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Neighbor of the year award – not!

August 31, 2011 by Tricia

I’m hoping that our next door neighbors, the ones that have been renovating their house for a year and a half since they bought it and still haven’t moved in will just sell their house when they’re finally done renovating. I really don’t want them to be our neighbors.

Why … well … lets just say if they were giving out awards for personality our neighbor wouldn’t even come close to winning one of those trophies or a trophy of any kind. In fact I’m starting to think he’s a sociopath!

On August 21st we had a huge whirlwind storm come through our area of Toronto (East York) … it only lasted about 10 minutes but 44 mm of rain fell in that time period and several trees fell into houses and blocked streets.

We actually had a huge tree branch fall on our house and onto our front yard and car .. the car that my husband had just driven into our driveway with during the storm! I was in the front porch hoping my husband wouldn’t arrive during the storm and wouldn’t you know it … there he was turning into the driveway just as the storm really started to rage with water spraying everywhere. My husband said he felt like he was inside a carwash.

Then, just as I was about to run out and help him bring in the groceries I heard a loud bang on the roof of our enclosed porch and then branches all over the yard and our car. My husband was luckily still inside the car.

The big branch could have hit either me as I ran out of the house or my husband if he’d stepped out of the car. It’s all in the timing!

We later estimated that the branch weighed more than 500 pounds! I have lots of pictures – I should post some.

Anyway back to our neighbor who shares our driveway and could have parked his own car there when our car wasn’t in the drive … he came out of his house about five times but he never once said a word to us as we assessed the damage to our car, evestroughs and talked to many other neighbors. Odd huh … I mean it could just have easily have been his car!

God I hope they don’t move in!





Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, The neighbors, Toronto Tagged With: Chris, crazy, crushed, damage, hit car, hit house, husband, neighbors, raining, ran out, scary, storm, storm damage, Terrible, timing, tree, tree branch, tree fell

I’ve had better days

August 31, 2011 by Tricia

I am feeling awful today. I’ve had a horrible migraine all week and this morning I woke up with awful stomach cramps … bad enough that at one point I thought I was going to pass out!

Yes I’ve had much better days.

I’m seriously into just relaxing this evening and I’m hoping that my migraine will just go away.

Last year at about this time I’d just started a new medication for my migraines – which for the most part has worked very well (but not this week). Oddly enough for the first few months of being on my migraine medication I suddenly started dropping weight. Everyone was asking me if I’d suddenly started taking weight loss pills or something because I was dropping weight so fast .. but no … it was just the new migraine meds and the severe lack of appetite that they gave me.

Fortunately or unfortunately, depending upon how you look at it, it seems that my appetite is back to normal although I still have some strange taste sensations from the medication. By this I mean I still can’t drink carbonated drinks like soft drinks or eat really fatty foods without them tasting odd or really salty. I guess that’s a good thing.

Ok … off to lie down with a big icepack on my head!

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness + Beauty, Items to Try Tagged With: appetite, better days, fatty foods, feeling sick, headache, ill, medicine, migraine, pain, rapid, weight loss

I love getting free samples in the mail

August 18, 2011 by Tricia

I absolutely love getting samples in the mail. The other day I got an email from P&G saying that they had a new batch of samples for their members so as quick as possible I went to their website and filled out my preferences. In a few weeks I’ll get a box full of goodies! Oh boy!

It seems that just about every week I get samples of something or another. Just the other day when I checked my mail I had a sample of an oro gold facial mask. I tried it out that evening and much to my delight it worked great.

Do you ever apply for samples online? If so, what type of products do you try to get samples of? As you can tell I like personal items such as cosmetics, skin care and sometimes food samples.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Sales and Marketing Tagged With: cosmetics, facial mask, food samples, free samples, goodies, online, personal, preferences, samples, skin care

Should I get life insurance?

August 12, 2011 by Tricia

Is it bad that neither my husband or I have life insurance? I’ve been thinking about that lately and I thought maybe I should look around at life insurance rates to see how much it actually costs.

I used to have life insurance – started by my parents when I first moved to Toronto, but sometime in my twenties when I hit hard times I cashed in my policy and I never renewed it.

So what do you think .. should I get life insurance or not? And if so – what type? Keep in mind that my husband and I barely have any extra money!

Filed Under: Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: cashed in, life, Life Insurance, look around, parents, policy, renew, term, twenties, type

What would you do if you won the lottery?

August 12, 2011 by Tricia

I almost never buy lottery tickets. In fact I didn’t buy lottery tickets this week, but my husband did. The lottery Max draw tonight is worth something like 30 million dollars!

Oh what I wouldn’t do to win even one tenth of that! It would be wonderful! All of our friends and family would be treated to a wonderful party and I’m sure we’d try to treat a lot of people (family) to things that they need.

By this I mean if we won enough money we’d pay off the rest of my sister and brothers mortgages and my husbands brothers and sisters mortgages too! Things like that. Maybe we’d even get everyone some of that Branson real estate that I keep hearing about all the time.

What would you do if you won the lottery?

Ok .. keeping my fingers crossed! and toes …

Filed Under: Canada, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: 30 million, brother, Family, friends, husband, lottery, lottomax, mortgage, sister, win, winner

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