<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:52:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>son</category><category>eBooks</category><category>Sale</category><category>eBook Reader</category><category>health</category><category>reiki</category><category>BeBook</category><category>Fictionwise</category><category>lasik surgery</category><category>meme</category><category>Cybook</category><category>cat</category><category>vision</category><category>review</category><category>tattoo</category><category>work</category><category>Books</category><category>family</category><category>reading</category><category>audiobooks</category><category>discount</category><category>hubby</category><category>school</category><category>writing</category><category>author</category><category>cleanse</category><category>planner</category><category>podiobooks</category><category>weather</category><category>#amazonfail</category><category>Amazon Rank</category><category>BeBook Mini</category><category>BooksOnBoard</category><category>DecalGirl</category><category>Eee PC</category><category>LibraryThing</category><category>fauxdori</category><category>iPaq</category><category>itunes</category><category>midori</category><category>mtn</category><category>photo</category><category>spine</category><category>vacation</category><category>CyberRead</category><category>DRM</category><category>Diesel eBooks</category><category>GelaSkins</category><category>Knitting</category><category>Library</category><category>OpenInkpot</category><category>blog</category><category>camping</category><category>contest</category><category>cooking</category><category>eReader.com</category><category>fanfic</category><category>fish</category><category>font</category><category>kozy</category><category>mazda</category><category>organizing</category><category>picture</category><category>pocketbook 360</category><category>pocketbook 360 plus</category><category>tarot</category><category>tv</category><title>Justy&#39;s Random Ramblings</title><description>Subject To Change Without Notice</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>150</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-9004690354464813994</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-08-06T18:49:01.265-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fauxdori</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">midori</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mtn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">planner</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">review</category><title>Review update - aliexpress travel notebook</title><description>I did it, I moisturized the leather to see if the scratches would buff away easier. I like the look of it now, the leather is darker and I can still see the colour variations. Sadly right after I moisturized the leather it became much easier to scratch or at least more noticeable because the scratches are really light and the leather is now dark. I&#39;m letting it dry &amp;nbsp;a bit now and will see how it wears over the next week.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here are pictures of the now darker leather.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhou9CpYQzFiQsKZSi8aAGaMv5pFDBLRRs1t_ZrBzuCD6N62mX8ztkvZdKYgW_zCLZnfwu4P5dBSGX5Bd8sYBfH-tLD9j7lsToyQqRlTX88diAFJFWY-0kAt3UJkEq4UDiitvQ_ZaXiAjA/s640/blogger-image-1380936359.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhou9CpYQzFiQsKZSi8aAGaMv5pFDBLRRs1t_ZrBzuCD6N62mX8ztkvZdKYgW_zCLZnfwu4P5dBSGX5Bd8sYBfH-tLD9j7lsToyQqRlTX88diAFJFWY-0kAt3UJkEq4UDiitvQ_ZaXiAjA/s640/blogger-image-1380936359.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhou9CpYQzFiQsKZSi8aAGaMv5pFDBLRRs1t_ZrBzuCD6N62mX8ztkvZdKYgW_zCLZnfwu4P5dBSGX5Bd8sYBfH-tLD9j7lsToyQqRlTX88diAFJFWY-0kAt3UJkEq4UDiitvQ_ZaXiAjA/s640/blogger-image-1380936359.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-frIqOYYGynNXDiOpavX55DkOLd-Bj_kWV01pOTHcyRoMdYF6c_EbD9wKDee1-qoWYp2O-jGAUOKoAA9s-nPyuZUAZ6b_28cOJk97uMcy0TCgDh5jHgxN0S3tZZ_SSwfhLAFevDbo0hE/s640/blogger-image--1107705093.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-frIqOYYGynNXDiOpavX55DkOLd-Bj_kWV01pOTHcyRoMdYF6c_EbD9wKDee1-qoWYp2O-jGAUOKoAA9s-nPyuZUAZ6b_28cOJk97uMcy0TCgDh5jHgxN0S3tZZ_SSwfhLAFevDbo0hE/s640/blogger-image--1107705093.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2015/08/review-update-aliexpress-travel-notebook.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhou9CpYQzFiQsKZSi8aAGaMv5pFDBLRRs1t_ZrBzuCD6N62mX8ztkvZdKYgW_zCLZnfwu4P5dBSGX5Bd8sYBfH-tLD9j7lsToyQqRlTX88diAFJFWY-0kAt3UJkEq4UDiitvQ_ZaXiAjA/s72-c/blogger-image-1380936359.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-1335409232318437135</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2015 02:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-08-06T18:49:20.212-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fauxdori</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">midori</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mtn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">planner</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">review</category><title>Review - Handmade Vintage Traveler&amp;#39;s Notebook Genuine Leather Cowhide&#xa;diary spiral looes leaf journal</title><description>Today I am reviewing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Handmade-Vintage-Traveler-s-Notebook-Genuine-Leather-Cowhide-diary-spiral-looes-leaf-journal-Now-BUY-1/32234414224.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fauxdori&lt;/a&gt; I purchased&amp;nbsp;from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;store-lnk&quot; href=&quot;http://www.aliexpress.com/store/1405885&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Alice&#39;s Sweet Castle&quot;&gt;Alice&#39;s Sweet Castle&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aliexpress.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Aliexpress&lt;/a&gt;. I selected the 22x12cm Standard size in Red Brown for US $24.90.&lt;br&gt;
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I was really impressed with how fast the shipping was, I ordered on the 22nd and it arrived on the 31st. The parcel was well packaged in a padded envelope with extra padding inside. The deal I got included extras which aren&#39;t always included with a fauxdori. There were a lot of options go go through before finalizing the order.&lt;br&gt;
1. select the size you want,&lt;br&gt;
2. pick one of 7 colour choices, Order and then in notes indicate the following:&lt;br&gt;
3. pick which notebooks you want, there are 4 options for passport size and 9 choices for standard size.&lt;br&gt;
4. select which of 3 folder options&lt;br&gt;
5. choose one of 12 pendant/charm.&lt;br&gt;
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The company also sent some extra elastic for repairs, a brass pen holder, and a leather bookmark. I selected 2 dot grid notebooks and a blank monthly notebook along with a pvc zipper pouch, and a clock charm.&lt;br&gt;
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The leather is sturdy enough to hold itself flat when empty but you can see how tight the elastic is when you take off the tension and allow it to curl, So far it seems to be the correct amount of tension for the notebook. I will need to find some leather conditioner to give this cover some moisture as it seems quite dry and is taking scratches and scrapes very easily. It will definitely show the journey I take it on through life and the dangers of my purse will be obvious. Over all I am quite pleased with this purchase. It is my first Midori style traveler&#39;s notebook and I think I made a good choice for my starter cover. My homemade inserts and kraft folder look pretty good inside it too.&lt;br&gt;
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I started to stalk the facebook groups to see what other people were doing to keep track of their lives. I had seen the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.midori-japan.co.jp/tr/english/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Midori travelers Notebooks&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(MTN) on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gouletpens.com/midori/c/203&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Goulet Pens&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;a few years ago when I was looking for fountain pens but didn&#39;t see the point of a small journal since I hadn&#39;t kept a journal since college and for a year after hubby&#39;s accident, I also couldn&#39;t handle the price it seemed like a lot of money to spend on a piece of leather with a blank notebook. With my new searches into planners I saw new inserts with monthly/weekly/daily calendars and some great layouts which just might work for me. I picked up a field notes sized &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/transaction/1036692462&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;fauxdori&lt;/a&gt;, a knock-off journal cover based on on the MTN to give it a try. The cover was on sale and the small size seemed good to me. I printed up a montly calendar and a gid notebook to give it a try. I love this colour and the size was definitely handy, I even printed off a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/RebeccaMyersDesigns?section_id=16857532&amp;amp;ref=shopsection_leftnav_7&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;monthly calendar&lt;/a&gt; and made some inserts to fit in it.&lt;br /&gt;
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I came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://bulletjournal.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Bullet Journaling&lt;/a&gt; which seemed just simple enough to work for me. I looked at facebook groups and youtube to see how other people were using this system and saw that some of them were using MTNs and making changes to match their own lives. I decided to try bullet journal insert in the &#39;standard&#39; size just to see if it would work for me I love the free inserts from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mylifeallinoneplace.com/p/midori-tn-inserts.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;My Life All In One Place&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Ray Blake. I have used this insert for about 2 weeks and it has gone everywhere with me to make sure nothing gets missed. So far it has worked for me. I have added a weekly overview so that I can still see where everyone is each week and catch overlaps which could trip us up. I think this is going to work for me.&lt;/div&gt;
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On August 30, 2011 my life changed. It was about 4:30pm, I was working when I received a phone call from my husband, I couldn&amp;#39;t answer because I had a patient on the phone booking an appointment and another in front of me waiting to pay. I continued with my day not too worried since he had already told me he was on the way home on his motorbike and would be picking up our son soon. I thought he just wanted to talk about patio furniture some more and it would be fine if I called him back later. I checked his voice mail and it was all road noise so I sent him a quick text asking what was up and kept working. Not long after this I received a phone call from a nurse at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) saying that my boss&amp;#39;s husband had been in an accident and she had to come to the phone. My boss to the call and then came out looking pale saying it was a motorbike accident, not her husband but mine. The nurse told me that my husband was in Emergency and I should come right away. I took about 10 minutes to calm down and say goodbye to my boss and then left. Son was at a friends house so I didn&amp;#39;t have to worry about him, I knew he would be taken care of while I looked after Hubby.&lt;br&gt;
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Don&amp;#39;t be concerned about the fact that the screen on my original 360 cracked, I have owned both versions of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bookeen.com/en/cybook/?id=3&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cybook Gen3&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://mybebook.com/index.html?ref=148&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BeBook One, a BeBook Mini&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pocketbook-usa.com/products/pocketbook-360/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;360 Original&lt;/a&gt;, and now &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pocketbookreader.com/PocketBook_360.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the 360+&lt;/a&gt;, that&amp;#39;s 6 eInk devices since 2007 and all but 1 of them are still going strong. Yes there is a glass substrate, yes we need to treat these devices with care and no we don&amp;#39;t have to wrap them in bubble wrap and read them in a padded room. The only time I ever wrapped one of them in bubble wrap was while I was waiting for the cover to come in for my BeBook Mini. I really wanted to take it with me but refused to transport it without some kind of protective covering. I have taken them camping, read in the bath (don&amp;#39;t fall asleep!), read in the car, read on an airplane, and on the ferry. I take them with me everywhere I would take a paperback. I&amp;#39;m just a bit more aware of how I pack it in my bag. The only reason the screen cracked is because I got careless and left the 360 on the coffee table with the cover off. This is a dangerous thing to do when there is an active 7 yr old in the house! I didn&amp;#39;t see the 360 get landed on, but some things you don&amp;#39;t need to see to believe.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-pocketbook-360-plus.html#more&quot;&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-pocketbook-360-plus.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEtwiDhz9SMobZMhyphenhyphenLuQP5CE_cegKw3XI76ldG4uL9YQpfD-mXSLnlFLmZzuMYu2wkK5uMMcD-ATE02x-5hbez0NN0x22kXxn9geyyElJspW9KI39OZitBqgQQ_D0n6A5BFre7VRl-Lk/s72-c/360%252B+%2526+BeBook+Mini2.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-5287162326444025927</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-07T10:28:55.866-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eBook Reader</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eBooks</category><title>Read an E-Book Week: March 6-12, 2011</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S4pDmzcSdeg/TXUjSSyz5zI/AAAAAAAAAIA/mscmzDYnn4A/s1600/REBW2011_flyer.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 320px;&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S4pDmzcSdeg/TXUjSSyz5zI/AAAAAAAAAIA/mscmzDYnn4A/s320/REBW2011_flyer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581406110385170226&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that it&#39;s the 40th anniversary of the E-Book? That&#39;s right, they&#39;ve been around for a long time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Head over to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ebookweek.com/&quot;&gt;Read an E-Book Week&lt;/a&gt; website and take advantage of the great deals and give-aways that are going on. There are some great partners this year and I know that there will be something for everyone. If you haven&#39;t tried reading an E-Book yet, now is the time to find great Free E-Books to test the waters with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most Smart Phones have apps that will read a variety of E-Book formats along with dedicated Readers like Sony, Cybook, Kindle, and Kobo. Of course you could always read an E-Book on your iPad or Computer/Laptop as well. :)</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2011/03/read-e-book-week-march-6-12-2011.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S4pDmzcSdeg/TXUjSSyz5zI/AAAAAAAAAIA/mscmzDYnn4A/s72-c/REBW2011_flyer.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-5711551581800447628</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-22T14:04:23.209-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">son</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">weather</category><title>Winter is still here</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwuM6nD77IhaaquOQfPwZVwz4sVuSyIi_FwzPoot5UL_ZItZYAWPt3F3udxv8HMNFWMI1d-Ir1_ILgDRuZHnBRScVcEmCGuQjbB8G8YmXegTG3AfsQu53o4U2-RNcislqiiIjhMxCGIGM/s1600/Hail+Storm.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwuM6nD77IhaaquOQfPwZVwz4sVuSyIi_FwzPoot5UL_ZItZYAWPt3F3udxv8HMNFWMI1d-Ir1_ILgDRuZHnBRScVcEmCGuQjbB8G8YmXegTG3AfsQu53o4U2-RNcislqiiIjhMxCGIGM/s320/Hail+Storm.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576235571739915778&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weird white stuff falling from the sky seems to be happening more often lately. First we had a Hail Storm on Thursday which lasted for almost an hour and accumulated enough that in the picture I took it looks looks like snow. I really should have taken a closeup so that you could see the tiny, and not so tiny, balls of ice that make up those snow drifts. Was quite odd driving through a blizzard of hail, and then later that night hearing thunder followed by the ping and thud of hail instead of the steady rhythm of rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now there is actual fluffy snow falling, if it sticks I&#39;ll take another picture. I knew it was cold this morning when I bundled Son into his winter jacket, but I really wasn&#39;t expecting to see snow. The weather man so rarely gets the predictions right that I really didn&#39;t believe him today, I thought it would warm up and we would have rain instead. Oh well, the kids will enjoy it during their breaks from class today. :)</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2011/02/winter-is-still-here.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwuM6nD77IhaaquOQfPwZVwz4sVuSyIi_FwzPoot5UL_ZItZYAWPt3F3udxv8HMNFWMI1d-Ir1_ILgDRuZHnBRScVcEmCGuQjbB8G8YmXegTG3AfsQu53o4U2-RNcislqiiIjhMxCGIGM/s72-c/Hail+Storm.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-7479519136101824923</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-21T11:11:41.525-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Books</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sale</category><title>BookCloseOuts.com - 7 DAY SALE EVENT</title><description>Black Friday sale is now over.</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/11/bookcloseoutscom-7-day-sale-event.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-7888892593154195779</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-19T22:05:32.217-08:00</atom:updated><title>Snow Warnings</title><description> I always find it a little funny when we get snow warnings on the coast. We are expecting a massive 5cm-10cm of snow, or just over 4 inches. That shouldn&#39;t be enough for a snow warning, but since it will be &quot;widespread snowfall of the season&quot; we are warned about it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There was some snow in my rain on the way to work today, but none on the way home. We shall see what tomorrow brings. I&#39;m not worried though, it&#39;s the weekend so most drivers will be more patient and I already have my snow tires on so I don&#39;t have to line up with the rest of vancouver to have them installed. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I plan to have a quiet relaxing weekend no matter what the weather is like. Snow will just result in more hot chocolate and perhaps the first fire of the season. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/11/snow-warnings.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-1197789227585947839</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-22T01:09:28.976-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cat</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fish</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hubby</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">son</category><title>Goodbye and hello</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKN2NmR-P2uxUODhr0m7PCNUoO0rn71v6elNmCadCwqSdfEdX2uka5JHN_pyU-4W-FCGmEo5Ws1cHnF1WUVMiudeoz0BOn7ijFJBtYUndru3U9PjpZT5tqUqjnM8gUMAWRp5vceVOGx0/s1600/P1000672-2+small.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKN2NmR-P2uxUODhr0m7PCNUoO0rn71v6elNmCadCwqSdfEdX2uka5JHN_pyU-4W-FCGmEo5Ws1cHnF1WUVMiudeoz0BOn7ijFJBtYUndru3U9PjpZT5tqUqjnM8gUMAWRp5vceVOGx0/s320/P1000672-2+small.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519612989307168658&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We said goodbye to a longtime friend last week. Spooky, the cat I&#39;d had for 12 yrs, passed away on Thursday. He went quietly at the vets office. I have to think that he is in a better place now. He had CRF and had been failing slowly over the past few years. The past months the changes were happening faster, he was slowing down a lot, wasn&#39;t coming to meet us at the door anymore (he use to be waiting for us before we got up the stairs), and seemed to forget where the litter box was more and more often. His overall behaviour was degrading as well, he had always had sooo much patience for Son, lately Spooky had been nipping at him almost before Son could say hello. It was very sad. He was not a happy kitty. We would sometimes let him outside to explore with supervision, but more and more he was going into the bushes and hiding instead of exploring. It freaked Son out when he couldn&#39;t find Spooky right away, he hated the thought of him going missing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spent a lot of time over the last year warning Son that Spooky was very very sick and might not get worse for a while, but that he would never get completely better. He knew that eventually the illness would win. This isn&#39;t to say that he was completely ready to say goodbye, neither was I. I still look over to side of the living room where Spooky&#39;s cat tree was expecting to see him curled up there. I still look for him on my bed to warm my feet. It is a very odd thing to put a pile of clean laundry down on the bed and know that when I come back there won&#39;t be a cat curled up on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will miss you Spooky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the things that helped Son cope with the idea of loosing a friend he had known for his entire life was the idea of getting a new pet. He knew it wouldn&#39;t be a dog or a cat, but a fish might be OK. He had seen his cousin&#39;s betta fish and thought that might be something we would get him. I was thinking a small 1 or 2 gallon tank with a couple of plants and a single fish. After reading more about Betta fish I realized that it would need about 5 gallons, still a fairly small tank, not a problem I thought just more room for plants or decorations. That was before Hubby started looking into Betta fish and tanks. Those of you who know Hubby know that he doesn&#39;t just do something, he researches and reads and falls in love with the process. This is what happened in regards to the fish. We now have a lovely &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aquariumswest.com/jbj_ad.html&quot;&gt;Nano Cube 12 Gallon Deluxe&lt;/a&gt;&quot; fish tank, lots of plants, and some wood for interest. The one thing we do not have is any fish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilkTPuAdblhbMiWLbK4sljRzdSjf0lVPdA2CsVuC-c52ullL7tXdHlrlD2x9FY04nxtOw7rbKEuUAvSOGismW6IepfHqQgmSVpzwBiANlKJf8sUMCsIneSnHgTg1ky9I1TECIhNMNp2lI/s1600/day1front.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilkTPuAdblhbMiWLbK4sljRzdSjf0lVPdA2CsVuC-c52ullL7tXdHlrlD2x9FY04nxtOw7rbKEuUAvSOGismW6IepfHqQgmSVpzwBiANlKJf8sUMCsIneSnHgTg1ky9I1TECIhNMNp2lI/s320/day1front.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519627926124639010&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We have been researching and learning and following instructions from the fish store.... then following new instructions from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aquariumforum/forumdisplay.php?f=66&quot;&gt;actual keepers of fish&lt;/a&gt;. The result of following the new instructions is an almost crystal clear tank with actual oxygen bubbles coming from the plants instead of a cloudy tank with sad looking plants. For some reason they didn&#39;t like the salt we put in the first batch of water, who knew? The addition of bio-and-fertilizer-infused gravel couldn&#39;t have hurt either. According to all we have read, we might actually be able to add in a fish or two in 3 weeks. Son is very very sad, he keeps asking when we are going to get a fish, any fish. I hate to  make him wait, but really I&#39;d rather not kill any fish... not this soon after loosing the first pet we had.</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/09/goodbye-and-hello.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKN2NmR-P2uxUODhr0m7PCNUoO0rn71v6elNmCadCwqSdfEdX2uka5JHN_pyU-4W-FCGmEo5Ws1cHnF1WUVMiudeoz0BOn7ijFJBtYUndru3U9PjpZT5tqUqjnM8gUMAWRp5vceVOGx0/s72-c/P1000672-2+small.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-5904055781208976192</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-07-30T23:54:03.028-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">writing</category><title>Treat for Myself  :)</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorlJp-nna9afAu40JrMVpP2oNDskyoSP1xtV1iN5R8QnQ7mY4J-XXlgnbUKdoNq6invJgGQAR5eKnT_ihpahU08qz-jh5SE8IzjYRXWcilTuT_X7D28c-C7NBYSqwnAc4t1YabCGheTA/s1600/100909_FountainPenStuff.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515027218958695938&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorlJp-nna9afAu40JrMVpP2oNDskyoSP1xtV1iN5R8QnQ7mY4J-XXlgnbUKdoNq6invJgGQAR5eKnT_ihpahU08qz-jh5SE8IzjYRXWcilTuT_X7D28c-C7NBYSqwnAc4t1YabCGheTA/s320/100909_FountainPenStuff.jpg&quot; style=&quot;cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 226px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I spoiled myself today. I took a trip into Vancouver to a lovely little penshop on Cambie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perksperks.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Perks&lt;/a&gt;. I have been interested in Fountain pens for ages and since I&#39;ve decided to improve my penmanship I figure I deserve to have a nice pen. I&#39;ve been lurking on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Fountain Pen Network&lt;/a&gt; for a while now and had a very clear idea of what I wanted for my first pen and what colour I wanted for ink. I had decided ages ago that I wanted to buy ink in a bottle rather than using cartridges, it&#39;s more cost effective and soooo many more choices!&lt;br /&gt;
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My first choice in ink colours, Midnight Blue by Noodler&#39;s, wasn&#39;t available so I got a lovely very dark purple called Purple Martin again by Noodler&#39;s. I took a picture of the ink but the sample doesn&#39;t show the purple shading that I can see in person.&lt;br /&gt;
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I had a good time in the shop looking at all the lovely pens well out of my price range and am very pleased with my purchase of a Lamy Safari pen the colour of which is &quot;Al-Star Purple.&quot; I&#39;m sensing a theme with these colours. *Grin* I also got a couple of Clairefontaine notebooks. I&#39;ve read a lot of rave reviews about these notebooks and didn&#39;t really understand why until I saw them in person. The paper is so smooth and so soft feeling, the pen just glides over the page with no resistance from the paper. I know I&#39;m going to enjoy practicing my printing and cursive in these notebooks.</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/09/treat-for-myself.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorlJp-nna9afAu40JrMVpP2oNDskyoSP1xtV1iN5R8QnQ7mY4J-XXlgnbUKdoNq6invJgGQAR5eKnT_ihpahU08qz-jh5SE8IzjYRXWcilTuT_X7D28c-C7NBYSqwnAc4t1YabCGheTA/s72-c/100909_FountainPenStuff.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-3501062527449106574</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-28T14:23:20.558-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Books</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">writing</category><title>Time to Improve My Handwriting</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 0, 204);&quot;&gt;I&#39;ve decided that I just can&#39;t live with my handwriting anymore. My new job involves printing patient names on the daily schedule and on the treatment pages of their charts. I also have to create legible notes for the other Receptionist and record any messages for the chiropractors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 0, 204);&quot;&gt;I know my printing is legible, but it&#39;s not pretty at all. I have decided that I will leave &#39;looped-cursive&#39; alone for now and try out the new/old style of writing called &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 0, 204);&quot; href=&quot;http://briem.net/&quot;&gt;Italic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 0, 204);&quot;&gt;. It&#39;s been around for hundreds of years so it can&#39;t be all bad. :)  I find it to be a very clear easy to read script and hopefully I can re-train my hand to write it. Anything has to be better than my current mix between printing and cursive (some letters joined some not, some cursive some printed).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 0, 204);&quot;&gt;The book I chose to help me change my handwriting, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Write-Now-Complete-Self-teaching-Handwriting/dp/0876780893&quot;&gt;Write Now&lt;/a&gt;, suggested I create a sample of my writing &#39;now&#39; to look back on. I&#39;ve printed the sample. I don&#39;t dare show my script, I don&#39;t think it has changed at all since I learned it when I was 9. There is something sad about being my age and writing like a 9 yr old. That is something I hope to change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsKy2ejDf2mjBmQMEp3XKcOMtQo0OiY8Y1_oCtJVGwdpirXWcUsRA_7NN9O3ws5jnUBWW1_guPhOxwuqBHmlcSQ1-a3pISWYvl912R7FMjA79rdYmVJUzerpv8elgFDVig6LaSoayr_Q/s1600/WriteNow_before_001.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 146px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsKy2ejDf2mjBmQMEp3XKcOMtQo0OiY8Y1_oCtJVGwdpirXWcUsRA_7NN9O3ws5jnUBWW1_guPhOxwuqBHmlcSQ1-a3pISWYvl912R7FMjA79rdYmVJUzerpv8elgFDVig6LaSoayr_Q/s320/WriteNow_before_001.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511648423517758130&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/08/time-to-improve-my-handwriting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsKy2ejDf2mjBmQMEp3XKcOMtQo0OiY8Y1_oCtJVGwdpirXWcUsRA_7NN9O3ws5jnUBWW1_guPhOxwuqBHmlcSQ1-a3pISWYvl912R7FMjA79rdYmVJUzerpv8elgFDVig6LaSoayr_Q/s72-c/WriteNow_before_001.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-5573214409981622128</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-21T22:40:53.273-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hubby</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">school</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">son</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">work</category><title>Summer is Almost Over</title><description>I can&#39;t believe the summer has gone by so fast. Actually the last several months have gone by pretty quickly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really enjoyed being able to be home with Son before and after school. I know he was happier home with me than at daycare. It was important to me to be able to work with Son on his printing and reading for more than 1/2 hr a day crammed in between dinner and bed. I think he learned a lot, hopefully he hasn&#39;t forgotten all of it over the summer! We still have a Math tutor coming in every week so I know that he has gained some ground there and I know his reading hasn&#39;t degraded, but I&#39;m still not sure if it&#39;s up to &#39;grade level&#39; whatever that is suppose to be. I&#39;m hoping that he gets a good teacher that will expect good things from him and not just accept the least he is willing to offer. He tends to &#39;test&#39; new teachers to see how little he can do and have them accept it. This lead to a huge difference in his printing and reading at home vs. school last year, with him doing better work at home. His teacher said that it was because he had 1-on-1 instruction at home, but the Resource teacher had no idea that he was capable of so much until we told her... in March!!! At least they all know what he can/could do now, and this information should be passed on to his new teacher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took a huge step this month, I got a job! I am now working 2.5 days a week at my Chiropractors office. This type of work is very new to me, I&#39;ve not had to deal with the public so much since my retail days back when I was working my way through BCIT. After almost 2 years of working from home this alone was a culture shock. Then add in medical files and patient payments and Gait Scans and you get an idea of all the little things that I have to learn in order to get through the day. My first full day alone kinda fell apart in the afternoon: I forgot to write in new patients on the Chiropractors schedule; I didn&#39;t schedule enough time to pull the next days files; I kept forgetting small steps that would have made the afternoon go faster; oh ya, and a patient called at 3:30pm to make an appointment for that day and wouldn&#39;t believe me when I said we were booked and closed at 5pm. All in all, it took me about an hour longer to close up than it should have. The next full day alone went much smoother, I was only 10 minutes behind. I have hope that I&#39;ll survive this and continue to get better at expecting the unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I said I wanted to work from home at least part of the time, but this is a good compromise.I will be able to walk Son to school 3 days a week and pick him up 2 days a week. Another Mom will take him home with her on the 3 days I work later and Hubby will pick him up from there. It should work out just fine for all of us. Not to say that if I had a chance to work only from home and walk him to and from school everyday that I wouldn&#39;t be tempted, but I&#39;m not holding my breath waiting for the &#39;dream job&#39; to show up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week will be all about learning to wake up early again. It figures that my Son, who would normally wake up at 7am no matter what time he went to bed, would pick this summer to learn how to sleep in. He usually wakes up between 8:30am and 9am now, which just won&#39;t work in a couple of weeks when school starts at 9am and he has to be fed, dressed and walked over there before that. I am planning to wake him up a little earlier each morning this week so that by the end of the week he&#39;s at least waking up before 8am. That is the goal anyway, wish me luck. :)</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/08/summer-is-almost-over.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-8882766222059194019</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-15T08:44:20.816-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Books</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sale</category><title>BookCloseouts - Sports and Recreation Sale</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bookcloseouts.com/default.asp?N=3291&amp;amp;promo=Sports+and+Recreation+Sale&amp;amp;rid=gdbooks&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 125px;&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErF2MScPYFc/TBeeSw8HhGI/AAAAAAAAAGc/eOwvWor7aB0/s320/sports_sale.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483025116558754914&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Swing into summer with our 80% off Sports &amp;amp; Recreation sale!&lt;p&gt;They have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcloseouts.com/default.asp?N=3291&amp;amp;promo=Sports+and+Recreation+Sale&amp;amp;rid=gdbooks&quot;&gt;selected  a fantastic amount of Sports &amp;amp; Recreation titles&lt;/a&gt; and discounted  them all by 80%. Take advantage of this hot offer to entertain and  educate yourself about all types of sports and recreational activities  locally and from around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All titles with the &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bookcloseouts.com/web_images/bc/icon_SportsSale.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;icon&quot; /&gt; are discounted by 80% To avoid disappointment, please do not  delay in ordering, as many titles sell out quickly.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/06/bookcloseouts-sports-and-recreation.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErF2MScPYFc/TBeeSw8HhGI/AAAAAAAAAGc/eOwvWor7aB0/s72-c/sports_sale.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-8880575871054382307</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-05-25T21:22:24.989-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eBooks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fictionwise</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sale</category><title>Fictionwise Anniversary Sale</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; &quot;&gt;&lt;table width=&quot;520&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bg style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color:#336699;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;color:#FFFFFF;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;heading&quot; height=&quot;17&quot; src=&quot;http://fictionwise.com/images/newsletter-whitearrow.gif&quot; width=&quot;13&quot; align=&quot;top&quot; /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNIVERSARY SALE -- STILL GOING!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/Z216542H5429/home.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(17, 65, 112); &quot;&gt;&lt;img hspace=&quot;3&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/images/10anniv_nl.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Fictionwise Anniversary Sale is still going!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For a limited time, every MultiFormat eBook is discounted 40% (Samhain Excluded) while every Secure eBook receives a 40% Micropay rebate when paying with a credit card or PayPal! This great offer can&#39;t last forever, so now&#39;s the time to restock your virtual library.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shop &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/Z216542H5430/home.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(17, 65, 112); &quot;&gt;Now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/05/fictionwise-anniversary-sale.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-2877858969318706214</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-24T15:10:37.395-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">son</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">work</category><title>No work, still busy</title><description>Well I&#39;ve been &#39;laid off&#39; for a month now and the time has flown by. I took a week to decompress and get use to the idea of not having to start work at 8:30 every morning. This was a great thing, I caught up on sleep and spent time with my family. Then I got a throat infection and was sick for over a week, not the most fun way to spend the time, but at least I wasn&#39;t missing work and feeling guilty while I recovered. Then came Spring Break for my Son&#39;s school, I had already planned to take that time off to spend with him. It was a good week :).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week I went to day 1 of Career Transition training to learn about how best to start my Job Search journey. The course is put on by Knightsbridge and is part of my severance package from work. I made some good contacts while I was there and while I knew that I would have to &#39;clean up&#39; and add information to my resume before, now I know that I will have to completely rework my resume to make it more effective. So much work to do as part of looking for work! It&#39;s a good thing I have some breathing room and can afford to find a job which is a good fit for me rather than just getting the first job that comes along.&lt;br /&gt;Transition training - Day 1:&lt;br /&gt;- Understanding Career Transition&lt;br /&gt;- Trends and Opportunities in the Marketplace&lt;br /&gt;- Reviewing Your Career&lt;br /&gt;- Developing your Target and Focus&lt;br /&gt;- Understanding how Employers Find People&lt;br /&gt;- Communication Strategies - Resumes and Cover Letters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m rather enjoying being home and avaivable for my son, I will miss that when I go to work. My ideal job would be as an Administrative Assistant or Software/Hardware help-desk type Support person either work from home, part-time in the office (10am-2pm), or flexible where I could work from home part of the time and work in the office part of the time. That would allow me to pick up my son from school and set him up with homework while I finish off my work for the day. He is very good at entertaining himself as long as he knows I am available if things go really wrong. I think I have been spoiled by working from home for so long. I have no troubles starting to answer emails at 7am  and checking for issues and finishing spreadsheets/documents up to 6pm, or later, since that usually comes along with a bit of flexibility which allows me to drop off and pick up my son from school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no illusions though, likely I will end up with a &quot;9-5&quot; go to the office job, but as long as I enjoy the work and the people I work with this will be fine. I have made sure to keep Son&#39;s spot saved for him at Daycare so that I can just slide him back into the system when my new job, whatever it turns out to be, starts up.</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-work-still-busy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-6896568823953438237</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-16T15:50:28.862-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eBooks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fictionwise</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sale</category><title>Fictionwise Sale - eSlick Reader Only $259 with $100 for eBooks</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/Z216542HC331/hardware/eslick/landing.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/images/eslick_nl.jpg&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With a crisp, paper-like E-Ink display and capacity for thousands of eBooks, the slim, easy-to-carry eSlick Reader is a great eBook device! In this LIMITED TIME OFFER, you can buy the eSlick reader for just $259.99 and get $100 in Micropay Rebates to spend on eBooks! Hurry, grey units are sold out, but white or black are still available. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/Z216542HC332/hardware/eslick/landing.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Don&#39;t wait, shop now!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2009/12/fictionwise-sale-eslick-reader-only-259.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-5742313709460210530</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-09T10:59:41.282-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eBooks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fictionwise</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sale</category><title>Fictionwise - 25% off until December 15, 2009</title><description>Fictionwise is offering a special deal for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.windowsphonethoughts.com/news/show/96164/special-thoughts-25-off-code-at-fictionwise.html&quot;&gt;Windows Phone Thoughts&lt;/a&gt; readers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;os_container_wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;os_body_wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;os_body_col_1_wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;os_container_wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;os_body_wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;os_body_col_1_wrapper&quot;&gt;Simply use the code &quot;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;thoughts25&lt;/span&gt;&quot; during the checkout process and receive 25% off your purchase. Now you can go grab some ebooks for your Windows Mobile device and have some reading material for the holidays. The coupon expires Tuesday, December 15th so hurry up and go get some books. Happy reading!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;This code works with the 40-60% discount for even more savings!</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2009/12/fictionwise-25-off-until-december-15.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-5248127567498003165</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-09T10:59:25.546-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eBooks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fictionwise</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sale</category><title>Fictionwise: End of Year Storewide Blowout!</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErF2MScPYFc/Sx_kS50v7EI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/Ny7vYm6GVsI/s1600-h/savebig4060.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 79px;&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErF2MScPYFc/Sx_kS50v7EI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/Ny7vYm6GVsI/s320/savebig4060.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413296290533469250&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;From now until December 31, EVERY MultiFormat eBook is discounted 40% to 60% and EVERY Secure eBook receives a 40% to 60% Micropay Rebate when paying with a credit card or PayPal! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/Z216542HC230/home.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Start Shopping Now!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2009/12/fictionwise-end-of-year-storewide.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErF2MScPYFc/Sx_kS50v7EI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/Ny7vYm6GVsI/s72-c/savebig4060.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-9205774613604577597</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-09T10:54:30.755-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Diesel eBooks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sale</category><title>Diesel eBooks - Black Friday - Cyber Monday Sale on eBooks.</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/masaff/masaff_jump.pl?uid=gdbooks&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; &lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.diesel-ebooks.com//mas_assets/masaff/masafftVbLrcZ6RK.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Diesel eBooks&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; / &gt; &lt;/a&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/masaff/masaff_jump.pl?uid=gdbooks&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Diesel eBooks&lt;/a&gt; for Black Friday - Cyber Monday Savings on eBooks.  15% off your entire order, use coupon code: BLACKCYBER.&lt;br /&gt;Valid Nov 27-30, 2009.</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2009/11/diesel-ebooks-black-friday-cyber-monday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656894471524601993.post-7795031400561677597</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-24T16:39:29.910-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fictionwise</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sale</category><title>Fictionwise: Black Friday Starts Now - 45/45 Storewide Sale</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErF2MScPYFc/Swx8Scmi-9I/AAAAAAAAAGI/ZGxkITyhV5A/s1600/fw_blackfriday_nl.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErF2MScPYFc/Swx8Scmi-9I/AAAAAAAAAGI/ZGxkITyhV5A/s200/fw_blackfriday_nl.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407833908922481618&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Most everyone loves this week of the year. Work for a couple days, then have a great meal with the conclusion of THE biggest shopping day of the year...Black Friday. At &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fictionwise.com&lt;/a&gt;, you don&#39;t have to wait all week to get those amazing Black Friday deals. Starting TODAY, every MultiFormat eBook is discounted 45% while every secure eBook receives a 45% Micropay rebate when paying with a credit card or PayPal! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fictionwise.com/Z216542HB430/home.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Show Now.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://justyrambling.blogspot.com/2009/11/fictionwise-black-friday-starts-now.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Justy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErF2MScPYFc/Swx8Scmi-9I/AAAAAAAAAGI/ZGxkITyhV5A/s72-c/fw_blackfriday_nl.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item></channel></rss>