Welcome to LuvBuv! My name is Theresa and I hope you enjoy my blog about life and all the little things that make life interesting. This blog covers a variety of topics including relationships, well-being, family life, and juicy lil' tidbits.
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By Theresa
Wedding season is officially upon us. For some, thinking of a wedding gift is a frustrating, hair-pulling experience. For those who don’t want to give a monetary gift, check out a few unique wedding gift ideas according to the personality of the couple.
For the Couple That Can’t Cook…
…start them off with Betty Crocker classics with this box o’ recipes. To personalize the gift, add a few of your favourite recipes too. Buy a few other basic kitchen utensils and gadgets, maybe throw in a bottle of wine and wrap it up in a rustic wicker basket.
By Theresa
Eating expired lunch meat is one thing, but what about consuming packaged food that has passed its “best before” date? With so many people tightening their household budgets, it comes as no surprise that people are loosening their standards on often arbitrary expiry dates. That funky-smelling bologna? Toss it. But that canned soup might
Continue reading Eating Food Past the Expiration Date
By Theresa
Have you ever met someone who could be described as simply old? I don’t mean literally old because I know one particularly wild, mountain-climbing, sky-diving, motorcycle-riding seventy year old. By old I mean someone who acts old, like they’ve had the zest sucked out of their relatively young body.
This type of oldie is a lot of things, but fun is not one of them. He or she is rather uptight with no sense of humour, bland, and all together as adventurous as apple pie. Everything about the old-before-its-expiry-date person screams “elderly” from their carefully coiffed ‘do to their sensible loafers.
How did a once cute bubbly baby grow up to be such a lame adult? I think a miniscule number of people are actually born “old.” The rest just perhaps have become downtrodden and beaten by life’s disappointments, burdens, and obligations. Let’s face it—paying down a mortgage, raising kids, and perhaps spending your day doing a job you don’t like but pays the bills can take a toll on anybody.
By Theresa
For a lot of people, the warm weather means hanging out on the patio, going to parties, and for some, consuming copious amounts of alcohol. Aside from the health benefits, wine is seen as a classy drink and sales show that wine is quickly gaining ground over the popularity of beer in North America.
I took an introduction to wine course a few years ago and had a great time learning about different grapes, food pairing, and of course tasting the different wines. (Has anyone ever thought about how disgusting it is to spit out your wine after you’ve swirled it in your mouth into a communal spit bucket?)
There were a few pretentious people in the class—one student claimed a certain red wine tasted like her “grandmother’s spice cupboard”—but for the most part, the wine enthusiasts were just excited to learn and taste.
Here is a quick introduction to what I learned in my wine course to the seven main grape varieties broken down into white and black (red) grapes.
By Theresa
According to dailydeadbirds.com, so far 885 birds have been killed as a result of the BP oil spill. The website provides daily updates for other animals as well—the number of dead sea turtles to date is 363, and 44 dead mammals have been recorded.
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*sigh*
By Theresa
Now that the warm weather is here, you’ll likely have lots of get-togethers with friends and family to share laughs, food, and germs. Ah, lovely germs. That communal chip dip bowl might be growing something funky other than that blue cheese Aunt Sally threw in.
While I don’t mind sharing the occasional drink or snack with someone I know and like, there are always a few double-dippers at every party who end up essentially sharing their spit with everyone at the party (well everyone who uses the dip, that is).
By Theresa
It seems like everything is getting outsourced nowadays. Gone are the days when young girls practiced walking in high heels in front of the mirror. Chyna Whyne, a former backup singer for Eric Clapton and Seal is offering a six-week course for girls 16 years and older who want to learn how to properly walk in high heels without pain.
In the article by Telegraph, Whyne says, “…the earlier younger ladies learn how to walk in heels, the better it’s going to be in the long run – with business and social lives.”
By Theresa
As a twentysomething woman, girls in my generation were raised with high expectations: you can work and have a family—you can have it all! Before I had a child, I really, truly believed this. However, having a baby has changed my perspective and priorities. Call me what you want, but the reality is that I have a hard time seeing how I can work full-time and be able to spend enough quality time with my husband and daughter once all the daily chores are done.
By Theresa
The modern woman in many developed nations can have a fulfilling career, raise a family, and enjoy a fun social life. We are having our “cake” and feasting on it. So why are women less happy than men?
A study (2009) conducted by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers called “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness”, describes this phenomenon:
“By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men.”
The study brings up a good point about who carries the “emotional burden” of running a household. While men tend to help out more nowadays compared to a generation ago, women still carry the emotional burden of keeping an orderly home and raising the kids, on top of managing their career. (The average man I know doesn’t feel too guilty about going to work and leaving their kids behind or having a messy house.)
By Theresa
I get a hankering for sushi about every month or so. My sushi craving grows and grows until I’m practically salivating and dreaming of sushi. Then I devour so much salmon sashimi, chop-chop cones, and rainbow rolls that I wish I was never born. My stomach recovers, my mind forgets, and the vicious cycle repeats itself.
If you have a sushi lover in your life, these gift ideas just might satisfy their sushi craving (for a little while anyway).
Sushi Pillows
Rest your head on these soft sushi pillows while visions of rolls, nigiri, and edamame dance in your head. The Original Sushi Pillow company produces a variety of larger-than-life rayon/polyester/cotton pillows that let you play with your food.
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