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There are some great gift ideas at Greatclubs!

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Still trying to think of the perfect gift for a loved one? Why not get creative. Think about what your special person enjoys. Perhaps an imported brand of beer? Fine wine? A cigar after a fine meal?

Did you know that greatclubs.com has a number of clubs that offer monthly gifts of top quality products. There are 8 different clubs to choose from and any of them would make a perfect gift for your loved one over the holidays, a birthday or as a special occasion gift.

Of the eight clubs I’m pretty sure my husband would enjoy the beer of the month club the most. Membership can be as little as one month up to 12 months. Members receive a variety of beer from microbreweries from all over the country. Members get a twelve pack of microbrewed beer in 12 ounce bottles. There are four different types of wonderful beers in each twelve pack. Along with the monthly 12 pack members receive Beer Expeditions – the beer of the month club’s monthly newsletter. Beers can be reordered at discount prices too!

Another great club is the wine of the month club. Members receive two delightful wines each month from small award winning wineries. Many of the wines are from international locations. Members may choose to receive all white, all red or a mixture of red and white wines each month.

If someone were getting me a monthly club gift I’d hope to receive a membership in the Chocolate of the month club. Mmmmm delicious! Other clubs at Greatclubs.com include the cigar of the month club, Flower of the month club, Pizza of the month club, Fruit gift of the month club, and the coffee of the month club. The eight clubs are priced between 20.95 to 31.95 per month and as I stated earlier you can try a one month membership or any amount of months up to a 12 month membership. Delivers can be scheduled monthly, every other month or every third month.

If any of these clubs sound like they might make a great gift for someone special in your life you can go to Greatclubs.com to learn more about the particular club that interested you.





Thinking of redecorating our middle bedroom

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I’ve been thinking of redecorating what I call our middle bedroom. We have three bedrooms upstairs – a small by modern standards master bedroom, a very tiny bedroom at the top of the stairs that’s just a little bigger than a really nice sized washroom and then there’s the middle bedroom which is just big enough to fit a double bed, a bedside table and a dresser with a little space to walk around.

Yeah, when I said we have small bedrooms I meant it!

Right now we’ve got our old double bed that we used when we lived in an apartment in that room. It’s nice but it’s a little outdated. I was thinking of either getting a Murphy bed that folds up against the wall – something nice that folds into a cabinet to give the room the look of a study when not being used as a bedroom or perhaps one of those modern platform beds. I’ve always loved the look of platform beds. Perhaps it would be better suited to our slightly larger master bedroom though.

If you were about to redo a small bedroom that wasn’t used often which way would you go? Murphy bed to give the room more function and space, or a platform bed?

Furnished Apartments for Rent in Dubai

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I’ve known a number of nurses and doctors over the last decade who’ve traveled abroad to work for a few months to a couple of years in foreign locations. I think I know about five nurses that have worked in Dubai.

Obviously people who in other professionals also take temporary work – engineers, contractors and so on.

If you will be traveling to Dubai for vacation or for a short stay, possibly due to work, you might want to look into staying in one of the lovely dubai hotel apartments or dubai villas that are being rented at dubaiapartments.biz.

The apartments are furnished and dubaiapartments.biz only accepts rentals that are up to their high standards. What does this mean? Well it means that all of their rentals are the equivalent of 3 star ratings or higher.

In fact, dubaiapartments.biz is the largest online short term rental portal in Dubai. There are over 120 self catering properties, listed by the owners themselves or property managers. The easy to use site is a great way for those with properties to rent to connect with tourists or those who are in Dubai for short term work who need a comfortable place to stay with all of the amenities.

If you’d prefer to stay in on of the luxurious dubai hotels you’ll find them listed on the site as well.

The site is very easy to use. Simple visit the site and right there on the main page you can begin your search for a furnished apartment by location. You can also use a variety of search features to make sure that the list of properties in your search result are really what you are looking for by listing how many bedrooms, price range and of course your rental start date.

Photos accompany many of the listings so you’ll be able to see your future accommodation before you book your stay.

At the bottom of the page you’ll see links that will take you to pages that describe the various locations that the various furnished apartments are located in. This might make it easier to decide which location you’d like to rent within.

Visit the dubaiapartments.biz to learn more about the furnished apartment rentals.

Dial up users need to check out Wildblue Satellite Internet service

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I know that a few of my regular readers are still using dial up service to connect to the internet. Most of the people that I know that are still using dial up modems are in rural areas where they cannot access DSL or cable internet service providers.

I feel sorry for them.

I remember those days when dial up was the only way to connect to the internet. When a 54 baud modem was considered fast! Of course those were the days when a 256 or 386 PC computer was also considered fast and they still had floppy disks that you had to use to run big software applications like Wordperfect.

OMG I’m aging myself here I think!

Well I’m very happy to let everyone know, especially those of you who are still using dial up, that Satellite Internet is finally here!

Mybluedish.com is making their satellite internet service, Wildblue, available to those of you who live in the continental United States. If you have a clear view of the southern sky you’ll be able to receive the service.

Wildblue is faster than other Satellite Internet service providers with download speeds of up to 1.5 mb which of course is 30 times faster than dial up! Isn’t that amazing? Are you dial up users getting excited yet?

Just like DSL and Cable internet the service is always on so you’ll be able to turn on your computer and be on the internet right away. The Satellite modem plugs into a wall outlet (just like my cable modem does). All you need to do after that is plug your computer into the Ethernet port that’s located on the back of the Satellite modem. Simple. Easy. Anyone can do this.

More good news. Wildblue is the least expensive Satellite Internet service in the USA. Prices start at $49.95 per month which is comparable to what I pay for my cable service here in Canada.

You’ll need to be able install a very small satellite dish to your home to use this service. The dish is small, apparently more like a small satellite TV dish rather than one of those huge dishes that you still sometimes see on peoples homes or office buildings.

Dial up users – Don’t you hate waiting for slow downloads? Does it sometimes take several minutes for a website to load? Wouldn’t it be nice to almost instantly load websites and receive downloads from now on? You’d also be able to watch video’s without any lag or delay.

If this sounds like a service you could use go check out the Wildblue Satellite Internet service at Mybluedish.com.

There’s too much money flying out of our pockets lately!

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I can’t believe how much money we’re spending on things lately!

Of course buying a puppy and all the items necessary to make her comfortable in our home was quite a hit to the wallet. So were her unexpected extra vet bills! She’s been to the vet twice and she’s only been with us 14 days! Remember she had a bacterial infection so she needed antibiotics and medications to settle her tummy?

Well we went to the vet on Tuesday evening for a check up and she got her second set of vaccination shots. Her stool was also checked again and this time the vet discovered Round worms! So she’s on more meds. She also has a slight infection in her left eye so we have to put ointment in her eyes twice a day.

I think the vet bills have come to about $600 so far.

Then, on Tuesday when Chris was driving to the other side of town to pick up the replacement light we needed for our DLP TV (that was $300) the drivers side window’s motor failed and the window was stuck half open.

Our cars been at the garage since Wednesday morning. They had to order a new motor for the window and that costs $400.

This is nuts!

We’ve also still got to buy a number of gifts for Christmas and then my niece, who’s having a baby in February, will be having a baby shower in the first week of January.

Ah the bills! The bills!

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