Posted on August 31, 2008 by Sylvia
As you may have noticed in my past postings, I absolutely love my nephew, Brad and niece, Pam more than anything in the world.
My sister, Cynthia just sent me a recent picture of the both of them. Brad was a couple days shy of his 21st birthday and Pam is 17 1/2 years old. I [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2008 by Sylvia
How do people come up with things like this??
I love finding strange and weird things on the Internet. Here is a fun one.
Magic of Date of Birth
Take the Date you are Born
Multiply that by 4
Add 13 in the result
Now Multiply the result by 25
Subtract 200 from that.
Add the month you are [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2008 by Sylvia
Who buys this stuff??
Billy Mays, “The King of Infomercials”, you have seen him on TV, late at night selling all kind of different stuff. He is a television commercial and infomercial salesperson cleaning, home-based, and maintenance products.
Here are some products advertised:
Bedazzler
Bloomin’ Onion Maker
Kaboom!
Mighty Putty
Orange Clean, Orange Glo
OxiClean
Vidalia Slice Wizard
The most recent one I saw was [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2008 by Sylvia
I haven’t been listening to my iPod as much lately since the Beijing 2008 Olympics were on. But I have been listening to my songs on my iTunes while I was watching the Olympics. (Yes, I am talented, I can do two things at the same time!! Whoo Hoo!!)
If you could look at my iPod/iTunes, [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by Sylvia
Here we go again, my preseason pick to take it all is the Detroit Lions.
I love this time of season, where hope reigns eternal that my team — The Lions will win. That this is the year!
If only…
The NFL season is about to start and being a Lions fan (since I was a kid), I [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2008 by Sylvia
Today was the announcement of the celebrity and their professional partners for the 7th season of Dancing with the Stars. As you might remember, I am a big fan of the show and I blogged about it weekly. I even made my early picks on who I think might win — I was right when [...]
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Posted on August 25, 2008 by Sylvia
Well the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games ended tonight and overall I enjoyed watching the Games. I also spent a lot of time online looking at several sites pertaining to the Games. I paid more attention to these Games than any of the Olympics in the past.
One of the sites that I visited daily was: Daylife [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2008 by Sylvia
Bradley James Keesler
Today is my nephew Brad’s birthday. He was born August 24, 1987, so that means that he is turning 21!! I can’t believe how fast time has gone!
I remember when he was born, it was one of the happiest day’s of my life. So I wanted to wish him the greatest of birthday [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2008 by Sylvia
Bryan Clay of the US won the gold medal in the Decathlon. I blogged before the Water Polo may be the hardest sport in the Olympics, but I think the Decathlon might over take Water Polo in the hardest sport in the Games.
The decathlon is an athletic event consisting of ten track and field events. [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2008 by Sylvia
The other night I was watching the Beijing 2008 Olympics and they were showing Rhythmic Gymnastics. And I was wondering to myself… why is this sport event in the Olympics? (Others would be Race Walking, Trampoline, Synchronized Swimming and Synchronized Diving.)
Then I was wondering what other sports, that were once in the Olympics but not [...]
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