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Kaitlyn needs a plane ticket. And a passport.

December 28, 2009 By

Littlest Pet Shop playsets come with a little booklet that shows all the pets you can collect, with convenient check-off boxes so you can make sure you are being the BEST PARENT YOU CAN BE by buying your child every single pet. Kaitlyn has been carrying one around since Christmas Day, studying it thoroughly and occasionally thrusting it under my nose saying “can I get THIS ONE? Pleeeeeeaaasssseeeeeee?”  It doesn’t matter that she got eleventy-billion Littlest Pet Shop toys for her birthday and Christmas, she needs more. It’s the American way, after all.

So, I was poking around various websites looking at LPS toys, and I found one that I knew she would love, the Playful Paws Pet Daycare. I was about to click “add to cart” when I realized I was on the U.K. version of the Littlest Pet Shop site. Kaitlyn, who was of course looking over my shoulder, started wailing when I clicked away from the site to go to hasbro.com to look for the playset there.

Kaitlyn (wailing loudly): why are you leaving that screen? I want to look at that!!! (waaaaahhhhh)

Me: because those toys are only sold in England

Kaitlyn (after pausing a few seconds): Do they allow kids in England?

Me: yes, why?

Kaitlyn: So we can go to England and BUY THOSE TOYS!

Good thing for me this old Compaq laptop doesn’t work or she would TOTALLY be tweeting about how MEAN I am  :P

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p.s. those two glowing things in the top right corner of the photo are the eyes of our cat, Blackdrop, a.k.a. Kitty.  And yes, she’s huge.

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MyLife People Search

October 17, 2009 By

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Through SocialSpark, I got the opportunity to test out MyLife, a site where you create a profile for free, then you can search for classmates, friends, teachers, anyone who you want to find. They asked me to look up a former teacher, coach, or mentor, so I chose to look up some of my favorite teachers from High School and see if they still live in the area. I looked up my Band teacher, Mr. Barry, whose first name is Jim but I typed in James, and guessed at his age. Right away I got back that he still lives in the same town as our High School and that his wife and two children also still live there.

Mr. Barry wasn’t just my Band teacher for four years, he was a guiding force that got me through High School. Whatever problems I was having, when I walked through the Band room door, I could leave everything behind and just concentrate on making music for an hour. Mr. Barry was a talented musician and expected a lot from us, but he was also funny and easy to talk to. I worked hard in Band, I was in the Symphonic Band, Marching Band, and the Pep Band, and I always did my best to make Mr. Barry proud.

Thanks for helping me locate my favorite teacher, MyLife! Check it out for yourself and you might be surprised who you find!

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LensShopper Review

May 29, 2009 By

LensShopper ordered this review from me as a way to spread the word about the savings they offer on contacts, especially color contacts.  I wore contacts once and I liked being free of my glasses for a change, but everyone who knew me said I didn’t look like “me” without them!

LensShopper is a price comparison site, so what they do is provide links to contact lens merchants, with information about quantity, prices, and delivery times, so that the shopper can choose what works for their budget. The site provides a large sidebar of links making it easy to search by lens retailers, popular brands of lenses, manufacturers, contact lens types, as well as articles on eye diseases and disorders and eye surgery.

If you’ve ever thought about getting colored contact lenses, LensShopper makes it easy to “try out” different colors on their Color Contacts page with their Color Studio. Choose a model that resembles you and then click to see how different colors of contacts will look on you.  The page also gives a good explanation of the difference between opaque and tinted color lenses.

To get even better savings, click the “Coupons” link on the top of the LensShopper site to find links to stores offering discounts or free shipping.  Check it out if you want to save on your contacts!

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