If there are specific, concrete things that the educators want the parents to do that will result in a better education for the children of America, let me know exactly what the parents need to do. I will help get the word out and maybe we can turn this thing around.

Our future depends on it.

Although I am a “dog person” as opposed to a “cat person,” I do love the way cats are companions and inspiration for a lot of Halloween symbols. I am not superstitious and worried about black cats. I found this pumpkin design and thought it was really cute. I might try it on mine. Heading for the pumpkin patch this weekend.

So I still have to maintain a separate calendar. I wish I could customize the Facebook calendar and add in the ones that I want.

Its nice to do a little something extra for the people you love. For example, tuck a little not into your kid’s lunchbox or hubby’s briefcase that says you love them. Or make a special dessert and surprise them after dinner with something sweet.

I cannot tell you the last time I went to the store and bought a newspaper. I get my news from TV and the internet. The only good thing that comes in the newspaper anymore are the store flyers and coupons over the holidays. Other than that, the Tennessean sucks – almost no actual scoops or news. Just a lot of bias and opinion, advice that I don’t want, and a rehash of stuff I already read online the night before. And their web site is crap, too. Forget about breaking news coverage from the newspaper – it’s all old news by the time the paper is printed and hits the streets.

One of the parties is being held at the new luxury condo high rise downtown as a fund raiser, and that one has peaked my interest. They are having a menu based on the movie, with chinese take out, bottomless cosmopolitans, and cheesecake. There will be a fashion show and a surprise guest appearance – so now I REALLY have an interest in going. It would be fun to have a girls night out and celebrate a fun new movie – I think I’m talking myself into it!

Even though this condo development is upscale and the construction is high end, there can still be nights where the noise from your neighbor’s TV or sound system creeps into your bedroom and makes sleep difficult. I don’t have a garage band next door, but for some reason the neighbors like to listen to rock and roll ALL night. Now, I like rock and roll, but not at 3:00 in the morning when I’m trying to sleep.

So we’ve come up with a solution other than calling the police and filing noise complaints against the neighbors. We bought a little machine called Sleep Mate, which makes a nice little sound during the night called white noise and you don’t have to listen to that rock and roll or even hubby’s snoring anymore.

I fixed my cold pasta salad that I call “Green and White Pasta” and some garlic toast and we were all set. The Green and White Pasta is really easy, too. Just toss some small cooked shells with a handful of frozen baby peas and some bottled ranch dressing. If you like, you can add a little diced Vidalia onion, green pepper and celery – any or all of the three make a nice crunchy addition and keep within the green and white theme.

Our Human Resources Manager ordered a collection of all occasion cards from gallerycollection.com and had them custom imprinted, but we also pass them them around to the rest of the staff for personal notes and signatures before presenting them with a flourish or small ceremony to the recipient. The Business Birthday Cards are a nice way to help celebrate employee and client birthdays. I also like that the envelopes are a classy, deckle-edged heavy stock, and they are made of recycled paper.

The invisibleSHIELD case is invisible and invincible – the shield does not scratch and protects your cell phones and MP3 players, digital cameras, etc from getting scratched. It has a “grippy” feel, which even makes it less likely to slip out of your hands or get dropped. There are case designs to fit over 2,000 branded electronics, and if they don’t have exactly what you need they are willing to custom make it for you.

If you are looking for an iphone case you should check out the invisibleSHIELD website and watch the cool online video demo.

The first American made modern toothbrush.

Although the Chinese are credited with having invented the toothbrush, they used natural boar’s bristles and a bamboo handle.

Dr. West invented the manufacturing process to put nylon bristles onto a plastic handle and marketed it to the Americans.

True story.

What a cool idea. I’d like to skip the cheating husband and divorce and depression part, but I’m down with going to Europe. If any of you friends want to send me to Europe – perhaps France? – I will certainly be glad to go.

Some of the things I have done on my own around the house in order to make things a little better for the environment is to change out all my standard light bulbs with energy efficient LED light bulbs. What are some of the things you are doing to help the environment and what are some of the things you wish our Government would do to help out?

There are way to many great episodes to name and talk about each one and I have only seen a fraction of the videos they offer, so I just wanted to pass along this great find in hopes that people will learn from its online video courses they offer to better educate our societies and that will in turn build a better community for our Nations. If you have some free time and are in the mood to learn then watch a few clips from Professor Walter Lewin.

The first is the .com you want to get one that is about your business in the name or the keyword you are trying to achieve.

The second is to create a better looking website than your competitions websites, and by that I mean take a look at the top 10 people in your industry and make sure that your web design is better than all of theres.

Third is making sure that you have more products than your competition and at better prices, and fill the website with them.

Fourth, market your website by submitting it to every directory you can afford to, and do not forget to submit it to dmoz which is free and the Yahoo directory which costs $300.

Fifth is to submit all your products to places Google Products, Bizrate, and other sites like them.

Sixth, buy some traffic from the top search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN if you can afford to do so.

An example of this is, if I would have bought into Google stock when it first hit market at $40 a share, then I would have been a very rich woman today because it is over $600 a share today. I have been looking for the next Google to come on the market so to speak and I think I found it, so listen up if you want to make some extra dough with your dough. VISA is going public this year and I see them being the next Google on the stock market.

They do twice as much business as Master Card and there stock has went 6 fold since it went public 20 months ago. So to me this means VISA will probably go ten fold in 20 months. Anyways mark this post because in 20 months we are going to find out.

The first thing you do is get a piece of American cheese out, take the pill and wrap the cheese around it, then take a second piece of cheese and put it in the other hand. Now give the piece with the pill to the dog first, then give the plain piece of cheese next, but while giving the first piece keep the dogs attention on getting the second piece that way it will swallow the first piece fast in hopes of getting the second piece.

This trick has worked like a charm from me and has never failed so I thought I would share it in hopes of saving people and dogs some time and suffering.