A Cream Fizzsicle

Although a favorite treat of my childhood, I went many years (as in over 20), without having eaten a single creamsicle.  I never missed them, until this last pregnancy. At some point the mighty creamsicle became my token “weird pregnancy craving”. I just had to have them. I don’t even want to know how many boxes of creamsicles I consumed during that last trimester.

My bizarre cravings generally go away after the pregnancy ends, but this time I was hooked. Unfortunately for me, sweet baby girl becomes colicky and breaks out in a rash anytime I have any dairy products at all (with the exception of raw goat’s milk), so creamsicles were now out of the question.

And then I had a new discovery. I can’t take credit for this one; a lady at Costco told Rob about it so I thought I would give it a shot — an orange soda flavored ZipFizz mixed with milk (or in my case, goat’s milk) — a Cream Fizzsicle!

A little background: I gave up my caffeine addiction almost a year and half ago, kicking the multiple-cups-of-coffee-a-day habit. I’m FREE! But on those days when I need a little boost, I rely on ZipFizz.

If you are unfamiliar with the product, it’s a zippy bubbly little energy drink powder that you mix into a bottle of water. It’s “boost” comes from natural caffeine from guarana seed extract and B Vitamins. It’s a great immune system booster with its 833% RDA of vitamin C, and is a beneficial supplement for vegetarians with its 2500 mcg of B12 (among its 17 vitamins and minerals). No sugar, 2 carbs, and only 10 calories. Great product!

To make a “Cream Fizzsicle”, drink about 1/4 to 1/3 of the water from a 16oz bottle of water. Add the ZipFizz, shake, then fill the rest of the way with milk and shake again.

My thanks to the unknown Costco worker in Clearwater, Florida who came up with this concoction.

Hurry! Get a Britax Marathon Carseat for $43!

 *UPDATE* – SOLD OUT NOW

Someone on a message board that I frequent just alerted me to this deal. Britax Marathons (the car seat that I own for two of my children) is selling for $43 and $60 — with FREE SHIPPING. (Regularly $280)

But hurry, I am certain supplies won’t last!

Dragon Naturally Speaking – What a Neat Program!

When I came across this website, I excitedly showed it to my husband, who said, “Oh yeah, Dragon. Brother Andy (our former pastor) has used that for years to help him write his sermons.” Well, why didn’t my husband tell ME about it?! It looks like it would be a great tool, not only for pastors, but for very busy moms, and for special needs children!

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A User Says:

Hello my name is Brett Bumeter and I write about Dragon NaturallySpeaking quite a bit. I’ve been writing reviews at softduit.com for a couple years now, and I wanted to share with you some insights into this great video that Drew from the benspark.com blog has put together on YouTube.

Drew just recently started using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and this is one of the first videos that he’s done with the product. Today, you can train Dragon NaturallySpeaking in about seven minutes. So almost immediately out of the box, you can start transcribing your words into text, and that’s just amazing!

The software is extremely fast and can enable you to type at 150 words per minute. That can save you a significant amount of time and energy, and I wanted to point out this aspect of it because you can kind of see it in the video. Not only is Drew speaking in a natural voice and at a natural rate of speed, but you can actually see Drew composing the words that he’s going to say as he speaks them.

When you watch this video you can see that Drew is looking to the right just a little bit as he thinks of each sentence that he’s going to say. Dragon NaturallySpeaking makes you use a part of the brain that you’re not necessarily used to using because you typically write with your fingers on a keyboard or with a pen and pencil. When we type we use a different section of our brains than we do when we speak. We even use a different segment of our brains when we write with a pen or a pencil.

So when you first start using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you will learn how to compose with your brain. We learn to think of the words that we’re going to say and then say them. With Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 those words can be transcribed at such a fast rate of speed(about as fast as you can talk).

The benefits of the program are immense, as they enable us to type so much faster than we can with our fingers. The average person can type 2 to 3 times faster with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This saves us a great deal of time as we complete e-mails and messages and articles and documents two to three times faster. This gives us more time to proof read our documents and ensure that they are absolutely fantastic, and it can enable us more time to do other work, or even spend time with our family or the people that are important to us.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is relatively inexpensive, and right now, through this article that you are reading, you can receive an exclusive discount of 25% off with an exclusive Coupon code and link with prices that starts at $75 after discount! Then you can join Drew and I and start typing at 150 words per minute too!

If you type 20 e-mails a day, and you type at a speed of approximately 50 words per minute in your e-mails that are say, 200 words long each, that means that your e-mails will take you four minutes to write. At 20 e-mails a day, that’s 80 minutes spent writing e-mail. With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you could write those same e-mails at 150 words per minute, or approximately a minute and 20 seconds per e-mail and finish all of your e-mails in about 26 minutes. That means you could save over 53 minutes per day just from writing e-mails alone. At a cost of $75, if your time is worth, at minimum $10 an hour, Dragon NaturallySpeaking will pay for itself in about a week($75/{$10*53/60} = 8.5 days). If your time is worth more than that, it will pay for itself, much faster. If you write more. It will also pay for itself, much faster also. The bottom line is that it can save you time and money, and these days we all need that type of help.

So, please enjoy this video that Drew is put together and consider how Dragon NaturallySpeaking could work for you to save you time and help you improve your quality of life and just about pay for itself with the discount codes that Nuance is offering exclusively to blog readers.

Best regards,
Brett Bumeter.
www.softduit.com.

PS I wrote this article using Dragon NaturallySpeaking myself. It’s about 700 words long it took me six minutes to write, and another minute or two to edit. That averages out to approximately 87 words per minute including editing time, which is fantastic!

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