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More people should use portable water filters

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Have you heard that several cities across the US have banned water bottles? By this I mean the use of store bought bottles full of water.

I’ve always thought that it was such a waste of money to buy bottled water. Sure, if you’re really thirsty and don’t have access to running water they’re handy, but since the water used in most bottles of water is just plain local tap water why pay extra for it?

I’ve always carried my own bottled water from home. We actually double filter our tap water. I don’t really think there’s anything wrong with Toronto tap water. I believe it’s tested regularly and that it poses no danger. Still we filter it on the tap and that filtered water goes into a Brita water filter that we put in the fridge. The water then tastes just like fresh spring water!

For those of you who don’t filter your tap water and or can’t buy bottled water anymore you might be interested in portable water filters. It’s a bottle that has a filter right inside it to help purify your water. I love this idea! I wish more people would use them instead of being wasteful and purchasing so many throw away plastic bottles.





I missed out on a trip to Florida in May

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You know, I missed out on an Orlando vacation back at the end of May. The company was supposed to hold Postiecon at that time and I was going to go. I would have enjoyed a short trip to Florida at that time of year.

Now their event is going to be in November alongside Bloggersworld in Las Vegas. I’ve been invited to go as a panelist since I’m one of the top earners but I haven’t heard a thing as to whether they’ll be paying for my hotel or anything like that. You’d think that if someone wants you to speak at a large event that they might at least put you up in a hotel?

I guess I’ll have to write to them about it and find out what’s going on. As I mentioned in an earlier post I haven’t bought my tickets for my flight or reserved a hotel room yet and this is one of the main reasons why I haven’t. I suppose I could go ahead and make my reservations and if they were going to pay for anything they could reimburse me, but still … it’d be nice to know in advance.

I’ve got to get myself into a boat!

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I’m still trying to find a way to go boating this year. We’ve been invited to a friends house tomorrow night and they live out in the middle of no where … I think on a lake. If I’m lucky maybe I’ll find myself in a canoe tomorrow evening or Saturday morning.

I just adore canoing and I’m so upset that I haven’t gone for a few years. I swear I was born in a canoe. There’s photos of me in canoes and boats when I was so young that I have no memory of it. That’s why I say I must have been born in a canoe because there’s certainly photographic evidence that I’ve been enjoying them most of my life!

Well if I don’t get to go boating this weekend I know that on September first I’ll be on a boat. A cruise boat! My brother made reservations for our whole family to go on a Toronto dinner boat cruise on September first. That should be fun. It’s not a canoe but it’ll be fun. Dinner, drinks, getting together with my family – and a boat. Yeahhh.

Rick Wakeman concert

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We’ve just discovered that there’s some really good concerts going on this summer at the Danforth Music Hall. Chris has been trying to buy concert tickets for the Rick Wakeman concert on August 19th.

What you don’t know who Rick Wakeman is? Have you heard of the band YES? Oh YES you have … I’m sure you have. The tickets are about $70. Kind of expensive but this might be Chris’ only time to see him in concert. I guess if he’s going to buy the tickets he’ll have to do it soon.

Funny thing. Mandy Moore – yes the actress, has a concert at the Danforth Music Hall on September 21st. Interesting.

New furniture and extra room for guests

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I don’t have much spare time these days, but when I do have the time I occasionally visit online stores looking for furniture that might suit our house when we finally have all of our renovations finished.

Right now I’m thinking of what kind of furniture to get for our basement when we are finished renovating it. I’m not sure we’ll have room but I’d like to have a spare bedroom down there. Most definitely it will be a recreation room with a TV and at the very least a pull out couch for guests or if I ever get back to work, a place that I could sleep that would be cool during the day after I’ve done a night shift.

One of the sites I’m looking at right now is Century furniture. They have a very nice selection of household furnishings. Heck … I might even get a new couch for our living room and put our current couches and recycling chair in the basement. That could work too. Well except for the fact that our current living room couches are not pull out couches.

After living in such a small apartment for some many years and having sleep over guests drop by all the time I like having spare rooms (we do now) and if possible a pull out couch. The more comfortable sleeping room the better. I don’t like sleeping on the floor when I visit someones house – I will if I have to of course, so why should my guests?

Do you have a spare room or do you have a pull out couch that comes in handy when you have guests?

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