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Dealing with loss

“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

 

My friends, this is a hard one to write. I have debated whether to share it with you but I lost a beloved family member this week. I am beyond bereft. My oldest boy Ursus, was 12 years old and I had rescued him when he was just 6 weeks old. He was a beautiful black lab mix and the joy and soul of my life.

It is even hard to write these words. Sadly it is even difficult to tell people because so many people seem to value human animals over non-human animals and I don’t perceive a difference. Read More

Zodiacs in Love

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Some people don’t put much stock in what astrology has to tell us about our love lives but some cultures spent lots of time and energy into researching what’s in store based on the stars. Even if you’re not one of those people, it still might be fun to read about!

 

So, just in time for Valentine’s Day, let’s have a look at what sign you should be looking for in that special someone.

 

Aquarius Jan 20 – Feb 18 Friendly/Stubborn

 

Element: Air

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Calves and ankles

Lucky Color: Electric blue

What You Bring To The Table: To tolerate with a smile on your face

Your Bad Love Habit: You have a tendency to be aloof

Perfect Matches: Sagittarius and Gemini. Sagittarius is just as social and adventurous as you are and a life together will be creatively rich, fun, and can survive the test of time. Gemini will complement you so well that together you will make such a charming couple that your attendance will be in high demand at all your mutual friends’ dinner parties. But you won’t always want to go because staying in — in the bedroom — will be way more fun

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Leo. You will be attracted to Leo’s natural charisma and passion for art. Leo will be attracted to your natural sparkle. Yet trouble may brew when your detached nature ruffles Leo’s plumage of pride, while a lion’s selfishness may turn you cold

Sign to avoid: Virgo. With Virgo’s need for order, you’ll literally feel like they’re trying to domesticate your wild spirit

 

Pisces Feb 19 – Mar 20 Intuitive/Escapist

 

Element: Water

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Feet

Lucky Color: Mauve

What You Bring To The Table: Sensuality, generosity, and a distinctive style all your own

Your Bad Love Habit: You dream big in love, but don’t always deliver

Perfect Matches: Cancer and Scorpio. Cancer will feed your soul. Your dreaminess add some spice to Cancer’s love life while the crab’s protective nature will warm you from the inside out. Scorpios will be highly attractive to you. Many Scorpio/Pisces couples claim that they fell in love at first sight. Both of you have emotions that run very deep and you have a mutual dark interest in the unusual

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Virgo. Your creative nature will get Virgo to loosen up and their need for stability will keep you grounded. But if you’re looking for passion, Virgos may have a hard time delivering

Sign to avoid: Libra. Their may be an initial spark, and you might find them a fun frolic in the sheets, but your sensitive nature will bother Libra as their constant need for solitude will baffle you

 

Aries Mar 21 – Apr 19 Generous/Short tempered

 

Element: Earth

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Face and head

Lucky Color: Red

What You Bring To The Table: Virtue, adventure, and optimism

Your Bad Love Habit: You don’t think before you jump!

Perfect Matches: Leo and Sagittarius, both have enough energy to keep up with you. With Leo, you’ll learn the fine art of sharing the spotlight, and you’ll definitely start sparks in the bedroom with a Sagittarius!

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Libra, though a marriage may be explosive!

Sign to avoid: Pisces, they’re too sentimental for you

 

Taurus Apr 20 – May 20 Artistic/Self-Indulgent

 

Element: Earth

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Neck and throat

Lucky Color: Blue-green

What You Bring To The Table: People don’t think money is important in love, but you know that the only way to have a harmonious relationship is when you have a financial security net

Your Bad Love Habit: You have a hard time forgiving

Perfect Matches: Virgo and Capricorn. These pairings will be very stable, yet Capricorn is better for platonic relationships

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Scorpio, they focus on emotional stability while you’re more focused on material stability. This pairing can get intense and stormy, but it’s ultimately satisfying

Sign to avoid: Gemini, they’re too restless!

 

Gemini May 21 – Jun 20 Adventurous/Emotional

 

Element: Air

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Hands, arms, and shoulders

Lucky Color: Orange

What You Bring To The Table: You’re open-minded and open for experimentation. You also bring intellectual stimulation into a relationship

Your Bad Love Habit: Too much emotional sensitivity makes you nervous

Perfect Matches: Libra and Aquarius. You’ll appreciate Libra’s lack of jealousy and love for culture, art, and having fun. An Aquarius will constantly surprise you, which will make you feel alive

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Sagittarius. While you are on a lifelong search for knowledge, a Sagittarius seeks wisdom. You will innately understand one another, but you’re both also flighty, so a union may be fleeting

Sign to avoid: Cancer — they’re way too domestic for your free-spirited attitude

 

Cancer Jun 21 – Jul 22 Romantic/Clingy

 

Element: Water

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Chest or breasts

Lucky Color: White

What You Bring To The Table: Your tenderness

Your Bad Love Habit: You have a hard time letting loose

Perfect Matches: Scorpio and Pisces. Scorpios tend to be dominant, which complements your caring nature. Pisces understands your depth of feeling like no one you’ve ever met before

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Capricorn. Zodiac’s goat is devoted to a relationship and their partner. They have a strong focus on money-making, which makes Cancers feel secure

Sign to avoid: Sagittarius. There will be a strong attraction at first, but a Sagittarius’ wandering ways will make you red as a crab with rage

 

Leo Jul 23 – Aug 22 Charismatic/Dominating

 

Element: Fire

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Back

Lucky Color: Gold

What You Bring To The Table: Your very passionate and know how to draw the line between love and sex

Your Bad Love Habit: You need to take the lead

Perfect Matches: Aries and Sagittarius. Sagittarius will see eye-to-eye with you when it comes to your philosophies on life, while Aries’  fiery nature mixed with yours can start an inferno in the bedroom

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Aquarius. You two will be instantly attracted to one another. You have a lot in common; both dream big dreams and want even bigger things out of life. Problem is that your approaches are different and this one aspect may be too grating for either to deal with

Sign to avoid: Capricorn. You will dominate them and they will never forgive you for it

 

Virgo Aug 23 – Sep 22 Intelligent/Fussy

 

Element: Earth

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Stomach

Lucky Color: Gray

What You Bring To The Table: That love is pure and should be treated with respect

Your Bad Love Habit: You tend to lack passion in favor of purity

Perfect Matches: Taurus and Capricorn. Capricorn shares your love for perfectionism while you will love Taurus’ big heart

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Pisces. Virgo is practical while Pisces is a dreamer. One’s a kite, the other a rock. But Virgo’s nitpickiness can easily cut the kite’s string

Sign to avoid: Aries. You like things a certain way and Aries needs to constantly be in control…even when they’re wrong

 

Libra Sep 23 – Oct 22 Attractive/Indecisive

 

Element: Air

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Derriere

Lucky Color: Green

What You Bring To The Table: Your balanced nature

Your Bad Love Habit: You tend to choose beauty over true compatibility

Perfect Matches: Aquarius and Gemini. You will enjoy a rich social life with equally out-going Aquarius while a Gemini is pretty much your perfect match intellectually and sexually

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Aries. Your attraction to an Aries will be undeniable and vice-versa. Yet Aries may be too demanding and expect a Libra to constantly give them compliments.

Sign to avoid: Scorpio. They’re too dark for your light, sunny nature

 

Scorpio Oct 23 – Nov 21 Mysterious/Jealous

 

Element: Water

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Sex organs

Lucky Color: Scarlet

What You Bring To The Table: Raw, sensual energy

Your Bad Love Habit: Surrounding to another and admitting to yourself that true love needs to be reciprocal

Perfect Matches: Pisces and Cancer. Dreamy Pisces will allow you to take the lead and your differences complement one another, while Cancer’s utter devotion will keep your jealous streak at bay

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Taurus. You and Taurus actually have a great deal in common when it comes to the way you view relationships. Problem is, you’re also both extremely stubborn, which may make a relationship difficult

Sign to avoid: Gemini. They’re free-loving nature will infuriate you

 

Sagittarius Nov 22 – Dec 21 Adventurous/Flirty

 

Element: Fire

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Thighs

Lucky Color: Purple

What You Bring To The Table: Your need to communicate honestly

Your Bad Love Habit: To say you have commitment issues is an understatement

Perfect Matches: Leo and Aquarius. Inventive Aquarius will compliment your adventurous spirit, especially since the two of you constant thrive for change. Leo is capable of stimulating you in and out of the sheets

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Gemini. You’ll love a Gemini’s fun-loving ways, but neither of you are grounded enough to sustain a long-term commitment to one another

Sign to avoid: Virgo. You’re prideful and Virgo’s too critical

 

Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 19 Wise/Moody

 

Element: Earth

Your Most Sensitive Body Part: Knees

Lucky Color: Black

What You Bring To The Table: You’re like a fine wine, your love gets stronger with age and experience

Your Bad Love Habit: To be selfless in love

Perfect Matches: Taurus and Virgo. Virgo and you are two peas in a pod when it comes to your outlooks on life. You both want an orderly household and crave success. Taurus, like you, put a high value on money and security, which will make you feel safe

Your Opposite Sign (because opposites attract): Cancer. Cancers long for a secure life, but your aloof nature may not suit their emotional needs

Sign to avoid: Leo. They’re too much of divas for your taste

Dating over the phone

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One of the biggest mistakes a person can make before entering a phone chat with another person is that they come unprepared. That’s why we’ve come up with our best tips to get you through a phone chat unscathed and happy! Check ’em out below. Read More

Best Holiday gifts for 2015

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Ack! and the rush is on. It is hard to find the peace on earth feeling when things in our current holiday social mood are so superficial. It’s seems it’s not a great holiday season without the latest gadget that racks up our credit card debt. Fear not, here are the top gifts for men and women this year that won’t break the bank. If an engagement ring is either on your buy or want list, think again. Christmas is not the best time to propose.  Keep proposals a separate and special moment. If the woman in your life is, or you yourself are, expecting a ring, don’t do it. It puts a lot of pressure on the asker and sets the’ askee’ up for disappointment. Be sure not to ask or imply that this Christmas is the time for engagement, leave that up to the asker and hen you have TWO special occasions to celebrate every year!

 

Top gifts for men

Riding shotgun in a stock car

$130 at cloud9living.com

What guy wouldn’t be THRILLED with this thoughtful, unique, exciting and yes, economical (but he doesn’t have to know that!) gift.

 

Beer of the month club

12 bottles of premium beer deliverd to his door every month! A real treat for the beer lover in your life, good for Dads too!

Only $110. At Amazingclubs.com

 

Universal Charging station

 

Is he always looking for his device charging cables? Well the search is over with this cool power station (not the Robert Palmer one!)  that charges everything all at once. Only $49.95 at

Thegrommet.com

 

The Cardsharp Credit Card sized folding knofe

Works great, super handy, super ‘gadgety’ just like he loves

Only $19.99 at vat19.com

 

And the most popular toy this season is definitely the Drone

Buy a cool Quadcopter drone with HD camera for only $64.99 at amazon.com

And go sightseeing from any cozy corner you want to hang out in.

 

 

 

 

And for Her

 

If your woman is anything like me she is always losing her phone. Wha t could be cooler and more appreciated than the Bluetooth Tracking tag?

Simply attach to your keychain and track down your phone, wherever it is hiding. Only $40 at uncommongoods.com

 

Buy her the moon…

…Or at least a piece of it with moon land for sale.  Buy an acre of the moon just for her and someday you can fly her there!

Only $29.99 at LunarLand.com

 

Or if she’s the star of your world

Name a star after her for $19.99 also at LunarLand.com

 

Which brings us to; Twinkle Toes

I love these! Adorable comfort moccasins with a smattering of sequins for the star that she is!

$19.97 at landsend.com

 

And very much sought after this year…

The DKNY Soho Watch

Very simple yet elegant, this watch goes wioth everything, so she will take YOU everywhere!

$115 at Nordstrom.com

 

Happy holidays and all the best of life and love this festive season!

Keeping it Real

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Well Halloween is over and now we have the way-too-soon Christmas season upon us. If you are like most of us it’s, well, way too soon. I always think of November as my contemplative month. I do a lot of soul-searching and review the past year and plan for the winter, the holidays and the coming new year.  Read More

3 Fun Halloween couple costumes for film lovers!

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Well it’s this Saturday! Yes the sacred and profane, the sugary sweet and sometimes sexy un-Holi-day that we’ve been waiting for all year; All Hallows Even’!

I won’t bore you with the long-winded explanation of the ‘horror-gins’ of the day, let’s just get into the fun part; dressing up in costumes! (now I am singing Games without frontiers all day!)

One of my favourite things to do on Halloween is to watch scary movies. It got me thinking about some cool, crazy, fun or creepy couples from the movies. Not even necessarily just the scary ones. So here are my picks for obscure, sexy, silly, or just plain weird costumes! Read More

How To Ask If Your Relationship Is Exclusive

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One of the toughest parts of dating is this talk. Figuring out if it’s a Ross and Rachel or a Ted Mosby relationship (before the mother) gets increasingly difficult as time goes on. In your early 20s it’s an “oh well” and move on situation. As the twilight years approach it is more of a “please let this work” moment. Here’s how to tell and how to ask. Read More

5 TV Shows He Doesn’t Want To Watch With You and Why

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With so many shows to choose from these days it is really hard to say there is nothing to watch. Hulu, Netflix and Shomi are just a few of the paid TV subscription services that target their audience and know very well what the viewership wants. There still exist however, a bulk list of shows that no man would sit through if he didn’t have a girlfriend. Here’s some programming that should come with a “prepare to leave the room” warning before turning on. Read More