Cleaning up with Mr. Clean

I finally tried the Magic Erasers by Mr. Clean. I love them! Great for getting fingerprints off the walls, cleaning around light switches, the yucky radio buttons and window switches in the car and particularly around the kitchen counter.

Non abrasive yet there is a little something that makes it work. Nice job Mr. Clean.

the best site for hurricane tracking

I've become addicted following the hurricanes. Of course, every Floridian and Gulf Coast resident needs to know what is going on in real time.

I used to go to the NOAA site: http://www.noaa.gov/ Which is pretty good.

Then I discovered Storm Pulse http://www.stormpulse.com/ My kids like the bright colors. I like the buttons that allow you to see all the models with wind probabilities, the history and the forecast models. When Hurricane Hanna loomed we watched it hook north. When Hurricane Ike came we saw it go south.

You can't view it on a PDA so our Treo and Blackberrys are useless, we revert to the NOAA site. But on our home computers it's the best website for watching and tracking hurricanes.

I can't wait until the season is over and I can remove it from my daily favorites.

Endless Love for Endless Shoes

Nordstrom's - watch out. I've found a new shoe love. www.endless.com Amazon.com sent me an email announcing their new affiliation. Put shoes in the email message and I've opened it faster than you can say Donald J Pliner.

They carry Pliner. And Anne Klein Flex. And Crocs And Kenneth Cole and BCBG and Sketchers and a few dozen other brands.

Here's the "kicker" They ship free overnight and there are free returns.

FREE SHIPPING AND FREE RETURN SHIPPING? YES. And unlike Zappos.com which is full retail prices, these are good prices with lots of sale stuff too.

SALE PRICE, FREE SHIPPING, FREE RETURNS.

Ah - I feel an Imelda Marcos moment (or month or year) coming on.

My tootsies are going to be very happy. And I don't have to spend time and gas to get my shoes on. Did I say FREE SHIPPING??????

Ped Egg for your feet- big zero

I saw one of those Ped Eggs on sale at CVS this week. For under $10 I thought I'd give it a try for in between pedicure time .

SAVE YOUR MONEY. The PedEgg does not work. The time it takes scrapes off the dead skin on your heels with this little gadget which is essentially a mini-cheese grater in a plastic egg is longer than the time spent getting a professional pedicure. And I don't even have really rough feet. And when I turned it over to try my other foot, the dead skin (yuck) came out through the holes.

Spend $1 on a course nail file. Put your foot over a waste paper basket. File. You will get the job done in a fraction of the time and it will be a far better result. Peddeggs- rotten eggs.