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Another storm?

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It always seems that whenever I’m on a roll posting away on my computer late at night we have a thunder storm. The house a few minutes ago since the storm and thunder was so close.

Actually we need rain. We’ve barely had any rain here in Toronto over the last month. Perhaps I should stay up late posting like crazy more often so we’ll get some rain.

I’m just hoping, as I usually do, that the power doesn’t go out. I hate when the power goes out during a storm. Thunder storms freak me out. I wonder if they sell decent looking battery powered home lighting that won’t go out during a storm? Now that would be a great invention wouldn’t it? A nice lamp that has back up batteries in it like some alarm clocks do so that when the power goes out the clock, or in this case light, will keep on working.

Yes I’m rambling. Time to go to bed I think. At least if I’m bed it won’t matter if the power goes out.





Trying to decide if we’re going to Las Vegas in November

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I’m still trying to decide if I’ll be going to Las Vegas in November for P0stiecon or not. There hasn’t been as much information about the event as I’d like so I’m having trouble deciding whether we should go or not. I’ve also been sicker than normal lately and if that continues there’s no way I’ll be able to go.

I’ll have to decide soon though as we’ll need to book a hotel and flight if we’re going. There’s two conventions together and hey it’s Las Vegas, so I’m sure there’s lots of conventions going on there all the time.

If we do go to Las Vegas I hope we’ll be able to see some sights while we’re there. I’d love to go to Caesars Palace and catch some Vegas shows too. Neither Chris or I are much into gambling, but you never know we might try our hand at it.

One reason that I’d like to go is to meet several of the new blogging friends that I’ve made over the past nine months or so. It’d be great to get together with some fellow posties.

Who else is going to to the Blog World Expo and P0stiecon?

He talks too much

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My gosh my husband can talk a lot. Yesterday evening he was supposed to be home from work by about 8 o’clock. It gets to be 8:30 and I’m wondering where he is so I went and looked out the door and he’s down the street talking to one of our neighbors who also happens to be an extremely talkative man.

When Chris finally came home I asked him what they’d been talking about. I guess our neighbors sons are expanding their gas station and garage. They’re going to renovate their shop, which is just a block from here and where we often get our car tuned up or fixed. Our neighbor was talking about how they need to get more body shop supplies and so on to prepare when the reno is finished. I guess they’re adding another car bay or two.

Chris was babbling so much I didn’t fully get all the information.

It just astounds me how much that man can talk though. You know, whenever we’re having a BBQ I have to remind Chris not to wander out to the front of the house. If he does he gets talking to anyone who walks by and the next thing I know we end up with burned food.

Does your spouse talk too much? Especially to the neighbors or even strangers passing by the house?

Looking for a good price on Canon EF lenses

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Moulinex rose

Have I told you lately just how much I love my digital camera?

I’d done some research on digital SLR cameras as I’d been looking at them on and off for well over a year before I actually purchased my Canon EOS 30D, but by most peoples standards I probably didn’t do as much research as I should have. Still, I got a great camera and even better I purchased it at a great price.

Just look at that photo of my lovely rose.

I’ve been looking for some lens for my new camera. It came with an 18 mm to 55 mm lens, but I want to get a macro lens and a telephoto lens as they’ll suit the type of photography that I tend to do most often.

I went looking for lenses and found some a several sites, but they’re so expensive! Even the camera model that I bought seems to be much more expensive as most of the stores that specialize in the sale of digital cameras as they just sell the camera body without a lens for the same price or more than what I paid!

Actually, even though my camera was a good price (it was about $1,300 so yeah it was expensive) I managed to get a couple hundred off the price because the stores competitor was selling the same model a little cheaper so they lowered the price for me. This enabled me to get a special camera kit, a side multi battery handle and an extra battery.

Now I need to find a good deal on lens. Should I check on eBay? Dare I?

Know of any good beauty, clothing or home decor affiliate programs?

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Ok I need your help.

I’ve gone and started a new blog. Well I bought the domain back in April and I’ve slowly been working on the site. I’m not yet ready to reveal the site yet, but I will tell you that it’s a shopping blog where I talk about great products for the home, beauty products, clothing, home decor items and well … you get the picture.

I’ve lined up some affiliate programs for the site. I mean if I’m talking about products I might as well throw in a few links here and there and maybe make some money right? So I’m looking for online clothing stores that have good products to talk about and affiliate or partner programs.

Actually it doesn’t have to just be clothing stores. It can be any kind of online affiliate program or store that has products for the home, bath and beauty, decor and so on.

I don’t plan on making a site full of affiliate links or anything. It has decent content, but as I said if I can hook up with some good programs that will benefit my readers and myself I might as well do it.

So if you know of any great partner programs please feel free to let me know about them. I’m all ears.

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