Puppies and Purses
Last night after letting Lucy and Pascal (Aren't they cute? They're really well-behaved too and were a joy to puppysit) out to run around free in the backyard, I went to The Galleria to look around (pictures of the big Christmas tree are up in the Moblog).
I should be completing my FreeHandbags.com referrals soon, so I thought I'd see the purses available (Kate Spade, Prada, Coach, Fendi, Christian Dior, Burberry, and Gucci - they just added several more designers in several different colors) in person so I could decide which one I wanted. The Galleria is full of high end shops, so I actually found all of them but the Fendi one.
I had originally planned on getting the Prada Mini Hobo, but after seeing it, I'm changing my mind to the Coach Signature Demi Pouch. The Prada one was cute, but it was made out of nylon and I just wasn't that impressed (they're $258, a bit pricey for nylon in my opinion). Now I'm torn on which Coach to get - the purple one or the black one. The black one goes with everything, but the purple one is so pretty. Click the picture below to embiggen and feel free to leave a comment on which one - the black or purple one on the top shelf - you like better.
If I get lucky, my brother will get enough referrals and then he can get whichever color I don't choose and give it to me. He said I could have it since I helped him get an iPod. Nice kid, huh?
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The blue one! Think its blue one right below Big Purse!
Posted by Terry at November 19, 2004 11:35 PM
I like the one not below the big purse, which I thought was blue ;)... I have that purse in brown and also in black :)
Posted by LT at November 20, 2004 04:41 PM
I like the one on the right.
Posted by Christine at November 21, 2004 11:03 AM
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Posted by Z.Z.B. at November 21, 2004 06:14 PM
Oh dear lord they are so damn cute. OMG! I love em.
mmmm, love Coach! w00t
Posted by Becka at November 23, 2004 06:56 AM
Get the purple one! I carry a red purse b/c I love red - it's so pretty - even if I am wearing orange (though I don't wear orange)!!! Everyone has a black bag that goes with everything! Get the one that will stand out more!!
Just my two cents worth!! LOL!
Posted by MishMish at November 23, 2004 08:21 AM
OMG THOSE PUPPIES ARE SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a nice T.G!!! *you dont live in Canada do you? lol*
love mollie
Posted by mollie at November 24, 2004 11:45 AM
THANK YOU SO MUCH! The puppies miss you!!!
Posted by Katie at November 24, 2004 10:10 PM
Free stuff is always good. Dive into it! :D
Posted by Ryan at November 26, 2004 06:00 PM
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It's Secret Santa Time!
It's that time of year again! ThinkBlank's Secret Santa program is back for another year.
It's simple: you fill out some basic information and give the address to your Amazon.com Wishlist. On December 10th, you get an e-mail with someone else's info and Wishlist. You then buy a gift and send it off to them. The limit is $15, so it's a cheap enough exchange.
This will be my third year and I've really enjoyed it in the past. If any of this sounds interesting, go check it out. After all, who doesn't like getting and receiving presents?
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hey! thanx for the heads up. this sounds like fun.
Posted by kimberly at November 25, 2004 02:17 AM
i signed up again this year. Should be fun. :)
Posted by eve at November 29, 2004 01:33 AM
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Lucy & Pascal - My Babies
Katie is out of town (she's a arguing a motion in California with her mad lawyering skillz, yo), so I am housesitting and watching Lucy and Pascal her two beagles. Let me tell you, they are cutie pies.
So, who wants to come over and help me trash her place? Party! ;-)
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where's she live? I need something to do tomorrow. I'd love to go out too b/c I haven't knocked back some drinks in quite a damn while.
Posted by girl at November 19, 2004 12:02 AM
awww i adore beagles, that is also so sweet of you to house sit them
Posted by Becka at November 19, 2004 07:55 AM
Im for the party but i live in wisconsin! 
Posted by Terry at November 19, 2004 07:58 AM
Oh yeah. I am in for the party and I know where she lives !!
Posted by irfan at November 19, 2004 04:42 PM
It is BYOAMM
Bring your own apple martini mix!!!
Posted by Katie at November 24, 2004 10:08 PM
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Texas Title and Registration Question
I have a question for you. If you have a car that's been gifted to you, do you have to just pay the $10 gift tax or do you also have to pay the sales tax part too? Trying to put my car in my name since the loan was under Steven's until I paid it off. When we broke up he gave me a letter saying he gifted the car to me, but I'm not sure what I have to pay.
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Here we have to pay the sales tax as well as any other fees. Call or look up on the 'net your assessor and find out for sure.
Posted by Sara at November 18, 2004 08:53 AM
you only have to pay the gift tax, no sales tax. my old car that I brought down from Michigan was in my stepdad's name and he gifted it to me after it was paid off. Steven will have to sign the back of the title over to you and bring the letter as well to the courthouse (or wherever you get your registration).
Posted by girl at November 19, 2004 12:05 AM
I thought the letter that he wrote said he sold it to you for "x" value? Because if it did, then you will be charged more than $10. However, if it just says it was a gift, than the $10 is probably the case.
And the lines at the office in downtown are normally *much* shorter than the lines out in the 'burbs.
Posted by Christine at November 19, 2004 07:17 AM
yeah, Christine's right. it'll have to specifically say that it was a gift or they'll find a way to charge you sales tax.
Posted by girl at November 19, 2004 01:01 PM
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Blurker Amnesty Day
Apparently last week was Blurker Amnesty Day (a blurker being a blog lurker who doesn't leave comments), but since I missed it, I declare the next seven days Blurker Amnesty Week here at Neurotic Fishbowl.
So, if you're hear, speak up! Say hi, tell me you love me, spin me a yarn, whatever it is that you want to do. Just say something, damn it!
(Link courtesy Sara.)
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De-lurking... Happy Wednesday! :)
Posted by Mariann at November 17, 2004 08:06 AM
I'll bite. I read you through Bloglines... so here I am to say hello!
Posted by the hippie at November 17, 2004 08:17 AM
Hi there!
(Oh, wait, I don't really lurk completely here)
Posted by amber at November 17, 2004 09:53 AM
Hi! I try not to lurk. But I do visit your site often. 
Posted by Becka at November 17, 2004 11:03 AM
I'm here! :)
Posted by Jill at November 17, 2004 02:47 PM
Hi! 
Posted by Rebecca at November 17, 2004 03:50 PM
Hey, I got this in KlipFolio, yo!
Posted by Andres at November 17, 2004 04:52 PM
Hey girlie! :)
Posted by Sara at November 17, 2004 08:48 PM
I thought it was this week. Did I miss something? Yeah, a few days late to the party, but that's ok. Parties always get better towards the end...
Posted by Christine at November 18, 2004 12:56 AM
I guess I am old school computing where if you don't have anything useful to say you don't say anything. Of course that comes from when 1200 baud reigned and you actually had to pay extra for touch-tone. And yes, I did have to walk to school up hill, both ways, through a foot of snow in June ;)
Posted by Howard Hill at November 18, 2004 06:34 AM
Hi!! (I just really liked the dog)
Posted by Busy Mom at November 19, 2004 11:04 AM
Yo!
Posted by Dell at November 20, 2004 06:04 AM
Okay- you caught me- I promise to change my blurking ways.
Posted by scott randall at November 30, 2004 07:06 PM
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You Can Have my TiVo When You Pry It Out of My Cold Dead Hands.
There a bill out there that might be voted on in the Senate that should concern TiVo and other DVR owners.
The bill would let people use technology to skip objectionable content - like a gory or sexually explicit scene - in films, a right that we already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited. The proposed law also includes language from the Pirate Act (S2237), which would permit the Justice Department to file civil lawsuits against alleged copyright infringers.
So, not only would you not be able to skip commercials with your DVR, you could be sued for doing so. You also would be forced to sit through previews on DVDs. Critics also argue that the vague language could apply to a person who uses iTunes.
Like Mac said, "(i)n essence, this bill is a gift to corporate interests - if you’ve been paying attention, lo, these last four years it should come as no surprise whatsoever."
Have I mentioned how much I hate this fucking administration? Go here to write your Senators and urge them to vote against HR2391.
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This is ludicrous! How would it be enforced?
Posted by KiwiNessie at November 17, 2004 02:57 AM
Anyone remember the old TV show 'Max Headroom'? On there it was illegal to even turn off your TV. Yikes!! Was it not Marx who said that religion was an opiate for the masses (or something like that)? Is that not what TV has become today?
As for enforcement - all DVRs (either stand alone units or software) would have to have changes that would track and give feedback as to when you hit that skip button or something like DVD players, which already have something that will prevent using say the menu button. I ran into a situation recently where you could not hit the skip button during the final credits of 'The L Word'. You could still hit the Menu button though. Weird.
As for, I think it was Mac's blog, that asked if next you could be fined for getting up during a commercial and going to the bathroom - the nice Nielson people already have (and have had for many years in reality) a system that can count how many people are actually watching a TV show. How hard would it be to build onto that something that would be able to track that what you are watching is a commercial and the number of bodies in front of the TV has changed? Can you say big brother? I knew that you could. (With all apologies to Mr. Rogers.)
Posted by Howard Hill at November 17, 2004 06:57 AM
You are aware that Tivo's going to start showing you popup ads when you fast forward through commercials, right?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=10&u=/latimests/tivowillnolongerskippastadvertisers
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Like My Body?
I never watch award shows, those watching the American Music Awards last night got to see Anna Nicole Smith introduce rapper Kanye West smashed out of her gourd.
Luckily, thanks to the Internet, you can watch it here. Apparently she flubbed her lines because of bad eyesight not because she was drunk or on drugs. Yeah, I talk like that when I don't have my contacts in too.
And after a bottle of vodka.
(Link courtesy of Mac.)
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I love it - it's freakin genius!
Posted by eve at November 16, 2004 11:49 PM
you know you're life's in the gutter when jenny mccarthy makes fun of you!!
Posted by Texas Gurl at November 17, 2004 02:25 AM
I was looking all over for the video clip. OMG to damn funny. What a messed up woman, not the first time either. She can get so whacked out. Truely funny.
Posted by Becka at November 17, 2004 10:58 AM
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FreeFlatScreens.Com Order
Today is my lucky day! I have placed my order from FreeFlatScreen.com for a free Sony 27" Trinitron WEGA flat screen television (retails for about $400). Now the waiting begins, though this one is supposed to be much quicker to get than the free iPod since they're predicting a couple of weeks until it ships.
Just goes to show that with a little persistance and a blog you can indeed get these free offers to work. If you're interested in participating in any of them or getting your link listed, here's the scoop.
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Wow, that's great! I haven't even gotten my Ipod yet, still waiting for more people to sign up and follow through. Post when you get the TV! :)
Posted by Sara at November 17, 2004 07:46 AM
you are a lucky so and so :) i'm still working on the ipod. congrats!
Posted by girlwonder at November 17, 2004 10:04 PM
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iShades
Despite the fact that the poll I ran overwhelmingly picked the Vamp (purple) over Sonic (blue) iSkin, when I was in Fry's a couple of weeks ago, they only had Sonic and Artic, so I ended up buying the Sonic one. It has a tendency to get dust on it (but the forums over at iPod Lounge suggested rubbing baby powder on it to end that problem), but otherwise I've been really pleased.
Their newest product is another must-have accessory in my book - iShades. They replace the screen protector on your iSkin with colored screens and look just too cool. Right now they're half price with the purchase of an iSkin.
I'm already half way to getting a free Photo iPod from FreePhotoiPods.com, so if I do end up meeting my referral requirements, I'll have to buy a new iSkin. Seems like the perfect excuse to pick up some iShades while I'm at it!
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I have been looking at getting an iSkin for my iPod too. I just wish I could find them in town. Best Buy has some knockoff brand one, but it only comes in clear. I think I might end up ordering an iSkin.
Posted by mace at November 16, 2004 02:53 AM
Pretty soon, we're all going to listening to iRadio and driving our iCars and watching the iTube and eating iPizza and drinking iBeer and throwing the iBall to our iDog and OH MY GOD where will it stop?
(I want an iPod SO BAD.)
Posted by Chris at November 16, 2004 11:49 AM
so when you get that photo ipod, you're gonna sell me the other one, right? ;-)
Posted by girl at November 16, 2004 07:00 PM
Being the owner of two iSkins I will definitely getting this!
Posted by KB at November 17, 2004 11:41 AM
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It's Mighty Good(s)!
Ever since fiding Mighty Goods, a blog dedicated to great shopping items, I've been obsessively checking their finds. Anything from books to clothes to make-up to handmade sock creatures has made the list and I love to see what's next.
I personally love this purse, this bracelet, these boots, and I simply must have these notecards. (Really, any of these would make fine Christmas gifts.)
(Link courtesy of Christine.)
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Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes
Since I'm a member of both Netflix and Blockbuster Online (did that one to complete one of those free swag offers) I've been watching a great many movies.
Some have been good (Dawn of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stuck on You) and some not so good (Reign of Fire, Starsky & Hutch).
The one that I was really looking forward to seeing, though, was Van Helsing. I figured it had Hugh Jackman (he's so gorgeous), vampires, cool effects, and should be entertaining even if the story wasn't all that great.
I wanted to love it. I tried really hard. Alas, I did not. For those of you that want to save yourselves the trouble seeing it, just read Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes. It's far more entertaining than the movie ever was.
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We laughed all the way through Van Helsing. Especially during the inappropriate parts (re: the very end). It's been dubbed 'The Feel-Good Comedy of the Year' around our house. Sigh. Bad, bad, movie. I wanted to like it, too. Because Hugh does bring the pretty. I have to go read VH in 15 minutes, now! :D
Posted by skits at November 15, 2004 10:36 AM
It doesn't even qualify as a "so-bad-it's-good" movie.
I really liked the Mummy films the director did before. But I think this may have suffered the Batman Forever syndorme of too many villans in one movie.
I can't believe they didn't toss in the Creature from the Black Lagoon too!
Posted by PromoGuy at November 16, 2004 02:44 PM
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An Internet Alphabet
I saw this over at Christine's and couldn't resist playing along.
If you want to play, type the letter from the alphabet into your URL bar and list the first site that comes up.
A is for Amazon's Associates.
B is for Big Pink Cookie.
C is for Cameras4Free.com.
D is for DVRs4Free.com.
E is for eBay.
F is for FreeDesktopPC.com.
G is for Google.
H is for Hot Jobs at Yahoo!.
I is for I Don't Think.
J is for Jay Allen's Master Blacklist.
K is for KDEWeb.
L is for Little. Yellow. Different.
M is for MP3Players4Free.com.
N is for Neurotic Fishbowl.
O is for OPI.
P is for Pesky Apostrophe.
Q is for QVC.
R is for Reflect.com (let me know if you've never shopped there and want to try it out so I can send you a $14 off coupon).
S is for SnazzyKat.
T is for Tenth Muse.
U is for US Lightspeed Consumer Panel.
V is for Vern's Blog.
W is for Woot!
X is for nothing at all.
Y is for Yahoo!
Z is for ZonkBoard.
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D is for Dirty Martinis!!! Me me me! It's all about meeeeeeeee! Heh.
Posted by sphinx at November 15, 2004 07:27 AM
I did one for my favorite blogs (you were 'N'!). If I did one based on the address bar it would be quite different. Since I'm bored I think I'll do that now...
Posted by KB at November 15, 2004 11:29 AM
Oh, sure. I get beat out not only by Emily but also, technically, eBay! Suuuuure. I see how it goes ;)
actually, I was just using this opportunity to ask you to please get in contact with me and Mr. T. again because he's still quite confused about the iPod situation! xoxo
Posted by LT at November 15, 2004 10:59 PM
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Fixed!
Thanks to a helpful tip from Quixy it looks like my site is back up and running again (seems the problem had to do with MT BlogTimes.
I had deleted the single BlogTime that displays on the bottom of the page but since the BlogTimes Archive page that I created was still rebuilding, it still broke it every time. Things should now be back to normal now. Yeah!
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I suggested removing Blogtimes in one of my e-mails (or comments?) to you about the problems - since I suspected it might tie into using server images to display, and that would be screwing up your rebuilds... (Your comment window still doesn't have a scrollbar option in my version of FireFox, by the way...)
Posted by Christine at November 17, 2004 12:01 AM
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