I believe that if something happens to you 3 times you should take note as to why and listen to what it has to say. This is why today’s post is for bachelor’s. And one more thing for me to weirdly obsess about.

Here it is …

Bachelor’s …. hand sanitizer is NOT hand soap.

I have been to the homes of 3 bachelor’s (get your mind out of the gutter) for parties and group dinners …. and have seen in their bathrooms … where the soap dispenser should be …. hand sanitizer instead.

I can only imagine these men going to the store, seeing the bottles and the words “Hand” on them, thus satisfying the need for “hand” soap (not reading the next word) and tossing it into their basket.

Hand Sanitizer is NOT Hand Soap, which is what most of us expect when we go to wash our hands in the sink. We expect that there will be hand soap for us to use to wash our hands.

This is what I originally thought. But then I did some digging … and I of course went to Wikipedia – where I looked up Hand Sanitizer. It indicated that hand sanitizer can be used as an alternative to hand soap. Fabulous. I might be wrong.

Then I went to Wikipedia to look up Hand Washing … which indicated the use of washing … wait for it … WITHOUT THE USE OF WATER.

So NOW after I did my whole … “bachelor judging” I realize I may be in the wrong. Using hand sanitizer instead of hand soap actually could be called being a little “green” by not using water. Although from my past posts we’ve also learned that when we think we’re being green … we may not really be green.

I know .. I’m confusing myself a little. How about just watching this test / show that Good Morning America did and see for yourself.

What do you do? Do you have hand sanitizer instead of hand soap? Will you replace your hand soap with hand sanitizer?

Cheers to bachelor’s who have hand sanitizer!
Jennifer
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This is going to be a busy week here on Jennifer’s Review. Be sure to stop back on Thursday … It’s my first contest!

In the meantime, to break the Monday blues — here is a fun, addicting thing to do. It’s g-rated fun and safe for work.

FAO Schwartz has a make your own WhatNot Muppet. Seriously, for $130 you can have your own puppet made! That is so COOL! I haven’t yet decided what’s working for me … what do you think?

I love the outfit!

or maybe I’ll go more the Princess route … it’s kindof ME don’t you think?

I am digging the hair on this one...

– fell free to leave a picture of your work below … or email me your work. If I get enough — I’ll do a separate post and link to your site or blog.

Now go play!

Cheers to puppets!
Jennifer
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…could something this brilliant come to life! That’s right, I said it …… right here …. right now …. me!

Last week in the midst of a massive writer’s block week – I put out to twitter-land a big ‘ole … H-E-L-P! And help came in the form of a beer runner named Tim and his fantastic t-shirt business. TeeCycle.org

I thought that the iWearyourshirt.com guy was smart with his t-shirt idea …. but then I met Tim.

Tim has a subscription t-shirt business. A subscription not for new t-shirts but for re-cycled fun t-shirts. … all those classic fun shirts you had forgotten about; ghostbusters, those old band t-shirts, etc. They’re bbbaaacckkk. And now …. we’re being responsible and re-using our resources by bringing these t-shirts back to life!

As I was reading thru Tim’s site, I kindof got a little verklempt when I started thinking about my Domino’s pizza t-shirt with “The Noid”. What happened to the Noid? Where is he ….. and where DID my Noid t-shirt go???

So Tim ….. when you get in a Noid t-shirt in an XL …. I’m starting my subscription. Because I can’t think of a better t-shirt to wear to my Zumba class, be green AND give back to the local area. $1 of every t-shirt sale goes to help support the River Revitalization foundation. Even better.

Think Tim’s idea is only locally getting recognition? …. nope….. on Tim’s site he has a “shout out” from Kuwait City. Check it out:

Cheers to Teecycling!
Jennifer
EXTRA NOTE AFTER POSTING: If you want to send some gently used T-shirts to Tim’s Teecycling biz, Email him at tim (at) teecycle (dot) org and he’ll set up all the arrangements to get the t-shirts!

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In light of Christmas being around the corner I wanted to re-vamp my Amazon.com wishlist for 2 reasons. 1. They are having a contest … I haven’t read it yet but it has something to do with adding to your wishlist, or creating a list or ??? etc. I think you might win an island or something (that is a joke, in no way is Amazon giving away an island Amazon OWNS all islands. that is also a joke. I think. maybe not.) and 2. Being an Amazon Associate (affiliate) I wanted to see what crazy things I could find and what was out there. I have not been dissappointed.

Enter the Punching Nun. Concept itself is funny, a good use would be to settle office disputes and I’m thinking Congress might get more done if they submit to a Punching Nun winner vote. Just a thought. But here is the best customer review I found on the Punching Nun:

When I received the punching nun and removed her from the package, her halibut fell off, the glue holding her black cape on didn’t hold either.

That made me chuckle. And the Punching Nun went on my wishlist.

Then I came across the SlingShot Flying Monkey.

Whoa! THIS guy got 83 customer reviews at time of posting. There were so many great reviews. But here is the review on page 2 that caught my eye:

We received this as a gift and wound up playing with my 3 year old Weimaraner with it. She absolutely loves it and is so excited each time I ask her where her mooonnnkeeeeee is. She runs and looks up where we keep it and then hops and hops until I get it and send it flying! When my husband is sitting in his recliner, I flip it to him and she actually jumps on him (stiff legged) until he sends it flying. She will drop it when I tell her to so that we can “fly” it again. Be sure put it back up when you are through playing. It really isn’t meant to be a dog toy. lol

I thought Weimaraner was some “uppity” kid’s name and then I became even more confused when this yuppie child began to hop and hop. The mention of DOG at the beginning would’ve helped me. Also …. if you know “dog mom”, I wouldn’t buy them any more gifts …. they just give them to their dog child for amusment. Flying Monkey went on the wishlist.

And then my 3rd favorite item with a great review was the Smash-It Stress Relieving Egg. The only 1 review on this gem, cracked me up… (pun intended)

I bought this to use up the rest of my gift card and it arrived today. It was really neat how it looks when you squeeze it. When you throw it on the wall, it looks really, really cool. Its like you throw water and it splats on the wall and then goes back to its original shape.

Unfortunelaty, it broke within 4 hours of arrival. Before it broke, hair got stuck to the sticky surface. Also with all the streching and squeezing, it got streched and deformed. But when it broke everyone in the room burst out laughing because the water got on everyone. Maybe that was the stress releving part.

Happy Christmas shopping ….. for a few more fun things to look at, check out the Jennifer’s Review Fun Amazon Wishlist.

Cheers to odd gift shopping!
Jennifer

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I’m always on the scout for twitter apps that help me. There are a ton of them out there! It seems most of them are missing just one thing that I need – yet the other app has the missing item. I never wanted to have 2 different applications to use for twitter! I did however just come across this one from one of my twitter followers, Thomas clifford. The application is called Tweetminer. (affiliate link) I was intrigued and took a free look. I’m impressed, in fact so impressed that I decided to became an affiliate.

Already you know I love this application or I wouldn’t have chosen to become an affiliate … but what I think is so cool is the fact that I’m always searching for articles to tweet and share with my followers… this application aggregates feeds from news sources using keywords you select. Example: I love to “tweet” about wine information. I created a keyword search of news articles/feeds to show me any post that utilizes the the word “Wine”. When I find an article I like … one click and it’s in my new tweet to send off to my followers!

The info search is now in my application and once set up… I just have to click it and it’s refreshed with new stories/blogs utilizing my keyword. No more windows to open, google / yahoo searches, etc. It’s frickin’ awesome!

It looks like it has the capability to add more then one account … I haven’t gotten to that yet, but that is another huge advantage. Add that to multiple keyword news sources for easy information to your followers???…. it makes life a little easier!

The other item I love … scheduled tweets WITH rolling tweets. I have over 6500 followers on my Jennifer’s Review twitter account. Everyone is in different time zones and on twitter at different times. If I post a link to my twitter account only once … people miss it if they come on later. With the rolling tweet option … I can generically schedule a tweet every x amount of min. or specifically set dates and times. Yes, … loving it even more.

While I do like Social oomph … I have a hard time paying the $30/month for it… I’m not up to “twitter crack-ess” status yet. TweetMiner has different monthly prices to fit what you are doing right now. As you grow … you can upgrade to another account. For me … I’ll be doing the $60/year one. Or I may just stay and use the free account for a bit to learn it more.

@JustinVincent is the creator behind this genius and it started with the same issue I have … finding and easily posting information from the web on your favorite subjects, to your followers. Check out this link on tweetminer upgrade information and you can read all the facts, stats and figures!

Check out TweetMiner (affiliate link) … play around with it …. I think you’ll be as excited as I am!!! When you do work with it … please come back and leave a comment – good or bad, I’m curious what others think!!

Cheers to tweetminers!!
Jennifer

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So, I’m really behind the times. I watched Oprah’s show promoting a great TV Series last spring and true to being an Oprah follower … I was all excited about the upcoming Discovery Channel TV Series Planet Earth.

Did I watch it when it came out last spring? Nope.

Then the Discovery Channel re-ran the series this year in the spring. Did I watch it? Nope.

Then the Discovery Channel re-ran the series this year in the summer. Did I watch it? Nope – but I recorded it!

Then this weekend, one of my few non-busy weekends back in Milwaukee, I sat down on my couch with a glass of Sterling Vineyards Vintner’s collection Cabernet Sauvignon (2006) and watched what I recorded from August. Planet Earth the TV Series.

WOW … the wine was good and before I go further …… check out the trailer:

Doesn’t that make you want to watch it?? Those are frickin’ amazing shots…. nothing like in my day….. Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom previews were NEVER anything like THAT.

Then I was thinking how great kids have it in this day and age … I mean really …. look at the verisons of information for us back then vs. now. Then I started thinking about Clint Eastwood’s recent comment were he basically said we have a “juvenile” (or soft) generation behind us. When I read that and thought of Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” from the St. Louis Zoo guy.. I was like “you are SO right Clint!” ….. Except then I realized that I think he may actually have meant MY generation. Oops.

I challange that and would like to point out that our school playgrounds had metal monkey bars and hard rigid ROCKS to fall on …

and I’d also like to point out the “softness” of the padding placed under kid’s of the generation behind me; just look at what their jungle gyms look like on school playgrounds.

Mr. Eastwood …. I think you need to cut us some slack, I for one have taken my falls off those metal pipe monkey bars and fallen to the hard rock surface. I turned out fine and don’t consider myself juvenile! Well …. except for my left twitch every now and then when I hear a school bell…. but you know… other then that!

I don’t really know how I got from the Discovery Channel’s awesome Planet Earth TV series to the decaying of our society playgrounds thru generations … but… I highly recommend watching the show if the Discovery Channel re-run’s it. If not – you can always purchase it at Amazon.com. Cuz they have everything and I think some day they might be ruling the world … not sure.

Cheers to the fabulous movie makers of the Planet Earth TV Series!
Jennifer

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I am a complete Project Runway addict. I’m not one of those “Heidi!!” screaming, stalking Tim fans …. I just really love watching Project Runway. There is a sortof chemistry there and a real desire to see unknown designers succeed. I love it…. I love it on so many levels. I do have to say one thing about this last season – and it’s a complete personal thing…. Who did Chris Straub sleep with to even get to Episode 12? Seriously, was he someone’s relative? Every time he made it over others into the next challange, I was just disgusted the rest of the week. ugh …

Anyway… today I broke my purse. I know. How does one exactly break their purse. Easy, with the down economy I had to buy a purse from Marshalls. It was faux designer. It broke.

So, since I just purchased it, I refuse to just send it off into the trash or into my “maybe one day I’ll fix it” pile. I’m Oprah-izing and conforming to a simpler life. (I think I just coined THAT phrase too … Oprah-izing … right here…. right now … me.)

I think there should be a designer “fix” challange. Here’s my designer fix challange on my purse.

Here’s the base look …. a broken purse with a wine cork in it. Yes, I save wine corks and occasionally I do have them in my purse. deal with it.

Your Challange Designer Jennifer …. fix this purse into an ultra chic wearable faux designer look….. you have 10 min. Go!

This is probably something Chris would come up with and the judges would go .. hmmmmm… a …. rubber purse. and send him onto the next challange!

At this point Tim would say … “Jennifer, talk to me.” and I would say “I dunnnnnooooo Tim …… I got my inspiration from my last post and FreeGeek.org. It really inspired me.” and Tim would shake his head ” make it work.”

Then I might go with the simple and subtle “twisty” look

But here I think is the winning look …. clip fix purse. It not only blends into the purse well … but it’s usable too! Challange complete … I’m the winner!!!

and I’m sure you appreciate my strategic product placement in the “functionality” portion of the winning look!

Ahhh… I can see I’m just that much closer to my future in fashion design …..

So there you have it … I fixed my purse ….. but go ahead and leave your vote in the comment selection below .. What is YOUR favorite winning look?

Cheers to broke purses!
Jennifer
Extra Note: I googled Oprah-izing … I wasn’t the first… in fact someone came up with Oprah-ization! well played my word friend …. well played…..

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Here’s the thing – everyone is trying to score a little extra cash here and there – myself included. I mean c’mon … I got a shoe addiction to feed. So my thought process went … “What can I do to get extra money?”

After browsing Amazon.com I think I may have found the total answer for fixing my personal economy situation ….. Ghost Hunting. Hear me out …. Amazon.com has the total hook-up! (or should I say booooo-k-up. ok , yea that was bad. I won’t try that again.)

As I was searching for a new blog camcorder, I had NO IDEA that you could totally buy all the needed equipment to get set up in your own Ghost Hunting buisness! I can be my own boss!

First I need expert advice from someone like Troy Taylor – an occultist and supernatural historian. Bam…. research complete – I got my guidebook.

Next … I need equipment and after 42 customer reviews – this is the one I would go with. The Ghost Meter EMF Sensor. It totally solves your detection issues AND it’s price keeps your start-up costs low. (learning from wal-mart)

Another needed equipment piece – something to test the air temperature!! That’s right … when you suddenly get in that “cold spot” because you’re in the presence of a ghost; that’s when you’ll be thinking…” hmmm wonder what the temperature is?” That’s why I think I would go with the PocketTherm. It’s handy and I can whip it out when I suddenly get that chilling-cold-see-my-breath feeling!

Here’s where things can get a little expensive. The ghost voice recorder. This little gadget may allow you to not have to buy the last 2 items, because it’s all built into this little gadget – but includes the voice recorder. I know THIS girl would like nothing more then to know when I’m in the “see-my-breath” cold spot with the hair on the back of my neck standing up, what the voices are saying. That’s why I’d stick around and record what’s being said for future reference. That is if there IS a future reference for me to reference … futurely….

And finally ….. when I do get my camcorder – I’m going to need to digitally record my ghost hunting adventures. So I’ll need a night vision light for my camcorder. As a person who has to sleep with the lights on after watching the PREVIEW of the movie Paranormal Activity…. I’d like nothing more then to actually SEE what ghostly presense is around me.

So there you have it …. your simple start-up needs to start your own Ghost Hunting business! Now …. go out there and find some clients!!

Cheers to ghost hunting!
Jennifer

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P.S. – should you actually purchase any of the ghost hunting gadgets off my site – I THANK YOU! I do get a percentage of the sale that goes toward one of 3 things; I use my new found money to purchase shoes for my shoe addiction, or I get wine for my wine addiction, or …. I may try the ghost hunting deal. I’m undecided at the the moment – but I think the shoe option is in the lead!

Is it too early to start thinking about next spring and swimsuit season? Is it too early to start thinking of at least changing your eating habits? I was given the following product to try – SlimShots.

SlimShots is actually not a new concept appetite controller, but it does have a new twist. This is a liquid appetite controller and comes in an easy to use “shot” container. Looks a lot like a coffee creamer. In fact that’s what I first thought …. creamer shots!

SlimShots are all natural and come in 2 different flavors; vanilla and chocolate. Can’t wait until they come out with a “wine” flavor! (hint, hint!) I had the chocolate flavored ones and to me it had a nut taste to it. You take these shots on their own or place it in your meals or drink. With the taste of the chocolate …. I’d pair it with coffee! If you don’t drink coffee – milk would be my next choice.

I’m not sure if all purchases have the cute shot holder that I got. It’s a plastic container that neatly fits one shot in it, protecting it from opening up in your purse or bag. Great to keep one on you for those times you may need some extra help to curb your appetite.

As I indicated earlier, SlimShots is all natural – that’s something I was worried about. I’m not into chemicals and artifical alternatives, so this is definately a product I’m looking forward to using. Does it work to control your appetite? For me it did. You aren’t going to get that “Thanksgiving Turkey” stuffed feeling – but you will feel satisfied. At least I did.

I belive this product is going to help control my appetite – but you still have to watch what you eat. It claims to help you eat 30% less all day, but if you are eating high fat/calorie meals all day – this is going to do little for you. Watch what you eat and let this product help you control how much. It’s the perfect “assistant” to your diet plan. (and it’s good!) The SlimShot site has some great diet tips to share to help with success!

If you’ve tried this before or are currently trying it …. leave me a comment – let me know what you think! (Good or bad – I’ll post what you say!) You can Order from here, but I would encourage you to check out the site and read more – it’s worth the read and I think you’ll feel good about the product like I did! Don’t forget to check with your Dr. before trying new diets / supplements!

Cheers to SlimShots!
Jennifer

Well, if my post title didn’t get you … this product I’m reviewing will. If you haven’t stopped and taken your time to look around the frozen food section lately, then do it the next time you visit a grocery store. Step over to the ice cream section and take a look around the Ben & Jerry’s, Haagen Dazs and other gourmet ice creams to find my next fabulous product. It’s called Telenti Gelato. I’m in naughty love with this!! I know your thinking … but Jennifer, you were supposed to be eating better. Guess what… I AM!

Talenti Gelato - is the best I’ve had so far!

I’m partial to the Caribbean Coconut flavor which is gluten free, vegetarian approved, HFCS free, hormone free, all natural, green earth and Kosher! Plus depending on the flavor you get … it’s 30% – 100% less fat then ice cream. Ingredients are simple, real and the best.

Talenti is actually named after the florentine architect Bernardo Buontalenti …. his passion for the artistry of food is the perfect story behind this gelato. Check out the website … if you can’t find this in your local store – you can order online!

Do yourself a favor … check it out … beside my favorite of Caribbean Coconut, I’m also partial to toasted almond.

Cheers to Gelato!!
Jennifer

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