I do all the cooking. I mean, if I’m at home and someone needs popcorn or cereal poured, its all me. Amy tried cooking once and she managed to set an egg on fire boiling it, so I do all the cooking. I’m usually struggling for ways to make dinner for the four of us that would be eaten by all. Its tough with two under five year olds in the house and something that I’m only successful at maybe half the time. Until I discovered E Mealz.

E-MEALZ Easy Meals for Busy and Frugal Families makes things a snap. “But mcangeli, how can that be?” You ask. Easy. E-mealz knows whats coming up for sale at your favorite store (wal-mart, aldi’s, publix, kroger, ralphs and other stores) and creates a dinner menu for 7 days based on the sale items. You not only get good meals, but you *SAVE* money as well. They also have low-fat menus available as well! Can’t beat that with a stick.

The kicker? Its only $15 for three months (use the Coupon word DAVE and save on top of that!). So, here’s the scoop, for $1.25 a week, you get a 7 night meal plan (with a main course and sides) thats built around the sales of the week. The Publix Plan has been a good thing for us as I now have a good list for food shopping and know what we’re having every night! Try it for three months. I bet you’ll eat better and save some money too!

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So the fall season is off to a roaring start. Monday night I caught most of Chuck on NBC and K-ville while the Amy was watching Dancing with the stars! I have to say, while the premise of Chuck (a computer nerd who is sent an email of critical CIA information by and old friend) is a little far fetched, the show was pretty funny and well paced. Plus the fact that Adam Baldwin is in it playing an NSA agent who is out to use Chuck to solve issues and the HOT CIA agent who is protecting chuck make the show even better.

The first episode had chuck thwarting a bomb attempt by loading a virus (one of the porn spam things) on the laptop controling the bomb. I admit, it is a little far fetched. Of course, so is a gorgeous blonde CIA agent who can take out opponents with out a crowded bar noticing. I think I’ll tune in again as it proves to be worth it. Maybe next time, Chuck will keep a plane from crashing to the ground using nothing more than an USB flash drive loaded with knoppix.

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She’s quirky. Or at least thats what I say. If you’ve been to an Arby’s recently, you know they have trees inside their stores (real trees planted in the ground). Grace likes to run in circles around the trees. So much so, that we bribe her to eat dinner by telling her she can after she eats. Does that make us bad parents? Hardly. It does make her quirky though. I’ve thought about buying her her own silk trees for the house, but I don’t know where she’d put them. Besides, if i did that it would take away from our trips to Arbys.

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We’ve finished remodeling the kitchen. We put down ceramic tile, painted the walls and ceiling and replaced the stove, dishwasher and kitchen table. It looks good and its amazing what a new floor and a coat of paint can do for a room. The problem we had was finding a pattern of tile that we both liked and could live with forever (because we’re not redoing it any time soon). When we were looking at flooring options we came across AnchorBay Tile and we were literally floored at the choices available. SO many to choose from, its impossible to pick when you like so many. The quality and service is outstanding too. They even offer affordable flat rate shipping to the 50 states (Hawaii and Alaska even!) The nicest thing I have found about Anchor Bay is that they offer a different selection on tile than most places (especially HD or Lowes). My next task is going to be tiling the bathrooms (and getting rid of the current vinyl thats on the floor now) and now that I know where to go for ceramic tile and I know how to do it, it’ll be a snap!

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When I was working for a webhosting company, my boss became obsessed with World of WarCraft. Its an online multi player rpg (roll playing game) where players have the opportunity to earn gold, trade goods and act like orcs, elves, druids, wizzards and other stuff like that. I never got in to the game but he did (to the point where he would stay up at night and play until he had to come in to work…). It was kind of sad really. I’m glad he never found out about the market there is for wow gold. Did you know you can earn the gold and then sell it to people? Same for other goods in the game. Kind of odd really. Making a business out of fantasy, though I suppose it you believe something enough… its probably better to go with a reputable source like Gamegoods then someone like “Bob’s house of WOW”.

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The Iranian President (ie: nut job) Ahmadinejad is a nutter. People have known that for a while now ever since he denied the holocaust ever happened. He’s an enemy of this country in that he is actively pursuing nuclear weapons and he believes the US to be an “object of Satan”.

Unfortunately, earlier this week he was able to actually visit the United States (well, New York…) on a trip to the UN (we really should look at moving the UN headquarters to Switzerland or something) and he had the opportunity to speak at Columbia University. If you want to know what he said, you should check the CNN article on it. it covers it pretty well. I wanted to mention though, that he claims it is

high time for these powers to return from the path of arrogance and obedience to Satan to the path of faith in God

As if he has the moral right to comment on the United States straying from the path. Has he taken a look at his own country lately?

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I probably spelled his name wrong, but here are some instructions on making a stove that even Mac would be proud of…

Cool Little Miniature Stove! - The funniest videos are a click away

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We’re working on some trade show displays for the company at work (several of the larger printing shows are coming up before the end of the year) and my job is fairly straight forward. I have to come up with a digital presentation of our capabilities. Luckily, most of this already exists. I also have to provide the hardware to display said stuff. What I don’t have to do is make the display look good. That where a company that specializes in trade show displays comes in. The Godfrey Group is amazing at what they do. They’ve designed some of the coolest trade show displays around and it shows. Like I said, my task is easy, theirs isn’t.

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This weeks AmieStreet Wednesday post is a cool cat named Jeff Jacobson. His music is light and airy and is a little bit more electric than Jack Johnson and his bubble toes. Check out Your Californa below and let me know if yu like it as well.

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