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Super busy long weekend

May 17, 2008 by Tricia

The other day I wrote a post detailing all of the things we were supposed to do on this long weekend here in Canada. It’s what we call the May two four or more formally the Victoria Day long weekend. Our long weekend came early this year. In my mind it really should be next weekend. In fact it caught me by surprise being so early.

As things go our our Saturday night plans fell through. We were supposed to go over to a friends house for a barbecue, party and perhaps even some early fireworks. Unfortunately our friends mother happened to call him on Friday and reminded him about the birthday invitations that they had on Saturday night. I guess it’s his great aunts birthday and the whole family is getting together for a big shindig.

That’s ok. Chris and I were busy enough today! We’re going to have a busy weekend so we got some gardening work done earlier today. I’m sure we won’t have time to do any gardening on Sunday or Monday! Tomorrow we’re going to a brunch at a another friends and then there’s fireworks on Sunday and Monday night.

I believe next weekend is the Memorial Day long weekend in the US. Do you have big plans for that weekend? And how about my Canadian friends – are you as busy as I am seeing family and friends this weekend?





Filed Under: Canada, Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: aunt, aunts, barbecue, barbecue party, Birthday, brunch, Canada, canadian, canadian friends, Chris, Family, family and friends, fireworks, friend, friends, friends mother, garden, Gardening, house, invitations, long weekend, memorial day, monday, monday night, mother, Party, saturday night, shindig, sunday, surprise, Victoria Day, weekend

Friend takes a mysterious trip

May 17, 2008 by Tricia

The other day I got what seemed to be a somewhat cryptic message from one of our friends. He sent an email saying that he was off on a jet charter with his wife for the weekend – details to follow.

Now I know he travels for business quite often and sometimes he works a deal so that he can bring his wife along on some of the better trips. She shops while he works or attends meetings – now isn’t that the life?

So I’m assuming that it’s some kind of business trip since there’s no way he could afford a chartered jet on his own, but it must be something good since he said “details to follow”. Figures it’s a long weekend here in Canada and I’ll probably have to wait until Tuesday to find out where they went and what they did. Oh and even more importantly if they brought us back anything. LOL

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Socializing, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: business, business trip, Canada, chartered jet, cryptic message, deal, friends, jet charter, life, long weekend, meeting, travel, weekend, wife, work

Need a better way of keeping track of site earnings

May 16, 2008 by Tricia

You know I was just thinking about what a mess doing my taxes was this year. Last year wasn’t so bad because I’d worked at the hospital part of the year before and also earned money from my websites. Last year though, all my income was from my websites and calculating everything was a pain in the butt.

I think I’m going to look into getting some kind of financial reporting software so I can keep track of my daily, monthly and yearly earnings in one place. I do have Excel on my computer, but I’ve just never really liked using that program.

Speaking of earnings mine are down so far this year. Ever since we got our Puppy last November my earnings have been a lot less. I find the puppy very distracting. She’s getting better at entertaining herself, but it’s still difficult to work on my sites with a dog dropping toys in my lap constantly or whining for attention. As a result I’ve been trying to work on more passive income earnings for my websites.

How do you get work done on your sites when you have a lot of distractions around?

Filed Under: Blogging, Finance, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy Tagged With: computer, constant, distract, distracting, dog, dropping toys, earnings, entertaining, excel, financial reporting software, Hospital, ill, income, Internet, keep track, last november, mess, Money, my sites, November, pain in the butt, passive income, puppy, site earnings, spreadsheet, taxes, Technology, toys, web, website, websites, whining, work

Sweet Bear Cubs

May 14, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

tiny bears

Aren’t these bear cubs absolutely adorable? Too bad they can’t stay that size huh?

I’ve never seen bear cubs this young, but I have seen slightly older ones in the wild. I believe the last time I saw a young bear cub was in Algonquin Park. We’d been camping and we drove to a garbage drop off (not a dump, just a drop off with trash cans) and the young cub was near one of the trash cans.

Needless to say we didn’t get out of the car. We couldn’t see Momma bear, but surely she was around and you never get between a mother bear and her cub. That’s like asking for a death sentence!

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Pets and animals, Photography, Wildlife and Nature, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: algonquin park, Aren, bear cub, bear cubs, camp, camping, car, Cubs, death, death sentence, drop, dump, garbage, huh, last time, mom, Momma, momma bear, mother, mother bear, round, size, Sweet, trash cans, wild, Wordless, Wordless Wednesday

Diamond engagement rings at great prices

May 13, 2008 by Tricia

Many of my regular readers probably already know that I used to be a jeweller. I wasn’t a retailer, I actually made high end jewelery to be sold in jewelry stores. I had my own business but I eventually closed it down to pursue another career. I don’t regret my choice, but I still have an interest in the jewelry trade and of course unique designs.

Now I know that many of my readers live in the UK. Perhaps you’ve been thinking of getting engaged and are currently searching for just the right diamond engagement ring? Look no further! 365-diamond.com has a wide selection of Engagement rings. They also have a lovely selection of Wedding Rings too. This company is based in the UK and their prices are 50% lower than for comparable jewelry on High Street.

If you’ve purchased jewelery lately or if you’re about to make a major purchases – ie perhaps you’re looking for Engagement rings you’re probably aware that the price of gold has gone up quite a bit lately. Even though the prices of gold and other precious metals and gems have gone up 365-Diamond is still able to offer incredible deals.

What I like about the site is that when you search the Engagement rings section you can choose whether you want to look at round brilliant cut diamond rings or engagement rings with other settings such as princess, diamond set shoulders, marquise, emerald cut, pear, oval, heart shaped or a cluster style diamond ring. Just find the style and ring that interests you and once you’ve done that you can choose whether you want the engagement ring to be yellow gold, white gold or perhaps even platinum. You’ll also be able to choose the diamond size and diamond quality.

As you look at the engagement rings that interest you you’ll be able to see the ring at several different angles. I like this idea. You really get a good idea of what the ring really looks like and perhaps even how it might look on your fiance’s finger.

Another great reason to buy from 365-Diamond is that when you buy one of their certified diamond rings you’ll receive a diamond certificate which will help you verify the quality and weight of the diamond. This is a great thing to have as you’ll likely be interested in insuring the ring. Every purchase comes with a 30 day return policy so if you aren’t satisfied you can always return it.

One last, yet important thing that I like about this online jewelry store is that they only sell conflict free diamonds.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Jeweller/Jewellery, Recreation, Relationships and Dating, Shopping Tagged With: brilliant cut diamond, brilliant cut diamond rings, cut pear, diamond engagement ring, diamond quality, diamond ring, diamond size, diamonds, discount, engagement ring, engagement rings, fiance, High Street, jewelery, jeweller, jewelry stores, jewelry trade, precious metals, price of gold, princess diamond, Uk, unique designs, wedding rings, white gold, wholesale

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