Keurig Platinum B70

This is the Keurig Platinum B70 coffeemaker. This coffeemaker is amazing! It has 5 different coffee mug sizes, it has a temperature gauge you can set, it can be programmed for two different coffee times - like in the morning before work and then when you get home. It brews fast and quiet. And.... for those of us that don't drink coffee, it brews HOT CHOCOLATE!
Plus, it's a slick looking machine on your counter.
We got this for free -woohoo!

Magic Chef Ice Maker :(

The ice maker in my refrigerator broke several months ago. I've been using ice trays. I'd have to empty the ice trays twice a day into a ice bucket.
I've been watching for a ice maker to go on sale. The original price on this one at Target was $160. When I went into Target Black Friday there was a $99 sale sticker on this. Woohoo! I took it to the checkout. The checkout lady said no this was not on sale. Soooo I took the floor manager back to the sale sign. OOPS Someone put the microwave sale sticker on the ice maker. I got the ice maker for $99.
It promises ice in 7 minutes. I tried it out yesterday. What they don't tell you is yes you will get ice between 7 to 14 minutes BUT.... it's about 10 ice cubes!
It took about 5 hours to make two small baskets of ice cubes. Oh my!

**Special Note: I have now use this a couple days..... I found that if you only make small cubes it works a lot faster.

Nikon Coolpix P80

This is Bandit. She is 3 months old now. I love to take pictures of her so... I'm going to experiment my new camera, Here she is... she has kind of learned "sit."

This was taken by the new camera too. Remember, I'm still learning the buttons. Bandit saying"wanna play? wanna play? come on let's play." This is Si saying... MEOW (translating: "FU%& You, dog!"

This is Si..... waiting by his food dish. Secretly thinking, "That damm dog ate my food again!"

Another picture with the new camera.

This one was bought on Phoenix Craigslist for $170. This 18X zoom looks pretty impressive. I agree with the reviews that the flash should pop up automatically but with this camera it does not.
I still need one more camera. The Canon Powershot SD990 IS looks good.

amazing electronic thing

I didn't know you could play old 33, 45, and 78s and download to a cd through your computer. My husband saw the Fry's Electronic ad this morning and saw this record player for only $79. He wants me to go through the 5,000 45s he bought Saturday and download favorite ones.

Seems like all his wants causes a lot of work for me. ummm no one has answered my ad on craigslist: Free Husband

** If you buy this, it does NOT tell you on the box that you have to have "amplified" speakers. Most people do not have an amplifier hooked up to their computers. The connection in this unit is not the correct one used to connect a amplified speaker too. (It has to have one red and one white on each end).

I happened to have the correct connectors. I connected this to my small Aiwa stereo. It works fine this way.

Gateway LX6200-01

After my husband crashed my computer, I tried to restore it but it crashed again. I went out and bought a new one. It's a Gateway too. They have changed so much in 6 years. I didn't understand any of the terminology. 8 this, and quad that, and 750 something else is what I bought.

All my pictures are gone for good this time. Everything that was on this blog was saved - everything else is gone. Oh my!

It has a hookup for a plasma tv along with running the monitor. You can hookup a camcorder, and any type of camera and other things I haven't figured out yet right to the front of it. Woohoo - time to go shopping!

**Special Note: I've been using this for a month now. I really like this one except for 1. I had to uninstall the Norton 360. It blocked any pictures, movie, music on the internet. When I uninstalled it - my computer "crashed." It's ok now. I had to install Java. Now I get the pictures, movies, etc. 2. The screensaver program doesn't work. And AOL does not stay on if I leave the computer. I haven't figured out how to solve these problems yet.

Download Picasa 3

Sunday, my husband was checking his football picks on my computer. His computer and our laptop got stolen during the burglary September 29, 2008. My old computer was not taken. My computer is really slow. My husband decided to "fix" my computer. In his "fixings" my computer crashed. Everything was gone. OH NO! So he ran the recovery system back through. He also had to download AOL. I could have killed him at that point because all my pictures were gone.

He went back to work on Monday and left me with my computer to now really fix! I had pictures I could not replace. I collect cookie jars - there are 450 plus throughout my house. I had taken pictures of all of them. There were pictures of my kids, grandkids, ..... you know all that important stuff. I found my blog. I had downloaded Picasa before and had to download it again ( since it was gone, too). When I redownloaded Picasa 3, it asked if I wanted it to check for pictures other than in My Pictures. I clicked ok. Picasa 3 found the pictures I had previously on my computer. Woohoo!

Everything else is still gone.

Look for my ad on CraigList Phoenix - Free Husband

GE Profile HydroWave Washer

Do you remember just a couple weeks ago my washing machine broke and I was propping it together with 2 2X4s? The warranty had run out and I had to have it repaired twice since then.... well, Sunday it broke again for good! Monday, my husband and I went to Sears and bought a top loading GE Profile HydroWave.

When we bought this house three years ago, I bought all new appliances. I had bought the new Frigidaire front loading HE washer and dryer set. It was nothing but problem after problem. I went back to a top loading washer.

My husband had done a lot of research on the computer to find the "perfect" washer. That one had all positive responses. So that is the one we got. I am just happy I don't have to use a wash board :)

*** Day Two - I had a lot of laundry waiting to be washed. This is my 10th load and so far I really like this washer. 1. It is as quiet as they say! 2. The tub, even though it is the same size as the front load washer I had, seems to fit more clothes in it. 3. No more bending to get the clothes out of the tub. 4. The spin cycle works great. I don't seem to have to dry the clothes for as long as the other one. 5. It was less $$ than that front loader and works better! They say if mama's happy everyone's happy. I'm happy.

I'm using my HE detergent in it. I have four bottles of it in the pantry left over from the front load HE we just got rid of. It seems to work ok.

**Special Note: I've had this washer for over a month now. I really like it! It is quiet. It washed my king size bed comforter with no problem. I can't wait until the Frigidaire dryer breaks again. I'll go out and buy the matching dryer to this GE.

Fuji FinePix Z20 Blue Camera

I got my camera yesterday. It's a Fuji Fine Pix Z20 in blue (my favorite color). I ordered it online from Target. The shipping box was damaged - there was no packing material inside. It was shipped UPS, the guys in Brown. Slow..... It took two weeks to get from Chicago to Phoenix. The camera was ok but the CD was scratched and would not download. The pictures would download into my Nikon program, though. So I took my first pictures of Trixie. These pictures were taken a week after she was attacked by the neighbor's pit bull.

I took her to the Vet last Wednesday. I was told if the pit bull had bit her any higher it would have broken her neck..... any lower and it would have crushed her back legs. Ouch!

I got the police report done. And the insurance forms filled out and sent for the burlary at our house last week. The house is mostly put back together.

Woohoo!

I think I might drive around and take pictures of some unique things I've seen in my city. Trixie can ride with me in her car seat.

**Special Note: I've had the camera for a couple months now. It's ok .... Cheap - No frills - Easy to use - ... close up pictures are not color correct, lighting is hard to adjust sometimes. I'm looking to buy a better camera. I have not decided which one yet.

Smilebox pictures of Las Vegas

Make a Smilebox photobook

Thanes Flavor Ware Deluxe Oven

My husband took Saturday off. We got up early and went out to find the bargains of the day at yard sales. It's something we both enjoying doing. He found this Thanes Flavor Ware Deluxe Oven. He told me he had seen one in an infomercial. For $20 he bought it.
Cooking is not my thing. He thinks if he buys me enough gadgets for the kitchen, he might actually get me to "cook." Simple, basic, and easy are my style. I cook only under those terms.
So trying to make his point - "this would make cooking easy for me" - he cooked chicken and potatoes in this oven. The instructions were not helpful. So he just press some buttons and on it went. It stopped and he had to turn the chicken breasts on the other side. It stopped again and the chicken was not done so he turned them again. 45 minutes later .... the chicken looked ok - the potatoes ( I had peeled them and cut them into small pieces) were awful! The sliced onions burned.
I'm not using that thing again!
Special Note: We will be having a huge yard sale the first week of January - this will be one of the items out there for sale!