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Leaky basements!

October 26, 2007 by Tricia

Shortly after Chris came home from work this evening we got a call from our neighbor across the street. Well her son called us actually. Her husband died two weeks ago and at first we thought that something might have happened to her as well when her son called!

Luckily he was just calling because he’d been a great son and he’d purchased his mother a new LCD TV. Trouble was he couldn’t get it into the house by himself and he needed Chris to give him a hand. No problem at all.

These poor people. A day or two after our neighbors husband died we had a crazy rainstorm that I guess ended up causing a pipe to overflow or burst in their basement! Her whole basement was water damaged!

Every day since then I’ve seen plumbers and contractors going in and out of her house. Chris says they’re breaking up all the cement in the finished basement so that they can put in a whole new cement base or foundation! Huge job obviously! They have one section partitioned just for their tool storage for this big job.

I guess the only good thing about this happening to our neighbor is that she’s probably been kept busy over the last two weeks. I’m sure she’s grieving and sometimes keeping busy is the best medicine.

I’m so happy that our basement has never shown any signs of leakage! When I was looking for a house to buy I must have looked at 50 houses over a months time. April of all months! However it turns out that rainy April was a good time to look at houses. Almost all the houses that I looked at had leaks in their basements! In fact, this house was the only one that I looked at that had a dry basement. Obviously it was a good buy!





Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: basement, basement leak, buy, Chris, happy, home, house, husband, leak, mother, neighbor, neighbors, new basement floor, new foundation, purchase, rain, repair, water, water damage

If you’re having a cosmetic surgery treatment make sure it’s with the best

October 26, 2007 by Tricia

As you might remember, my husband and I have a PVR so we tape a lot of television shows and watch them when we have time. Well, last night we got around to watching the previous evenings episode of CSI New York. Did you see it? It was a great episode about a hit woman using Second Life to pick off her targets.

One of the things that caught my eye in that episode was that one of the characters, who ended up being the first victim on the show, had had cosmetic surgery to enhance her looks. I don’t even know if the procedure that she supposedly had done is even a real cosmetic surgery procedure or not, but apparently it was a special type of surgical thread used give her a minor face lift. If this is a real treatment it looks like it would be minimally invasive and as a result much easier and faster to have done!

At this point I can say that I’ve never had any cosmetic surgery done, but as the saying goes “never say never”. I mean, there are so many different cosmetic surgery procedures and treatments available these days that I’m sure more and more people have decided to have a little work done to either correct a flaw, enhance their looks or minimize the effects of aging.

Certainly if you are going to get any form of cosmetic surgery done you should be sure that you have your work done by a certified cosmetic surgeon. I mean it’s your body we’re talking about here – you want to have someone that specializes in the type of treatment you are having done and who has performed the procedure successfully time and time again. Right?

Take for example the medical staff at the SurgiCare clinic. This company has clinics throughout the UK and all of their doctors are GMC certified. SurgiCare employs some of the most respected surgeons in the UK. Looking at their site it sounds as if they put their patients first. They provide their patients with a thorough consultation that is meant to not only find out what the patient wants to have done and what their expectations are, but also to inform the patient of their choices and the total costs of the treatment.

The Surgicare Clinic website has quite a bit of information about all of the procedures and treatments that they specialize in. Looking through their site it looks like they do everything from Smart Lipo treatments to chemical skin peels, derma fillers, treatments for excessive sweating, facial contouring, acne treatments, laser hair removal, Lip enhancement, microdermabrasion, muscle relaxation treatments, semi permanent make up, teeth whitening, wrinkle treatment, weight loss surgery and an interesting sounding procedure called Non surgical 3D face lift.

If you’ve considered having a cosmetic surgery procedure done and you live in the UK do visit the SurgiCare website to see what they can do for you and to read up on the various treatments.

In the meantime I’m going to try to find out if the cosmetic surgery that I saw on CSI NY is really real. I’m intrigued!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Services, Television Tagged With: 3d facelift, acne treatments, chemical skin peels, client, cometic surgery, consultation, CSI New York, derma fillers, doctor, facial contouring, GMC certified, information, laser hair removal, Lip enhancement, Lipo, medical, microdermabrasion, muscle relaxation treatments, patient, procedure, semipermanent make up, show, Smart Lipo treatments, surgeons, Surgicare, teeth whitening, Television, treatment, treatments excessive sweating, Uk, watching, website, weight loss surgery, wrinkle treatment

They’ll eat anything!

October 24, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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Can you imagine!

I’ve never had anything quite like this happen to me before – and I’m glad of it!, but I have had a few interesting encounters with animals in zoos and animal sanctuaries.

I remember once when I was a little kid my family took a road trip to the States. I’m not sure where we were exactly, but we went to a zoo or something that allowed people to walk in the very large enclosure that held deer, llamas and I’m certain there was a buffalo in there too.

Well you know at places like that there are food stations that people can buy pellets or in my case a cracker type of food to feed the animals. When I got my food to give to the animals they totally mobbed me! I was maybe 3.5 feet tall at the time and I was surrounded by I’m sure 20 deer. I’m pretty sure I was terrified and screaming. It certainly is a vivid memory!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Pets and animals, Recreation, Wildlife and Nature, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: animals, Family, farm, feed, Food, funny animals, funny photo, interest, interesting, kid, llama, Memory, photo, road trip, scream, sharing, station, Wordless Wednesday

My lucky sister in law gets a surprise cruise for her birthday?

October 24, 2007 by Tricia

It was my sister in laws birthday on the 18th. She turned 40.

Not this weekend, but the next a mutual friend of ours is going to have a surprise birthday party for my sister in law. She even went so far as to send out invitation – even sent one to Chris’ brother in Chicago and he’s planning on coming to the party! Since he doesn’t fly I think it’s quite a distance to drive just for a birthday party, but he’s like that and that’s another story in itself.

Not only is our friend having a surprise birthday party for Chris’ sister, but this weekend she’s taking my sister in law and her husband on a weekend Bahamas cruise! That’s also a surprise.

I can’t believe she bought four tickets (her husband is going too of course) for a cruise!

I imagine it was a special package deal. I was curious as to how much it might cost to fly to say Miami and then go on a weekend cruise – for four so I visited the travel club that my husband and I joined when we got our package deal to Las Vegas and looked at what kind of prices they had for their cruises. The lowest price that I could find for airfare and four people on one of the big cruise lines in the cheapest cabins offered was about $3500 in total!

Wow. I sure hope our friend got an even lower price than that. Still it must have cost something close to that.

Now why can’t our friends give Chris and I special surprise parties or buy us trips too?

Our friend has surprise parties or big dinner parties for Chris’ sister or her husband every year and of course we’re always invited. My only problem with the whole deal is that whenever it’s my brother in laws special party – it’s alway either on my birthday or the same week as my birthday .. uh what about me? LOL Or … Chris’ sister’s birthday is only four days before Chris and I’s wedding anniversary but other than an invite to the party our special day is forgot.

We’re all very close friends too. I just think it’s a little strange.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: anniversary, Birthday, birthdays, brother, chicago, Chris, cruise, deal, dinner, friend, friends, gift, husband, offer, Party, planning, prices, sister, special, strange, surprise party, ticket, tickets, travel, weekend

Late night TV – American Body Shop

October 24, 2007 by Tricia

I’m watching the craziest show on TV right now. I’ve really got to stop watching TV late at night. I really do.

The show is called American Body Shop. I guess you could call it a comedy. It’s about a bunch of mechanics and their female secretary. None of them are any good at their job. Clients bring in cars and they make huge promises about how they’ll supe up the car, but they always mess it up in the end.

Each character is seriously messed up too. I don’t think you’d see so many messed up people working together in one place in real life.

If you come across this show watch it if you dare, but I don’t recommend it.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Television Tagged With: bad show, car, character, clients, comedy, Job, late at night, life, men, messed up, shop, TV, watch, watching, watching TV

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