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Give sloppy kisses to your loved ones

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Now here’s a site that I think might be of interest to my readers. Are you a dog lover? I bet you are, and if you’re not I’m sure you know some people that just adore dogs of all types.

The site is called Sloppy Kiss Cards. I love that name, don’t you? It’s perfect for the site considering that it’s a site that has animated Ecards for dog lovers. Get it? The site has over 35 dog breeds to select from and you can even name the dog that stars in the card that you create.

You can browse the site and have fun picking out dogs and cards and creating cards but you need to sign up for a membership to actually send a card to a friend or loved one.

I played with creating card and I just loved the card I created. I choice a dachshund that looked exactly like one that brother used to have, choose the name Sammy because that’s what that’s dog name was and made a card for my husband. I picked the I love you card. It showed the dog on the beach, near a billboard that said I luv you, with office buildings in the background that’s lights spelled out I love you and so on. It was really cute. At least my husband got to see the card when I made it.

Since there is no advertising on the site, the site gets its funding through membership. Membership only costs $9.95 for a year and once you are a member you can send an unlimited number of cards. A portion of the membership fees will go to support Petfinder.com.

I love this site. Please do check this out if you are a dog lover and let me know if you agree that its a fantastic find.






Dreaming of living in exotic lands

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Living in a predominantly Greek area of the city I’ve learned quite a bit about Countries such as Greece and Turkey. Actually I also learned a lot about these Countries and their people when I worked in the jewelry trade too now that I think of it. As a result of living and working with people from these two Countries I’ve developed and interest and I’d love to visit both Countries one day.

Actually living in a Country such as Turkey would be very interesting. I’ve looked at a lot of pictures and the country is just gorgeous. Not to mention that many of the popular plants that I grow in my garden – the rose for one – are said to originally come from Turkey.

Looking at this Turkish real estate site makes me drool. I wish I could just pack up and move to such an exotic land. Perhaps some day if I get working on developing my earning potential and get healthy and get back to work I’ll be able to afford one of the beautiful Mediterranean style homes that are featured on the above mentioned site.

I can dream can’t I?

Improve your Karma

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Have you heard of Karma? That’s when you do something good and somewhere a long the line good thing happen to you. Some people actively work towards building their Karma – I know you are thinking of the TV show “My Name is Earl” aren’t you? Well yes, Earl has changed his life by righting wrongs that he’s done and seems to be improving his Karma, but so has a man named Sven Goodsson.

Sven started a site ImproveYourKarma.com to chronicle his path towards improving his own Karma and I must say – just from my first glance at it I think it’s hilarious. You must see him running in place a la exercise and diet guru Richard Simmons.

The site offers ways to improve your own Karma, plus a way to boost both his and yours too. For the latter – if you purchase a Motorola Red phone through his site a portion of phone use and the purchase price goes directly to the RED charity started by Bono of U2.

The Karma site also features a Monitor that you can place on your site that analysis your site looking over the words you’ve used in your posts and comes up with a page Karma rating. There is also a feature that analysizes photos that you upload and it scans for key colors and then provides a aura analysis of your photo.

The site looks fun, has ways for you to contribute to good causes and ideas on how to improve your own karma rating. Check it out for yourself.

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