On that note in two weeks I have gone through more that 12 dozen eggs, two hams, 5 pounds of bacon, 6 pounds of sausages, more than a dozen pounds of steak, 10 pounds of pork chops, a couple of chickens, a couple dozen deep fried chicken legs among other stuff and dropped 20 pounds. For those who want to tell me low carb diets don’t work well you can kiss my hairy but nearly as fat ass.

20 pounds gone 120 to go!

Originally posted 2008-05-19 12:08:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

A life can’t be too screwed up though if you list books first among your favorite things.  I would recommend that she pick a few from the book listing I did earlier today.  Life goes on to further be good when you list pastries among your favorite things that is unless you of course have no pastries.  Ad those pastries to the movies or music she likes and it is a win!

In the end it is a quirky blog by a quirky girl!

Originally posted 2008-11-20 16:01:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Here are the advantages they claim for Avesil

• Avesil has had two research studies conducted
• They have a questions hotline
• Contains some good weight loss ingredients

It is certainly impressive, but they also list a few disadvantages

• Very costly at $89.95 per bottle
• Suggested serving size is 6 capsules per day
• The testimonials on their webpage seem made up
• They fail to list the amount of active ingredients

As with all weightloss products make sure you talk to your doctor and know that not every plan or pill will work for you.

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Originally posted 2009-01-04 17:42:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

So what am I expecting this time that will be different? Well unless the economy turns around and Katy can find a good job, any job she has will leave us getting social services including insurance, which will be different for me. Not having insurance for nearly seven years is what let me get as bad off as I did in the first place. I am also older, wiser, and have a more defined career path that works with staying at home. Writing and blogging aren’t considered “real work” by the bureaucrats so profits generated only have to be reported as made, but not income earned. The IRS takes a different view, but with two kids it should work to our benefit.

The unknown quantity for me is Liam. I don’t know if he will be a help or a hindrance or really how to train him to be helpful. For as smart as he is, he is also one of the most inefficient people I have ever met and I just want to strangle him for it regularly. I don’t of course, though some days I think I only don’t, because I know he is helpful come tax time.

Does anyone else have thoughts on how to train a regularly clueless ten year old to be helpful with a baby?

Originally posted 2008-04-25 10:12:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Originally posted 2008-12-25 17:26:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

• A good bath towel is preferable to a receiving blanket. Unless the person giving the receiving blanket has made them, which isn’t hard with a sewing machine and $2.00/yard material, a bath towel is infinitely cheaper, more durable, warmer, and has long lasting practicality.  I’ll make my case for this in a separate post, but here is the quick price comparison from Wal-Mart package of 4 20″x30″ thin yet cutesy receiving blankets, $12.00.  Terry cloth bath towels in the 24″x48″ size range can regularly be had for $2.00 to $3.00 each on sale.
• Stay at home parents should consider cloth diapers.  I’ll make my case for using them in another post too, but the financial end of it is easy.  Wal-mart’s price for a dozen name brand pre-fold cloth diapers is $11.49 and a package of six rubber pants is $3.00.  The generic newborn diapers at walmart are $12.00 for 56 and considerably more for the name brand ones.  The average baby is going to go through eight to twelve disposables a day depending on the baby, but for coparative purposes we’ll lowgball it at eight.  That equals $12.00 give or take a week in diapers.  Call it $50.00 a month for the first three months and theprice goes up from there sharply.  I recommend four packages of cloth diapers, two packages of diaper pins, and two packages of rubber pants, call it $60.00 after taxes.
• Don’t skimp on buying baby wipes, go directly for the large refill box of generics.  Wal-mart has their generic brand in packages of six (6) – eighty count packages for less than $8.00.  At nearly $4.00 each for an 80 count package in a semi hard plastic box, the price difference here is easy to figure out.  Though some people are going to gasp at this notion, most baby wipes can be washed, dried and reused at least once.  I discovered this by accident, but once I did I realized they are still much stronger than paper towels and good enough for some tough jobs like cleaning the surface of my flattop stove, inside the microwave, coffee spills, and any other job where liquid is involved.  My guess is they would be great for car detailing work too.
• Bottles are a pain to clean and sterilize unless you can keep on top of it.  Buy lots of small ones, a good bottle brush with a nipple cleaner, a 1 gallon batter bowl, and an electric kettle.  Since I have to hand wash my dishes to get them clean, I prefer to do a large lot of bottles at once, and do them separately from all the other dishes, or at least first.  If you have hard water this is about the only way to ensure they actually get clean and don’t end up with that scumy film the dishwasher leaves on plastics.  Once you get them clean sterilize them in boiling water. bottles, nipples, rings, and even their pacifiers.  I find the best and safest way to get boiling water fast is a cordless electric kettle.  It takes three or four minutes to get six or seven cups boiling which about fills the one gaqllon batter bowl I use to sterilize bottles in.  With a spout and handle you can easily pour the water water out later rather than fishing through a container of really hot water if you need something immediately.
• Don’t buy expensive baby detergent until you have used your normal stuff.  Telling parents they need special baby detergents for all of babies things is nothing more than an act of commercial terrorism playout out against parental paranoia.  Simply put advertisers know the mommy brigade will buy anything if you can convince them not doing so is not only the worst possible thing they canh do for their child, but makes you a bad parent if you don’t buy their product.  Some babies will have real skin issues and specialty soaps should be considered for them.  These conditions are very rare.  If clothes washed in your normal detergent irritate your babies skin simply add between a quarter and a half cup of borax powder to the wash cycle.  This usually solves the problem, which was caused by the detergent not fully rinsing away.
• Sleep and coffee are your friends.  Catch a nap whenever you can.  Television isn’t that important and frankly in this day and age can be watched after the fact very easily.  If the baby is asleep at eight o’clock make the most of it rather than staying up to catch Bones, House, or your latest favorite reality show.  You can download those shows later if you didn’t DVR them.  Drink as much coffee as it takes to be wide awake and properly alert.  Light roasted coffee, such as those designated breakfast blends, have the most caffiene for they cup.  A French Press coffee pot is an excellent gift for any parent to be.
• Don’t buy an expensive baby sling.  I can only do so many things at once and many of them require both of my hands.  If your baby is the type that demands to be held regularly this can hamper the other things you want or need to do. I blog for a living and sometimes making a deadline for a paid post has to be done no matter what Sarah wants from me.  I am not a person who can type one handed, so at first I improvised a baby sling out of a king size bed sheet which worked well enough to hold her in place next to me while I did other things.  This was hell on my neck, so I had to redesign it.  I will make a full post on this later, but you can easily make one the right size out of three to four yards of cheap material.  I paid $1.00/yard for mine as opposed to $25.00 for a fancy sling.

As I said before there are some things that just can’t be put off when you have a baby in your care and in a few minutes I expect Sarah is going to wake up and I will have to take care of them.  I have more tips and articles forthcoming.  Stay tuned.

Originally posted 2008-12-11 04:33:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Originally posted 2008-05-05 08:22:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Originally posted 2008-11-11 06:59:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Phosphacore a weight loss supplement from Applied Nutritional Research claims it will “dissolve 7 lbs and 2 inches of abdominal fat every week.” I don’t think I would get my hopes that high.

That seems like an awful lot to me. I know extreme weight loss is possible in a short amount of time since I have been on a low carb diet, but that doesn’t mean it came from a bottle. That was exercise and a big change in my diet. Anyway you look at it though if you are willing to buy the pills and look for a miracle make sure you talk to your doctor first.

Good Luck with the weight loss!

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Originally posted 2009-01-04 17:33:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

How young is too young to start your kids on the internet? I keep thinking I need to run a parenting course on this subject. Unless I can some how find a way to charge for it though I am not sure I can afford the time to do it. It needs to be done though. Someone needs to put the internet into perspective for parents who just don’t get it.

With a new baby on the way and a nine year old I am forced to visit the question of how young is too young all the time. Katy and I are rarely separated from out computers when we are home. They both sit in the living room. Everything we do is for household consumption. This is has been a way of life since we got broadband replaced with streaming television, clear radio broadcasts from around the world replaced the crap we could pick up locally, and last but not least the plethora of interesting information replaced most of our non-fiction reading materials. It is lots of cheap entertainment in one package.

Liam knows we are always connected, and is really starting to take an interest in it himself. His interest right now isn’t so much socializing as it is a substitute for traditional television. He loves the available online games almost as much as he loves my Xbox or his old Sega. The cartoons on Disney, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network sites have the potential to keep him occupied and out of trouble. Where the television was my babysitter, so be it the computer for this generation. There will come a time when those interests grow beyond that.

There are those who criticize electronic babysitters, but I usually tell them to kiss my furry ass. There was a time when parents could spend more time with our kids, and didn’t have eighty million other things we have to be doing. You take what you can get, wherever you can get it. I can look across the room, see where my son is sitting, and know what he is doing. If I am working, yes blogging is a full time job even if it isn’t bringing in a full time income yet. The same can be said of the short stories I write and send out for professional publication regularly or the novels at various stages. Writing anything, be it code or prose, is work. If I ever hope to make more than my disability payments, I have to devote time to that work and use any babysitter I can.

This brings me back to the question of how young is too young to let your kids go online and do their own thing. I am not talking about staying on half a dozen sites with no social interaction. I mean letting them explore for themselves, finding their own cool stuff, making their own friends? When do you do you start letting them create their own identity?

I am not suggestion that we abandon all supervision; you can’t ever do that if you are going to be a responsible parent. If your kids are going to use a site, service or the any new technology that comes along, it is your job as a parent to make sure you learn it too. As a twenty year internet veteran, I don’t have a problem with this. This isn’t the case with a lot of parents. While some kids might be too young to get involved with internet activities, the fact remains if they have an interesting in it, being too old to get involved just isn’t an excuse.

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Originally posted 2008-07-15 00:09:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter