Yep…up way too late, and I ended up watching QVC online. There was a two-hour Bare Escentuals show on, and I watched it. All two hours of it. I didn’t REALLY need anything, but of course, I got sucked in.
I bought the kit you see here…the I Love BE Grand 9-Piece Color Collection. It’s actually an excellent value for the money, because, unlike some of the other kits they have on the Q, this one has full-sized product. I had been considering getting just the Rare Minerals Night Treatment, it’s $60 but they had it on Easy-Pay…but then I saw they had the same full-sized product in this kit, for not all that much more money. And I’ll actually use the other stuff in the kit, the colors are to my liking, and I would definitely use the foundation. The kit was on Easy-Pay, too, which I like.
When I first started using BE, I was getting foundations auto-shipped to me every few months. But then I did the math and realized that this was not very cost-effective. It is actually cheaper to just go to Sephora or the BE Boutique at the maul and buy them there. But it’s even cheaper when they come in these QVC kits..many kits come with a foundation, so I’ll have enough that way. So I quit the auto-ship thing…actually, I never formally told them that I quit…my credit card with them expired and I just didn’t bother updating it. And they just quit sending me stuff. Works for me! I wish that Proactiv was that easy to cancel!
So, I got a great deal here…if you’re looking for a nice BE bundle o’stuph, get on over to the Q and check it out. I’m glad I watched…I guess I could have just whiled away my insomnia by reading sites like allireviews.com…but this was better and more useful to me! I can’t wait to get my new goodies!
Well, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Our dinner went really well, everything I made turned out to be very tasty! We especially loved the turkey cooked with beer…we’ll definitely do it again next year, maybe with a different beer.
So now, I’m thinking about Christmas dinner. What beers to have, what food to cook. I like to cook duck for either Christmas or New Year’s…by then, we’re all turkeyed out and want something different. I don’t want to have so much turkey sitting around, that it will still be there when I’m ready for Medicare supplement insurance!
I saw Lidia Bastianich cooking a duck on her TV show, and she served a dish of lentils and rice with it. I might try that for a holiday dinner. The recipe is in her new book, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, which I just ordered. Not just for the duck recipe, but because I love her and her books, and wanted to get it anyway.
I also pre-ordered Julie & Julia on DVD, which is due to be released on December 8. Just $9.99, can’t beat that price! No extras, I hear, just the movie, but I’m happy!
You many need to pop a diet pill or two before you go. TGI Friday’s is currently running a promotion to introduce some new salads and sandwiches to their menu. Not only are all of the NEW salads and sandwiches selling for just $5.00, but so are all of the older ones on the menu. They say that this is for a limited time only, so stop by soon to take advantage of this!
I tried the new meatball sandwich there last night. Very tasty. They now have homemade potato chips to go with this and other items, and I greatly love them!
If you go to Friday’s, be sure to sign up for their Give Me More Stripes loyalty program. You can sign up online right now, print out your temporary card, and start earning stripes right away. As a member of this program, you not only earn points, or *stripes* towards free food coupons, but you also get emails about other cool money-saving promotions. And it is completely free to join!
Yummie! 
Sizzix.com has a new coupon deal out now. From now until March 16, you can buy any 35-die alphabet set for just $34.99. Just enter coupon code Alpha031009 at checkout to get this special price. You can see the full selection of these sets HERE. These retail for up to $149.99, and will likely sell out quickly at this price!
Michaels has finally gotten with the program and has been offering their 40% coupons via email. You used to only be able to get them if you bought the Sunday paper. But, as you may have heard, newspapers aren’t doing very well, more people are getting their news from TV and online. Both A.C. Moore and Joann’s have been sending email coupons to their subscribers for years now; Michaels has only started this within the past six months or so. I’m very happy about this because we stopped getting the paper completely.
Here is the latest Michaels coupon. It is good through Saturday, March 14.
And here are a bunch of Joann coupons, for various types of items. These can be used either in-store or online.
Happy crafty bargain hunting!
…but I’m sure glad it does! This is a wireless keypad that you would use with a laptop. You just plug that little whosit into a USB port on the laptop, and voila! You now have a numeric keypad just as there is on a regular desktop keypad!
Last night, I was once again trying to get Mike’s work laptop to connect to the DSL here at home. I think I’m actually getting somewhere with this never-ending efort…now the laptop is picking up a strong signal from the modem/router that’s connected to my desktop. Only thing is that it STILL won’t connect to the internet. Gonna try to find out what I need to do to fix this. So close, yet still so far…sigh!
Anyhoo, one of the most annoying things about working with the laptop is that it doesn’t have that numeric keypad on the side, only the numbers on top. On my desktop, I always use the keypad when typing in numbers, to me, it’s so much easier and faster. It’s very frustrating to not have it on the laptop.
As I said, I had no idea that something like this even existed. So, I wasn’t even looking for such a thing when I went to check out the weekly deals at Buy.com. But when I saw it, on sale for about ten bucks, to boot…I had to go ahead and order it. Normally these sell for about fifty bucks, but this one is refurbished, and I was able to order it at a huge saving. I also got free shipping, too.
This isn’t just for my own convenience when I use the laptop. Mike uses numbers a lot in his work, and this will make it easier for him, too. This thing is very compact, he can keep it in one of the pockets in his laptop bag so it will always be handy.
Hey, for ten bucks, it’s hard to go wrong!
