Keri Payne's Profile

I LOVE the St. Lawrence Market!!! They have a great little kitchen store in there that has everything you could ever possibly want for your kitchen. Such a cool market!

While I agree with some of what Amaranta is saying (my grandfather would have LOVED having an iphone and probably could/would have reprogrammed it to work his coffee maker or some other crazy thing), I don't think all "older" people are equal. My mom, who is in her 60's and not at all what I would consider "old", just got her first iphone and is really struggling. I think her problem is mainly that she THINKS it is harder to use than it actually is. The technology she has learned to use in her lifetime is much less intuitive than a smart phone, so I think many times she thinks that there MUST be 40 steps in between taking a photo and emailing it to someone, when in fact it's really quite easy. She feels a bit stupid about it all, and it doesn't help that "everyone else" doesn't seem to have a problem using their phones at all.

I miss Publix too. Texas has stores called HEB and they're FANTASTIC. Some are practically warehouse-sized, and their prices are always really reasonable.

I won't shop at a regular Walmart unless I absolutely HAVE to, but I've been to a few of their small market stores and they are pretty nice, but in their regular stores you end up walking 14 miles just to get dog food AND toilet paper, plus their produce and meat selection is abysmal. They have good prices, but I'm not willing to go through all the hassle of shopping there just to save a few dollars.

The problem with keeping magazines going these days is ad revenue, as someone said earlier. And every single one of us who read this blog (along with the hundreds of other shelter blogs) is part of the reason why Domino doesn't exist anymore. Companies no longer want to buy ad space in magazines, they want to buy advertising online, and if you have no advertising you have no magazine. Each magazine has a ratio of ads/content that they stick with every month. If they lose ad space then they lose content. Quit looking for your content online and instead buy actual MAGAZINES - that will keep them all around a lot longer.

Unfortunately, it's too late for Domino and Blueprint. But unless we prove to advertisers that magazines aren't dying on the vine, the problem is going to continue. I wonder what all these digital editions are doing for magazines too?? I'm a subscriber to about 5 different titles - but on my NookColor. I'd be curious to see what advertisers think of digital magazine editions.....are they as "legit" to them as the old-fashioned print versions??

My parents have some of these and while they DO provide a decent amount of light, it DOES tend to look like a bright beam of light shining down. Sometimes we like to stand in the beam on a sunny day and pretend we're Jesus in one of those Renaissance-style paintings. It's THAT intense. But it doesn't seem to make extra heat in the room. They've also had theirs for years and haven't had any issues with UV fading. I like the idea of these "chandeliers" to diffuse the light--would be nice if they could make one that didn't hang so low and so obvious though.

I'm with KSOULES. I had a 3G for 2 years and left it on the charger overnight, everynight. Never noticed any changes to the battery. My son uses this phone now and doesn't have any complaints. Also, I run my phone almost all the way down every day. Not so much that it shuts off, but it DOES get to 10% before I plug it back in most of the time. I'm sure there are some sort of changes to my battery life, but not enough that I would notice.

You could probably go to any tennis club and get their old balls. I dated a tennis pro once and he would throw all his old tennis balls over his back fence.

Wait, after re-reading, maybe she means the sofa is uncomfortable because of it being broken and repaired.......duh.

Why has no one mentioned the vanity??!! Or at least, I ASSUME that is what the low portion of the countertop is supposed to be. What's the point of a vanity area if you can't pull a chair up to it and sit down? There's no place for your knees. And if that's NOT supposed to be a vanity then WTH it its purpose? I've seen this before in a bathroom - no real functionality as a vanity because of the lower cabinet, but no clear "other" purpose either.

I've had a bag of cinnamon sticks forever, and now I know just what to do with them!!!