Inkheart

Snagged a pair of advanced screening passes to Inkheart, starring Brendan Fraser. I thought it was a pretty good movie, not the best, but good enough to watch with your family. There were some cool special effects and interesting characters. Brendan Fraser plays Mo, a Silvertongue, who can bring characters from books to life by reading outloud. His daughter inherits this ability as well. Mo accidentally reads some villians out from Inkheart, and reads his wife into it. He spends his life searching for a copy of Inkheart so he can get his wife back. Andy Serkis plays the villian Capricorn, who is trying to bring the evil and powerful Shadow to take over earth.

Back to School

Finally the last term of my university degree!! Taking 3 courses this term, but still so busy because they all have projects - AHH! I'm already so frustrated and hw is starting to pile up, and it's only the start of the 3rd week.

So shopping. Did a lot of coupon shopping during the holidays. Just in December 2008, I saved almost $400 just using coupons. My out of pocket total I would guess is less than $40, maybe even less than $25. Darn those pesky taxes!

I'm going to keep track of how much I save during January. So far it's about $40, but only coz I haven't been doing a lot of shopping since school started. I'm waiting for the new brandsaver coupons to come so I can use them at London Drugs to get Olay products. I love London Drugs!

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Microsoft Zune! - Product Review

So a couple of weeks ago, my free Zune kit arrived in the mail. It included a 8GB Zune, a set of premium Zune headphones and an AC adapter. This was part of a word-of-mouth promotion by Matchstick and Chatthreads where they gave out 300 free Zune kits and whoever gets one has to show it off to their friends. So far it's been pretty cool, you can transfer songs and pictures wirelessly between Zune users and has an FM radio. However, syncing the Zune is a bit confusing and so are the playlists. I still prefer to use itunes.

Anyway, because this is a word-of-mouth promo, log on to ChatThreads.com and enter 102 986 0190 for the Conversation ID and you'll be entered to win a $500 Amazon.ca gift card (or click on the link below)! Wooo! You can also tell your friends about it and give them the conversation ID if you talk about the Zune.

Summer

Woot, it's finally summer. No job, just lazing around and doing some school stuff (though I technically haven't started yet). Zzz. Okay hopefully it doesn't rain tmr, I want to have a yard sale!