Author: Doug McCaughan

Father of 5. Juggler. Ticked off at blogger.com.
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March Blingo Frenzy Continues

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Looks like I’ve been misspelling frenzy as freenzy so I get top ranking if you search for "blingo freenzy" but I have no placement on "blingo frenzy."

Looks like they had another frenzy Sunday afternoon.

for an hour in the afternoon we distributed 40 Visa Gift Cards valued at $25 each

We scored another movie ticket but turned it down in hopes of winning something better (think iPod…) since we are limited to winning 2 prizes per household per month.

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Today’s extremely profound statement

From Crouching Mommy, Hidden Laundry:

And, life is ENTIRELY too short to feel like you are a victim for an extended period of time.

That hits home. I am writing that under this week’s Franklin Covey quote in my planner:

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
–George Santayana

Everyday this week I will set aside some time to ponder these.

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Put one foot in front of the other!

At 8:45pm last night Evan took his first 5 steps. When I put him down he was standing and I could tell he was going to try a step so I prompted Cathy to look and with each step I said the word "step" which sounded like a machine gun since he walked so rapidly. After the 5th step he fell forward, caught himself on his arms, rolled to a sitting position with a grin that Gerber would have paid to photograph, and immediately tried to stand up again. He almost made it to standing; left foot extended and on right knee. Then he bounced and I swear he said, "step stepstepstepstepstep!" It was quite the special moment.

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Wrist feeling better

For the past two weeks or so, my left wrist has hurt so bad that I almost could not type. I had problems picking things up or squeezing for a length of time. I did some exercising to try to help but nothing terribly focused.

As I type this I can still feel a twinge of pain but it is mostly out of my wrist. Now the pain is in my upper arm. If I hold a reem of paper and try to extend my left arm out to my side I can’t pick it up much above my waist.

Time to get back to stretching and unpinch what nerve is not happy with me right now.

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Improvised Bed Rails

Evan hasn’t learned to sleep in the crib. He prefers to sleep in his swing. But sometimes he needs to sleep between Cathy and I which is nice. Sometimes he is in the bed when I want to get up and work. It was around his age that Amy fell from the bed to the concrete floor and scared me to death so I will sometimes stay in bed thinking how nice bed rails would be when I should be up working.

This morning I figured it out! The crib is near the bed so when I rose, I simply rolled the crib up against the bed forming a nice wall.

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Get a new domain name for 50 cents

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One coupon per order, per account and/or per IP address. There will be a total of 1000 coupon codes. The promotion will last for 1 hour or until the 1000 coupon codes are gone. The coupon will be valid on March 9 & March 10, so the Happy Hour will ONLY be to GET their individual, unique coupon code, they can’t actually purchase their domain until the next day.

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