Go Blu!

 

Light...

So on Saturday February 9th I received my Philips GoLite Blu (For some reason I started writing this but never posted it!).  The Philips light is a therapy light to help people who deal with, suffer, whatever you want to call it with Seasonal Affective Disorder (or SAD, as so appropriately acronymed).  It's not FDA approved so that that for what it's worth.  However, various studies have been done showing positive effects.  Even if it's just a placebo effect, I still think that's better than feeling crappy all Winter!

Philips goLite Blu

 I wanted to start with a baseline and kind of update people as I go along in case any one else is wondering about how and if this works.

I chose the Philips goLite Blu because of it's features.  Due to the cost of these devices you probably won't be able to try different ones at will unless you can borrow someone else's. 

Features:

1) It's compact, and can run off a charged battery for a couple days. 

2) Adjustable light settings.  I feel like a majority of the SAD lights I looked at really only had one light intensity.  The goLite Blu has 4 making it versatile for finding out what intensity and time combo works best for you.

3) It had an alarm.  You can set an alarm for either a sound chime or the light to turn on.  Or both!

4) It has a timer!  When the time runs out, it automatically shuts off.

So upon receiving it (purchased off Amazon) I opened it up and stayed patient while I charged it the 8 hours recommended before turning it on.  When I turned the light on,  I was blinded.  Sort of, just be careful and LOOK AWAY as the light is on full capacity!  Anyway, I had some difficulty figuring out how to set the timer and alarm.  I didn't quite get the symbols at first either.  I felt the instructions could have been a little more clear but I made it through. 

For those interested here are the symbols and their meanings:

"Bell" - If this symbol is on, a chime will go off (and it's not quiet) at the time set on the alarm
"Sun" (or ball with spines) - The light will turn on at the time set on the alarm

*If you have a combo of the above two showing, both things will happen

"Clock" - This is the timer and will count down the minutes to the light turning off.

Once I figured the above out, the rest was easy as far as increasing and decreasing the light intensity.

I'll follow up once I've been using it for a while to report back!

Pace,
Megan

Keurig!

So, this happened about 6 months ago but I really want to give a shout out to the customer service at Keurig.

So we've had our Keurig since December of 2009 and LOVE it.  We used it pretty frequently and really tried to take care of it with regular cleanings and using filtered water.  On occasion we'd have an issue with it not brewing the full amount but it would eventually correct itself.

Keurig Special Edition...isn't it pretty? :)

Well, in December of 2011 our Keurig Special Edition finally bit the dust and was brewing about 2 ounces less every time.  We didn't want our coffee to go to waste so we'd add more which would result sometimes in an over-brewing or coffee that was more weak than we wanted.  So I called Keurig's customer service.

First of all, it was on a Saturday morning so I was nervous that I'd just get a recorded message saying that they were only open Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm.  No, I easily got through to a representative who was really nice.  I explained the issue I was having.  She'd asked me a bunch of troubleshooting questions and had me a try a couple different things.  When all of that didn't work, she looked at her records to see if my warranty was still valid.  It wasn't.  It was over a year expired.  And do you know what she did??

She extended my warranty for FREE!!! AND sent us a BRAND NEW KEURIG SPECIAL EDITION!

Seriously, I couldn't believe that.  I thought I'd have to mail it in and have they work to fix it.  So now we have a nice new Keurig that every time I look at it I think of what a great experience that all was.

I think there is so much negativity in this world that I think people need to hear the good too!

Pace,
Megan