Found Not Lost

When I was young, I always used to hear my mom and aunts talking about Murad skin care products so I was surprised to find out that they are still around. Well, I’m not actually sure that it’s the same company they were referring to, but this Murad skincare line is focused on maintaining a beautiful and healthy skin. They have a full line of cleansers, toners and moisturizers in addition to treatments and supplements.

Shop Murad.com and take advantage of the free shipping benefit when you order over $50 in products. They give free samples with every order, and if you aren’t fully satisfied with their products, they have a 100% money back guarantee and makes returning products easily.

Check out the latest Daring Baker challenge we completed. It’s a French Yule Log!

If you’re wondering as I was what the difference was between the regular old Christmas yule log and the French one, you’ll have to visit my post on the French Yule Log challenge to see what’s up with that. Just from looking you’ll see how many layers and coilovers was involved to make this log. It was quite complicated but that’s what I like about doing Daring Baker challenges, I always end up learning something new. Check it out!

Yep, I’m going to go see Twilight tonight! I’m so excited. It’s also my husband’s birthday and I think he will be going with me instead of Asi just so we play it fair with the girls. Some little girl had started getting a little sad. So, in a way I am glad that husband and I will have a chance to go out just the two of us.

At the rate that this weather is going though, I can’t be sure that he wouldn’t have changed his mind by the time I get home this evening. I’m getting off early so I can cook dinner before I go but it’s also darn cold right now. Some snow flurries were actually falling about an hour ago. We were all hoping that maybe the snow would stick then we can all go home early, but no dice. It stopped after a few minutes and now it’s just grey, dreary and cold.

Tonight, I think I will make some Chili Con Carne for dinner. Perfect for a cold and blustery night. Perfect for viewing a vampire movie. LOL!

Soon after I wrote that, I’m starting to doubt whether eating this much beans and spice would be a good idea right before going into an enclosed and dark space. Dare I? Going to the movies and chili isn’t the best fat burners but maybe running out of the theater after releasing a chili laden gas bomb ahead of the mob would be. ROFL! I know, I’m getting giddy. I’ll quit

No, no cows are being given away but if you see the prizes, you’ll be exclaiming Holy Cow too! Lori, over at the Wooden Spoon, is giving away your choice of: Kitchenaid Immersion Blender, a Cuisinart Food Processor, or a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer! OH MY! indeed!

So don’t wait too long, go on over there and enter for your chance to win one of these fabulous and gorgeous prizes. Enter the OH MY! giveaway now!

Over the last week the girls had been complaining that the laptop has been lagging and just not performing as usual. So they performed disk clean up, defragmented it, and deleted all cookies and browsing history. I also noticed that they had just about filled up the 45GB hard drive. They were down to 2GB. So we went through the saved files and deleted everything we weren’t using anymore and moved old photos to the external hard drive. We freed up about 10 GB of hard drive but we can do more and we will.

Anyway, I figured, that should fix the problem, right? Wrong, it was still lagging. I was thinking I may have to bite the bullet and spring for a memory upgrade. Luckily, husband came to the rescue.

He said, give him the laptop and let him try something. So we did. We found out, although all the cleaning up and deleting and defragmenting that we did is ultimately good for the computer, that we really should also clean up the registry. Whaa? That was new to me. He installed his registry clean up software and ran it, and the laptop has worked great all weekend!

If you’re having the same problem, look into cleaning up your registry. If you google ‘registry cleanup’ you will find several software. My husband uses SpyWare Doctor and he’s allowed to install it three times that’s how he was able to install it on my laptop too.

Are you a Harry Potter fan? Remember the invisibility cloak that has aided Harry many a times? Soon it wont be a mere stuff of fiction anymore. Scientists have discovered a way to make an invisibility cloak using nano technology. According to the article:

It works by bending light around itself like the flow of water around a stone, which would make both the electromagnetic cloak and the object inside hidden.
…These tiny needles decrease the refraction or distortion of the light to almost zero, rendering it invisible.

Is it not amazing what science and technology can come up with? Of course they didn’t come up with this technology just so we can play invisible pranks on each other; this technology, they think, may enable them to create microscopes than can see DNA or enable them to make even faster computer microchips. And you thought your computer was fast now… just you wait!