Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Manic Monday

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Manic Monday

Lisa’s Manic Monday #144

It's "Cyber Monday" today, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States. Do you do much online shopping, holiday or otherwise?
I will not do any shopping on “Cyber Monday” but I do shop on-line especially for shoes.

Are you a Mac or a PC user? Why?
PC, because the business world is geared toward PC’s. However, I used an Apple way back in 1978, I had an Apple II+ with disk drives. I was a screaming machine with 64K of RAM (that is K not M or G).

What website do you spend more time on than you care to admit?
I usually take a tour of friends blogs a couple times a day and I check my mail a lot.

7 comments:

Unknown11/30/08, 9:39 PM
I always buy my son's shoes online as he wears a size 15!

64K-- I remember those. :)
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Jaynie12/1/08, 7:03 AM
Ohhh see shoes are one thing I could never buy online. Apart from books, shoes are my fav thing to shop for. I love to try on and prance around.
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Teena in Toronto12/1/08, 7:11 AM
I check my mail a lot too! Ha!

I played :)
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Gabriel12/1/08, 7:30 AM
Good answers, Diana. I'm definitely not friends with online shopping; nothing personal, it just doesn't appeal to me...
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kalea_kane12/1/08, 8:46 AM
Shoes! I have never bought shoes online! I hear Zappos is great too. Maybe I'll have to take a look. :)
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Mary12/1/08, 3:09 PM
I would be terrified to buy shoes on line... I'm such a stickler about the fit. But that probably comes from the fact that I have odd shaped feet. :)
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Kwizgiver12/1/08, 6:38 PM
I've never bought shoes online... where do you get yours?
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And fear
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To year
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Afraid
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