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I need a holiday!

April 3, 2007 by Tricia

My husband and I never seem to take holidays. Well, yes we do travel to various places but it always seems to be a family related event. Remember last summer we went to Chicago? Well we stayed with Chris’ brother when we visited. We also went to Ottawa that summer and stayed at my brothers. We want to go to Vancouver sometime in the next year and oh guess what? We’ll probably stay with another brother of mine when we go there.

Believe me it’s nice to be able to stay in someone’s home when you go on a little vacation. It certainly saves money, and often we end up staying with people that we don’t see very often so it’s a good chance to get together and visit.

We never seem to get away for a real vacation. What is a real vacation anyway? I’d love to go to one of the Caribbean island resorts, or perhaps to South America – maybe Costa Rica, or perhaps a lovely European vacation?

You know what I’ve been thinking about doing? Signing up for a membership with a club that has resorts all over the world. We wouldn’t have any excuse not to plan holidays to different parts of the world each year if we had a membership with one of the holiday clubs like leisuretime holidays. All we’d have to do would be decide where exactly we’d want to go and book it through the club. Then we’d end up staying in a luxurious resort for a week or two each year.

I could certainly go for that. In fact, that might be the only way we start taking regular holidays!

How about you? Do you take regular holidays each year? Do you go the same types of places over and over again, or do you try to go somewhere different for each holiday?





Filed Under: Life with Chris, Recreation, Services, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: brother, chicago, club, Europe, Family, holiday, holiday membership, husband, leisure, North America, resort, vacation, vacation club, Vancouver

Once a blogger always a blogger?

April 2, 2007 by Tricia

They say that when people first start blogging they sometimes hit a wall. Often new bloggers blog about blogging. If that wall stays up too long sometimes that’s all they blog about.

Well I’m certainly not a new blogger, but I am going to blog about blogging.

I’ve been thinking about how blogging has changed my life in so many ways since I started my first blog 14 months ago. I started blogging as an outlet, something to take up my time since I was starting to get bored with being stuck at home. Remember I’m only home because I have Crohn’s and haven’t improved enough yet to return to work.

Well, regular visitors to my sites know the rest of the story. One blog expanded into another, and then another and so on. At this point I probably have too many blogs! Oh well, it’s fun and it keeps me busy. It’s also turned out to be a great way to earn a living since I can’t earn a living any other way right now.

I’m not making as much each month as I did at my nursing job. Not yet anyway, but I can see it coming, probably within the next month.

I often wonder what would have happened if I’d started my first blog and then gone back to work a month or two later. Would I have kept blogging? Yes I think I would have.

Would I write seven blogs? No, probably not.

As a nurse I was working four 12 hour shifts in a row – two day shifts, one 11:30 to 11:30 and then a night shift. I’d have five days off but the first one I’d spend sleeping since I’d have just gotten off my night shift. So that left me four days to recover go from being a night owl to an early riser, get house work and other things done, maintain the garden, socialize, and do all my internet work – maintaining at least two large websites, moderating a reptile related forum, and running four mailing lists.

It’s possible that the gardening and photography blogs might have been in the picture by now had I gone back to work. I mean gardening, and the photography that goes hand in hand with it, has become a big part of my life in the last 6 years. I’m sure those sites would have arrived on the scene by now. Perhaps one of the tech blogs that I write as well since I do so much tech and design work.

I’m certain that I wouldn’t have had enough time in a day to have created the other blogs that I now write.

I guess now that I think about it, once I started blogging it just became something that I do. It would have evolved to some degree even if I had gone back to work before now.

How about you? How did you start blogging? Now that you have at least one blog do you think you’d ever stop blogging? Has it changed your life in anyway?

Obviously blogging has become a major source of income for me. It saved us! If I hadn’t found a way to earn a decent income from my blogs we could have been facing losing our house by now.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Make Money, Nursing, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology Tagged With: blog, blogger, Blogging, blogs, camera, crohns, design, digital camera, forum, garden, Gardening, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, home, house, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Internet, Job, life, my sites, night, nurse, Nursing, pain, Photography, plants, Tech, website

Great selection at discountflooring.com

April 1, 2007 by Tricia

All my week my head has been spinning with plans for our current renovation and our future renovation projects. The main thing that we need to do about our current project – the tin ceiling and finishing the living room – is to get the job done. It’s the other plans that I have to start thinking about.

As I figure out how we are going to renovate our kitchen and finish our basement I keep my eye out for companies that sell products that I might be able to use when we finally start to work on the next reno project.

One of the companies that I’ve just bookmarked is DiscountFlooring.com. They have great prices on brand name flooring products such as laminate, ceramic tiles, glass and wood. I’m pretty sure that when we renovate our kitchen I’d like to either go with wood or perhaps even cork flooring. We have laminate wood now but it doesn’t match the white oak wood flooring in the rest of the house and it wasn’t installed well, so whatever we do in the kitchen the current flooring must go.

I really like the selection of flooring products at discount flooring. I also really like how the site works. It seems that Discount flooring doesn’t actually sell the flooring products themselves. No. What they do is list a wide selection of flooring and tiling products made by a large variety of brand name manufacturers. When you find something that you like you click on the picture of it and a new page opens up where you can compare prices at several different stores. It’s a great idea. You’ll always be able to get the best price when you shop at DiscountFlooring.com.

As you browse through the pages of Discountflooring.com you’re accompanied by Jim the websites mascot. He looks like a big strong lumberjack type of guy or perhaps the perfect kind of person to install the flooring that you’re thinking of purchasing. Oh, speaking of installing flooring products another feature that will soon be part of the discountflooring.com site is the ability to find a local flooring installer. They don’t have any listings in that section just yet but they will soon.

All in all between the wide selection of flooring products and their soon to be created flooring installer area this seems like a great place to shop if you’re looking for the best possible prices on quality products.

Filed Under: Home Renovation, Services, Shopping Tagged With: best prices, ceramic tiles, discountflooring.com, floor installers, flooring products, glass tiles, laminate flooring, wood flooring

For the Love of Peace

April 1, 2007 by Tricia

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This is an almost blown Love and Peace rose blossom. This is absolutely gorgeous multicolored rose.


It begins it’s blooming stage as peach and yellow colored buds that bloom into multi-colored roses of yellow, red, orange, and peach that could seem quite gaudy if you stare at them too long. The fully open rose blooms are at least 5 inches in diameter and the love and peace Hybrid Tea rose plant itself bloom prolifically throughout the season.

I’m eager for my rose growing season to begin. I have to wait almost two months before I’ll start to see the first flower buds on my roses. It’s worth the wait.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bloom, blossom, flower, garden, green thumb, hybrid tea, multi colored, photo, photos, plants, rose

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