For all of you who enjoyed my gift guides, recommendations, and current picks you might want to check out my new blog QEEPER! It’s a joint venture with my sister sweet posie. She and I have very different tastes so you’ll be sure to find something you like hehe.

What’s a qeeper?
Anything cute and cheap. A great find. One that makes you happy because you didn’t have to spend a lot on something so awesome.

Don’t forget to subscribe to it to get helpful gift recommendations for this upcoming xmas. We’ll mostly be featuring cute and fun items and as always they are under $30 so they won’t break the bank! Hope you like it!

It’s currently a work in progress but I hope it evolves to a fun and useful website for anyone who likes to shop for unique gift items.

Here’s the latest Borders coupon but it expires in 2 days!

30% off of one item with a purchase of $10 or more

This cake is SO awesome. Somebody ordered a cake from Walmart and left these instructions for the person icing the cake:

“Best Wishes Suzanne” and underneath that write “We Will Miss You.”

Sounds normal enough. Here is what he got:

Best Wishes Suzanne
Under Neat that
We will Miss you

Yahoo launches their own Star Wars site
Free sample of Purex laundry detergent – I love walmart free samples and how painless it is to sign up for them!
The next Apprentice (Celebrity version) cast has been revealed – I don’t recognize half of the “celebrities”!
Basic eyebrows tutorial
5 smallest countries in the world
Homemade Baileys – mmmm I want to make some!
Ryan Gosling is too fat for The Lovely Bones – I’m so disappointed to hear this because I LOVED the book The Lovely Bones and was so excited he was going to be in it!

Have you heard about Pleo?

It’s supposed to be the latest in the long line of robotic pets but this one has been getting a lot of hype over how truly life-like it is. It has dozens of sensors that are sensitive to light, touch, and even edges. It displays different emotions from happy, to playful, to scared and even sad. Tech reviews are flying in with how this is the next big thing. Hopefully they will be able to release it by xmas this year. But the rumored price is about $349, so I probably won’t be getting one anytime soon. I’ve been waiting for a more lifelike robot pet to come out since I loooove animals but I’m really bad about cleaning up/taking care of them. Can’t wait til they come out with one that’s worth the price! I’m anxious to play with one, hopefully somebody I know will get one when it does come out.

Here’s a great compilation of Pleo reviews on robotsrule.com.

I haven’t been using my Visa card lately because I’ve been getting much better rewards with my Mastercard and Discover credit cards but with this promotion, I’ll definitely have to remember to use it for these stores!

Visa has a promotion going on that applies to a select number of stores. Most of the deals are coupon codes to use online or actual coupons you can print out to use at participating stores. Some of the deals are pretty good consisting of 15% off to $10 off your purchase. Some of the stores are:

Target.com
Urbanoutfitters.com
Banana Republic
Netflix
eToys
Brookstone
Papa John’s Pizza

Most of these stores I shop at anyways so if I can shave a little off the top using my Visa card, why not!

I’m such a fan of Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) and his blog that I can’t help but give a shout out to his new book which is based on the best of his old blog posts (which have since been removed from his archives). His new book is called Stick To Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain and he is holding a contest on his website right now. If you’re a fan of Scott Adams, you’ll love the prizes he has:

1 Grand Prize: A framed and signed original Dilbert comic selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion (worth $1500!)

25 Second Prizes: one autographed copy of the book Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain.

All you have to do is submit a humorously over-the-top book blurb in the comments to this blog post.

$16.47 at Amazon.

He’s also holding a book signing on Nov 7th at his restaurant Stacey’s at Waterford. Ahhh, I wish I lived up north so I could go!

I posted AOL’s list of the cheapest people last year and this year they’ve rounded a new batch. Some of my faves:

Mail Fraud
Submitted by: LoriBNJ

My friend’s Dad used to put the person he wanted his mail to go to in the return address area, and purposely forget postage. When it was returned, it wasn’t returned to him; it was brought to the person he wanted to send it to!

Dodging the Check
Submitted by: Deborahctroy
A large group of friends would go out after the theater. One professional man would order the cheapest thing on the menu, then when others were finished eating, he would finish whatever was on their plates. When the check came he would grab it first, then pass it on without putting his money in. When it came back around to him there was always enough to cover the check and tip and he would put in a dollar.

Frugal Extremes
Submitted by: Anonymous
While shopping at a roadside fruit stand, I watched my friend Wally remove the stems from the cherries he was buying. I asked him why and he said they would weigh less at checkout. Wally also only allows his turn signals to flash two times because, according to him, the bulbs will last longer!

Oldest female inmate set to be released at age 93
Weakest US housing markets – yay, LA is one of them!
Wall-E movie trailer – Pixar’s newest movie is about a….ROBOT! YES!
Space hotel to open in 2012 – of course only about “40,000” people in the world could afford to stay there!
Try Top Chef winner Hung’s 4 course menu at Caesar’s Palace in Vegas – I wish I could afford to try this
Did you know the Sun has a twin? – The real question is, does it also have an earth twin?

And despite it being set in a Star Wars universe, it’s not about the main characters…

It’s about the life of ROBOTS!

Right now he’s only looking for writers though so it will be awhile before we see anything concrete. I can’t wait though!

In other exciting entertainment news, did you hear about the Goonies sequel??

And also, I’m officially addicted to Heroes. I finally finished last season and am up-to-date with the new season. Is it just me or is the main villian, Sylar, kind of cute?

MMM, yes.