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Last month I attended the BlogHer Food Conference in Austin Texas. I’ve not been to a blogging conference before- I did get one day squeezed in last summer in NYC at BlogHer but honestly, there wasn’t much “conference” in my day and it was such a blur I don’t remember. This year, Avocados from Mexico asked me to be part…
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Thank you to Magellan for sending us the eXplorist GC GPS to use while geocaching. The GPS is great and has begun my family on a new and active hobby. In the three weeks since we recieved the Magellan eXplorist GC GPS we have discovered trails and parks that we did not know existed. It has got us outside…
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Today I’m going to talk a little about swimming pool safety. Part of owning a swimming pool includes safety, and there are some things that folks often overlook or just don’t think much about. Safety isn’t just about watching swimmers, not swimming alone, or not swimming while intoxicated (nor supervising swimmers while intoxicated). Swimming pool safety encompasses the pool, the…
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This post brought to you by The Parking Spot. All opinions are 100% mine. Airports aren’t usually what I’d call “fun” places to visit. Sure, they often bring us someplace fun, often on a relaxing (or maybe not relaxing) vacation. But the getting to the airport, the parking, the check-ins, all of those? Notsomuch fun. Especially the parking. Every single…
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I got to catch a sneak peek at Delivery Man, coming in theaters on November 22. I can’t wait to see it- the more I see of Vince Vaughn, the more I love him, and this movie is promising more of the hilarity and fun that he always comes through with. This time around he plays an underachiever looking for his…
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