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Our name must be on a telemarketing list, grrr

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I don’t know what it is lately, but in the past few weeks we keep getting calls, like 10 a day, from marketing companies.

These companies are asking us to participate in surveys, offering us free products -in the form of “You just won a …”, or they are from auto insurance comparison companies and so on.

Our name must have been added to some list. We do have our name on a National “Do not call” list, but I suspect some of these calls are coming from other Countries- like the US … and that’s how they are skirting our “do not call” request.

How many calls a day or week do you get from marketers?





Win a trip for four to Atlanta Georgia

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How would you like to win a trip for four to Atlanta Georgia? If you are a Canadian resident you are eligible to enter to Win a trip with iCoke.ca . The contest is being held to celebrate the inventor of Coca-Cola – John Pemberton. Did you know that he invented Coca Cola in 1886? That means people have been drinking Coke for 122 years!

It’s hard to imagine that people have been drinking a soft drink for so long isn’t it? The first people to taste Coca Cola were residents of Atlanta. In fact the very first people to regularly drink Coke were customers at Jacobs Pharmacy in Atlanta.

I guess that’s why the grand prize in the iCoke contest is a trip to Atlanta, Georgia.

The grand prize includes airfare to Atlanta Georgia for four, 3 days and 4 nights hotel accommodation, 2-day Coke Museum passes for four AND $1,000 US cash! Now that’s a cool prize. Secondary prizes include Cineplex Odeon gift certificates and Best Buy certificates.

To enter the contest you’ll first need to register at the iCoke.ca website. Once you’re registered you’ll need 500 Coke coins for each contest entry.

If you’re a Coke drinker it’s easy to start earning Coke coins. Just look under the cap on 591 ml or 2L Coca-Cola product bottles or find pin numbers on special promotion materials such as iCoke contest cards. You’ll find an alpha numeric code – that’s your pin. Just go to the iCoke website and submit your latest pin number. I believe each pin code is normally worth 500 Coke coins, but for a limited time you can get get 1,000 Coins from PINs found on specially-marked 591mL bottles of Coca-Cola® products. That’s worth two contest entries!

So what are you waiting for? Go register at iCoke! Then go through your recycling to find pin numbers that you weren’t aware you were throwing out, or go buy a bottle of Coke submit your pin number and enter the contest! I’ve already entered.

Another federal election? So soon?

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If you haven’t already heard Canada will be having an election on October 14th to possibly select a new Prime Minister. Harper, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and the current Prime Minister of Canada has been running the country for the last two years or so under a minority government, on Sunday he decided to dissolve parliament and set an election date.

Don’t quote me on this, but I think our last three elections (in four years???) have resulted in Minority governments. That means the ruling party has enough seats to win the election, but not enough to hold a majority. It’s shaky ground whenever this happens.

I do find it kind of funny that in the US they take almost two years to build up to an election, yet here we call snap elections and within a month or two it’s done and over with. This election will only take 37 days from the time it was officially called till voting day on October 14th.

Take a quick look at what other bloggers have to say I think many Canadians are feeling as I do … I don’t have a clue who to vote for. I don’t really like any of the leaders of the three main parties, nor do I totally agree with any of their platforms.

Here’s what others are saying about the upcoming Canadian election:

Canadian Election October 14th … Like I Care.

Finally the election announcement we were expecting up here in the “Great White North” has come to pass. The trickster of 24 Sussex Drive, has exhibited yet another of his talents … that of chameleon. This is the guy who promised …

On the Canadian Election: Why You Need To Vote

One of the things I’ve been hearing a lot in the media is that there’s some idea of election exhaustion here in Canada. Not only are we approaching our 3rd election in 4 years, for the last year, we’ve been his with the US primaries and …

You know it’s a Canadian Election when…

Ed: It seems Ed Stelmach has taken a page from Ralph Klein’s playbook, deciding to play the role of pundit on the federal election campaign. And, whatever, I can’t criticize him for that when you consider that McGuinty and Danny …

Canadian Election Called for October 14

The party leaders by LeDaro They do it fast up here; 36 days from the announcement until the election. But then unlike the States, all the leaders are in place and well known, all of the policies and platforms ready to go, …

What’s your take on the upcoming Canadian Federal election?

Last long weekend of summer

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I think that we are going to have the last taste of summer this weekend. It’s been a strange year weather wise, from heavy heavy snows throughout the winter (we got at least twice as much as we normally do here in Toronto) to record breaking rainfall this summer, not to mention cooler temperatures too.

Most of July and August were a lot cooler than normal. The two main benefits we got out of this odd summer were the fact that we didn’t have to water our garden as much, thus saving a lot of money on water, and we didn’t run our air-conditioner anywhere near as much as we normally do, so that should decrease our energy bill.

This weekends going to be nice. It’s supposed to be warm right into the middle of next week or longer. I suspect that this might be our last bit of warm weather though as they keep saying we’re supposed to have an early winter … yeah, what else is new after the year we’ve already had! LOL

Even though we’ve had a strange cool and wet summer it’s hard to believe that we’ll soon be preparing for Thanks Giving and picking out Halloween costumes isn’t it?

Ah well … I’m going to enjoy this weekend as best I can! We might go up to my sister in laws cottage. We’ll take the dog and let her swim in the lake. It should be a good time for all!

Plus it’s my birthday next week, so I might as well start celebrating this weekend!

Do you have plans for Labor Day Weekend?

We had a little outdoor get together on Saturday

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Saturday was such a beautiful day here in Toronto that I brought my laptop outside in the late afternoon so that I could enjoy the day, the garden and get some work done while I was at it. Needless to say I didn’t get much work done!

We’d been expecting a friend to come over for the weekend. He was going to arrive on Friday night and spend the whole weekend, but his parents got word that they could move into their retirement home so he pushed back his visit by a day so he could help them move. Unfortunately the moving went into overtime and he wasn’t able to make it to our house for the visit.

Since Chris is on holidays this week he really wanted to do something on Saturday so he ended up inviting his cousin and our 15 year old God son over for dinner.

That of course is why I didn’t get any work done! My god son loves movies and he talked my ear off for oh … 6 hours about all his favorite movies, actors, scenes from movies and even brought over part of his movie collection so that he could show us movie trailers!

It was all a little too much movie talk for me, but I did come up with an idea for him. I suggested that he start a blog and write movie reviews. He basically memories all the lines and scenes in movies (oh did I mention he’s legally blind?) so he’d be a great reviewer … or at least I think so after hearing how he describes movies all these years.

In the rare non-movie discussion that I got to participate in I learned of a new health drink by Orovo that I might try. It might help with my Crohns, certainly it probably won’t hurt to try it.

We ended up having dinner outdoors. Chris, his cousin and I had steak and our God son had hamburgers. We all had fresh corn on the cob as well (not great for my Crohn’s but I love it). It was a great dinner.

Oh … I also had a couple of beers that night. I don’t drink much in part because of all the medications I’m on and also because it just hits me too hard. So by the time our guests left around Midnight I was feeling tipsy and tired! Guess I’m a cheap date!

Hows the weather in your area? We have a cool and rainy summer, but the end of last week and most of the weekend was fairly nice (we’re back to too cool again) so that’s why I had to take advantage of Saturday being such a nice day. Who knows when it might be nice enough to sit outside into the night entertaining guests.

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