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How Much Data Do You Use On Your Smart Phone?

I have a smart phone and currently have a plan on my phone to have unlimited data. It costs me $30 a month. I’m wondering if I really need that. It’s almost the same price I pay to have the internet in my home. My home internet is only $40 a month.  It seems kind of crazy to be be paying for two services like that. When I’m at home I get free internet on my phone because it uses my home wifi. I guess the only time I am really using what I pay for with the unlimited data is when I am out and about.

My question to everyone is how much data do you think you use when you are out and about? What do you use your data on? I do check my Facebook when I’m out. But that couldn’t possibly add up to needing unlimited data could it? Yes maybe I’ll use it to watch video if I’m waiting at the doctor’s office to be seen. But again, I don’t so it all of the time.

I’m considering changing my data plan. I could be paying half the price and still have plenty of data that I don’t  think I would ever come close to using. I don’t know why I haven’t done it sooner. It’s really an expense that doesn’t make much sense to have.

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Happy Birthday, Aunt Tina

I guess every family has a renegade, of sorts. My family has Aunt Tina. She is very colorful and always has exciting stories to share at the holiday dinners when she comes. She moved to Maine and has a little house there, but she travels all over the country and we never know where she is. LOL

But I do know that today is her birthday, so I hope she stops by my blog and sees this post:

Happy Birthday, Aunt Tina!

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The Power of Twitter And Tweets

For the past couple of years I’ve been hearing a lot about Twitter and people tweeting. Do you tweet? How many followers do you have? How many people do you follow? I have to be honest I don’t use Twitter myself. Some of my friends do but it really hasn’t caught on with  me.

One of my friends, Shari, opened up a Twitter account for one purpose alone. A store she had purchased something at wouldn’t rectify the situation and refund her money for a faulty product. Another one of our friends told her to start a Twitter account and tweet about the ordeal. She said that most companies respond almost immediately when they are tagged in social media because they don’t want to be in bad light.

Well, she did just that. She tagged the company in her tweets and shortly after her tweets were published she was contacted by representatives from the company to work to make the situation right. She ended up getting a gift certificate to cover the damages, a free repair man visit, and a 1 year warranty. It wasn’t exactly what she was looking for but in the end she came out happy. This was all because she started a Twitter account and put out a tweet.

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Thinking About Trying A New Musical Instrument

I’ve told many of you that my friends and family are really into playing musical instruments. I was thinking of trying out something new myself. I’m looking for an affordable harmonica at Musicians friend. I choose the harmonica for a few reasons, but mainly because it is small and I can easily take it with me any where I would like to go.

I’m really excited about the idea of not having to buy replacement parts of things like reeds or picks in order to play this. It’s one piece that can be broken down for cleaning but I don’t have to add anything to it. It sounds like the perfect instrument for me because I won’t have to worry about forgetting something and not being able to play.

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Street Musician Plays The Tuba

I saw one of the most inserting things today on my lunch break. I went out to lunch and enjoyed it outside on the patio. While I ate my lunch a man walked up near the patio, sat down and opened up a case. He pulled out a beautiful tuba and started playing some of the most peaceful music I have ever heard.

It was so interesting to see a street musician playing a tuba. It’s really not the instrument I would ever guess to see some one carry around to just start playing in a random location.  However, that made the experience all the more special because it was so unexpected.

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A Surprise Lunch With My Husband

This afternoon my husband did the sweetest thing. He showed up at my work completely unannounced and took me out to lunch. I wasn’t expecting it at all. He had flowers and everything.  I asked him what the special occasion was and he said it was just because he loved me. Of course my heart almost melted and I couldn’t have been happier.

We went out to one of our favorite little Italian restaurants. It’s not a popular chain just a mom and pop run family restaurant.  They have the best chicken Parmesan and meatballs in the world. I always have to get one of the two each and every time I go there. Today, I had a Cesar salad, chicken Parmesan, and I even saved room for dessert. We had cannolis with most delicious cream and black coffee to wash it all down.

It really was a great surprise to have him just show up and take me out to lunch. I’m going to have to think of something really special to do for him as a thank you and just because I love him too!

What are some of the special things that your significant other has done for you?

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Try Out A Titanium Sports Necklace

Phil at work is always wearing his titanium sports necklace. He said something about it smoothing out the flow of electricity in his body. He said that he has been able to do things that he wasn’t before he started wearing the titanium infused sports necklace.

He loves his titanium sports necklace and got one for all of his golfing buddies too. I wonder how it would make me feel after a long hard day at work. Would I have to wear it all day long to feel something or is it something that I can just pop on at the end of the day. I wonder if they come in casual designs for women. Maybe I’ll pick one up for myself

 

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Hooked on SongPop Free

The latest way I pass my free time away is with a game called SongPop. I downloaded the free version to my smart phone.  One of my friends suggested that I play it with her and now I can’t seem to get enough of it.

Here’s the premise – an audio clip of a song is played and it is your job to guess either the song title or the artist performing the song. It’s multiple choice so you aren’t having to work too hard. You play against an opponent and try to beat them in both speed and accuracy. As you play and answer correctly you unlock more songs in each category. You get to select the category you compete in against too. My best category so far is love songs and my worse category is modern rap which really isn’t surprising at all to me.

In each round you earn either 1 coin for losing or 3 coins for winning. You can spend your coins to unlock new song categories like TV theme songs, movie sound tracks, disco, doo wop, jazz and so much more. I really recommend this to any music enthusiast and to anyone who just wants to play a fun game during free time.

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Do You Know How To Facebook?

Do you know how to Facebook? Are you a new user or maybe you have been using it for a few years? What do you use Facebook for?

I have to be honest, I only recently became more active and using Facebook not too long ago. Most of my friends have Facebook accounts and use them to do all sorts of things from playing games to hooking up with people the went to elementary school with.

I mainly use Facebook to connect with my family and friends that don’t live in the same area that I do. It’s a handy way to share photos and little stories about what is going on in our life. I like it because it makes me feel like I’m better connected with my family. And now, I’m not just a Christmas letter that people get from me once a year telling them every thing that has happened in our family over the year.

I do keep my privacy settings to only allow my friends to see my Facebook page or timeline because I wouldn’t be posting things online for everyone to see. I mean I don’t post public photos of my family on my own blog and that’s public domain so I won’t be posting them for the entire world to see on Facebook either.

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Do You Enter Giveaways?

Do you enter giveaways? Would you guys be interested in any giveaways from me and my blog, or would I totally be just wasting my time? I know most everyone likes free stuff but some times people pass up the opportunity to get it.

What deters you from participating in a giveaway? Is it that you aren’t willing to give out your contact information? Do you pass an opportunity by when you can see the number of entries so far and if it’s a large number just keep going? DO you enter if you see that the number of entries so far is low?

What attracts you to free giveaways? Is it just the free stuff? Do you only participate in giveaways for products or services that you would actually appreciate and enjoy? Or you one of the people that will take what ever you can get as long as it is free? I know a few people that enter every giveaway possible and end up with tons of free stuff, half of which they will never use. I suppose a nice thing to do with products you won’t use would be to give them away your self or donate them to a good cause.

if I were to offer a giveaway her on my blog what would you like me to giveaway?