1800flowers.com for Valentines

Folks there is still time. You can get that Valentine’s arrangement ordered so it can be delivered on that special day, which is four days from now. Now I said there’s still time, but that does not mean you are to think you have time. Don’t let the Spectre of Procrastination burn through until Wednesday night and leave you scratching amongst 10 cards nobody wants and embryonic rosebuds. Work is annoying on a day like this. Make it special for her. Break your gifts up into 3 or 4 so she’s got surprises everytime she turns around. Have her wake up and turn over to see that you got her a spa day. Head over to 1800flowers dot com and pick something like the Love Cubed^TM arrangement, add a bear and schedule it for delivery to her at work. While she’s away from home get the house together and put another surprise where she’ll see it as soon as she walks in. Don’t go out. Have her walk in to find the wine bottle and glasses on the table and you putting the sprig of chives on the roasted split red potatoes. There are all sorts of tips and ideas for valentines for you to read on the 1800flowers.com website. There are wine baskets, gift baskets, candies, bears and numerous flower arrangements for you to pick from. You’ll want 1800flower dot com to be your online florist from here on out.

Overstock dot com’s Valentine’s Day Game of Love

Are you done shopping? Come on. ‘Fess up. You haven’t even begun. If I may talk enginerdy for a sec, whenever you think you have time or if you’re having fun, the fourth dimension expands slightly, giving time an acceleration factor of 1.3. It’s not a dilation but more of a puffing up. That means that for every five minutes that goes by in your head 6.5 minutes goes by in the rest of the world. So every hour you spend not having gotten around to buying your significant, sweetheart, special person their gift for Valentine’s day you lose an additional 18 minutes. That accelerates each day by 7 hours 12 minutes. So the 21 days left between today (1/24) and Valentine’s day are going to go by 6.3 days faster. And it’s not just the gift. There are flowers and candy to buy and dinner reservations to call in. If you want to put the brakes on all this acceleration before you get stressed out, you can start by entering the Game O Love. That’ll give you a chance to win a gift for your special person. Then while you’re waiting for the results of the contest, GO SPEND SOME MONEY. Since you’ll already be at overstock.com you can get the other gifts you need to buy and order flowers. I picked out the Bulova Women’s Dress Chronograph Quartz Watch because I want her to have something to go with those business outfits she keeps buying. So I’ve entered Overstock.com’s “Game O Love” and will be waiting to win. But there are things for other people on the site as well. I have a few iPod-using ladies I know, so I’ll be looking at accessories…maybe accessories and an iTunes card. But enough about me. You need to get moving. Time is a fleeting thing. You don’t want to be one of the procrastinators on Wednesday, the 13th.

Coupon Chief for Valentine’s Day

Okay the red stuff has been out on display in stores since two days after Christmas and while you think you have 3 weeks left they will go by faster than you think. You know you want to be one of the ones who’s done shopping, not frantically picking over picked-over shelves on that fateful Wednesday the 13th. Make a goal of being done no later than the 4th and use some online coupons to help you with your purchases. The less you spend on stuff, the more you can spend on the romantic dinner. And have you made reservations yet? Flowers? The price is climbing on those arrangements and the single rose between the teeth only works in the movies.

The things I’d get for people are:

1. Mom: 19″ LCD Monitor from Best Buy
2. My aunt: Red handbag from eBags
3. My sister: iPod Touch 16GB Engraved from Apple

If I can get the dating thing going before the end of the month I’ll have more to buy. A few ladies I’m close to will get cards but those are the gifts. Holidays are fun but holidays, like most things in life can get stressful quickly for lack of planning. Let Couponchief dot com help.

Day 2 of the 3 day weekend about done

I have a 3-day weekend given the holiday. I have to say I am glad to have the MLK holiday off, but part of me will enjoy the “in between” time from February-May. I prefer my vacation time to national holidays. Vacation is me time. On national holidays everything stops. Everyone’s out on the road and nobody’s working. When I have vacation I can still transact business and such. I just don’t have to be at work. It feels freer. I’m not saying I don’t want the holidays off. Just that I enjoy the vacation time more.

So I’m selfish.

Weddings with LED

Each wedding is one day in the lives of everyone in attendance. It’s going to be recorded in photos and videos. And that’s just the ceremony. The wedding party is going to be there afterwards shooting more photos. Imagine wedding lights illuminating the flowers on the canopy. Use them to decorate the ceiling at the reception. If you’re a wedding planner keep enough sets to reuse and try offering sets of lights in the wedding package for the couple to keep and use for other holidays. Since you’re able to connect up to 125 strings on one plug you can make numerous combinations off a few carefully disguised power strips. Construct wire framing and string the lights on it. Light up an ice sculpture with Gold LED Ribbon and since they’re low heat they won’t contribute to the melting of the ice. Run strings along the path that the limosine will be taking away from the reception. With LED wedding lights you can decorate trees for an outdoor wedding at night. Imagine it and make it reality with LED.

LED Lighting for Halloween

Anyone who knows me knows Halloween is my favorite holiday. Seems I’ve always been at work that day, which is okay since we put on a big decorating to-do in my department. So since I haven’t been able to do anything at home I haven’t made any efforts to decorate the house. By using LED rope light for Halloween you could arrange them in shapes specific to the holiday and enjoy the same energy savings of Christmas lights. HolidayLeds dot com hashalloween lights in orange and purple in several shapes. You could get one of those arched-back outdoor black cats and attach their Amethyst Purple LED Mini Lights all around the cat so that at a distance onlookers will see the lights in the shape of a cat. Run them along the sidewalk edges in Citrine Orange Raspberry Lights and/or lead a path to your door. Pick a wall and arrange a string of Amethyst Purple Strawberry Lights in the shape of or witch and the Citrine Orange Strawberry Lights in the shape of a ghost. There are five varieties with three in Amethyst Purple and two in Citrine Orange. You might find your children wanting to keep the lights in their rooms in the shape of whatever character was on the wall outside. Check them out at HolidayLeds.com

New uses for LED Christmas lights

The energy savings from switching holiday lighting from incandescent to LED is so phenomenal I really wish I could use them inside my house for all interior lighting. Okay that’s a little far-fetched. What I need to do is look at other types of bulb replacements for interior lighting. However there are other uses that LED rope lighting can be put to year round. A friend of mine has a ranch several miles away from here. He and his wife throw parties every now and then. What they’ve done to steer some of the bathroom traffic away from their house is to put up several Porta-Potties around the property. They use LED rope light inside the Chem-Cans for the illumination at night. Specifically with parties, you can take the LED Christmas lights and use them as temporary illumination of certain paths around the house. Here in Texas a lot of houses are Xeriscaped and having those spots lit would help prevent accidents when guests are in the area. The uses don’t stop with general parties and get togethers. You can place the lights inside toolsheds so that there is some illumination but you don’t need the entire building lit by a larger bulb. Maybe you don’t use lighting at Christmas but there is a wedding coming up. Get the new wedding lights for the big day and then place them around the washer/dryer where you don’t always need the full overhead light turned on but just enough to work the controls. LED holiday lighting doesn’t need to only be used for the one day and then boxed for a year. Use them for other holidays. Let them replace some incandescents you’ve been using throughout the year and continue to save energy and your utility bills.

Some activities for the holiday coming up

A week from this coming Monday is MLK day. Since we generally don’t get invited to cook outs I am going to spend that time sorting out some of the junk I have piled around my weight machine. I need to start using it again since I may or may not get another gym membership. The gym was an interesting social environment back in 1991 but now with all the personal electronics it’s really just a bunch of people walking from area to area working out and there doesn’t seem to be much going on in the way of socialization. There is a lot of stuff here that just need to go in the trash and a lot that can be donated and I might find a few things that can be sold. When I cleared out my storage unit last year a lot of the boxes went around the weight machine. It’s time to get rid of that stuff because I have a 2BR house. I don’t have catacombs and tunnels to take stuff that I “might need someday” and drop it off. There is no vault here, although I could probably use a fireproof safe. So we may head over to Papa Murphy’s on Sunday and get a couple of pizzas and break open that pizza baking stone thing that I bought a while back and is still in the box.

Time off

I am really looking forward to having MLK Day off. I worked both holidays and while I appreciate the extra pay the part of me that is still tired wishes I had taken those days off. I have a couple days vacation at the end of the month. I am hoping some friends will be having a Mardi Gras party on the Saturday before Super Fat Tuesday.

LED Christmas Lights a great application for new technology

Start the new year off with more by saving on your energy costs. As the amounts consumers pay for electricity and other forms of fuel continue to increase, so will the demand for ways to spend less. With that there is the ongoing concern for the environment. LED lightbulbs use one tenth of the energy of incandescent bulbs. They generate little heat and burn longer. During the holidays a many people like to put out lights as part of their outdoor decorations in addition to putting lights on a tree inside. LED rope light is also suitable for commercial uses. In fact for commercial buildings they can lessen liability because there won’t be glass bulbs to come crashing to the ground if a mounting assembly comes loose. Go to Holiday Leds dot com and take a look at their many varieties of LED rope light. They’re lighter, more cost effective, easier to hang and all around less hazardous than traditional glass bulbs. If you are interested in a particular color you can view and order from the varieties of warm or pure white, red, green, blue or multi-color. Lights are available for viewing on the HolidayLEDs.com website by shape shape and color. Read answers to common questions on the FAQ pages. Still not sure that LEDs are the way to go? Read press releases and news about HolidayLEDs.com. Check out news from the LED lighting industry. Read shopping tips. If you have other questions you can submit them on the website or call a representative toll free. Take a look at their online catalog and search lights for large residential and commercial arrangements. The cost-effectiveness of LED can allow you to make even larger and more elaborate displays. The cost isn’t that much different from traditional lighting and your order will pay for itself quickly because of the amount you won’t be paying in utility bills. You’ll use fewer outlets to connect the same or even longer strings of lights than their incandescent counterparts. Smaller scale lighting is available for the home in the same shapes as the outdoor lighting. There is even lighting available for Chanukah displays. Place your order by 3pm EST and it will be on its way to you the same day. Read articles about HolidayLeds dot com and post comments. Submit photos of your LED Christmas display and win up to a $350 prize in the Ugly Christmas Lights Contest sponsored by HolidayLeds dot com and uglychristmaslights.com. LED Christmas Lights can be a very rewarding solution to your holiday decorations for both you and the environment.