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Links of Love

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Flavor Flav has his Flavor of Love show and I’ve got my links of love posts. I’m back with another issue of sites you don’t want to miss.

I’ll start with The Churning, this site is written by JJ and it’s a mix of eclectic posts from information about his band The Codes, to posts about whether, uh hum … There’s some interesting comments in that post. I’d say that for the most part this site is not for reading at work unless you know how to minimize quickly.

Momofthree has at least two great new blogs on her hands. The first site is called Coffee time (hey that’s the name of a popular coffee shop here in Canada, eh!) and it has a little bit of everything on it. Her other site is called Commonsense Critique and I’ve found that on that site Momofthree talks about a number of different products that really would be useful to have around in our day to day lives. Check out her sites.

The next site I want to tell you about is called Ambitiously Inquisitive. There’s a little bit of everything on this site. If you can’t find something that you like on the first page then you’re hard to please! There’s amusing stories and videos, tips on how to make money blogging, and personal tales. It’s worth a look.

I think that’s it for now! If I missed you and I had said I’d write about you please let me know.





It’s so sad to see teen drug addicts

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As an ER nurse I’ve seen more than my fair share of people who are battling with drug and alcohol addictions. While it’s bad enough to see adults who have addictions that in many cases have pretty much ruined their lives and their health, it’s even worse when I’ve had to care for a teenager with an addiction problem.

As you can imagine, since I work in the emergency department many of the these kids that come in with symptoms of alcohol or drug abuse have actually taken it too far and have over dosed. They are in life threatening conditions.

Some times the parents of these kids knew what was happening to their child but didn’t know where to turn for help or even tried to manage the problem in their own way at home. In a few cases the parents hadn’t realized that their child was in trouble until their kid ended up in the ER.

It’s for these reasons that I’m pleased to tell you about the Echo Malibu clinic. They specialize in teen drug rehab. They give these adolescents the highest quality professional care available, and also provide 24 hour support for the families of these children since addiction affects the whole family, not just the person with the problem.

If you suspect that your child or someone you knows child has an addiction problem please seek help through a clinic such as the Echo Malibu clinic before it’s too late.

Houston the pill has landed

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Just a quick update on my camera pill experience.

I won’t get into the gory details but the camera pill that I swallowed at about 7:30 am Wednesday morning made it’s way through my body without any major problems, even if I did feel awful all day Wednesday!

It passed through me about 16 or so hours after I swallowed it. Again, no details other than the fact that it wasn’t flashing pics anymore even though I smiled down at it and said “cheese”!

All I can do now is sit and wait and hope that it took pics of my bad areas of small bowel, and that it made it’s way to the end of my small bowel (15 feet to travel!) before the transmitter was returned to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon. If it didn’t then I just wasted $1100 that I can’t afford to begin with let alone have it wasted on a test that didn’t do it’s full job.

Great prices at Office Supply Outfitters

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Are any of you in charge of purchasing office supplies for your company? Or perhaps you own your own business and look after buying supplies yourself? Well if you do buy office supplies- even for your own home office you might be interested in visiting the Office Supply Outfitters.

I know that I’m took a look at their ink cartridge category to see if they carried ink cartridges for my Cannon Inkjet printer and guess what? They do, and the prices are at least half the price of what I’ve been paying for them in the store. I’m pretty sure that my ink is beginning to run out and I might even place an order with this company tonight so I’ll have the new cartridges when I need them.

Office Supply Outfitters has quite an impressive supply of toner cartridges, printer supplies, inkjet cartridges, fax supplies and even MICR toner. They even carry fax and cash register ribbons if you need those types of items for your business.

I know that there are times when I go through a lot of ink and printer supplies. I do a lot of graphic work and printing out photos uses up a lot of ink. I don’t mind, but I’ve always been keeping an eye out for deals on inkjet cartridges for lower prices than what I’ve been paying. I’m very pleased to say that I think I’ve found a company that I’d be happy to order from.

They ship throughout the US and on their shipping information page it mentions that they ship items overseas so I’m assuming that they would ship to Canada since that isn’t even overseas for this West Coast company. If they do ship to Canada I will be placing an order.

Check them out for yourself if you are in need of office supplies. I’m sure you’ll be pleased by their selection and by their prices as well.

The facts, just the facts

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Daisy from the BlueApron tagged me! This time the meme that I’ve been tagged with is “6 Random Facts” and I have to write out 6 random facts about myself.

I’m pretty sure that I’ve done this meme a few times now, but I’ll play along. I’ll get you Daisy!

1. Well, if you read my Thursday Thirteen this week you’ll discover that I’m probably one of the only people you kinda, sorta know who happens to have had a camera pill floating around in their insides.

2. Being female you’d think that there’d be a number of distinctly female things that I would enjoy, like perhaps, shopping? Nope! I hate shopping. I only get really lucky and find things that are absolutely perfect about two or three times a year when I’m shopping. the rest of the time I’m sadly disappointed. Of course on those rare days when I’m having luck shopping I turn into the ultimate female shopper, so watch out!

3. Here’s another thing that many females are known for – talking on the phone. Well I can’t stand it. I just want to know the facts, where to meet, how you are doing, feeling, how your family is and that’s about it. I’d rather talk in person than on the phone. I just spent two hours today talking on the phone. That’s my quota for the month. Honest! My normally non-talkative brother had me on the phone for about 30 minutes today talking about his upcoming trip to India (lucky guy!), and my sister took up the other hour and half. I think part of the reason I dislike talking on the phone so much is because my ear starts to hurt where the receiver is pressing against it. I end up with red ears for about an hour after a long telephone call.

4. Oh and I don’t like watching Soap Operas! I know, I’m breaking all the female rules but I don’t care for soap operas or talk shows at all.

5. Gossip is another pet peeve. I really get turned off when people talk about others behind their back. Especially if there isn’t a good reason for it. I appreciate honesty and truth more than anything.

6. My favorite car, that I’ll probably never own, is a Porsche 911 Carera. I like the older, 80’s style best. I really don’t know much about cars and models but that one is burnt into my brain. I can pick it out from just a shadowy view.

Who should I tag? Daisy called her tagging revenge but I never did anything to her! LOL I will however seek revenge on her someday when I have meme to pass on. Just you wait Daisy, I’m going to make sure it’s a good one! I think I’ll tag Kyle because he hasn’t done many memes and he tagged me with the last one that I did.

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