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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE – Your Name University

It’s tough buying for today’s young American male. It is a toss up. He either has everything or wants nothing. He is an impulse buyer who gratifies himself on the spot. Asking him what he wants for Christmas only means that he will think of something and go out to buy it for himself immediately. [...]

X-Men Comic Book Collection Volumes 3 & 4 DVD Review

Marvel X-Men: Volume 3 Own it on DVD on September 15, 2009 Buena Vista Home Entertainment Rated: ‘TV-Y7-FV’ Story: The X-Men are back for more nonstop thrills and excitement in Volume 3 of the definitive animated series. Faithfully created from the pages of the original Marvel® comic books, these classic stories are a must-have for [...]

I Love The Quality Of Blu-Ray

We have enjoyed our DVD-VCR recorder player for several years. Several months ago when my youngest came home on leave, he bought us a Playstation3. I’m not much for game systems. I prefer cards and board games. He told me we also could use it as a bluray player. So that is exactly what I [...]

Fixing Up The Empty Nest

Our youngest son moved this month into my mother’s old apartment downstairs. She died 1992 and we haven’t used it much since then. He dared call his space a fix-em-upper. Well, perhaps it is. Today he and his father went to the super hardware store and shopped. Now they both tease me about my spending [...]

Verizon My FiOS Home Ultimate Upgrade Contest

A big thanks to Mom Select for giving me the heads up on a contest that Verizon is currently running for residents of New Jersey and New York. Verizon’s currently holding the My FIOS Ultimate Upgrade Contest and the winner’s really going to win big! Those who enter could win a Verizon FiOS entertainment package [...]

Operation Birthday Cake And A Bake Me A Wish Review And Giveaway

We celebrate the special occasions, holidays, and birthdays together–that’s hubby, four grown children, significant others, five grandchildren, and me. Now this has been tricky at times like when son LA was deployed in the mid-East and couldn’t get leave to attend one of the family functions. That was the time we took his 16 X [...]

Empty Nest, For Now

Well, ET has moved out again. I should be used to it by now. It is an almost annual event that coincides with spring fever. ET first left on his eighteenth birthday to move in with his best bud Chaz. It didn’t work out so back home he came. About a year later he figured [...]