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Getting ready to finish our home renovation projects

Posted by Tricia in Wednesday, June 17th 2009

As most of my regular readers know my husband and I have been slowly (very slowly) renovating our home. In about a month we’re going to finally finish our living room dining room.
All that needs to be done in the living room dining room is to put up the tin ceiling tiles [...]

Topics: Home Renovation, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tags: ceiling tiles, dining room, DIY, double sink, home reno, kitchen, kitchen reno, living room, molding, renovation, sink, slow, tin ceiling, undermount sink

I’m trying to use my Wii daily to get fit and active

Posted by Tricia in Wednesday, June 10th 2009

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I’ve started using my Wii on a regular basis again. You might remember my posts when I purchased the Wii Fit and then the Wii Console (that I didn’t know I needed for Wii Fit) on Ebay? Well I used the Wii through January, but then my Crohn’s got worse and I [...]

Topics: Entertainment, Games, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Items to Try, Recreation, Wii Fit Tags: action games, activity, bowling, boxing, compare systems, crohns, EA Sports Active, exercise, gamer, Games, Mario kart, more active, My Fitness Coach, players, PS3, tennis, Wii, Wii Fit, Wii Ski, Wii sports

My dog goes nuts over cardboard

Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, June 9th 2009

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My Labrador Retriever has a cardboard box fetish … ok, well anything cardboard or paper it seems.
It all started a few months ago when I was replacing a box of soda crackers and noticed Midnights interest in the empty box. I let her take it and off she carefully tottered to her doggy bed [...]

Topics: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals Tags: boxes, cardboard, chewing, dog, fetish, funny, labrador retriever, Paper, pets, playing, tear, tearing

I think we’re in recession recovery mode now here in Toronto

Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, June 2nd 2009

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The news reports have been saying over the last month or two that our housing market here in Toronto was starting to get back to normal … well not totally normal, but close, and now I have true proof that it is indeed getting better. recession
My brother and his wife who live just outside [...]