Scary

Michael came home to see a cop's vehicle parked in our parking spot.

Two cops were talking to our neighbour, Tiffany, who's a single mom. Her place is so close to our place. After they left, Michael knocked on her door to ask if anything's wrong, etc.

She said that she found cigarette butts in her yard and that her window screen was open when she came home, she didn't find anything missing yet, but she's afraid because she's living there alone with her children (Well, her daughter's dad comes to visit from time to time, but she mostly lives there alone).

That's really scary because after all, it's only a few steps away from our condo.

Natural Cleaning: Hydrogen Peroxide (pt3)

Michael and I ordinarily use hydrogen peroxide to clean bleeding injuries, or scrapes on Christopher's knees. He occassionally use it as a mouth wash when we're out of other mouth wash. Hydrogen peroxide is gentler than chlorine bleach, as it can be used for sterilizing and disinfecting for not only your home, but also your body.

To treat moldy tile grout on bathroom walls, fill a spray bottle with 1/2 cup hydrogen peroxide and 1 cup water. Spray onto moldy areas, let sit for an hour, then rinse off.

Keep a spray bottle of hydrogen peroxide on hand and another filled with white vinegar (NEVER mix the two in one bottle). For a disinfecting spray, for vegetables and surfaces, spritz with one, then the other, then wipe clean. This is great for spraying apples, tomatoes and other produce items as well as wood cutting boards.

Lastly but not least, hydrogen peroxide an effective, inexpensive mouthwash!

Another Kitchen Staple for Natural Cleaning Pt2

You can use cream of tartar, mild acid often used in baking, for removing tough stains in your kitchen/bath!

To remove rust stains from a stainless steel sink or surface, make a paste with cream of tartar and a small amount of lemon juice. Wipe it onto the stained surface, then buff off.

Julie Delpy - A Waltz For A Night (songs I listen to pt 2)

Beautiful, simple, and enchanting are the adjectives to best describe this short song. The song is written by the artist herself (Julie Delpy, who plays Celine in the movie) and featured as a soundtrack in the movie "Before Sunset." The song conveys Celine's longing and passion for Jesse (Ethan Hawke's character) with whom she shared a brief passionate encounter 9 years earlier.

Go Check Out "YouTube," If You Haven't

YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, share videoclips and commentaries. This site is praised as one the most user friendly sites on the Internet. Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site while registered users have the ability to upload an unlimited number of videos. Related videos, determined by the title and tags, appear to the right of the video. In the second year, the site gave users the ability to post responses and subscribe to any registered user.

Before being bought by Google, YouTube stated that its business model is advertising-based. Some industry commentators have speculated that YouTube's running costs — specifically the bandwidth required — may be as high as US$1 million per-month, thereby fueling criticisms that the company, like many Internet start-ups, did not have a viably implemented business model.

Advertisements were launched on the site beginning in March 2006. In April, YouTube started using Google AdSense. YouTube subsequently stopped using AdSense. Given its traffic levels, video streams and pageviews, some have calculated that YouTube's potential revenues could be in the millions per month.

With no further ado, I present to you, one of the most popular website on the world wide web (far outgrowing myspace.com):

http://www.youtube.com

Song I listen to pt 1

Fidelity (above) is a creative, whimsical single by Regina Spektor that launched her to stardom. A newcomer originally from Rusia, she's an avid pianist and song writer who's raised in NY and prominent in the anti-folk music scene in NYC.

Free Wine Tasting!!

This Saturday (April 14)

From 12-5 PM, join other wine loves for a flight-style wine tasting at The Wine Cellar, an elegant whimsical location. During this tasting, guests will enjoy 5-7 wines in a flight (a theme of either type of wine, producer, region or some other similarly interesting commonality).

You can drop in anytime! For more information, call Scott at 503.643.5655

Again, this is FREE.

The location:
The Wine Cellar
13486-A NW Cornell Road
Portland 97229 SW corner of Murray and Cornell
(BEHIND Mazatlan Mexican Restaurant)