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Black Friday shopping trip cancelled

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Well I was supposed t be in a car with my friends probably sitting in a long line of cars waiting to get over the boarder to the US by now … but uh that’s not going to happen.

My friends and I were going to drive into the US this evening so that we could take advantage of some Black Friday sales, but one of them can’t go now and we decide to cancel the trip.

So now I’m just sitting at home watching a rerun of Flashpoint on TV with my husband. I love that show. The police snipers are up on a roof top right now looking through their rifle scopes at a kidnapper. Tense. I’m always on the edge of my seat with that show. I hope they return with new episodes in the new year!

Anyway … if any of you are taking advantage of Black Friday sales I hope that you’re successful and get some good deals. Stay safe!

A store my mother in law will love

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I found a store this past weekend that I’ve got to tell my health fanatic mother in law about.

It’s a store called Healthy Planet. I was just talking about it on my other blog. The store has vitamins, bulk foods, organics, and even natural weight loss products – pretty much whatever you want and at good prices.

My mother in law and my husbands Aunt drive in to Toronto from a town about an hour and a half away from here to go to specialty stores like the Big Carrot so I’m sure they’ll love the Healthy Planet.

The location we went to happens to be near my husbands uncles house, so that will be handy for Chris’ mother if they decide to go to the Healthy Planet store as they can visit my husbands uncle afterwords. 😉

A lazy weekend

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We’re just having a lazy weekend. We’ve been so busy over the last couple of weeks- traveling and having visitors stay over … it’s nice to try and have a quite weekend.

I say try … because it didn’t exactly work out that way. My husband wanted his cousin (who’s a manager at a Mercedes dealership) to check out our car so earlier this afternoon we took a drive out to his house and let him take the car out for a drive on the highway. Oh and we also took a trip to Costco while we were at it.

Our car got a passing grade from my husbands cousin. It handles well and he couldn’t find any problems with it. Good news!

When we first arrived at Costco I thought it was a mistake going there on a Saturday … we had to line up with our cart just to get in! I thought about looking for the nearest exit signs once I got in there it was so crowded! However, once we started shopping (I headed to the pharmacy first while they went to get some food) it went fast and when we were finished there was hardly anyone in line at the cash registers so I think we were in and out of Costco in half an hour. It might have been our fastest visit yet!

So far we have no plans for tomorrow and I like it that way. I think I’m going to sleep in and then maybe later in the day we’ll watch some movies. Like I said – it’s a lazy weekend!

What are you up to this weekend?

A great girls only weekend

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I had my girls day and night out last weekend. We had so much fun!


We started out by getting facials at a downtown spa. Man that was nice! Then we went out shopping in the fashion district.

I wasn’t planning on buying anything, but I came home with three bags! I bought a nice blouse, a dress and some lingerie. Oh la la!

Once we’d spent all we could spend shopping we went to one of my favorite french restaurants. Delicious!

By the time we’d finished dinner it was getting late and I think we were all tipsy. We thought about hitting a dance club but in the end we couldn’t decide where to go and nixed the idea.

All in all it was a really great time!

Do you ever go out just with your girlfriends? When’s the last time you did it?

Remembering to use cloth bags when we shop

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Last year all of the grocery stores here in Ontario and I believe across Canada as a whole started charging 5 cents for plastic grocery bags. This of course was a way to remind people that plastic bags aren’t good for the environment and that we should be bringing our reusuable bags to the store every time we come.

This didn’t bother us all that much as we’d been using cloth reusuable bags for years. The only time we use plastic bags these days is when we forget to bring our bags from our home. The reason this happens is because when we bring our groceries home and unpack it we place the cloth bags on our enclosed front porch and whichever of us goes to the car next is to put them in the trunk … well that doesn’t always happen! Which is of course the reason why we sometimes show up at the grocery store and need to buy plastic bags … or carry our items out in our hands. LOL

I think I might buy a few more custom tote bags so we’ll always have some in the car. I’d like to find some large, yet really thin ones that I could fold up and put in my purse too. Then we’d never ever need to buy a plastic bag at any store ever again.

Do you use clothe bags when you go shopping? If you don’t – Why not?

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