Gimme A Break

I’ve always fancied those personalized number plates that I’ve seen in some countries. Aren’t those just the coolest?

Did you know you could actually build your own, whether it’s for your car, motorcycle or any other vehicle, with all the fancy lettering, slogan, badges and what have you, provided it’s all within the legal limits of UK highway requirements, of course.

You can create your own using an online platebuilder at Demon Plates. But if they’re designed for ’show’ or display purposes only, just remember they can’t be used on UK highways.

• miles from civilization
• superwoman
• she sells trinkets
• they want to buy a car now?
• easy displays

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I almost dread to read the papers these days only to find out the price of oil has gone up overnight again! The prices of every everything, especially food, has gone up and up. It used to be that they creeped up unnoticed but now you can actually go to the grocery store and find the prices jumping up from week to week.

It’s almost like wow, should I actually even eat this any more? I’ve cut back on lots of things that I now consider frivolous. Well, those are things we ate just for the fun of it but which had little nutritional value. You know, stuff like snacks, sodas, and new products that are fun to try.

What about you? Are you feeling the pinch of higher food prices?

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• what to cook?
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I know it’s a couple of days after Mother’s Day but if I’d found this website sooner, I might’ve been tempted to buy myself a baume mercier watch if the price is right.

Well, for one thing, Swiss watches aren’t called timepieces for nothing. I may have been under my shell too long because I haven’t heard of Baume and Mercier before this.

But they do have an interesting history. Back in 1830, two brothers, Louis Victor Baume and Pierre Joseph Celestin Baume, started a business who grew and became so successful that it went on for a couple of generations.

In 1918, Louis Victor’s grandson, William Baume, was running it and was joined by a new business partner, Paul Mercier, hence the name Baume and Mercier.

I visited their site at ViaLuxe.com where they have watch collections for both men and women. They have so many designs that if I really had to choose one, I’d have a hard time deciding.

I think that’s the thing with us women sometimes. We see one watch and when we look at another one, we think, wow, this one’s nice too. And then pretty soon, they’re all nice in their own way and we want them all .

• pretty up your social pages
• his majesty
• the mark of bravado
• the watch master
• strangers for daughters

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My entire head’s been swimming in glamor these past few weeks. I’ve been watching entirely too many fashion shows.

Those models strutting their stuff on the runway are all young and beautiful. I wonder if they know they could $10,000 at Look of the Year, a beauty contest open to anyone in the world.

Glamor and the spotlight is something all young women dream about. Getting on Look of the Year could get them spotted by some modelling agency.

If you’ve had dreams of living the high life, why don’t you go try your luck at http://www.lookoftheyear.com.

• a prestigious address
• bad role models
• no worries about being single
• a piece of Spanish action
• daring to dream on

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We finally had a change of weather. It’s cool but hazy today which is a big improvement over hot and humid. It was great weather to be running errands without having to dress up like an alien to avoid the sun.

I was out all day going from one grocery store to another trying to compare prices and find the best bargains. At the end of the day, I’m not sure if it was worth it spending all that time and effort to save a few bucks. But I had fun, I guess that’s the important thing .

• finding that perfect HDTV
• free resource for credit repair
• are you feeling the pinch of higher food prices?
• the electronics and appliances guys
• simply brilliant!

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Staying at home with the kids is not as easy a job as many people think it is. They think, oh, there’s no stress, no pressure, life just hums along.

But if they were to just experience one week as a stay-at-home mother, I’m bet they’ll have a whole different story to tell.

These people would probably be downing cup after cup of kava kava to help relieve them of some of the stress of running in and out of the house endlessly, picking up one kid, dropping off the other, cooking lunch, doing the laundry, cleaning up after the kids, helping with homework… you get the picture.

• merry-go-round
• green cleaning
• stress relief in minutes
• a day in the life of a mom
• breakfast gossip

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Bananas are always in season and I bought a whole bunch of them last weekend. They were green when I bought them.

But due to the high heat and humidity we’re having here at the moment, they ripened within a day.

They were wonderfully sweet and I just couldn’t stop popping one into my mouth every time I went into the kitchen.

• smoky kitchen
• mom’s day out
• under the weather
• eight glasses a day
• spicy does it!

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It’s Thursday, yay! The weekend’s closing in. I can’t wait to get my feet up. I missed gym yesterday and today so I’m getting fidgety.

Quite honestly, once you get going, it sorta becomes a part of your routine, something you got to do every day and if you don’t, it’s like you’re missing something. Know that feeling?

Well, I can’t wait to go tomorrow…

• back to the grindstone
• buying up the PC Fair
• where’s the real lunch?
• astrolo-what?
• dancing shoes

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I’m sure we all know someone who’s involved in stock options trading. I know many people do nothing but. Yes, these folks are serious.

They arm themselves with the fastest laptops and the latest software and gadgets to sort, filter and analyze stock options and then make a killing.

It’s a popular way for people who work at home to make some pocket money though some of them do end up making a bundle. I admire these people but the stock market has its ups and downs and some have been badly burnt in the process.

So you need to know what you’re doing and have the lucky stars on your side .

• more pocket change coming
• considering car loans
• may the power options be with you
• savings on Super Bowl tickets
• moon and stars

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Will you be celebrating Mother’s Day? It being on a Sunday, I’ll probably let the kids buy me a Sausage McMuffin if they tell me they want to celebrate. But only because I don’t want to be a wet blanket.

While it’s nice to have a day set aside just to recognize and celebrate mothers for everything they do, I believe we should teach our kids to appreciate their mothers every day of the year.

• a single stalk of tulip
• too commercialized
• Happy Thanksgiving
• a musical egg perhaps
• joining in the rush

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