Thu 12/31/2009 5:18 PM
Well, here it is, my last post of 2009. It wasn't an extremely eventful year, but there were a few highlights...
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Mon 12/28/2009 3:38 PM
Today's misery aside, I had a pretty awesome Christmas. I totaled up $330 in cash and gift cards toward my new camera - the one thing I wanted this year...
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Thu 12/24/2009 11:50 AM
Tomorrow is Christmas. Merry Christmas! If you actually celebrate something different, you should not be offended when I say "Merry Christmas" to you - all it means is that I want you to enjoy your holiday, whatever it is that you celebrate...
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Wed 12/16/2009 4:39 PM
I love my man for so many reasons, but I'd be lying if I said his awesome talent in the kitchen wasn't one of them. Though we own many cookbooks, they don't come off the shelf very often, because the best meals he makes are not those from a recipe followed to the letter...
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Fri 12/11/2009 4:35 PM
My current Sim family consists of a mom and a dad, a teenage daughter and two younger girls. They had outgrown their house, so the other night I set out to explore my Sim town and find an unoccupied house that could better accommodate them...
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Tue 12/01/2009 10:12 AM
You might know that the one main thing I am wishing for this Christmas is a new digital camera that will be easy for me to use and shoot good, quality video with clear sound (the feature that is most lacking in my current compact camera). After all, I've got to work on that winning entry to America's Funniest Home Videos...
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Fri 11/27/2009 10:54 AM
Cyber Monday is the online extension of Black Friday. While Black Friday is the busiest retail shopping day of the year, the following Monday, Cyber Monday, is the busiest online shopping day of the year...
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Thu 11/26/2009 4:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! While you're digesting your turkey, I thought I would share some of the Black Friday sales I've found that you may not have known about...
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Wed 11/25/2009 1:59 PM
As someone who appreciates when a friend or even a stranger throws me a bone, I like to do the same for others when I can. I know many bloggers like myself struggle to earn enough income from their blogs just to pay their hosting bills, let alone actually get something in return for the hard work they put into their sites...
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Wed 11/18/2009 2:51 PM
A couple of years ago I discovered what just might be the most useful "gimplement" (that's a tool, or implement, that makes life easier for gimpy people like me - otherwise known as a daily living aid) I have ever owned...
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Tue 11/17/2009 8:58 PM
This sponsored post has been removed due to the advertiser's refusal to uphold its end of the sponsorship agreement. Should the advertiser decide to pay what is owed to me, the post will be restored....
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Fri 11/06/2009 3:10 PM
I woke up Monday morning to find a gray stripe down the left side of my iPhone screen, along with some squiggly gray lines at the top. I rebooted and reset it, but the rogue pixels would not go away...
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Thu 10/29/2009 1:25 PM
Shopping for clothes is usually an extremely frustrating experience for me. Differences in the shape of my body, and in my ability to get certain items on and off independently, mean that I have to be very particular about the styles I select...
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Mon 10/26/2009 2:54 PM
The past few weekends have been pretty uneventful, but we did attend the annual Nelson Halloween Party on Friday night. This is the same party to which we went as Peter & Lois Griffin last year...
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Wed 10/21/2009 10:59 AM
She builds a URL shortening engine, of course...
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Thu 10/15/2009 11:39 AM
When I was in high school I had an English teacher, Mr. Paige, who was probably my favorite teacher of all time. He was unconventional and made his classes fun and engaging, getting kids interested in literature who otherwise wouldn't have been...
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Wed 10/14/2009 11:28 AM
Here's a lovely Halloween dance video for you to enjoy!
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Tue 10/13/2009 4:07 PM
As I'm sure you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Think breast cancer is something only older women need to worry about? Think again...
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Wed 10/07/2009 11:58 AM
As you begin your online holiday shopping, I hope you'll remember to support your favorite bloggers and purchase through their affiliate links whenever possible. For confoozled.com, you can shop my affiliate mall...
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Mon 10/05/2009 2:34 PM
Now that it's October I'm thinking about Halloween (and yes, even Christmas). Did you see this month's creepy confoozled.com masthead?
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Fri 10/02/2009 11:48 AM
Yesterday marked seven years since my first blog entry. In those seven years I have written 514 entries...
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Tue 09/29/2009 10:21 AM
Have you noticed the rating widget on confoozled.com's entries yet? I'm trying to get a better idea of what type of content really interests my readers, so I've installed a five star rating system...
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Mon 09/28/2009 1:37 PM
Last week was rough on Brooskey and Vixen; we weren't home much. By Saturday they, Brooskey especially, were unbearably hyper and anxious...
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Fri 09/25/2009 6:25 PM
Have I mentioned how much I hate my cable company and wish we Rhode Islanders had more choices? Choices like Charter Cable, who recently finished their two month long laptop a day giveaway to new subscribers...
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Fri 09/25/2009 3:34 PM
It's been a busy week in terms of after-work activities, and all I wanted to do yesterday was go home and plop in front of the TV for several hours of fall season premieres. We had to meet a friend of Chris' first to try to diagnose a misbehaving laptop...
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Thu 09/24/2009 9:54 AM
Guess what. Christmas is only ninety-two days away! This year I'm following the advice of 100 Days to Christmas to get started with my preparations for the holiday nice and early...
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Wed 09/23/2009 10:01 AM
The other night Chris and I watched I Love You, Man, a comedy about a guy who realizes after getting engaged that he has no real close friends who would qualify as best man material, and he has to set out to find such a friend...
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Tue 09/22/2009 10:31 AM
I shot this a couple of weeks ago but it's taken a while to get the tools I needed to edit it (I used Chris' iPhone 3GS, and even though I shot it in landscape mode, it came out in...
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Mon 09/21/2009 3:56 PM
I stopped watching American Idol a few years ago; it was the same thing season after season and I got bored. In it's place I now follow America's Got Talent...
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Mon 09/14/2009 11:18 AM
I've been paying a friend to help me with grocery shopping and cleaning at home on Tuesday nights when Chris is playing poker...
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Fri 09/11/2009 3:29 PM
Wow. I got smacked hard with the depression stick, and such an odd time of year for it...
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Tue 09/01/2009 10:31 AM
Crap. In all my hating life I completely forgot about the masthead contest and making a September masthead...
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Thu 08/27/2009 11:32 AM
Busy, exhausted, depressed, stressed, burnt out... take your pick. I will be back sooner or later...
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Wed 08/12/2009 1:43 PM
A couple of slight tweaks to the site today as I move further away from the focus on making a profit online...
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Fri 08/07/2009 1:50 PM
When it comes to baseball and football, the only sports I really care about, I'm a fan of the New England teams. Not everyone here is...
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Thu 08/06/2009 2:36 PM
I've been doing a monthly masthead (header image) for confoozled.com for two years, and I'm starting to run out of ideas for them. I always choose a background photo that is somehow related to the month in question...
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Wed 08/05/2009 2:28 PM
"No fair, I wish I could work barefoot." I hear this all the time from delivery people and other visitors who come in to the office...
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Tue 07/28/2009 4:19 PM
The biggest weekend of the summer is over, and Joe & Sandra have finally tied the knot! It was an awesome weekend, starting with the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner on Saturday, the big event on Sunday, and even our recovery day off from work yesterday (Monday)...
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Thu 07/23/2009 4:24 PM
Over at the GimpGirl Community on LiveJournal, a member asked for opinions on all of the "politically correct" language being used to describe us - specifically, the trend of "person-first" language, in which we are to say "person with a disability" or "person who is blind (or deaf)" rather than "disabled person" or "blind (deaf) person", because putting the person before the disability is somehow less offensive to us "people with disabilities"...
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Wed 07/22/2009 4:45 PM
I got a few suggestions over the weekend on how to fix my Adobe AIR problem, but nothing worked. So, I took the plunge and created a new administrator account for myself and began the long process of moving all of my settings, files, etc. from the old account to the new...
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Tue 07/21/2009 6:21 PM
I have been lusting after a laptop for quite a while. Besides being completely unable to justify the cost in the current economy, I have one very specific requirement for any laptop I purchase, something which is extremely difficult to find, making it even less likely that I will buy one any time in the near future...
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Fri 07/17/2009 3:06 PM
For the last two days I have been trying to solve a software problem on my PC at work that has me tearing my hair out. It's just weird, and I'm running out of ideas to fix it...
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Tue 07/14/2009 2:39 PM
A couple of weeks ago I entered to win a free year of MozyHome unlimited online backup. And guess what - I won!
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Mon 07/13/2009 3:58 PM
The morning of the 4th (my actual birthday), we woke up early to try to catch the little neighborhood Fourth of July parade in my boss' neighborhood. When we realized we were an hour early (I blame my boss for that), we decided to skip it and take the dogs to the dog park instead...
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Thu 07/09/2009 4:04 PM
My friend Adam, a new iPhone owner (yay! welcome to the dark side!), asked me what apps I recommend, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to share my favorites with everyone. These are in no particular order, other than useful apps first, followed by games...
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Fri 07/03/2009 2:21 PM
Tomorrow I'm turning thirty. Everyone I've told that (people who don't know me well and already know how old I am, that is) thinks I'm lying...
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Wed 07/01/2009 4:28 PM
I'm notoriously bad at keeping my precious data (photos, music, documents, and Sims content and saved games) backed up...
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Tue 06/30/2009 3:55 PM
So here's the deal. I've been neglecting confoozled.com a bit lately, and I'm going to start writing more often again. But, I'm no longer going to make it such a high priority to post every single weekday...
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Thu 06/25/2009 2:23 PM
Remember how I was saying I would probably be whining about how jealous I am within a week of Chris getting his iPhone 3GS (yes, Apple has officially removed the space from the spelling)? Well, I'm not...
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Mon 06/22/2009 3:25 PM
It took me long enough, but the photos from my trip to Oregon are finally ready. They are captioned, selectively, because I wasn't about to write eighty-one captions...
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Mon 06/15/2009 5:46 PM
My Eeyore case for my iPhone has seen better days - the picture of Eeyore has started to rub off of the raised area where the belt clip (which I don't use) is supposed to attach. I was starting to feel like it was time for something new, anyway, so I ordered a couple of new snap-on cases...
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Wed 06/10/2009 4:13 PM
I'm alive and home from my trip, and I do have photos. They've been processed but not yet resized and uploaded.
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Mon 06/01/2009 5:39 PM
This is Dolly, my mom's little Cocker Spaniel and Japanese Chin mix. She looks like a miniature Brooskey, but is much more mellow. Every time I look at her she's sleeping! Everything went smoothly on Saturday. I started out with...
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Fri 05/29/2009 8:13 PM
In just about sixteen hours I will be on a plane, on my way to Oregon. I'm mostly packed, with exception of a few random things i'm still using. It's all going to fit in one backpack, which has to...
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Thu 05/28/2009 12:20 PM
One of the things I had to do to prepare for my trip to Oregon was buy a few new MP3s to listen to on the plane. I got a few songs that have become popular recently, and a few old favorites I didn't already own...
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Tue 05/26/2009 4:21 PM
This Memorial Day weekend kicked off our insanely busy summer with a bachelorette party, two bachelor parties, a holiday cookout, and the first of three weddings we're attending this year. Let me just say it would be a miracle if I was even just barely functional today, but I'm actually supercharged!
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Fri 05/22/2009 1:54 PM
I've been looking into some of the new "pocket" video cameras, and for the next few weeks I'm borrowing a friend's Flip Video to try out and decide if it's a design I can even use. My issue is with holding it upright and still being able to see the screen...
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Wed 05/20/2009 3:35 PM
I had hoped to have my own online wishlist service up and running in time for my birthday, but that's just forty-five days away and with my busy schedule over the next several weeks, it doesn't look like that's going to happen...
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Tue 05/19/2009 4:52 PM
Ever since I first noticed the option was available, I have had Twitter set to not show me replies (tweets beginning with @username) sent by my friends to other people I am not myself following. I was happy to see the option, as I found it confusing and distracting to watch one-sided conversations...
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Mon 05/18/2009 4:20 PM
I've just finished up my last "free" weekend for the next couple of months. With the schedule we've got this summer, it's going to be really difficult to get anything done, so this weekend we tried to accomplish as much as possible...
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Fri 05/15/2009 3:53 PM
Maybe I've just been living under a rock, but it seems to me like the US Postal Service didn't do much to publicize this latest postage increase. It was by pure dumb luck that I found out about it...
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Wed 05/13/2009 4:45 PM
This is Brooskey, completely zonked out after running around my in-laws' yard all day Sunday. I'm posting it as a test to be absolutely sure that posting a photo to the site directly from my iPhone works the way I...
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Tue 05/12/2009 3:45 PM
I have an unusual challenge for those of you who know me personally. I don't just mean those who know me offline...
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Mon 05/11/2009 4:41 PM
As you know, I've been trying to lose some weight for the past several months, in order to look good when I go home to Oregon in a few weeks, as well as at the three weddings we're attending this year. I guess I shouldn't say "trying", because as of my last weigh-in on Tuesday night, I have lost about fourteen pounds, with about ten more to go until I reach my "healthy" weight range...
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Fri 05/08/2009 1:59 PM
With the exception of November, when I received payment for my first web design project, this is the highest total since I started my money making mission back in July of last year...
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Thu 05/07/2009 5:40 PM
In a few weeks I'll be taking a vacation to go visit my family in Oregon. While I miss them and love going to see them (especially my little niece and nephews, some of whom admittedly are not so little anymore), it's always a hard decision every year whether to spend my limited vacation time there, or on a more... vacationy vacation...
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Wed 05/06/2009 3:38 PM
There was an incident almost eight years ago, wherein a viral illness kicked my ass so hard I got out of bed one morning and promptly lost consciousness, before I even knew I was sick. I chose a great place to go down, in our bedroom in front of a large, very hard oak armoire, and messed up my face pretty good...
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Tue 05/05/2009 4:26 PM
A bit of advice on how to give advice, if you want it to been taken as constructive criticism rather than an attack. Consider that the person you're giving said advice to might actually have an intelligent thought or two in their own head, and may have already drawn their own conclusions which may differ from yours...
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Mon 05/04/2009 1:38 PM
The Blockbuster gift card giveaway has officially ended, and the winner is...
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Fri 05/01/2009 4:18 PM
My visit with the doctor today was pretty uneventful...
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Thu 04/30/2009 2:27 PM
It's been kind of a busy week at work. I've been working on a tedious project gathering scanned copies of all vendor invoices for a job we did in 2007-2008 (we're talking over a thousand invoices), and have been working right through my breaks just to get it done...
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Mon 04/27/2009 3:51 PM
We had a gorgeous weekend here in New England, though it did start out a little bit chillier than expected. We took advantage of the beautiful, sunny weather, and took Brooskey and Vixen to the dog park Saturday morning. Unlike...
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Fri 04/24/2009 12:16 PM
There's only been one entry into the Blockbuster GC giveaway so far... don't you people want free movie rentals?! If you're worried about registering on the arcade, don't be...
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Thu 04/23/2009 5:50 PM
I mentioned on Twitter last week that I had received spam e-mail from Rhode Island Congressman Jim Langevin, sent to a throwaway e-mail address I had used a while back for a free gift card offer. This suggested that the company I gave the e-mail address to had placed it on a list to resell to e-mail marketers, and that the congressman's office had purchased that list...
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Wed 04/22/2009 4:36 PM
It's been a crazy day, and all I have time to write are these two random, unrelated thoughts...
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Tue 04/21/2009 3:16 PM
Just about everyone shops online these days. I do, for several reasons: 1) it saves me waiting for someone to be available to take me to a store Chris doesn't like to shop at; 2) it allows me to shop privately for gifts and surprise purchases; 3) it's easier to find things online when I don't know where to start looking; and 4) sometimes what I need isn't in stock in the local stores...
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Mon 04/20/2009 3:15 PM
Spring is here and many television shows will be ending their seasons soon, which at least in my house means more movie rentals. Lucky for you, I have a $20 gift card to Blockbuster Video to give away to one lucky confoozled.com reader...
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Fri 04/17/2009 3:53 PM
Of course, I go from nothing to write about earlier this week, to having all sorts of entries in mind and no time to write! For now, I'm going to have to point you to my current favorite game on the new arcade, Reactor...
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Thu 04/16/2009 11:28 AM
This post on the This is True blog made me feel so much better after the stupidity that took place last week...
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Wed 04/15/2009 12:02 PM
Here's something we can all use... freebies! Not only does Shop4Freebies update their list of 100% free sample offers on a daily basis, they also give you printable coupons, money saving tips, and a listing of cheap gas prices looks to be coming soon...
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Tue 04/14/2009 11:11 AM
I've ranted before about people who don't bother to spell and/or write correctly. But the bottom line is this...
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Mon 04/13/2009 4:52 PM
I feel lost today. Lost as to what to blog about, lost as to what steps to take next in my quest to make an income on the internet...
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Fri 04/10/2009 12:25 PM
Here's a fun little writing challenge. Write a haiku to summarize the last movie you saw. Remember the rules of haiku...
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Thu 04/09/2009 11:43 AM
I love Flash games - you know, those fun little time waster games you play online? And now there's a new place you can go to play them, and help confoozled.com make a little money along the way...
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Wed 04/08/2009 1:55 PM
I hate my cable company with a passion. We've had high definition television for about four years now, and we've suffered with reception problems since the beginning...
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Tue 04/07/2009 11:57 AM
On a note related to all of this, I have to get something off my chest. There seems to be this sense of entitlement people feel when it comes to things on the internet, and I find it really disturbing...
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Mon 04/06/2009 10:58 AM
Once in a while I wake up in the middle of the night with some muscle in my body twitching. Only it's not really a twitch, but more of an unpleasant sensation building up in the muscle which is only relieved when I consciously move it...
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Fri 04/03/2009 4:12 PM
I'm sure I've talked before about VistaPrint and their great offers on printed materials for your business, such as business cards, magnets, labels, letterhead and more. However I did not know that they now offer design and hosting for business websites...
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Thu 04/02/2009 11:58 AM
In case you didn't figure it out from the rickroll, yesterday's post was an April Fools' joke. (Also because it appeared in the new "attempts at humor" category, but you wouldn't have known that without looking.)...
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Wed 04/01/2009 2:33 PM
Well, I definitely learned something from the responses to my survey on supporting blogs. What I learned is that people don't believe in supporting them, period...
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Tue 03/31/2009 4:34 PM
For this week's "Ten on Tuesday", here are ten things on my to-do list this week. Some of them are already done...
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Mon 03/30/2009 1:51 PM
I take calls like this one, or equally as dumbfounding, on a daily basis. And all I can say afterward is, "WTF?"
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Fri 03/27/2009 2:03 PM
I've had a stressful week. First there was the incident at work which resulted in a coworker I really like quitting his job...
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Thu 03/26/2009 11:40 AM
My lips are so bad that even when I'm constantly wearing protectant and/or moisturizing products, they are still covered in dry, flaky skin, which I end up chewing off, leaving my lips cracked and bleeding...
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Wed 03/25/2009 3:22 PM
I hate listening to people arguing and screaming at each other. I hated hearing my parents do it when I was younger, and now I have to listen to it at work...
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Tue 03/24/2009 11:55 AM
Despite all of the frustration, I didn't have a completely unsuccessful weekend. What I failed to mention yesterday is that I also did some more dress shopping...
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Mon 03/23/2009 12:59 PM
This was supposed to be a weekend of getting things done, but instead it was a weekend of me wanting to strangle someone...
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Fri 03/20/2009 4:37 PM
No time for a full post today, just a quick techie site update. I published some design changes I'd been working on to confoozled.com today, and hit a couple of small hiccups, so if you happened to stop by during a particular twenty minute window today, you probably noticed that everything was wonky (technical term, I swear!)...
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Thu 03/19/2009 10:02 PM
I'm violating my one post per day rule, but I had to grab this opportunity to write about this cool new behavior the dolphins at Sea World in Orlando have been observed engaging in, as reported on the Dolphin Bubbles blog I wrote about a few weeks ago...
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Thu 03/19/2009 1:30 PM
I want to thank a few bloggers for helping me promote my survey on supporting your favorite blogs. Thanks to The Transparent Hypnotist, MoneyXperiment.com, and Make Money Online - all great blogs which you should definitely check out...
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Wed 03/18/2009 2:40 PM
This past Sunday we had our first dinner guests in over a year. Brooskey's behavior was so atrocious the last time we tried to have company over, that we were too embarrassed to try it again...
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Tue 03/17/2009 3:10 PM
I'm attending three weddings this year, so I need to find some new dresses. I always have a really hard time finding dresses that work for me and are flattering, and usually end up running out of time and settling for some old frumpy church lady dress...
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Fri 03/13/2009 11:52 AM
I'm joining Ed today in answering these five completely random yet oddly related questions about myself...
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Thu 03/12/2009 3:52 PM
Chris found this for me this morning: There is a pair of nine-week-old Chihuahua puppies here in Rhode Island who were born without front legs. They were taken in by an organization called Just A Touch Rescue, and they are receiving physical therapy to teach them how to manage life on two legs...
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Wed 03/11/2009 4:06 PM
I just realized today that I have three little niecerphews (seriously, we need a gender-neutral word for them, and that's as good as any) with birthdays coming up in the next month and a half...
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Tue 03/10/2009 1:12 PM
This month I am conducting a survey to find out just what you, my blog readers, are willing to do to support your favorite blogs. If you fill out the survey and provide a valid e-mail address, you'll be entered to win a special prize at the end of the month...
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Mon 03/09/2009 2:56 PM
Speaking of the weekend, we took advantage of the nice weather and got a few things accomplished...
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Fri 03/06/2009 3:14 PM
I don't know what, but something sparked my metabolism this past week. I lost three pounds! I can't help wondering how much more I would have lost if I had been a little bit better with my workouts, as I didn't exercise as often as I had wanted to...
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Thu 03/05/2009 2:47 PM
We all love to make fun of those silly TV commercials for the latest and greatest miracle product that is "not available in stores" and "available only through this exclusive TV offer". We laugh at them because the claims are often far too good to be true, and the product rarely lives up to the hype...
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Wed 03/04/2009 1:30 PM
Just a quick post to say that yes, I'm in a tiny funk this week, but don't worry about me... I'll get over it.
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Mon 03/02/2009 1:50 PM
Before you watch the video embedded below, there are some things you need to know...
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Fri 02/27/2009 11:55 AM
I'm slowly but steadily losing the weight I want to lose. And slow is fine as long as it keeps coming off. I've been working out on Wii Fit for twenty to twenty-five minutes about every other day...
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Thu 02/26/2009 10:49 AM
Nearly twelve years ago, my friend Timory Hyde was killed when she and a friend fell from a third story window during a party on (but not for) her twenty-third birthday...
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Wed 02/25/2009 2:45 PM
I'm not sure when or why my obsession with dolphins started, but I think they are just about the most beautiful creatures on Earth. When we went to Florida in 2007, I got to fulfill two of my biggest dreams by not only visiting Disney World, but also swimming with dolphins at SeaWorld's Discovery Cove...
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Tue 02/24/2009 10:53 AM
There's something I really need to write about, but I'm waiting for someone to help me find something first. In the meantime, here's a little game I borrowed from Neil...
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Mon 02/23/2009 1:55 PM
I was playing around with YouTube on the TiVo the other day, searching for Chihuahua videos. Brooskey didn't let me get too far, because he wouldn't stop barking at the screen...
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Fri 02/20/2009 3:33 PM
I went to see my doctor the other day, and he put me on antibiotics for this sinus thing I've been battling for far too long. I'm always loathe to take antibiotics because of all the side effects they cause, but I am grateful that I made it this far into the winter before needing them, since I'm usually on my first round by Thanksgiving...
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Thu 02/19/2009 2:40 PM
It's been a while since I've done this, but I can't think of anything to write about today, so why not? Here are a couple of the items that have recently appeared in the "across the web" section over in the sidebar...
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Wed 02/18/2009 10:25 AM
Do you think you're one of the smartest people in the US? If you are, you could win a 15" Apple MacBook by entering the Smartest of the US IQ contest...
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Tue 02/17/2009 10:43 AM
Being a mommy to two dogs gets expensive, which is why I'm entering on ConsumerQueen.com to win a $50 PETCO gift card, and doing everything possible to earn extra entries!
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Mon 02/16/2009 12:22 PM
Anyway, last week I heard my share of Valentine's Day dissent - that is, people encouraging the boycotting of Valentine's Day for various reasons. The general gripe is that it's a holiday that was invented by greeting card companies, designed to make you spend money, with no basis in religion or historical events...
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Fri 02/13/2009 1:49 PM
It's unheard of for me to go this far into a winter before getting sick, and apparently the catch is that now I get to experience the most drawn-out, oddly fluctuating sinus/respiratory illness of my life...
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Thu 02/12/2009 9:50 AM
I have more data loss horror stories than you can imagine. One that stands out in my mind is the TiVo Desktop photo and music wipe...
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Wed 02/11/2009 11:33 AM
I e-filed my own return the day that the W-2s came in at work - two days before the IRS even started processing them. I had my federal refund in my account on January 30...
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Tue 02/10/2009 11:18 AM
Here's a question posed by Dallas Catering company JimLeeEvents: What are your favorite party cocktails and appetizers?
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Fri 02/06/2009 3:33 PM
Today is Chris' birthday, and since he took the day off from work and has been hanging out with the dogs all day, I knew we would probably be going to our favorite haunt for lunch rather than him coming all the way from home to pick me up and drive all the way back home again...
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Thu 02/05/2009 11:57 AM
I have a cold. I feel yucky. I'm in a bad mood. So in an attempt to make myself feel better, here are some random things that have been annoying me lately...
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Wed 02/04/2009 12:35 PM
Time to update you all on my efforts to make money online. In December, I earned $46.78, and in January, $65.85...
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Tue 02/03/2009 3:02 PM
After taking a nap inside my fleece hoodie last night (yes, while I was wearing it), Vixen went over to Chris to ask for her "fratchies". And I guess I should explain this technical term...
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Mon 02/02/2009 3:21 PM
Commenter Ricky asked for my feelings on the Lose It! iPhone application now that I have been using it for a while, so I thought I should post an updated review. If you don't remember, this is the app I am using to track my calorie intake as I work to lose the weight I put back on in 2008...
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Fri 01/30/2009 2:56 PM
Gimpstorming. It's a process by which a gimpy person, like myself, tries to devise his or her own way to do something they couldn't previously do...
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Thu 01/29/2009 3:51 PM
I have big plans this year for some new web sites, and one way I intend to advertise them is through sponsored blog posts, also known as blog advertising. You're probably a little bit familiar with this form of advertising, as I have sold sponsored posts here on confoozled.com for quite a while, and it has in fact been my most profitable method of earning money online...
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Wed 01/28/2009 2:55 PM
The other night, Brooskey overindulged on a "Healthy Edibles" bone by Nylabone. Edible, yes, but I don't think they intend for the dog to eat the whole thing in five minutes...
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Tue 01/27/2009 10:36 AM
I love these web sites that sell one product a day, usually at amazingly cheap prices. I just discovered another one, Dillyeo.com...
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Fri 01/23/2009 11:23 AM
Back in August, we celebrated my 300th blog post on confoozled.com with my very first blog contest. It had taken nearly six years to get to 300 posts... and now, not quite six months later, I've hit 400!
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Thu 01/22/2009 4:16 PM
Hey, City of Warwick, since you're so hard up for cash... instead of just reminding people that the law says you can fine them for not shoveling their sidewalks, how about you go out there and start issuing those fines?
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Thu 01/22/2009 2:45 PM
Today I'm participating in 3x Thursday, and this week's theme is Down Time...
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Wed 01/21/2009 10:49 AM
Brooskey is almost eighteen months old. He has made some huge strides in growing up over the past couple of weeks, and we're incredibly proud of him...
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Mon 01/19/2009 11:43 AM
I was unusually loud and opinionated last week, so this week I'm going to try to keep it a bit lighter. I thought I would seek out some memes I've never participated in before...
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Fri 01/16/2009 10:17 AM
I want to add something to my rant from yesterday about school cancellations. I know that with the economy the way it is right now, to have to unexpectedly pay for a day of babysitting or lose a day of work can be quite the financial hit...
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Thu 01/15/2009 3:01 PM
We've had a crazy winter here so far - a lot more snow than usual and some ridiculously cold temperatures. And as a result, school has been canceled a few times...
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Wed 01/14/2009 1:04 PM
It's no secret that I have become quite addicted to Twitter. I know not everyone reading confoozled.com knows or understands what Twitter is, so I'll try to explain...
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Mon 01/12/2009 10:53 AM
Today is Delurking Day 2009... that means anyone reading this must come out of hiding and make yourself known...
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Fri 01/09/2009 2:49 PM
It's not a New Year's resolution (I don't make them, remember?), but now that the holidays and all the junk food that comes with them are behind us, I am getting back on the diet wagon. No fad diets, just plain old calorie counting and healthier food choices wherever possible...
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Thu 01/08/2009 3:14 PM
Calling all confoozled.com readers in Oregon and Washington... I will be in Oregon for a week-long visit with friends and family the first week in June. I'll be dividing most of my time between Hood River and Eugene, with probably one day in Portland...
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Tue 01/06/2009 4:25 PM
I've never been big on New Year's resolutions. I got the idea from Tina to do a "bucket list" instead. Each New Year, and even periodically throughout the year, I can check in on this list of things I want to do in my lifetime, see what progress I've made, and hopefully even add new things to the list...
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Mon 01/05/2009 4:14 PM
I'm reading back through my 2008 entries with the intention of writing a recap of the past year of my life, and immediately with the first entry on January 8, I'm cracking up at the similarities to my situation right now...
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