This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hoover and Dirt Devil. All opinions are 100% mine.When Santa makes his list and checks it twice, I'm sure he'll find that Roxy's been both naughty and nice... hey, did you call me a Dirt Devil? Well, your mama wears army boots!It is actually a bit of a long running joke in our household that while Rex goes all out on sexy lingerie, perfume and whimsical gifts under the tree, I'd be just fine with a practical gift like a vacuum cleaner, power... Read Full Story

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Popstation. All opinions are 100% mine.Remember London and Maddie's all girl basement band, the Butter Bites?? The Butter Bites just came out of the basement on Halloween, wearing their rock star costumes, marching down the street with the Pirate Parents pulling a wagon with a drum and an amplifier, singing songs by Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato and generally rockin' this town inside out.It may just be time for the Butter Bite... Read Full Story

Sorry for the Wall Street title to this post, but I've been working too hard this week and can't seem to separate business from pleasure. Anyway, my loyal Roxiticus Desperate Housewives readers will remember that on Sunday, Rex, Maddie, London, and I went to see the Hexagon Players' local performance of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at Delbarton in Mendham Township. It turned out to be my favorite Hexagon performance from the past several years... we've seen Sound of Music, Peter Pa... Read Full Story

I had spent the day hard at work on a Confidential Information Memorandum for one of our investment banking clients (let's call it Project "Rocket Science"), and had just about used up my quota of brain cells for the day, maybe even the week. Not to mention feeling a bit under the weather with my first cold of the season. Add a beer to the equation... Killian's Irish Red. Then Maddie asked me for help on her second grade math and logic puzzle homework tonight. She had finished most of the as... Read Full Story

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Sponsored Tweets. All opinions are 100% mine.Speaking of our investment banking clients, Twitter is not just all the rage in my personal and blogging life... it has crept into our professional lives as well! One of our new clients actually provides competitive intelligence on Twitter marketing messages for brand marketers and their competitors. Right here in the money making blogosphere, our good friends at IZEA recently launched SponsoredTw... Read Full Story

I had spent the day hard at work on a Confidential Information Memorandum for one of our investment banking clients (Project "Rocket Science"), and had just about run out of brain cells. Not to mention feeling a bit under the weather with the first cold of the season. Then Maddie asked me for help on her second grade math and logic puzzle homework tonight. She had finished most of the assignment, leaving only the toughest problems for mom to help on. There were words in circles and other w... Read Full Story

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of British Airways. All opinions are 100% mine.It's mid-November and a chill is in the air... we closed our beach house in Bay Head after the annual Halloween Parade, and we've been spending our weekends up north (and west) in the Roxiticus Valley. We miss the beach from November through mid-April, but it always seems too dark and desolate during the cold winter months without Daylight Savings Time. Since British Airways is running a November... Read Full Story

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Banana Shpeel. All opinions are 100% mine.When I was growing up, my mother used a bunch of strange expressions that made me laugh, but I never knew exactly where they came from... maybe old time radio before there was television? Vaudeville? Here's an example... when I needed her to drive me somewhere in the morning before she was dressed, she'd say, "Just let me slip on a banana peel and we'll be on our way." Now that I have two little girl... Read Full Story

The old HP, she ain't what she used to be... I can't tell if it's a virus or a hardware/electrical problem (or a little bit of both), but my HP Pavillion notebook is giving me fits. For the past few days, a file called "DeadUpdate.exe" pops up on my screen every three to four hours (saving itself in my temp folder each time), but Microsoft Vista User Controls give me the opportunity to cancel it out before it can contaminate my laptop. I can delete it from the temp folder but it always come... Read Full Story

My loyal Roxiticus Desperate Housewives readers know that Rex and I have our doubts about Twitter's recent billion dollar valuation and whether Twitter can change the world. However, when I learned that I could help grant a seriously ill child's wishes with nothing more than a little tweeting and retweeting, I jumped on the opportunity. LeapFish has joined forces with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to help make a little boy's Disneyland dream come true. Tweet-a-cause, a social media fundraising i... Read Full Story