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One of my best buds over at MommyTalk.com gave me the heads up on this new site that you have to check out! It doesn’t get any better than this: shopping, socializing and mommies all in one place! Compare products and things your baby likes with that of your friends without the long distance charges. See the press release below:

MommyTalk.com (http://www.mommytalk.com) announced today that the social networking site for moms will partner with Wishpot to host a virtual launch party for Wishpot Baby (http://www.wishpot.com/registry/baby/), a baby shopping space with a social twist. Wishpot Baby went live on Tuesday, July 1.

The virtual launch party, held in the MommyTalk chat room (http://www.mommytalk.com/chat) on Wednesday, July 9 at 9 p.m. EST, will give MommyTalk members and visitors a chance to chat live with Wishpot’s Chief Mom Officer, Jessica Smith. Party attendees who have an active Wishpot account can win giveaways from Mom Generations (formerly Pinks & Blues), Ely Organics, The Pear Project, GreatAupair.com, Sally Walker Design and toteandtee.com.

“We’re thrilled to share MommyTalk.com’s first-ever virtual launch party with Wishpot Baby. It’s such a great concept and now MommyTalker’s and visitors will get a first glimpse and inside-scoop,” said Rachel Dunn, senior editor of MommyTalk.com. “Many of our members have been playing with the site during its beta version, and they already love it!”

Wishpot Baby’s free shopping service allows parents to shop anywhere and keep one registry. Parents can share their registry with family and friends, recommend favorite items, explore gift suggestions and ask for opinions and advice from mom experts.

“We are committed to helping parents find the right products for baby in an easy-to-manage environment where parents can obtain feedback, recommendations and more,” said Smith. “We are so excited about the virtual launch party and partnership with MommyTalk.com.”

Since launching in August 2006, MommyTalk.com has teamed up with numerous organizations, such as AskPatty.com, ClassyMommy and Partnership for a Drug-Free America, whose mission align with the goals and vision of the site and its member base.

For more information, please visit www.mommytalk.com or www.wishpot.com.

About MommyTalk.com
MommyTalk.com was created in 2006 “by moms, for moms,” to help keep families and friends connected through an online social community. Members have access to free services such as creating personal family (and kid) home pages, uploading photos, participating in forums, blogging, emailing and chatting. MommyTalk.com is based in Phoenix, Ariz. For more information, visit www.MommyTalk.com or call 480.250.4315.

About Wishpot
Wishpot, founded in 2006 out of Seattle by veterans of Microsoft, is a personal and social shopping utility that makes it easy to discover, share and purchase interesting products. Visit www.wishpot.com/registry/baby for more information.

What’d I tell ya? The best thing since MySpace! Be sure to check it out and tell ‘em I sent ya!

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I’ve had a T-Mobile account for something like five years now, close to that anyways, maybe four. Overall I would say I’m pretty well satisfied with the service. I’ve used Sprint, which sucks. I’ve used other companies I can’t recall now because it’s been so long, and I’ve thought about switching to some other company before for the options in cell phones, or for various reasons.

But overall I’d say I’m satisfied. The customer service is incredible, the people are nice on the phone and have always thanked me for being a customer, every call - never fails. I like that - I like that I utilize a company that is hip to the customer service game. Having been a “customer service specialist” in a call center before (at a medical center but that’s beside the point) I really get irritated with bad service. That’s not a beef I have with T-Mobile.

I realize every cell phone company is going to drop a call or two, and you need to read the fine print on those that brag about the least amount of dropped calls, because usually they’re referencing a time from years ago, but if you’re just listening you don’t know that. Last time I watched a Cingular commercial they were saying they don’t drop calls and their fine print told me that the time mentioned was for a time four years prior!

Truth in advertising my butt. Regardless, I like TMo, they have great commercials and the Fav Five is an awesome little feature, turns out I do call a certain five people pretty regularly! Wow! I don’t lose calls a lot, it’s so seldom I can’t remember the last time.

The only thing I would criticize is their upgrade policy and contract termination policy. It’s a fee per line when you terminate, and though I started with one, I have three now. And you have to wait a year and a half for the full discount new customers get when you want to upgrade your phone. To boot, when you upgrade you have to sign a new contract if you want the discount - for the full discount right now you have to resign for two more years.

Now you know cell phone technology, it’s ever changing, in four months your new phone that cost you $400.00 is now being given away free as an incentive because there’s better technology out to charge $400 per phone for!

But for customer service, reliability, range and overall usability - I would advocate T-Mobile. I’ve stuck with them for four years, that’s a pretty big deal for me! I give them three and a half stars out of five.

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We’ve had the Wii here now for about a year. We initially bought ours from someone we found on Craigslist and got kind of a sweet package deal. Seems our seller discovered that the Wii is a multiple player geared game. Indeed.

I’ve never been into video games, despite the craze taking up the entirety of my generation, I unlike my classmates was working for my Grandmother during the summers as early as 12 years old because I wanted to learn her trade for one, and I needed to earn my own money so that I could eat at school and buy odds and ends for the house. So from the age I would’ve been getting acquainted with games and all that I was working and didn’t have the energy, or the game systems. That was not even a possibility in our home.

Regardless of all that, every now and then I’ll play Pacman, I’ve played games over the internet, on my various cell phones, when the time came for me to kill time - which I’ll tell you, isn’t often.

However, with the Wii I like to play. We started out having Wii Play and Wii Sports, which had a few games I liked, particularly the cow racing (it always reminded me of JohnCow.com), shooting discs and bowling. I like to play I just don’t find a lot of time to do it, partially because it’s not high on my list of priorities of things to do in my free time. That made me sound really busy.

But it’s true, I don’t play really often, I get busy with dishes, laundry, cleaning house, writing, working on websites, etc. But when I do play, I love it, the remote is simple and easy to use/understand the function of all the buttons and it’s interactive, it cheers for you and you have a cute little wii character called a Mii. It’s really fun. There’s other games I’m forgetting to mention that I really like too, but you get the point. Those games were cool. I love that you can buy games for the Wii on the Wii Shop Channel, through this I have rediscovered my love for GALAGA! There’s a newer version called Galaga 90 TurboGrafix16. INCREDIBLE! And we didn’t have to leave the house to get it!

I’m finding myself being drawn into video games, if you can imagine and approaching 30! The function of the Wiimote is endless, you can use it for so many different games, you can play tennis, mini golf, we bought Carnival Games for the Wii and love the function during the ring toss, ski ball and the balloon popping with darts game, there’s even a dunking booth in that game!

You become active and you don’t even think about it. You break a sweat during the boxing - which is so much fun you wouldn’t believe it! There’s endless hours of fun there, and it’s even better when you get friends involved - we find that our friends come over and start beating us!

Really it’s a fantastic game system, and I wouldn’t endorse any other except for the Nintendo DS because I have one of those that I won in a contest on BobMeetsWorld.com (which has since been sold but was formerly authored by none other than the guy behind JohnCow.com) almost a year ago. We have the original NES system, we have a PS2 and now we have an XBox as well, but I love the Wii.

I recently bought Mario Kart Wii - and got Mario Kart DS when I won that contest, so I’m a serious Mario Kart fan, from what I’ve played so far on the Wii - it’s a must have! You’ll feel like a kid racing and competing across the world with anyone else signed on!

I’m very much looking forward to Wii Fit and reviewing it for you, as it advertises as a means to cut out the gym, and maintains a steady calculation of your BMI, weight, proportions and plan for activity. More on that once we get it.

I would recommend the Wii to any MouthyGirl or Boy and maybe even a few games too! Five out of Five stars - GET THIS GAME SYSTEM!

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We got some samples of Garage Dogg in the mail and wanted to video the demonstration so to speak. We cleaned bearings from my son’s skateboard that were really grimy and gross and wouldn’t move correctly…which always leads to bad things for sk8ter boi.

The Garage Dogg did a great job on them and made them like new again. We also cleaned a spot on the garage floor under where my car sits in the garage…

I think it’s done a great job and we’ll be using it again and again.

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You remember my post about forgetting things all the time? Well I decided to take some action to put an end to that and ordered the Bubble Planner for Women click here to view more details about it. I ordered it because it looked like something I could follow way better than the typical planner you find at Office Depot. I was right.

It came in today and i read the intro pages and think it’s awesome already.

Here’s an excerpt:

Get Control Now:
You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, kids’ soccer practice, a dozen bills to pay, fifty-five emails to answer, a big stack of novels and magazines on the nightstand you’d love to read and no free time. You cacn’t add more hours to the day, but you can make the most of the time you have and get things done.

There’s more in the middle, but I want to skip to one of my favorite parts….

CHOP it down:
One of the best ways to get control of your life is to break it down into manageable pieces. CHOP is an acronym for the contexts of your life: Computer Actions, Home Actions, Office Actions and Phone calls. When you subdivide our projects by defining the next physical action, you begin to take control. Having a sense of control will make you happier.

The best part is that it’s flexible, there are discs that bind the planner, so it’s like a rolodex, if you want to move a page, you pull it from the discs and put it where you want it.

It’s by far the coolest, most efficient planner I’ve ever bought. I’ve bought lots before that didn’t make it past the first week. Not to mention, I don’t need something that looks like a miniature school binder, what I’ve gotten here is much simpler, no cheap ass calculator and plastic ruler necessary, just the planner pages. I like being able to move my content around as I need it. This also means that adding pages, ordering refill packs, etc is extremely easy. Not to mention the 100% Guarantee of satisfaction. You have nothing to lose!

So click the link, for more details and get your bubble planner. You won’t be sorry!

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PhillySwirl popsicles are the most incredible and delicious guilt free popsicles I’ve ever had. If you’ve never tried them or heard of them, check out the site, PhillySwirl.com, the founders are very sociable and will respond to email if you’re curious.

The are 10 calories and incredible. Really incredible. You can read other testimonials on their website and get a one day pass to SamsClub if it’s in your area so you can buy a BIG box, which you DO want to do.

A few weeks ago, for the first time some of our friends tried them here, we’ve known them for years but it’s not like they raid our fridge you know. Anyways, they tried them and were immediately addicted and happy about it once they found out how harmless they are.

Let’s not forget to mention I recently read on their site that Weight Watchers considers these a freebee. Awesome! You’ll be so glad you checked it out.

I promise you!

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