I've been seeing the TV commercials that the folks at Disney started airing on September 18, 2008.

So I looked up details about the Free Disney Ticket On Your Birthday special online.

Looks good to me! No catches that I can see... other than the fact that you'll be obligated to buy a full-price ticket for anyone who accompanies you on your visit to either Disney World in Orlando or Disneyland in California. But that's to be expected. Plus, it's only good on your actual birthday in 2009.

Jim and I both signed up for a free ticket at each of the different parks on each of our birthdays. Who knows if we'll actually be able to get away when the time comes (Mar 2 and Nov 14), but it's worth considering, if you ask me.

You're allowed to sign up all your kids. May as well encourage your closest friends and relatives to sign up too! It's only 3 very simple steps. And no, you don't have to sign up for their optional "birthday club". We didn't.

Here's another fun online game. But this one has a purpose: To help end world hunger.

FreeRice has a custom database containing thousands of words at varying degrees of difficulty ... FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It starts by giving you words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level. When you get three words in a row right, you go to a harder level. This one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the 'outer fringe' of your vocabulary, where learning can take place."

There are 50 different levels, but it's supposedly quite rare for anyone to make it past level 48.

With the recent postage rate hike (first class stamps now cost 41 cents), you're going to need some $.02 stamps, right?

So, if you've been thinking about trying Photo Stamps before, now may be the best time because:

According to The Art of Money:

"Adobe is planning a free online version of Photoshop, but while we wait (until late 2007)..."

Woah. Really?

That would be tooooo cool.

Are you a military wife or a military husband?
Is your spouse currently deployed?
Do you have young children at home?
Would you like to have a life-size cut-out of your military spouse to incorporate into your daily life with your children?

...Flat Mommies and Flat Daddies to the rescue!

These online gift tags are a cinch to make!

Just...

Pick your favorite style. (6 to choose from)
Use the online form to enter TO: and FROM: information.
Choose your colors.
And print them out!

You can do one at a time, or full pages of 10 at a time.

Want to hear a great song?... and download it for FREE?

MyFreeMusicFriday.com is offering Shaun Groves' song "Miss Texas" for free download on February 2 only.

Shaun Groves is a singer/songwriter that Jim and I like a lot. We even went to one of his CD release parties, and it was great!

See photos & highlights here.

Check out what this song is about, and why Shaun wrote it in the first place...

Did you recently get a new computer? If so, here are some fun programs & computer shortcuts you might want to consider...

In preparation for a little "outdoor computing" from the many porches of our new (soon-to-be-built) log home, we purchased a laptop computer for me this past weekend.

For those who are keeping tabs... yes, that makes a total of 5 (working) computers in our household at this point. That's right... just two adults, no children, and two dogs -- but even they haven't tried their paws at the computer yet! But I have to say... we got a really good deal on each of them online!

Jim and I each have a desktop model and a laptop model... all purchased online through Dell computers. Plus, together we share a many-year-old Pionex computer that acts as a server -- for all our backups & printing functions.

By the way, we couldn't be happier with our many computer purchases at Dell. But I'll save that story for another time.
Here's some scoop on why Dell Computers rate higher than HP, Compaq & Sony.

So I've been spending the past day or so trying to match everything that's on my desktop computer with what's on my new laptop. (It's the Dell Inspiron E1505.)

While it's still fresh in my mind, I thought some people might be interested in knowing which computer programs and shortcuts I use most.

Okay, here we go...