Joel Osteen - Amazing Books! I love them all! lol! #JoelOsteen #God #Jesus #PowerOfPrayer

Oh, man, I looove Joel Osteen!  I love him!  His books are amazing, so inspiring, so uplifting, it's like I just can't get enough of Joel Osteen! lol!  I started with Break Out!, then I read It's Your Time (fantastic!), and now I'm reading Become a Better You (soo wonderful, so sweet!). I just can't say enough good stuff about Joel Osteen's books - they're so wonderful, and you'll feel so great about yourself, about your life, about where you're headed, what kind of greatness is in frot of you, what kind of great abundance is coming into your life.. I love this stuff!  It's so uplifting! hahaha!

Now I want everyone to read Joel Osteen's books - I would love to see them in every school library, lots of copies so all the kids have easy access to these life-changing books and thoughts. And I know it's very Christian-based, of course, and there's a big movement to remove religion from the schools, but, come on, has that really helped anyone? Meaning the students, not the adults in a big knot about religion... just present ALL the religious and non-religious views, let the kids decide for themselves, but so many kids aren't getting the messages of hope, messages of understanding, messages of great abundance coming into their lives, and I don't think that's helping the next generations. These kids are floundering, and that's not fair to them. I'm sure this is not politically correct, but you know, I think a lot of the political correctness out there has removed too many important works of art, works of literature, books of great influence, right out of the hands of our students. That whole thing where God Forbid you have a book in a school library, a book that is a great piece of literature, with any kind of swearing in it, because certainly we can't expose our children to that - ugh. Puh-leeease. That's ridiculous. We need to man up on this one, put great books in the hands of kids - for free. Let them choose whatever they want to read - can you imagine if we had grown up in this very cloistered new environment - it's too much Big Brother (is George Orwell still allowed in the school library?? Ugh!  Makes me so mad.) How dare the schools limit our children's growth by pre-determining what they can and cannot have access to at school. I don;t like it. The whole notion of Freedom of Thought starts early, and is very keen through the teen years, so we want to let our kids grow as much as possible, be exposed to all sorts of great books - then you'll create lifelong learners - show kids that books are wonderful, fabulous, amazing, uplifting, and will open brand new worlds to them - that's the key to a better society, and higher learning.

Well, I'm not sure how I went so far off-course, there, so-to-speak, when, really, I just wanted to say how much I love all the books by Joel Osteen, and I hope everyone gets a chance to read them! lol!  You'll love them!  We'll all grow in abundance, together! lol! Happy Reading (anything you want! lol!)! Ailsa xox

Get Rid of Fruit Flies For Good - yippee, Be Gone, Little Fruit Flies! #GetRidOfInsects #GetRidOfBugs and #Pests, too! #Yick! #Borax

You know, we always have a lot of fruit in our house, mostly in the kitchen, and that used to mean those annoying little fruit flies around all the time - so annoying! and no one wants fruit flies in their kitchen - or anywhere else...and some people even resist buying fruit, especially bananas, because they can't stand dealing with those crazy annoying fruit flies.

So here's how to get rid of fruit flies, for good. See ya', fruit flies, find another family to annoy - but you can tell your friends, so they don't have to deal with fruit flies anymore, too! Hope this doesn't disturb the fruit fly population, too much, but not sure what, exactly, they contribute to the world... lol!

You need:

Vinegar (get the big container, it's cheaper)
Squeezie (Scottish for Liquid Dish Soap - isn't 'Squeezie' a cuter name for 'liquid dish soap'? haha!)

Anyway, you just put some vinegar in a shallow dish - I just use a saucer, but you can use any wee dish or whatever you've got around the house...

Put 2 or 3 drops of dish soap (squeezie! lol!) into the vinegar - no need to mix it in, or stir it - just let the drops sit there on their own - and VOILA, Magic!  No more fruit flies!  It's amazing, and soo great to walk into the kitchen, and there are NO annoying little fruit flies flying all around - yahoo!!  Problem solved!

At the height of the Fruit Fly problem - omg, we thought we were gonna lose our minds... and if your hands are wet, that seems to make it easier to 'catch them, and you know what I mean by that... then you just do a quick apology to God, for killing those horrible little flies, but it usually comes down to you or them - you don't want to get sick form them landing on any of your food - yuck!  So, Sorry, God!  We did our best to streer them away, first... and we got rid of all of our fruit, tidied everything - we really never did figure out why there were so many, for that one brief period - I think it was the mandarin oranges from China - who knows? We're just glad that's done! 

This is one of my favorite tricks to get rid of flies... mostly fruit flies, but who knows who else it's keeping away, right? lol!  Just a baggie with water, toss in 5 pennies, seal, and put on a plate, just in case it leaks - it probably won't leak, though, no worries!  Works like a charm!

If the issue is all the little oranges or tangerines that you haven't eaten, yet, but the fruit flies are now a problem, you could always just freeze them - works, and you could use them as ice cubes, too - yum!  that would be yummy! 

Sounds silly, but really seems to work - a saucer with 5 pennies, add water.  That's it, but it totally works!

There's the little saucer with vinegar, dish soap and a little sprinkle of sugar - you've gotta pull out the big guns when you've really had it with the Fruit Flies! lol!

An Extra Little Get Rid of Bugs Tip: I love this, and I don't even want to know exactly how it works (okay, I know, but it's kinda yucky, so better to live with your head in the sand, just do it, no more bugs, another problem solved - lol!

Sprinkle some salt in the corner of a counter, or the floor, anywhere you think they might be lingering, or if you've already seen 'someone' sneak out, and you've freaked out a little bit...don't worry about how much to put down, put an amount you can see - better to look at a little salt, than, God Forbid, some yucky little bug scuttling in front of you, right? hahaha!  Yuck! Bugs! Get outta mah' life, you bugs! hahaha!  They can find somewhere else to live, right?

Aaaand, one more little tip: Let's say you've gotten up in the middle of the night (if you're at that stage of the game where you're getting up a lot in the middle of the night - ugh, so annoying! lol!) and you've turned on the light, someone quickly slithers across the floor - like those little silverfish - yick!  Sounds terrible, right? Yuck!  But it happens, can happen in any home, but I think it might be more common if you live by the ocean (which I typically like to do), but if you have any sort of silverfish problem, and you're trying to figure out how to get rid of silver fish (one word, or 2 words? We'll never know - or, more accurately, I'll never know, 'cause I don't really care how to spell silverfish, I just never want to see another one, again! So here's how you get rid of silverfish - pour a little bit of vegetable oil in a little shallow container - I use the top off the milk jug, set it in the corner of your bathroom, or any other room where you've seen them (are they always in the bathroom? What are they doing in there?? Yuck!! Get outta mah' baffroom, little yucky silverfish! hahaha!)

Soo, these little natural solutions to get rid of insects and bugs really work, so definitely give it a try - oh, and you can use the salt mixed with baking soda to deal with fleas, too... sprinkle on your carpets, 'sweep' it in with a broom... it's all worth a try, if you're dealing with anything like that - you'll lose your mind less! lol!











Okay, so, now it's the Fall, and for some reason, there are some new wee beasties, and they're driving me crazy - we live by the ocean, so, it might be related to that, and the weather... but whatever the reason we're seeing them, now, I hate them all - hate them - bleah! Sorry God - I love all your creatures, but these ones gotta go - lol!

Bugs have to fall under that category of annoying people - You don't gotta go home, but you gotta get up outta here... hahaha!

So, I went on a quest to figure out how to get rid of any and all bugs, completely - #BugFreeHome

You know when you kill a wee beastie, and you're pleased with yourself that you finally caught it, (I'm talking about a Fruit Fly, but, whatever bugs bugging you, right now, and that's why you' a'reading this - lol!), and then you immediately have to say, "Sorry, God, but if it's this bug or my family, my family has to come first..." I feel like God Understands... 

I've gotta go find a pic of Borax, or just take a picture of the Borax box I just bought - had forgotten all about Borax, but you can use Borax for a million things, and one of the main things is getting rid of beasties - all sorts of gross, they're fine somewhere else, but NOT in your home, kind of beasties - so, give it a try for everything - and I just read that if you sprinkle Borax, in about a 3" strip, around the perimeter of your home, no gross beasties will come in - hey, I'd try it! I'm in an apartment, right now, and I don't know how the hell they got up to the upper floors, but, do what you gotta do, to keep you and your family safe from gross beasties, that could cause illness, and could freak you out (me! lol! Gross!!)

Here we go - good ol' Borax - who knew how many things it could do, though, right? 

I would start (and have already done this) with just sprinkling the Borax on the carpets, around the floor, then sweep against the floorboards... sprinkle some Borax anywhere you think there might be some gross bugs that you don't want in your house, or anywhere near your food, or anything at all - yuck! I hate them! Yick! Be Gone, Stoopid Beasties!! lol! 

And now I'm gonna try the soaking cotton balls in a cup of hot water, a little bit of Borax, some sugar - I would think about 1 to 2 tablespoons of each... to trick those shockingly smart bugs into taking the bait, so-to-speak... and then maybe place each cotton ball strategically, in every corner? I'm not sure about this, so I'll try one, see what happens - I don't want to encourage their friends to come over - Guys, there's a huuge Sugar Rush Party over at ailsa' house - nope! hahaha! That canny happen! lol! 

But you can mix the Borax with a little sugar, to entice the beasties to eat it, and take it back home with them, get rid of the colony.. sounds harsh, but when you're protecting the health of your family, you gotta do what you gotta do...

Anyway, when I was getting some pics of Borax (rather than stand up and go take a pic of my own box of Borax, maaaay-be 10 feet away from me - haha!) - anyway, did you know you can make Crystals from Borax? I would imagine like Salt Crystals, so you KNOW I'm gonna investigate THAT, and tell you all about it!

What if you could make a gorgeous craft that keeps the bugs and beasties away? haha! I would a'love that! lol!

Oh, and I haven't even tried Borax in the laundry, yet, but I'll go ahead and give that a shot, too - why not? I'm on a borax Roll, now - lol! : )

Not All Bugs are cute! lol! Just Bugs Bunny (on the off-chance you haven't seen the new Bugs Bunny - omg, high-larious - Daffy Dack, what a jerk - bah'hahahaha! Check online to see if you can find it - I don't know why they stopped making it, was soo funny!)

Oh, look what I just read - will maybe give this a wee try - lol!

"If you insist on leaving your doors and windows open and unscreened, there is one solution that works pretty well… Install a fan pointing directly at the floor. Any animal that tries to fly through that airflow will instantly be knocked from the sky.

Places that have a lot of foot traffic from the outside, like supermarkets, use this trick."

We live on Vancouver Island, and many places don't have any screens, because we have so few bugs or wee beasties, but the occasional beastie will fly in, sooo... good idea, right? lol! 

'Insist on' - now who's a little angry, up in here - hahaha! But dat almost mah' favorite part - lol! Angry about dem bugs! Bug Off, eh (they're Canadian Bugs, now - haha!)  ; )

Obamacare, or, officially, The Affordable Care Act...First Day!

Wow, so it's the first day of the Affordable Care Act, or, as it's commonly known, Obamacare.  Why don't they just keep saying 'The Affordable Care Act' all the time, really get that message out there, maybe take away a lot of the political hype around what is really, better care for a whole lot more people in America. Most of the people I know have health care coverage through their work, so I'm pretty sure Obamacare, or, The Affordable Care Act, doesn't seem to affect them, directly. I would imagine you would just continue to choose your provider, get on with your life, take good care of yourself and your family, so you don't have to go to the doctor very often - I think that's what we tend to do in Canada, and maybe why our health care system isn't overwhelmed, or ludicrously expensive?  We've had a focus on Wellness for so many years - I can't even remember when it began, but a focus on Wellness is crucial to lower the costs of any healthcare system.

I have a few questions that I would imagine a lot of people have, today, the first day of Obamacare, or, of course, now we all know (lol!), The Affordable Care Act... it's very disturbing to me that people would actually be fined if they don't choose a provider?  what if they can't afford it?  That doesn't seem right.  And are the payments to the provider tax-deductible, because that would be a great idea, right? Is that a possibility? Maybe a portion of it is tax-deductible, under health care expenses?  I wish they had spent half the time discussing all the details of the new Affordable Care Act, so people could really understand it, rather than just publicize all the idiotic debates - seriously, droning on Dr. Seuss-style - how crazy is that?  That's no way to show an understanding of this very important step toward truly affordable healthcare for the whole country. (Oh, and I liked you to the Dr. Seuss website, just because it's fun, and you'll have a wee laugh! And laughter is the best medicine, right?  Next to drugs and whatnot! lol!)

I'm gonna keep watching this whole new movement, if you will, in the right direction so no one will have to go without medical care - seriously, in a First-World Country, no one should have to go without medical care, or go broke because they got sick, or be charged exhorbitant rates because they're already sick - that's horrible. That is not cool... no bueno, not at all, and if Obamacare, or The Affordable Care Act, can make some significant strides in the direction of solving this very serious problem, give it a shot. How is it working out in Massachusetts? I've never heard any complaints coming out of there,everyone seems super-nice and friendly, and healthy, so why not really study Massachusetts, see if they've worked out all the snags, come up with a workable solution.

In the meantime, I'll look for good rates for you, so you can see what's out there, what will work for you and your family. Okay, I gotta go check my spelling! lol!  Take Good Care of Yourselves (literally! lol!), and Be Healthy!  Ailsa xox


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Oooh, and I found this good link, too - will give you more information on Obamacare, or, The Affordable Care Act. Good Luck, and Good Health!!
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/09/obamacare_explained_questions_answered_about_how_and_why_to_sign_up_and.html