i've had mine for almost three years, still works great sm
Posted By: mom2boys on 2007-07-05
In Reply to: Anyone with an LCD monitor that can tell me how long they last when used for working all the time. - PAMT
i leave my monitor on all the time, but it has a "sleep mode" after so long. it's a Dell. actually the whole computer system has been great!
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in the last few years, I've stayed at Flamingo, great location, in the heart sm
of the strip, right across from Ceasars Palace. Rooms are very, very nice and reasonably priced. Also stayed at Stratosphere but it's located on the north end of strip, I compared it to a Motel 6 and didn't have any hot water for the 5 days I was there BUT there is a great IHOP next door. Stayed at Ceasar's but IMO not worth the $$. A long walk thru casino just to get to the elevators. I stayed for a week at a "condo/extended stay" hotel which had a kitchen, etc. was a block off the strip - unfortunately have to stay at least 6 days but it was nice because there were no slot machines, very family oriented, could walk to Aladdin. Anyway I book all my travel thru Expedia and the package deals are the best. I went for 3 full days, air fare from Fla, hotel (Flamingo) and rental car for $250 so I really suggest looking online. The hotels give out coupons to half price magic shows etc. They are ok but what's great w/Vegas is that there are a lot of freebie shows and inexpensive places:
1. Red Rock Canyon - $5 per car, 13 mile scenic drive. It's 15 mins west of the strip.
2. Bellagio water show, every 15 mins starting at 8 pm, free.
3. Volcano eruption at Mirage, every 30 mins starting at 8, free.
4. Treasure Island, pirate show, every hour or so, starting at 7, free.
5. Sigfried/Roy Secret Gardens, $15 per person, up close to their beautiful tigers.
6. Top of Stratosphere, $8, see Vegas at night, also at top is roller coaster.
7. MGM, at 10 am let lions out to room in clear cage while you gamble nearby, free.
8. Fremont Street. Old Vegas, downtown, 4 blocks long, closed off to traffic (Cris Angel sometimes performs on the street). The most amazing light show done to music, every hour starting at 8, free.
9. Flamingo. They have flamingos and penguins outside near valet parking, free.
10. New York/New York. Roller coaster inside/out $8 to ride. Look around inside if never been to NY.
11. Paris. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower, $15.
12. Mandalay Bay, shark reef, $18 per person.
13. Luxor, pyramid shape casino, go in and look around.
14. The Wynn. Most expensive to build, $4 billion, absolutely gorgeous inside.
Places to eat - I avoid eating inside the casinos as I can't afford to pay $25 per person for a buffet. Across the street from the Wynn Casino is "Fashion Mall" which is 2 stories, top floor has about 20-25 places to eat, very inexpensive.
Renting a car is very inexpensive compared to trying to walk everywhere or take a taxi or the "monorail" which is broken half the time. Getting around Vegas in a car is very easy, of course that's my opinion.
Hope this helps.
I've tried EVERYTHING, but Terro works the best. nm
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Mine works at home and we share
the same home office. Some days we stop and chat a lot, some days we hardly talk at all. Sometimes I think it would be nice if one of us worked someplace else. We might get the chance to miss each other. 
What I have done for years and it works - sm
I have an alert with all 3 credit reporting agencies. You do have to keep it in place by calling every 3 months, but it DOES work because I tested it by applying for new credit and the store said they had to call a phone number (mine) to verify it. Sorry this happened to you. 
Oxycise!! 15 min a day - works great (sm)
about $30 - do a Google on it.
Sticky paws works great!
We also got all brand new living room furniture last year, and we have 3 cats. We went to Petco (you can get it at any pet store), and they have a product called Sticky Paws. It is a double-sided clear tape that you put on the edges of the furniture, where cats tend to scratch the most, and when they go to scratch, they hate the sticky feeling on their paws and never go near it again! We have been using it for a year since we got our furniture, and our cats haven't once tried to scratch it since putting the sticky paws on!
Abreva. Works great, but it doesn't really
make the ones there go away. It'll stop new ones from coming out and will stop current ones from getting any bigger. You have to use it consistently though when you have a break out.
I use Rogaine for wormen 2% and it works great
for me.
It is recommended for persons who have high blood pressure, as Rogaine lowers the blood pressure. This was the first usage of Rogaine to lower the blood pressure. As secondary effect was discovered that people who took minoxidil (main ingredient in Rogaine)
started to grow more hair.
But one has to have a good heart to use this.
All precautions and possible side effects are printed in the pamphlet that comes with the bottle, it is a liquid spray, sprayed on the scalp, twice a day.
Works great for me, too! Power napping and then I work much better, too!
:)
NeilMed Sinus Rinse works great if you can do it on a regular basis.nm.
Vacuum cleaner works great for me! Love those midair catches.
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Try Benadryl, the generic is cheap. Works great, not habit-forming. NM
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I've lost both of mine, but although I have -sm
chronic sinusitis, it wasn't due to that. My loss was due to a meningioma that was located in the olfactory groove. When it was surgically removed, no more taste or smell. For the first year during my followups, the surgeon would test to see if I'd regained any of it, but I never did. After a year or so, said that if I didn't get it back by now, that I never would.
I think you're smart to see your ENT promptly. Maybe you'll be luckier than I was, and it'll be something that can be reversed.
If not, don't despair too much; I've found that for the most part, I really haven't missed those senses as much as I thought I would. It does constitute a bit of a handicap in certain situations, where you have to be more careful: Working batteries in your smoke-alarms, and if you have a gas oven and/or water heater, a gas-detector is a good idea. It's also more difficult to tell if food has spoiled, unless you have family members who can smell it for you.
Then again, there ARE some small advantages, such as stinky stuff no longer bothering me!
I've never had one but a friend of mine
did. She was 15 at the time and after a lot of pressure from her parents and her boyfriend's parents, she had one. She still feels guilty to this day.
Personally, I am pro-choice. There are just too many variables to make it 1-sided. Fortunately, I've never been in the situation of having an unwanted pregnancy. I have always used birth control (2 forms before I got married and then just the pill after marriage). I've had 3 pregnancies, each of them planned. We've decided that we do not need anymore children, so I've had a tubal. If that ever fails, I would carry the pregnancy, unless it posed a significant health risk to me. I'm not thinking of myself in this case, but my 3 children who need a mom.
I do think that abortion has become a method of birth control for so many. There need to be limitations and guidelines to its use, but please don't take it away completely. I also believe that pregnancy has become a way for many young, unwed, uneducated mothers to get a free check every month. I think those children should be adopted out, also. But these are just my opinions.
got mine about 6 years ago on
Home Shopping Network, when the microfiber mops first emerged on scene. Also QVC carries them now. Bought a couple for DILs, and they love them. I have Pergo and hardwood floors, and it does a wonderful job with just water! They show them used on tile floors and no-wax flooring also, works the same. Just call QVC, you'll have it within a week. This is why I work, to pay QVC! LOL.... But am finally get sick of working for them, so have been shopping a lot LESS now.... I would say try it, the mop works the very same as the cloths.
Been doing this for 5 years and mine are yet to know! Let me know sm
when you figure it out!
Have had mine 5 years and it stores just
great...Love it and will never deal with untangling lights again!
I've been like that for 30 years
I sometimes fall asleep at 8 p.m., wake up after an hour, then can't get back to sleep until midnight.
Other times, I'm awake until 10 p.m., sleep until 1:30 a.m., fall back to sleep by 3:30 a.m., only to have to get up at 4:30 a.m.
And then there's the "no wake" pattern. Get about 4 hours sleep and feel great, but then I can't stay awake during the day. I'm in that mode now.
I have never taken anything for it, never even thought of it, but the suggestions below has given me some ideas. I'm no spring chicken (even though I usually feel like one) but lack of sleep is really beginning to wear me down.
I've been looking at them for years.
We have a very long house (75 feet long) and it takes forever for the hot water to get to the spigots and shower. We must waste 2 gallons of water before it's hot.
They have been on our wish list for years, planning on getting one for under the sink and one for in the bathroom that is at the one end of the house, but just haven't been able to afford them yet.
That's great! Mine have the M&Ms guys on them! --LOL!...nm
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Met mine via Great Expectations sm
I dated many "quality men" via that route in the 90s (many engineers, financial men, oil men, etc.). Only 2 bad ones out of "tntc." One was a legend in his own mind and got kicked out. The other took me to a very nice restaurant, had $/excellent job, decent guy otherwise, but didn't open the door coming or going into the restaurant. That did it for me!
I don't know about it now, as I married from there. But it cost around $3K to join. But they really screened their members carefully, and whenever they caught a married man joining, or someone behaving inappropriately, they were out. Anyway, I was really pleased. But chemistry is just that. Y'all know that game. It either works or it doesn't.
Good luck! It's rough out there!
I had mine at 26 and 28. Worked great for me.
I also had a foster son in the mix for a while when the kids were teenagers.
I'm glad that I'm done with the "mommy" duties required for really young children. I can pretty much go where I want when I please now, and I've got the money and health and stamina to do that. Lots of people do really exciting things when they are younger and put off having children. My husband and I decided to save the excitement for after the kids. Works great for us.
Mine's getting pretty long. A few years ago I -
had it cut to shoulder length, and hated how few ways I could wear it. It just felt too short. So now I'm doing the "Hair" thing, and just letting it grow 'til it stops. I've got a few grays, but in my family it can take up 'til our 90's to get completely gray. Once it does finally go gray, I might spice it up with some pink/purple streaks in it, just to freak people out.
Mine blew up at 6 years and was on pretty much 24/7 - sm
It was a Dell. Got a virus a year ago that screwed it up quite a bit, and just after Christmas it blew up for good. Luckily had a external hard drive and backed up most of my C-drive, though lost about 3 weeks of work....need to get into the habit of backing up weekly. Bought a new Dell wtih XP, quite happy with it.
I've been married 20 years, and
I can usually figure out a way to motivate mine. He does take after his stubborn mother, but ve haff vays, hehehehe.
We've been married for 22 years and
I've had my own checking account for the last 15. It is so much easier, IMO. In fact, he just recently opened his own separate checking account over the summer. So we have our joint account, which I rarely touch, and we each have our own.
And I agree that Christmas is for everyone. I'm as bad as the kids on Chrismtas Eve, as far as not being able to sleep. It's my favorite holiday. We get to see my whole family and DH's whole family and spend time together. Love it. In fact, it's my year to cook dinner for DH's family and I'm so excited.
I've been divorced now for 5 years and have....sm
recently started dating, if you want to call it that. Things seem to be a lot different now when it comes to "relationships." There are 2 men that I am interested in and 1 of these men is more interested in me than the other one. Do I follow my heart or do I follow my head? They both have positives and negatives, as we all do. I just don't want to make a bad decision that I may later regret. I know this is not a lot of info but I have heard "follow your head" and I've also heard "follow your heart, no matter where the road may lead." Help!!!
I've been married 21 years.
I really think God picked us for each other, and that happiness will not be found with another as long as we both shall live.
It's not that we never squabble or fuss or have the occasional day where we almost pretend the other doesn't exist. But I know that the only other person I could stand to spend this much time with would be my twin sister. These are the only 2 people I can be completely open with, be myself with. When it's good, it's really great.
We have furkids only.
I've been married 13 years and
I would never allow my husband to tell me who I can and cannot see. If I were you, I wouldn't bring it up to him until closer to her visit. As you said, who is he to say where your sister can and cannot go. As the time approaches, a week or so in advance, I would simply tell him that your sis will be in town next week and you are planning on seeing her. If he throws a fit, let him. It seems to me, he gets away with this because you let him.
If the situation arises where he becomes intolerable, perhaps you could spend the night at sis's hotel room catching up. Let him stay home. It's his loss, but it doesn't have to be yours as well.
Really? I've been doing this over 12 years and never had the problem before nm
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You've been married 15 years
and you've put up with it for 15 years. There's really no reason for him to change, is there? You've allowed him to do this to you.
Sorry to be so blunt.
Unfortunately we've had to do that for the last couple of years
We really wanted to go on expensive family vacations, but we have a rather large credit card bill that we're trying to pay down so we decided no elaborate vacations until we can really afford it.
I just gave mine away--but it is a GREAT resource...
Whoever was being so nasty--what does it hurt to know what is going on? I, personally, research everything I can about everything medically happening to me and recently found out that I am among the many pregnant women with kidney stones--I never knew it was a common thing. That, in itself made me feel a little better, although I am not sure why. I think that the book is excellent and it is nice of you to try to obtain it for you DIL. I just wish you had posted this 1.5 weeks ago.
You've got a great list....sm
another thing you can do is if you have kids older than 5 years ago it's a great time to teach them about budgeting and money if you haven't already. We have our family budget hanging on the wall in my office and the kids know exactly how much money is available and that there's no money tree growing in the back yard to get cash from!
Another suggestion to save money is watch the sale papers and warehouse clubs if one is close by. We have a big freezer and when things like ground beef, chicken, bread, peanut butter, etc goes on sale at a super cheap price we stock up. I've got 12 super sized jars of Skippy peanut butter in my basement right now that we got for $1.25 a jar at a warehouse club because of overstock! The way we go through peanut butter it's a HUGE savings and will last us until school gets out.
With the kids I do a "reward" fund with them. This means that when we hit certain family financial goals I give them some extra cash to spend. It's not a lot but it gives them goals when things happen such as the power bill is down because they've been turning off lights more, water bill is less because they use a timer and take a 3 minute shower versus staying in there until all 30 gallons of hot water are drained from the water heater, etc. Now on Sundays they enjoy looking at the grocery store sale ads and figuring out what things are on sales at great prices, and when I have a coupon for the same item we really get excited. There have been many times I've paid less than a quarter, or nothing, for an item on sale when I had a coupon that basically covered the cost of the item. That I love!
I've had my checking with WAMU for years -
I just called a couple of days ago and it was obvious their calls are now being answered overseas. It took so long for them to understand what I was calling about, I ended up just hanging up and doing it myself on line. I'm thinking of switching or at least complaining. It's a disappointment.
I've been in scouts for 11 years and am a cubmaster now.
The Pinewood Derby is supposed to be a help-your-son event, but you are right to rant about some adults being overly involved. I've seen very, very sad little boys whose fathers don't let them help in building at all.
Some of the things that we've done in our pack to help prevent this are:
1. Hold a Pinewood Derby building clinic(s). We get some veteran derby builders (usually dads) to come out with tools to help the boys design and build cars on a Saturday a couple of weeks before the race. Most of the work is done then, and we have stations where the boys and their adults learn about design, then how to make the axles and wheels perform better, etc. etc. By the time the clinic is over, the boys usually only have to finish painting and install their wheels.
2. We hold an adult race where there are no rules. This sometimes ends up to be quite a hilarious race.
3. Awards should be given in lots of different categories that have nothing to do with how well a car performs on the track.
If you think that these ideas would be helpful to your pack, why not join the Pinewood Derby Committee for next year to help plan and have more of a say. Usually packs are dying for volunteers to help out.
I've gotten them all up for years, including the hubs. Should have
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we've had our squblles/differences over the years...sm
but we still speak to one another at least 2-3 times week...I live 1004 miles away from them...We talk about everything and nothing...What's for dinner?...Have you poked your spouse in the eye with a sharp stick yet?...How's Mommy doin'?....Kids, animals, politics, music, lots of trivia...
I miss the 3-part harmony and team cooking especially during the holidays.  Cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiVkdVPGoY
I used to let it slide, but I've been married 23 years.
Probably about year 5 or so, when we had children and she felt it necessary to comment on my mothering, I finally just gave it right back to her. She has four children, and the only one who turned out well was my husband, and I'm quite sure it's because he spent a lot of time away from home when he was growing up.
She lives just down the street, and now that we know where we stand, we have no problems.
I've had DirectV for years and love it. sm
AT&T recently offered me a free year of Dish, but I turned it down. I'm happy with DirecTV. Love my TiVO, too!
You've waited at least 5 years too long already.
Your boyfriend has the best of both worlds and has no reason to marry you. If you stay with this person out of "love" I guarantee you will look back on your life one day with deep regret.
More concerning is that you say the other man is able to take care of you. Is that what you're looking for, someone to take care of you? You can't expect another person to make you happy or to validate your worth; it can only come from you.
I think your biggest issue is lack of self-esteem, and if you learn to love yourself the question about your relationship will answer itself.
In 35 years of MTing, I've NEVER made
was while being paid hourly as an on-site MT. Now that I'm paid a lousy 8.5cpl, my income is closer to 20K/year.
You've got a great sense of humor!...sm
There must be some way to put parental control/lock on that computer so the kid can't access those tawdry sites. He's probably smarter than us and can hack into the pentagon's computer by now! Cat
I've lived here for 25 years, a transplant from the NY area.
 I live in the "burbs" like the other poster, but if you have a choice, go to NY!! It is WONDERFUL this time of year. The crowds are what make it New York at holiday season. Rockefeller Center, Radio City, and all thos wonderful things. I lived close enough to NY that I could hop on a train and be there in 15 minutes. I miss New York - lots.
Hang in there! I've been cigarette free for three years now...SM
It is definitely one of the hardest things you will ever do, but it is also one of the best things.
Check out this website and follow your progress and what happens to your body as time goes on without cigarettes. It is encouraging. http://healthbolt.net/2006/07/19/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now/
DON'T join this site, but just do the first step of registration to see how much $$ you will save and how many days you will add to your life by quitting. It is very interesting. I used to have another site that gave this same info without having to join anything, but I couldn't find it, but this gives you the same basic info, but only do the first step in the registration process. https://secure.quitnet.com/
Again, hang in there. YOU CAN DO IT! You will start feeling better within a couple weeks.
I love that I can smell so much better now and that I don't stink like cigarettes. I find it very nasty now when I smell a person who has just smoked, which is something you can't smell when you are a smoker. Yuck.
Hey trose, I've had many yard sales over the years and have
seem some pretty surprising stuff go on, only to watch people battle off and jump in their "fancy" cars. I've had people set a whole pile of stuff in front of me and throw a 5 at me and try to take off knowing that what they had cost more. I had one lady say "quarter?" over and over and over trying to buy two folding lawn chairs and I kept saying, "NO." She finally gave up and left. I've had people steal right out from under my nose and jump in their "fancy" cars and take off. I've had a whole "family" of Mexicans pile out of a very nice van and converge upon my yard sale with one person trying to keep my attention while their family members steal whatever they could from me. When I saw a one of the kids stick an X-Box game in his shirt, I told him he had to pay for it and he tried to walk away. When my husband came up on the boy, the father tried to start a fight with my husband. My neighbor called the police and when they arrived they had the adults and teens in cuffs and the children in the back of a unit. Turned out they were illegal and were arrested and hauled off and then a tow truck came and got the van.
I haven't had a yard sale in a long, long time.
I've been to Branson a few times. Haven't been in several years
tho. Actually, it's been 13 years. My son was 3 and we did Silver Dollar City and a couple of shows. We also did that duck boat thing. I don't remember what it was called. But it's a boat that drives on land and you drive it right into the water.
I know Branson has come a long way since the last time I was there. So I'm kind of excited!
Great job! Our local paper had a posting that got 75 resumes, including mine! Love
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Had a copper 7 in years ago before I even had children. Was great! Hubs got snipped once we had
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Wow..my mom had a schnauzer-mix named Jasper years ago!! Great little doggie!! nm
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It doesn't matter "where you stand." What works for you is fine. What works for me is fine.
Comparing ourselves as to frequency is ridiculous.
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