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The exploding steamer

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Did you know that Richard Simmons – the exercise and diet guru?- is selling steamers now?

I don’t know when he started doing this but I found a video of him on the David Letterman show demonstrating his new steamer. It looks like an interesting product since you can cook a whole meal in one machine since it has three separate steaming compartments.

Unfortunately I’m not sure if he just had a bad product with him when he went on the Letterman show, or if the product in general is flawed. Either way, when he started it up for Dave it ended up exploding!

See for yourself!





Green with envy

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Oh my gosh! I’m so jealous! Do you remember I told you that a friend of mine, a nurse, had moved to California to take a job there? She just sent me photos of her new home! It’s fantastic, four bedrooms, a pool in the backyard with a nice garden, a huge kitchen. I must go and visit her soon.

She also told me that her broker with real estate La Jolla was great, putting up with her indecision over homes and taking her out almost every day to show her homes that fit into what she was looking for. Our real estate agent was like that too and we even became friends after spending so much time together looking at houses.

Oh I am so going to visit my friend in the new year. Her new house has a great view and she’s near the beach. Ah, what I wouldn’t do for a great Californian holiday right now.

Cash back for shopping online

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I just came across yet another site that offers cash back to consumers when they make purchases online. It sounds like a great idea. Now if I just had some money to spend so that I could get some cash back. LOL

Ebates has even been discussed on CNN and has been called a “No-Brainer”. There are more than 800 name brand stores for you to shop from. Stores such as Circuit City, Office Depot, Barnes & Noble, and Target plus many more. You must become a registered member in order to use the Ebates site but it’s completely free as there is no cost for membership.

The site is an online shopping portal, where members save at least 5% on each purchase they make at participating online stores. They can even save up to 25% at some stores. Savy shoppers can browse through the stores and find the best deals with the latest online coupons. The next time that I need to do some online shopping I’ll be visiting Ebates and hopefully I’ll get lucky and find some of the 25% of deals.

Working on new blogs

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Did I tell you that I’ve been slowly working on creating three new blogs? Yes that’s right folks, soon I will officially have 8 blogs … oh actually 9 but the 9th one is for a separate post.

One of the new sites is going to be my husbands. At this point it’s called Guitar Licks. He’s going to write about music, musicians and I suppose the various types of guitars. He’s also trying to think of a way to teach guitar online, so the site will probably have guitar tabs and possibly video of him teaching parts of songs. Maybe he’ll take requests if there’s a song that you want to learn?

Another blog that I’ve decided to create is a celebrity blog. At the moment it’s tentatively named Celebrity Scoop but I might change the name. If anyone has suggestions please let me know. I’ve found that I like reading about all the crazy thing celebrities end up doing and I thought, why not write about it? So I’m creating a site that will hopefully have fairly up to date news on celebrity sitings and happenings. I’m sure I’ll have lots of stories about which celebs are feuding or causing scenes at the latest hot spots. I’ll probably have updates on celeb cosmetic surgeries too as in “who just had nose surgery” or breast augmentation? Will any of my readers be interested in visiting a celebrity blog written by me?

The final blog is going to be a combination of internet tips, “how to” articles, nifty techno gadgets and will be a front for my web design and site repair business that I suppose I can say that I’ve just started this month. I hope that some of you might end up wanting my services. I haven’t set any prices just yet but they will be reasonable.

I’m currently working on 4 blogs for a good friend and he’s officially my first client. So I’m working on his sites, and working on my own – mostly his right now. Busy busy!

It’s a rainy day

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I’d love to say rain rain go away, come again another day … but it hasn’t really rained here much for a while so I guess it’s ok that it’s raining. It’s kind of depressing though. It was dark and gloomy all day, and by 4:30 in the afternoon I was turning the lights on in the room that I was in.

I haven’t uploaded the photo to my computer yet, but I took a really nice photo of the rain drops against the glass of our bedroom window earlier. I’m certain that it’s going to turn out really nice.

I would have taken the photo from our enclosed front porch but when I went out there at about 2 pm this afternoon the inside glass was all fogged up. Could it have still been fogged up from when Chris was out there at 9:30 this morning putting on his shoes and leaving for work? I don’t think so. I think maybe someone ducked onto our enclosed porch to get out of the rain and fogged up the room with their moist breath. Strange.

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