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In 1983 I was a Sophomore in High School. I had a Spiral Perm, I wore teal eyeshadow, and I was in love with a band called The Police. I had a boyfriend who had his hair cut just like Sting, and boys were wearing Members Only Jackets just like the band. We used our Hi-Fi stereos to record cassette tape copies of their Albums and passed them around at lunch. EVERYONE I knew was crazy about The Police. I had been too young when Outlandos d’Amour came out in 1978, but by 1980 and the release of Zenyatta Mondatta, you couldn’t turn the radio on for more than a minute without hearing “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” or “De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da”.

Ghost in the Machine came out in ‘81, and spent 17 weeks at #1, because of hits like “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”. You’re talking four MONTHS where this was the biggest album in the country! By the time Synchronicity was released in 1983, The Police were a part of every day life for me. Which is why now, 24 years later, I am SO EXCITED that The Police are going on tour! Squueeeee!

In conjunction with the tour, Universal Music Group is releasing a new police cd, a 2 Disc set of 28 classic tracks:

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Fallout
2. Can’t Stand Losing You
3. Next to You
4. Roxanne
5. Truth Hits Everybody
6. Hole in My Life
7. So Lonely
8. Message in a Bottle
9. Reggatta de Blanc
10. Bring on the Night
11. Walking on the Moon
12. Don’t Stand So Close to Me
13. Driven to Tears
14. Canary in a Coalmine

Disc: 2
1. Do Do Do de da da Da
2. Voices Inside My Head
3. Invisible Sun
4. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
5. Spirits in the Material World
6. Demolition Man
7. Every Breath You Take
8. Synchronicity I
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger
10. Walking in Your Footsteps
11. Synchronicity II
12. King of Pain
13. Murder by Numbers
14. Tea in the Sahara

Now, as if that wasn’t awesome enough, Universal Music Group has partnered with PayPerPost to help spread the word about the tour and the CD, and has given PPP ONE HUNDRED CDs to give away to Posties! I’m just about hyperventilating here thinking about how badly I want one of the CDs, which also comes with a wicked awesome vintage Police concert poster, and some cool PPP gear. You can see the vintage poster and a cute photo of Ted and Britt holding some CDs here at the PayPerPost blog.

So, to whomever at PayPerPost is reading this-ooh, ooh, pick me! pick me! Why should I be one of the lucky CD recipients? Because I promised my husband that I would start an exercise program to get in shape and be healthy, and this Police CD will be PERFECT for listening to while I’m on the treadmill, exercise bike, elliptical trainer, or just walking around my neighborhood pushing Kaitlyn in her stroller. And because listening to these songs that I loved for so many years will help me feel young again! LOL

In the comments tell me, do you plan to purchase the new police cd? Did you grow up loving the band like I did? The POLICE! On TOUR! Goosebumps!

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Even in my feverish state, I couldn’t resist taking the opportunity to tell you about a new and very exciting feature now being offered by PayPerPost. It’s called PPP Direct, and it puts blog marketing directly into the hands of bloggers. On my left sidebar just under the familiar PPP badge, you will now see a new badge for PPP Direct. An advertiser can click on that badge, hire me to write a post, and PayPerPost will hold their money in escrow while I negotiate my rate with the advertiser, and then pay me directly. EVEN IF THE ADVERTISER DOES NOT HAVE AN ACCOUNT WITH PAYPERPOST! How awesome is THAT???

You’ve probably heard of sites like ReviewMe and Sponsored Reviews, right? I have accounts with both of them in fact. Did you know that ReviewMe charges a fifty to ONE HUNDRED PERCENT markup to their advertisers? So if I accept a review from ReviewMe and make $10.00, they have charged the advertiser $15.00 to $20.00. Ridiculous! Sponsored Reviews adds as much as a 53 percent markup! Normally, PayPerPost adds a 35 percent markup for regular advertising through their system, but with PPP Direct, there is only a TEN PERCENT SERVICE CHARGE, of which five percent goes to processing credit cards and paying PayPal!

The hardest thing for me is deciding what to charge. Every advertiser has a different budget, and I don’t want to scare them away by asking for too much. On the other hand, I want to place a value on my writing that reflects the quality work that the advertiser will get from me. I have started by setting my price at $25.00, and I’ll adjust that accordingly once I see how I do at that price. I’m worth it! If you are reading this and thinking, I would like to get paid to blog, I encourage you to click on my “Get paid to blog about the things you love” badge in my left sidebar. PayPerPost has plenty of writing jobs available to serious bloggers who are willing to put a little extra time into their blogging. Get PAID!

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When I was in college, I spent a summer working at a local park. We had a group of juvenile offenders who had been sentenced by the juvenile court to work at the park, and much to my surprise, one of the offenders was a boy who had been a few years behind me in school. His offense was that he and some of his friends had gone out driving one night and had been hitting residential mailboxes with baseball bats! They called it “mailbox baseball”. By the time he ended his ten weeks of scrubbing the slime off the bottoms of the paddle boats, I’m pretty sure he had learned his lesson

I lived in several cheap apartments during and after college, and one thing they all had in common were the crappy commercial mailboxes in the lobby. Anyone with a butter knife could have pried the doors of those mailboxes open if they had wanted to. I wish the apartment owners had given a little more thought to the quality of the mailboxes and purchased better ones from a website like Mailboxixchange. I never had any mail stolen (that I know of), but thinking back on it now, I know they weren’t very secure.

I remember when email was first introduced and people said that in a few years there would be no more paper mail. Ha. My mailbox isn’t any less full now, that’s for sure. I LIKE getting my mail now that I get free samples, free books to review, and even this cool new PC that I’m using. Email is fine, but I say keep that snail mail coming!

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Now this is a product I can review from personal experience. I have been using subliminal CDs for YEARS to help me sleep. I have never found anything that helps me relax and get to sleep better or faster than a Guided Imagery CD. Do you know what that is? It’s a recording of music and sounds played at a frequency designed to get into your subconscious. The CD I use has a woman speaking in a soothing voice, with guidance on slowing down my breathing, and then slowly relaxing each part of my body. It starts at the toes, and I’m usually asleep before I get to my knees!

Subliminal-CDs.com also has a weight loss CD available for purchase or MP3 download. There are over 120 CDs to choose from, covering topics ranging from boosting your brain power to stopping smoking. Visit the site and browse through the catalog, I bet you’ll find something that you are interested in.

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Does anybody know how to play Backgammon? It’s one of those board games that requires a lot of strategy and planning of the moves, and I have never been able to learn how to play. Did you know that backgammon is the world’s oldest board game? It’s based on an ancient game called Senat, and Senat boards dating between 3000 and 1788 BCE have been excavated from the royal tomb in Ur, in Mesopotamia, and even in King Tut’s tomb!

Now you can play backgammon online at BackgammonMasters.com. Find thousands of other players from all over the world, learn the rules of the game as well as the best strategy. You can enter backgammon tournaments, play for real money, and become a world champion! Not only that, but BackgammonMasters also offers other games on their site, and with only one download from one site, players enter one game lobby and select from any number of games whether it be backgammon, perudo, poker and soon to come, blackjack. All of BackgammonMasters games are developed in multi player variations as part of their community concept, and the company has stated that more popular games for the Latin Markets are already in the works.

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