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i'm happy to say that our household has kicked the water bottle habit!   we no longer buy water bottles in bulk anymore.  we drink from the filter and fill our reuseable bottles (as seen below) when we leave the house.   the hubs has his own nalgene bottle he carries around and i use a water tumbler at work and refill from our water filtering system in the break room. 

it took almost a year but i can now safely say that we no longer buy bottled water at home.   we are still guilty for buying a 6-pack of bottled water when we're on vacation.  i like to justify it by saying that we don't have an adequate method of sanitizing the bottles unless we bring along dishwash soap with us!   the thought of washing our bottles in a hotel bathroom makes me ill, considering that the hotel rooms aren't properly cleaned.

Waterweek

if you don't have a clue what your dad wants for father's day, check out harry and david's sale at harryanddavid.com.    there is a sale AND free shipping on everything if you order by 5/26!  use code: FLAG when you check out.  if your father can't have sweets, there's always fruit and their rivera pears are so delicious!

i ordered a tower of treats and a gourmet giftbox for my father in law and grandpa for $45 with a cost savings of $25.  you can't beat that! 

finally, i post!  it's hard to post when you run out of ideas to write about.  :)

i don't know how trustworthy this site is but here's an interesting site where you can trade your cd's for new ipod.

http://ipodmeister.com/

i hardly bought cd's back in the day.   i couldn't bring myself in spending $15 for 2 good songs and 6-10 crap songs.   my husband, the musician, had an infinite number of cds and ended up selling most of them on http://www.secondspin.com/.   now the exchange rate on second spin sucks so i don't know what other options you have other maybe donating them to the library for a tax break?

from now on, i'll be on a mission to grab at least one floral center piece at wedding banquets if left over.

i was at a wedding recently and someone just handed me an unwanted bouquet of flowers in a vase.   you don't understand how many times this happens.

instead of wasting the flowers and throwing them away, i delivered a lovely vase of roses and lilies to the senior center right down my street.   it was very welcomed by the staff.  what a great feeling!

my cousin is getting married soon.  i wonder if i can talk her into repurposing the unwanted flowers from her wedding to a local convalescent home.

as much as i am enticed by the commercials to lose weight fast, i'm skeptical (and scared) of these pills.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090501/ap_on_he_me/us_med_diet_pill_recall

here's a great blog post, explaining the different types of life insurance out there: 

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/04/28/an-introduction-to-life-insurance/

we don't have any life insurance other than what we get at work since we're both self reliant if the other one passes.  eventually, we're going to have to get it some time in the future when kids show up.  

microsoft is running a program which allows you get cash back on your online purchases!    the only caveat (i know of so far) is that you have to shop through the site first before you hit your store.

i purchased u2 concert tickets for $248 on ebay and i am waiting to get a $34 credit on my paypal account!  the only criteria is that you must use the buy it now option and use paypal to purchase the item.    if you shop on a site via the live site, then you should see % you expect to get from the site.    for example, i searched for ebay on the live site.  when i transferred from the site to ebay, there was something up on top of the ebay screen which stated that i was going to get 14% rebate.

here's the faq: http://search.live.com/products/pages/faq.aspx?FORM=CBFA03

happy shopping!!!  :)

watch the cougar kiss almost 20 guys, one right after the other.  ew!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6GSJWEVDPQ

thanks to the generosity of my neighbors and friends, there was a influx of old towels that went to several animal shelters.  a good portion of the towels were folded in half, stuffed, and hand sewn into big rectanglar pet beds.

my husband generously paid for my new sewing machine so i could attend sewing classes as an early birthday gift.   with a sewing machine and basic sewing skills, i created a pet bed, the kind you see in the store, with old towels and batting from an old pillow.

Pet bed

 as soon as i snapped the picture, someone came over to stake her claim.

butterball staking a claim

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too bad she's a little too big for this pet bed.   :P    i drove over to the los angeles pet shelter this afternoon with two of these beds and the guy behind the counter, instantly placed each pet bed into the cage of one dog and one cat.  it warmed my heart to see both animals instantly take to the pet beds.  yay!  it was very rewarding to see this after having spent two hours on each bed. totally worth it! 

i don't have a pattern set for the pet bed yet but will post when i figure it all out.   i need to improve as the bottom of the bed.  it doesn't look as pretty as the top portion.

oh, my.   jail time for vehicular manslaughter caused by texting...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090404/ap_on_re_us/text_crash