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Vonage Time to Call™ Review and an iPad 2 Giveaway!

Aug 12. 2011

Last week, Vonage released a new VoIP app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch called Time to Call™. This pay-per-call international calling app allows users to make short, 15-minute calls to 190 countries with competitive rates ranging from 99 cents to $9.99 per call. It is FREE to download with no monthly charges and no commitments.  So what sets Time to Call apart from its competitors? Payments are processed through iTunes®, so you don't need to create an account with Vonage or another third party.       According to Vonage's official page, Time to Call offers the following: Pay per call and talk up to 15 minutes to 100 countries for $1.99 or less¹ For an additional 90+ countries, talk up to 15 minutes for $2.99...

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Aerin, Personal, Pregnancy

Third Trimester

Aug 11. 2011

I am 28 weeks pregnant with BebeDeux today, which means that I am officially in my third trimester. I wish I had a belly shot to share with you, but I still don't have a functioning laptop with which to transfer photos from my camera and my cell phone camera isn't working. So here's what I looked like last year when I was 28 weeks pregnant with Claire, since everyone's been telling me that my tummy growth and weight gain look relatively the same.  My mother theorized that I must be having such difficult pregnancies because the babies are "absorbing" all my health...

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Blogging, Finance, Marketing/Advertising, Personal

Advertising Revenue: The First Month

Aug 09. 2011

It has been two months since I first decided to start accept advertising on this blog, and just a little over a month since the first ad appeared. Now, I know that no one likes a braggart. And I am not in any way writing this post as a way to scream, "Look how much money I'm making!" Rather, I decided to reveal my first month's advertising revenue (and by that, I mean the first month when the ads first appeared, not when I began accepting ads) solely based on the fact that there are so damn few bloggers who openly share their earnings. When I was first contemplating ads, the biggest questions I had were: "How much can I make?" "Which advertising method(s)?" And since I...

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Beauty, Claire, Cute, Personal, Relationships

My Day in Three Pictures

Aug 06. 2011

I wish this post could consist of more than three crappy cell phone pictures, but I have yet to get a new laptop and trying to process pictures from an actual camera is too much work. :-P Today started with my sitting on a salon chair, getting a haircut (it is now just below my shoulders) and a dye job: Remember when I had contemplated getting an ombre dye job after my preggo chop? Well, I've done it. And I love it! One of the main reasons I had stopped dyeing my hair is because of the roots that grow out — and an ombre color takes care of just that. Another big plus is that with the ombre technique, the hair dye never...

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Personal, Pregnancy, Relationships

Wishing for Boredom

Aug 05. 2011

Thank you all very much for your kind comments regarding my father. I received word that he was discharged from the hospital about an hour ago, and is well on his way to recovery. I wanted so badly to be see him again today, but I could not as I had Claire to take care of and the hospital, like most, does not allow babies to visit. But I'm sure that my own anguish was nothing compared to my mother's, who had her own store to watch and could not be by his side even when she first received word of the incident yesterday. Luckily, my sister was able to cancel her plans to stay with my father yesterday and today. I think...

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Personal

How My Father Ended Up in the Hospital

Aug 04. 2011

Thank you to those who commented on today's earlier, emotional post. My father is doing much better now — he was able to regain consciousness and was coherent by the time I was finally able to see him. The CAT scan did not reveal any serious damage, but they want to keep him at the hospital overnight for observation. I realize that the earlier entry was curt and may have been a bit confusing to some. So here's the full story...

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Aerin, Claire, Personal, Scary, Weird

Worst Case Scenarios

Aug 02. 2011

Lately I have been plagued with awfully vivid nightmares — ones that jolt me from sleep and keep me up the rest of the night. Take the one from a couple of nights ago, for example: J is killed in a horrific accident. At his funeral, his parents and I get into an argument regarding the future of Claire and BebeDeux — they want to raise them in Hong Kong while I want to raise them here in the U.S. As their birth mother, I have legal custodial rights over them and vehemently refuse to raise my children in a country I have never even visited, which results in J's parents ceasing all contact with us. I sell our condo, taking a great financial...

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