Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Wordless Wednesday
Malva Sylvestra Zebrina – that’s the formal name of this flower. what a mouthful for such a pretty striped mallow flower.
I love this dependable little plant. I grow Malva in front of my William Baffin rose bush er tree. The flowers bloom in front of the roses bare lower branches hiding it’s ugly “knees”. It makes a great combination along with some lavender and some phlox.
Twenty two days and counting. Halloween will soon be here!
Are you ready for Halloween yet? Do you have your costumes, party supplies, decorations and so on? No? Well what are you waiting for? You’ve got to have a costume for Halloween.
If you don’t have a costume for Halloween yet you might be in luck! Costumes Inc is offer a coupon which will give you 10% off all orders that are between $40 and $75, or if your purchase is worth more than $75 you’ll get 15%.
Costumes Inc has a large selection of Costumes for adults and children. They also carry just about everything else you need to celebrate Halloween such as decorations, costume accessories – wigs, makeup, props and party supplies.
I know that whenever I write about Halloween a number of people leave comments stating that it’s one of their favorite holidays. Why, of course it is! It’s a fun holiday. You can dress up as your alter ego, in fantasy costumes and pretty much be anything or anyone you can imagine just for the day.
You always hear about costumes at this time of year, but I’ve always though of costumes as a year round kind of thing.
I mean people have themed dress up parties all the time, and who hasn’t heard or perhaps even been to a college Toga party? I really enjoy costume parties and wish people had them more often.
If you are planning on attending a party on your own you might be interested in looking at some of the Sexy Costumes at Costumes Inc. While I’m sure that sexy nurse costumes will always be popular you can now dress up as a sexy pirate, Buccaneer Wench if you want to stand out from the crowd.
If you are married or otherwise taken you and your significant other could find costumes that compliment one another. Perhaps a group of your friends are getting together? There’s nothing wrong with finding costumes for everyone to match a certain theme or genre.
That’s the great thing about costumes. You can create your own unique look starting with a basic costume and add accessories such as wigs, hats, makeup and props or you can purchase a costume that comes with a few accessories to complete the look that you were aiming to achieve.
If you visit the site be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page of each costume that you like as you’ll be able to see some of the suggested accessories for that costume.
The costumes come in a variety of sizes ranging from infant to Plus size costumes which means that you should be able to find a great costume for anyone at Costumes Inc.
So remember there’s only 22 days left until Halloween arrives so if you haven’t yet picked out your costume you should take a look at the selection at Costumes Inc.
Hey have you been watching the new teen drama Gossip Girl on The CW? The series began on September 19th so if you haven’t caught the show yet it’s not too late to start watching.
There’s been a lot of buzz about this show on the internet. I know some people have created Gossip Girl blogs and fan sites. Of course, the best source of information about the show is the CW site itself where fans can watch full episodes of the show, chat to one another about the shows characters or the latest shows plot lines, learn about upcoming episodes, learn more about the cast, music used on the show and a whole lot more.
If you’ve been watching the show you already know that it’s about some very privileged Manhattan teens. The teens first learned that their friend Serena van der Woodsen was back in town through the blog of the ultra secretive Gossip Girl. No one has a clue as to who Gossip Girl really is, but they all rely heavily on the information provided in her blog or via text messages.
I would expect that a lot of bloggers like this show. There’s no other show on TV that has it’s weekly plots built around blogging!
Of course we all know how persuasive the information gleamed from a blog can be. They can be used for good or bad! This blog for example is my every day blog where those who want to learn more about me can come for a little peak into my day to day life. My gardening blog teaches others about gardening and my Celebrity blog, Celebrity Scoop … well that’s pure gossip.
I guess my Celebrity blog is the closest of the blogs I write to Gossip girls blog. I mean, it’s all about what’s happening in the lives of the rich and famous – just like those Manhattan teens on the Gossip Girl television series.
I’m curious as to who Gossip Girl really is. I wonder if they’ll ever let us know? Do you think you’ve got it figured out yet?
Gossip Girl is on, on Wednesday evenings at 9/8 c. Wednesdays show looks like it will be a good one too. It looks like Serena’s best friend Blair may finally have a chance at the spotlight, but her time in the limelight is short lived, and she soon feels betrayed by Serena who’s shadow Blair is always in it seems. I wonder if Blair will ever be able to forgive Serena? You won’t want to miss the episode!
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So …. Did all my fellow Canadians have a great Thanks Giving?
We mostly did things around home this weekend.
On Saturday I ended up going out on yet another shopping spree! Our printer hasn’t worked for ages and each week it seems I’ve been getting someone asking me to sign and fax something back to them or when we purchase something like tickets to a concert the tickets are electronic and must be printed out. So we needed a printer.
I got an HP all in one printer. The all in one includes a fax, scanner and printing capabilities.
We actually had to use it as soon as we finally got it set up on Saturday because Chris bought tickets to see Saga play in a Toronto bar and of course the tickets were electronic and the only way he’d be able to get his tickets was to print them out. I was also able to print and sign our confirmation for our airline tickets for our Las Vegas trip and then fax it back to the company from which we’d purchased our travel package.
Sunday was just a lazy day. I wasn’t feeling well at all so I spent way too much time lying on the couch. Thank you Crohns. I did however pick out some new themes for a few of our sites and I will be updating this site and a few others sometime this week. Especially now that I really know how well widgets work. Perhaps I’ll finally get this site to load quicker! Yeahhhh! Oh yeah, the new theme will load the content first – not the sidebars first like this theme does. I hate that. I’m sure you do too.
Earlier today we went to my husbands home town and had Thanks Giving dinner with Chris’ family. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, my mother in law cannot cook. She bought preformed chicken breasts – you know those pressed boneless ones? Yuck. There was also sausages, milkless mashed potatoes, squished turnip and stuffing. Needless to say the only thing that I found decent was the stuffing.
I guess I’ll be cooking Chris and I a small turkey dinner sometime this week as I was really looking forward to turkey and what we did end up eating was really disappointing.
How was your Thanks Giving?
When you come home from work or when you are just sitting around relaxing at home – what do you wear?
I suspect that many people, like me, would answer that they dress in jeans, shorts or sweats and a t-shirt when they are relaxing at home. Ok, I know some of you and I’m certain that a few of you might answer pajamas or even less, but most of you probably dress in comfy pants and t-shirts right?
Since I work at home I seem to wear a lot of t-shirts. I haven’t purchased any new ones for a while, but I might buy some soon as I’ve been looking at an online store that specializes in
funny t-shirts. Some of the best ones that I found on the site have lines from great movies.
When I was browsing through the movie t-shirts section I saw that there were shirts from the movie SuperBad like this Team McLovin t-shirt.
Do you remember Olivia Newton John? I wonder what’s she’s up to these days. Do you remember when she came out with an album? I can’t remember what it was called, but the hit song from the album was Lets Get Physical. I hate to say this, but I remember when they used to play that song in fitness clubs all the time and I do believe that it was a t-shirt slogan if I’m not mistaken.
Whether it was a slogan or not, I did find a Lets Get Physical t-shirt in the retro section at Flippin’SweetGear.
There’s actually quite a selection of t-shirts ranging from funny t-shirts to political, holiday, movie or tv and retro themed t-shirts. There’s also long sleeved shirts, hoodies, baseball caps, boxer shorts, mugs and other gear with funny phrases on them too. The prices for the t-shirts and other items are reasonable. Being in Canada I always check to see if an online store will ship to my area so I was pleased to find that any items purchased at Flippin’SweetGear can be shipped throughout North America or even internationally.
Check it out for yourself then come back and tell me which t-shirt was your favorite.