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Esnailer lets you send real letters to people

June 26, 2007 by Tricia

More than likely some of you reading this are too young to remember the days before the internet and email came into our lives, but for those of us who had to find other ways to communicate with friends and loved ones before email became so popular letters and phone calls were the main modes of communicating with others who lived far away.

It is nice when you receive a letter in the mail, or a card from someone that’s just writing to say hello, isn’t it?

I think getting a letter or card from someone these days is much more special now than it was 15 or 20 years ago. Do you feel that way too?

If you want to send formal correspondence to your friends and loved ones, but perhaps don’t have quite as much time as you’d like to do this, ESnailer.com has come up with a great way of sending real letters to people.

Just go to the ESnailer.com website and start writing a letter to a friend or loved one. EnSnailer will print your letter, tuck it in an envelope and place a stamp on it and send it off to the recipient via regular US postal mail free of charge.

So it’s just like sending an email but the person that you’ve written to will have the thrill of receiving an actual letter.





Filed Under: Culture, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Socializing, Writing Tagged With: cards, email, email to letter, Esnailer, Esnailer.com, formal correspondence, friends, Internet, letters, post, print, reading, regular mail, send letters free, special, US postal mail, website, Writing

Heat Wave

June 26, 2007 by Tricia

I’m not going outside … I’m not going outside …

It’s 34 Celsius right now outside, but with our humidity factored in it’s 41 Celsius. That’s almost 106 F. The temperature is still going up too.

If it was just heat I think I could take it, but the humidity just makes a hot day absolutely unbearable.

We’ve got the air conditioning on inside so I’m comfortable, but I’m sure if I went outside for a few minutes I’d end up feeling terrible.

Ever since my Crohn’s started to act up really badly two or so years ago I can’t seem to take drastic temperature changes. It’s like my body doesn’t adjust to cold or hot temp changes very well.

I do have to keep peeking outside though. My elderly neighbor – she’s about 89, keeps going outside. I saw her sitting on her porch knitting a while ago.

Elderly people do not regulate temperatures all that well either. They often don’t sweat much so the built in self cooling protection our bodies have doesn’t work on the elderly. That’s why it’s so dangerous for them when it gets hot outside like this.

My neighbor is apt to water her garden in the middle of the day when it’s this hot, or pull out her lawn mower and cut the grass! So every half hour or so I get up and look out the front and back to make sure she’s not doing something stupid. I mean, if it’s too hot for me it’s way too hot for her!

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: cold, comfort, cool, cool down, crohns, elderly, garden, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, hot, humid, humidity, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, lawn, neighbor, not going out, pain, plants, stupid, sweat

Get a deal of the day and save up to 70 percent

June 25, 2007 by Tricia

If you know someone with a birthday, anniversary or other special occasion coming up I’m sure you’ve been searching for the perfect gift? Right? No … you’ve been too busy?

Well, if you need to find some great deals on gift items you might find the CityDeals.com website to be right up your alley. Each day at 9 a.m. mountain time there’s a feature that allows you to get up to 70% discount on gift cards every day. Isn’t that great?

The gift cards or gift certificates are from well known restaurants, clothing retailers, hotels, restaurants and more. You do have to act quick when you visit the site though as there’s a limited quantity gift cards each day.

It appears that todays deal was a golf course certificate.

You’ll also find hot deals, shopping deals and much more. The site is billed as “Your source for national and neighborhood deals”. Just register with City Deals and you’ll be ready to get your hands on a great deal of the day.

Filed Under: Gifts, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services, Shopping Tagged With: 70 percent off, 70 percent savings, City Deals, Deal of the day, Entertainment, Gift Cards, gift certificates, Gift ideas, national deals, neighborhood deals, resorts, restaurants, retail

The birds are hungry!

June 25, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve mentioned before that I haven’t been getting out into my garden as much as I should or as much as I used to. In fact, we only just refilled the bird feeders on Saturday.

You should see the birds though! They must put out a neighborhood call that “diner” had arrived because our yard is just full of small little birds like house wrens, small starlings, finches and yesterday I saw a bird that I consider pretty rare in almost downtown Toronto. I saw a cardinal!

As a result of all the feasting going on the bird feeders – two big ones – are almost empty. Actually I think my husband filled them on Saturday and last night.

I think we’ve also got a few house sparrows building a nest under one of our upstairs window air conditioners. I can see them flying around the window every few minutes and they are chirping away like crazy.

If they are successful in building a nest and if we can’t get it out our July house guests will not like sleeping in that spare bedroom! Birds around here start chirping at about 3:30 a.m.! They don’t stop until around 10 p.m.. I think they need more sleep, don’t you?

It could be a noisy summer!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: air conditioner, bedroom, bird, bird seed, Canada, cardinal, chirping, crazy, Downtown, feed, feeders, finches, flying, garden, house, house guests, house sparrow, house wren, husband, neighbor, nest, night, noisy, plants, Saturday, sleep, sleeping, Summer, Toronto, window, wren, yard

Illness and Anger

June 24, 2007 by Tricia

Can you believe this? My Crohn’s has me down for the count yet again. I was doing ok for a good portion of last week but then Friday came along and I couldn’t get off the couch I felt so ill.

Think that was bad enough … Saturday was even worse. I almost never take my heavy duty short acting pain killers during the day. I stick to the two long acting pain meds that I’m one and leave the shorter acting ones for night time when the pain is at it’s worst and only if I really need to take them.

Well yesterday I ended up taking two percocet. As you can tell I didn’t feel well enough to do any posting at all until around midnight last night.

I’m feeling a bit better today and I’m itching to get outside and plant some plants in my garden that I bought last weekend but I have a feeling if I go out there and get working I’ll end up making myself sicker and end up having a really bad week.

I’m getting angry at this stupid disease. It’s holding me back from so much in life.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: angry, bad week, Chronic Pain, couch, crohns, crohns disease, Friday, get outside, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, ill, illness, Inflammatory bowel disease, life, long acting pain medicine, meds, pain, pain at night, pain meds, posting, powerful pain medication, Saturday, short acting pain meds, sick, stupid, worst pain at night

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