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Free piano lessons newsletter

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If you’ve always admired others who have the ability to play a musical instrument or perhaps have always wanted to learn how to play the piano, now’s your chance.

Playpiano.com is a website where you can sign up for the Free piano lessons email newsletter for adults on “Piano Chords & Chord Progressions”. This email newsletter is sent to you for no charge every five days or so. All in all you’ll get a total of 101 issues.

When I visited over the website for more information it looks like you’ll be taught how to read chords first and foremost since they are the basis of all music. If you understand chords you should be able to play anything.

If you enjoy the free piano lessons that you’ll get through each newsletter installment you might decide that you want more in depth lessons. If so, you can purchase full piano courses for adults on DVD and CD.

If you do well with your lessons you’ll soon be entertaining your family and friends. Perhaps you can have your own musical entertainment nights?

Visit the site to get more information.





Sleepless in T.O.

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I just had the worst night and day that I’ve had in a long long time. I never went to bed last night. I was just in too much pain.

Being in pain through the night sucks. It’s a regular occurrence.

I ended up staying up trying to get a few things done on the computer, almost caught up with my email and read a forum that I visit daily for a few hours.

When I did finally try to go to bed I lay in bed in a semi-state of sleep. You know when you are hovering at the point of just about falling asleep but you are still very much aware of time passing and of what might be going on around you. You know, things like the phone ringing about 6 different times, big noisy trucks rumbling by outside and so on?

It wasn’t until maybe 2:30 pm that I finally fell asleep and of course at 2:45 pm my husband called from work to tell me something. He couldn’t get me so he called four times in a row before I finally realized whoever was calling wasn’t giving up. So I got up to answer the phone and told him what was going on.

Now it’s a bit after 6 and I’m up. As I should be … but man, I didn’t really get any sleep.

Yours truly, sleepless in Toronto

Savvy shoppers should enter the Cart Me Away contest!

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Who wants to win a contest? Not just any contest. It’s a shopping contest.

Ah I see I’ve got your attention.

Well if you enjoy shopping I think you’ll really like the Cart Me Away contest that Shop.com is going to be holding in July. You could win a $1000 shopping spree at Shop.com!

This is actually part two of the Cart Me Away contest. The contest is said to be a cross between Sex in the City and the popular game show The Price is Right.

I think this sounds like a really fun contest. I don’t know about you, but when it starts on July 1st I’m going to be sure to enter.

I don’t know the exact details of Cart Me Away 2, but I do know that it will begin on July 1st and end on July 28th. Weeks one and two of the Cart Me Away contest are called Bermuda and The Book Club Story.

I imagine that the new contest will be similar to the first Cart Me Away contest that was held earlier this year. In the first contest participants were given a story line to follow with scenarios such as Throwing a dinner party, Romantic French getaway, Shopping for a Hawaiian Paradise, and Escaping to New York. Sounds interesting doesn’t it?

If the second part of this contest is like the first, you’ll be given a daily shopping budget and then you’ll have to shop for items that match that spending budget right down to the cent. If you’re a savvy shopper and your items add up to the correct amount you’ll be entered into a one thousand dollar shopping spree at shop.com and win your shopping offers.

Bookmark the Cartmeaway.com website and be sure to put a memo on your calendar reminding you that the contest starts on July 1st. Who wouldn’t want to win a $1000 shopping spree? I know I’d love to!

Did I miss my ride?

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Wordless Wednesday

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It was so hot here yesterday that I only wish a car filled with people armed with water guns would have driven by while I was outside!

Wow take a look at the drivers seat! Was this a prank or were they trying to get somewhere? I really don’t know.

Looking at this, well the water gun made me thing of running through sprinklers when I was a kid. That was always fun.

We do have a water gun but I use it to spray the pigeons and squirrels that keep coming into my garden. It’s fun and it works! for a little while anyway.

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Get treated like a VIP with MDVIP

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If you feel like your doctor doesn’t pay attention to you when you visit him or her, or perhaps your HMO doesn’t let you or your family see a doctor as often as you feel that’s needed you might be interested in looking into MDVIP where they practice something that’s known as Concierge Medicine.

MDVIP is a health care program where the doctors are able to give more focused care to their patients. In fact, the doctors only take on a limited patient load in order to devote more of their time and attention to their current patients.

The focus at MDVIP is preventive medicine. By that I mean the doctors that work with MDVIP provide more detailed and thorough screenings and checkups for their patients in order to catch any illnesses or disorders early or in fact prevent them from occurring in the first case.

Patients are actually given their doctors cell phone or beeper number that they may call day or night if they feel it’s necessary. Now that’s VIP service isn’t it. I’m actually kind of surprised that they offer that level of service!

Now, I live in Canada and we have a great health care system but one of the things we don’t get is such personalized healthcare. That’s one advantage Americans have over us.

If MDVIP sounds like a great health care program you can visit the MDVIP website and learn more about switching over. There’s quite a bit of information on the site including patient testimonials, an FAQ and information about joining the program.

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