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FAFSA Online Guide

November 5, 2006 by Tricia

I don’t have kids, let alone kids that might be old enough to be applying for Federal Free Financial aid, but I know that a lot of my readers are parents so I thought I’d pass on some information about FAFSA online.

The site is a complete FAFSA guide, with everything you child will need to know about applying for federal financial aid. Who knows your college aged child might qualify for scholarships, grants, and other aid opportunities.

>FAFSA online provides a complete walk through of the FASFA form. They even provide an audio walk through if you prefer to listen to the guide as you fill in the paper work. It looks like it makes the whole process much easier and much more understandable. They even include 9 FAFSA secrets that will help you fill out the forms to your child’s best advantage – such as using bad investments that you’ve made in the past to offset other investments in order to bring down your total net worth.

It’s recommended that all College aged children apply for FAFSA, so why not get a little help while you are filling out the forms?





Filed Under: Education, Finance, Services Tagged With: children, FAFSA Online, financial, guide, investment, kids, online, Online guide to FAFSA, read

Dove ad Evolution

October 31, 2006 by Tricia

Have you seen the short film put out by Dove for their Campaign for real beauty? If you haven’t you really should watch this 1 minute video.

A woman goes through having her face and hair done up for a photo shoot for an ad.

Near the end of the film, once she’s all made up and looking beautiful- going from no make up and being an average looking woman to a beautifully glamorous woman – you see her photo on a computer screen being adjusted for the ad. Her features are changed, some times very slightly, others dramatically using photoshop.

The whole point of this film is to show that none of the photos of beautiful models, actresses or actors that we see in magazines are real. They don’t look like that in real life. No one does!

Watch this very short film and tell me how you feel after seeing it:




How do you feel about your favorite magazines now?

Filed Under: Culture, Education, Video Tagged With: beautiful, campaign for real beauty, change, computer, Dove, drama, evolution, face, life, movie, photo, photos, shock, show, Video, watch, woman, Youtube

13 favorite TV shows

October 26, 2006 by Tricia

Thirteen Things about MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS

1…. The Nine – I’ve been enjoying this new show about the lives of nine people and how they interact after they were held hostage for 52 hours during a botched bank robbery.

2…. Six Degrees– I’m still figuring this show out – but it’s about the lives of six New Yorkers who start out slowly, but now, but the fourth episode or so many of their paths have crossed and some have even become friends.

3…. Heros – I’m really enjoying this show. It’s probably the most unlikely show of all, very unrealistic. Again it’s about the lives of strangers who are slowly discovering that they have super powers. One can teleport through time, two brothers can fly, an Artist can paint the future, a police officer can read minds, a single mother develops an alter ego that takes care of her nasty business, and a teenage cheerleader can survive just about any injury.

4…. ER – Yes I still like this show. It’s changed over the years and the main characters have changed, but as an ER nurse I like it.

5…. Grays Anatomy – I enjoy this show a lot. It’s a medical show but it’s more about the personal lives of the interns and it’s fun to watch them interact and mess up their lives over and over again.

6…. Survivor – I still watch this show and I still think the first season was the best ever. Perhaps I keep watching hoping that they’ll come up with something as good as the first season? If I was ever going to be on a reality show I would probably try to get on this one.

7…. CSI – all of them – I think I like the Las Vegas CSI the best, followed by CSI Miami, then the New York CSI. What can I say, I like murder mystery. It’s hard to keep up with all of these shows though – you can burn out on them if you watch too much!

8…. Lost – I think I watch this show because I’m trying to figure out what’s really going on? I love the characters but the plot twists and turns are really out there sometimes. I can’t imagine how or if they are going to tie it all together.

9…. House – I watch this show for Dr House alone. I love his outrageous personality. Medically this show is all wrong .. oh the symptoms and disease often end up being correct in the end, but doctors performing all those tests on their own- doing their own lab work, working MRI’s and CAT scans and doing surgery etc ect? Uh huh – it just doesn’t happen in real life.

10…. Bones – Creepy gory medical mystery stuff with a fantastic looking FBI agent too. I used to read the creators books before the series came out so I was a fan of this show from the start, but like anything, the books are better!

11…. NCIS – Similar to CSI in some ways in that they do their own investigations , forensics and labwork. I enjoy watching the whole team work together.

12…. Two and a half Men – Two guys without a clue about women. I’m not a total fan of this show, it’s funny though. My husband of course really likes this show so we watch it every week.

13…. The Family Guy – My husbands favorite show and probably one of the best animated series on TV these days. I always laugh while watching it, but half of my laughing is at my husband because he laughs and giggles through the whole thing- he’s often even more entertaining than the show. LOL

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Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Television, Thursday Thirteen Tagged With: favorite TV shows, Thursday Thirteen

World Premiere of FrightWorld

October 25, 2006 by Tricia

What are you doing this coming Halloween evening? Would you like to go to FrightWorld The Movie World Premiere? Do you enjoy Horror movies? If you could do you should not miss this event. What could be better than combining the most frightening night of the year with the world premiere of a horror film that’s touted as being an cross between Friday the 13th and the shining?

Frightworld, the World Movie premiere is taking place at Frightworld Haunted Amusement Park – one of the top 13 scream parks in the USA, in Williamsville, New York. If there is anyway that you can attend this event I think it will be more than worth going.

I’m totally a horror movie and horror novel fan. I previewed a short movie clip at the site and it looks like a real hide under the seat and scream until someone you love puts a comforting arm around you kind of movie. I’d love to go and see it myself but, unfortunately it’s too far away for me to travel. I’ll have to wait until it’s in a theater near me.

Not only will you attend the first screening of this new horror movie, you will be able to attend a Q& A with the stars of the movie – Dina Cataldi, Tiffany Scott and more. You’ll meet Kamilla “Katexenna” Kova, UK Fetish Model and Star of FrightWorld, FrightWorld Writer, Producer and Director David R Williams, and the FrightWorld FX Team. You’ll also Tour Frightworld Haunted Attractions 5 Award Winning Houses of Horror.

Isn’t it appropriate that exactly 13 bands participated in Frightworld – Marazene, Any Question, Obomatic, Punch Drunk, Imbued Vagary, Machine Gun Symphony/Charlie Drown, Synthetic Dream Foundation, Darker Days Tomorrow, Apikorism, Sick Machine, Abandcalledpain, and Tearwave.

If you’re interested in going you can buy advance tickets through the site link above for only $23 or else you can get them at the box office for $25 on the day of the show.

If anyone attends please let me know if it was as scary as it looks like it’s going to be.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Movies, Recreation Tagged With: Frightworld, Halloween, horror, horror movie, interest, movie, October 31, scream park, show, ticket, travel, Williamsville New York, win, World premiere, write

A Chance Meeting

October 16, 2006 by Tricia

Guess who I ran into – almost literally – today?

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had a doctors appointment this morning. I went to see a family doctor that specializes in pain management, who I’ve been seeing on average once a month since last January.

I walked into the building, took the elevator to the second floor and as I was walking towards my doctors office I saw a very familiar looking lady walking towards me.

It was Adrian Clarkson, Canada’s former Governor General.

I was looking at her thinking “Is that the Governor General, yeah I’m sure it is.” and she was looking at me, and I’m certain she knew I had recognized her. I nodded my head and went past her towards my doctors office because that is what Canadians do. We acknowledge celebrities, or otherwise well known people, but we generally don’t get all excited and mob them. We go about our business and let them get on with theirs.

Now, I’m sure the Americans, and possibly others from the many other Countries, that view this site might not know exactly what a Governor General is, so I’ll tell you:

Role and Responsibilities of the Governor General

The Office of the Governor General, Canada’s oldest continuing institution, is a thread that ties Canadians together. From Samuel de Champlain in 1608 to Viscount Monck in 1867 to Vincent Massey in 1952 to today’s Governor General, the institution of Governor General dates back nearly 400 years.

What is the Governor General’s position in Government?

Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy. This means Canadians recognize The Queen as our Head of State. Canada’s Governor General carries out Her Majesty’s duties in Canada on a daily basis and is Canada’s de facto Head of State.

Like many other democracies, Canada has clearly defined the difference between the Head of State and Head of Government.

The Governor General

  • represents The Queen who is the Head of State
  • is appointed by The Queen on the advice of Canada’s Prime Minister

The Prime Minister

  • is the Head of Government
  • is the leader of the party with the most support in Parliament

What does the Governor General do?

The Governor General’s role is built on four major themes:

  • Representing the Crown in Canada
  • Representing Canadians and Promoting our Sovereignty
  • Celebrating Excellence
  • Bringing Canadians together

In a nutshell, the Right Honourable Governor General of Canada (currently Michaëlle Jean) is the closest thing we have to Royalty in Canada. I’m sure for Americans my chance meeting today would have been similar to bumping into one of your former presidents.

Actually, from time to time I work on my families history, and I believe, in fact I’m almost certain, that I might be related to one of Canadas 13 founding fathers – i.e. Canada’s Fathers of Confederation. Therefore, I might also be, in a manner of speaking, Canadian “royalty” as well.

Now isn’t that neat?

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada s Governor General, Canadian royalty, Chance meeting with Adrian Clarkson, Politics

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