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Jun

Weekly visits from home remodeling reps…

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Home & Hearth

It never fails that just when I’ve gotten my grand-daughter to fall asleep that seems to be the time when someone will show up to try to sell us vinyl siding which I know is because the house looks as if it could use some new siding or a new paint job. Unfortunately in [...]

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13

Jun

The Happening…wasn’t

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Blogging

My husband was sucked in by the trailers shown for the movie The Happening and because he was a fan of some of the previous movies by M. Night Shyamalan. I had a bad feeling about the movie and I don’t normally like to go to opening nights of movies, for the very reason [...]

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13

Jun

Unique is better when it comes to jewelry

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Fluff/Personal, Shopping/Entertainment

I don’t like wearing the same piece of jewelry that are made in a manner that chances are you will run into someone wearing the exact same piece as you. It’s one of the reasons I try to always look for handcrafted jewelry since that increases the chances that something I wear will not [...]

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13

Jun

Natural skin care

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Consumer/Law

Many people have turned to organic products and natural skin care products as a result of some of the concerns about chemicals and being concerned about the environment. There are a variety of different natural products out there that include hair care products to natural acne treatment that are out there to select from. [...]

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13

Jun

The acquittal of R. Kelly

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Consumer/Law

Interesting article in this week’s Time Magazine that covers why the jury decided he was not guilty of the accusation of having sex with a minor that was video taped. It boiled down to the decision by the prosecution to not have the girl they believed was the one in the film that is [...]

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13

Jun

Things I never travel without…

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Shopping/Entertainment, Vacation/Travel

One thing I never travel without is books though this last trip the road trip part of the adventure was one that I enjoyed the scenary so much that I did not read any of the books I brought with me. On the plane that was another story though we really didn’t have as [...]

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13

Jun

Using the net for diet pill reviews…

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Blogging

There are very few things I buy or try without looking online for more information and consumer reviews of a particular product if it’s something I’ve never purchased or tried before. I think this is an especially important tip when it comes to the weight loss industry where there are a variety of sites [...]

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13

Jun

Advantages of home insurance

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Consumer/Law

A neighbor had his car broken into and his auto insurance did not cover the damages. Thanks to the type of home insurance he had, some of the items lost were able to be claimed on his home owners insurance. It’s another reason why you need to not only check the prices of [...]

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7

Jun

WKRP on Tornados….

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Computers/Technology, Shopping/Entertainment

Recently I discovered www.hulu.com which is a website that has full episodes of television shows, both past and present. They have quite a few episodes of one of my favorite shows, WKRP in Cincinnati. This one on a tornado made me laugh after the tornado warning we had here last night:

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6

Jun

NASA Teleconference

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Computers/Technology, Environment/Science

NASA will host a news teleconference Thursday, June 12, at 4:30 p.m. EDT, to announce the selection of the contractor for the Constellation Program’s spacesuit system.
The spacesuit system contract is for the design, development, test, evaluation, production, processing and sustaining engineering of extravehicular activity equipment to support astronauts aboard the Orion crew exploration vehicle and [...]

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6

Jun

Road travels and hotels

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Consumer/Law, Fluff/Personal, Vacation/Travel

As we drove from Toledo to San Jose we had taken the tiime to make sure we found some cheap hotels along the way. Thanks to the internet it’s easy to find and make reservations so with the way we had the trip planned all we had to do was arrive at our hotel [...]

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5

Jun

Test of new Wordpress Features

Posted by LisaRenee  Published in Blogging

So, I did the latest upgrade here first before tackling it on my main political blog and I saw that there were additional features as far as adding music and video. Below is a test of the audio:
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However, the video was disappointing as I thought perhaps I could upload video directly that I had [...]

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