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The Gift

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Yesterday when Chris came home from work he was wearing a brand new pair of sunglasses. A really nice pair of motorcycle sunglasses actually.

It turns out that one of the patients he helped care for in the OR Recovery yesterday sells sunglasses and he was so impressed with Chris and how friendly and helpful he was that the man just gave him the sunglasses as a present!

I must admit when I first saw the sunglasses that I thought Chris might have picked them up accidentally … you know like he does with my pens and other things that I can’t leave out without them going missing.

It’s actually great that Chris has an extra pair of sunglasses. He often loses his, so if we tuck these away and just wait a few weeks I’m sure he’ll need them.





A bit of extra energy?

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Oh I almost forgot! In my last post I mentioned that I got together with family last night. My sister brought me a little gift. She wants me to try a new Energy Supplement to see if it helps make me feel any better.

This one sounds like it’ll give me more energy than I really need at this point.

I’d just be happy to feel a little better since my Crohn’s has been acting up very badly over the last two weeks or so.

I promised her I’d try it, and I always keep my promises … so if I’m speeding around tomorrow it’s here fault! LOL

Window shopping and get togethers

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I’m still in my home improvement mode.

Last night Chris and I went downtown to meet two of my brothers and my sister for dinner. One of my brothers was here on business. Toronto was just one stop in his ongoing three week world wide travel agenda. He was here trying to talk other businesses into investing in his business. He needs to get $240 million dollars! He’s well on his way too!

Anyway … I digress. We hadn’t planned which restaurant we were going to eat at so we met in my brothers hotel lobby and then started walking around downtown looking at restaurants while we tried to decide which one we’d stop in.

As we were walking I saw a home decor store. Of course I had to stop and do some window shopping! They had the nicest house marker that I think I’ve ever seen. It was pricey but I think I can talk Chris into getting it if I work on him a bit. It would go so well with our house!

I also saw a couch in another store window that I’d love to get. It’s kind of 50’s style couch. I’ll have to see if I can find a photo of it later to show you. It’s beautiful.

We finally decided to stop at the Hot House Cafe for dinner. My visiting brother and I both got the Jambalya. Mmmm I just love that. Of course it was a huge helping and I couldn’t even finish half of it so it’s in a doggy bag in the fridge. Hmmm now that I’m talking about it I’m hungry. Perhaps I should go and raid the fridge?

We had a nice time at dinner. Falling into our old habits of teasing one another. I think the five of us had the waitress confused because I don’t think she ever figured out that we were all siblings! Well Chris isn’t a sibling but my bothers and sister treat him like one.

My brother leaves town this evening to go back home to Vancouver. Then on Sunday he’s off to the US, then Paris and Zürich and I’m not sure where else.

I don’t think I’ll see my jet set brother again until the beginning of September.

Commercials playing over and over again

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LOL I’m sitting here watching late night TV as I work on the computer – again. What else is new huh?

Don’t you hate it when you’re watching TV – at any time of day – and the same commercial plays two or more times either in a row, or perhaps 6+ times during a half hour show?

Is it the television stations that are messing up or are the advertisers really asking for their commercials to be run that often? Don’t they know we hate it?

Just tonight I’ve seen the same ad for no exam life insurance over and over again! It’s nuts! There’s a few others that I’ve seen repeated several times too.

What’s the Big Deal?

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Remember a few weeks ago, ok, back in April, I was talking about a “big deal”? Well, if you happen to read my other sites you would have seen evidence of my new advertising deal on As the Garden Grows first.

This site, and As the Garden Grows have been accepted into the Glam Network. What does that mean?

Well, the two sites are listed as Glam Network blogs. I believe that Glam has only accepted about 300 blogs into their network at this time so I’m quite honored that not one, but two of my sites are listed there. The sites have been part of the Glam network for over a month now.

Millions of people visit the Glam network each month in order to get the latest news about fashion and beauty related trends and sales, take quizzes, read about celebrities, enter contests, and read about issues related to women that are written by women. Obviously this is a very female oriented network and it’s fast becoming the top womens network on the net. You can even join the site, create a profile and a blog if you choose, and interact with other Glam Network members. I’m listed as dragonden over there if you join.
Can you see why I thought it was a big deal that my sites are listed there?

Not only are my sites listed, but the rss feeds for my sites are also listed so if someone clicks on my listing on the Glam network they can read my latest posts, subscribe to my rss feed, and hopefully end up visiting the site to leave me a comment or at least view the rest of the site. I can also submit some of my articles each week and if chosen they’ll be promoted on the front page of glam for a week.

As part of my association with Glam, I’ve also been accepted into their advertising network. See the ads in the right sidebar? What do you think of them?

I think this site is read equally by men and women, whereas the ads that you’ll see in the right sidebar are geared more towards women than men, so I don’t expect that everyone will love them. However, as ads go, I think that these are of a very high quality.

Keep an eye on the ads because you’ll learn of new contests and promotions through them. I’ve noticed that sometimes that ads promote new movies coming out in theaters or ones coming out on DVD too. I’ve also found that some of the ads are interactive. There’s one for Scarlet Johansson’s active wear that lets you see the items of clothing better as you move your mouse over the ad.

What I hope to get out of being part of the Glam network is an increase in readership. That would be fantastic!

I do hope that some of you will explore the Glam Network as there are some great articles there, other great blogs and tons of tips and deals.

Now, if I could get accepted into blogads that would be cool too.

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