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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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I got tired of listening to her nagging

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March 20, 2012

Ever since I moved to this area my sister has been trying to convince me to switch from cable television to direct tv satellite television. She kept telling me that she loved her
directtv and that it cost a lot less money than cable television did. But I had done my research when I had moved in here and found that satellite television only allowed a few television sets to be hooked up for the monthly rate, but that the cable television allowed unlimited hook-ups for the monthly rate. So I kept telling her that since I had so many televisions it was more economical to do the cable television bundle.

Well, that was all before the cable television service had to digitize all of their stations and charge the customers for the receiver boxes. Suddenly keeping cable television was more expensive than switching to the satellite bundles offered at dx3. At first we thought that only a couple of the channels were converting and we lost those channels for a couple of months. I really didn’t care since I didn’t watch much television anyway. But then one day in the middle of a television program the screen was scrambled and it was scrambled on all of the stations, on all of the televisions. A phone call to the cable television office revealed that we were going to have to pay a lot of extra money than before just to keep the same service we had. I asked for a discount and they refused. Now it was making financial sense to switch to a satellite television service. So I switched. I can’t afford to have all of the televisions hooked up like I did before, but my monthly bill is not any larger. When I finally did switch I told my sister that I finally gave in to her nagging and I had better not hear a single complaint from her about reception problems!

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Got my taxes done

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March 2, 2012

Well I got my taxes done early this year, and then I did my son’s taxes, and then my sister’s taxes. Everyone is happy with me because everyone is getting refunds! My son and my sister are filing electronically so they should be able to get their refunds in about two weeks, so they are as happy as a pig in mud. I wanted to file mine electronically as well, but the IRS needed some extra documentation from me so I had to mail it in. That’s really too bad, because I would have loved to get my refund quickly and now it looks like it will take a couple of months. I don’t like to wait!

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Turning out the lights

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January 30, 2012

Post contributed by Hilton Miranda

My sister and I have been talking about our energy providers a lot recently and trying to decide if we want to go green. We were using Stream Energy Comparison to see how much her provider differed. We both thought that making more green decisions would be harder than it is. Everyone keeps talking about going green, but really I did not know what people meant when they said it. It just sounded like a catch phrase to me. I think it started with my sister always following me room to room and turning all the lights off. I thought it was annoying at first, but she explained to me that we should conserve energy and lights were a part of that. She convinced me we needed to do it with the lights, the water and even with how much trash we threw away. Now the next step for us is choosing a provider that will allow us to keep saving energy and making green decisions. My sister says that no matter who the provider, it really comes down to decisions like turning out the light.

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Merging two families can be an adventure

Filed Under: Friends and/or family, General Life, Home and Garden, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
January 21, 2012

When we agreed to let my sister’s family move into the downstairs apartment, we really did not realize exactly how much plain old junk was going to come with them. We really did think and hope that a lot of their things would have been sorted through and sold, given away, or trashed. After all, when we moved here we spent a lot of time doing just that. That is the reason why we had enough room to create a small apartment downstairs.

Having made that apartment, our own storage space is now extremely limited, and I have to admit that I get frustrated when I go downstairs to get something out of storage that when I have to move a ton of someone else’s stuff out of the way to get to my stuff it can get annoying. None of us are in show business anymore, why am I tripping over an old microphone stand that has been bent up and is missing the base from it? I fear that my sister is a hoarder, and it is going to be a struggle to keep her hoard out of my space! At least all of her stuff is down in the basement on cement floors so I won’t have to worry about the floors rotting and giving way under all of her junk!

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