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Missing my family

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I’ve been thinking about my family a lot lately. I’m not sure why, perhaps it’s just the time of the year. My sister, and one of my brothers live in the Toronto area but I hardly ever see them. That will change tomorrow or Sunday though, because my brother is going to come over and bring my scanner back. Two bonus’ there – I get to see my bro and I get my scanner that I’ve barely been able to use since I purchased it back. Yeah!

I have two other brothers. My oldest brother, who was almost 20 when I was born is turning 60!!! in a couple of weeks. I can’t believe that I have a brother that age. It’s always seemed more like he should be my parent given his age rather than my brother. He’s worried that he’s turning into an old man but I keep telling him that you’re only as old as you feel.

My final brother, currently lives in Vancouver. I say currently but I think that’s a permanent situation. He loves it there. He’s traveled all over the world for his work as a geologist. He’s lived in the Dominican republic, Africa, and even Spain. I think he enjoyed Spain the most of all the places he’s lived. He’s even talked about buying a property in Spain once or twice in the past. I don’t know if he was serious, but if he did I’d certainly try to visit his “villa” every once in a while.

As I said I’m not sure why I’m thinking of family so much lately, but I am. We’ve already had our thanks Giving here in Canada so the next big time for all of us to try to get together will be Christmas. Unless of course my brother from Vancouver happens to come to town for business- then we all try to get together for dinner.

I guess I’m just missing my family. Do you get that way some times?





Sticky Buttons

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No that was sticky buttons, not sticky buns. Geesh! You people amaze me with your dirty minds!

We’ve been struggling with our cordless phone for the last few months. No scratch that – it’s had a few problems for about a year now.

It started with us no longer being able to turn the ringer off – that was about a year ago. I don’t know about you, but when you work shift work there are times that you just don’t want the phone to ring, because, of course, if it does it’s usually just after you’ve managed to fall asleep. Ok, well, then, if we don’t want this phone to ring I guess we’ll just unplug it.

Then some of the buttons started to stick every now and then. Often the numbers 6 and 9. It wasn’t too bad at first but over the last couple of months it’s gotten worse and worse. On Tuesday it was so bad that I had to use my cellphone to check our home phone messages because I’d already tried to put in our password 7 times on our cordless phone without it working. The buttons either weren’t working or when I finally succeeded they put in two or three of the number I’d been trying to punch in.

I’ve got a cordless phone that can be used to answer calls but forget dialing most numbers. It doesn’t work half the time. Is there an orphanage or retirement home for phones like this? I think I need to send ours there.

So on Tuesday amongst the many other things that I did on Tuesday we went phone shopping. We ended up getting a Motorola cordless phone. One of those ones that has two extra handsets. We only have TWO phone jack in our house. Yeah, we should have had more put in when we got the house but I guess we figured two would be ok.

Our tiny house now has 5 working phones! A corded phone in our bedroom, a cordless in the living room / dining room – both of those use the phone jacks, a handset in the kitchen, and the other extra handset is in one of our spare rooms upstairs right now but I’d like to move it to the basement ’cause if we do we’ll have all the floors covered. The fifth phone is the cell phone.

No more sticky buttons! The only problem now is that if we don’t want the ringer to wake us up we have even more phones to silence. I’m sure there will be times that we’ll forget one or two of them. *groan*

Star in a HP ad

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This is so cool! Have you always wanted to star in a commercial?

Well, I’ve found a way that you can star in a HP computer ad. This is part of HP’s The computer is personal again ad campaign.

It’s really easy too. You simply go to the HP site where you can create your own personalized advertisements. You can upload it to your own site, or share it by email with your friends and family.

I think I could have played with this all day, uploading photos over and over again.

Here’s the HP Ad that I’m in – what do you think?



OMG! It makes my nose and mouth look funny! LOL My eyes were kind of puffy in that pic, can’t help that. Amazingly – the voice and the hands are very similar to my own. I’m going to play with this a bit more. Keep an eye on this post, I may change the HP ad.

Try this out for yourself! It’s fun.

BTW You know what’s really funny about this ad? I have two HP computers. One is a desktop, and the other is a laptop. I’d swear that that’s my laptop model at the end. LOL

TV sucks!

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I got some bad news on Thursday afternoon and I needed to take my mind off of things by Thursday evening. Usually some of my favorite shows are on on Thursday night but it seems the networks in there wisdom have decided to show a bunch of re-runs this week.

I think the only show that was on last night that I wanted to watch that wasn’t something I’ve already seen was Ugly Betty. I do like that show. I should have added it to yesterdays Thursday thirteen list. Survivor was a rehashing of what’s already happened on the Island this season. I hate those kinds of shows.

I don’t understand why the big networks start new or returning shows in Mid-September or early October and then have the shows take a break for up to two weeks at the end of October. Whats the point in that? Then they usually show reruns again around the American Thanksgiving period, plus half or most of December ends up being re-runs.

Are TV seasons getting shorter and shorter or is it just my imagination? What do you think?

Health and Beauty products

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I found another site that might be of interest. Everyone uses vitamins, health and beauty products and nutritional supplements don’t they? Hand creams, soap, Aromatherapy or candles? Yeah, you do, right?

I’m pretty sure you’re going to like this site. It’s called N101 Nutrition, Health and Sport. They have a great selection of natural supplements, beauty products, Diet and weight loss products made by 100’s of familiar brand names. There is information about each product selection – ingredients, and nutrient facts.

I went into their Health Notes Library and I was amazed at the number of articles they had. I think you could spend hours reading all the information their library contained.

If you are interested in saving money on your favorite brands you can save 30% to 75%, as well as taking advantage of their customer rewards program where you can earn points for each purchase, then redeem them for discounts or free merchandise. N101 prides itself on its priority customer service.

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