  We had to be more creative with these organizers, as sometimes the closets were for young kids, sometimes for teenagers and sometimes, believe it or not, adult children living at home.  We had several suppliers that we usually went to, and every so often we actually did a custom job, with a mix and match of kits and sometimes things that we designed yourself.  It was a fun job.  We made a good amount of money.  But the one thing we did miss was our peace and quiet.  More and more subdivisions and houses were being built. 

Data storage has become one of the most important aspects of running a business enterprise. Data can be defined as the information on the applications and the infrastructure of an enterprise. Data has become one of the most important assets of an enterprise. Complete loss of data can give anyone a nightmare. The loss of data can not only be harmful but can also be fatal to the enterprise. There can be many reasons behind the loss of data. The reasons may be more than just physical damage of the data by any virus or natural calamity like fire or earthquake. For example if one wants to fire an employee who works in the IT department the risks of data theft increases quite a lot. If the employee decides to take the data along with him and sell it to his competitor then the results can be quite damaging. Even if one is successful in blocking the data from the employee before firing him, other employees can also sell the data to the competitors for money. Online data storage also ensures that if there is any natural calamity, then also the data is fully accessible. Even if there is fire or earth quake, as long as the internet works the data is fully safe and secure. With so many hassles that a business owner has to cope up with, online data storage at least helps in eliminating one of the many worries that a business owner has.  

We might be able to file a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy.  We didn't know for sure.  We haven't had much of a chance to look up the details.  We were just trying to keep our heads above water.  these investments were not a great idea.  They have cost us just about everything.  I don't know where to go from here, if anywhere.  We are in trouble.  Still, there is a chance we can keep the house and some personal items.  And now that Deb has a full time job we may have more room to talk.  It is humiliating, but I think we were really taken advantage of.  Nobody could know that this guy was a crook.  He came into town and promised the moon.  But we did our homework. He just was one step ahead of all our questions.  He had a quick answer for everything.  It sounded good, and we did check around, but the reviews we got were good.  So how were we to know?  It was a bad thing gone worse once the checks started to bounce and the promises of wired money never came.  We were racking up thousands is losses.  The town council, which had the power to really investigate, never did.  We suffered millions in losses.

I'm already settled in the new condominium and I love it! I wound up choosing ADT home security. Now I can move on to the decorating! That is my favorite part. My friend is going to visit later in the day and then she's going to help me shop for new furniture. My boyfriend is coming over later in the week to help me paint. I think I'm going to paint the wall purple or orange. I don't know yet. I want something really different that I haven't tried before. Maybe bright yellow! There are a few other additions I'd like to make to the place. I want to install some type of music system so that I can just flip a switch so I can listen to music in whatever room I want. I haven't entirely decided how I want this place to look. For the walls, I might do a combination of painting and black and white striped wallpaper. I've been looking through a ton of magazines to get ideas and I think that could potentially look really elegant. Also, the kitchen needs to be remodeled and I need to decide what material I want for the counters and cabinets. I'm really enjoying handling every detail that goes into having one's own place!

When my half-brother Paul turned 26, he headed out on his own, passed the bar, and set up shop as a Personal Injury Attorney in California in the capitol city of Sacramento.  He did quite well for himself too.  Soon he was going to LA, San Diego, San Francisco, and all over the state for clients.  He was highly paid and a highly regarded Personal Injury Attorney in California.  Then one day, he suddenly quit.  He closed down his office and referred his clients to other lawyers that he knew and trusted.  He’d saved up enough money that he’d be able to get by for a while, but no one understood why he had just quit like that.  He moved into a cabin out in the woods outside Sacramento and just started writing poetry.  Some of it was good and some of it was horrendously bad.  He published a few poems here and there, but anyone can tell you that no one can get by on just being a poet, especially a mediocre one.  Now he’s also grown this huge thick beard and barely ever goes into town for anything.  He rarely even answers his phone anymore these days.

I know everyone has been anxiously awaiting the test results as I have. I got word of the official diagnosis today: diabetes mellitus.  I think after talking with my doctor for some time and after coming home the shock has worn off a bit. I guess it sounds more scary when it's all written out like that but it's still obviously not something I was expecting to hear. I had originally gone for my normal annual checkup and I expected the results would come back the same as the year before. The doctor had to sit with me for some time while I processed all the new information and how that will impact my lifestyle and my family. I'm going to have to make a lot of changes. I need to start eating better and doing more exercise. I always wanted to get more involved at the gyms but I always found some excuse to keep putting it off. I think I'm going to enroll in that yoga course I've been wanting to do for about six months now. Before I would probably shrug it off but I think hearing the news is giving me the extra incentive I need to want to take better care of myself!

I had an interesting experience last week. I work for a Chicago Laser Hair Removal company, and we specialize in facial hair removal. Perhaps this is why I was so confused when a lady came in and asked us to remove her arm hair. I found this strange, and I was quite taken aback. When my co-workers and I asked her why she requested such a strange laser treatment, she replied “I look like a gorilla”. She said this both calmly and strangely happily. At first we weren’t very eager about it, but after a while we agreed to begin the laser treatment as soon as possible. She was very excited, and couldn’t stop babbling about what she was going to look like. I thought she was going to look funny, but as a young doctor in need of any extra cash that may come in, I kept my mouth shut. When it was time for the appointment, she came in and we laid her down and began to work. I noticed she looked funny as soon as we started, but I couldn’t just stop in middle. So we finished and let her see the results. She wasn’t as happy as we thought she might be. I know it wasn’t very professional of me, but the second I saw the expression on her face I burst out laughing. She reacted terribly. She threw the money on the counter and ran out while I was still laughing. Oh well.