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Are stores getting bigger or am I imagining things?

November 11, 2008 by Tricia

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?

Bombarded by Holiday music and it’s only October!

October 25, 2008 by Tricia

Chris and I went out to a mall today to do some shopping. We were just getting some stuff for around the house and some pet supplies.

I was surprised to see that not only do most stores have decorations up for Halloween (expected given that it’s only a few days away) but also that they are starting to decorate for Christmas as well! I guess it’s started to become normal for most stores to start promoting Christmas sales even as early as September, but I think it’s too early.

Back in the day when I used to work across from one of the biggest malls in Toronto, I’d go shopping or walk through the mall several times a week and I’d say that by early November I was burned out on Christmas and Christmas music. I’m sure others feel the same way if they go to department stores or malls on a regular basis at this time of year.

One sure sign that the Holidays are fast approaching is the sight of personal and corporate holiday cards in the mail. Some of my blogs are becoming quite well known and as a result I get all these invites to blogging, promotional and even corporate events that are happening nearby. Why .. I don’t know. I’m not even sure how some of these companies get my address, but it is kind of nice to be invited to exclusive events like the LG Shine campaign a few months ago!

Are you starting to be bombarded by holiday decorations and music every time you walk into a store too? And … do you get invites to promotional events via your blogging either by email or by snail mail?

Flowers gone to seed

October 5, 2008 by Tricia

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Last Monday my husband and I took our dog for a walk through one of Toronto’s large city parks and I came across some lovely wild flowers and I thought you might be interested in seeing them this Green Thumb Sunday.

I have no idea what kind of flower or rather flowers seed head this is.

It’s lovely though. If you click on the picture you’ll be able to see a larger version of this picture on Flickr …

The whole seed head is composed of tiny tiny components.

Someone on my photoblog, Breath of Life Photography, stated that it looked a bit like groups of tiny spiders. It’s not, but if you take a close look it does kind of look like that.

This on the other hand is a weed that’s gone to seed ..

The seed head spikes sit above a cluster of roundish green leaves. I have these growing in my lawn but they never get close to maturity like this one has. Again, I don’t know the name of this plant / weed, but it’s interesting even if it’s extremely common and wants to take over my grass!

I seriously thought about getting a treadmill today

September 27, 2008 by Tricia

Chris and I were out earlier today doing our regular weekend shopping and while we were in a department store to get Chris a new pair of pants for work, I wandered around until I came across a sale on exercise equiptment.

Good thing our money’s tight right now or else I would have tried talking Chris into letting me buy one of the treadmills that were on sale. Yeah, I know … we have an elliptical machine and I’ve been using it again in the last few weeks, but a treadmill would be a good piece of exercise equiptment to have too. Chris would like it better than the elliptical, I’m sure.

Heck, I’ve even heard of people training their dogs to use the treadmill. That would certainly come in handy in the winter on a day when there was a big snow storm … ’cause I don’t take the dog for long walks through streets and sidewalks covered in un-shoveled snow … it’s just too hard to walk in! Midnight and I could both get a work out on the treadmill on snow days. LOL

Do you have any fitness equiptment in your home? Do you use it or has it become a place to hang your laundry?

Finally going to meet my great-niece

September 19, 2008 by Tricia

I’m so excited. Not this weekend, but the next my family is going to have a little get together. Just the ones that live in the Toronto area that is.

My Niece had a baby in February and can you believe that I haven’t even met her baby yet? Yeah … sad isn’t it? I can’t believe it. But all of that will change next week. We’ll be getting together with my sister and her two kids, my brother and his wife and their two kids which includes my niece and her new baby.

I’ll finally get to see little S. I think I might get the baby a gift. I showered my niece with about five presents at her baby shower, but that was back in January, I’m sure she needs a few more things for the baby by now. I don’t know whether to get some toys for the baby or something more practical like baby bedding as I’m sure that’s always needed!

Any suggestions from the Moms out there? What types of things did you find you needed when your baby was 6 to 7 months old? Keep in mind that my niece took in a fantastic haul at her baby shower … so she might not really need anything in particular.