Maria Blogs

The economy is in recession, the housing market a mess … anybody can appreciate a $20,000.00 home makeover for free. Actually, I think I’d like that.
But for homeowners, here’s your chance to have that nice kitchen, or great patio in time for summer. TriScents is giving away $20,000.00 to a lucky winner. Weee!
Enter to win [...]

Hooray for this enterprising web site selling bulk roses and other flowers.
As an avid internet shopper, I have organized most of my buying life around things I can easily access online. It saves time and allows me to organize everything right from my desktop without having to go out and be distracted by all [...]

Shifting gear from the exasperating news on TV [political circus and Britney that is] I’m trying to go zen.
When we were young, my parents tried very hard to enroll us in piano lessons. But of us five kids, none of the girls ever learned and only my brother seemed to be musically inclined so he [...]

Night night .. don’t let the bed bugs bite. How painful or poisonous are bed bug bites really? And what do they look like?
We’re staying at a beach motel for the week and I remember one article in a news where there was a bed bug infestation in a hotel or something. Eeeeeewwww. I was [...]

… and the bath faucet is broken! Just my luck [ugh]. Well, actually, come to think of it, the bath faucet IS working, it’s the shower that won’t come on. Waaaaahhhhhh.
We have one of those faucets where you just pull a lever on the bath faucet and the shower will come on. I hate that. [...]