Remember that video review I was just talking about. It’s for complete clean floss by Dentek, and I have to say that the floss is really brilliant.
I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity to review this product, as I said, because it’s shown me that there is actually floss that I can use. My dentist has always told me that I really should floss, as everyone should but I never do because it hurts and who wants to keep doing something that hurts? Not me, but with this floss I could easily use it, and it was really easy to also show the munchkin how to use it, which is great because I want to make sure that he has much better oral hygiene habits than I do.
As a side note I’m just glad the video uploaded. The computer was being most uncooperative. I had to port the file to a different computer, convert it’s format and then upload it from that computer. Apparently the new computer does not like uploading videos only recording them, but I’ve got it done, and I’m very happy about that. It’s taught me a lot about what to do with regards to making videos, if I have the opportunity in the future to do so.
But back on topic I’m really happy with the product that I was sent, and also that it’s a fairly inexpensive product so it’ll be pretty easy for me to get more in the future, because I anticipate losing a chunk of it to both the munchkin and hubbie once he works out how good it is too.
I’ve been told on several occasions that I should write children’s books. My step-father, in particular, was a big advocate of this, to the point that he, at one point, filled out a form for me for some sort of Children’s Literary Association who then proceeded to send me all sorts of things telling me if I just filled out their questionnaire or sent them a writing sample they could assess my writing capability.
In the end after several different requests from them and further badgering from my step-father I did send in a writing sample. The first chapter of something I was working on. It involved a metamorphic police officer chasing down a suspect through a traffic jam and finally catching up by turning into a fly and freaking them out when she turned back into a person on their windshield.
After that I kept getting letters from them telling me how talented I was and offering to set me up with a writing coach and all the rest of it for X amount of dollars. That was when I realized that it was a scam, just like some of those offers for cheap insurance and viagra and things you get in your spam folder can be. Up until I was in college for several years I was still getting letters from them. Since I’ve been married I’ve seen the last of it.
However I get offers now and again from random publishers or agents who are wanting to help me self-publish and a lot of the time when I investigate them they’re also scams. I do know that their are some authors out there who will mentor people but I doubt that they’d be involved in something like that. I realize now that they’re more likely to do guest lectures and courses at actual universities.
I must say that the more I read about certain things the less I feel like a “normal” girl. This makes things very difficult for my husband some times when it comes to gifts, but on the other hand he tends to be grateful that I’m not necessarily looking for the expensive gifts, but at the same time there are those times when he wants to get me something that is jewelry and needs help.
I hear a lot about people wanting to get engagement jewelry and spending a lot of time trying to make a selection and often wondered why they don’t just ask their prospective spouse. I was reading about the engagement ring on Bellatrue and felt a bit ambivalent about a lot of the advice there because we really didn’t do things traditionally when my husband and I got together.
My husband proposed to me before he got the ring, then we went together to get the ring, and when we did we bought a colored gemstone ring, a marquis cut sapphire with two small diamonds around it laid on white gold, so that it looks silvery as I don’t wear yellow gold.
My step-father was mortified when we picked up the engagement ring that we didn’t get a “set” where the engagement ring would fit with the wedding ring, but that wasn’t important to me, what was was being economical. Sure I could have had my then fiancee spend several thousand dollars on a ring but then I would have been afraid to wear it lest something happen to it.
The engagement ring is unusual. I continue to wear it now on my opposite hand because it doesn’t fit with my wedding ring, but I love it so I wear it.
When it comes to other pieces of jewelry I still go towards more unusual things. I don’t wear jewelry often and tend to wear the same few pieces day after day. It’s only a special occasion that will prompt me to up the anti and wear a necklace as well as my customary two pairs of earrings and three rings and I much prefer colored gemstones rather than white diamonds.
So something like this:
is what’s going to catch my eye because of the unusual combinations and styles. I remember when we were shopping for a wedding ring several jewelers were extremely perturbed by my lack of interest in gemstones on my ring. I wanted a white gold band with a little bit of design on it, something with weight rather than the flimsy strips of gold they were showing with tiny sapphires and diamonds in them. I put one of them on and I couldn’t even feel it on my finger and that terrified me.
At least something like this:
would have some weight to it, but it’s all a matter of personal preference. I’m just not the type of girl who has to have the latest jewelry.
Given I’ve been researching various online schools lately I was interested to read about Lewis University. When I was at grad school before I was studying Information Sciences, but in looking to go back to school one of my main thoughts has been to study computers and internet related things, so I was interested to read about their MS in Information Security as it “meets the Committee on National Security Systems National Training standards for Information Systems Security Professionals, Senior Systems Managers” so that would be very good on a resume.
Like other schools I’ve been looking at they offer online courses which means I could go to school around my schedule and what I especially like is the offer for financial aid, that’s always nice. I’m going to have to revisit their program when we get back from the trip.
We were watching the last few episodes of the original “The Prisoner” series and at one point Number 6 gets a code from slides. It reminded me of all the slides that my Mum has from my childhood and I’m not sure we even have a way to look at those any more which is a shame because that’s a lot of my baby pictures.
It reminded me of the fact that as I prep to write a story set in the future that it’s going to be interesting to speculate what new ways of getting pictures and taking photographs that there’ll be by then, and then I stumbled across Slide Scanning Pros who will convert slides to digital format for just over a quarter: $0.26 or for $0.18 if you prefer.
What I really like about their service is not only do they scan the images at 4000 dpi, they’re able to color correct, and remove dust, fingerprints and other blemishes on the images (click here to see the clean up they can do) while they’re working on it and their technicians stay in touch with you every step of the way to make sure that the product is to your liking and they upload everything to a photo album and you only pay for the ones that you like, which is very generous I know how much work even correcting a photograph is I can’t imagine a slide which is so much smaller and potentially more fiddly.
I’ll have to keep them in mind for once we have some disposable income.
I have a major problem with procrastinating. It’s so easy for me to get distracted. The internet has too many shiny things on. I keep thinking that I should just disconnect the internet from the computer for a few hours a day and then I would be able to write more cohesively, but then I would also have to uninstall all the computer games. No more solitaire, or bejeweled or insaniquarium.
If it’s not that sort of thing I find myself reading through all the spam comments and spam emails I get that don’t get caught by the various filters. I’ve lost count of the number of offers I receive to get free life insurance quotes or check out hot nude girls, or enlarge various portion sof my anatomy (that I don’t even have).
All of these add up to excuses when all is said and done. I have lost the discipline I need to actually write for an hour or two per day. I have to work at regaining that discipline. I know I can do it. I’ve won NaNoWriMo twice before. I just have to be strict with myself, like I have to be strict with myself about my diet too.
It amazes me some times that people are willing to take short cuts which put themselves at risk. They’d rather come to a clairvoyant or a hypnotist instead of first dealing with the appropriate professional be it doctors, dentists or even Mesothelioma lawyers.
We have it all over and am making triple sure to put it on the new site as well that our advice is not a substitute for the appropriate professional care and courtesies; and that the individual is the one truly responsible for their own destiny.
I always maintain that we deal with possibilities and potential. You have to be an active force in your own destiny. I need to get a supplemental job so I’m going out looking, calling places and bugging people because that’s what I have to do. I can’t just sit here at the house and wait for a job to find me. I don’t really want to go back to the daily grind. I love being home with my son; but for his future to be better we need more money coming into the house so there we are. It’s simple math in that sense.
Definitely come to a psychic for advice and grounding and good suggestions but please always be responsible for your own self.
It can be hard some times to remember to chill out. I figure I better allow myself some stress free time but it’s very hard to force myself to make that time, even though things suffer–particularly my ability to write creatively when I’m stressed.
Part of it is that when I’m stressed I get into a rut, also called a vicious cycle. I’m tired, my brain is foggy, so ideas are either difficult or become contrived. Then because my ideas are horrible I berate myself. Then I become more bummed or more stressed and so on and so forth.
It’s actually easier than you think to chill out, you just have to remind yourself to do it. I can find a nice calming place just going into the back yard and sitting by myself in the grass for a while. It’s not always easy to be completely serene because there’s a little munchkin who will start going “Mummy-Mummy-Mummy” some times. I can also find serenity while painting the front of the house, just turn on some music and lose myself in the rhythm for a half hour or so. Works out to my advantage if I’m careful about it.
Kore and I also discovered that our new local community park has some nice trails and jogging paths which may be a good way to not only regroup our collective mentality but also to help keep up with the exercise portion of our lifestyle change and trim down some of those extra pounds.
I’m so glad when we got the Instincts we got phone insurance. Initially my husband had been wanting to get an iPhone; but our local carrier told us they could not insure the iPhone because they’ve got glass screens. So, I went back to Sprint and we bought the Instincts; which I like a lot. We have music, internet, video so I’ve been using the Instinct a lot for quick checks of web things while the computer isn’t working.
Over the weekend my husband’s phone went through the laundry but thankfully the insurance we have replaced the phone very quickly and when they found out that my husband was in law enforcement they expedited the phone for free to us so it got to us within two days instead of three to five. All we had to do was pop out the micro sd card from the old phone and into the new one and it was good to go after Mobile Sync downloaded all the contacts; which is great, given without the main computer there’s a lot of information on that phone that couldn’t be replaced any other way.
I’ve been recycling our soda cans and other household items such as that since the first of the year; but I’ve come to realize I’ve been doing other sorts of recycling for a while and just hadn’t thought about it.
I routinely look on Craig’s List for items, such as moving boxes when we’ve needed them, and have sold our items through there to other people. When Mum was moving last year I gave her our old computer desks to use; and she’s in turn passing them on to other people given we don’t have room for them any more. When we had our mega clean out last month I put several things up on FreeCycle including the munchkin’s old car seat (given it was accident free and fairly new it was still good). So, here I thin I’ve not been recycling and I have, just not as much as I could have been!
