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Remembering our trip to Vegas

December 14, 2007 by Tricia

Ever since Chris and I came back from Vegas in November we pay special attention to TV shows that show the Vegas strip. You know show’s like CSI, movies and anything else that’s set in Vegas.

We always try to see if we can see any of the Vegas hotels that are near the one we stayed in or the specific hotel that we stayed in, the Imperial Palace.

We really didn’t see all that much of the strip while we were there. Only about three blocks of it at the most. Pretty much all the restaurants or bars that we met other bloggers in were fairly close to our hotel so we didn’t have to go far.

We did take the monorail a few times, but only back and forth to the convention center for the blogging conventions that we were attending.

I think the next time we go to Vegas we’d better make more of an effort to see the whole strip at the very least!

For those of you who’ve gone to Vegas did you see the whole strip or were you like us and only saw a small part of it?





Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Nightlife, Recreation, Socializing, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: blog, blogger, bloggers, Blogging, blogging convention, Chris, CSI, hotel, hotels, Imperial palace, Movies, November, restaurant, restaurants, shows, the strip, trip, TV, tv show, Vegas

Man that guy can talk!

December 13, 2007 by Tricia

The other night Chris was on the phone for well over an hour. No it wasn’t one phone call, I think it was about three phone conversations. Our phone just kept ringing all night.

He talks so loud when he’s on the phone it’s hard to concentrate on anything and forget watching TV … unless you turn it up quite loud you can’t hear it as he talks louder to compensate. Sometimes I wonder if he’s got a hearing problem.

Before we had a DLP TV we used to have a Sony Trinitron and when Chris would get on the phone and start talking loud while I was trying to watch a tv program (remember this was long before we had a PVR that would let us pause or record a show) I’d sometimes just switch the TV to the captioning service and read the close captions if the station or channel provide them for that program. At least I could still follow the program!

Do any of you have that problem? Someone at home that talks so loud you can barely do anything in the same room if they are on the phone or talking to someone in person?

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Television Tagged With: captioning service, Chris, close captioning, DLP TV, home, loud, person, phone, phone call, problem, program, record, show, station, talk, talking, watch, watching, watching TV

My secret garden admirers

December 10, 2007 by Tricia

Now that we’re out several times each day walking the puppy we’re meeting all kinds of neighbors. Not too many with dogs yet though … I guess we don’t walk our pup at the same time as our dog owning neighbors.

Of course, Chris is a talkative friendly guy so he already knows quite a few of our neighbors – way more than I do! But I’m getting to know more of them these days.

I find our puppy needs to go out around 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon … of course that’s when all the kids are walking home from the schools down the street so we often get mobbed by puppy loving kids and teens. Midnight just goes nuts doing her excited little puppy jumps when a new person crouches down to pet her and tell her she’s adorable.

One of the neighbors that I ended up talking to the other day knew me by my garden when she saw where I was coming from. “Oh you’re the person with the fantastic garden and all the roses!” she said.

We’ve found that a lot of our neighbors are secret and sometimes not so secret admirers of our garden. Some even walk down our driveway in the summer to have a look at the backyard. That’s a little startling if I’m busy digging in the garden or if I’m inside the house and I see the security light in the drive way go on and hear the sounds of human foot steps walking down the drive. You never know who it might be right?

Anyway, this one garden admirer got talking about my garden and told me her daughter is getting married in the summer. Then she astonished me by asking if maybe I’d like to supply the wedding flowers? I don’t know about that … it depends on when the wedding is and what’s blooming of course.

We agreed to talk more about it sometime in the Spring. I’m not sure if I’ll do it or not. I guess it depends what the bride has in mind, but you never know this might turn into something interesting for me.

Filed Under: Gardening, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Socializing, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: backyard, bloom, blooming, busy, dog, drive, driveway, flower, flowers, friendly, garden, garden admirers, home, house, interest, interesting, kids, married, neighbor, Neighborhood, neighbors, person, rose, roses, secret admirers, security light, spring, Summer, talk, teenager, Walking, walking puppy, Wedding, wedding flowers

Vacationing with a puppy?

December 10, 2007 by Tricia

Now that we have a dog, well a puppy, our vacations might be a bit limited for a while. At least until we have Midnight trained. I mean, if we got someone to look after her while we went away for a week or two I’d want her to be house trained and hopefully a little calmer than she is right now.

BTW she’s still sick but I think she’s getting better. She’s on antibiotics for the runs that she’s been having just in case it’s a bacterial infection. The vet is running a culture and sensitivity test on her stool to determine just what might be making her so sick. She does have roundworm and that’s being treated too. I’ve been giving her water with gatorade mixed in, and her food is a little of her dried food mixed with rice and chicken broth. I’m trying my best to help her retain fluids so she’ll stay hydrated. Things are a little better than they were Friday and Saturday. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that she’ll be back to normal soon.

Anyway, once she’s over her illness and house trained I don’t see any reason why Chris and I couldn’t take a road trip with her. Maybe stay in pet friendly hotels or motels? Actually there’s
Pigeon Forge cabin rentals in TN, and they have some very nice pet friendly cabins that might be nice to stay in. I think we’ll have to make sure her chewing obsession has calmed down a bit before we can take her to such a nice place though.

Any other travel ideas for people with young dogs that must travel with them?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: broth, cabins, car, care, chicken, Chris, Culture, dog, eat, Food, help, hotel, ideas, ill, illness, mix, night, pet friendly, puppy, Rent, rice, road trip, sick, stool, test, travel, travel with pet, vacation, water

Infomercials – Do you buy the products you see advertised?

December 6, 2007 by Tricia

As usual I’m up late watching TV and trying to dodge the infomercials.

Do you watch infomercials late at night?

I remember telling my niece that the one time I watched a whole infomercial I ended up buying the product! Not that I normally would do that, but it was the Magic Bullet blender and obviously it was a good infomercial – it got me to buy the blender didn’t it?

I do love my Magic Bullet. I use it mainly to make fantastic fruit smoothies. I don’t make them often but when I do they are fantastic … especially with a little rum or vodka in them.

I often wonder about the ginsu knives that I see advertised. Are they really as sharp and as good as advertised? I think those commercials have been on TV my whole life! Why don’t I already have some Ginsu knives?

I really enjoy cooking and baking and yes, I do have a nice set of knives, but when you do a lot of work in the kitchen you often realize that you could use a special knife or another item to help you get things done faster or better.

Do you ever buy products that you see advertised in infomercials or perhaps on the shopping channels? Have you been happy with your purchases?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Shopping, Television Tagged With: baking, blend, blender, buy, buying, channels, Commercial, cooking, enjoy cooking, fruit, Ginsu knives, infomercial, infomercials, kitchen, knife, late at night, magic bullet, Niece, Product, Products, purchase, rum, shop, Shopping, smoothies, TV, up late, watched, watching, watching TV

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