Category: Computers and/or Internet


Cheesecake is so yummy!

Filed Under: Beauty and/or Health, Computers and/or Internet, Food, Friends and/or family, General Life, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
March 31, 2012

Have you ever ordered a Mail Order Cheesecake? My sister sent me a link to a website that sells a large variety of cheesecakes and ships them to the recipient. She knows how much I love cheesecake, so I don’t know if she sent me the link out of love, or out of sibling rivalry – hoping that I’d gain more weight!

Over the past years I’ve gained about twenty pounds and I have been forced to buy some new clothes to wear. I was hoping to lose the weight before summer came so I would not have to buy a new summer wardrobe, but the weight is a lot harder to lose than it is to find!

So anyway, I was looking at the website and saw a yummy recipe for making some raspberry truffle cheesecake. Loving recipes as I do, I went ahead and clicked on the link and was seeing how easy it would be to make my own from scratch. I found myself wondering if I would be able to substitute the cream cheese with fat free cream cheese, and substitute the sugar with Splenda or Truvia, and perhaps make the cheesecake a little bit healthier. Have you tried doing that yourself? If so, were you happy with the results?

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Ordering boots online

Filed Under: Beauty and/or Health, Business and/or Work, Computers and/or Internet, General Life, Money and finances, Shopping by Paige — Leave a comment
March 16, 2012

A couple of weeks ago I found a really great deal on the nomorerack.com website that I learned about. I really LOVE that website – they have so many great bargains! Well, this particular bargain was for a pair of boots that were a knock-off of the popular UGH boots. From what I understand, that particular style is “out” right now, but the boots looked so warm and comfy that I decided to go ahead and order them. I’m not always about what is “in” I am more about comfort and value. And I’ve noticed that when I am home that my feet are almost always cold, so I thought that I’d buy these particular boots and wear them in the house instead of outside, as a way to keep my feet warm.

I usually wear a size 6 1/2 shoe, but my foot is wide, so I decided to go ahead and order the boots a couple of sizes larger than I usually wear. I’d rather have boots on my feet that are a little bit too large than too small. Well, I went ahead and ordered size 8 1/2, thinking that would be leaving me plenty of room to wear some nice heavy socks. The boots arrived today, and they are almost too small! I can wear them with regular socks, but I will not be able to wear them with heavy socks. That is a true aggravation – ordering something a couple of sizes larger with the thought that they will be too large, and then having them arrive almost too small! I guess I should just be really glad that I did not order my regular size!

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Videos of pets on YouTube

Filed Under: Computers and/or Internet, Entertainment and Fun, Friends and/or family, General Life, Pets by Paige — Leave a comment
March 9, 2012

I don’t think it is any secret that I am a pet lover. My parents wouldn’t let me have any pets when I was a child, so as soon as I was living on my own in a place that allowed pets I bought myself a dog. Dogs are the best friend anyone could ever ask for. Even when they are naughty they can make you laugh – like this funny video that I found on YouTube that shows a dog acting guilty when his owner confronts him with evidence of mischief. So funny!

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Tuition assistance plans

Filed Under: Computers and/or Internet, Educational, Friends and/or family, General Life, Money and finances, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
March 3, 2012

When I was a young mother, I was always worried about how in the world was I going to be able to save for college for my kids. After all I was a single parent, barely scraping by. I started to read a lot of articles in parenting magazines about the subject even before my kids were born! There were a lot of columns giving advice about buying savings bonds, buying life insurance policies, and even pre-paying college expenses at the college that you want your child to attend!

The catch with the pre-payment plans were that if your kid didn’t want to go to that college you would not be able to get a refund. Well, that sounded like a really bad idea to me – especially since the college my parents wanted me to go to was really a secretarial school and not a college at all. If I refused to go to the school of my parent’s choice, why in the world would I think that my own kid would go to the college I wanted my kid to go to?

One of the more painless ways parents can save for college is by joining programs that give you rewards for signing up at a website and shopping with their affiliated partners. When you do that, a small portion of the money you spend go into a special savings account that you can spend later on college tuition. I did that for my kids; it didn’t save them a whole lot of money, but every penny helps!

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Leap day birthday cards

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February 25, 2012

Today my sister and I were running errands in town and she saw a Hallmark gift store in one of the strip malls we were driving past. She told me that she wanted to swing in there and buy a birthday card for a friend of hers that was born on Leap Day, and that she was told that she could buy one at a Hallmark store. Well I hadn’t been in that store for at least a year or more, so I said, sure let’s swing in there. I enjoy browsing gift stores.

We left the store empty handed; she said that even though there was a spot for the Leap Day Birthday cards the slot was empty. She was quite disappointed; I suggested that we could make a card using our computers and card stock. She said that it just might have to come to that.

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