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1.. In the Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write ' For Marijuana.
2. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
3. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go'.
4. Sing Along At The Opera.
5. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend
Their Party Because You have a headache.
6. When Leaving the Zoo, Start Running towards the Parking lot,
Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'
7. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, 'Due To The Economy,
We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'
8. PICK UP A BOX OF CONDOMS AT THE PHARMACY,
GO TO THE COUNTER AND ASK WHERE THE FITTING ROOM IS.
This should boggle your mind!! And Probably scare you as well!
1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3.. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer, and most can't speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers ; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year, 7.2 b
illion different purchasing experiences will occur At a
Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5
billion)
12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.
13. The value of product for Wal-Mart passing through theport of San Diego each year is a larger sum than 93% of ALL countries Gross National Product (GNP) .....and that is only ONE port ....one way – that’s how Wal-Mart gets it's stuff.
14. Of the 1.6 million employees, only 1.2% make a living above the poverty level.
15. Wal-Mart's head office is located and centralized in Bentonville. Due to this fact, there are more millionaires per square mile there than any place on Earth
16. The official U.S. Government position is that Wal-Mart's prices are no
lower than anyone else's when compared to a typical families weekly purchases.
That's the view of the statisticians at the Bureau Of Labor Statistics (BLS)
responsible for calculating the Consumer
Price Index (CPI).
17. 92% of everything Wal-Mart sells, comes from China . Another 4% comes fromChinese owned companies in the U.S. or in 3rd world Countries.
18. Wal-Mart and MOST large companies, take out life insurance on it's employees, without their knowing. If an employee dies, ALL the insurance moneys go to the companies. I.e. An employee making $18,000 per year, dies, and the company might make as much as $1 million. Most often these moneys, coming from what is commonly referred to as "Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies", is paid out to executives as bonuses. (A common practice, unknown by the average consumer).
19 Wal-Mart now averages a "profit" (not sales) of $36 billion per year.
20. Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street. If not, consider shopping someplace else.
Crazy huh?
This was an email I received, viral and unfounded but possibly true, possibly not so do NOT quote me on it.
But, give people what they want (goods at decent prices) and they will keep coming back for more.
~D
It's been a busy time, busy busy busy. But I have managed to get 2 of 4 new sites up with the other 2 almost ready, waiting in the wings.
The newest one is my new blog. BEACHES RUNNER. Why? Because I wanted a new name, and a new look and feel. It also runs on Wordpress, which for Blogging, is so much easier than trying to keep this site up to date. I plan on being more active (in writing) again so check it out, and by all means, leave a comment, suggestion, tip, whatever! The new site will focus more on running and fitness in general and less on my illustrious racing career :)
The other one is a site for our band MIXED TAPE. Check it out to stay in tune [ tune :) ] with what is happened, upcoming shows and of course, give your feedback and make a request for songs to play at future shows. There is also some articles on retro music (and current) and cool YouTube selections.
The other 2 will be interesting too and I will give you more info on them later and I'll let you know when they are up and running.
This site will remain live until the end of the year to browse and refer to. I hope to see you over at
This is of course in relation to running and fitness. I have other personal goals as well but for now, here are my fitness goals.
I will probably only do 3 marathons next year focusing on speed rather than multiplicity. I do not currently have any milestone marathon goals. I am at marathon #20 now, so there's nothing exciting about any upcoming numbers. When I feel I can no longer run any faster, I will switch back to frequency because I do love running in the marathon events, especially out of town events.
So, go hard or go home!
Boston Marathon 3:10
Scotiabank Waterfront (Autumn) Marathon 3:00
HM -sub-1:30
10K - sub 40
5K - Sub-19
For those of you who see me IRL, please remind me of these regularly.
I have failed miserably to write any blogs, race reports or anything lately. The combination of being busy and lack of motivation postpartum Boston Marathon Qualification have take their toll on my writing.
Now, these posts will have to wait another day, I would rather promote my quest to raise monies for Prostate Awareness, which although is being heavily encouraged by my workplace superiors, I still feel it is such a good cause so I have gladly joined the team at Flight Centre to do well in our quest. Several of my co-workers have lost family members or have family members currently battling this cancer - this is enough motivation for me.
So, This Movember, the month formerly known as November I've decided to donate my face to raising awareness about prostate cancer. My donation and commitment is the growth of a moustache for the entire month of Movember, which I know will generate conversation, controversy and laughter.
I'm doing this because 4,400 men die of prostate cancer in Canada each year and one in six men will be diagnosed during his lifetime.
This is a cause that I feel passionately about and I'm asking you to support my efforts by making a donation to Prostate Cancer Canada.
To help, you can either:
- Click this link http://ca.movember.com/mospace/135367/ and donate online using your credit card or PayPal account
- Write a cheque payable to 'Prostate Cancer Canada', referencing my name or Registration Number 135367 and mailing it to: Prostate Cancer Canada, Suite 306 145 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5A 1E3, Canada.
All donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
For more details on how the funds raised from previous campaigns have been used and the impact Movember is having please visit: http://ca.movemberfoundation.com/research-and-programs.
Thank you in advance for helping me to support men's health!So, I get the update email today for the Goodlife marathon and what di I see? A proposition to wear the shirt during the race! What? yes, here is is as it reads in the email:
Win a Karbon Training Jacket - value $100!
Be spotted in your Karbon GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon tech shirt
as you cross the finish line, and you could win a great Karbon Training
jacket!
Oh my, this will lead to more and more people breaking the cardinal rule of event shirts!
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