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Karma

Filed under Things I Really Like by Jen on February 1, 2012 at 5:34 pm {one comment}

Thanks, Neasha! I swiped this off your Facebook page.

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New Online Shopping Love

Filed under Things I Really Like by Jen on February 1, 2012 at 10:50 am {no comments}

Years ago I did eBay. Back in the good old days eBay was a great way to make a little money selling things you no longer had any use for and a way to find things that weren’t available in stores. If you could figure out how to drop ship several products it was apparently a great way to earn tons of money. However, like all good things that must come to an end eBay got gamed by unscrupulous sellers and buyers which ruined it for everyday sellers just trying to clean out there basement or get rid of old baby clothes.

I gave up an eBay a long time ago and figured since they still cornered the market, and I didn’t have time to figure out Amazon, I’d give up selling my stuff online and buying other peoples stuff.

Now there is a new kid at the online shopping table, it’s called CentrSource and it’s pretty cool. CentrSource is an online shopping network that allows you to find offers that are relevant and in your neighborhood. They allow their trusted sellers to reach you with targeted and local offers. It’s easy to use and the search results only produce offers that are of interest to you because you built the parameters. You can shop online and you can sell online, you get reward points called SourcePoint$ every time you refer a friend to join your shopping community. The cool thing is the offers are not only made by joe average person but also by well known brands.

Additionally there are coupons and group offerings like on Groupon or Living Social. It’s as if they took the best of all the different online shopping methods and put them all together.

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Let me eat cake!

Filed under Food, No Carbs, Things I Really Like by Jen on January 17, 2012 at 12:01 pm {9 comments}

(Do you have any idea how many people, when writing about cake, use the title ‘Let them eat cake’? Lots, so I changed the title of this post to something more accurate but less French.)

: Mine will not look like this. Photo by Oxmoor House

Today is my birthday and I am going to have cake!

I’ve never been so excited about cake before but that’s what happens when you give up carbs for New Year’s. For those of you who still eat carbs (you suck) you have no idea what it’s like to go a whole 16 days without carbs. Specifically chocolate.

I’m pretty sure we weren’t meant to do that.

I’m not a huge cake fan, certainly not like Cardiogirl who lives for cake. In fact she knows that cakes often get thrown out over in this house and suggested I send the leftover birthday cake to her. I may just do that.

Deny yourself something and it starts looking really good. Who knew?

I have been thinking about cake, birthday cake, for the last three or four days. I’ve been so looking forward to my day with cake that I’ve been unable to concentrate on much of anything. I watched two episodes of Cake Boss last night and even Cupcake Wars. If you saw my Facebook status update last night you know that both Armageddon and Die Hard were on TV last night (my all time favorite movies and no I don’t have a thing for Bruce Willis {okay, maybe just a little leftover crush from the days of Moonlighting but now that he has been with Demi he’s kinda tainted in my book even though he seems really mellow}) so for me to watch shows about baking instead of the awesomeness that is Bruce Willis saving the world is pretty telling. I won’t even get started on what a waste of time shows about baking are. Is there really that much arguing and fighting going on in bakeries?

Even bad cake is good cake

I don’t know what kind of cake I am going to have but I can tell you that since I will be the one who has to bake it it won’t look like the cakes on those TV shows. It will be a bundt cake because I can’t find my other cake pans. Being a bundt cake means it will be all misshapen on the sides because cakes never come out of the pan without ripping apart. I don’t even care because cake is like sex. Even bad cake is good cake. I suspect it will be chocolate.

So here is to me and my cake on my birthday!