Archive | February, 2011

What’s With People? – Driving Etiquette

/ February 26, 2011 / local, travel / Permalink

I know I could be treading on thin ice to offer driving tips to my loyal readers, mostly because I have more driving infractions than my entire family combined…but since I now consider myself a great driver – I get to pick on others whom: 1) Think the indicator light is optional – I know [...]

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Wonder if this weekend will be as frugal as last?

/ February 25, 2011 / home, local, save money / Permalink

Last weekend was great. Not only did we have a movie marathon on Saturday night here at home, but on Friday night we went and had a fantastic evening with some friends of ours – including booze.. and it cost us the princely sum of $4.00. Ok that may not be entirely accurate – but [...]

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Is the NHL heading to YouTube?

/ February 25, 2011 / awesome, Technology / Permalink

I noticed an article the other day stating that Google was in talk with the NHL and NBA in an effort to bring their broadcasts to YouTube. My initial thoughts? I would have to say that my if I was hooked up to an ekg machine when I read that you’d see a pretty excited [...]

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New Look For lencurrielife.com – Roundup Week 8

/ February 25, 2011 / everyday life, roundup / Permalink

If you’ve visited the site lately you’d have noticed that there has been a slight major change in the look of the website. I don’t really have a GOOD reason why I did it, I just got bored looking at the old one and honestly I like the readability of this theme. What do you [...]

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Here We Go Again – Diet Time!

/ February 25, 2011 / food, health / Permalink

Yep, it’s true.. myself and Liz are going on a diet. Fun eh? Yeah.. not even close. BUT, I definitely think I can afford to lose a few pounds and I know Liz feels the same.. so why not? I’ve already blogged about how exercise isn’t really the way to lose weight – so it’s [...]

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Who’s The Most Romantic of them All?

/ February 17, 2011 / home / Permalink

Another successful Valentine’s Day has passed…and I would like to share the two most unique gift idea’s I have seen that a) didn’t cost anything and b) were the best received by their significant other’s. I should also mention that for our Valentines day – we sort of celebrated on Sunday with a nice relaxing [...]

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Week 7 Roundup – May As Well Read While You’re Snowed In!

/ February 16, 2011 / awesome, food, health, home, local / Permalink

Seems like the only thing people are talking about lately is the weather – how much snow we’ve gotten and how much we hate it. Personally, it doesn’t bother me in the least. As long as I have a warm house, a car that starts, and roads which are passable (ok – yesterday sucked) – [...]

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Liberate Yourself from Debt then Start Saving

/ February 15, 2011 / save money / Permalink

I’m always interested in others opinions, especially when they’re about topic which I enjoy as well. The following is a guest post written for lencurrie.com from an author whom contacted me and volunteered a post. Author Bio : Marc Brown is a financial writer, a Dad, and the frugal gatekeeper of his household. Frugality, Savings, [...]

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Dragons Den Once Again Coming to PEI – Got a Great Idea?

/ February 11, 2011 / awesome, local, make money, Technology / Permalink

I’ve mentioned Dragons Den before here on the blog – and for an entrepreneur with a great product or idea (read: Honibe) – it can be a really great place to drum up interest in you product. Unfortunately, my mind is remarkably blank as far as radical new products or ideas go – but I [...]

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What’s With People? – The Canadian Tire Experience

/ February 10, 2011 / everyday life, funny, save money / Permalink

There’s an old phrase that “it takes years to win a customer and only seconds to lose one”…well, in my case, it took two hours for Canadian Tire to lose me as a customer. I will admit that before I tell you my brief story, that I normally try to buy from Canadian companies…unless the [...]

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