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I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of BidVertiser but they are a site that offers advertisements in the form of buttons or blog-advertisements much like when someone writes a blog advertising a company or product. Right now, BidVertiser is running a promotion where you can get $20 in free clicks plus a referral fee when people sign up through your button. How awesome is that!? You get money just for signing up yourself plus money when people use your referral link. Talk about earning easy money. I just signed up myself and plan on putting their button up next theme change since I’m looking to make some spare money myself. And don’t worry, your referrals don’t have to sign up as advertisers, they can sign up as publishers as well which is awesome since most people I know would be a publisher rather than an advertiser. Below is a press release giving you further information about what Bidvertiser is offering! Click Here to Signup as a BidVertiser Referral!

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For a while now, I have been looking into getting a new digital camera. Don’t get me wrong, I love my current camera but I feel that it is time to upgrade. I’ve been checking out the Canon Powershot SD850 IS / IXUS 950 Digital Camera. This camera is like a fully loaded sports car compared to my current camera. I love taking pictures and photo logging the things around me. In the past year, I’ve already gone through three different memory cards for my camera and all were 1 gig or over. So yes, I’m a photo taking fool!

I’ve been checking out this camera through shopping.com where it lists its price range from anywhere in the $283.00 - $450.00 range. That is a lot of money for me but I think its well worth the price. The Canon Powershot SD850 has is 8.0 megapixels with a 4x zoom which is awesome compared to my 6.0 megapixel camera I currently have. My brain is on overdrive thinking at all the awesome pictures I can take. Another good thing is my camera is beginning to wig out on me lately so replacing it is looking to be something that I’m really interested and serious about. So don’t worry SD850, you will be mine very soon!

I am one of those people that seriously love to save while buying things that I already wanted despite their rock bottom prices. At Online Discount Mart, their prices are cheaper than rock bottom. They are trying to get rid of their summer merchandise by slashing their prices and if you are in need of any home and garden items, I suggest you check them out. I love all of their little garden stakes since my mom had one in her garden but unfortunately it broke. So I’ve been checking out the Scarecrow Garden Stake for my mom. They also have decorative flags which where we live are hard to find without paying an arm and a leg and even after paying that amount, they still aren’t all cutesy like we want. Yes, we Southerners are big on decorating our house and being festive no matter what season and Online Discount Mart is an easy way to do so without breaking the piggybank. Is it really just a Southern thing or is everyone like this?

There are a lot of diseases that are hard to cope with but I think one of the hardest would have to be Alzheimer’s disease. I know it doesn’t sound like anything life threatening but I think that is one of the hardest things for a family to have to go through. My grandma had Alzheimer’s but it wasn’t as bad as it can get. Can you imagine living a fulfilled life to slowly forget it all? That breaks my heart seriously. I guess when I think of the disease I think of The Notebook and I’d feel heartbroken if I loved someone for fifty or sixty years, had the ultimate romance with and them to suddenly forget it all like I was a complete stranger. I don’t know if I could handle it. I know that The Notebook is just a movie but the storyline does happen since my grandfather has Alzheimer’s and it’s getting worse. I am not really close to my grandfather but he can still remember who we are but anything as far as memories go, he can’t remember and sometimes when he sees us he has to go down the line. I feel bad because I wonder what’s going on in his mind. I often wonder if my grandfather’s brain is like a puzzle and with the Alzheimer’s if it suddenly starts taking puzzle pieces away and he’s left with big hole in the big pictures only to have the holes grow and grow until nothing is left. It’s a hard way to go.

That is why I completely support the Alzheimer’s Walk and believe it is a very charitable cause which is organized by the Alzheimer’s Association. The Alzheimer’s Walk has earned over $225 million in the fight against Alzheimer’s and there is a walk in almost every place. Like for instance, there is 2 walks scheduled within 30 miles of my hometown. If I had a good knee I’d be walking my booty off but hopefully I’ll be in better shape and have my knee better conditioned for next year’s walk. Right now, you can sign up early to be a team captain, team walker, or independent walker. I know that walking isn’t for everyone and not everyone is in good enough shape to do so but that’s okay, there are always donations that can be made! Everyone needs to pitch in and support the fight against Alzheimer’s!

In January, Beth and I will be driving up to the great state of Pennsylvania to spend a few days with the Mary which is my internet best friend for those that don’t know. I am so excited. Everything is falling into place, we’ve already talked to my mom about going and she’s okay with it so far. She’s kind of scared and concerned since this is our first time driving up north and considering it will be just Beth and I, it is giving her a lot of reasons to be concerned but go figure, she is a mom! Lol. That’s her job, to worry! We’ve already decided on the vehicle we’re going to rent and now all we have to do is make our reservation which will be done the week after my birthday to make sure we actually get what we want. We got to drive in style, ya know?

The only thing left to do is check out Hotel Reservations and book us a place to stay! We have been browsing HotelReservations.com and I am very impressed with the website. They have a lot of hotels to browse from and we are able to look them up, check out images of the hotels, and then pick which one we like the best. The good thing is that they have very cheap prices but not cheap places. I know that price is important but it’s not worth compromising the place we stay in since I prefer a nice hotel that is clean and bug free. I seriously have this phobia of bugs and more so the phobia of staying a hotel full of bugs. I seriously would have a heart attack.

Another good thing about HotelReservations.com is that they don’t only have hotel rates; you can find flights, cars, vacation rentals, and even vacation packages. So now we might just go ahead and get our hotel and car from HotelReservation and save some money. So if you are finding yourself in a bind and needing a place to stay, check out Hotel Reservations!

One of my cordless batteries is destroyed! Seems like sir Jack thought it would be fun to try to eat my cordless. He managed to get the back off of it and then bite at the battery and the connector wires fell apart. So now I had to call around today to see who had a Uniden Cordless Phone Battery. I tried a bunch of places but evidently all their workers are moron so I decided to google it and found the battery I needed at Low Cost Batteries. Evidently they have every battery imaginable so I bookmarked their site for the next time I’m in a battery crisis. So my battery has been ordered and should be here next week. Score! Good thing I found that site! So if you are like me and searching for a cordless battery, check them out!

When it comes to movies, I have very eclectic taste but by far my fave movies growing up were horror flicks! My all time favorite horror film would have to be all the Halloweens and Nightmare on Elm Streets. When it comes to scaryness, Freddy Krueger and Michael Meyers take the cake by far. I remember I was so scared of Freddy that my step-dad took me to the fair one night and an impersonator was there dressed as Freddy and I started screaming. Lol.

The thing I am mostly interested in Halloween the movie is to see where Rob Zombie is going to take the movie since I didn’t like House of 1,000 Corpses but since Halloween has already been an established movie with sequels, it shouldn’t be so hard to make the new Halloween the movie better than all the rest. So far, the trailer looks excellent. Basically, Zombie’s movie happens 17 years after ten-year-old Michael was committed when he is accidentally released from a mental institution. Of course, being the typical Halloween movie, he heads to look for his sister, Laurie, back in Haddonfield. Even though he had just been locked away for seventeen years, don’t be fooled, dear Michael is just as dangerous and as twisted as he was when he was ten, if not more so now.

I’ve embedded the trailer below so you can get goose bumps watching it as well. I am so excited and so pumped. Halloween has been a horror movie classic that has touched many generations since the new Halloween the movie makes number nine, chances are no matter how old you are, you’ve seen them and liked them. So, don’t worry because on August 31st, everyone will be able to see the movie in theaters! Are you excited as I am?

Everyone that knows me knows how much I love to shop! I especially love to shop for decorative stuff for my room, bathroom, and the house in general. So that is why I am happy to announce that Online Discount Mart is having a big sale! Now through the end of the summer, they are offering 10% off on any order with no minimum set! Do you know how awesome and how much money that can save!? Loads!! So if you are like me, a decorating fool, check them out! They have just about everything!

My mother and I have been chatting about going on vacation. Yes, we a desperate for a vacation and I personally believe we have more than earned one! For our past vacations we have used vlbo.com since we prefer to stay in cabins/villa/beach house rather that a hotel or condo. We’ve always been like that and if we’re going spend money to stay somewhere, its going be somewhere we like! This site allows you to select your destination and then your housing preference. The reason we are always going back to vlbo is because it lists houses by the owner’s which means, cheaper! Let’s face it, no one knows how to describe a beach house like it’s owner. So if you’re looking for Pigeon Forge villas, Myrtle Beach houses, or even Kauai vacation rentals, check out vlbo!

Three months ago, I accidently messed my computer up by not remembering my password that I had set on my computer. Of course, I hadn’t done the password retrieval CD either so I had to completely re-do my computer which majorly sucked because I lost everything. This wouldn’t have happened if I had Online Storage because as soon as I re-did my computer I could’ve just re-downloaded all my files. With IBackup, you have a mapped-out folder or drive on your desktop which means you can simply drag and drop files from your computer into the folder to be stored online. How simple is that? Not only is it easy, its desktop applications are able to outperform the others in some instances. How awesome is that? Fast and easy! What more could you ask for?!