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Entertainment by Catherine on July 4th, 2008 11:09 am
Happy 4th of July! I hope everyone is having a warm, sunny day and is able to get outside and get some sunlight. Not sure how you are celebrating but I’m doing a totally American thing - watching my court room tv again, getting ready to go to the gym, and then I’m going to celebrate by drinking beer, eating chili cheese dogs, and pineapple. Per Mike, nothing is as American as taking over land where there are things we want like Pineapple. lol I’m going to allow him to tackle cutting that thing up and serving it. I’ll just continue to play online and take my daily surveys. I am going to see if I can talk him into letting me use the Foreman grill to grill the hot dogs rather than boil them. Boiling is nice but it just isn’t the same as seeing those grill marks on my food.
We have a rain prediction in Houston for later this afternoon. I hope it either rains real fast and gets over or it doesn’t rain at all. The Freedom Over Texas concert and fireworks display looks really good and I’d love to be able to watch it on tv tonight. I’m not sure what they will do if it starts to rain as I think it would be nearly impossible to do fireworks in the rain.
Hope you are having a happy and relaxing 4th of July. If you are doing fireworks at your house please remember to be safe and cautious.
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Entertainment by Catherine on July 3rd, 2008 11:25 pm
I just love being on vacation especially during working hours. Why? Because I can catch up on my trash tv. Today, I spend over half the day doing easy chores mixed in with watching all of the daytime court tv shows, family fued, and then Maury. Man there were some interesting people on tv today. The most memorable court tv case of the day was the lawsuit over a man’s amputated leg. Oh yes! You see the man with the amputated leg (knee down only) regained possession of his leg via the police after it was inadvertently auctioned off as part of a smoker - it was inside the smoker being “stored”. Well the guy who won the smoker wanted the leg back since it was “part” of the smoker and therefore his rightful property. Now I realize you maybe wondering a) what the heck is this leg, b) why was anyone trying to preserve it, and c) why would anyone want someone else’s leg. So I’ll answer as best as I can remember:
a) Apparently the poor guy was in an accident a few years ago and had to have his leg below the knee amputated. So the doctor helped preserve it for the guy. So yes it was flesh and bone (don’t worry there were no pics).
b) Well the guy was adamant about wanting to be cremated whole when the time came including this leg piece.
c) Because after the media got ahold of this story the guy was able to build a sort of tourist attraction where he made shirts with logos and was able to charge admission to see this “leg” and “smoker”. Well, without the leg he only had the smoker and it was only worth $3 for adults and $1 for children. Not quite the money maker he was imagining.
So at the end of the day, the man got to keep his own leg but had to pay the other guy $5k but I honestly can’t remember what for. Tomorrow should be another good day. It’s part two of who is my baby daddy on Maury (ie the results show). Can’t wait!
A few days ago I popped online and purchased one of Mike’s birthday presents and included something for myself. Who could resist right?? 
Well today I received a phone call from that merchant (Tapout) only to hear that my portion of the order was out of stock. I was quite sad because sadly I spent longer than 10 minutes agonizing over which t-shirt I wanted before ordering the other day. I was happy though because the customer service rep that called me was really sweet and instead of outright canceling my order or throwing it on backorder like some companies do, she offered to replace my shirt with another or refund my card. So lucky for me I was able to check sizing with her and order the correct size and get the shirt I originally ordered but in black not pink. The other super nice part is that the customer service computers are not connected to the warehouse system to see what is in stock and what is not so she actually took the time to walk over to the warehouse before I got off of the phone to ensure the new shirt I wanted was in stock and could be shipped out with the other item I ordered for Mike. So I would like to give an A+ to Tapout.com’s customer service for going above and beyond to help me complete my order. I hope it gets here in time for Mike’s birthday next week and everything fits so we can wear it for the UFC fight night on August 9th. Hmm maybe I should have gotten one for Beth too since it’s her favorite (Georges St. Pierre) fighting that night. I’ll have to ask Saturday night when we go watch the fight - Geaux Rampage!
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Entertainment by Catherine on July 2nd, 2008 9:37 am
I am a mod on one of my favorite message boards. We are finally having a contest for just the mods to compete in and win a $25 Amazon.com gift card. It has been quite fun and interesting to say the least. You could say the Mods have gone crazy! I don’t want to divulge what we are doing exactly but it is creating quite a few laughs/inside jokes between us and causing some of our members to go crazy trying to put things together. We even had a handful go into the chat room to “discuss” what was going on and if these were hints to the big shopping contest we are having next week. It’s nice to see the members get excited and the mods have a chance to sit back and have a good time with one another and “play” with the members some 
The fun and games will be over tonight at 9pm but I’m hoping we can do this again in a few months. I’ve never laughed so hard in all my time online.
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Entertainment by Catherine on June 30th, 2008 4:42 pm
About two weeks ago, Netflix sent an email out to each of their subscribers notifying them that Netflix would be doing away with the multiple profiles under 1 Netflix account. Mike and I were quite sad because he has a list going and I have a list going which has movies each one of us would like to see. We don’t have to worry about one large list and making sure he has movies and I have movies all mixed in and allocated appropriately. It helps make sure we both get to see the movies we want to when we want.
Well after members sent emails and made phone calls, Netflix has listened and announced today they are keeping multiple profiles for each account! I am very happy with this “change”. It is refreshing to hear a company care about what their customers want and respond positively. Not very many companies will do this. Netflix truly is a gem in the DVD rental service.
Here is the official email:
You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are.
We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.
-Your friends at Netflix
