Archive for September, 2008

Oh Man! Never happened

I had a friend come over the other night. We wanted to just simply hang out and have a good time. I had walked by the bathroom to put something away and I hear Oh man. So I asked what was wrong, because I am proned to forget to put toilet paper in there when I completed the roll. Oh man, never happened before, the stupid toilet plugged, good thing it didn’t overrun or anything. I have never owned a plugger because I have never needed one, so of to Target I had to go.
Maybe it a good thing they have started decreasing the amount of water sent to the toilets probably saved me a huge clean up. My husand and I went to Target and found a small pluger, well we also found a tiny one but it was just to close to the water for comfort. They had one toilet plugger for 15$, now that is simply insane. The one we found was 6$ and then we decide it would be great to get a couple of toilet bowl scrubber. The one thing I couldn’t find at Target is the stuff we like using in the Toilet, it’s looks like hard salt, but it cleans wonderfully. It comes in a contianer and is dry. I have never been able to get my toilet to look more cleaner with anything else.
We checked out, and there always so nice and helpful when your leaving making sure if they are free to ask you if your ready to go. I wonder if Target has any Delsey luggage.

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Trublood Tv Series

My husband and I got interested, we both have been reading the Sookie series, the Southern Vampire mysteries by Charliane Harris. So when we found out about Tru Blood coming from the book we where interested. Since it on HBO, I believe and we don’t get that station my husband has a site which gives downloads for TV shows. We were glad to see this one would be here.
This is not a Tv show for a young veiwer, there is some harsh language, nudity, and some violence. and as the show progress I am betting it will get worst on the violence. I wouldn’t recommend it for a sensitive viewer niether. I believe Charliane Harris is writing the first several episodes so right now it is following the first book pretty closely. She has added some content into the TV show because there are something which need a little more clarity when watching. Overall my husband and I have liked this show. Even with some of the things we don’t much care for.
The main characters is Shookie and vampire Bill, Jason and Tara, oh and lets not forget about her granny. I am glad that the tv show and book are closely related and I hope they keep it this way. I am wondering who they are going to have play Eric he’s the one character in the book I am wondering about and Pam. This aught to be interesting if they get the right actors/actress.
Lately I am drawn to things I am reading like a magnets, maybe now we’ll start seeing the author outside of our major book stores and in Target or Wal-Mart book area. Although my membership gives me great deals.

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Tales of Vesperia

I know some are wondering how am I going to college and still managing to get game time. I have found if all I do is study and I don’t take time out for fun or if I am stuck studying and not able to get any where this is when I pop a game in. My husband and I sometimes get some games to try and Tales of Vesperia, we got in the mail the other day. I created a little bit of free time to be able to play.
Lets see there are 2 main characters Yuri and Repede. Yuri is a xknight and Repede is his Dog who is able to carry weapons around. In the beginning of the game they acquire a new member to the party. I think she is a princess or something but she is a healer, later you aquire a little boy and a mage. Estelle who I believe is very important to the party and so far I have kept her in every battle she is a healer. This is a important in many of the battles, althrough the beginning part of the battles are very easy.
The battle scene is pretty much simple to get into a battle you have to touch your enemy and you’ll be able to tell them. It is action based, so your controlling your main character. Yuri is a known trouble maker but his hearts in the right place. The battle is action so you just have to give Yuri the commands and the other party members will pretty much do their own thing. Their is one different for the battle, to attack you need to hit B, to gaurd or shield you have to hit X and A is for special attacks. Yuri starts out with one special attact but soon gets a few more. I haven’t figure out how to get the regular attacks to work. Gotta do something with the left stick and b. Now it’s a little hard because you have press it down.
They are looking for something called the Blaistia, and this will bring them to many different challenges. Most of the challenges are not to hard to conquire. Yuri town blastia was stole from them and soon they will be flooded but somehow they managed to turn off the water to the fountian. Now they are just looking for the blastia to make it work right. So far I have 5 people in my part. Only 4 of them can fight with Yuri, so what I been doing is routating out my partners.
Maybe hubby and I will have to save some money and get a second controller so we can play it both together that might change the type of game it is a little bit. I like this game because it’s action. I get to do a little exploring grant it not as good as my favorite game. But there is some exploring, so use the time to explore and play. Get into a few battle, don’t worry to much about buying equipement and weapons because I am finding that a lot of times you can find treasures with what you buy, now snythothis is a good thing. You won’t be able to do that until the 3rd town you enter.
I wonder if we can play with two wireless controllers like the PS3 lets us, or if we have to do something like HDMI cable.

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Prom Night

My husband and I watched Prom Night tonight the one that was a remake of the origanal movie. What I hear is it is nothing like the Origanal movie I wouldn’t now because horror isn’t normally my type of movie but it seems my husband enjoys them.
Lets see it wasn’t overly gross and some of the scenes they did very tastfully, and it wasn’t just 100 percent blood and guits which is good. The movie did not hit our 3 strike and your out rule which is good and unexpected.
It’s about a group of kids who have their prom in a very nice hotel, the lead girl family was murdered and her mom was murdered in front of her. Then later the guy managed to excape from his prision and cause some more real truma in the girl life. She lived with family, who lived in the same town so she didn’t have to leave her high school after her parents.
What I liked about this horror film is they didn’t kill her, eventhough most horror films kill everyone who a main character. Now the hotel was totally unrealistic in my opinion my prom was at a nice hotel but not one that nice.
No high school is going to have a hotel that high class, I mean it would be like a the senior class going on a cruises, which probably will not happen.

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Austin Motel

A couple weeks ago my husband and I had to stay at a hotel. Mom was removed out of the home by force, and we where told she only had a couple days lift. This was hard on us and we decided we would stay there. They gave us a good deal, I think they ended up taking 10$ off a night of what the room would have been, they gave us a room with 2 beds which was good. Their queens are small and my husband and I are movers when we sleep. So it was nice being able to sleep in 2 beds and not one, one of us would have ended up kicked to the floor or with bruises. We had a little freg, and microwave in the room. This help hubby and I because we were able to get some stuff from Super Wal-mart and heat it up. We ended up eating out about maybe 1/3 of our meals, and at the rest there in our room.
The dining table was very tiny, but it work good enough for my hubby and I. The bathroom was very tiny, and the sink had to be out in the room. The hotel was very clean, and well cared for. I didn’t much like the color of the bathroom, it just to me look gloomy, but at least it was clean. They gave us extra towels when I had asked, and changed hubby bed after we told them their was a hole in the sheet. Not sure how they missed the hole but sometimes that happens.
There is a exit sign and it very easily seen off of the highway. It simple to get to and was close to the hospital and close to dad. The best thing was when hubby was a sleep or occupied I was able to get homework done because they had Wi-Fi. I think Wi-Fi and their customer made the hotel worth the stay, it reminds me of townhomes on the outside, and it was a clean area outside too. They did a great job of keeping the grounds and room clean.

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Just great

Last week I wasn’t have a good week. I have a PSP slim which is great, or maybe I should say was great. The same people made the PS3, there products are great. Never had a problem until recently. My husband and I got me a new PSP this summer, and it started having troubles. I didn’t think much of it because normally it was just a minor thing. Well I went to use the bathroom and put it on top of my towel, next thing I knew the stupid thing was falling down. Great, It landed on my foot, and went to the flower. Well now it don’t work at all. I called the PSP people after taking it into where we purchased the thing, and was told they would need to deal with it. Well, I spoke to the gentle man from the PSP place, honest I was surprised they where opened, because it was last monday on Labor day. Well maybe it wasn’t a US person who answered, now since globalization makes things nice. hmmm it just got darker out, must be a storm. I spoke with him for a few minutes explained to him the problems I had before it dropped, and then told him now it’s not working at all. He asked a few questions and then asked if it was drop, I answered yes, but before it was dropped it was having issues. Well just great, my warranty is now no good, that just cute, I only had the thing for 2 months. Well the best thing he could give me was, we can take that one and sale you a new one for 89$ plus what ever the taxes, that would be great if I was made out of money. I will probably go for that route, since trading this in to the other place will give me 50 trade in credit and still have a 150 to go, depending on how many trade in credits hubby and I have saved. Okay, not happy, so I told him, we just had a death in the family, what is my cut of time, how long do I have to get this back to you. He gave me a work order number and told me do it at my earliest convence, I wonder if it takes me 6 months if they will still honor it. I am not seeing any way to do it any sooner then that since I got laid of but hey if I get a new job then it could be sooner then later, after I get my laptop. What I would have found very helpful since I only had it for 2 months for them to simply honor the warranty, and say next time it happens we won’t cover it.

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Yoplait Yogurt

Yoplait is one of the few brands of Yogurt I can eat. I can have milk products but within a limit, I can say I can not have a glass of milk with out suffering the consequences. One of my favorite one is the White Chocolate Raspberry. What I like about it, it has real raspberry. Most of Yoplait yogurt has real fruit, which makes it taste better.
Yoplait uses Kosher Gelatin which is nice because I don’t have to worry on that one, and there are no fake sugar in it neither. I can handle eating it with out making myself sick. The white Chocolate raspberry is 170 calories which makes a great snack after work or a good breakfast. It probably make a great desert depending on what flavor. It is gluten free also which helps.
I have tried soy yogurt because I am not supposed to have to much milk, sometimes I am okay with a milk based thing, sometimes not. I never have liked soy based Yogurt, and found it hard to find a good yogurt that didn’t use fake sugar or Kosher gelatin. For me not having Kosher Gelatin could get me in serious trouble, so I have to make sure it is kosher. It is smooth, at the same time you can taste and feel the fruit in their fruity type yogurt.
Reading their jar I found out they are actually a international company, which is kind of neat maybe if I find my self in a pinch on picking a global company they will make it easier. I wonder if IQAir global because that would give me another company to write about for class.

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Can’t I just find a black skirt

On Friday I have a Funeral for my Mother in law my heart is so heavy, eventhough I am trying not to show it. My best friend and I went to several places, and none of them had any black skirts. I was starting to get frustrated, we went to the Wal-Mart out in Eagan and I didn’t find any solid Black skirts, to be honest I didn’t find any skirts. Then we went to the department store next to it. Didn’t find anything.
The next place we tried was Southdale mall. Both of the stores we went to, we found a couple of skirts and dress but to me they said, “I’m happy your dead”, or “I’m so expensive, I’ll take a month of income.” Finally I got frustraited I found a nice black shirt, which I liked a lot and got it for 14 at that mall. I had asked in general at the mall “can’t I just find a black skirt. I told my best friend when I go down to Austin I will have to go to Wal-Mart Super Center. This was a very good idea.
Wal-Mart Super Center in Austin has a lot more clothing selection then any other store I went to. I looked for a few minutes and found 2 very nice black skirts, which said what I wanted to say. They where a true black and didn’t look to happy or to expensive for a budget. I found one I liked a lot and know would go nicely with the black top I had just gotten so I bought it. While walking in the store I realized it was a little bit seethrough so I had to get a slip I found one. Now I am all set for the funeral and have something that looks better. I missed work yesterday because we had to be in Austin to help dad with final arrangements.
Today I got to work and found out starting next week I will not have work. Good thing I found what I needed at Wal-mat and spent less then 25, along with gettign a couple of other items from there. I will have to start doing a job search again. I need something a lot more stable then this, our job needs have decreased so much, and I can’t be needed for a few weeks and then suddenly be with out work for up to a month.

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An Experience at Perkins

On Monday both my best friend and I went out to shop for a new outfit and decided we would stop for lunch. After much debating where we aught to go we finally settled on Perkins. We where in a town called Eagan. It a fairly nice little town south of the Cities and I figured it would have less traffic because of the RNC. I was right it wasn’t to bad going down that way. We went to 2 stores and found nothing and when we lift the second store I had suggested stopping for lunch. We chose the Perkins near the shopping center we where at.
We got in and we were the only 2 customers for a while. We order our meals, I orded the BBQ Chicken supreme with out bacon on it, and fries to be extra crispy. My friend ordered eggs benadics, with a muffin and fruit. We are both trying to make healthier choices because we want to lose weight. To drink I had order Mr. Pib and I forgot what she order. We were talking about my husband mom. She recently passed away and I was sharing with her what hopsice had done to the family. We didn’t noticed how much time went by until our waitress came with our food. She had asked us does this look okay to you.
She asked me if my fries where done, my answer was not enough. They weren’t even done on a under cook level. My chicken was still a little pink and looked not so good presentation. My friend eggs were over hard. The waitress said she would take it back and have it redone and said she pay for our deserts.
I wasn’t upset niether was my friend. We didn’t really respond angry or anything. It took the food a long time to get out but normally when we are hanging out we don’t keep track of time, so having our food take a while doesn’t phase us. Now having it come uncook or overcooked we will noticed. Our waitress did a good job. The only place for improvement I would say not bring out the dishes to the customer to show them. This makes the cook look bad, and can turn of some customers. The cook got promoted from busboy to cook. I don’t think he was quiet ready for that, but his manager seemed to think so. It would have been better if she just came and let us know there was some problems and the dinner needed to be remade.
When she came back with our meals the second time, we were told the manager would pay for the dinner. She would take care of our deserts. Well that was the cheapest lunch and pie I have ever had. I took the pie home, I picked the Caramel Apple, and so did my friend.
Overall I would say the service at Perkins was good, but the cooking and food presentation had room for major improvement. When I came home I shared our experience with my husband and he said it reminded Kitchen Nightmares and joked about Ramsey being there. Honestly, I think if I ever saw Ramsey somewhere I wouldn’t be eating there I be worried about dieing from bad food.
Our waitress was very good and she was also personable.

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