A few months ago we bought Karaoke Revolution for my brother in law for his birthday.  Then after I broke my leg we went out and bought Karaoke Revolution Party version.  It is so much fun.  It has 50 songs that you can chose from (some have to be won) and several different characters.  You chose what your characters look like and what they where.  Then you chose where you want to sing.  Then its time to sing.  Sometimes if you really don’t know the song or if you just can’t match tone you get booed off the stage.  But the goal is to earn either a gold, platinum or diamond record.  Then when you do you unlock secret items.  With this version if you have a dance pad for dance dance revolution you can dance and sing at the same time.  We enjoyed ourselves so much that we also went out and bought Karaoke Revolution Country version and the Karaoke Revolution that we had bought originally for my brother in law.  We are also looking forward to when Karaoke Revolution American idol comes out as that should be interesting and fun.  If you enjoy singing or just enjoy getting a group of friends together and having a good time I would definitely recommend it.  It helped me enjoy time when I couldn’t be out enjoying the summer:)!

When I got married I planned and had everything organized down to the last detail.  I had excel sheets organizing the guest lists and gift lists, I had contact lists and itinerarys.  I had everything planned out and done a couple months before the wedding.  Everyone kept saying how I should become a wedding planner and I never gave it much thought.  Course that was until my sister’s wedding then came up a year later.  Then I helped her get that planned and organized up here in Minnesota since she was living in St Louis at that time.  I thought that would then be the end of that once again but then my friend decided to get married labor day weekend and now it seems I’m helping with most of her plans.  I never knew how organized a person needs to been when you get married and plan a wedding until I have been part of the wedding process in 3 completely different weddings.  Hey if need any advice or recommendations on vendors to use I have now assisted on a wedding in Rochester, MN, LaCrescent/LaCrosse area and the twin cities area.

So I’m sure many of you have seen the commercials for the Easy Out Mayo. I had been seeing them too and since I always hated having just a little left in the jar or getting my hand all yucky trying to get it out I decided this might be worth a try. We bought it and it wasn’t any different than any other squeeze Mayo’s at first. We got down to the bottom of the bottle and figured this was going to be the true test. We spent alot of time banging the bottle trying to get the mayo to come to bottom and when we finally did it still didn’t come out easy. I’m disappointed for spending a bit more money to try and save a few drops in the long run it did not do what was promised we were left with quite a bit that wouldn’t come out without alot of work. I wouldn’t recommend it.

All winter long this winter my car randomly had issues where it would be going fine and then all of a sudden would jerk like the transmission wasn’t working. Well towards spring we took it in for its 30,000 mile check up and what do you know the mechanics found a cup full of birdseed in the engine. So next thing we decided was that we would put rat poison down in the garage thinking that would stop whatever was putting the birdseed there. It didn’t and we couldn’t find any traces of rodent in the garage. We were stumped. That was until one day we were sitting outside enjoying a spring day and next thing you know we see a chipmunk squeeze out from underneath our front steps. We assume that he had been frozen out of his home in the winter and crawled up a crack we have in our door and crawled into my car. Now the first time I saw him I thought he was very cute. That was until he started climbing our bird feeder and emptying it out weekly. Now the birds don’t come as often and we still have to fill up regularly. We figure under our step is full of birdseed by now. So my husband got creative and cut a milk gallon in half and wrapped it around the pole to get to the feeder. Only the chipmunk was smarter (it took him a day or two) and figured out if he climbed up the hanging basket pole we have like 3-5 feet away from the bird feeder and then fling himself towards the bird feeder he would sometimes make it. Now being an animal lover the first time he did this I was impressed until the second time then he hit the edge of the bird feeder with a clunk and fell to the rocks. That I didn’t like much as I didn’t like him climbing it I didn’t want a dead or knocked out chipmunk on my hands so we took that down. I don’t know whether to be impressed overall with the chipmunks ingenious or be annoyed we will have to see what else we can figure out to deter him.

Have you ever thought back to your youth when you used to play Nintendo games and they were the coolest thing? Well I still like to sometimes play these old games such as burger time, monopoly, digger, etc and when I broke my ankle and my husband realized that I was going to have quite a bit of free time on my hand he set me up with a way to play all of the old Nintendo games on my Apple Computer. The system is free here: http://bannister.org/software/nestopia.htm and then to get the games you go to the Old Computer.Com . Now mind you they are the old style games but I still think they are fun and challenging in their own way! Try it out if you want I am now that I have so much time! 🙂