I’m so sick of arguing with my son over screen time. We have a one hour limit of screen timein our home, and that includes computer, video games, and television. I believe kids should play, explore, and interact with their worlds, and not be plugged in to technology and passively experience life. My son, on the other hand, would like to stare at a screen all day if I let him. The problem is, it is hard to enforce that hour limit because he goes from device to device throughout the day, and I don’t remember how much time he has logged. Perhaps I should set up some sort of time sheet system, but even that sounds kind of hard to enforce. What would be really awesome would be if www.Direct.tv would come up with some sort of shut-off program where after your time is up, the tv won’t turn on again for 24 hours. That would be so nice, and end so many battles in our house over tv viewing and time.

I got my husband a new TV for Christmas. I knew I would probably regret doing it, but he has wanted a new TV for several months and I did a lot of research online and found a great deal on a 55 inch flat screen TV. I also did some research online for satellite TV by searching “DirecTV Chesapeake”. I found that we could get a pretty good deal on satellite TV in our area, so I set it up so we would have it once I gave my husband the new TV. Unfortunately, all my husband wants to do now is watch sports. He watches ESPN every morning before he goes to work and every night when he gets home. I have to admit that I am enjoying watching TV at night. I have found a few shows that I enjoy, and since we got DVR as well, my shows never interfere with my husband’s sports shows. Of all the sports that he watches, it irritates me most when he watches golf. I think that golf is so boring to watch. He usually watches it on Sunday afternoons and ends up falling asleep while he watches it. I am glad he is enjoying his Christmas presents.

Grrrr! Why am I mad you ask? Let me explain. I’m sipping my morning coffee while checking emails and Facebook this morning. I had a coupon for 30 percent off at The Gap so decided to click on over to their website and see if I could find something that struck my fancy. After all, it would be foolish to let a coupon go to waste! So, I found a few things that I decided I couldn’t live without, put them in my online shopping cart and proceeded to check out. Sounds like a great morning so far, right? It was until my internet went out! Again! This has been the norm lately and enough was enough. What’s a girl disconnected from the world left to do? Pull out her phone and use the internet from that. After almost going cross-eyed from searching for new internet providers on my 3 inch phone screen, I came across http://www.satelliteinternetbroadband.com/. Yes, please! I’ll take it! Now to get it and get back to my online shopping so I can use my coupon……

I recently broke up with my boyfriend of three years, so I’m ready to try and really renew myself. It’s really tough for me to think about living my life without him, but I’m welcoming it. I thought that now would be a really great time to give myself a mini makeover. I’m not ready to get back on the dating scene but I want to make sure that when that happens, I’m looking and feeling great about myself.

I used my San Francisco wireless internet to find some ideas on how to give myself a little mini makeover without a whole lot of trouble. I found one beauty blog that had a post about how putting on perfume can really change your mood.

I went perfume shopping and picked out a really nice smelling Guess perfume that just smells so great. I smelled it and it smells so much bolder than the perfume that I’ve been wearing for a while now, but not in an overpowering way. That’s exactly what I was thinking about for my new perfume.

It gets really, really hot here this time of year. I’m talking cook an egg on the sidewalk kind of hot. I guess that’s what you bargain for when you move to Houston like I did. There are a lot of ways to deal with the heat here like going to Http://ShopElectricityRatesTexas.com or installing a really high-powered AC system but there are more fun ways, too. There’s lot of great watering holes just outside the city and tons of public pool that make it easy to cool off. At night there are a slew of great rooftop bars that sell frozen drinks to help you stay cool and if all else fails you can always go inside a museum for a day! I don’t really understand why people complain about the heat so much – it’s really a fact of life when you choose to live here so I’ve really grown used to it. I think I’ll be living in Houston for a long time so I’ve definitely got that great AC system!