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For The Love Of Doctor Who: Doctor Who Timeline Infographic

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I saw this on Facebook, my SIL liked it and posted it on her page and I just LOVED it. I’m such a geek for Doctor Who! We even started watching Doctor Who from the very from the very beginning on Amazon Prime with 15 minute episodes that take an entire season to get through one story line. The 1963 Doctor played by William Hartnell was the very first Doctor. We loved how the music is pretty much the same, it’s just been updated a little bit.

 

Then watching old fashion Doctor Who led to our Star Trek original series addiction. We took a break in Star Trek to watch part two of Season Six part 2 of Doctor Who for BBC. So in all my geekiness, I present the Timeline of Doctor Who!

Doctor Who Timeline Infographic

Via: CableTV.com

Who is your favorite Doctor Who?

Celebrate The Ten Year Anniversary of 9/11 With First Responders

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This year marks the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 and every year since that day, I’ve often wondered why we celebrate a day that terrorists tried to ruin our lives. I’m not callous, I understand mourning the lives of so many people that lost their lives. Believe me, it breaks my heart and I remember that day very well. I think everyone knows exactly what they were doing that day. I was on the road driving to work when it happened. Someone called my husband that day and told him not to go to work because we were under attack. I was confused, terrified and we were all glued to the TV for months.

A church in our area is celebrating life this year and I LOVE the idea. I LOVE IT. Our First Responders deserve to be cherished, when everyone is running around in fear, panicking and lost, we turn to them for guidance and help. I’m not sure I know anyone that has never had to use 911 including something simple like being in a car accident. Who arrives first, our daily heroes.

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I’ve called 911 a few times in my life. A car accident here, my child swallowing an entire bottle of sunscreen, you know the usual.  The fireman have always been the first one on the scene, ambulances and police men they are all there to help us. Many of these first responders also lost their life in the 9/11 attacks and as we remember the ones that lost their lives this year why not celebrate the ones that are still working and responding to our calls.

How can you honor a first responder in your community?

Bake cookies and deliver them to a fire station or police station.

Find out when their birthdays are and bake them a cake and deliver it to their workplace.

Send them cards thanking them for the hard work they do day in and day out.

Bring them something to cheer up their day, pizza, notes, cookies, the sky is the limit. Just say thank you for everything they do!

7 Degrees of Cars

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You know how they say you can know everyone by seven degrees of people. I can connect to Matt Damon by 2 degrees, the woman who bought my dog, is also a co-worker/friend of my neighbor, and she is part of Matt’s inner circle of friends. Not that I care about things like that.

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Anyways, I was thinking about cars while I was trying to fall asleep last night, a pretty weird thing to be thinking about right? Yeah, the things that keep me up could be a blog post every day but I usually forget about them as I’m falling asleep but today I didn’t. I’m trying to think if I’ve known someone or had something to do with every car dealership out there even though I’m only 30 something years old.

We currently have a Toyota, but before we bough our van we purchased our previous van from the Dodge Dealer in Tacoma. So that’s two right here. My husband’s sister owns a Jeep from some Jeep dealer down in California. And my sisters have a Nissan, and a Honda, well she had a Honda now I’m not really sure what she drives. It’s one of those little cars, a mini cooper maybe? My grandmother has almost always had a Ford, and my mom has a Yukon which is a GMC vehicle while my dad drives a Toyota like me. My first car was a Geo Metro, no longer made I hear, while my husband’s first car I want to say was some type of Chrysler he got at a Chrysler dealer. Now I’m sure that just by extending those people closest to me and extending out by seven degrees we would hit every type of car company out there, what do you think?

 

So yes, this is the craziness that I fall asleep to at night. That and all the e-mail that’s still in my inbox every day.

 

 

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Girl Playing Dead Caught on Google Street View

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My husband sent me this and it really disturbs me. The girl says she was playing a game with her friend but I still find the whole thing game or not to be very odd. Why would you be playing a game where you are just pretending to be dead? Maybe I’m just getting old and don’t remember what it was like to play with my friends.

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Photo taken by Google Street View. See more details on Mail Online.

Of course, it also brings up the question of privacy, but for some reason that doesn’t bother me as much as the girl playing dead in the street. What do you think? What is creepier, the thought of losing your privacy to all of these cameras taking photos of our streets or a girl playing dead and caught on camera?

Random Tuesday – Too Much is just Too Much

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Sometimes too much of a good thing is just too much and less can be more. Just saying!

 

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Yesterday I started my attempt at posting all of my giveaways on one day and the rest of the week belongs to me an my blog. I’m not sure if it’s going to work. Because, it’s just too much. Some of the giveaways aren’t receiving any traffic and the others are getting it all. It’s like there is too much to choose from and everyone wants the same prize, There is no surprise that everyone wants the free batteries.

It’s going to take me forever to figure out how I want to do my blog, but that’s why it’s mine and I can do it how I want. Ugg, that’s all I ever talk about isn’t it. Mine mine mine!

I’m still fighting the potty training and thumb sucking. We’re starting to make progress but I feel like this is going to be a very long road. The dentist is going to yell at me next month because she’s still sucking on her thumb. Well, if you want kids to stop sucking why do you take the things that help us get them to stop off the market?

Sick again in this house, man, my husband looked like a train wreck yesterday and I was thinking poor man. Now, today it’s my turn. Oh, but it’s time for more medicine, I need to go take some before I feel like complete crap instead of just a little crap.

Tone, I’m starting to figure out what my readers are actually interested in, can you believe it took me almost a year an a half to understand metrics of my blog? Oh, you guys leave comments when I post pictures of my family or kids so that means so much to me. You leave comments when I ask you to pray and that makes me want to cry with surprise. When I write a post about feeling sorry for myself you either ignore it appropriately or you tell me not to be so hard on myself. I’m shocked when you know exactly what i need. Esp since there are so many of you that peek in on me and my life.

Dora is on today since I’m sick, she’s a great baby sitter. She even teaches the kids Spanish, my two year old speaks a little bit of Spanish. He speaks it better than I do, crazy little man of mine.

Ok, maybe my randomness is done, but if I don’t get it out, you’ll just see it in a review here or there. Which reminds me of all the work I need to get done. I need to start charging for posts again. And Juice Box Jungle, when are you going to pay me for February, and I mean that you forgot to send me a payment for the 90 days back which would be November’s payment. Hmm, maybe I should send you another e-mail.

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Random Tuesday – Thumb sucking, more Potty Training, and no chocolate

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I’m out of chocolate today, it’s more of a blessing than it is a curse at the moment. I’ve only maintained my weight loss because I can’t stop gorging on the chocolate goodness that was my life last week. My DH bought me Godiva and to top that off I made and ate a whole batch of brownies. Shame on me. The scale says the same thing, but I’d be interested to see what it says today since I ate one of those Angus burgers at McDonalds.

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I’m in serious need of making a grocery list, and I have to use coupons. I think I haven’t clipped any coupons for two months now. Shame on me all that wasted money. I’m just out of the habit of matching sales, and my meal plan. If you’ve been looking at my meal plans they have been very boring and basic, just trying to get by without going shopping at all.

We’re out of water, well, we’re out of bottled water. My husband loves using bottled water on the bus to work, he said that while I was gone he used my re-usable water bottles but now that I’m back home he’s not using them. Hmmm, I have enough to share I think, and it would be cheaper and nicer to the environment if he would just use a re-usable water bottle like me. Hmmm.

Thumb Sucking and potty training are my biggest challenges right now. My daughter is habitual at thumb sucking, and it’s not like a pacifier, I can’t just take it away, even though my uncle told me the best method would be just to break it. Then she wouldn’t be able to suck on it. Yeah, he did say that.

I post too much for such a small profile blog. No one can keep up with me and my crazy posts. Ugg, why do I do so much?

Self esteem is low this month, I’m worried about needing my anti-depressants again.

Potty Training was making me want to tear my hair out and I actually thought my husband didn’t think she was quite ready to do it, well on Saturday he suggested that I adjust the timer to go off at 30 minute intervals instead of 20 minute intervals, Two days in a row she did everything in her potty. I was so happy. Then on Monday, I had to take care of Miles and well, we didn’t do very good with potty training. She doesn’t want to go when we’re out in public? Not sure what to do? Do I need to take a portable potty?

I love you guys. Those of you that come and read, and I know you don’t always leave comments and that’s ok. I’m just glad you stopped by.

 

 

OMG It’s Tuesday, Here’s to being Random, Sleep Tips, #pottytraining and brownies

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Today started off well for me. I did the laundry, I did the dishes, I had a clean house and baked a batch of brownies that now I’m addicted to eating all by myself. Oh how I love anything with chocolate, I never should have made the brownies. They are so good, Ghirardelli from Costco.

 

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Then we preceded to potty training as we are trying to work on really hard this week and my daughter came up stairs and said I went poo poo. Oh man, I was in the process of taking off her Pull Ups and then I found that no she had not. So we went into the bathroom and she went on the potty. This was a wonderful day. She then went potty on the potty again, but then we had to accidents and needed new clothes. Then for the rest of the day any time I mentioned potty she threw a big huge fit. She was rolling around on the floor for 20 minutes. I know because I set the timer for when it was time to try to go pp again. You can watch the woes and joys of other mothers by following #pottytraining.

Do you ever think that the things we write about your children will come to haunt them when they go to school? I write a lot about my kids, but I try to only post happy photos. I’d hate to scare/embarrass my children too much, you know!

The bed company Select Comfort has been sending me sleep tips and I asked them if I could give one of their beds away. They were kind enough to say, well, your stats are good but not quite good enough. I’m actually missing a zero at the end of the amount of unique visitors they want a site to have every month. So instead of 25,000 they want 250,000. WOW, I’m out of their league but I’m going to pitch something to them anyways. The worst they can do is say no. 😉 I don’t hear no very often and I’ve always wondered why? I finally found a site where I can compare my stats to other sites and WOW, i’m in shock of where I’m standing. People do read me!!!

Wait, where are those sleep tips. Here they are:

Nine out of 10 couples do not agree on mattress firmness. In fact, men usually prefer a more firm mattress than women, which can lead to one very happy partner and one sleep deprived partner. Below is a way to overcome mattress firmness issues for a better night’s rest for you and your partner.

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What does your partner do that keeps you from getting a restful sleep? Please share it with us as a comment on Beds.com , on our Facebook page Sleep Number, or on Twitter @SleepGeekPete.

 

 

Remember:

Select Comfort’s Presidents Day Sale: Sale ends February 21, 2010. 50% coupon below for all who missed it. Look for more deals and coupons on beds.com, via the Sleep Number Facebook page, or on Twitter @SleepNumberSara.

Sleep Number “Winter 2010” Sweepstakes: Go to www.sleepnumber.com/winter and register for a chance to win a personalized bed package worth over $3,600. Sweepstakes ends Saturday, February 27, 2010.

I was not paid in any way to share that information with you, it was just part of my randomness today. Go Branding!

 

Random Tuesday – In need of sleep, home, and community

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Randomly Random every Monday night and its almost therapeutic.

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Just getting out those crazy ideas, like I’m so tired I think i could sleep standing except for the fact that my feet would fall out below me.

 

Both of my kids are eating too much and Grandma doesn’t care. It’s like, if only I could make her see that when we stay for two weeks the kids put on five pounds, it’s not a big deal for someone my size to put on weight light that but a 2 and 3 year old, it’s a huge difference in weight. Just don’t know what to do about it.

I’ve got to go pick some winners and hand out some prizes. I’ve been spending so much time trying to figure out what to do with my blog, niche, brand that I haven’t been responding to e-mails. But, I’m not home and products are stacking up with my husband anyways. I’m going to be in big trouble so I’m trying to just say nothing, but if it’s really interesting I’ll respond.

In a way, I can’t wait to get home. I’m in such need of my own bed, my husband and my kids in their own beds. My kids love their own rooms and own beds.

I’m addicted to fancast now that I found out about it on-line. I just love All My Children even though I know nothing about any of the characters anymore. WOW, it’s so different. But I can watch it on my computer so it’s perfect. I’ll figure it out soon enough.

Sleep, I wish I could catch up, stock up and then go without. Jennifer James at BlissDom said that she doesn’t sleep, that’s the only way she gets it all done. She is like the queen of community in my opinion. WOW, impressive.

I’ve been thinking about implementing a community on my site but not sure what to do. I was told I could just do a forum embedded in my site and others use The Blog Frog, but I just don’t know what I should do. What do you think?

So many ideas spinning around and no idea what to do or how to keep it all tame.

 

 

Random Tuesday – My son, Texas, Weather, Flying and come link up!

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I flew to Texas today with my children. I find that people are so very selfish. When getting on a plane, everyone is in such a hurry and then when putting their luggage away, good grief. Does anyone use the space under the seat in front of them. That’s actually my favorite place to put stuff because then it is so easy to access. I just pull it out and up.

I do have to commend the man sitting in front of my son though, there was no room and he was in his car seat so every time he moved he kicked the guys seat. How in the world he stayed calm and never once looked at me or my son is beyond me. I would have lost it or changed seats. The Flight attendant saw what was going on and offered the man a new seat.

This flight attendant was quite the flirt, Wow, I mean she was nice but she was over the top with every man on the plane, at least I had a reason to smile. She filled up my kids cups with water and maybe she was just a happy person.

I’m thinking about my wardrobe for BlissDom. I have no idea if my clothes or my ability to put my clothing together will be stylish but at least my hair is rockin. I love my new hair do. It’s the best decision I have made in a long time.

Why is it so cold in Texas right now. I was really hoping for some warmth and sunshine. I really need some warming in my hands and feet. I’m cold right now. And Oklahoma, i hear they are under buckets of snow, was planning on driving with my friend to Blissdom; I wonder if we’re even going to make it now.

My son is really pushing all of my buttons lately. Love him so much and I do baby him, discipline is hard for me when it comes to him. I just want to cuddle him and tell him, it’s ok. Oh man, I’ve got to get some more back bone. I’m working on it, and made some progress this last week too, but now I’m in Texas and I forgot my naughty spot. Oops.

 

I’m thinking of changing my blog, but the changes will come with whatever I learn at my conference, if I make it. I need to go to bed. It’s got to be 10 here. After I finish this episode of DollHouse.