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Leave yourself a message

November 8, 2006 by Tricia

I just found a site that offers a very unique and helpful service that I think many people could use. The site is BrainCast. It’s a free message and memo service that allows you to record reminders for yourself on the go, and automatically delivers them to your PC at home for later use. You can even store and organize your messages online if you want to keep track of them.

Not only can you leave your self a message from anywhere using any US based cell or land line telephone network, but you can call the Braincast toll free number and access your messages via the phone anywhere you are at absolutely no cost.

For example- you are at work and a meeting is going to start in a few minutes, and you suddenly remember that you need to buy more laundry detergent. Quickly use your cell or telephone and leave yourself a memo. Go to the grocery store on your way home from work and when you have that nagging feeling that you are forgetting something you can call the Braincast toll free number to collect your message and get that reminder that you need to pick up laundry detergent, which you would have forgotten about if you hadn’t been able to listen to your message.

Whenever you leave yourself a message you’ll get an email reminding you that you’ve left a message. Then you can listen to your messages on the Braincast website or by calling the toll free number from anywhere that you happen to be. You can label your messages too, and by doing that you’ll be able to organize your messages anyway you want.

It’s free and I think it’s worth a try. I did not try out this service myself because I’m in Canada and the site states that it works with US based cell and telephone systems so I figured it wouldn’t work for me. I might sign up and see if I’m right later. Either way, I think this might be a handy service for you to try.

If you do sign up to try Braincast’s message system would you let me know if you enjoyed the service and if my post was helpful? Thanks.





Filed Under: Cool stuff, Web and Technology Tagged With: braincast, free message service, retrieve messages from anywhere, voice message system

Weird things happen to me

November 8, 2006 by Tricia

Last Thursday evening I was sitting on the couch. My husband and I had just eaten dinner and I was talking to him. I can’t remember what I was talking about – what was on TV perhaps? Anyway, at the end of whatever I was saying I made a weird noise that involved me sticking out my tongue or twisting it around and moving my head to the side at the same time. It was supposed to be a funny sound to punctuate whatever I was talking about I guess.

Yes, you know I’m weird, don’t look at me that way!

Right after I did that I had extreme pain under my jaw on the right side. The pain traveled to the back of my throat, the top of my head. WTF? It hurt to swallow. OMG what did I just do to myself? And how? All I did was make a funny sound. People do that every day don’t they? Why the hell was it hurting so much?

I must have pulled a muscle in the base of my tongue or some muscle just under my jaw. Now who does that? No one! No one but super klutzy me that is. I hoped the pain would ease off in a few minutes. You know like when you hit your elbow. It hurts like crazy when you bang your elbow but five minutes later you can barely remember that you hit it. It took until the next day before it didn’t hurt or feel funny.

I’m shaking my head. You’d think that if I was going to pull a muscle in my tongue or jaw that I’d at least be doing something interesting or erotic when it happened.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Pulled a Trish Tagged With: dinner, hurting, jaw, klutz, pulled muscle, pulled tongue muscle, sound, tongue, twist, twisted tongue

Are you creative or inventive?

November 8, 2006 by Tricia

I know a lot of inventive people – actually I bet many of you have thought of new products that would make day to life tasks a little bit easier, or you might have thought of totally new inventions that would help many.

Well, if you are inventive, you might want to visit the Invent-Tech Network blog where you can stay informed about recently licensed products and inventions. One of the more recent posts on the Invent-Tech blog discusses how a licensed product by Invent-Tech hits store shelves. Yes, it’s true, a delicious chocolate candy is now on the shelves of Walmart , Krogers and many other stores. The candy was invented by one of the Invent-Tech members.

My father was one of those people who often came up with new ideas for products that would make life easier – one was an easier way of getting pickles out of the jar. It was basically to have them already stuck on a little rack that you could pull out of the Jar. Approximately 10 years after he mentioned his pickle idea someone else invented a similar product.

If you are working on a new idea, invention or want to learn more about how to create and market your new products you should visit the Invent-Tech Network blog where you will find latest Invent-Tech news, media buzz, product licensing announcements and trade show updates.

If you are interested in inventions and want to learn more about what is involved as well as patents and marketing, you should also drop by the Invent-Tech website. There are free offers for inventors, information for the Media and Manufacturers, as well as trade show and event listings.

The next time one of my friends or relatives starts talking about a great idea that they have for a product I’m going to point them toward Invent-Tech. If they’re serious about their idea they will hopefully appreciate the tip.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Web and Technology Tagged With: blog, idea, Invent tech, Invent tech Network, invention, invention information, patent

Puppy Love

November 8, 2006 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Aren't we Adorable

Does anyone know what kind of puppies these two little ones are? OMG aren’t they adorable? I love puppies – even better than I like kittens.

I always wanted to have a puppy when I was a little girl but my parents wouldn’t let me. One of my older brothers was allergic to dogs, cats and whatever else that moved. I was deprived! In the end it was probably a good thing that I didn’t have a dog of my own because it turns out that I’m allergic to dogs, cats and birds too.

Such a tragedy really, I would have made such a good mommy to a little puppy. Do you feel sorry for me yet?

Happy Wednesday!

Filed Under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: photo, photos, puppies, puppy, Wordless Wednesday

Smallest bathroom ever

November 7, 2006 by Tricia

I think if there were a contest we might win for tiniest bathroom in the world, well at least in Toronto.

The door to the bathroom swings inward – it misses the sink by a few inches. Once you reach the sink you have to squeeze between it and the tub to get to the toilet. The space between the sink and the tub is perhaps 1.5 to 2 feet- just enough to open the cupboard door below the sink. The door touches the tub when it’s fully open. The toilet is against the wall and when you sit on it- if you have long legs like I do your knees touch the cabinet below the sink.

Am I right? Pretty small huh?

Other than taking the tub out and replacing it with a tiny shower I can’t think of any way to make the space bigger. Oh I have one other idea – we could make the whole bathroom floor a shower floor and just have a curtain to separate the actual shower area. That might work.

Ideally … All of our three bedrooms are rather small by today’s standards. Our house was built in 1927 and I guess either people were smaller or they had no possessions cause the closets are barely existent up there too.

Anyway, back to my thoughts – Ideally … I would like to move the bathroom to the smallest bedroom, which happens to be right beside the current bathroom. This would make the bathroom about three times the size that it is right now. I’d knock down the wall in the current bathroom to make the middle bedroom a tiny bit larger- or perhaps to give it a walk in closet? Yeah I like that idea.

Someday we will do this reno, but that will be after we finish the living room dinning room, finish the basement and re do the kitchen too. Lotsa work!

So I’ve been checking things out at various online stores that sell bathroom fixtures and furnishings. I know it’s a ways off but it’s fun to plan and dream. I found a great site called taps4less.com that I spent some time browsing at today. They have a lot of nice bathroom furnishings at their online store.

Oh one thing I would really like to have in the new bathroom if we move it over is a spa bathtub. Oh that would be so nice. If I get back to work I know I’d look forward to that tub after a long 12 or 13 hour shift on my feet.

This is one reno project that I’m going to have fun planning. Have any of you renovated a bathroom before? If you did how did it turn out?

Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor Tagged With: bathroom fixtures, bathroom furnishings, showers, taps4less.com, tubs

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