by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 29, 2009 | Personal Finance Tips
One of my Christmas gifts was a $50 gift certificate for eBay. I’ve been trying to spend it for three months completely unsuccessfully. This is probably for a few reasons: 1) I refuse to spend over $50 (what the gift certificate is worth). 2) I have bid three...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 27, 2009 | Good For You
So, my friend Sarah got in a car accident yesterday. Don't worry, she's perfectly fine, and the car is running smoothly. But it needs some serious body work. Well, the rest from Sarah: "I was at an intersection turning left, and I stopped short for...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 26, 2009 | Personal Finance Tips
When my friend Paul posted this idea on his Facebook page last week and I thought it was pretty brilliant. Lasagna gardening isn’t growing ingredients for lasagna but an easy growing technique that Paul’s wife Lorena has successfully implemented. (Those...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 25, 2009 | Good For You
As I prepared for my last French class tonight, I got to thinking about different if slightly unrelated French topics that I wanted to wrap up tomorrow. One concept I wanted to touch on was the subjunctive which is a difficult verb tense in French for many...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 24, 2009 | Too Cute Tuesday
Spring has sprung here like most everywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere. Spring and Maine means snowstorms with 6 inches of snow or less, a fine layer of dust on everything, and eventually, if we wait long enough, flowers. This week, we've combined the...