What wouldn’t I give for a couple electric kettles right now? Very little. My room is freezing and I’ve got the tiny little space heater running and the room’s too big for it to do any real good. I’m going to crawl under 4 blankets but I don’t think it’ll help much – blankets can only hold in heat and since I’m not putting any out, there won’t be any for them to hold in.
Did I mention that it’s cold?
OMG it’s 66 in my house. Is there ANYONE who thinks that’s OK? My fingers are so cold I can barely type.
The heater is defrosting itself. Am I being unreasonable, or shouldn’t a heater expect that it would be needed when it’s cold and not need to defrost itself.
Too bad I’m the first one to think of that little hiccough in the system.
I recently started growing vegetables in my backyard. I took a pickax to the ground and earned myself a doozy of a blood blister on my thumb. But the plants have grown and they look like they may live. Since it’s my first time, that’s all I’m really hoping for – that I get them through the winter. They’ve stopped growing since the colder weather came in and tonight is supposed to get near freezing, so I’ll have to take certain measures but I think it’ll be ok.
One thing I’m thinking of doing for the next season of crops is getting a composter. I had to buy dirt to start my garden and that doesn’t make much financial sense to me since my yard is already full of dirt. But from the standpoint of it being easy, it made a lot of sense. But a composter can be easy too if you have patience. Put in your scraps, wait a long time and out comes beautiful dirt. I look froward to seeing how well this works for me.
I waited a solid week after it came out before going to see this installment. It’s been a long time since the last one came out and I really wasn’t in the mood. But compared to the other movies thus far released in the Twilight series, this one has been done the best. ‘Jacob’ is a more believable character, ‘Bella’ doesn’t bite her lip quite as much as she used to and ‘Edward’ stopped sparkling despite their honeymoon in the sun. I enjoyed that this movie hit on all the highlights of the first half of the book, though if you haven’t read it you may need to in order to follow all the nuances.
And that tidbit right there was why this movie, despite being better than the others, is so flawed. Is this the first time we’ve been introduced to ‘imprinting’? It felt like it and the explanation felt forced and incomplete. Are ‘Leah’ and ‘Seth’ related by blood or are they just pack siblings? What’s up with the random other vampires at the wedding? Why are they allowed? How are they family? Why does ‘Bella’ put up with all the hoopla surrounding the wedding in the first place?
All of these questions and more will be yours if you don’t read the book first. But if you do go read the book, the movie becomes a nice recap of the book, but this time with full color pictures.
When looking for an interesting gift for you better half, corsets and bustiers probably aren’t the first thing to come to mind. But if you are the woman, you may want one to help your figure. So how does a woman get what she wants without the man getting in trouble? You return the gift they DO get you and pick out what you want later (thank them for their effort but say it more nicely than that).
What’s the moral of this story? Keep the receipt.
Now that swim season is over, my pool is returning to a shade of blue. Wait, what color was it before now? Green, of course. Isn’t that the color of all pools in the summer. The color of putrescence. There’s nothing that taking all the sand out of your pool filter and then refilling it can’t do.
You know you’ve got to do it – buy clothing for the man in your life. But where do you go for mens designer clothes? You could look in catalogues or take him with you, but that’s no fun for him or for you. Maybe find someone of similar size and build and take that person along and play dress-up with him. Actually that could get you in some real trouble, so don’t do that. Instead get what you think would look nice on him and keep the receipt. He can go pick out something he likes then.
What am I thankful for, you ask? I am thankful for the fried turkey that graced our table yesterday. I am thankful for the tasty leftovers. I am thankful that the fire extinguisher was unnecessary.
I am most thankful for men who cook.
Getting unsecured business loans in today’s economy may seem impossible. Fortunatly there are many programs out there that will help you out. By checking out the offerings of different banks, you may be able to find the financial backing you need. Don’t forget to look at local banks as well as the super huge chains. And remember to have a sound business plan ready before you even go in the door so that you can knock their socks off!
I went and saw Moneyball and have come to tell you to save your money. This movie has no heart when it bills itself as a movie with emotion. From beginning to end I suffered through the chew spitting scenes that apparently we can’t omit from a baseball movie. Oh wait, yes we can if we want to. These guys just chose to give spit its own leading roll. Now, at least, you don’t have to worry that these idiot characters have mistaken their spit cup for their beer cup, (though they probably taste about the same) because you don’t have to go see this thing.
I’m a great lover of math, but this movie somehow manages to reveal the great new way to get players for your team by analyzing their stats without showing you any math except in one scene where a guy says they used a formula to compute all the statistics. Beyond that, they simply scroll numbers across the screen as a way to show time passing.
The random scenes about the main characters wife are forced and confusing. The main character as well as his wife prominently wear their wedding rings but are not together – pointless. These could have ALL been omitted without changing the movie even a tiny bit and I could have gotten a few minutes of my life back. The character who comes up with the formula to find players, can only look slightly startled and can only deliver his lines in a monotone.
This movie is passionless. I’m sorry I wasted nearly 10 dollars. I beg you not to waste yours.
I am finally admitting to myself my envy for people who have tablets. I keep thinking to myself that I want to spend my money some other way, but it’s not true. I try to tell myslef that if I just get something like a smart phone, it’ll be good enough, but I know I’m just lying to myself. I know that the instant I get a windfall of several hundred dollars, I’m going to put it on my shopping list. At least now I am being honest with myself.
Five Crowns is a card game for players 8 and older and for 2-7 players. To play you start with each player getting 3 cards and the 3s themselves are considered wild. By combining the cards in specific patterns you get rid of your cards and earn points. In the next round of the game, each person gets 4 cards and the 4s are wild but the patterns and sequences you need to form stay the same. Game continues until you get to and complete the round with the Kings wild.
When I played this game, it took a pretty long time with only 4 people and there seemed to be a lot of waiting time between turns. A couple times, the round ended before I even got a chance to play and that was a little annoying. Overall this is a game you can use to pass the time or to bond with younger kids, but I don’t highly recommend it for when you are having new company over.
If you’re in the mood to try online dating but not sure about how to do it, I encourage you to go the free online dating route. Certainly, if the company is making you pay large amounts of money up front when Facebook can do run it’s website with just ad revenue, then it’s not worth it. What if you pay and don’t find someone – do you get a refund?
Free is the way to go. So go.
In this game, three words or phrases are said and you must identify the bond between them. My sister tells me this is a wildly fun game and I have thus far just chosen to take her word for it. If, however, you have a spare copy and the time to play, throw me a group in the comments and I’ll do my best to figure it out.
Apparently you can look for Acid cigars free shipping. I personally wouldn’t recommend smoking them for health reasons, but cigars are a traditional gift for the proud papa to pass out when a baby is born and make a nice display piece. And I’m not so much of a stick in the mud that I do not whole heartedly endorse smoking a good cigar after having taken an alien ship into outer space to infiltrate the lead ship of an invading hoard and defeating them by implanting a virus in their mainframe.
Then I say, smoke away:)
My daughter really likes the game “Gobblet Gobblers”. It’s like Tic-Tac-Toe and has a grown up version called “Gobblet” that is played the same way as this one but on a 4×4 grid instead of a 3×3 grid.. This game is for ages 5 and up and for 2 players.
You put your pieces on the board one at a time, but not all pieces are the same size and lager pieces can ‘gobble’ smaller pieces by being places over them and covering them up. You can cover your pieces or the opponent’s pieces. You can also take a piece you have placed on the board and move it somewhere else.
On a scale from 1 to 10 my daughter gives this game 6. She likes that it is easy to learn, but she REALLY doen’t like it when someone else wins. You might rate it higher if you find you win more often than she does.
Woa!! Shari’s Berries look so delicious that I’m now hungry. I just saw the picture they have on their facebook page and what I was expecting before I clicked was more like a farmer’s market sight. Instead, I say dipped berried worthy of a family gathering at Christmas. Sharis Berries discount codes are also available making them more affordable for those of us on a budget. Indulge!
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (the one distributed by Warren) has quite a grown up looking design, but my husband has deemed it a kids game. They certainly don’t mind. The game is for ages 8 and up and for 2-6 players. It usually takes them 30-60 minutes to play.
In this game, the goal is to get the most ‘good points’ before all the tasks are completed and the players have reached their end positions. Players get points by completing tasks given out on cards that are drawn during each player’s turn.
One good part of the game is the intrigue that comes with completing the tasks. Some players may get tired if you happen to play a round that takes a while and set up can be a little complicated.
On a scale from 1 to 10 my child gives this game a 8.
Most of the country is having great weather (or am I just assuming that because I am?). So many people are pulling their ATVs out of the dusty garage and getting them in working order again. If you’re a do-it-yourselfer, you’re actually fixing anything that is broken on your own so you may need polaris sportsman parts. If you have the know how and guts to tear apart something that cost a lot of money, you too can fix it yourself. You might be able to tell that I am a wimp.
My son owns the Lego Harry Potter game called “Harry Potter Hogwarts” and he likes it a lot. Sometimes he has trouble getting his siblings to play it with him but he still gives it rave reviews. It is for 2-4 players and for ages 8 and up. The box says it takes 20-40 minutes.
In this game (once you have it all set up) you go from class to class collecting various supplies. The first one to make it back to their starting spot with a complete collection wins. You move by rolling a die. It’s not just a regular die, though. Sometimes this helps you move staircases, sometimes you get to move people around.
On a scale from 1 to 10 my son gives it 9. Then I asked what he doesn’t like about it and he changed his answer to 10.
