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(***I am sorry to the rock band, Dire Straits, for borrowing and altering a line from one of your songs. I also apologize to my readers who are familiar with this tune because now you will undoubtedly be singing "I want my MTV" for the next 16 hours...give or take a few.) Hold onto your hats, people! If you came here for your weekly dose of silly or your daily shot of ludicrous, you had best move on. I have decided to do a humanitarian post of sorts where I generously pass onto you some life wisdom, some advice, some tips. Lots and lots of tips. Here we go... 1. First I wanted to share a recent on-line little gem that I discovered. It is called Shelfari, and you can see an example of their genius over on my sidebar. They allow you (for free!) to create a customizable bookshelf of titles that you are reading, have read or are planning on reading. The idea is to meet and chat with people who have similar reading interests, but I mainly just thought it would look cool on my blog. I placed titles that I am currently reading personally or aloud to my kids. If you mouse over any of the books, they will give you more info on the title and even a link to purchase it for yourself. I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. So check out my reading list, and let me know what you're reading too. Well, unless you're reading something like these....
then you might want to keep that to yourselves. (I promise those are NOT my books. Not even the pirate one. I borrowed that image from someone else's Photobucket account.) 2. Another feature I just discovered on my blog is the e-mail feature. Now call me unobservant, but I had NO IDEA that someone could e-mail me from my sidebar until someone recently did it. How cool! So, please, if you are bored, have a question or want to forward me some annoying chain letter with cheesy graphics, just click the link, and you'll arrive right in my inbox. 3. Are you being overrun by your DVD collection? We were...sort of. They were always falling out of our entertainment center and just looking messy. But this weekend I was perusing the aisles of Wal-mart when I had sort of an epiphany. There was a light from
I then came home (after I paid for the binder, of course) and began transferring our entire collection of movies into the page pockets. Now all of this....
and this...
and this...
are all neatly and systematically contained like this...
(Hi Jack!!) ...in the above binder. Nifty, eh? By the way, the one I bought holds 208 discs and cost less than $20. I don't know why I didn't think of it before. And I had no problems throwing out all the cases and paperwork that came with the discs. Who ever reads that stuff anyway? 4. Did you know that if your 11 year-old decides to leave her nearly brand new iPod shuffle in the pocket of her jeans, and it goes through the washer AND the dryer, that there's a pretty good chance it will still work? I didn't either, but now I do. The jury is still out on her hot pink ear buds, though. But, just an FYI, if she leaves a cranberry parfait Lip Smacker lip gloss in there, and it goes through the washer AND the dryer, it will melt and ruin an entire load of laundry. Interesting. 5. If your children own or are thinking about owning a Webkinz stuffed animal with an on-line identity, use caution in logging into their account and browsing around. I would particularly stay away from a game in the arcade called, "Home Before Dark." It is highly addicting. For instance, I had a free moment the other day while Harrison was finishing up some seat work, so I sat down at the computer to play this game. I only made it to level 6 when Harrison was finished, but I was so sure that I could make it to level 7, that I thought I would try one more time. The next thing I knew Big D was home from work, the laundry was unfolded, school was not complete, we had missed taekwondo classes, and the kids were eating ice cream sundaes for dinner. I don't know what happened. "Cash Cow" has a similar effect. Just be careful with that Webkinz site, ok? 6. Last week I had to miss Tuesday's episode of "American Idol," which is cataclysmic for me, especially since I do not own a working VCR on which to record it. But, lo and behold, the next day I found out that I could watch each performance on YouTube, and that my life could go on. YouTube....it's the thrifty person's TiVo. And there you have it folks....my tips. For free, of course. Now, I must go. I still have not made it to level 7 on that Webkinz game, the night is still young, and I've had too much coffee. |
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