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OK, I bought a pair of flip flops to send to the little girl at the top of my list. I need to send six letters with my 8 year old niece's name being the one for you to send a pair of flip flops. Please help me to not disappoint her. I just need a couple of you to volunteer to let me send this flip flop exchange letter. I only spent $3.50 for a pretty purple pair from Old Navy. They fit in a flat envelope and aren't very expensive to mail. Yep, begging here!
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While writing an op for PayPerPost, I came across a website called Trip Wiser. I typed in the words North Carolina because that is where our daughter lives. It brought up some cool and interesting places to visit close to where she lives.
I was especially pleased to find information about Kittyhawk and the Wright brothers. I would love to visit those places. Also listed was Cape Hatteras and the famous Hatteras lighthouse. I have sold area rugs with that lighthouse beautifully displayed.
Stacy has been traveling on her days off and has visited a few places around her area. North Carolina seems like it has a lot to offer, especially for those of us who like to travel.
I know that my daughter won't be interested in this fun contest sponsored by GoFish.com because the winner of the contest gets a date with Mirelly Taylor, from "Kiss Me Again", "Serving Sara", "Las Vegas" and "Numb3rs". Now, if the next celebrity participant is Johnny Depp, she will be the first with a video ready to submit!
Wonder what I am talking about? I am telling you about Seduce a Celeb, the first online reality show where the online audience participates by sending in a video and tries to win a date with a celebrity. The unique, participative nature of the program that allows ANYONE to be part of the program is causing quite a stir on the web.
Want a date with Mirelly? Submit your video. The videos need to showcase something that would make you the winner. The video can be something that shows your interests or a talent you have. It could also be a funny video like this one.
Getting my groove on while thinking of Mirelly
My sis sent me a letter that involves flip flops! My niece, Emily, is involved in a flip flop exchange. The letter asks me to send a pair of flip flops to the person whose name is at the top of the list and then add my name to the list and send the letter to six people. If everyone participates, I will get 36 pair of flip flops for the price of the one pair I bought and mailed! Fun, fun, fun!
If you would like to participate in the flip flop exchange please let me know. I need six people who love flip flops.
Thanks.
One of the things I love about my hubby is that he loves to cook. I am so blessed! I can cook but I really don't like to. I would rather spend my time planting flowers, reading or working on scrapbooks.
Father's Day is approaching and I need to start thinking of something for him. This hot dog rotisserie griller would make him smile at the memories of the great hot dogs found at the ballpark.
We are always looking for new ideas for ways to entertain while cooking and a hot dog rotisserie griller would be fun to use when we have company.
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Johnny Depp has a man crush on Keith Richards, who has a small role in the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. A recap of the Depp interview as told at Cnn Online:
The Rolling Stones guitarist agreed to play Sparrow's father, Captain Teague, in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," the third installment of the blockbuster film franchise.
"It was the right place at the right time with the right guys," said Richards, 63, who was also interviewed.
"Me, I'm just a musician," Richards said. "And if the people like my stuff, thank God. It pushes me on to do more. And I want to do more. That's something that you don't factor in when you start this game."
I am sure that what hinders me from trying new things like updating the way we code our samples, is because I am hesitant to learn how to use new software. I just don't have the time to figure it out. Therefore, I don't update the way we do things. It is not good to stay in a rut. Without paying a setup fee I can render the services of AIM Promote and use crm software to upgrade a my business and make it better! Why don't all aspects of our business take a cue from their forward way of thinking?
AIM Promote's CRM software takes the work and time of integrating lead management software with your business. This software tracks leads so you know where to double up your salesforce and what area to hit harder. Instead of spending your time managing these things, let the software do it for you. They have a great support system that can answer any question you might have. Focus more on making sales, and less on learning software.
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Do you want to feel better? Start walking. It doesn't have to be a walk of 5 miles. Just a short walk that is fast enough to get your heart pumping, is going to make you feel better.
Cutting out fats will help you feel better. When you eat the wrong foods, your body feels sluggish. Just a few small things can help you get to the point you want to be. Skip the cream and sugar with your coffee. Give up soda and drink water instead. Eat whole-grain toast instead of a donut. Replace your afternoon snack with fruit. Start with baby steps and you will get there.
When we visited The Vanderbilt Mansion last spring, we rented MP3 players so we could listen as we went from room to room. The player afforded us the luxury of going at our own pace while hearing about the history of each room. Being able to upload information to a device is becoming more popular. Variant Guide offers tourists convenient audio guides on Moscow and Paris, with Barcelona and more cities to come, in MP3 format. As their popularity increases you will find them to contain factual, historical and useful contemporary information. It is possible to use them as a travel guide while visiting cities in Europe. Offered at affordable prices from Variant Guide, you will wonder how you ever got along with out them.
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Everytime I think it is safe to bring out the summer clothes, I get fooled. Today I am wearing a jacket! Do they say that global warming is the cause of this strange weather? I just want it to stay nice and for the sun to make an appearance. I don't really have any in between clothes. I have sweaters or I have sleeveless tops. Somebody, please, tell the man upstairs that for my sanity's sake, it needs to stay nice!
I don't wish to vocalize my political views over the web but, I have to tell you about the promotional t-shirts for Hillary Clinton. These are going to become collectors items for sure! Hillary Clinton t-shirts are going to be as popular as Spiro Agnew watches so don't hesitate in getting yours! If you support Hillary Clinton for president, you should let people know. Give the support she is due. Don't wait until the heat of the election. Show your loyalty. The t-shirts for women come in the prettiest colors like salmon and are very reasonably priced. Order your Hillary for President buttons so you will have one when they become collectors items.
You can also get your anti-Bush bumper stickers from Depresident.com!
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Would you like to see pictures from Greg's graduation? We have quite a few candid shots. The professional ones will have to wait. I'm not sure I like the ones that the photographer who was hired by the university took. Ok. Let me see if I can make this work.
Edit: I guess you can tell I'm still working on it. grrr
Andrew gives you the lowdown
J.K. Rowling has pledged a major contribution to a $3 million reward fund for the safe return of the little British girl who came up missing while on vacation with her parents. Madeleine McCann, 4, disappeared on May 2 from a resort in Portugal. I wonder if this will help her be found.
This is the time I regret. We have to take Stacy to the airport. I will try not to cry. It helps knowing we will be visiting her in June. We had a great visit. We watched movies of course. Anyone who has seen Stacy's collection of movies knows that we will be watching movies when we are with her! When we visited her in the humidity of Louisiana, we a movie every night. One day we saw two movies!
We ate ice cream a few times since we had to make the rounds to our favorite ice cream spots. We even tried out a new spot and found another favorite place!
Even though she beat me playing Putt Putt golf, we had a blast. The more it bounced out of the area and into the water, the more we laughed. We're lucky no on else was on the course. They might have been injured by one of our stray balls.
Like I said, it was a great visit. It was just too short.
My sister uses a program that puts money into her daughter's college fun everytime she uses a certain charge card. The same theory works for singles (like my son and his almost fiance), engaged couples and newlyweds as they begin their lives together. The utango rewards program enables you to earn CASH rewards as you go about your lives buying the normal things you buy to begin a household. The program is free to join and when you sign up now, you receive $1000 tango bucks just for registering!
The catch? Members must eventually marry, stay loyal to uTANGO merchants and stay married in order to collect their Life-Stage Cash Rewards. uTANGO rewards program is about properly rewarding extraordinary success and through the uTANGO Life-Stage Rewards Program Members will find a place to shop, make wedding plans, seek expert advice on finances, health, parenting, relationships and earn rewards for life! It is so easy to earn TANGO bucks through utango rewards program by leveraging your everyday spending at two or more of the 300 popular online stores.
When you join and remain loyal to the merchants in this program you receive extraordinary help saving for your future and uTANGO allows Members to leverage their existing spending to be rewarded in an extraordinary way for their long-term loyalty and personal success! You are going to spend money to live so why not leverage it to earn money on the money you spend. Arggh! Maybe I'm not saying that right. Read all of the ways this works by going to their website.
uTANGO is the first of its kind: a "defined spending" and "defined reward" Life-Stage Rewards Program. uTANGO delivers singles, engaged couples (which is why our family is so excited about this program), and newlywed consumers the opportunity to leverage their everyday spending and long-term loyalty to earn significant Life-Stage Cash Rewards ranging up to $250,000 to $1 Million which can then be used for retirement or other life-stage expenses. Greg and Taryn will have so much more at their retirement than we ever imagined would be attainable. This concept is perfect for them as they begin to buy things for their home. They already have been buying from stores like Target and Starbucks. The stores listed are normal stores that they shop during their normal shopping. The 300 stores in the program where they earn TANGO bucks are not some wacky far fetched ones that no one uses.
Social Security will most likely be gone by the time these two retire. This program is a great idea for them, especially since they are so young and will be buying things anyway.
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Jerry Falwell has died of appearant heart problems.
While some did not like Rev. Falwell, one should respect the fact that he got people involved in the issues. People were sitting idly by while laws effecting their choices were being made. The Moral Majority was born. Christians were urged to stand up for their beliefs. For these things, Rev. Falwell should be commended.
GoFish.com is running a contest that allows you to win a date with celebrity. Mirelly Taylor from "Kiss Me Again", "Serving Sara", "Las Vegas" and "Numb3rs" is the celebrity for this sessions contest. Watch the video on the main page of GoFish.com and see what she has to say about looking for a guy. She is very pretty and has a wonderful figure. Here's your chance all you single guys!
I enjoy reality shows and now we have an online reality show at Go Fish! Seduce a Celeb will run on GoFish.com over the next 14 weeks. Check out the hilarious Free videos at GoFish.com now! I think this is going to be a hit.
Emmy Award Winning Producer, Scott Sternberg, and Andrew Firestone from “The Bachelor” are also part of the show so you know this show is going to be a winner.
Seduce a Celeb is an online first! The online audience actually becomes part of the program because they submit videos that portray the image they want the celebrity to get. Can you imagine the various submissions the show will get? I know how crazy some of my friends are and if the entries are anything like what my single friends put out there to try and win a date, it could be very interesting.
I think this is going to be a fun program. I could get hooked trying to see who will be picked and what is going to happen next! LOL
I love to shop. Just keep me out of a furniture store. That is a dangerous place for me. I love furniture. I wish it was possible to change the whole theme of my house. I am not that way with clothes. I have to be pushed into new styles. Just about the time they are going out of style is when I decide I like them. I am cheap when it comes to buying books. I would rather go to the library. That is just about the only thing I wish I didn't have tons of money for.
Years ago it was easy to find good investments and have a little bit of fun money. These days it is not as easy to find high yield savings accounts. I was pleasantly surprised to find a list for some of the highest yielding accounts available. Emoneycentral.com is a personal finance related site that reports on high yield bank and credit union accounts. Check out their site and start earning more on your money.
With a bit of extra dough ray me, I can have a bit more F U N!
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Hubby has always wanted to go on a cruise to Alaska. My sis sent me this link about a cruise ship that has run aground. Since it happened at 12:15 am it could have been a very bad situation. It sounds like, though, that everything is turning out ok as the passengers have been taken from the ship. Many vessels that were passing by stopped to help. They don't know why this happened but think they might have struck a rock.
There is the coolest site for trendy baby clothes. My nephew and his wife are enjoying their new baby and always have her dressed in the cutest baby clothes. I am so excited to have found this site where they definitely live up to their motto: We Answer to the Call of Coolness! Their lines include some of the coolest names in the music business like Jimi Hendrix and Gwen Stefani. Gwen's Harajuku baby clothes are a must have item. The Retro Baby lines such as Confucius Says and Retro Boy are really stylin'! The baby t-shirts will have you rolling in laughter. I thought one of the funniest ones said Confucius says: Green food makes Green Poo! LOL When you want the coolest baby clothes, you will find them at TheRetroBaby.com.
I didn't use my laptop this weekend because we were so busy. I could have though because the hotel had free internet access. I only had to turn on my laptop to check my email. I didn't have to type in any access codes or anything. I love how the world is becoming so tech enabled. Greg was able to text message us during the graduation ceremony. That was fun.
Thanks to Drew at, Flatwater Tech, I now have a list of hotels that have free Wi-Fi.
This afternoon the discussion turned to the discussion of "Notch Babies". Do you know what a Notch baby is? Take a guess.
There are names for all sorts of groups of people. Who hasn't heard the term Baby Boomer. Are you a child of the Sixties?
Do you know of any other cliches?
cli·ché /kliˈʃeɪ, klɪ-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[klee-shey, kli-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, as sadder but wiser, or strong as an ox.
2. (in art, literature, drama, etc.) a trite or hackneyed plot, character development, use of color, musical expression, etc.
3. anything that has become trite or commonplace through overuse.
4. British Printing.
a. a stereotype or electrotype plate.
b. a reproduction made in a like manner.
–adjective
5. trite; hackneyed; stereotyped; clichéd.
Happy Mother's Day! I know I am so lucky to have both my Mom and Mother inlaw here to celebrate with me. I got to have lunch with Greg this afternoon and my daughter is here from North Carolina.
It was a beautiful day because the sun was out but it wasn't too terribly hot.
Hubby smoked chicken halves all afternoon that turned out delicious. He has used that smoker so much that it is about time to get a new one. It cooks meat evenly and brings out a lot of flavor but it isn't time consuming to use. He can use different types of wood chips to bring out different flavors. Some he has tried have been hickory, Jack Daniels whiskey barrels, and mesquite. He has cooked many types of meats like brisket and chicken.
