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Great information at the Beautiful Me blog

May 10, 2007 by Tricia

I really like Belisi Fashions “Beautiful Me” blog. The blog just began in January, but it contains a lot of useful information that I’m sure most women would find interesting.

The blog discusses new skin care products and lines, the latest product and beauty related trends, beauty and spa treatments, cosmetic procedures and so on. One of the latest posts discusses products that can give you a fake tan in minutes. Considering that it’s now Spring in many parts of the world I’m sure many women are interested in getting a little color and adding some glow to their skin without the dangers of sun tanning and damage from sunburning. The article is certainly timely.

Business women, stay at home moms and blushing brides to be can all get something out of the Beautiful Me blog. Drop by and see if you can find some useful information.





Filed Under: Culture, Fashion, Health Fitness and Beauty, Shopping Tagged With: articles, Beautiful me, beauty, beauty products, crohns, Fashion, fitness, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, pain, trends, women

Slant board inversion therapy

May 10, 2007 by Tricia

Have you heard of inversion therapy? If so, you’re probably familiar with the version where people actually hang upside down by their feet or legs. While there are benefits to that particular form of inversion therapy it too can be hard on your body. Particularly if you already have a back problem. These positions can often be quite uncomfortable too.

A gentler and much easier form of Inversion therapy is through the use of slant boards. Slant boards have often been recommended by such specialists as chiropractors, colon therapists, doctors and other health professionals.

Slant boards can be used to reduce fatigue, relieve stress and to strengthen and firm muscles.

Inversion therapy is said to relieve fatigue and stress by taking some of the pressure off the bodies organs.

Considering that your body is only slightly inverted – head down, feet up on literally a slanted board, the position is much easier on your body and much more comfortable over all. I can see how this kind of inversion therapy might help relieve the stress on a person with a sore back, or even a pinched nerve in their back. Also, perhaps this is why colon therapists recommend the slant board as well. People with pinched nerves in their back can and often do have problems going to the washroom. Perhaps relieving some of the stress on the nerves of the back also helps the bowels to function better too. Also, if the board helps you strengthen your muscles we all know that strong stomach muscles help a bad back. It makes sense to me.

Certainly if I were going to try inversion therapy I would be more likely to try a slant board over the totally upside down method of inversion therapy. Since it’s a more natural position for our bodies I’d think that I’d be more likely to use it regularly.

What do you think? Has anyone tried using a Slant Board or other forms of Inversion therapy before? What was your experience like?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Shopping Tagged With: chiropractors recommend, doctors recommend, inversion therapy, relieve fatigue, relieve stress, Slant boards, strengthen muscles, take pressure off nerves, take pressure off organs

Is pet food safe again?

May 9, 2007 by Tricia

Does anyone know if they ever figured out the problem with pet foods and dog supplies yet? I haven’t been hearing about toxic dog and cat food in the news all that much in the last week. Is it safe to buy dog food again?

Why am I asking? I don’t have a dog. Nope. I’ve got two box turtles though and occasionally we give them a tiny bit of dog food – the kind made for older dogs – it has less fat and it’s healthier for them than regular dog foods. The turtles get a good mix of veggies, fruit and uhm … insects but they do like a teaspoonful of dog food every now and then.

If no one knows if they’ve solved the mystery I’ll hold off buying them any dog food for a while longer. They can live without it. Hmmm maybe I’ll buy them some minnows instead? They haven’t had fish for a while.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Pets and animals, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: Box turtles, cat food, dog food, dog supplies, feed box turtles, fish, fruit, insects, turtles, vegetables

iGliss – organize your media and all the websites you enjoy in one place!

May 5, 2007 by Tricia

I just spent some time visiting a new site where members can Mix, sync, and share your media from the Web and PCs. This new site is called iGliss.

The site was created in order to make it easier for you to both collect, mix, synchronize various types of media, and then share it with your friends or with the world. Once you register you can begin using the site to share your favorite photos, videos, audio recordings or even blogs from the web.

There are so many interesting features it’s hard to know where to begin. You can use iGliss in so many ways. As I mentioned above you can simply use it to share your pictures and videos with friends and family, or you can use the site to keep track of cool photos that your friends and acquaintance’s have recently posted on Flickr.

You can watch the latest videos from sites like YouTube and Grouper, or listen to internet talk shows and news podcasts. You can even use it to read new posts from from favorite blogs.

I really like some of the features. I mean, I run several websites, yet I want to stay in touch with what’s happening on the web and read my ever growing list of favorite blogs but it can be hard to keep up with it all. I spend an hour on a forum, an hour or two reading RSS feeds or visiting site after site, then to relax or get ideas for posts I might sometimes stop in at Youtube to see if there’s any good videos that I can use. Now, with iGliss it seems like I can do much of that right from the iGliss site. That’s amazing. For me that would be a real time saver!

You don’t have to upload anything to the site. All you need to do once you become a free member is start selecting websites, RSS feeds and any other media that you’d like to list in your account and iGliss will automatically synchronize the media content that you’ve selected and keep track of it all for you.

I’m in. I just signed up for a membership. I think I’ll be exploring the site for a while! See you there I hope!

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Photography, Recreation, Services, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: audio, iGliss, media, mix sync and share, Movies, Music, organize media, photos, pictures, RSS feeds, share media, share websites, vlogs, websites

Washer or dryer acting up? Check the Appliance repair forums first

May 5, 2007 by Tricia

forum-logo.gif Don’t you just hate it when an appliance suddenly stops working? Naturally it always seems to happen with little warning, and you only discover that there’s a problem when you are about to use the appliance. For example, you might have just finished washing your clothes and when you put them in the dryer you discover that the dryer isn’t working? Or perhaps it’s your dishwasher, Air conditioner, microwave, stove or refrigerator that stops working.

The immediate thought that goes through most of our heads when we discover that a major appliance is not working properly or has stopped working is that we’ll have to purchase a new one, or get an expensive repair service in to fix the appliance. Most of the time we are not financially prepared to do this so it causes a lot of stress, doesn’t it?

While both of those scenarios could end up being true, why don’t you try visiting the Appliance Repair Forums first and see if you might be able to fix the problem yourself.

The appliance repair forums will likely be most appealing to those who are natural do it yourselfers, but even if you don’t think you are that handy check it out first before you call the repairman or go out and buy a new fridge. Sometimes all you need is one small part that’s easy to replace in order to get an appliance back in working order.

I’ll give you an example. When we first bought our house we were happy to find that we had a built in humidifier on our furnace. Well, it worked for the first year or two that we had the house, but then it suddenly stopped working. As I said earlier our first thoughts when we discovered it wasn’t working was that we’d have to purchase a new furnace humidifier.

We took a bit of time and looked into the problem, talked to some people online and in some of the DIY stores and discovered that motor breakdown was common on these things and that we probably just need to buy a new motor for the humidifier. We did, and it was easy to install and our furnace humidifiers been working ever since. The motor wasn’t expensive, certainly cheaper than buying a new furnace humidifier, so we saved ourselves a lot of money by doing the simple repair ourselves.

Now, the Appliance Repair forums doesn’t discuss furnace humidifiers- or at least I didn’t see that topic as I browsed through the forums, and I was just using that as an example to show you how easy an appliance repair might turn out to be. The Appliance Repair Forums does discuss all of the major household appliances that tend to be costly to repair when they do break down.

If you own a microwave, dishwasher, washing machine, garbage disposal, stove or range, dryer, air conditioner, or refrigerator why not bookmark this site just in case your appliance breaks down. If and when it does, visit the forum and get advice from the appliance repair experts. The forum is completely free to use although to ask a question you will have to register on the forum first.

Browsing through the forums I’ve seen questions such as how to tighten a refrigerator door handle, icemakers, and the fridge being too warm, in the washer forums I discovered questions about the spin cycle not starting automatically, an unbalanced basket and the detergent door leaking water out the front among many other questions. Each question had a number of answers as the various appliance service technicians that frequent the site tried to help the appliance owner.

If and when you ever have to visit the Appliance repair forums be sure provide as much information about the problem that you are having with the appliance, as well as it’s brand and model number if possible. Your question will be answered by an actual appliance service technician.

Consider bookmarking this site. You never know when you might need it, and getting help on the forum could end up saving you a lot of money.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Services Tagged With: air conditioner repair, Appliance repair forums, buy, dishwasher repair, DIY repair, dryer repair, forum, garbage disposal repair, help, house, information, microwave repair, online, refrigerator repair, repair appliances, service, stove or range repair, Tech, visit, visiting, washing machine repair

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