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Time to Barbecue

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I think we’re going to have a barbecue this evening. It’s been raining quite a bit all week, but there’s been no rain in the last two hours so we might make a break for it and get the BBQ going.

I already have chicken marinating and we picked up some corn on the cob ($2 for 5) at a local grocery store earlier in the week. Yum. A nice simple dinner – yet tasty! I’ll probably cut up some red pepper to grill along with the chicken and make a small salad too. All that’s missing is a dessert.

Now if that call that I’m waiting for from the insurancespecialists would hurry up and happen I can get cooking.

What are you having for dinner tonight? Do you find that you are barbecuing more often now that the nice weather is here?

Freckles – everywhere!

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I’ve been spending so much time in the sun over the last couple of weeks that I’m getting freckles!

I’ve been using sunscreen, so I haven’t burned or really tanned, but the freckles are coming out anyway. Darn fair skinned Irish blood. LOL

Oh well, the freckles aren’t too bad, although I know if I don’t use wrinkle creams that work to block UV as well as moisturize my skin and add sunscreens to the mix that by the end of summer my freckles will start to join together and I’ll be one big freckle.

Do you get freckles when you’ve been in the sun too? What do you do about them? Maybe I should get a skin cream that fades blemishes?

Working from home

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I’ve been trying to think up new ways to bring in some income. I’m stuck at home on medical leave so I don’t have a regular salary (nor any kind of sick pay).

The main way I make money these days is via my various blogs and websites. Namely in private advertising. However I’ve been trying to think of other ways to start earning a steady income – perhaps some kind of home based business but I don’t know what that would be just yet.

I’ve actually thought about turning my love of gardening into a business. Maybe I could sell plants/ seedlings?

I also enjoy photography and I’ve sold some of my photos on line in the past. Perhaps I could sell copies of my pictures online via eBay. I could frame them and come up with a variety of matte backgrounds for them.

I don’t know, I’m stumped. I guess until I decide what I really want to do and come up with a plan a home based business won’t be happening.

Anyone have some suggestions?

High Cholesterol? Oh no!

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Grrr I just found out that I might have high cholesterol. I hope not! Believe me, I’m going to eat very low fat food for a week before my next blood test. LOL

Anyway … since I found out that my last blood work was a little off I’ve been reading up on how to lower high cholesterol … reading about increasing fibre in my diet, reading a lipofuze reviews and so on.

I’m actually getting a headache with all the reading I’ve been doing!

I’m hoping that my next blood work will come back normal because I really can’t afford to add any new medications to the ones I’m already taking. It’s just too expensive already.

Any other ideas as to how I can get my cholesterol down?

Weight loss plateau

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One of my friends desperately wants to lose some weight. She’s been trying since the beginning of the year and she’s made some good progress through diet and exercise but I think she’s hit a plateau.

I just got off the phone with her and she sounds so depressed. She shouldn’t be … she’s lost about 20 pounds and she looks great! Now she’s searching the internet for other diet or quick weight loss ideas. One of the things she told me she read was a 7-dfbx review as well as some other diet reviews like the supposed Jennifer Aniston diet of eating 14 baby food jars and one regular meal a day (which she denies).

I’m actually a little worried about my friend. She’s been doing really well and now that the weight has stopped coming off she’s getting depressed and perhaps desperate. I told her to just keep working at it and that last bit of stubborn weight will start to come off.

What do you think?

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