Some Pretty Cool Stuff - Issue No. 009

I have Some Pretty Cool Stuff to show you guys and gals today.  From lace anchors to a levitating mouse, these cool gadgets are just one step closer to your door.  Sure, they can't help you escape like the Titanium Escape Ring I posted last week, but they're items we all should have. :-)

The Breakfast Sandwich Maker by Hamilton Beach

Say what you will, but I got to have this breakfast sandwich maker.  I want it!  Goodbye Mc Donald's Egg McMuffin, hello Cocina De Don Pedro. LOL.  Read below and watch the awesome promo video below!

• Enjoy breakfast sandwiches in the comfort of your own home
• Ready in just 5 minutes
• Use your own fresh ingredients, including eggs, cheese & precooked meat*
• Make sandwiches with English muffins, biscuits, small bagels, and more
• All removable parts are dishwasher safe
• Surfaces are covered with durable, nonstick coating
• Cooks every layer of your breakfast sandwich to perfection:
  1. Top plate: gently toasts the bread on top and holds the heat inside
  2. Egg layer with slide-out egg plate: cooks a fresh egg perfectly, right inside your sandwich
  3. First layer: cooks the bottom half of your breakfast sandwich
  $30.00

BAT - The Levitating Mouse

This is only in it's beginning stages so you can't buy it at the moment, but it's definitely pretty cool and I wouldn't mind having one.  This would also be a great gift idea for anyone who suffers from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.  The mouse, created by Vadim Kibardin hovers over a mousepad using magnets - it's pretty darn impressive.
Check it out.

Lace Anchors 2.0

An awesome invention by Chuck Harris, this is something any of you will want.  And after you watch the video below you will want them even more.  Imagine never having to tie your shoelaces ever again.
$8, $10, $15, $17,or $20

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Movies to Watch - The Christmas Shoes

I had heard this song many times before, but never really paid attention to it, till yesterday.  I mean, I understood it, and knew it was emotionally heart-wrenching, but it wasn't until I saw the movie that it made me value the importance of loving your fellow man.  There isn't one person in this world that I hate.  Not one solitary man, woman or child, and I'm a better person because of it.

Remember to tell the people in your life how much you love them, because there will come a time when they're gone and you'll wish you had.  I call my mother 5 times a week to tell her I love her, and I tell Ryan how much I love him every day.  Embrace it!  You'll be better for it.

I bought the DVD, "The Christmas Shoes" on Amazon.com and got it in the mail just on the nick of time, on Christmas Eve.  I knew Ryan wanted this movie for our collection, so we sat and watched it on Christmas Day.  Let me tell you, I cried, and cried, and cried.  It's a tear-jerker of a film.  I highly recommend it, if you're a Christmas movie aficionado.

The movie bounces between two families--the Layton household, where the father, Robert is so consumed with his work that he misses his daughter's recital; and the Andrews home, where the mother Maggie has been diagnosed with a fatal heart ailment. Desperate to make his mother's last moments happy, Maggie's son Nathan struggles to buy a pair of red dancing shoes that seem like a pair Maggie remembers from her childhood. Naturally, the lives of these families become intertwined, particularly when Robert's wife takes over Maggie's choral program--which topples the already troubled balance between Kate and Robert. Perhaps because Rob Lowe is usually stereotyped as glib and insincere. The Christmas Shoes feels surprisingly heartfelt. The earnestness of The Christmas Shoes surprises because the story originated in the famous country song of the same name, and movies based on songs rarely feel anything but plastic and contrived. There are certainly moments when The Christmas Shoes lays on the sentiment woefully thick, but you'd have to be an ogre not to be touched when Maggie and her husband have one last dance.  --Bret Fetzer on Amazon

Post Secret Fridays - Issue 080

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On the back of the card: the trouble is i don't think i have the kind of loneliness that other people can cure

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No, you don't. I have all three and feel more alone than ever.

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