Despicable Me

June 16, 2010

Late one Friday evening I received an email offering me the chance to attend an advance screening of Despicable Me early the next morning.  I had been feeling a cold coming on and wasn’t too sure I would want to, but I also hate passing up a chance at a free movie. 8am I begrudgingly [...]

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Grand Knife

June 16, 2010

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Swiss Army. All opinions are 100% mine. I remember my grandpa Beauregard always building or working on something, anything. There was always a “project” happening at his house or a neighbors. When he was Ninety he fell from a ladder trying to fix something [...]

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Election Choices

June 9, 2010

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Election days always provide me with Blogging fodder. Whether it be the issues that are being voted upon or the individuals doing the voting or the people working the polls. For this election I have been blessed. All 3 of my workers showed up and all 3 are capable [...]

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Glidden Paint Testers

June 8, 2010

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Glidden. All opinions are 100% mine. Man am I old.  Back in the late 1980′s I worked at Monkey Wards (and if you are too young to know what the name of that store really is, just keep it to yourself) in the Paint [...]

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93

June 8, 2010

Image by Muffet via Flickr I was just speaking with a voter, who was having a problem with the Ink-A-Vote system. He lamented that by now he should have known better. I retorted that he can’t be expected to know Everything, that that was my job. He exclaimed that “At 93 I should know everything [...]

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You Are Here!

June 7, 2010

Image via Wikipedia This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of NAVTEQ. All opinions are 100% mine. When the kids were younger I spent hours and hours in the car.  Taking Adam to baseball practices and games, and Marisa to Girl Scout events (although admittedly Kathy did the majority of the Girl [...]

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Baby Steps

June 7, 2010

Everyone has to try something once. Whether it be foods or experiences or jobs. You don’t know if you will like it or accomplish it if you don’t just try it. Matthew is an expert crawler, dude can make it from one end of the house to the other, before you realize he has left [...]

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Father’s Day

June 7, 2010

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Bliss Living. All opinions are 100% mine. Father’s day is drawing near.  June 20th this year to be exact.  Bliss Living has all you can ask for when it comes to finding gifts for Dad . When my kids were young they were set [...]

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Get Him to the Greek

June 4, 2010

I have been seeing previews for this for quite some time.  I had no desire to see it.  I enjoy Judd Apatow movies and I really like Jonah Hill but the fact that Russell Brand was in it was enough to turn me away completely.  I don’t think I have ever seen him in anything, [...]

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We Reward

June 3, 2010

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Izea is the company that I work with often for the posts that I write for pay.  Not only do I do sponsored posts but also some of my entries on Twitter.  I by no means make a [...]

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