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Ski liquidation sale

December 18, 2006 by Tricia

Do you ski? I haven’t skied for ages and I kind of miss it.

I live in a big city in Southern Ontario and to me, the whole area is flat compared to where I come from. You see I grew up in Ottawa and the Ottawa Valley and if you want good ski country, well that’s it. Not to mention all the great skiing just across the boarder in Quebec as well.

Ski Tel Inc is having a liquidation sale on Last Year Model Skis !. They apparently have 82,500 pair of skis in stock, and they are selling several pairs each day.

I took a good look at their site and they sell top name brands of skis, ski boots, snowboards and other products related to skiing as well. The brand names that stood out were Rossignol, Salomon, Atomic, Dynastar, K2, Ride, and Burton.

Now, as I’ve said I haven’t skied in years, but looking at the products that Ski Tel is selling I think the prices look more than reasonable. In fact, I’m getting a strong urge to get myself some Ski’s and head on over to Blue Mountain sometime very soon and go skiing. My husband says that he’s been skiing in the past as well, so I guess we’d have to get some gear for him too. Not only would it be fun to be on the hills skiing, the after ski part is fun too. There’s a lot of nice Ski resorts in this area – even if the skiing isn’t as good as it is back home, and the idea of warming up by a fire, sipping hot chocolate, staying in a log cabin resort over night. Mmmmm that sounds really good to me.

I think I have a plan … I just need to get uhmmm … two pair of ski boots, two pair of ski’s, two sets of ski wear and so on and so on. Alright so I have an expensive plan, but I have a plan. LOL Watch for us on the slopes in the New Year. Maybe you’ll join us with your new ski’s too?





Filed Under: Recreation, Shopping, Sports Tagged With: Atomic, brand name ski, Burton, Dynastar, K2, liquidation sale, Ride, Rossignol, sale, Salomon, ski, ski boots, skiing, snowboard

Stag and Hen parties

December 18, 2006 by Tricia

It was a few years ago, while at work, when I first heard someone bring up the term Hen Party. I had no idea what they were talking about. I thought it must be some type of party where a bunch of women got together and gossiped. It turns out that I was at least half right. A Hen party is what we call over here in North America a Bridal shower, or more likely since it seems much more fun and party like perhaps a bachlorette party.

Well now I can say that I’ve been to a Canadian version of a Hen Party. I’m sure it wasn’t quite like they have in the UK but it sure was fun. Now I’ve just learned a company in the UK that specializes in organizing Stag and Hen weekend trips and parties worldwide. The company is called Red Seven Leisure Co. I’ve been looking over some of their get togethers and Hen and Stag weekends and they sound amazing. Imagine you’re about to get married, and you can have one last night or weekend on the town with your closest friends- but what town will it be? London, Paris, New York? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could choose to have a Stag and Hen party anywhere in the world?

Red Seven Leisure can plan themed Hen parties for you- costumed, Fany Dress, whatever you are looking for, well just about, they can put together for you. The site lists popular Hen or Stag night, and weekend packages but they’re happy to tailor make a party or event for you. Just contact them and let them know what you’d like.

Now the next time one of my UK friends talks about a Hen party I can tell her about Red Seven and maybe they can organize something here in Canada?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services, Shopping Tagged With: hen and stag party, hen and stag weekend, Hen party, Red Seven Leisure

Cold weather blooms

December 17, 2006 by Tricia

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I think that some time in the New Year my kitchen table will start to look like this again.

I’ve got Amaryllis beginning to grow new shoots and preparing to bloom in January or February, the orchid looks like it might put out some blooms again around that time too, and the prayer plant (the leafy green one in the background) is ready too. All are enjoying the sunny space in front of my kitchen window.

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday Tagged With: Amaryllis, blooms, cool weather, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, orchid, photo, photos, prayer plant, sunny, winter

Is your boss late giving you reviews?

December 17, 2006 by Tricia

My old boss was always terribly late when she gave yearly updates. She was the most disorganized person I’ve ever seen in my life. If she was still my boss I give her a copy of this Performance Rev1ew Software that I just found. It’s fantastic. Well I think it would have been.

Anyone who is managing anywhere from a few or more people would find this software helpful as it helps a manager track, evaluate and control the behavior, performance and activities of their employees. Rather than keeping all the employee information in files or various systems, a manager could keep all of the information they need in one place on their computer. Just that alone would simplify things for most bosses.

What else can a manager do with this software? Well they could track employee attendance, tardiness, missed hours, absences, employee incidents, schedule employee training sessions and expenses, plus many many more things. Actually I think it sounds like this software could track or help you organize just about any kind of information regarding your employees that you’d want it to.

Filed Under: Employment, Sales and Marketing, Services, Shopping, Software, Web and Technology Tagged With: computer, database, employee, information, manage, management, organize, pens, raining, Software, tracking software

Don’t forget to visit my new blogs

December 17, 2006 by Tricia

Just a reminder to everyone. Remember that I’ve created a few new blogs and I’d love for you to come visit them occasionally.

If you are a fan of the hit TV show House you’ll love my new 451press.com blog Watching House. I’m busy filling it up with recaps of recent shows, stories about Hugh Laurie and even some old video of him on his hit British Television series, and other news stories such as Golden Globe nominations. Come visit. Tell me what you want to see there and I’ll try to make it a regular part of the new blog.

The other new blog is called Celebrity Scoop. I’m still feeling my way on that one but I’ve been writing about recent star sightings, breaking news, and occasionally about hot fashion trends. Check it out and give me some suggestions as to what you’d like to see there too.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Recreation, Web and Technology Tagged With: celebrity scoop, Hugh Laurie, new blogs, stars, TV, watching House

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