There’s a lot of information online about how to handle various skin problems, such as acne and warts. And you just have to wonder if they really work. There are titles like Acne Free In 3 Days, Mole, Wart & Skin Tag Free In 3 Days and the Skin Lightening Report.

I think of the three ebooks there, the one I understand least is the skin lightening one. I speak as a woman with plenty of freckles. Is it really so necessary to be rid of them?

Wart, mole and acne removal I definitely get. My grandfather had acne so bad he hadn’t wanted to have kids at first, for fear they would get it badly too. Obviously he changed his mind, but things like that can be really uncomfortable to deal with, on both a personal and a social level.

A lot of books love the 3 day solution. It’s a time frame people understand, I suppose, and so long as results start to appear people are going to feel good about it even if the job isn’t quite done. If it’s long enough to see progress, that’s pretty good.
Of course, assuming that these solutions work, they’re a lot cheaper than going to the doctor, and less painful when it comes to the things that have to be surgically removed.

It’s something I’ll consider if I get another out of control batch of acne. Doesn’t happen often at my age, but maybe every several years something gets a little resistant to the usual treatments.

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This one may sound kind of funny given my interests, but quilting really does interest me as a hobby. Yes, I’m into science, science fiction, technology and so forth, but quilting sounds like a really great hobby to me. Something to keep my hands busy when I’m not online.

I can safely say my interest comes from watching my grandmother quilt. She lives 500-1000 miles away, depending on the time of year, so I haven’t been able to take lessons from her. But one of my sisters and I have discussed taking lessons at a local shop together. We’re thinking it could be a Christmas present from the husbands.

Once that’s done, I’m sure to be in trouble any time the local fabric shop has a sale, at least if I’m at all like grandma. And I’ll probably pick up a book with quilting patterns, just to have a great source of ideas available.

Of course, any time my grandma wants to give me another quilt, I’ll take one!

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It’s been interesting watching my daughter get used to kindergarten. We’ve dealt with her getting in trouble regularly in class to the point where her teacher was suprised to find that my daughter had indeed been in preschool, including a year on the same campus as the kindergarten.

There was the day my daughter proudly told me that she hadn’t had to sit in the “character chair” at all.

But now she’s rarely in trouble, so far as I know. She’s getting used to the idea that being in kindergarten is very different from preschool or at home. And she’s enjoying the learning process.

My daughter is in fact becoming quite the motivated little learner. It used to be that she would not let me teach her anything. But then she came home one day quite distressed that several of her classmates were in the “Reader Rabbit” section of class because they could read already, and she couldn’t.

I think that taught her something, and now she’s willing to look at learning things from me at home. She has developed a surprising interest in learning Japanese, and I’ve finally decided to get the KidSpeak 6-in-1 program to help her on that path. It will let her experiment with others as well, which I think is a benefit.

But I want to have resources to help her in more ways. And so I’ve been looking not only at websites and computer games, but on printed resources.

I’m planning on buying the Making Math More Fun - Math Games Package for her. It’s affordable and the games look pretty fun. The recommended age ranges go from 5-11, so we should be able to use it for several years. It comes with 4 ebooks of games to play and print out.

I’m a big fan of supplementing my children’s educations in ways that they will enjoy. Now that my daughter is feeling more open to the idea, I can really start working at it.

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I’m not a bad photographer, I figure. Not tops, but good enough. Wouldn’t mind being better, though.

The Digital Photography Success ebook seems like a good choice for improving my skills. I can take the casual pictures of my family and have a fair chance of it coming out adequately, but anything beyond that is sheer chance.

My camera is an old, 3 megapixel Sony. We got it back when 5 megapixels were still pretty expensive, and the 3 megapixel was actually a pretty good camera. If only we had waited six months or so…. Read the rest of this entry »

But could you cope with being funny on stage?

I have a pretty wild sense of humor at times, but I doubt I’d be the stand up comic sort. The people who do that do impress me. It’s not an easy thing.

How to be Funny helps you learn how to be funny in front of a crowd. Not just as a stand up comic, but in group situations. The goal of this ebook is to give you the techniques rather than filler. After all, you don’t want to sound like everyone else when you tell a joke. You want to sound like you. Read the rest of this entry »

My sister is getting married in September. It’s pretty exciting, although I could wish they would wait a little longer. They’ll have known each other just a little over 9 months at that point, having gotten engaged at about 2 months. He’d better be just as good to her and her daughter as she thinks he is!

Yes, I am doing everything I can to support their marriage. I’d rather see it succeed, after all.

Now, so long as no one wants me to give a speech at their wedding, I’ll be fine. I don’t think they will, but if they want a speech out of me, they’d better warn me in advance so that I can prepare. Read the rest of this entry »