Lifestyle

Mermaid or Whale

Feb 1st, 2010 | By Kiwi | Category: Editorials, Health and Beauty

It’s early morning and we get inter-office emails like any other day. But today’s message caught my eye. I guess it was suppose to inspirational, but it irked me to no end. The story goes:
Recently, in a large city in Australia, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of [...]

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Apartment Bathroom Reno

Dec 31st, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Renovation & Design

I’ve been in my own apartment for about 6 months now. In this time I’ve done some updates… one of which was the bathroom. It was a very old building with out-dated bath fixtures. Unfortunately it’s a rental so there’s not too much I can do. However, storage is always a big issue for me [...]

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The P90X Experiment

Dec 29th, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Announcements, Excercise Programs

Soon after Christmas it’s time for the new year resolution. Filled with turkey and stuffing (yum yums), I will is high on losing some blubber.
It just so happens that a friend of a friend of mine is starting the P90X program, designed to tone and drop pounds all in a 13 week program.
So I’m set [...]

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Bath Room Renovation

Dec 17th, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Renovation & Design

When I lived at my mother’s, I had an upstairs suite converted from an attic. It was a very self sufficient room and had lots of light thanks to the large french doors to the upstairs patio.
The only problem was the tiny bath room. It was literally 5ft across. I could reach wall to wall [...]

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Home Remedies for Warts

Nov 11th, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Books, Health and Beauty, Medicine

In light of recent swine flu (H1N1) pandemic and the shortage of flu vaccines, many who can’t afford the vaccine (or simply can’t afford the 13 trillion hours spent standing in line waiting to be shot) have turned to home remedies.
One of these remedies, as they were talking about on the radio, was hanging onions [...]

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Imperial Majesty Cruise

Feb 16th, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Travel

Just to update everyone on the status of the whole Imperial Majesty Cruise business.(Original Post)
I received a post card in the mail today as promised by the agent over the phone to confirm my refund. The post card was mailed from zip code 33308 on Feb 11th. So about 5 days. Not too bad at [...]

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Sleep Diet

Feb 10th, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Food, Health and Beauty, Lifestyle

Here’s the newest “it” thing with diet. Post the Acai berry/green tea craze, what else is new in weight loss? Cus you know the berry/tea combination didn’t work as well as Ophra claimed. And how could that be? How could Opera lie like that? Or, if it’s not true, how come all the Chinese people [...]

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Imperial Majesty Cruise Vacation Scam

Feb 10th, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Lifestyle, Travel

If you live in the Metro Vancouver area and have been to the recent Bike Show at Abbotsford then you will most likely have received a phone call telling you that you’ve won a trip for two to Ft. Lauderdale on a cruise with Imperial Majesty Cruise line to Nassau Bahamas.
I am personally a huge [...]

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Spud

Jan 11th, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Food, Lifestyle

I got a promotional letter from Spud vancouver today. They’re a local produce shopping/delivering service, which allows you to buy fresh produce in your PJ’s on the internet and they will deliver it right to your door.
Free delivery available on most orders, and they will follow your instructions to leave the selection anywhere on your [...]

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Summation : 08

Jan 2nd, 2009 | By Kiwi | Category: Feature, Lifestyle

I stole these from TinyYetMighty. I am bored and figured I could use one of these random things. Plus it’ll probably help keep me on track to not make 2008 feel totally useless.
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Get my Bachelor’s degree
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and [...]

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