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Make Yourself Beautiful

September 26, 2007 by Tricia

If you live in the UK you might have heard of the cosmetic surgery company Make Yourself Beautiful. MYA as I’ll call it for the remainder of this article, has clinics throughout the UK in London, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle. MYA also makes regular visits to major cities throughout the UK to perform cosmetic surgery on clients who are looking to improve true physical flaws or those who simply want enhance their looks.

As you might expect some of the most common cosmetic surgeries performed by MYA surgeons are Breast reduction, Breast uplift, facial surgery such as rhinoplasty, body reshaping and other non surgical procedures such as microdermabrasion, and of course Breast Enlargement, one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries of all time.

One of the things that makes this company stand out for me is that when they do a surgical procedure such as breast enlargement the patient must stay overnight in a hospital. As a former cosmetic surgery nurse here in North America I know that many procedures are often performed in clinics and the patients are recovered in place for about 6 hours and then allowed to go home. I feel that it’s safer for a patient to be observed overnight and I’m very happy to hear that MYA requires their breast enlargement clients to stay overnight in a hospital. Good for them.

Many women have their breasts enlarged after losing pregnancy weight or because they are naturally small breasted and want to enhance their looks and possibly their confidence in their body image. I also know that many women end up having breast enlargement surgery when they decide to have a body flaw corrected. For example it’s common for women to have one breast be slightly larger than the other, but some women have quite a difference in the size of each breast. Those women might elect to have enlargement surgery on the smaller breast to even out the size of their bust.

It’s actually quite interesting to hear the variety of reasons why women decide to have breast enlargement surgeries. I’m sure many people believe that it’s simply done in order to have large breasts, but there are so many valid reasons for having it done like the examples I’ve listed above that once you hear a few you begin to realize how this surgery could really change some peoples lives for the better.

If you happen to live in the UK and if you’ve been considering having some form of cosmetic surgery visit the Make Yourself Beautiful website to learn more about their services and to book a consultation.





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Shop from home with catalogs from Catalogs.com

September 25, 2007 by Tricia

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Do you enjoy the privacy of shopping in your own home? Perhaps you shop online or like to browse through catalogs and have your purchases mail ordered to your home? If you like doing either of those activities a website that might interest you is catalogs.com.

Catalogs.com has been in helping shoppers find and order catalogs that will assist them in buying the products they are interested in purchasing. The site has been providing this free service for over a decade.

Whether you are shopping for clothing, products for your home, or items that will assist you with your hobby or interest you’ll be able to find catalogs to fit your needs at Catalogs.com.

On the site you’ll find listings for well known home shopping magazines such as Omaha Steaks, LL Bean, FAO Schwartz, Lane Bryant and many more.

There are over 35 catalog categories to browse through, and hundreds if not thousands of catalogs that you could potentially order.

If you are a gardener like me you might want to browse through the great selection of catalogs in the Garden and Yard section. Interested in Music and instruments? Check out the Books-Music-DVD section as well as Musical Instruments. If you’re a hobbyist the Art-Hobbies-Crafts section is a must.

There are Catalog listings for parents, those interested in clothing, fashion and beauty, automobiles, computers and electronics, fitness and outdoor activities plus many more listings.

Once you find a catalog that interests you, you can read a full description of the catalog and order it free of charge. Many of the catalogs are linked to the various companies websites which is great because you can begin shopping online if you’d like while you wait for your catalog order to arrive in the mail.

You might wonder why people order catalogs these days when so many companies offer online shopping? Well, you can browse through a catalog at your leisure just about anywhere. You can share your catalog with family and friends who might not have access to a computer as well. Plus, if you do have family or friends who are interested in making purchases through the catalog that you showed them you might get a nice discount for making a larger order than you would have on your own.

One last reason why you might be interested in ordering a catalog – many of the catalogs listed also have special offers such as a certain amount of money or a percentage off your first purchase when your make an order through the catalog.

One important piece of information that you should know about Catalogs.com is that there are NO memberships. You get whatever you ordered and nothing else. They also respect your privacy as they clearly state on their “About” page that they do not share your name, address or email address with anyone, but the catalog company from which you ordered your catalog.

Extra’s on the site include the Catalogs.com blog Shopaholics, a very funny shopping humor website, shoppers advice, news and articles, and Catalogs.com free monthly newsletter.

It appears that they will ship catalogs worldwide so anyone can use this site. I’d say that this site is a catalog shoppers dream site. Visit today. I’m sure you’ll find an interesting catalog or two to order.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Reading, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services, Shopping Tagged With: arts, beauty, buy, catalog, catalog offers, catalogs, Catalogs.com, clothing, computer, crafts, deals, Family, Fashion, free, free catalogs, friends, garden, gourmet, Hobbies, hobbyists, Music, offer, online, order catalogs, print, Product, Products, read, service, shop, Shopping, special, special offers

Did you hear about Led Zeppelin’s comeback concert?

September 25, 2007 by Tricia

If you can’t tell from my last post I’ll just spit it out – I love music. Music of all kinds, but my favorite is Rock n’ Roll. Especially classic rock.

I’m sure that everyone has a band or two – from any kind of music genre – that is not only an all time favorite, but who’s music can bring back memories of earlier times. There are some songs that make me feel like a teenager again when I hear them playing.

Led Zeppelin is one of those bands. I just love their music. I think I’ve got every record they ever produced. Chris is a huge Zeppelin fan too.

So you can imagine how stoked we were when we heard that Led Zeppelin is getting back together for a concert at the 02 in London on November 26th. To the best of my knowledge that’s their only planned concert. If Zeppelin fans are lucky perhaps they’ll plan a tour for 2008. Now wouldn’t that be fantastic!

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The concert is a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun – the founder of Atlantic records who died last year. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham’s son Jason will get together at the O2 Dome to play at this tribute concert. Apparently other rock legends such as Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman, the Rhythm Kings, Foreigner and Paolo Nutini will also perform. All of these artists were associated with Ertegun at one time or another over the years.

Unfortunately there’s absolutely no way that we could travel to London to see the concert. It’s just not possible for us. My only hope of seeing their comeback concert is if it’s either shown live on TV or if it’s at least filmed.

I know that many of my readers live in Europe. Perhaps some of you are planning on getting Concert Tickets and attending the show? If you do, I hope you take photos and make some posts about the concert because I’ll want to hear all about it.

If you live in the the EU and really want to attend the concert you might want to visit Viagogo and sign up to be notified if and when Tickets for this concert become available.

Actually Viagogo seems like a very interesting website. It’s supposedly the leading ticket hub in Europe.

It’s basically an online ticket exchange where people can buy and sell tickets to live events such as the Led Zeppelin comeback concert, Arts and Theatre tickets, and even Sports Tickets for football, rugby, horse racing and other sporting events.

I don’t even know if we have a site such as this in North America, but I’d love it if we did. I mean, say you really have your heart set on attending a concert. You could visit the site and see if anyone has listed extra tickets for the event. Of course it works well for ticket holders that bought tickets for an event, but then find that they can’t attend for some reason and need to sell their tickets quickly.

That certainly sounds a lot better than standing outside of an event location hoping to either buy or sell your tickets to those passing by doesn’t it? Much more secure. In fact here’s Viagogo’s guarantee:

At viagogo, every transaction is guaranteed. To support this, we offer full ticket tracking, managed logistics and live customer service support.

* Buyers: Once you purchase a ticket or win an auction and receive a confirmation email from us, viagogo makes sure that you receive your ticket on time for the event. If a problem arises and you do not receive your ticket, viagogo will provide similar or better tickets at the same cost.

* Sellers: We collect the money once the purchase occurs so we can make sure that you get paid.

I don’t know about you, but with that guarantee I’d be happy to buy or sell tickets through Viagogo.

Keep Viagogo in mind the next time you hear of a concert, theatre or sporting event that you’d like to attend.

Oh and if anyone attends the Led Zeppelin comeback concert I’d really love to hear all about it. Remember me!

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April Wine on Tour Again

September 25, 2007 by Tricia

Do you guys remember the Canadian Rock band April Wine?

They had some pretty big hits with songs like Fast Train, Rock & Roll is a Vicious Game, Roller, You could have been a lady, Bad side of the moon, I wouldn’t want to lose your love, You won’t dance with me and Tonite is a wonderful time to fall in love.

Well, ever since we moved into this area we’ve known that one of the band members from April Wine lives on the street behind us. We still haven’t run into him, but Chris ran into another old time rock n’ roller a couple of weeks ago and we now know which house he lives in. Oh and that other musician that Chris ran into wants Chris to jam with his band sometime too. That’s a story for Chris to tell on his site Guitar Licks though.

Anyway … I got sidetracked … The reason why I was bringing up April Wine in the first place is that I just heard over th weekend that they are back together and touring again. They’ll be playing here in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Center on November 22nd. Chris and I both really enjoy their music so we might try to get tickets for the concert.

Anyone else an April Wine fan?

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: April Wine, band, Canadian band, concert, Convention center, guitar, hit songs, member, members, Music, musician, neighbor, Neighborhood, November, play, songs, tickets, Toronto, Tour

Learn to dance with the help of Dance Crazy

September 25, 2007 by Tricia

If you enjoy dancing and want to learn new forms of dance, or perhaps you have two left feet, but feel it’s time to master your dance moves you’ll want to visit the dancecrazy.com website.

Dance Video is a dance site that features instructional dance videos. You can get dance videos and DVDs for just about any kind of dance genre at dancecrazy.com from ballroom dancing to the Hustle.

Think about it. Pick up an instructional dance video and learn to dance in the privacy of your own home. The next time you go to a wedding, out with friends or on holidays you won’t be the one sitting at the table like a wallflower too afraid to dance. No. You’ll be the one out on the dance floor all night having a ball.

You can purchase dance videos or DVDs that will go through all the dances that you want to learn step by step. Each instructional video has been taped using multiple camera angles so that you won’t miss a thing.

You can find instructional dance videos that will teach you how to ballroom dance, Salsa, Slow Dance, country, hip-hop or even how to Swing dance.

There’s no question about it. Dancing is fun and it’s also good exercise too. Even if you don’t want to show off your new dance moves at an upcoming future event, perhaps you might want to use dance to shape up? Check out the Dance fitness section at Dance Crazy.

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