When I was invited to attend The International Housewares show, I was super excited.  I was invited by both the Housewares show itself and also CLR.  What’s CLR?  It’s an awesome cleaning solution.  When we lived in Aurora, IL, we had the hardest water EVER.  Okay, maybe not the worst in the world, but it would leave that pink gross grimy stuff in our tub and sinks.  Nothing, and I mean nothing, ever worked to get rid of it.  That is, until I was introduced to CLR.  We used CLR exclusively, so I was happy to and represent them.  I even got to be their roaming reporter.  Here are a couple of the videos I made with them:

I’d recommend checking CLR. It was awesome! Here a few of the pictures I took while I was there:

A great time was had by all!

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It is amazing that ABC will take money from Exxon and other oil and energy companies to play their commercials.  However, when someone comes up with an ad promoting *gasp* other fuels to use, they refuse to play it. Come on ABC, what is the real reason this ad can’t play?  Big oil in your pockets too?  Here is the commercial that is RePower America is trying to use.  What do you think?  Why won’t ABC play this?

Please forward this on, so ABC gets it into their heads that this is not okay. Of all the crappy male enhancement commercials I am stuck watching on a daily basis, this commercial is good and they won’t play it. If you feel this is wrong, here is a petition to sign to let ABC know how you feel.

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Many of you know that I have been having major hosting issues as of late.  From July till now, my sites have gone down daily, and Bluehost’s support has been less than helpful.  I have used them for almost two years, so it was truly sad for me to have to even think about leaving.  I have never had the problems I was having.  If you read my blog, you will notice long absences (when I couldn’t even post due to not being able to even get to the backend of my blogs!), and I wrote about a lot of my issues.  My final straw was when support finally told me to delete my old posts and put them on a static page.  Well, that kind of defeats the whole purpose of a blog.  I think I just outgrew them. I do have to say that to cancel Bluehost was super easy, super fast, and they were super nice.

I had asked around quite a bit about what other hosts were out there that people liked.  One I heard a lot of good things from was Hostgator.  Before I made my decision, I even online chatted with some of their sales people.  The other thing that impressed me was that they are green.  I personally believe that every little bit helps and that if I can help the environment with my hosting, why not. Granted, Hostgator isn’t running their own windmills in downtown Houston.  Instead, they have bought RECs for 130% of the electricity used to power and cool its shared and reseller servers. What’s a REC?

Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) are tradeable credits representing all the environmental benefits of 1 megawatt hour of renewable energy. So when HostGator purchases 4,009 Texas wind RECs, it’s basically paying a Texas windfarm to generate renewable energy on HostGator’s behalf. HostGator doesn’t own the windfarm, but for every REC purchased by HostGator, that windfarm generates 1 megawatt of Texas wind power and puts it into the grid. When HostGator draws power from the grid, it can then claim credit for that wind power generated on its behalf.

Another thing I really like is that if there is a problem with one of your sites, they don’t pull them all down. That was a big grievance of mine before.  They will also transfer your domains and your files to them for free!  That was what really got me to come over to them.  They saved me hours of time of having to move my sites!  Every step of the way, I got an email letting me know what they were up to.  The only thing you end up having to do is check to make sure that your site looks good and to change your DNS settings.  It doesn’t get easier than that!

Any issues I have had so far have been dealt with quickly.  When I didn’t get my welcome email (due to my own typo), they responded to my ticket in 15 minutes.  I ended up sending in a ticket due to a WP hiccup last night (which I think was my fault too – lol) and had a response in about 2 hours.  I love that kind of customer service!  They have been nothing but nice and helpful.  The thing I love the best is that I went from throwing errors on all my blogs to not throwing any.  I am not sure how that happens, but I’ll take it!

If you are in need of new hosting, I highly recommend checking out Hostgator.  They are very competitive in pricing, and they are everything I wanted in a host.

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Madison’s new favorite words are pee and poop. It is all she talks about 24/7. She was calling everybody peepeeheads and such, but I at least got her to stop that. You would think that the kid would need some incontinence supplies after all this potty talk. Now, she just talks about pee and poop ALL THE TIME. Normally, I wouldn’t care too much, but we have several days with family coming up. I would prefer that we didn’t have this kind of talk — its a tad embarrassing. Any mommy advice out there?

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