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December 22, 2010

Getting things done for the Xmas weekend.

I've been doing a lot around here since getting the all-clear from my doc on Monday to be off of bed-rest because of my lung.
The house was a total disaster, the teens did what they could, they did almost all of the cooking, laundry, and shopping, so that I could follow my doc's orders to not lift anything or do too much bending or other things that could cause my lung to not heal up properly and completely.
Being on bed-rest for so long was really, really boring.
I've watched more stupid tv shows and movies than ever, even more than I did in the days, weeks, and months following my surgeries, than I care to even admit.
I will say though that I've found a few stupid shows that are just addicting to watch, like Married To Rock.
I LOVE Josie, and hate Etty. God, Etty is so damn annoying! Her voice, her whole attitude, gah, she just sucks.

Our neighbor's son went and saw the movie Tron Legacy the other day, and said it was great which only makes Sebastian want to go see it even more.
The neighbor kid has never seen the original movie Tron, and Sebastian has, he's been dying to see the new film since he heard about it because he loves the original movie so much.
He also wants to new video game Tron Evolution which Buy.com has on sale for under $60 with free shipping.

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I will more than likely get it for him, not for xmas though, but after, I've already gotten them all of the video games and WoW stuff that they asked for and that has left me tapped out broke.
I will probably get it next month just because he's been so good and helpful over the last several weeks while I've been healing up and not able to do much around here.

OK, time to get going again, I need to go to the store, get some more people food, cat food, and some other things that we need, and then come home and do some cleaning up around here.
I've tackled most of the cleaning, but there's still quite a bit to go.
Later days!

December 21, 2010

Qwik Shower Gym Class Wipes product review.

I recently received a few samples (four individual packets) of Qwik Shower Gym Class Wipes.
They are disposable wipes that are quite large and wet enough to almost wipe down your entire body after gym class, a jog, a walk to work, or whatever you do that may cause you to get sweaty and need to be cleaned up but in a place where you are not able to take a shower.
They come in a small package, but unfold into a huge wipe, larger than a normal size washcloth, and much larger than a baby wipe.
Each wipe is large, thick and cloth like (10" x 12") moist, single-use disposable towels.*
That's really pretty large, and you can see them in the following image by clicking it to make it larger.

I had Sebastian try one out because he walks to school every day, and here in Florida it's even really hot at 6:45am on hot days. (Yes it's winter here, but we are still having some hot days mixed in)
He walked to school and he said that by the time he got there, he was sweaty and felt gross, so he went to the bathroom, went into a stall and opened up the Qwik Shower Gym Class Wipe.
He said it was very large and wet enough to wipe down every single part of his body that was all sweaty, and when he finished, it was still a bit wet and he probably could have wiped down even more of his body.
After using it, he said, his body was no longer sweaty, he felt clean again, and he didn't have any odor. He always carries a travel size deodorant and a travel size spray of his cologne, and so he used those to freshen himself up a bit more because he used the wipes on his armpits just to make sure that he got himself really clean and had no body odor.
He's really taken to making sure that he looks good and doesn't stink at school because he said that the boys (and girls) who don't keep themselves clean and have body odor, get picked on and teased really bad, so he makes sure that he doesn't have any BO at all.
He really liked how big the wipes are, how wet they are without being "drippy", and how much of his body he was able to get clean with just one wipe, and he said that if he had wanted to, he probably could have wiped down his entire body, arms, legs, his whole chest, back, everywhere, but he only concentrated on the ares that were totally sweaty that day, his arms, pits, chest, face, lower back, neck, and thighs.
He said that he wiped down his face first, and liked that he had something to wash his face with because he doesn't like having acne, so being able to wash his face with something other than just a wet paper towel, made him very happy.
He said that he was clean, that it felt like he had taken another shower, and that the wipes don't have a strong scent, which was really important to him because he uses a matching deodorant and spray cologne, and he didn't want any competing scents mixed in.
Overall, he said that the wipes worked really great, and he took two more of the four sample packets that I received, and put them in the pocket of his backpack where he keeps his deodorant and cologne spray.

This left me with just one wipe for myself to try out.
After I had walked to the corner store and back one afternoon, I came home and was all sweaty as I usually am after a walk there and back.
After a walk to the store, I would normally take either a quick shower or get a washcloth and wipe myself down, but I recalled that I had the wipe to try out, so I grabbed it and went into the bathroom.
Just like Sebastian said, the wipe was quite large and it was wet enough to wipe my whole body, every single area that was sweaty, and I used it to wipe down almost every part of my body simply because I could, because it was still wet enough to do that.
The Qwik Shower Wipe worked really well, and just like Sebastian, I liked that it doesn't have a strong scent, it didn't compete with my deodorant and perfume, and it really made me feel fresh and clean again.
The both of us really like them, they work very well, and Sebastian said that he wouldn't mind having some more of them to use in the spring when it starts getting hotter again, and so I will probably be buying a bunch of them for him for those walks to school on hot days.

They aren't expensive at all, you can get a sample, one wipe, for just $1 by clicking here.
You can get 10 for $7, 50 for $29.00, and 100 for $49.00, (all purchases made from their site have free shipping) that's really not bad prices at all for something that helps your teen(s) or yourself, get fresh and clean when you need to be in a place where you can't take a shower but need to be clean.

If you have an organization that needs to raise funds, like maybe the school football or other sport team that needs to raise money to pay for trips or uniforms, etc, you can sign up your organization and QWIKSHOWER will send you an email to distribute to your membership and when they buy QWIKSHOWER, they will send you 10% of the gross purchase price.*
So not only is it a product to help get your teens clean, but it can also help with fund-raising.
QWIKSHOWER is also available for wholesale, and you can click here for that information.


FTC disclosure;
I was not compensated in any way for this post.
I received four samples for free to try out and and was asked to write a product review.
I was not compensated to write this review, and I was not asked to write a positive tone only review.
I was asked to write my honest opinion of the Qwik Shower Gym Class Wipes, and then any other information about the product that I felt like including.
All opinions of the product are mine and some are my son's.
Some of the wording has been taken directly from their website and are marked with an asterisk at the end of the sentence.

December 14, 2010

Today's agenda for 12/14/10

*Go to 7-elven.
*Buy a MoneyPak card.
*Go to Publix and do shopping (DO NOT forget cat litter!! ) and get the vitamin supplements that have run out or are running way low, household groceries, cleaners, and food staples/supplies, etc.
*Come home, put groceries away, add funds to PayPal account (LOVE Green Dot for the ability to add to my PayPal account and not just their cards! *swoon*).
*Pay water bill of $25.14 (LOVE my water bills! hahahaha!) using PayPal card.
*After shopping and paying bills, take quickie lunch break and then start cleaning the house.
*After cleaning, dig out all xmas decor and the tree.
* Decorate the tree and house.
*Have all the xmas decor and lights on well BEFORE 2:38pm so when Sebastian walks through the door, at exactly 2:38pm, he will smile like he's 4 years old again.
*That smile will be worth the major backache that I'll have for the entire rest of the night.
* Well worth it.

December 8, 2010

One gift down-loaded.

Both of the teens have been playing WoW (World of Warcraft) for a few years now, and the newest expansion pack came out on December 7th called World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
I know absolutely nothing at all about this game or the expansion packs, but millions of other people do including my sons and my sister too.
It's a visually beautiful game, I admit that I am awed by how gorgeous the game is every time I go in the room to check out what they are doing and who they are chatting in-game with, and Cataclysm is even better looking than all of the other game packs if that's even possible.


I like all of the various creatures that they have created, elves, night elves, trolls, all kinds of odd but interesting looking creatures.

I already bought and downloaded the game for the teens the day that it came out as an early Christmas present, they had been asking for it since the day they heard it was coming out, and I had made a promise months and months ago, that on the day it came out, I would get it and they could play it right away.
If I hadn't made that promise though, I would still be able to get it at a great price, the same price as the official site too.
Buy.com has it on sale for the exact same price as the official game website, so I feel good about buying it and letting them download it early.
It made them happy and they have been doing every single thing that I've been asking them to do for weeks now.
Bonus! Hahaha!

They have so many things on sale at really good prices for Christmas like SanDisk mp3 players, and these Altec Lansing earphones with Swarovski crystals, which I have and love, they're so pretty and they have awesome sound too.

I'm glad that their computer is working again, it had been months of hell and agony with their computer not working, three separate trips to the repair place with the computer actually staying at the repair place for almost 2 months in total time that it was gone from our house, and no one could figure out what was wrong with it.
It worked perfect at the repair place, but as soon as we got home, it wouldn't work.
Everything was tried, power supplies, new motherboards installed twice, new video cards, new power cords, all kinds of stuff.
You know what it was?
I'm so mad at myself for not thinking of it and testing it out sooner.
Grrrr! could kick myself over it!
It was a possessed keyboard.
No, really.
The keyboard had something wrong with it, some computer chip malfunction or something, it was shutting the computer down on it's own, making it re-install Windows, telling us it had viruses, all kinds of whackness, so it's no wonder that when at the repair place it worked, but at home it was whacked out and making us nuts for months!
This went on from August right up until about three to four weeks ago.
We finally figured it out by just for the fun of it, (Ha! Fun!? I was at wits end ripping my hair out!) I took their keyboard and plugged it into my computer, and bam! It shut my computer down instantly.
OMG! So so mad at myself for not thinking of something so simple sooner, it would have saved me countless trips to the repair place, which luckily, cost me nothing because the computer is still under warranty until February, but damn, what a huge pain in the butt.

Anyway, I have a lot to do, so much to catch you all up on if anyone is still around.
I know, it's been such a long time, but so much has been happening, just crazy, nutty, health and friend and life drama.
I should have blogged it all as it was happening, but half the time I couldn't even sit up.
OK, things to do be back later on.

December 6, 2010

Only 18 days, 2hours, 17 minutes,and some odd seconds

Until Christmas day.
How ready are all of you?
Been due to all of my recent illnesses and injuries, i am bit fare behind than I should be normally at this point, but I will catch up.
Especially when there are some really great deals and steals going on the internet lately.
Take Buy.com for instance and their super awesome daily and weekly sale that they always have going on.
For example, they have taken $230.00 off the price of a Hannspree ST42DMSB 42" LCD HDTV, and the shipping is totally free too, so yeah, a major bargain.

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It's got fantastic reviews on it, and it also comes with "470 points" to earn for buying it.
What are these points?
Here; let me explain to you what the points are directing you to this page;
http://www.buy.com/rakutensuperpoints/default.asp
But basically, the more points that you earn, the more stuff that you can buy at Buy,com once you've accrued enough points.

The tv come with all of the great features and specs, so if you're in the market for a new tv for the family, give these features and specs a look at and see if it's something that you would like to have.

Features
Video Features Features ultra-sharp Full HD 1080P image resolution w/ ViVid Motion 120Hz
Video Features Provides excellent image detail, picture quality, and video performance
Video Features Great for watching HD programming, sports, movies, and enjoy gaming
Video Features Connects to over-the-air HD antenna, cable set-top box, Blu-ray™/DVD player, gaming console, VCR, video camcorder, and PC
Video Features USB 2.0 Flash Drive Input for enjoying music and photos
Video Features Standard 1 year warranty
Video Features
Tech Specs
Tech Specs Display Area: 42"
Tech Specs Display Type: LCD
Tech Specs Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Tech Specs Dynamic: 15000:1
Tech Specs Contrast Ratio: 1300:1
Tech Specs Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Tech Specs Screen Refresh Rate: 120Hz
Tech Specs Response Time: 4.5 ms
Tech Specs Signal Compatibility: 1080p
Tech Specs Input Video Signal: ATSC, QAM, NTSC
Tech Specs Compatibility: VESA (200 mm X 200 mm)
Tech Specs Condition: New
Tech Specs Features: PC Input
Tech Specs Speakers: 2
Tech Specs Inputs: S-Video/Composite,Y,Pb,Pr/HDMI/VGA
Tech Specs Outputs: Analog Audio,Digital Audio Out
Tech Specs HDMI Ports: 4
Tech Specs Power Consumption: 113W
Tech Specs Height (inches): 25.5
Tech Specs Height with Stand (inches): 27.8
Tech Specs Width (inches): 40.1
Tech Specs Depth (inches): 3.6
Tech Specs Depth with Stand (inches): 9.6
Tech Specs Unit Weight: 42.5 lb