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What is giftophobia and how do you know if you have it? Giftophobia is a disease that strikes millions of people every year. Its a dreaded fear of gift giving. Theres a simple test you can take to determine if youre at risk.

1. Do you put off buying a gift until the last possible moment, either the day of or the eve before an event?

2. Have you ever given cash or a gift card as a gift?

3. Do you dread drawing names at Christmas for fear youll get someone whos hard to buy for?

4. Have you ever said these words? I dont know what to get, he/she/they already have everything.

5. Do you ever delegate your gift buying to someone else?

If you answered yes to 3 or more questions, you are probably a giftophobe. Even one yes answer means youre at risk.

Oh, alright, so its not a real disease, and to my knowledge its not even a real phobia. Yet thousands of people seem to dread giving a gift. If youre one of those thousands, Ive got some good news Ill share with you in just a minute.

Why do you put off shopping for a gift? Is it because you dont have time or dont know where to start looking? Maybe youre afraid the recipient wont like what youve picked out so you delay choosing anything. Or it could be that you just cant think of the right gift.

Wouldnt it be great if you could find one place to shop for every gift-giving occasion that comes along? For every person on your list at Christmas? And what if you could do that from the comfort of your living room? In your pajamas? Sounds great, right? But does it exist? You bet it does and what Im about to share with you will make you real happy.

Gift baskets are the perfect solution for giftophobes. (Or anybody else, for that matter.) Gift baskets arent even just baskets anymore. Goodies are tucked into tins, birdhouses, ice buckets, planters, just about any sort of container you can think of, and probably a few youd never imagine.

Gift baskets are available for any gift-giving occasion and always make a lasting impression on the recipient. Theres no worry about size or color and everybody loves to receive them! Age doesnt matter, gender doesnt matter, gift baskets are universally received with enthusiasm.

You can celebrate a birthday with someone across the country, or send get-well wishes to a friend or family member across town. Gift baskets are shipped all over the world. They can be customized and personalized, so every person on your list receives a unique, one of a kind gift.

Not like gift cards, which too often wind up tossed in a drawer or forgotten in a wallet or lost in the bottom of a purse. Giving cash can come across as thoughtless and impersonal. Flowers wilt and die. Candy is eaten and forgotten. With gift baskets, even after the contents are gone, the container lasts, a constant reminder that someone cared.

The good news I promised can be found by looking at the bottom of this article. There youll find a link to an awesome site that offers just what Ive been describing. It could become the only solution you need for all your gift giving. Go there to select from all the specialty gift baskets available. You can make someone feel really special and give them a day filled with everlasting memories. Bookmark the site, and then you can relax, your giftophobia days are over. Happy shopping!

Dawn Lambe is the proud owner of Dawns Designer Baskets and Gifts, Etc. See her awesome assortment of specialty gift baskets at http://www.dawnsdesignerbaskets.com and simplify your life by making your gift giving almost effortless! For two years shes been known as Palm Beach Countys Best Kept Secret, but now shes ready and willing to share her secret with the world!

Movies are rife with new places and circumstances for having sex. We watch our favorite actors copulating in elevators, on airplanes, in semi-public, in space, in the jungle, in a limo, on the floor, the kitchen table - anywhere that it is possible. At times thrilling, it also often looks uncomfortable or impractical. In fact, most of the sex we enjoy through life, after the cars and hidden places of our youth, is in bed.

Does using the same scenery mean that the play must be boring and derivative? Not necessarily. Without intending to hurt the feelings or egos of set designers, the focus of any production is on the characters and the action. Next to that, everything else pales.

So how do we inject some creativity and novelty into our sex lives to avoid endless repetition and an eventual decline in the level of our excitement?

We can manipulate our circumstances to break the routine of a few nights a week of sex before sleep. Change the timing of our intimacy and the routine dissolves. After the advent of a baby, for example, many husbands complain that their wives no longer concentrate on the action, one ear always cocked for a tell-tale cry. Time your moments together for when the baby sleeps longest, perhaps the early evening or Sunday morning. Take the baby to the babysitter's house or to the grandparents and use the free time to rekindle the sparks that have inevitably been dampened by the demanding stranger who has invaded your lives.

If you have a fireplace, put on a log and start foreplay on a soft rug in front of the flames. You can move to the bedroom later, for the comfort, but the desire will be freshened by the fireside initiation. If you have older children or relatives living with you, often the only refuge available is your bedroom at night. See if you can send the kids to the movies and your mother-in-law to the local Church bingo and seize the opportunity to again act like a carefree young couple with only each other on your minds.

Most importantly, practice concentration on the "now." We all have so many things on our minds that our thoughts flit endlessly to the problems at work, the financial stresses we are under, and the need to get chores done and things fixed. Men, for multiple physiological reasons, seem better able to concentrate on sex for the relatively brief time it takes for them to move from arousal to action to completion. Women usually take longer to arouse and longer to reach a climactic conclusion. It therefore requires more effort, for a longer period of time, for women to disengage from mental processing to bodily sensations and feelings.

A sensitive mate acknowledges this and helps the process by allowing for longer lead time, starting the intimacy and arousal foreplay long before the act ever starts. Failure to do so too often results in denial ("I'm not in the mood; I have a headache") or limited engagement ("We need to paint this ceiling; I have to get up so early tomorrow").

If both parties can communicate what works for them, and help to mold the behavior of the other in order to enhance the experience of both, then the routine becomes an eagerly anticipated event that allows for mutual sharing, enjoyment, and fulfillment.

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Using Fantastico to install WordPress

Using Fantastico to install your WordPress Blog is one of the easiest methods and probably the quickest ways of setting up a blog. Fantastico will install the WordPress software and create the database and the configuration file for you.

How to use Fantastico to install WordPress?

Login to your web hosting control panel, and in this tutorial we'll assume your using cPanel.

It can usually be accessed by the default method.

http://your-domain.com/cpanel

1) Login to your control panel "cPanel"
2) Click on the Fantastico icon or look for the Blue Smiley Face icon.
3) Select WordPress from the list on the right.
4) Click New Installation.
5) Select the domain name you want WordPress installed on.

If you have more than one domain hosted on your account, be sure to select the domain you want your WordPress Blog installed in.

6) Decide if you want WordPress installed in the root or a sub-directory.

Example: if you want it in the root directory leave it blank. If you wish to install it in a sub-directory make up the directory name you want it installed in like "blog or wordpress".

7) Next enter an Admin username and password, but be sure to write them down as you will use this information to enter your WordPress Admin Panel.
8) Now enter your Admin nickname that you will go by when posting articles.
9) Enter your admin email address that you wish to use to be notified of comments etc.
10) Enter your Site name
11) Enter your Blog Description
12) You can also set up your email configuration; usually the default settings are ok as most host support PHP Mail or SMTP support throuth the PHP.INI Settings.
13) Click Install WordPress.

Once installed, you can choose to have the details of the setup mailed to your email address for safe keeping. This is highly recommended in case you forget your admin login and password.

You're done! You now have WordPress installed on your domain.

To access your blog if you installed it in a sub-directory.

http://www.your-domain.com/sub-directory-name

To manage your WordPress Blog you would login using the following.

http://www.your-domain.com/sub-directory name/wp-admin/

If you installed it in the root directory you would use the default method of accessing your WordPress Blog.

http://www.your-domain.com

And you're WordPress Admin Panel

http://www.your-domain.com/wp-admin/

Enjoy your new WordPress Blog!

About the Author:
Shawn DesRochers is the CEO of a successful SEO & Web Design Support Forum http://www.Invision-Graphics.com. He also helps administrate one of the most popular Blogger support forums online at http://www.bloggertalk.net where bloggers can get answers to their current questions. If you need blog hosting we recommend VisionThisHosting.com