• Home
  • Blog
  • Archives
  • Links
  • About
  • Guest Blogger
  • Contact

Tricia's Musings

Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto

  • Home and Lifestyle
  • Recreation
  • Health Fitness and Beauty
  • Entertainment
  • Web and Technology


You are here: Home / Archives for Great sites and products / Items to Try

Yet another busy week!

July 28, 2011 by Tricia

My mother in law was here earlier this week for a three day whirlwind visit. She came to Toronto for a series of medical tests and she wanted me to accompany her to the hospital for her tests. So … needless to say, I’ve had a busy few days – starting with a major house cleaning on the weekend to prepare for her visit. LOL

My Mother in Law arrived on Monday afternoon, but it wasn’t until Tuesday and Wednesday that she had to have her medical testing done, so Monday evening was a free night for her. My husbands uncle’s health hasn’t been very good over the last two or three years so we all decided to go over to his and his aunts house for a visit. We don’t go over there to visit all that often, so Chris’ aunt decided to call two of her children over and they came (with their kids) for a visit while we were there too, so it was a full house!

I actually think there were too many people at my husbands uncles house on Monday evening because we found that we didn’t talk with his ailing uncle very much at all. We ended up talking to Chris aunt and all the cousins rather than to the main person that we’d gone to visit.

While we at my husbands uncles house my husband couldn’t help peeking at his uncles cigar humidor. My husband doesn’t smoke anymore and his uncle can’t smoke anymore either – but there’s still quite a selection of cigars in that humidor. I guess his sons had better use them!

Tuesday and Wednesday were a blur of driving back and forth to two hospitals and waiting for tests to be done. Then, my mother in law as usual wanted to shop in several health food stores – she just loves a place called The Big Carrot here in Toronto.

I also took her to the Peek Frean outlet Cookie store where she bought pretty much a grocery cart full of cookies for $17! She works in church so I think she can use her bargain find at the church. I smell the cookies being cooked at the Kraft cookie factory almost every night, but I try to stay away from the outlet store. They have amazing deals there but it’s dangerous to go in there because it’s very hard to go in and walk out without buying anything!

How was your week!

Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Ontario Health Care, Toronto Tagged With: bargain, Big Carrot, busy week, cookie outlet, driving, Family, health food store, Hospital, medical tests, mother in law, peek freen, tests, uncle, visiting

My nephew is trying out for an NHL farm team

July 16, 2011 by Tricia

My husband is out with his brother this weekend. They’re busy watching my nephew tryout for a NHL farm team. Believe me, I’ve got my fingers, toes and everything crossed in the hopes that they pick him! Wow – wouldn’t that be fantastic having a nephew in the NHL? Or at least on the way there by way of a junior team?

Anyway, at this point, my nephew is working hard on the ice this weekend and my husband and his brother are probably playing hard on the sidelines. That’s the way it always is whenever they get together. They even compete hard. Just before they all left they were compete over who had the better cellphone. We just got a Nokia N8 and we’re very happy with it, but my brother in law has a new htc incredible s bell so they were arguing over the features. LOL Crazy!

I just hope that if they’re busy partying it up that they’re safe in there hotel room. My husband is very good about not drinking and driving so I’m pretty sure he’ll make sure they’re good.

I don’t know if we’ll know by tomorrow if my nephew made it onto the farm team or not. I’ll let you know when I know, especially if it’s good news.

Filed Under: Canada, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: arguing, boys, brother in law, compete, crazy, driving, hockey, ice, nhl farm team, partying, safe, team, try out

Craving for something sweet

July 16, 2011 by Tricia

I have a craving for something sweet. Strawberries. Strawberries dipped in chocolate. Doesn’t that sound absolutely delicious!

If I had all of the ingredients I’d make my own at home in my fondue pot, but for some reason it seems that no matter what kind of chocolate I buy it never hardens correctly so I might as well buy chocolate covered strawberries from a store. They’re much better that way. In fact, I even came across Sharis deals and discount codes so that we can all get some chocolate covered strawberries if we want some. Doesn’t that sound good?

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Recreation Tagged With: chocolate, Chocolate covered stawberries, coupons, craving, discount, fondue, harden, order, store, Sweet

Husbands back to work and things are back to normal for a while

July 13, 2011 by Tricia

It’s been a busy few weeks! It sort of feels like I just got back from holidays, but in fact, it was my husband that was on holidays and disrupting my routine and my work for the last couple of weeks. Now that he’s back to work my life can get back to normal.

While my husband was on vacation we mostly stayed in town and got several things around our house. Most of the work that we did was outside, in the backyard. We painted the back stairs, and two storage units that are under our enclosed back porch. It looks fantastic. We also got a lot of garden work done. I don’t know how many calories I burned with all that outdoor work, but I doubt that I’ll need to do any searches for the best diet pills in the next while because I got a good workout. I must have been outside working in the yard anywhere from four to ten hours a day for at least one week.

We did manage to do some fun things while my husband was on holiday too. We took the dog to the beach a few times and we also attended a local Ribfest where we saw a fantastic classic rock tribute band and ate very good but very high cholesterol food. Chris also drove to his home town a couple of times to visit his parents and he did a few odd jobs around their house. I guess my husband got an even better workout than I did in the last few weeks since he did even more work than I did.

Have you used your holiday time to get work done around the house? You know, maintenance work that needs to be done anyway?

My husband will be off work again next week – he’s on temporary lay off next week. My schedule will be all messed up again I’m sure.





Filed Under: Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: backyard, Chris, hard work, holiday, home, husband, lay off, messed up, outdoors, painting, ribfest, schedule, threw me off, vacation, week off, work, work out, yardwork

Holiday season is definitely here

June 25, 2011 by Tricia

You can always tell which neighbors are heading out of town as soon as the kids are our of school, can’t you?

Most lower schools let out here in Toronto on Friday and I wasn’t surprised to see several people packing up their cars with camping gear and even a few big trailers in the neighborhood. Obviously some people are planning some big trips – maybe cross country trips. Hopefully they bought motorhome insurance before they left.

My husband is on holiday right now too, but we aren’t going anywhere this summer. We’re just sticking around home. There’s plenty to do in the city. There’s the jazz festival down town right now, and it’s Pride week if we want to see what’s happening with that, it’s certainly fun to watch the parade!

Are you going on holiday this summer? What are you going to do?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Recreation, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: cross country, holiday, motorhome, School, season, trailer, travel, trip, vacation

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • …
  • 76
  • Next Page »

Connect with Us

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Categories

Sites of Interest

Useful Links

Eavestrough Cleaning Toronto

Shopping

Gifts, Gadgets,
Books and More!

Recent Posts

  • Is your home well insulated or do you have energy leaks?
  • Pet Safety Tips
  • Top 10 Most Fundamental Yoga Poses For Beginners
  • Will My Interior Décor Stand The Test Of Time?
  • Outdoor Furniture- Spicing Up Your Backyard
  • Ensuring You Have A Good Experience Staying At Hotels With Children
  • Mother’s Day Cookies

Recent Comments

  • Bill on Top 10 Most Fundamental Yoga Poses For Beginners
  • [bonus]old school new body-f4x workout on Why does my husband always bring home the wrong stuff?
  • Rodhe Stevens on 5 Little Known Secrets To Finding Cheap (But Durable) Furniture
  • Julia Carlson on How To Install A Mosaic Tile Kitchen Backsplash
  • Humane Raccoon Deterrent Idea on Helped save a baby raccoon last night

Subscribe


Subscribe to our RSS Feed It's FREE!

Subscribe to Tricia's Musings by Email It's FREE!


Follow me on TWITTER

Find us on Google +



Find us on Facebook



I have two mottos-
1. Live life to the fullest; and
2. Don't have any regrets.

Get More Traffic

Visitors since 2006

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Search this site

Tags

blog blogs camera Canada Chris computer crohns dinner dog Family flower flowers Food friends funny garden Gardening Green Thumb Sunday Health and Fitness Health Fitness and Beauty holiday home Home and Lifestyle house husband IBD Inflammatory bowel disease Internet Music neighbors pain photo photos plants puppy Shopping sick sleep spring Toronto TV Video visit website Wordless Wednesday

Blogs I Visit

  • Say No to Crack
  • The Domestiquette
  • Rick Mercer
  • Table For Five
  • Captian Picards Journal

Copyright © 2026 · Lifestyle Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in