Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays - Best Light Show Ever!

 As the story goes, the guy that owns this house lives north of  Cincinnati , Ohio ..

Police were constantly being called for traffic jams and accidents in the neighborhood so

they asked him to shut it down during certain hours.

Instead he started charging by car load to pay off-duty police to be there..

The guy is supposedly a real computer GEEK.

Merry Christmas to you and yours from WiseSize (Ken & Marilyn)!

Change For A Dollar - Very Inspiring Video!

Happy Holidays from WiseSize (Ken & Marilyn)! In the spirit of giving, we thought this little video captures it all. Sometimes it's the little things that make a world of difference to someone (actually, it's usually not sometimes but most of the time).

Life In A Day - 1 day in the life of us all!

 On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded uploaded their day to You Tube to take part in an historic even called Life In A Day! While over an hour and a half - well worth your time as this film truly shows how connected we all really are!

Oscar-winning director, Kevin McDonald took over 4500 hours of footage from around the world and wowed the audiences at the Sundance festival this year as it wow us!
 (please note their are a few scenes that are graphic, language may be a bit adult in places, but these are real people, real life on a real day all over our world!)

WiseSize has Thousands of New Fashions in stock!

Just in time for the fall and holiday season, we have added thousands of Funtastic Fantabulous Fashion arrivals to our store! Here is a small preview:


Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.



Thanks for making WiseSize "the little web store that can" take on the big guys!
Ken & Marilyn - WiseSize.com

A man's best friend - well, maybe!

As long as you have food!

WebCam 101 For Seniors - Very Funny!

This video has made viral status for on reason - it is FUNNY! An elderly couple (who are so cute by the way) are looking at the computer trying to send a picture but are really on web cam and don't know it!

Our Friend Kelsey's TV Show Pilot

Kelsey, a good friend of ours, has created a cool TV show for Portland Oregon area landmarks, places of interest and just anything cool about the Portland area. She is the star of this series and in Marilyn and my opinion kicks some major butt! The show is called MERGE (merging all that is cool in Portland into one series). Please check out their Youtube channel and give your support. Among the local networks, they are also talking with The Travel Channel for distribution - Best of luck Kelsey & friends - we watched all the episodes so far and were amazed at the awesomeness of this show!

Check out YouTube channel: Merge

How To Deal With Toxic People

I think Natural Sunshine does a good job explaining how to deal with a few toxic people types we all run into - No one in your life who loves you or says they are your friend will EVER try to kill your dreams, put them down or make you feel bad for being who you are and want to be!

A Passing of A Loved One and Friend

Normally we do not write about things of a personal nature for a couple reasons:
1. There are so many wonderful things, ideas and experiences more noteworthy, in our opinion.
2. We really want this blog to be about positive ideas.

The reason this writing is a deviation from that is more about how it happened more than what happened.
Last night, we lost our friend, family member and loved one, Darby (or Stoopid as he was sometimes called in fun).

 

Marilyn and I of course thought Darby (or Stoopid depending on our mood and what he had done) was a great dog, friend and family member, as did his best friend Bob (the cat) and we all knew he was getting old (14 years which is rare for a Jack Russell purebred).

 

Here is Bob & Darby:

What made this special was how Darby (or Stoopid) decided to say goodbye!

For the most part, the day was like any other, we worked, until such a time where we decided it was time to stop and relax for an hour or so before bed.

The animals were acting as they always did (watching us work, under our feet, meowing demands and trying to sneak upstairs without us know ((they don't know that sound travels)):

Then, Darby jumps up on the couch and spends a lot of time traveling from Marilyn's lap to mine, stopping for a few minutes at each one to be petted and talked to. It was then we felt something was not right....he seemed slow and his eyes were not as bright. We both knew right away something was wrong, then it hit us and wow did that hurt....he was dying.  We spent the next two hours holding him, petting him and telling him what a good dog he was (which we always did but this time, wow, did those words and gestures really mean ring of so much truth). 

When Darby knew it was time, he walked to the back porch and laid down where there was a small cool breeze and Bob, his buddy. He laid down on his special blanket and went: where all good dogs go to Heaven.

What makes this special isn't that we lost a dog, or a pet or....what makes this special is our friend waited until we returned from a vacation, waited until all of his family members were there, gave us each the opportunity to say goodbye and then walked out to the back porch to go silently sleep, knowing he was loved and mostly, had given love.

Thank you Darby - We Love You - Ken, Marilyn & Bob

Will Smith - words and life of wisdom!

I know I have posted this before ( a long time ago), but I just re-watched Will's amazing view on life and I had to share again. This man is amazing! I hope you enjoy this video as much as Mar & I do!

Will Smith