New product testing. I will review later today.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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Coppertone Clearly Sheer
I have to say this is one of the best products that me and my family have used. Typically sunscreen turns white or does not stay smears, smudges etc. I have been using this on my six year old for all of June and he has not had a sun burn or anything which is always great. In the past we have always bought children's and adult sunscreen but this time we have just used the same product and I am very pleased. I dont rave about too many products because usually things are disappointing. We love to be outside in the summer whether its in the pool at the sprayground or just playing. I am always concerned about applying and reapplying products, this was so easy not greasy......One thing I really liked was it did not run after being in the water.
Great Job Copportone. Now we have a new family product.
Coppertone Clearly Sheer
I have to say this is one of the best products that me and my family have used. Typically sunscreen turns white or does not stay smears, smudges etc. I have been using this on my six year old for all of June and he has not had a sun burn or anything which is always great. In the past we have always bought children's and adult sunscreen but this time we have just used the same product and I am very pleased. I dont rave about too many products because usually things are disappointing. We love to be outside in the summer whether its in the pool at the sprayground or just playing. I am always concerned about applying and reapplying products, this was so easy not greasy......One thing I really liked was it did not run after being in the water.
Great Job Copportone. Now we have a new family product.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
I have been MIA......
I have been pretty busy with life but that is nothing new. However I want to talk about my weekend. We went to Philadelphia to celebrate his graduation from Drexel University. With the help of some friends, I was able to arrange for a very nice dinner at a restaurant called Ocean's Prime. Everything was spectacular, well not everything. Some of our dinner guest had no idea what certain things meant. Me being 36 years old. I just naturally assume that people know things by the time they reach a certain age. Things that I do not know or know about I tend to teach myself about them or at least try to get a basic understanding of them. I get everyone comes from different places and have different experiences in life. This particular guest did not know what a Filet Mignon, Her Covert was nor what it meant to order A La Carte. It was a little shocked but made me want to learn even more. If we are not learning something daily then what are we doing? Life is full of opportunities to teach and to learn.
Now back to the dinner. Everything was timed perfectly. When we arrived, our wine Silver Palm 2011 was already decanted and waiting for us. We started with Calamari, Mini Crab Cakes and Goat Cheese Ravioli. Our next course included a salad made with romaine lettuce, granny smith apples, glazed walnuts, goat cheese and a mustard vinaigrete. Main course menu options were a filet with her covert and smashed potatoes, a salmon with a teriyaki glaze on a bed or risotto and there was a free bird chicken option but no one had it. For desert we had lemon cheesecake with a blueberry glaze and my husband had his favorite creme brulee.
I have been pretty busy with life but that is nothing new. However I want to talk about my weekend. We went to Philadelphia to celebrate his graduation from Drexel University. With the help of some friends, I was able to arrange for a very nice dinner at a restaurant called Ocean's Prime. Everything was spectacular, well not everything. Some of our dinner guest had no idea what certain things meant. Me being 36 years old. I just naturally assume that people know things by the time they reach a certain age. Things that I do not know or know about I tend to teach myself about them or at least try to get a basic understanding of them. I get everyone comes from different places and have different experiences in life. This particular guest did not know what a Filet Mignon, Her Covert was nor what it meant to order A La Carte. It was a little shocked but made me want to learn even more. If we are not learning something daily then what are we doing? Life is full of opportunities to teach and to learn.
Now back to the dinner. Everything was timed perfectly. When we arrived, our wine Silver Palm 2011 was already decanted and waiting for us. We started with Calamari, Mini Crab Cakes and Goat Cheese Ravioli. Our next course included a salad made with romaine lettuce, granny smith apples, glazed walnuts, goat cheese and a mustard vinaigrete. Main course menu options were a filet with her covert and smashed potatoes, a salmon with a teriyaki glaze on a bed or risotto and there was a free bird chicken option but no one had it. For desert we had lemon cheesecake with a blueberry glaze and my husband had his favorite creme brulee.
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| Sweet & Spicy Calamari |
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| Special Creme Brulee |
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| Lemon Cheesecake with Blueberry Glaze |
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| Fliet Mignon with Her Cover and smashed potatoes |
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| Mini Crab Cakes with Corn Salsa |
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| Goat Cheese Ravioli |
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| Teriyaki Salamon |
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| Dinner Salad |
Monday, May 26, 2014
Good2Grow
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Why Settle....Its just not right
This past weekend, we traveled to Richmond to go to a show. So we went a day early just to have a night out and be away. Anyway by the time we arrived it was almost 8:30 p.m. being tired we decided just to eat at the hotel. As always I study the menu reading options, looking at ingredients to figure out what to have. Most of the options sounded good, but I decided to get Pork Osso Buco. I had just made veal osso buco a few days early, so I wanted to see how I paired to a restaurant. Although this was pork and mines was veal all of the recipes I have ever seemed pretty much had the same ingredients with a few variations. I actually misread the menu for what the dish included. For some reason I thought it said Risotto with barley. When my plate came, It looked okay, but was not what I had expected. I was hoping it tasted better than what it looked. There were two shanks on the plate on top of Risotto and a sauce drizzled around the plate.
I began to eat my meal and soon discovered it was not what I was hoping for. The risotto was actually all barley and not a good flavor and I was not particular about the texture of it. The shanks were a little dry but I was hoping as I cut them up, the inside would be more tender and pleasing. Well it was not. I dipped it in the sauce again hoping it would come out different. Still it was not good. My husband asked me how did it taste. As I said pass me the salt and pepper. I told him it was not great. So right after the waiter walked by and asked the same, I said everything was fine. I thought to myself, why did I just say it was fine and it was not. I was thinking this cost $21.00 a plate so I should get some kind of gratification out of it. But I think many times we say things are okay when they are not.
So what's my That for this post: Often times, we enter into relationships or friendships hoping that they are something wonderful. We have our own interpretation of what is presented to us and what this other person may bring to the table. But like with this meal, I did not ask the waiter as I typically do anything about what I was about to eat. Just like with people we often look past the details and dive in. Then we begin to notice whats wrong and keep trying different things to make it better, but in the long run you are still left with what was originally presented. Then we soon realize we have settled for something we really did not want. Like when the waiter asked me did I like my meal, I should have said no. For whatever reason this time I did not and settled for what was there and was disappointed. How many times do we do that in real time and real life. You settle for what is there and never question it, you try to correct it, add to it, change it but you cant change something that was already there if you did not do it in the beginning. For instance, if my shanks were prepared different they may have tasted different. When you are in a relationship/friendship do you look at what the ingredients are, what each person is doing and gauge its appropriateness for what you are looking for? If its not what are you doing to change it. After my shank was done, I could not change the texture, the taste or anything because I did not prepare it. Just like you did not create the other person that you are going through your experiences with. You can not change them and they can not change you. It has to be self actualization and realization that change needs to occur.When someone says "Is everything okay" How do you respond? Do you give an answer to satisfy the other person and you suffer in silence. Well suffering in silence helps no one, especially not you. What happens, you finally walk away unfulfilled, unsatisfied and wanting something else. Most of it could have been avoided if we would be honest in all situations no matter how big or how small. Can you tell a waiter you are not pleased with your meal and not worry about it. Can you tell your friend there is something wrong in our friendship, and overcome whatever it is and remain friends. Can you do this in any relationship and work to fix it or if can not be fixed can you leave that relationship. Just like I left my food on the plate because for me it was not edible.
My realization is, if I would have just simply told the waiter that I did not like my meal and replaced it with something else, I would not have been so disappointed by the end. My excuse that night was I was just so tired and hungry that I did not feel like waiting for another meal or anything, I just wanted to eat and go to bed. I think we have all been in the situation where we did not want to wait and was just tired of things in life, so we have settled for one thing or another. But, next time I challenge you not to settle-you know what you need, what you desire and what is satisfying to you. What will you do to make the next thing better? Its all up to you.
This past weekend, we traveled to Richmond to go to a show. So we went a day early just to have a night out and be away. Anyway by the time we arrived it was almost 8:30 p.m. being tired we decided just to eat at the hotel. As always I study the menu reading options, looking at ingredients to figure out what to have. Most of the options sounded good, but I decided to get Pork Osso Buco. I had just made veal osso buco a few days early, so I wanted to see how I paired to a restaurant. Although this was pork and mines was veal all of the recipes I have ever seemed pretty much had the same ingredients with a few variations. I actually misread the menu for what the dish included. For some reason I thought it said Risotto with barley. When my plate came, It looked okay, but was not what I had expected. I was hoping it tasted better than what it looked. There were two shanks on the plate on top of Risotto and a sauce drizzled around the plate.
I began to eat my meal and soon discovered it was not what I was hoping for. The risotto was actually all barley and not a good flavor and I was not particular about the texture of it. The shanks were a little dry but I was hoping as I cut them up, the inside would be more tender and pleasing. Well it was not. I dipped it in the sauce again hoping it would come out different. Still it was not good. My husband asked me how did it taste. As I said pass me the salt and pepper. I told him it was not great. So right after the waiter walked by and asked the same, I said everything was fine. I thought to myself, why did I just say it was fine and it was not. I was thinking this cost $21.00 a plate so I should get some kind of gratification out of it. But I think many times we say things are okay when they are not.
So what's my That for this post: Often times, we enter into relationships or friendships hoping that they are something wonderful. We have our own interpretation of what is presented to us and what this other person may bring to the table. But like with this meal, I did not ask the waiter as I typically do anything about what I was about to eat. Just like with people we often look past the details and dive in. Then we begin to notice whats wrong and keep trying different things to make it better, but in the long run you are still left with what was originally presented. Then we soon realize we have settled for something we really did not want. Like when the waiter asked me did I like my meal, I should have said no. For whatever reason this time I did not and settled for what was there and was disappointed. How many times do we do that in real time and real life. You settle for what is there and never question it, you try to correct it, add to it, change it but you cant change something that was already there if you did not do it in the beginning. For instance, if my shanks were prepared different they may have tasted different. When you are in a relationship/friendship do you look at what the ingredients are, what each person is doing and gauge its appropriateness for what you are looking for? If its not what are you doing to change it. After my shank was done, I could not change the texture, the taste or anything because I did not prepare it. Just like you did not create the other person that you are going through your experiences with. You can not change them and they can not change you. It has to be self actualization and realization that change needs to occur.When someone says "Is everything okay" How do you respond? Do you give an answer to satisfy the other person and you suffer in silence. Well suffering in silence helps no one, especially not you. What happens, you finally walk away unfulfilled, unsatisfied and wanting something else. Most of it could have been avoided if we would be honest in all situations no matter how big or how small. Can you tell a waiter you are not pleased with your meal and not worry about it. Can you tell your friend there is something wrong in our friendship, and overcome whatever it is and remain friends. Can you do this in any relationship and work to fix it or if can not be fixed can you leave that relationship. Just like I left my food on the plate because for me it was not edible.
My realization is, if I would have just simply told the waiter that I did not like my meal and replaced it with something else, I would not have been so disappointed by the end. My excuse that night was I was just so tired and hungry that I did not feel like waiting for another meal or anything, I just wanted to eat and go to bed. I think we have all been in the situation where we did not want to wait and was just tired of things in life, so we have settled for one thing or another. But, next time I challenge you not to settle-you know what you need, what you desire and what is satisfying to you. What will you do to make the next thing better? Its all up to you.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Its Broken.....so why not throw it away
One of my favorite spatulas broke in half this past Sunday. I did not even realize it was my favorite until it broke. The history of this spatula that is was my then boyfriend now husbands spatula. You know when you merge households everyone has to give up something to make room for both people. Well this spatula was his and I tried to get rid of it long time ago and he said it was his favorite so I kept it. Now almost 9 years later the handle broke in half and I can no longer cook with it. The handle cracked more than a year ago, but I continued to use it, again because it was my favorite and I did not know it. How did it become my favorite, I am not sure. Out of the 12 I have I used this one the most especially to cook breakfast every morning. Now for the past few days I have been struggling to use a different spatula and I promise I am not flipping pancakes and making eggs like I was last week.
Even today, I am still trying to figure out why can I not let go of it. Yes its still on my counter. I realized I am a creature of habit especially when it comes to home and everyday life. As I was washing the dishes yesterday, I thought why wont you throw that away you can not use it for anything, but maybe I can fix it. In reality I cant. Glue or tape wont hold up to heat. Then of course, other things started going through my mind and I got distracted and its still there. I began to think about people in my life and relationships. Just like my broken spatula are there broken people or broken relationships that need to be fixed and cant be. If they can not be fixed why is that. Is it because I am such a creature of habit and struggle with change or is it that they are not willing to help in fixing the brokenness. Just like my spatula cracked right in the middle, any broken relationship has to be repaired right in the middle. Both people willing to come together and glue it back. If the two pieces cant be repaired then you will have to throw it away. For instance supposed when my spatula broke there was a little plastic piece that I did not see fall off and got lost, then when I went to fix it, it just did not work. Just like that relationship with that person, there maybe something missing so unnoticeable that it just can not be fixed until something else happens. Sometimes we are unsure of what that other thing is. A person has to come to their own reality and be willing to fix themselves before they can repair some relationships.
Fast forward, I never finished this post, but its a week later and I still have my spatula. So yes, there are still things I need to resolve within. There are relationships or friendships that I need to determine if they are reparable.
One of my favorite spatulas broke in half this past Sunday. I did not even realize it was my favorite until it broke. The history of this spatula that is was my then boyfriend now husbands spatula. You know when you merge households everyone has to give up something to make room for both people. Well this spatula was his and I tried to get rid of it long time ago and he said it was his favorite so I kept it. Now almost 9 years later the handle broke in half and I can no longer cook with it. The handle cracked more than a year ago, but I continued to use it, again because it was my favorite and I did not know it. How did it become my favorite, I am not sure. Out of the 12 I have I used this one the most especially to cook breakfast every morning. Now for the past few days I have been struggling to use a different spatula and I promise I am not flipping pancakes and making eggs like I was last week.
Even today, I am still trying to figure out why can I not let go of it. Yes its still on my counter. I realized I am a creature of habit especially when it comes to home and everyday life. As I was washing the dishes yesterday, I thought why wont you throw that away you can not use it for anything, but maybe I can fix it. In reality I cant. Glue or tape wont hold up to heat. Then of course, other things started going through my mind and I got distracted and its still there. I began to think about people in my life and relationships. Just like my broken spatula are there broken people or broken relationships that need to be fixed and cant be. If they can not be fixed why is that. Is it because I am such a creature of habit and struggle with change or is it that they are not willing to help in fixing the brokenness. Just like my spatula cracked right in the middle, any broken relationship has to be repaired right in the middle. Both people willing to come together and glue it back. If the two pieces cant be repaired then you will have to throw it away. For instance supposed when my spatula broke there was a little plastic piece that I did not see fall off and got lost, then when I went to fix it, it just did not work. Just like that relationship with that person, there maybe something missing so unnoticeable that it just can not be fixed until something else happens. Sometimes we are unsure of what that other thing is. A person has to come to their own reality and be willing to fix themselves before they can repair some relationships.
Fast forward, I never finished this post, but its a week later and I still have my spatula. So yes, there are still things I need to resolve within. There are relationships or friendships that I need to determine if they are reparable.
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