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I can’t believe how fast my hair grows

February 19, 2010 by Tricia

I think I’ll be going shopping this weekend. As I mentioned in one of yesterdays posts I’m putting myself on a better skin care routine – moisturizing daily. So now I’m on the hunt for the best wrinkle cream.

Ok well maybe not wrinkle cream specifically … but really aren’t all moisturizers kind of anti-wrinkle since keeping your skin moisturized can help delay or minimize wrinkles?

I also have to get my haircut. I swear my hair grows so fast that I have to get my hair cut every four weeks or so otherwise it looks awful. Needless to say … it’s been about two months since my last haircut so yes, my hair looks bad! LOL

I actually think it might be my hairdresser. She used to cut my hair great, but I’ve noticed over the last year that even after a week my haircut doesn’t look as good as it used too … so maybe I need a new stylist too?

I’ve always had a hard time finding someone who can cut my hair well. I don’t know why … I have fairly nice hair – it’s fine with some wave and lots of body – not too difficult to work with or at least i don’t think it is … so why do I have so much trouble finding a good stylist? Do you have trouble finding someone who can cut your hair properly too?





Filed Under: Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: fast growing hair, fine hair, hair cut, hair stylist, moisturiser, need a cut, Shopping, weekend, wrinkle cream

Just about Everything on TV is a rerun this week

February 19, 2010 by Tricia

I didn’t sleep well last night and now I have a really bad migraine. I hate headaches!

I can’t do much of anything. I’m trying to do a little work on the computer, but it’s not going well. So I’m going to try to relax and just watch some TV for a while. Too bad it’s mostly reruns on this week and next too – thanks to the Olympics.

I have been watching the Olympics here and there, but I’m not interested in every single event … and the stations I normally watch all have reruns on so there isn’t much choice for a girl with a headache. Hmmm maybe I’ll get stuck watching an infomercial on adult back acne or something. LOL

Headache, headache go away!

Filed Under: Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Television Tagged With: headache, migraine, Olympics, reruns, rest, sleep, TV

Slow Cooker Beef Stew

February 18, 2010 by Tricia

I’m making stew for dinner tonight. I haven’t made stew in oh … a decade or more! LOL

My mother used to make stew for dinner regularly and everyone loved it except for me. I always hated stew. Oh it was always a little better the next day, but I still didn’t like it very much. For some reason though, my mom could get me to eat canned stew (Puritan Irish stew). I thought it was great.

I think my taste buds have evolved in the last while – or at least I’m hoping that they have because it seems like I’ll eat dishes and foods that I wouldn’t touch when I was a kid or young adult.

Anyway … I’ve been using our slow cooker quite a bit this year. I’ve made at least three slow cooled roasts and I even made barbecued back ribs once. Now I’m trying a tasty sounding stew recipe that I found on the Canadian living website.

I’m throwing in lots of root vegetables – a small store near us has veggies that are always fresh in fact they’re way fresher than the ones we get in the grocery store!

Here’s the recipe that I’m trying out this evening:

Slow-Cooker Hearty Beef Stew

  • 1-1/2 lb (750 g) stew beef
  • 1 tbsp (15 mL) vegetable oil
  • 1 can (28 oz/796 mL) tomatoes
  • 2 onions, cut in wedges
  • 2 cups (500 mL) chopped peeled sweet_potatoes
  • 2 potatoes, peeled and chopped
  • 2 stalks celery, chopped
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1-1/2 tsp (7 mL) italian herb seasoning
  • 2-1/2 cups (625 mL) beef stock
  • 1 cup (250 mL) frozen peas
  • 1/4 tsp (1 mL) each salt and pepper
  • 1/2 cup (125 mL) all-purpose flour

Trim and cut beef into 1-inch (2.5 cm) cubes. In large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat; brown beef in batches. Transfer to plate.

In 18- to 24-cup (4.5 to 6 L) slow-cooker, crush tomatoes with potato masher. Add onions, sweet potatoes, potatoes, celery, bay leaves, herb seasoning and beef; pour in 2 cups (500 mL) of the stock. Cover and cook on Low for 10 to 12 hours or until beef and vegetables are tender.

Add peas, salt and pepper. Whisk flour with remaining stock, stir into stew. Cook, covered, for 15 minutes or until thickened. Discard bay leaves.

** I also added about a cup of red wine, four carrots and 6 garlic cloves and I’m cooking this recipe on high in the slow cooker instead of low. **

Hopefully this stew tastes fantastic. I was drawn to this recipe because it had sweet potatoes in it. I don’t think I’ve ever had a stew with sweet potatoes in it and I love them … so it should be good.

I’m making white rice as well. We’ll probably serve the stew on top of the rice.

Do you ever make beef stew and or use a slow cooker to prepare meals for your family? If you do use a slow cooker what are your favorite recipes?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Recipes and dining Tagged With: bbq ribs, beef stew, beef stew recipe, Canadian living, crock pot, diner, recipe, rice, roast, root vegetables, slow cooked meals, slow cooker, tasty, yummy

I have to start treating my skin better

February 18, 2010 by Tricia

I just realized that since I’ve been home on medical leave (five years now!) I haven’t really been taking care of my skin like I used to. By this I mean, when I was working I’d spend some time each morning (or afternoon or evening depending upon my nursing shift) caring for my skin.

I’d always put moisturizer on under and then before bed I’d put a little bit of moisturizer on my skin as well. Usually a cream specifically for night time use.

I haven’t been doing that since I’ve been stuck at home. Oh sure, I put moisturizer on occasionally, but not every day like I used to.

Why am I thinking about this now? Well I’ve noticed that my skin is kind of dry and well .. I think all those olay regenerist reviews in the magazines that I read are getting to me. LOL maybe they’re doing some kind of subliminal advertising?

Starting this evening I’m going to start putting moisturizer on my skin more regularly. Hey, I’m getting older – gotta protect the skin! Good thing I have good genes! Everyone says I look at least 10 years younger than I am (real problem when I was in my 20’s!) and so do my brothers and my sister. So it’s not too late!

Now if only I could sleep better! I’m sure that would help too.

Filed Under: Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: getting ready for work, moisturize, moisturizers, night moisturizer, skin, skin care, work

Our websites should be loading faster now

February 18, 2010 by Tricia

In my last post I mentioned that I’ve been spending quite a bit of time this week getting our blogs up to date. I forgot to mention that I also installed a new plugin that should make this page load a little bit faster.

It’s WP Super Cache. I did have an old cache plugin that I’d been using for years, but Super cache allows me to gzip the blog which in turn should really make it load faster. Now, gzip can be a little hard on some shared servers, so I didn’t enable it on all of our blogs (remember we have 17!), but rather I only enabled it on our blogs that get more than 100 page views a day.

I wanted to make my sites faster for my visitors, and I also wanted to make them load faster for Google as it’s rumored that page load speed might be a factor in search engine rankings in the near future. I used a free seo tool or two to check the load speed of a few of our sites before and after enabling super Cache gzip and wow … the pages load a heck of a lot faster!

Do you ever work on your websites to make them load faster for your visitors?

Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, Items to Try, SEO, Technology, Wordpress Tagged With: blog, cache, gzip, gzip pages, page load, plugin, speed, speed up site, Wordpress

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