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It is simple to say what is being thought, sometimes it might be best to just bite the tognue


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  • Wallet4

    Posted on June 26, 2010 by Gav

    Tonight my husband and I went to the Mall of America, we knew it would rain tonight so the mall was the best option. Hubby been needing a better bag for work and dad been bugging me for a new wallet. We saw a place that took care of both needs and the guy was helpful on finding what I needed for dad. This made my life a little easier. Finding a wallet for dad was worst then finding patio furniture. Hubby found a nice bag with enough pockets and it can fit his laptop when he needs to bring it with him.
    The guy was nice enough to give a discount on dad wallet because hubby bought a bag even though we did it as two separate transactions. He was helpful which was nice, I told him what I needed and he listen and found something which worked nicely.

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  • Skechers Shape Up Extended Fitness

    Posted on June 25, 2010 by Gav

    I will admit when I first saw them I thought I would hate them. I am a Skecher fan I have been for over 10 years. Well there sales person had me try on a pair and told me to tell him, what I like and dislike about the shape up. He done the same thing to my husband, now it wasn’t push how he asked so it didn’t bug me. The main thing I didn’t like about them is they add height on me and I am already tall enough for a woman. I don’t even wear heels now I know woman who are taller them me and don’t mind it. I used to be picked on by people. I decided I would try them on just to tell him how I did not like them! Well luckily, for the guy I am not someone who lies, so I am going to be honestly. I am very direct. I liked them they felt comfortable but the problem was I couldn’t wear them at work and keep up with my kids who dart from the room. This is a concern, and I don’t want to wear a pair of shoes that are not good for running after them. I told him this, but they were very comfortable and when I had money, I would come back and get a pair for working out. At the time they only had shape ups, we went back two weeks later to see what was being offered.
    This is when I found the right pair for me. I tried them on I can run in them but not ideal for long distance running, certain I could run after a kid if I needed too. They are like the most comfortable tennis I have worn. They do not add to much height to where I would feel too tall. I like them they are lightweight so they don’t feel bulky on my foot. I can walk pretty easily and the best thing is hubby paid for my new shoes because he wants to support me in exercising with a friend and help me when him and I walk. My shoes have thin soles and I could feel everything I step on but they worked great for work and church. Now I got two pairs of shoes what’s a girl to do. Well I love my new Shape Up Extended fitness.
    Now when I get used to these shoes I might need a radar detectors because I walk fast. Hubby even likes walking know because his Shape up feels so comfortable. These are the perfect walking shoes. Now I will say a word of caution, these shoes are probably not the best for walking on dirt hills, or on uneven ground because the shape of the shoe. I am fine walking in the grass but wouldn’t recommend them on surfaces that might be a little hard to keep balance up.

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  • Can’t escape Don Pablos

    Posted on June 24, 2010 by Gav

    Can’t escape Don Pablos
    You would think we go often with dad every week, sometimes we decide not to go for the sake of variety. I should see if they have designer ties, because I could be a walking advertisement for them. I do not think my family or I have ever had a bad experiences. Last night one of my friends and I went out to eat dinner there, and it was good. We got in right away probably because I didn’t ask for our normal waitress. I figured dad is not with us so anyone would do, and this way half our night wasn’t going to be wasted waiting to be seated.
    I will say I was surprised how quickly we were sat, normally on a Friday Night it takes a lot longer to be seated. I ordered the chicken fajita nachos, my friend order a salad. We both enjoyed our meal. The waitress was good and helpful. I picked Dons because I know I can eat just about whatever I want there.

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  • Wow that was fast

    Posted on May 27, 2010 by Gav

    A couple of weeks ago I had to bring my laptop in for repairs. I will say I am glad I bought the extended warranty at Best Buy, this was a wise decision because when my keyboard “e” key came off I was able to get it fix for free, along with the overheating issue a couple of months ago. I was told it was going to take up to 4 weeks for me to receive my laptop back because they had to send it to Toshiba for repairs. I was worried about this because I am going on Vacation on Saturday which was 2 weeks away from the day I brought it in. We are going to northern Minnesota to a cabin since I couldn’t find the perfect Branson vacation packages for the family. Maybe next year it will work out. I told the Geek Squad person that not good because I am going on vacation and my mother board on the desktop is about to die on me. My motherboard died 2 days later. Ouch, well at least hubby had a desktop I could use until my laptop came back, but that wasn’t going to help for our vacation.
    On Tuesday, I checked my email, and had a letter from Geek Squad and told me my stuff was ready for pickup. I didn’t believe it, no way, I had to read that wrong! Well I called my local Best Buy and spoke to them and they told me it was ready for me to come and pick it up. This is great I will have my laptop, which works well for traveling and writing on my blogs. My old laptop would work but it would take a long time to use.
    Am I happy with the services provided yes, I still can’t believe I am using my laptop.

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  • Comedy Sportz in Minneapolis

    Posted on May 16, 2010 by Gav

    Last night my husband and I went to comedy Sportz in Minneapolis, we live close to it. Well I will say if you do not want to pay for parking, expect to walk a little bit. We parked about maybe a half mile away to find street parking but I do not mind walking. It was a beautiful day for that last night. I will say they kept their promise of being clean enough for your grandma to watch. Well actually I think granny would say a lot worst then any of these people say, I know dad would and dad and her are in the same age group. They kept their comedy clean. I am kind of a prude or something. I have very strong opinions about what is okay and not okay. We walk out of movies when it gets to loose.
    It was a fun experience and hopefully hubby and I can go a few more times. Comedy sportz have comedians competing against each other in teams. Last night it was the st. paul team against the mpls teams. I like both teams, a few of their jokes didn’t make me laugh.. I am a very serious person and have no real sense of humor. On a couple of the games they wanted the audience to call out different things, good thing no one called out asset based lenders that would have been hard to work with. The comedians did a good job and where fairly creative. Honestly I think they shouldn’t have had them singing, but that my opinion but even that served it purposed. I found a good precentage of their comedy made me laugh.
    This is good entertainment for all ages, I do not see any problem bring a child to this because it was clean. There was no real adult content that I can remember. The prices of the tickets are not to bad they are reasonable depending on the theater its the same price or close to it as a movie ticket. The snack stand had reasonable prices. The tickets could be paid for by credit card. The snack stand did not let things get paid for like that.

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  • More on my Ipod Touch

    Posted on April 4, 2010 by Gav

    Wow I can not believe the battery lasted over 10 hours. With the heat in the car the ipod made things a little more manageable . I guess we do not need anyweight loss supplements we probably sweet out a few pounds easily. The great thing about the ipod is the long life of the battery. It charges through the computer easily. It is able to play in the car with accessories and those accessories seem easier to store then the accessory of the older cd players.
    The down side of the Ipod is on the maps it gives you highway routes and doesn’t let u ask for a alt route unless I just haven’t figured it out. In Illinois it best to stay off of the toll roads when you can or you spend lots of money. I lived her once and never liked paying tolls.. So the easy of maps are to be desired but I still have lots to learn.
    What i like about the ipod are the maps because it can be done in high breed or satillite it finds your location for you or close enough. It has a alarm clock, and plays music a long time. I like that it is very easy to connect to the internet, and that it does not take long at all to do that. So far I have really enjoyed having my ipod and I hope I get many many months of enjoyment from it.

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  • New China Buffet

    Posted on March 20, 2010 by Gav

    Tonight hubby and I went to New China Buffet in Eagan MN. Well I will have to say I am very disappointed and I hope I do not end up with food poisoning. Last time we went it was not this bad, and I was almost shocked at how ran down the place was, and honestly I am not sure I would want to see what the kitchen looks like. I will probably have a unpleasant none natural colon cleanser done to me with out really wanting it, but I can already tell I might have troubles with the stomach. If I do then I think I will know right where it came from. Well lets get to the decor, many of the booths had tiers in the sit, and some of the chairs where in the same place. The decor hasn’t changed in many years, the wall paper looks like it was about to come down. The ceiling had water stains on the roof. At one point my husband told me something like, they need Ramsey to come here, and he have a fit. My husband tries to imitate him, which is sometimes funny. Tonight it wasn’t so funny it was more worry some then funny.
    Well we got our food extremely fast, and it wasn’t exactly very warm. I order the Chicken almond ding, hubby had the chicken curry. Lets see it came very quickly as I said before his food wasn’t even warm but he didn’t send it back. I took a bite into my chicken, and it was well simply not right, it was like geewy rubbery. It didn’t taste fully cooked neither, so I took my fork and spoon and cut it open and the chicken was pink. ow wait a minute it pink chicken meat looking almost raw is not safe. I sent it back. It looked more well cooked when they brought it back, but still tasted wrong. It still had a overly chewy texture, and didn’t taste right. I bite into another piece and found it was still to pink. I decided I would take it home and throw it in the frying pan and cook it myself. By the time I got home I decided not to cook it because I started thinking about the types of food poisoning once it spreads it contaminates everything, and I do not want to be sick and miss work because of it. Now I am hoping I will be fine but if the Toilet because my best friend tonight for the night we’ll know.
    Hubby said they had a lot of garlic in his curry. Okay I have had curry and garlic is a flavor but its never over powers the curry. Hubby wasn’t impressed with is dinner and he said we will probably not come back.
    Part of the reason we do not want to come back is because of what was said to us. When she brought back the food we where told the cook just wanted to get it out very fast so the meat wouldn’t dry out. Wait a minute, I was tempted to ask her if they where cooking, freezing and then recooking. This would explain the cold inappropriately cooked chicken meat and the beef not being exactly right. I am not sure if we will visit there again. I was not happy and honestly think if they are having troubles maybe they need someone like Ramsey to come and help them and frankly teach them how to cook correctly. I simply disappointed and I think next time we will just wait till we get home for our Chinese food.

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  • Connectland Ergonomic cooling stand

    Posted on March 17, 2010 by Gav

    My Toshiba laptop has been running so hot lately that its burned me a few times, and now I got a ugly red patch on the top of one of my legs. It not blistered thank goodness because I would bring it in, to Toshiba with my poor legs, and show them, this is running way to hot for safety. My computer has always ran a little on the hot side during the summer doing homework was unpleasant because it makes you feel hot having something hot in your lap.
    So I decided to go to newegg.com, goodness I love that site, next on my list is Window7, Visita crashed my poor laptop to many times with the updates it keeps trying to give me, so I am annoyed.
    Now with the new cool I think my lap top needs some quick weight loss because it has made it heavy, but I rather that then the other. I love this little cooler, it the same size as mine, it for computer 12 to 17 inches, and it turns around too, so I don’t have to pick it up if I put the laptop on the table and want to show dad or hubby something I can just set it up and turn the computer, no picking up required.
    It also adjusts the fan in 5 setting counting when it on the flat setting. The fan is protected so it can’t get a bunch of cat hair from the pants or what have you. I can lay it on the floor and not worry if it hasn’t been vacuumed because between the fan and floor there a barrier.
    I am very happy with this product. It takes a lot to keep me happy, I’ve had it for a week. So I will see how long it actually lasts. By the way no matter what I do about the cat hair, I think shaving the cat bowled is the only way to solve the cat hair problem, he sheds on command.

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  • Sam Club

    Posted on February 6, 2010 by Gav

    Our year membership is almost over, and we are planning on renewing it. Tonight hubby and I went in to grab dad his spoon fulls, and me I decided to find some bras, they don’t have much selection but I found a package of 3 sport bras, for a little under 10$, and we took a quick look at someindustrial products along with music players and the little mini laptops for hubby. Boy those things have some serious battery life, let me tell you. Now we did see an Acer which battery life sucked worst them my Toshiba Laptop, which I think might actually last long and is bigger then it. Oh well, we didn’t buy anything tonight that hubby wanted to look at. I would like to see him get into a nice little laptop so he can spend time out here with me, when he wants to work on his computer.
    Well we got to Sam club to night and I have to say their door people who greet some of them need to find another line of work. Very rude and almost pushy, but this one tonight wasn’t as bad. The gentleman who helped with the computer question was a Apple user, so he didn’t have much knowledge about PC stuff, but he was nice, and pleasant. But I hate to say this selling computers wouldn’t be a strong point, now if they had apple I bet he could get those sold pretty easily.
    The cashier called me daddies little girl, because I have dad account and told him one cards dad and the other mine. What he doesn’t understand is daddy little girl is daddy little caregiver, who responsible for his well-being and if I am not careful, daddy little girl could get into a lot of trouble.
    It’s important I keep dad and my account separate, sometimes it hard because we have the same bank, so the stupid cards are the exact same color, so I don’t get to just hand them a card and not worry about it. I’ve bounce my account many times the this year.

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  • Dragon Age

    Posted on January 10, 2010 by Gav

    I can’t believe I have had a little time to be able to play Dragon Age in my final class at College. But I had a 2 weeks break and took advantage of that, tomorrow is my last day of classes. I am so happy it will give me more time to play the game.
    This is a interesting game to say the least. It seems no matter what your character will be stuck as a gray warden, so I am not sure how different the game play will be not like there to many blinds on it.
    I am playing as a mage, So my character doesn’t use many weapons, and isn’t very strong on close up attacks so attacking from a distance is a good idea. My hubby is playing as a rouge something seem easier for him then for me but that’s okay.
    This game gives you some choices which is nice, and there enough hunting to be doing. The battles are action based. The game has some challenging battles in the beginning but not to challenging to where you want to put the game away.
    One thing I found interesting in this game is that your party has approval ratings for your actions and if they dislike you enough they will leave your party. I find this to be a good thing but kind of challenges because it seems if you make one member happy you tick of the other in turn. So the key is to keep everyone happy enough not to leave you.
    I guess the world in this game is being over ran by demons, and as a gray warden you get to conquer them with some consequences. The graphics are pretty good but to bad they can not go up to 1080p I believe it’s 720p but the graphics are still good.

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