For Their Future

You know how sometimes you get a song stuck in your head & can't turn it off?

Because I watch TV online rather than on cable, they often play the same commercial 3 or 4 times in a row.

Now I have this song in my head!

making Tumeric capsules

I decided to make my own tumeric capsules, after reading & hearing about the health benefits. Since it is currently a very trendy & popular supplement, it's also pretty expensive. I bought 1,000 gelatin capsules on Amazon for about $15. But since I am a member of Swagbucks, I did some surveys & got $15 in gift cards, making them free to me. If you are curious interested in checking out Swagbucks, here's my referral link: https://www.swagbucks.com/refer/MichaelannD

UPDATE: If you've been reading my blog for a while or if you subscribe to either it or my YouTube channel, you may already know that I make my own tumeric capsules (February 04, 2020). ^ I recently discovered that one of my blue tank tops has tumeric stains that I cannot get out. I tried baking soda & vinegar, I tried bleach. No luck. I was about to throw it away when I realized that I should keep it & leave it in the kitchen with my apron. No point in wearing the apron with another shirt & getting it stained as well. Reminded me of when I was a kid, my mother would save a shirt that was already stained & I took it to school to use for art class. The perfect art smock, because who cared if it got stained.

it's snowing in Mission today

I decided to get some videos since it's snowing, but unlikely to stick. I took one video from my living room video & one downstairs outside the entrance to my building. I combined them into one video using All Free Video Joiner, which you can get here: http://www.allfreevideoconverter.com/index.html They have a lot of interesting & useful freeware audio & video software programs.

It's snowing!!

Friday, January 10, 2020

It was snowing when I got up this morning. I took some videos & some photos, which I pit together using Movie Maker, which is/was available for free from Microsoft.

Vlog on fast fashion, the environment & saving money.

Thursday, January 09, 2020

I just posted a new YouTube video on fast fashion, the environment & saving money. 

Check it out: 

PepperJack habaneroJack Velveeta

I was watching several videos on making your own Velveeta & decided to try my hand at it again. I don't really like cheddar, so I used pepperjack cheese & habanerojack. I didn't have powdered milk, so I just used 1 cup of milk, brought to a boil instead.
Hot & spicy, soft & gooey yumminess! My taste buds are doing the happy dance in my mouth!!

Speaking of saving money

We all love a good deal, right. Well, Urban Behaviour at Highstreet Mall in Abbotsford has a lot of lovely, sexy shirts, tube tops, etc. on for $5 and up. Oh & did you know that the Dollar Tree at 5 corners, have t-shirts & tank tops for $1.25 (plus tax), for a total of $1.40 each. And the Dollarama across the street sometimes has t-shirts, but they are a bit more. The Dollar Tree & Dollarama on Marshall road have a nice selection, as well. They also carry socks & underwear.

EDIT> I discovered on Monday, that the Dollar Tree in Bellingham also carries t-shirts, socks & hats.

Speaking of saving money, have you ever considered giving up cable? I did & it ain't that bad. If you are in Canada, CBC, CTV, Global & CITV all have shows online that you can watch for free the day after they come out on TV. Links are here: https://www.globaltv.com/shows

https://www.citytv.com/vancouver/shows

https://www.ctv.ca/all-shows

CTV also has a list of older shows available free online, as well as movies: 

https://www.ctv.ca/All-Shows/Throwback

https://www.ctv.ca/Movies/

For CBC, go here: https://gem.cbc.ca/ & create a login account. They will of course, try to sell you a premium membership, you can just ignore it. You'll need to do some digging after that, but they have some interesting shows, including Coroner, which just got renewed. You can watch season 1 here: https://gem.cbc.ca/season/coroner/season-1/019616a4-36e9-42aa-8cf5-751da89ff39f

In the US, CBS, NBC & FOX also do this. ABC has something similar, but you have to wait a week after the broadcast date. Netflix is still under $10 a month I think, & in the US, Hulu is $7.99 a month & it also has a free trial & optional add-ons for HBO, Showtime & Cinemax (at an extra cost, of course). You can also watch Crackle online, but it is no longer available in Canada, sorry..  Plus there's a lot of interesting content available on YouTube.  I even have a channel there: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelannDahlman/videos 

I am planning on doing a lot more videos there, including book reviews & other vlogs.