End of the Road with Retail!

I will never step foot in a Toys R Us again. I am not even going to
get into all the detaila on this blog. It is just all wrong. They
lost me as a customer over a $15 baby doll crib. Seems like something
silly to fight over. But it is for that reason entirely that I have
forever boycotted that store. And the guy would not even get off the
phone long enough to devote his services to me. I'm so tired of
freakin' bad service. I don't know if it is just me, or if everyone
has these same experiences!? It is everywhere I go! Why don't people
like to do a good job no matter what they do? If you are so
miserable, do something about it already an stop making the rest of
the world miserable too! Geesh!
Good thing I have my trusty Prime Membership with Amazon!!! No tax
and free shipping. Who even needs retail!!!!

Woot! Woot!

Yay! My new Flip Ultra arrived today! My friend Lisa sent me a
message about it last week. It was a hot item on Woot.com. I got it
for a steal! Only paid $59 for it! I am really tired if my mini disc
camcorder. It is a royal pain. You have to have the discs and have it
charged. Then half the time I wouldn't have it with me because it is
so big and bulky (compartiably speaking). Getting the video
footage on the computer is another story in itself. Just more work
than I want to put in. So...I have very little footage. All the videos
that I have taken are so special. But I always want more. Now I will
have this little video camera in my purse at all times! It is about
the size if my iPhone. Perfect! I can't wait to use it more! Here is
a little footage I took when I took it out if the box tonight. The
quality is pretty good! And getting the footage on my computer was a
snap! The USB plug is attached right to the camera! No cords to lose!
I have only used it a few times, but I think it is safe to say that ya need to go buy one!

(For more information on this product, goto: www.theflip.com. Or check it out on Amazon.com)

Slow Down Sunday

This week was pretty busy, but very productive. Monday was President's Day, so Mia had off of school. I stayed with her in the afternoon. We went shopping. It was FUN! I got my new Vera Bradley bag and she got this Shar Pei Prom Costume. She has worn it for about fifty seconds. Just long enough for me to snap a picture! She says it is scratchy. She is so "Her Father's Daughter". He is the same way with clothes. She will probably never put it on again. Nice!

Friday night, Troy had a Soccer Coach's meeting after work. So Mia and I set out to find the Basset Hounds some new dog beds. Hannah has destroyed all the dog beds in the house but her own. Go figure. We went right to Sam's since that is where we find them for the best deal. They were only $22.00! Such a good deal when you consider that if you were to buy a nice big bed like this from Petco or Petsmart, you will drop at least $70.00 for one! So paying under $50.00 for two is in my mind a steal! Madison was soooo excited when I brought them in the door! You can tell she was missing her old one.

We met friends Lisa and Jerry with their cute kids Addisson and Ty at Hideaway Pizza for dinner last night. I have to say that my pizza was to die for. I ordered a new specialty pizza called Bleu Shroom Pizza. OMG! It was a handtossed pizza with olive oil, mushrooms, minced garlic and bleu cheese. I am raving about this pizza to everyone, but no one seems to be interested! I guess you do have to be a fan of bleu cheese. It rocks! You must try it if you go there!

Before we went to Hideaway, we stopped at Pier 1. This has been one of my all time favorite stores ever since I was in middle school! We used to walk to the Pier 1 by my house when I was little to look at all the cool toy like items they carry. Now I shop mainly for my house. I had a $20 gift card to use and it was burning a hole in my wallet! I needed a new reed diffuser so was happy to see they were on sale yesterday. I chose a vanilla buttercream scent. It smelled so good in the store. I decided to put it on the ledge in my kitchen. I didn't know how strong it would be, but I got a cute little holder to put it in, so thought it looked really cute and if it let off a little vanilla here and there, it would be fine. OMG! It is mouthwatering! It is filling my whole kitchen, dining room, living room area with this wonderful smell of frosting! Troy says he wants to eat the bottle! I strongly recommend this product if you like the reed diffusers. And the cute little holders to slip the bottle into make it a nice accessory to any room!

I am now just hanging out washing windows, vacuuming, dusting, doing laundry and watching my taped programs in between. I am so behind on CSI so I have watched a few of those episodes. I miss Gil Grisham so much, it is hard for me to get excited about it anymore. He made the show worth watching. It is is such a bummer that he left the show.

Well, the dryer just let out its obnoxious buzzzzzz! Time to fold and reload!

Slow Down Sunday

Today has been busy. Not quite a slow Sunday. I worked pretty much all day. Trying to get caught up from year end. I got a lot done, so I feel pretty good about it. Troy and Mia hung out with Troy's parents and went to breakfast. I am doing really well with keeping up on my flylady instructions. I feel so good about my house and was really happy to come home from work today to a clean house. A normal Sunday usually means a lot of laundry and rushing around the house to prepare for our week ahead. Right now, I am currently relaxing on my couch enjoying my clean place and the new candle holders that Troy helped me hang up this evening. I finally found something to hang on our big wall in the living room. I put them in a big line above the TV. It makes it so relaxing when the candles are lit and the lights are down. All the dogs are sleeping and Mia is reading me a story as I type. She is getting pretty good at it. Troy ran to Hooters to get wings for our dinner! He was really wanting wings, but they are the only ones I will eat. So he said he would drive all the way across town to pick them up. How sweet. :-)

Tomorrow is a day off for Mia for President's Day. My goodness, I don't remember having so many days off when I was little. Troy is staying with her in the morning and I will come home for the afternoon. I hope I can get a lot accomplished in the morning because I have a major deadline to meet this week that can't be pushed back! EEK! I will probably be working from home tomorrow night to make sure that I have everything finished.

I'm off now to listen to Mia read me a story about Hotel for Dogs and to enjoy the rest of our Sunday together. Hope you enjoyed my picture of my cute love dogs! Aren't they sooooo sweet!? OMG, they make me melt!

Tryin' Out the Tripod

I ordered a new tripod before Christmas, but when it arrived from Amazon.com (my favorite past-time) it was broken. So we went and bought one from Target to replace it. Troy hooked it up and got it ready for me on New Year's Eve. We played around and took timed pics with all the dogs. Troy and I even got a good one together! If I would have had it when we needed it for our Christmas picture, we could have brightened all of your holidays with a family picture. I am so sure you are all sad about that.

It is too bad that we didn't have a more eventful evening last night. If you saw our New Year's Eve pictures, you know that it was a pretty boring night at The Eberhardt house!!! Don has hurt his back and has been on muscle relaxers and pain pills since the day after Christmas. He was crashed out on the couch all night. Troy played some Guitar Hero - World Tour and Juney and Mia played Wii Tennis. I fought sleep all night and ended up in bed with a headache by 11:30 pm. I listened to the ball drop from my bedroom. I am so lame.

Hey, you gotta pick and choose those special party nights. They are few and far between as we get older and it gets harder to get out of bed the next morning!!

Pottery Barn Girl

Out shopping for Christmas. Gosh how I would love to live in The
Pottery Barn! I am such a freak. I was actually excited that Mia
posed by this Christmas Tree with the Silver Ball
garland on it. I wonder if people thought I was nuts when I whipped
out my iPhone and started taking pictures! Hey! That's what the
camera is for, right!?

Ho!Ho!Ho!

Mia got to visit the Santa at Utica Square this year. We went shopping and to see the Lights at Utica Square. Then we visited Santa and had dinner at PF Changs. Mia wrote on her Santa List that she wanted a "Real Blackberry" and an iPod. Hee Hee!
(Yes, I explained to her that Santa might think she is too young!)