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Too many weight loss commercials lately

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It seems that pretty much everything I look at these days has some kind of article or advertisement for weight loss products. I don’t know how many times a day I see Marie Osmond’s advertisement for Nutrisystem! Depending how long I’ve got the TV on each day I guess I see that commercial between five and maybe 15 times a day!

Maybe the commercials and ads are just standing out a little more as I’ve been thinking about the few extra pounds I’ve gained lately. it’s not easy having a chronic disease (Crohn’s). You become less active when you aren’t feeling well or in pain and the next thing you know you’ve gained some weight. It sucks.

One of the weight loss supplements I’ve been hearing about lately is alli diet pills. They apparently help reduce the amount of fat that your body absorbs. Back in the early 90’s I used to work in a pain clinic and one of the patients was taking a diet pill that sounded very similar to Alli, maybe it was Alli or a predecessor to the drug. Anyway … I don’t think she reduced her fat intake because the pills ended up causing problems for her. I guess they gave her the runs! I don’t know if Alli can do that to you or not .. hopefully they’ve overcome that problem.

Have you noticed an increase in weight loss ads or commercials? Maybe the companies that specialize in weight loss diets and supplements are stepping up their game since the holiday season is near. Everyone wants to look good for the holidays, don’t they?





Getting free stuff is cool

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I seem to be on a roll lately. Over the last two weeks it seems that at least every second day there’s been a delivery of promotional products from a variety of companies. It’s kind of neat getting stuff to try out.

My husband and I both have several blogs. I think the total between us is at about 18 right now. So I guess it’s no surprise that Marketing companies are contacting us via some of the more popular blogs that we write and offering us products to try and possibly write about on our sites.

In the past two weeks we’ve received two cans of coffee, a promo for eggs, granola type bars, really cool earphones to use with an MP3 player or smart phone, two DVDS for a TV show about UFOs and the unexplained, a razor and a pair of jeans.

It’s not always this way of course. Sometimes we go quite a few months without being offered anything neat to try, but we seem to be on a run right now.

Do you have marketing companies contact you through your blog offering you free promotional items?

My favorite magazines seem to be just filled with ads

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Doesn’t it seem like there’s more ads in magazines than there used to be?

There’s a few magazines that I subscribed to each month and I’d swear that in the past there used to be more articles than advertising, but lately it seems the opposite is true. I gave up on some magazines like Vogue and others like it in the past because the first 40 or 50 pages were all ads, now I think I might dump some of the mags I’m subscribed to for that reason.

Ads that are related to the magazines topic are ok to some degree, but I find that there’s ads for just about everything in some of the magazines lately. One that I was just reading had ads for perfumes mixed with ads for the best fat burners, stool softeners and health insurance all mixed together between fashion layouts and articles about the latest cosmetics.

Maybe I should just start reading the internet version of my favorite magazines. I’ll still see ads, but it’s not quite the same.

I’ve got the “it’s getting cold out” blues

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Brrrr it’s getting cool here in Toronto! I guess it won’t be all that long before we start to get some snow. Perhaps a month at most. I just hate the thought. I like the look of snow – especially when it’s falling and when it’s freshly carpeting the ground, but shoveling it is another story.

Chris and I have talked about taking another trip to Las Vegas. We went last year in November for a blogging convention, but if we do go this year it will be pure vacation. Things are a little different this time round – money wise that is. Last year around this time the Canadian dollar was higher than the US dollar. In fact, by the time we went to Vegas in early November it was worth 1.12 US. Now though, our dollars taken a plunge and it’s only worth about .84 cents US.

If we do go we’ll have to watch our spending. Maybe I’ll start looking for a hotel in las vegas that has very reasonable prices. That way we’ll have a little more fun money!

I’m still not sure if we’ll go on vacation or not (when I say vacation I mean more like a long weekend). If we don’t (say our dollar drops even more!) then maybe we’ll try to plan something nice for early in the new year. I’d love to go to the Caribbean – especially when it’s freezing here!

Have you thought of going on a vacation in the Fall, perhaps just to get away for a while before winter sets in?

We’ve just got to finish our living room renovation

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We have to finish renovating our living room and dining room area soon. We started the renovations to these rooms in 2003 and then my mother died, my sister had an operation and ended up in a coma and Chris and I both got sick. Chris is better now, but I’m still sick so we just haven’t gotten back into renovating our home.

We probably won’t do anything now that it’s starting to get cold here, as it’s much nicer to do renovations when you can have the windows open or get outside for a break from the dust, paint fumes and so on. But … next spring … I mean it – whether I’m healthy again or not we just have to start working on getting the reno done!

We have people come to the door and they look up at our ceiling that’s covered in wood strapping just waiting for the tin ceiling panels to be nailed on to them and they say “oh you’re going for that rustic unfinished look, eh?”. Uh huh …

Plus I’m dying to get some new furniture. I’ll probably decorate with modern furniture. I saw this really cool couch at one of the stores on the Danforth that I’d love to get for our living room. I’ll have to go there again and take a photo of it so that I can show you. It would be nice to see if you guys like it as much as I do!

The furniture that we are using in our living room now is leather and it’s huge! I think that we’ll move that furniture into the basement (when we refinish that too) and create a home theater / rec room area down there.

Have you renovated your home on your own? Did you ever stall like we have?

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