I just received an email from a cousin that lives in a very rural area of Australia.  I was so surprised to get an email from her!  The last I’d heard from her was by US Mail, and she complained that she lived in such a rural area that she could not get Internet Access!  That news alone was a big shock to me because I’ve had Internet access for such a long time; it seemed to me that she would have had Internet access for a while now too!

Posted: June 18th, 2009 under Business, Computers / Software, Entertainment/Fun, Family, Internet, Life, Online, Shopping, Technology.
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This past weekend we went to a fair. As part of the fair, they had vendors selling their wares. That’s my favorite part of going to a fair; going to all of the vendors booths and seeing what kinds of cool things they are selling.

I especially like the handmade articles of clothing, the leather belts and purses and wallets and such. I also really like hand made jewelry, and decorated articles of clothing.

I went to one booth where a lady was selling things that she had painted by hand. I fell in love with a hand-painted T-shirt that she was selling, so I bought it. The hummingbird is glittery, which I think is really cool!

I’m including a picture of it to show to you. I hope you like it too! I really love it! She only had the one in my size; if she had a second one I would have bought it too, so that when this one wore out I would have another one to wear!

Posted: May 17th, 2009 under Entertainment/Fun, Family, Life, Shopping.
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I always go buy some flowers at the store on May Day. Just an inexpensive bouquet and put them in a small basket to put on the dining room table. It reminds me of the May Days that I celebrated as a youth, when I lived further south and I could just pick fresh flowers and put them in baskets. Up here the flowers just aren’t ready to be picked. The flower season is way too short here! And May Day serves to remind me of that!

Posted: May 1st, 2009 under Home and Garden, Life, Shopping.
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A few months ago I was up in the wee hours of the morning and turned on the TV set. There was an infomercial on, selling the Shark steamer cleaner. Well, our white vinyl kitchen floor seems to have some stains on it (they were there when we bought the house) and I have tried everything I could think of to get the stains out, and they just would not go away!

So, I bought the Shark steamer cleaner, thinking that this product might do the trick.

Overall, I like using it better than a mop and bucket. It would be more convenient if they had designed the cord to run up the handle instead of just coming straight out of the bottom of the unit, that is awkward.

The steamer DOES clean pretty well, but it did NOT remove the stains that I hoped it would remove. What it DID remove, however, was the shiny finish on the vinyl flooring. So now I guess I have to find a product to put the shine back to it, or just live with a dull floor.

Additionally, my kitchen is only average sized, and the water receptacle had to be filled a second time to finish the kitchen floor, which surprised me. I had expected it to be able to do the entire floor without having to refill it.

Posted: April 11th, 2009 under Home and Garden, Life, Shopping.
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I’m a very practical person.  I like everything to do “double duty.”  I’m not the kind of person who wants to fill up the house with things just because they are pretty, I want them to have a practical purpose as well.  And I want things to be “unique.”  Not like something that everyone else has.  That’s one reason why I love the dress seiko watches at the bluedial.com website.  My favorite is the Seiko SYL723 Ladies Stainless Steel Asymmetrical Design Dress Watch.  It has to be one of the most unusual, yet most elegant watch I’ve seen in a very long time.  I’m putting that watch on my “wish list” for the next gift-giving occasionso that when my hubby asks me what I’d like for a gift I can tell him!  If you like great watches too, the bluedial.com website is a good place to find one!

Posted: March 30th, 2009 under Home and Garden, Internet, Life, Shopping.
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