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Are you getting excited about Black Friday?

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Now that the US election is over I’m seeing tons of television commercials on TV for 2008 Black Friday sales. With only a week or so until Black Friday I’ve been seeing the commercials during just about every break in the TV shows that I’ve been watching.

Even one of the television shows that I like to watch “Life” did a whole episode where someone had been murdered in a mall that was just about to open for Black Friday! There will probably be a few other shows that make a reference to Black Friday in their stories over the next week or so too.

Here in Canada our big shopping day is Boxing Day which always falls on December 26th. It’s the closest thing we have to a “Black Friday”, and just like our US counterparts, people line up in the middle of the night waiting for the stores and malls doors to open so that they can get some crazy deals.

I wonder if any other countries have one day of the year that’s known as their big shopping day?





Shop and Confess Contest – $33,000 in prizes!

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I’ve just learned of an interesting contest contest being held by ebillme.com, the company that makes it easy to do your online shopping with cash instead of using credit cards.

So what is this contest all about? Well, they want you to submit either a video or a text shopping confession. It seems like a fun contest and they sure have a lot of great prizes! They are giving away $1,500 every month and have a grand prize of $15,000! Imagine what you could do with either of those cash prizes!

Just get creative and either make a video or write an article about an interesting shopping experience. Perhaps the time you secretly bought a gift for a loved one and how you surprised them with it? Maybe a story about buying your wedding dress or getting an engagement ring for your fiancee? Use your imagination – I’m sure you have an interesting shopping confession to talk about.

Here – take a look at this video for contest details:

What are you waiting for? Go register for the contest and PLEASE do me a favor and tell them blog.triciaswaterdragon.com referred you! I can win a prize if I’m able to refer a lot of people, but you need to tell them my site address! Thanks!

Are stores getting bigger or am I imagining things?

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Chris had the day off today since it was Remembrance Day, so after going to a memorial down the street from us, we took advantage of his extra day off work and went out to do some shopping. Actually I made an appointment to get my haircut in the afternoon so I guess shopping was just an add on.

The mall where I get my haircut just had a new drug store put in. Well the drug store that was there moved to a different area of the mall and expanded in size.

The new store is huge! Why do drug stores need to be so big these days anyway? I mean, one area there was a wall with one diet supplement after another, two rows of just hair products and of course every drug store seems to have a grocery section these days!

Speaking of huge stores we also went to Costco (That’s like Sam’s Club in the US). I both love and hate going there. They have some great prices, but everything is in such large packages that if we buy something it lasts 6 to 12 months! That’s a good thing – unless we have too many supplies built up. We do have a small house with absolutely no closet space or rather almost no closets (we have two!). The joy of living in a 1920’s house.

Do you also think that stores are just getting bigger and bigger these days?

When will this Crohn’s flare end?

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My Crohn’s disease will just not settle down. My abdomen never feels good – at least not in the last three years or so, but I generally don’t have a really really bad spell that lasts two or three weeks continuously, which is exactly what’s happening to me now.

I’ve got more fevers each day than usual – high fevers too, plus abdominal cramps, pain in my right side and well lets just say that there’s little chance that I’d need to use a colon cleanse now or likely any time in the near future thanks to one of this terrible diseases nasty symptoms.

I wonder if the change in the weather has anything to do with my Crohn’s symptoms worsening? I always seem to have worse Crohn’s flares in the Autumn and Spring, but they can occur any time of year, it’s just the fall and spring flares seem to be worse.

Does anyone else with Crohn’s or another Autoimmune disease feel worse at a particular time of year, every year?

My dog is driving me nuts today

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My dog Midnight is driving me nuts today.

She normally has a long nap in the afternoon that’s broken up by trips outside and a treat in the late afternoon. However, today she just wouldn’t settle down. She’s been moaning and whining and sitting looking at me like I’m supposed to know what’s wrong.

She doesn’t seems sick. We’ve had a few play sessions and she was as excited and active as normal, plus she’s been eating well too.

I can’t get any work done here at home because she’s pretty much demanding my attention. When I ignore her I get the moans and groans and she goes over to the door to ring the bell signally that she wants to go out. I’m at my wits end and I’m just about ready to pack my luggage and escape for a day or two!

Honestly … I don’t know what’s up with her.

what’s worse is that Chris isn’t home this evening. He came home from work early, had dinner and then he left again to go and audition for a band. Yes, he might be the lead guitar player for a progressive rock band if they like his work. Maybe she’s just picking up on Chris’ stress as he was nervous about meeting up with the band tonight. Frankly he doesn’t have anything to worry about since he’s an excellent guitar player … but he’s a perfectionist so yeah, he’s stressing.

Hopefully Midnight settles down soon and has a nap. Maybe she’ll wake up in a better mood. I’ve never seen her so grumpy.

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