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Should I go to the all weekend long party?

November 2, 2007 by Tricia

I was just saying in my last post how busy I’ve been this week and how I think I made myself get sick since I over did things. Well, you’d think after the week that I had I might get to relax a bit this weekend? Doesn’t look that way.

This weekend a good friend of ours is holding a surprise birthday party for my sister in law. Not only that, this friend of ours took my sister in law and her husband on a cruise to the Bahamas last weekend too! That was also a surprise. Nice eh?

These parties are a taxing event in themselves. Our friend goes all out. I’m sure she’s got an eight course meal planned, lots of booze and to top things off they have a hot tub so I’m sure it will end with everyone in the hot tub.

Speaking of going all out. Last summer our friend had a 10th wedding anniversary party for my sister in law. She deep fried a turkey, cooked a ham, served seafood and invited guests from all over North America. I’m sure she’s already planning the renewing of their vows, perhaps one of those beach weddings or something!

I’m not sure I’m up for the party. It’s out of town so we’d have to stay over night either at our friends or my parent in laws (also stressful!). I might just try to bow out gracefully. Hey, I need to be healthy by the time we hit Vegas next week right?

If I was feeling better I don’t think I’d mind going away for two days, but the way things are for me right now I think I’ll be putting my trip in jeopardy if I go to this party.

Maybe Chris can bring me a doggy bag?





Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: all weekend, beach, birthday party, busy, Chris, Food, friends, ham, Health Fitness and Beauty, hot tub, husband, lots of food, Party, planning, seafood, sick, sister, Summer, surprise party, turkey, Wedding, weekend

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

SourceTix.com has tickets for events throughout North America

October 18, 2007 by Tricia

I think it’s always a great idea to know of a few online sites where you can find tickets to major events. SourceTix.com is definitely a site to check out.

SourceTix.com offers a comprehensive inventory of Theatre Tickets, concert tickets, and sports tickets.

The site has recently been redesigned. I’m not familiar with it’s former layout, but I found SourceTix.com’s current layout to be quite easy to use. There are menu buttons under the page header that will take site visitors directly to the sites home page, sports, concert or theater ticket listing sections. There’s also a menu on the left side of the page with expanded listings for each of the main ticket categories and a search box.

I actually like the fact that visitors can easily search for event tickets by city. It appears that visitors can search for tickets pretty much anywhere in North America.

As someone who’s going to be traveling to another city in the near future I appreciate the ability to search for tickets throughout North America. Who knows, perhaps I’ll spend some time on the site and see if I can find tickets for some events in Las Vegas in November. I’d love to see one of the shows in Vegas while I’m there.

You’ll be able to find tickets for upcoming future events and even to sold out or hard to get events. For example, I live in Toronto and even thought the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team isn’t doing so hot games are almost always sold out. They have a strong fan base and it’s always hard to get tickets. I checked the listings for the leafs and SourceTix.com has tickets for Saturday and other future games! Unbelievable.

I just told my husband and he had me check for tickets for a game which should be popular with the fans – the Toronto Maple Leafs Vs. Montreal Canadiens November 13th and yes, there are tickets. That impressed my husband to no end.

When searching for concert or theater tickets you can search by top sellers, top venues, by specific locations such as Broadway, off Broadway and in other ways.

No matter what your entertainment interests are SourceTix.com is a site to bookmark and keep in mind the next time you want to go to an event.

Oh and at this time SourceTix.com is offering a 2007 promotion for 5% off tickets. Just use the following code “source07” when you order tickets.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Movies, Music, Nightlife, Recreation, Socializing, Sports Tagged With: 5 percent off, Broadway, cities, city, concert tickets, concerts, events, football, hockey games, Music, North America, off Broadway, offer, online, promotion code, show, shows, sold out events, sourcetix.com, Sports, sports tickets, theater tickets, ticket, Toronto, travel, visit, visitors

PMbuzz – a NYC site for the Nightlife Community

October 18, 2007 by Tricia

If you live in New York City and you’d like to keep up with what’s happening in the clubs you should head over to PMbuzz.com. This is a site that was built for the nightlife community. Club goers, DJ’s, Entertainers, and Club owners/ managers can network.

Promoters can create listings for their nightclubs or upcoming events on PMbuzz. People are always looking for new nightclubs to visit. If you list your club on PMbuzz you can post photos of your club, discuss it’s features and connect with potential patrons.

Entertainers and DJ’s can create their own PMbuzz page for themselves to highlight their own upcoming events within the NYC community. Fans can connect with their favorite DJ’s and Entertainers as well as keep track of their latest gigs.

Club goers will love this site. They can connect with friends, post photos and videos, create blogs and keep up with the latest events and make plans to connect with friends at the various clubs or trendy events. You can even blast a message to all your friends to tell them about the latest hot spot that you’ve discovered or to give them details on where to meet up. Since DJ’s can upload their latest material club goers can listen to new beats before the rest of the nightclub community gets to hear them in the clubs.

Just like any social network everyone can interact with one another. PMbuzz is a site based on user driven content meaning registered members are who makes the site work. The site is what you make it.

PMbuzz is definitely a site to check out if you enjoy NYC nightlife.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Nightlife, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: blog, blogs, club listings, community, DJs, entertainers, event listings, friend, friends, hook up, hot trends, manage, network, nightclubs, Nightlife, photos, PMbuzz, promote, promoters, register, social network, trends, Video, visit

How many of you have dated someone you met online?

October 12, 2007 by Tricia

I was just thinking about two of my friends that I haven’t seen in a very long time. Funny that both of them now live on the other side of the country in Vancouver yet they don’t even know each other.

I was thinking about them in part because I haven’t seen either of them for quite a while and also because I was reading a story about the increase in online dating and how many people are having success with it and as it turns out both of my friends ended up meeting the men they eventually married through online dating sites or communities like Meet You Later. I’m not sure if that was the one, one of them used or not. Don’t quote me!

I think they are the only friends of mine that I know of who ended up marrying a person they met online, but I know several men and women who regularly meet others online and then in real life and begin dating.

I wonder … how many of you have met someone through the internet, not necessarily a dating service, and started dating or even married?

Again I need to find a non-ajax poll to use on this site. If anyone knows of a good one that doesn’t slow down site load I’d love to hear about it.

Filed Under: Culture, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Recreation, Relationships and Dating, Services, Socializing Tagged With: dating, dating service, friend, friends, funny, Internet, life, live, Love, man, married, meeting, men, my friends, online, Online dating, person, reading, real life, real world, service, sites, Vancouver, women

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