Author: Mark

My Top 10 Actresses

29 July 202324 March 2024 Mark

I admit it, I am a bit of a movie buff. Not really a fan of the Marvel Universe, Tom Cruise movies (though I do like Simon Pegg, just not in the MI franchise so much) or the latest epic / blow-em-up extravaganza. I like quieter, gentler, perhaps older movies,

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Music As Life

26 July 2023 Mark

It’s funny how certain music brings back certain memories, as though they were yesterday even many years later. The vice versa applies as well, a memory can bring a song into my head. I was looking through the Carihi Grad Facebook page a couple days ago and came across a

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My Top 10 Uses For a Microwave

26 July 202323 November 2024 Mark

Microwaves can be wonderful appliances for a lot more than defrosting meat (useful) or heating up your coffee (I dislike microwaved coffee). Here are 10 other ways to use a microwave (in no particular order): There are waaay more uses for a microwave, what are your faves?

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The Ubiquitous Bucket List (as of 24-7-23)

24 July 202324 July 2023 Mark

Funny thing, growing up I had a bucket list of things I wanted to see like the Pyramids, Tower of London, Canucks game, Expos game (later Blue Jays after the demise of mon Expos) etc. and now that I have completed that early list (even if it took 50 years

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Lists

23 July 202324 July 2023 Mark

Don’t you just love list memes on social media? Obviously a lot of people do as they have become a very popular type of click-bait! There is just something about ’24 Hollywood Celebrities You Never Knew Had 2 Heads… And a Hump!”. I am OCD, not too proud of the

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Renovate This!

23 July 202323 July 2023 Mark

The joys of renovations – from 2007… June is Brain Injury Awareness Month, also known around our house as the month my wife proves to the world that yes, in fact I was dropped on my head as a baby.Two Junes ago she convinced me that I should help coach