Saturday, June 25th was The Rush race day and it was the day before that I actually started prepping for it. Despite several attempts to meet up, Baljit and I had quite packed days and had to communicate via text and email to coordinate!
I joined the FB page, then Twitter and read up their website…
From working in customer service in my 20’s, I was taught by the best. I was shown how to go the extra mile and to diffuse angry customers in a positive way resulting in excellent customer service and retained their business. I'm not just tooting my own horn. I've got copies of the 'suggestion fo…
Written on June 16th, 2011 - The day of disappointment
It’s everywhere. The word RIOT. You can’t avoid it on Facebook and it’s in almost every Twitter post, oh yeah…on the news too. I didn’t want to write a post about it because what I have to say isn’t any different than what has been said by ev…
In thinking about how I was going to write this post I realized that my participation in fundraising events is now a yearly thing. Last year I raised money for the Weekend to end Women’s Cancers (blog here) and while my awesome family, friends and I gave a total of $771.00, I was unable to parti…
I tried, I really did. I made quite a bit of effort to be a worm farmer but I just wasn’t cut out for the job. Perhaps it is because I went cheap and bout only ½ lb of worms (due to budget constraints) or because I have no clue how to properly manage my worms, even though there is tons of reading …
Emergency preparedness Week occurred this month and in light of the horrible earthquake that hit Japan and other areas, it has been on everyone’s mind at some point.
My to do list has an emergency kit line item on it and I finally got my butt in gear and started creating the ‘home’ kit (followed b…
It’s a debate that’s been going on in my head for a while now. Why? As I get laser focused on eliminating my debt, it is one of two things on my expense list that I can reduce in cost (the other being rent). Everything else is non negotiable.
I’ve had a cell phone since hmmm when they were b…
It all starts with me buying some odd ingredient and the next thing my kitchen is a disaster and I have some experiment in the oven!
I bought a coconut at Safeway last night. I have memories of my childhood of Mama buying me a coconut
And I go downstairs to the basement to grab a nail and a hammer…
Believe it or not, this is *my* recipe lol.
I had leftover coconut water and some shredded coconut and thought what can I do with this? So here is my coconutconcoction!
Cook Quinoa as directed.
Fry up some fresh shrimpies (I used 1 package)
In a sauce pan, pour in coconut water (I used all that c…