Expanding My Vocabulary

My newest obsession is a little game called My Word Coach. For the past two weeks, I've been excited to rush home from work and load up my Wii with this little gem. It's a great way to expand your vocabulary and improve your reflexes too. With My Word Coach, you complete a series of activities like filling in the missing letter, matching words and definitions, and making words from Alpha Bit like cereal letters. With each task you are timed and graded. The goal is to increase your performance by one percent each day. It's an interesting and rather motivating way to learn that doesn't feel a bit like work. I almost get sad when it tells me that I need to walk away now so I retain my words!

Clean Sweep

I am a total sucker for nice packaging, and a star in this arena is Method. When the company came out with their innovative dish soap dispensers a few years ago I went mad to find them. Now, Method is stocked in many pharmacies and grocery stores so you should have no issue finding their products.

The new offering that I stumbled across the other day is their cleaning wipes. They are natural and biodegradable and they smell lovely and fresh pink grapefruit smell.

Check out their holiday hand soaps too. Fun packaging and yummy smelling soaps.

Charge me Up

About a year ago, my husband and I decided to move over to 100% rechargeable batteries and purchased NiMHs to cover all our devices. After a recent electronics expansion, we found ourselves a few short and decided to purchase a new batch. This time, we've settled on a new type of rechargeable, the Eneloop.

The Eneloop battery is a new breed of NiHM that has very low self discharge rates, meaning that if you use them in a device that is occasionally used, such as a remote control or camera, that they won't loose their charge. This also means that they can ship them from the factory pre-charged so they are ready to go right out of the package. So you have no excuse to justify a pile of disposable batteries this holiday season.