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I know that my poor blog has been neglected over the past two and a half years... My current lifestyle hasn't allowed for much blogging time. I have decided to retire the blog updates but I have redesigned an awesome new website to showcase more on the business. All content will remain here if you ever want to reference back.

Please go checkout the new site over at www.thecookiecounter.com

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