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Need parts for your car? Check out Go-Parts first

May 30, 2008 by Tricia

A few weeks ago our car broke down while we were on the way to Chris’ parents house. We ended up getting our car repaired in another city and the car was basically stranded there for three days!

We normally have our car repaired and get regular maintenance done at a garage just around the corner from where we live. The garage is owned by the sons of one of our close neighbors. As a result we get quick service and sometimes get a deal when they can manage to give us one. They also allow us to order our own parts. Sometimes that has worked out well because we’ve been able to get parts cheaper than what they would have sold them to us for, so all we have to pay is labor when we supply our own parts.

If you happen to enjoy working on your own car or if you’d like to see if you can get parts for your car or truck cheaper online than what your local garage will charge why not visit Go-Part.com.

For example, you can visit their site and look for Nissan parts, or parts for just about all of the top vehicle makers such as Ford, Acura, BMW, Honda, Jaguar, Land Rover, Jeep, Buick, Cadillac, Lexus, Mazda, Porche, Saab, Toyota, Saturn, Volvo and many more. All their vehicle parts are sold at discount prices.

Now I don’t know that much about car parts, but this site looks easy to use. Just click on your car makers name in the left hand menu and once you are on the manufacturers page you can select your car model and search for parts from there. For example if you have a Nissan Pathfinder just click on the word Pathfinder and a selection of parts will appear beneath the vehicle name.

Lets say your Pathfinder is a 2006 model and you need a left taillight. Just click on the 2005 – 2007 Nissan Pathfinder left tail light link and you can read the product description – such as what models it’s compatible with and then place your order.

Likewise if your Nissan Altima needs a new A/C condenser or a right side mirror for your 200sx you’ll be able to find the part at Go-Part.com.

Go-Part.com has a toll free number if you need to speak with their support personnel, plus there’s also live chat support as well. Plus this company ships to all countries which is good news since I’m in Canada. So the next time our Ford Contour breaks down, if we need an expensive part I’ll check online first.





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Technorati widget acting up

May 30, 2008 by Tricia

Has anyone else noticed that their Technorati widget is acting up?

Early yesterday morning I noticed that the Technorati widget on a few of my blogs was showing a huge list of websites within it.

I don’t have my Technorati widget set up to show tags or anything other than my profile link, the sites authority and a Technorati search box. However my widget appears to be showing a list of sites that either I’ve faved or that have faved my blog. There isn’t even an option for the widget to show anything like that, so this is very strange.

technoratiwidget.jpg I went to Technorati and search the discussions in the help section and their weblog to see if anyone else had mentioned that their widget looked odd, but I haven’t found any mention of it.

Yet, as I’ve surfed the net I’ve seen the widget acting up on other peoples blogs.

Luckily I’ve only got the widget set up to show on the main page of my blog. It looks ugly! I hope they fix this problem.

If you’re using the Technorati widget on your blog go and take a look and see if yours looks odd too.

I wonder if you have to have the widget on your site to continue to stay listed in Technorati or not?

Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Wordpress Tagged With: acting up, anyone else noticed that, blog, blogs, computer, help section, huge list, list of fav sites, problem, profile, profile link, search box, showing faves, strange, Technology, Technorati, ugly, web, weblog, website, widget, wierd, yesterday morning

Design your own Logo and Business cards

May 29, 2008 by Tricia

If you’ve been thinking of creating business cards to promote your website, online business or company you might want to visit LogoYes.

I just tried out the free logo design demo on their site and within just a few minutes I had created a logo for Tricia’s Musings. Take a look at what I created:

musingslogo.jpg It was easy! LogoYes has a simple step by step proceedure that’s foolproof. You can even go back a step or two if you change your mind about what you are creating!

The first step is to choose the type of image you want your logo to portray – High-tech, bold and flair are the three choices. I picked flair for my logo style.

Once you’ve selected your style you’ll need to decide which industry your business or website falls into. This is a fairly general blog that discusses a number of topics so I had a bit of trouble choosing my “industry”. I eventually decided to go with health and beauty as I discuss health topics quite often.

Step three involved picking a symbol (image) from my industry of choice to use in my logo. As you can see I picked a flower bouquet. There is a wide variety of images to choose from so you’ll be sure to find a symbol that will depict your website or business quite well.

Step four and five were the most fun steps. This is where you can chose the colors of your logo and add text to it as well. I choose to simple add the name of my blog – Tricia’s Musings. I then decided to make the bouquet a red color and matched the text of Tricia’s Musings as closely in color as I could to the main green colors of my blog.

What you see above is the logo I created.

I then went on to create a simple business card by going through two additional steps:

musingscard.jpg

Now i have a logo for my site that closely matches the style of my blog. This of course is known as branding. If I order these business cards those who visit my site after receiving a card will see that the cards colors and logo are similar to that of the site.

I’m quite pleased with how my logo and business card turned out.

LogoYes also does custom Logo Design so if you can’t find a Do It Yourself logo that works well for your company you can inquire about having a custom logo made for your business.

This was actually a fun process to go through. Anyone could design their own logo using a system such as this. Give it a try.

Filed Under: Great Sites, Services, Website Promotion Tagged With: blog, brand, business card, choice, choices, company, creating business cards, custom, design demo, flair, flower bouquet, foolproof, free logo design, green colors, health and beauty, health topics, industry, logo, logo style, logoyes, Musings, online, online business, proceedure, promote, step by step, tricia, website

Re-living his disco days?

May 28, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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This guy looks like he’s reliving his disco days and seriously scaring the clubs female patrons!

The look on the girl to the rights face is just priceless. Perhaps this man has even more hair on his back than he does on his shoulders and chest? Maybe that’s why she’s making that face!

My husband just wrote a post on his blog about Disco – and well disco era clothing being back – and I think this photo would fit right into that post perfectly.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: back hair, blog, chest hair, clothing, disco clothing, disco days, disco era clothing, face, funny picture, girl, husband, look of horror, look on her face, man, patrons, photo, post, priceless, shoulders, Wordless Wednesday, WW

Is it the flu?

May 27, 2008 by Tricia

Earlier this evening, just after Chris got home from work, I suddenly became really nauseated. I have no idea why.

I tend to get mildly nauseated quite often due to the Crohn’s disease, but what I experienced this evening was full on nausea. I hope I don’t have the flu.

I was laying on my side on the couch doing something on the laptop when it hit me. I decided to just try lying flat to see if that would help and it made it worse. It took about two hours to settle down again – all of the time with me thinking I was going to toss my cookies at any moment. Bleh.

Needless to say we didn’t have the nice steak that we were planning on barbecuing. We had macaroni. Other than soup it was the only bland thing I could think of that probably wouldn’t upset my stomach even more. I’m not the biggest fan of mac and cheese either so I guess I had another awful dinner.

Hopefully I feel better tomorrow after a good sleep.

In other news … I think Midnight has started to figure out how to undo the latches on her crate. Two or three times in the last week I’ve found one undone when I know they were both done up. I guess we’ll have to get one of those small tsa locks to put on the crate when we go out if she keeps this up.

Darn smart puppy.

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Our Puppy Tagged With: better tomorrow, Bleh, Chris, cookies, couch, crate, crohn s disease, dinner, eat, evening, flu, good sleep, home, laptop, mac and cheese, macaroni, Midnight, nausea, nauseated, smart puppy, soup, steak, stomach, tsa locks

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