Vicks works like no other when I have a cold. I remember using this ever since I was a kid. My mom would use this on me and she has been using it ever since she was a kid. I think I would pass this on to my children when …

It’s not because I love their Energizer Bunny commercials, because I do, but I really do prefer Energizer Batteries over any other brand I’ve used.
Energizer Batteries were once the big challenger to Eveready Batteries, which was pretty much the leader in the market for many years. Growing up, …

Living in an older house, our windows were old and inefficient. When we were finally able to get some new modern windows installed, we chose Anlin Coronado Windows. These were all dual pane, Low-E, and with Argon Glass.
The Anlin Coronado Windows have been a pure joy. …

Since recent time a lot of attention has been paid to Iran developing its own nuclear program - beginning from clamorous callings for another crusade against intolerant extremists and finishing praises to Ahmedinajad himself as a savior of all Muslims.
In my opinion, all this mass hysteria against said issue …

I am reviewing the movie, Message in a Bottle, starring Kevin Costner, Robert Wright Penn, and Paul Newman. This movie was made in 1999, was produced by Denise Di Novi, Jim Wilson, and Kevin Costner, and was directed by Luis Mandoki. This film was based on the novel …

I don’t know if to think of this episode as really good or heart breaking. In both of the cases that the FBI Team investigates, there are two young men who have lost their lives in an unusual way.
In the first case, a man dies during a prevented robbery. His …

Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit organization that creates crafts and goods to raise money for suffering people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. They provide hope and help for people in over thirty countries in addition to those areas. Skilled artisans produce a whole variety of …

While I am an amateur, I really enjoy drawing cartoons like manga characters for fun. Usually I sketch them first, and then outline them with a black ink pen. Then, I would either scan it into the computer to color with Photoshop or color it with colored pencils. Since …

This item doesn’t have a specific brand attached to it, but the Two-Tier Corner Shelf comes from Harriet Carter. I purchased it yet years ago to help me organize some displays, though it is actually advertised and sold as a kitchen counter aid to use with spices, …

Recently when I went to Staples they were running a special promotion. If you purchased HP ink cartridges in a multi or combo pack you would receive a free 500 sheet ream of HP Everyday Copy & Print Paper. I’m someone who loves a freebie, so I stocked up …

I bought this product for my little boy just recently because I want his imagination and creativity to be enhanced. This product contains wheat which the child can play through squeezing and molding them into different kinds of objects he could think of like birds, ball, shapes, etc. …

This is yet another Hot Tools Product, worthy of a ten. It is about the coolest thing I own for my hair.
I wear my hair with shoulder length curls in the back. They are not spiraled, but hang as if they could be. When I want …

I love buying these 3-packs of Memo Books from my local Family Dollar. They are a great value. Some stores sell a single memo book for over a dollar but here you can get three of them for a dollar. They are not fancy (no pictures on the cover) …

Boa is a music video by the group Eglantine Gouzy. It is directed by Sophie Gateau under Osaka Records. I first saw the music video being featured on youtube.com and it was pretty strange. The video was about the culture of French, artistry all placed in this boxes that …

I love Bournemouth. It is a fantastic place in the south of England that has a wonderful sandy beach, good shopping and loads of things to do.
I moved down 3 years ago and my flat has a balcony overlooking the beach. In the summer it gets packed and parking …

OK, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series is starting to take a slightly different turn for the worst this time around; starting with the episode “Surprise.”
Buffy turns 17 in this episode and her friends try to throw her a surprise party. However, evil forces also have to go out …

Dawn Hand Renewal with Olay beauty claims to make hand feel better and look better in as little as five uses. The costs is anywhere from $2.50 to $4 for a 24 to 30 ounce bottle. Well, dawn has a reputation for cutting grease on dishes from without having …

I attended a funeral of an acquaintance yesterday at the Atlantic Funeral Home, on Main Street Dartmouth Nova Scotia.
Like everyone, I’m not a fan of funerals, but I must say the staff at Atlantic Funeral Homes were superb.
Atlantic Funeral Homes, is a little off the beaten track in Dartmouth, …

About seven or eight months ago I joined my local Freecycle group. This has proven to a great money saver.
Freecycle is a grassroots, nonprofit organization who get and give items for free in their local communities. It currently consists of 4,667 groups worldwide and has over 6,311,000 members. Each …

We have a garden by the side of our house filled with tall palms and a variety of plants. On lazy nights when my friends come over, this is where we stay to play cards or just hang out. Because of the plants, however, mosquitoes have become …

As a long time Westerville Resident I am writing to say what a wonderful place to raise your family. Why? This city offer everything needed. It offers low, medium and high income homes and development that suit to a family’s financial needs. It is filled with several affordable restaurants. …

Futura Rewards is a rewards program where you get money for buying products that you buy everyday anyway. This program use to be called kidsfutures. You can use your rewards for four different things, retirement savings, educational savings, to repay your student loan or give it to …

Bureau of Internal Revenues in the Philippines is ranked as the most corrupt government institution in the country. Getting a permit or processing documents often requires some money given to the agents or the employees enable for it to get done. Processing time for this said documents will take …

When it comes to whisky, I always spell mine without an —˜e’. Don’t get me wrong. I like bourbon. In fact, I love it. It’s great, but it isn’t —˜whisky’. It’s —˜whiskey’, the same way that Irish is. Only Scotch whisky (and some Canadian) is spelled —˜whisky’. So saying, …

I like the way the magic eraser works. My son had finger prints all over my walls and instead of having to repaint to get rid of the stains, I tried the magic eraser. I was impressed how it just erased the dirty spots on my walls …

This is a fantastic episode anyway you’d want to view it, just because if features Criss Angel aka Mindfreak. Well, actually he did a good job but it was difficult to concentrate since I perceived him more as Criss Angel and not Luke Blade, his character.
In this episode …

I use this binder for paper work around the office and I have to say it’s great. It’s a very sturdy binder. I purchased this binder a little over a year ago and I don’t have a single complaint about it so far. When I purchased …

So… Doc Bronner started making this magic soap back in the 1960’s or something. Basically, the stuff is made of organic oils (olive, hemp, jojoba, coconut). Everything about it, down to the packaging is eco-friendly and organic. I started using this in college when i lived …

Springs in Bloom is a wonderful volunteer program here in Colorado Springs. Almost anyone who visits the area notices how beautiful it is and all the flowers every spring citizens adopt flower beds through out the city an mantain them. This will be the second yr I help my …

You may realize from my pen name, EnglishTeaDuck, that I am not originally from America. In fact, I was enticed into the USA by a New England man who has now been my husband for five years! So, my point of view of the town in which is live …

I’m almost ashamed to admit I’ve never donated money to the American Red Cross before. It’s not because I don’t normally give to charity, because I do. It’s because I never fully understood what the organization did.
That was until we had to cope with a major flood here in …

I loved that episode. It was the kind of thing that I love about this show and which makes it unique. It was the right balance between entertaining facts, humour and the mystery and investigation work required to solve the case- arriving at the truth, which you would have …

This is the final part of the taxi driver serial killer case. For the last few episodes the drama and the tension has been building up. He has more victims and despite all the information that the team has managed to gather on him, his name and identity remain …

There is nothing like the fresh tasting relief of Brioschi Effervescent Antiacid. I love this product as it does what it says it’s going to do. I haven’t used Brioschi in years, until today when I saw it in a specialty store. I really didn’t even think that …

I have a Coleman quick pump II for my inflatable air mattresses, and I have mixed feelings about it. I got it for household use, for when I have company visiting or staying with me, etc. It runs on 4 D size batteries, and they hold out for quite …

This is one of my most favourite episodes on the show. I found the stories to be really unusual and intriguing and totally unanticipated. I wonder if those kind of things are possible in real life. Or at least theoretically. The cases were strange but I really loved it.
In …

I recently went shopp[ing the other day and was trying out many different body soaps for the shower. One of the Soaps I picked out was the hot mud and dragon fruit extract Axe Shower gel. I really liked the unique smell to it. Even though it was kind …

The Logitech M305 Wireless Mouse (red color) is the best mouse I’ve ever purchased. I’ve owned it for one year now, and will definitely purchase more Logitech mice in the future.
When I purchased a laptop I needed a comfortable, good quality wireless mouse that would not irritate my …

As my wife and I were finishing our garden, we thought that it would be a great idea to accent the new renovations with some solar powered landscape lighting. We didn’t want to spend too much money, but still wanted to be able to have something nice and …

I was first struck by the white color of the back of the LG Bliss. I always like counter-shaded things as I’ve always thought it made a really, really cool contrast. I was also struck by the fact that it has a touch screen and lots of great …

My husband is into all of this camping stuff so when it came down to buying a tent, he had to do all the work. I wasn’t in the mood to get my hands dirty with it and that is why I let him do his thing. I will …

Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie is one of her earlier books (not that early, but predating Getting Rid of Bradley) and seems to have a lighter feel to it. There is the usual witty dialogue and one-liners, and the occasional product placement. There aren’t actually product placements, of course, it’s …

I almost feel like Katherine Hepburn announcing that the calla lilies are in bloom.
Chicory is in bloom here in the Great Northwest. This is my favorite common wildflower and can be found in both rural and urban areas. I love blue flowers and chicory is one of the best. …

CSI New York Season 2 Episode 5 Dancing With the Fishes
That was one horrible episode. The investigations and the murders did not even matter, because the cases themselves were just too boring to begin with. I would rate this episode below average. But that should not reflect …

From kids with muscular dystrophy wishing to go to Disney, to kids with cancer wishing to meet their favorite celebrity (such as Martina McBride, Kevin Harvick, Gene Simmons, Elton John, Idina Menzel, and so on), Kids Wish Network helps terminally sick children by giving them happiness and memories that …

Another Tagalog or “Filipino” movie we are watching right now is the movie of Star Cinema for their 15th anniversary, the “My Only U”. This movie is starred by Vhong Navarro and Toni Gonzaga. To be honest, the movie is a bit too shallow. It is about two people …

Love Affair is another classic romance movie released in the United States in October of 1994. It features the very beautiful Annette Bening as Terry McKay and Warren Beatty as Mike Gambril. The movie is written by Mildred Cram and is directed by Glenn Gordon Caron. It has …

Up until a few years ago, I did not know how much difference a sheet could make. My Mother-In-Law had a set of 100% Cotton Egyptian sheets she had never even taken out of the package. She brought them to us to see if we could use them. Lucky …

You may think that any toothpaste will do, but there are some toothpastes that are better than others. I choose to use Crest Tartar Control Toothpaste because it helps to keep the tartar build up from getting too bad before it is time to see the dentist. Crest has …

I was flipping channels on Saturday and came across the movie Can’t Hardly Wait on TV. It was the first time I’ve seen the movie before so I took the time to watch it. And, I have to say it was better than expected.
Basically, the movie is a love …