Who should I write to use these labels.

By on March 31st, 2009

I am cleaning out my pantry in my kitchen (a job that has been neglected for FAR TOO LONG.)
I am scavenging through ‘all the stuff’ that has managed to pile in there.
I find a LIBRARY of self-adhesive mailing labels with my mailing info. from misc. companies %Red Cross, American Diabetes Foundation, American Kennel Club, etc.
Myself being one who reasons “WHY NOT.” when posed with an opportunity, I view these many (well over 2,000.) mailing labels as an opportunity to use them.before they all dry out.

My question is who should I snail-mail in aim to use these many mailing labels. Since everyone I know already has an E-mail address and prefers E-correspondence over snail mail, I know no one to snail mail.
Also with the outrageous POSTAL costs that everyone pays, I wonder if this will be worth the expense.
Well, for all who know me know how *tight* I can get when it comes to spending money (I am known to squeeze the blood out of a Turnip to save a penny.)
Anyone with ideas is appreciated to reply.
Thanks

(Somewhat Subtle) Noise Songs For The Past Two Days #129 and #130.

By on March 30th, 2009

Boredom: intended or not. Oh Charles, Mother of Robes, when will you be assumed. When will you stand on an island and be worth anything. I do not think it is ever going to happen. When will they blush at you and turn red with an overwhelming sense of embarrassment. Though, I think that will never happen. take place. or anything else like that. When will you remove your sunglasses and become an integral part of the diverse, ever-changing, fickle youth. sign up in the broken down cardboard, it is expecting you. anyway, to a tangent. Get your bottle and its note that fills it. stand out by your medal and display it with all the arrogance that surely follows, accompanies. The pavement will not bother it, it does not become involved in such things. the green soft is being placed on you. Do the children see what is wrong with them. Ah, I doubt it. Find the house and go into it. the architect is anonymous. you will not find any lights. bookcases. chairs. kitchens. foreign furniture. closets full of hard shoes. nothing. You will find people, from the past and the present alike. though, they will be silhouettes waiting for it and you. the door opening will reveal their faces for a small second. The black shading will transfix some and not so much for others. Crawl past the window and see it: a variety of gypsies, thinkers, artists and so on. they are all just sitting. Taken in the viciousness of over purple and decide the behindment is not aware of its complete and total emotion. This is awful, terrible, uninspired. stick this in the fireplace and set it ablaze.

http://www.last.fm/music/Thurston+Moore/_/Queen+Bee+And+Her+Pals
http://www.last.fm/music/Sonic+Youth/_/Shoot

So.
Oh sir, those were very much so intended.

Where are all these flies coming from.

By on March 29th, 2009

My husband and I live in Florida and just moved in a rental home about a week ago. We set off a few bug bombs a week ago and there were a few dead roaches but no flies. The last 3 days we have been finding tons of dead flies, picked up about 30 yesterday and about 25 today. We have seen a few live ones but they are really slow or are flipped over and twitching. We have a grapefruit tree in our backyard but we haven’t seen any flies around the fruit. We set the bombs a week ago and I think if something was simply dead we would for sure smell it by now. More rooms seem to have more than others, mostly in the kitchen and laundry room but none in the kid’s rooms. Any ideas why we have so many dead flies around.
I took a few pics, it is a little blurry though. Just let me know where to send them. They have a gray abdomen and the rest of their body is speckled gray and it looks like they have a red head.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skieinc/2636508927/
kind of like that fly
Oh and there is something really funny/stupid with this house. The vent in our laundry room doesn’t go anywhere, it just blows into the wall. Could this maybe be causing the problem. We have a attic but we have looked in there.

Buying a wedding (not shower) gift off-registry.

By on March 28th, 2009

Hi there, wondering what is your opinion on this:

I am attending a wedding in a week that is out of state. We did not attend a shower but want to bring a wedding gift. The wedding is my BF’s cousin and fiance; BF is the best man. The only registry I know of has been 98% fulfilled with only dollar-items left like a nutcracker and kitchen shears.

So, boyfriend and I were thinking of going out and purchasing a really nice digital photo frame, and an SD card and loading it up with photos of the couple and family and leaving the SD inserted so that when they turn it on it displays pictures.

My other thought was to take pictures of the ceremony and then in the time between the ceremony and the reception, inserting the card in the frame and wrap it up before the ceremony. I am somewhat photoshop inclined so I also have designed a .jpeg image with both of their names and their wedding date in pretty script to run at the beginning of the photo slide show.

Thoughts on this. Acceptable or not.

Men, you wake up and you realize you’re in the 1930’s with a perfect wife, will you be happy.

By on March 27th, 2009

You wake up, and your wife calls you, and you smell breakfast.
You get up and you see shoes shine so nicely done,
pant and shirt iron nicely.
You dress yourself and you go downstairs.
Your wife gives you a kiss on the cheek, “Good morning, honey. I made breakfast just the way you like it.”

The kitchen is so clean, the whole house is clean.

And you got a baby on a high chair, on clean diaper and all, “Da Da”

Your wife says, “Oh that is his first word, oh this is so wonderful.”

And you sit down at the table and she serves you breakfast. “Hurry up and eat, so you won’t be late for work.”

Will you like that, you’ll stick around. or will it freak you out. and you like the modern women nowadays much better.
well if you invented internet, then your wife will use the internet all day, ignoring the baby. and the house will be a mess.

Help my dissertation and answer my short survey please.

By on March 26th, 2009

It will only take 2 minutes and it will really help me out.
I’m redesigning part of a kitchen for my final university project.
Leave a note to say that you have completed it, and ill select a best answer in a few days - 10 points peeps.

Follow the link,

http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp.sid=1wquudww7u3v1dl564858

what do you think this dream means.

By on March 25th, 2009

i’m not much for believing in dream interpretations but i have to ask this one. I always dream of living in different beautiful houses i absolutely love. in the dreams i’ll be doing this or that, whatever, this part isn’t important but what i find fascinating is how i can conjure up in my head so many different houses. for example sometimes it’s an old english type castle where you can walk out to a lake from the bedroom, or maybe something more modern with a solarium just off the kitchen, or something old and remodeled with a beautiful staircase just inside the front door. etc. etc. etc. .what’s common is that they’re always beautiful, i love them deeply, and they’re myne.
i can’t get over how i can be so creative with my architecture. one of these dreams will occur on average once a month or more for the past maybe eight years.

p.s. no i don’t love the show cribs and no i don’t wish i were an architect

Is this normal for a gallstone attack.

By on March 24th, 2009

I know this is bad but I have no kitchen do to remodeling so I ate one of those costco hamburgers for breakfast. They are a little fattening. I didn’t get a gall stone attack. Then I ate lunch. I had three carne asada tacos and no gall stone attack. Then around eight at night I thought I’d have the 5 wonton shrimp soup which is not fatty at all and then went to bed. My stomach started hurting really bad. Can I get a gallstone attack from fatty foods I may have eaten 8 hours earlier. I had the initial excrusiating pain for three hours. Then after that, I had a really bloaded stomach and a really bad dull blunt pain not as bad as the sharp excruciating pain but enough to make me cry and keep me up the whole night. I couldn’t lay down or put any pressure on my stomach because it hurt. Is that normal for a gallstone attack or is everyones gall stone attack different.

how to hang a heavy mirror.

By on March 23rd, 2009

I live in a house that is over 100 years old it was built around 1880 and live in what i believe would have used to be a very large attic. The walls are painted and the plaster/ insulation or whatever seems to contain horse hair or hair of some sort. The walls seem to be constructed with thin wooden slats. I have been able to hang a few pieces of light weight art with no problem but plan on hanging a heavy mirror, about 10 pounds i think, on a wall in my kitchen. The mirror is framed by wood and the back of the mirror has brown paper backing that is stapled shut. There is a very secure wire that runs across the back of the mirror, which is a little higher than centered that is pulled tight. I have tried to hang the mirror using several nails and hooks all leveled and hung from the various even places along the wire, however the mirror weighs them down and they are not sturdily in the wall and unsecure. The mirror will also be on the wall right next to my back porch door which is relatively heavy and glass and there is also an older screen door that sometimes slams, as my dog sometimes like to push his nose against it to try and open it but never succeeds. Anyhow, I’d like to try and figure out some way to hang it there yet have no idea how to do so. I have basic tools like a level, a hammer, screw driver, nails, etc, but not a power drill but i could definitely borrow one if needed. I will go to the store and purchase the supplies I need if you can tell me in some detail how to hang this mirror as I am slightly home-improvement dumb. full points for best answer

We really need a kitchen re-model. How do I sign up to be on HGTV.

By on March 22nd, 2009

Hi everyone . Ok , We moved into our house about 5 years ago , and we have tackled almost every single problem the house had ( which was basically every single room) except the kitchen. Here are all the deign dilemmas:

1. its a 70’s kitchen
2.tan laminent flooring
3. white run down appliences
4.hole in the wall behind the key holder
5.the cabinets are practically falling off the hinges
6.tan laminent counter tops
7.metal molding around thos counter tops
8.brown/white/gold/tan blacksplash
9.wooden paneling all throught out.
10.terribley scratched up sliding glass door.
11.one section of counter top which has the dishwasher in it , actually separated from the wall and the other counter tops.
12. its small
13. enourmous lack of storage space.
14. lack of light
15. dated appliances.

I wanted to sign us up for ” Divine Design” if any of you have heard about it. But I visited the hgtv website and was exactly sure how. Can someone help :p.