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Mark your calendar, gals! GIRLS NIGHT OUT is coming Tuesday, September 28 to the Village Country Club!

GIRLS NIGHT OUT is designed especially for our VILLAGE LADIES! If you’re a sassy, classy Village Lady, YOU are invited to an awesome evening of music, food, drinks and prizes along with cool stuff to see and buy and so much more!

Lincoln Charities will benefit from your $2 admission ticket at the door and you’ll benefit from a night out with your best girl buds. Bring a friend and have a blast at GIRLS NIGHT OUT at the VCC the 28th.

Keep your eyes peeled for more details to come!

Sorry guys! It’s a NO testosterone zone!

Dear Thighs,

I have some concerns I’d like to bring to your attention. I’m sure if we work together, we can straighten everything out and get back to normal in no time.

I’ll start by saying that I’m perplexed at the decline in your relationship to one another. Lately, you’ve been rubbing each other the wrong way and encroaching on each others space. Is it boredom at work? I see you together watching a lot of TV, but is that truly QUALITY time spent? I know you both like to chill at The Village Swimming Pool … but I haven’t seen you actually swim laps in ages! You two used to love to swim and it gave you a healthy activity to share together. What’s happened?

I’ve noticed your routine at Health & Fitness Center has come to an end, which is troubling considering it’s open until 10 on weeknights and has all your favorite state-of-the-art equipment. Let me ask you this; When was the last time you went for a jog together on The Village Jogging Trails? Months? And what? No Tennis this year???

Maybe it’s this summer heat that has you feeling tired and listless and I understand that – but the reality is, you two are NOT the finely tuned machines you once were and I can really tell the difference.  Your inactivity is affecting your appearance and your ability to stay energized for a full day of work! Something has got to give!

In an effort to be helpful and point you in a healthier direction, I’ve taken it upon myself to gift you with something I think you’ll both like. It’s called, Top 10 Thigh Exercises and trust me, Ladies … if these exercises don’t get your relationship back on track, I truly don’t know what will. Everything you need can be found at the Fitness Center or just stay in the apartment if you would rather. What matters is that you work together to restore the balance and the right amount of personal space you once had in your relationship.

Listen, I lean on you both for support.  I’ll do everything in my power to help you be stronger and healthier as a couple.

Love always,

T

Enjoy this Autumn at the Dallas Arboretum during The Great Pumpkin Festival, September 18 – November 14!

The Arboretum features the one and the ONLY Pumpkin Village in the World! Venture through the village with real, walk-through houses made entirely out of pumpkins! Each house is built to represent a children’s story book and will charm you just like the fairy tales!

Throughout the fall season you’ll find so much to do at the Dallas Arboretum. Pick out your harvest pumpkin from among the thousands at The Tom Thumb Pumpkin Patch. Every day enjoy the Pumpkin Village, story times, the Hay Bale Maze and of course, the amazing blooming fall flowers.

Take advantage of Buy One Get One Wednesdays or visit during Mommy & Me Mondays or Tiny Tot Tuesdays. Your kids will love the petting zoo, face painting, arts and crafts and more, tailored especially for them.

Autumn at the Arboretum will be better than ever this year! Make your plans to visit today!

Save a date to visit Hector’s On Henderson during Restaurant Week 2010! August 13 & 14, 16-21, 23-28 and August 30 – September 4.

For every $35 Restaurant Week meal sold, participating restaurants are giving $7 to the the North Texas Food Bank and the Lena Pope Home. Restaurant Week raised over a whopping $430,000 last year providing meals for North Texans in need!

Hector’s On Henderson’s Chef Jorge Cruz is preparing for the event with his finest dishes for your pleasure. Add $7 per glass and enjoy three wine pairings.

Located only minutes away at 2929 N. Henderson, make your reservations today! 214.821.0432

Are you totally TICKED OFF? Are you BENT OUT OF SHAPE, P.Od or downright red-faced ANGRY?! Then it’s time to give ANGER MANAGEMENT THE BOOT at the annual FIGHT NIGHT 2010 at The Village Country Club!

Let’s face it, sometimes the only therapy you need is to punch someone’s lights out! If you’re mad at your bone-headed EX, if your boss is such a jerk you can hardly stand it or if you’re mad as a hornet with your freaky roommate, then EMAIL your gripes TODAY to p1@theticket.com and get ready to come out swingin’!

The rules are:
Fighters must be between the ages of 18 and 35 (no exceptions)

Fighters must be within 10 lbs of the opponent

You have until AUGUST 26TH to get REALLY CHAPPED!

WHEN: August 26, beginning at 5pm

WHERE: The Village Country Club. Park at the Dallas Children’s Theater for free and take the P1 Shuttle

COST: No cover for Village Residents

MORE INFO: Theticket.com

Do you love a good CREEPY movie? Don’t miss  THE CRAZIES playing at the VCC tomorrow, August 4th!

Squirm and cover your eyes, the CRAZIES is creepy! A plane crash leaves a town with a soiled water supply but it’s worse than just tainted water. Whatever is in there is making people CRAZY …. literally! Make your way over to the Village Country Club before 8 (when the movie starts), snag yourself a Longneck and a burger and settle in for one crazy ride.  There’s no cover charge … just go on down and get creeped out!

Because I’m the quintessential tightwad, I enjoy telling you about ways to save your hard-earned dough. In a previous post titled, YOUR WALLET: Have a Squeaky CLEAN Apartment on a Budget,  I disclosed the joy and savings found in BAKING SODA. Tickled myself silly, I did … and why? Because using baking soda literally saves you pennies on the dollar and it cleans almost everything … much to the chagrin of  Mr. Clean.

Well, Baking Soda isn’t the only cheap and easy product that does as well (if not better) than the name brand stuff.   VINEGAR is another miracle worker than can  save oodles of cute little coins with president’s faces on them.

As a FABRIC SOFTENER, you’ll find vinegar does the trick. I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING.  Ew… el stinko.  But hear me out – this is good stuff!

Start with a jug of vinegar and add about 24(ish) drops of your favorite essential oil like Lavender.  Add more if you want and then use about a quarter cup of this concoction in the rinse cycle.  If you prefer a more pure approach, stick with the vinegar and add 1/8 cup of Baking Soda for a fresh, soft result.

If you just HATE the vinegar idea, (and I certainly understand your hesitation) that’s fine and dandy. No hard feelings. We can still hang out and do laundry together sometime.  But don’t give up on me … there are other ways to stretch your dollar by stretching your favorite name brand fabric softener.

Try soaking a wash cloth or a rag in full strength liquid softener. Then wring it out thoroughly and lay it flat to dry.  (Don’t skip that part – drying it keeps the rag from leaving stains on clean clothing.)  Once it’s nice and dried out, toss that puppy in the dryer like one of those over priced dryer sheets and see what happens.  Use it again and again – as many as 12+ times – before re-soaking and drying!  You’ll find this will stretch out your bottle of softener considerably leaving you with extra cash for much more exciting things!

There are lots of other ways to SAVE MONEY on FABRIC SOFTENERS.  How about YOU? Do you have any tips to share?

Kids will be the first to tell ya: Water PLUS dirt equals no end of thrilling fun! How else could a kid experience The Mudslides of Madness, the Quick-Sands of Death or the Raging Rivers of Revenge?

We’re parents. It’s our job to keep law and order. Therefore, we govern and direct our kids right into perfectly pristine play.  But what if our efforts to keep order and direct activities is actually COUNTER productive?

Award-winning childcare author, Dr. Michele Borba says,  “We’ve always known that kids and play are just a natural combo. But new research also shows that letting kids engage in self-directed play has immense value for their social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth.”

It’s a fact: When we allow self-directed play, the kids and the clothes are going to get dirty. They ARE. Sometimes, the clothes are going to get RUINED beyond what any stain remover can repair. So we have to decide. Are we willing to foster creativity and physical dexterity at the risk of some dirt?

Self-directed IS messy play … so we parents are just going to have to make a psychological adjustment on this one. Since the ONLY real negative to self-directed play is the possible dirt and mess, maybe it’s time to plan a trip 10 minutes up the street to Kid Swap Consignment.  If we arm our kids with gently used play clothes, they’ll be much freer to fight the dragons found in the Mud Mountains of Misery!

Go ahead … head out to Kid Swap Consignment and snag some expendable clothing!

Do you have what it takes to work at the zoo?

Right now, The Dallas Zoo is seeking qualified individuals who have experience with amphibians and reptiles, Aquariums, birds, mammals and small exotic or domestic animals. Do you have what it takes?

While the Aquarium is being renovated, new opportunities are popping up for exciting careers at the Zoo. Some positions require extensive experience while other positions are more flexible.  If you love the Zoo atmosphere, hard work and a great challenge, check out the Dallas Zoo job openings for your chance to work with the animals and pursue a wild and exciting career!

Dallas is home to a new taco hot-spot in its Lakewood neighborhood.

Good 2 Go Taco has been at its location off of North Buckner in Dallas, Texas for almost a year now after opening its new location on August 20th, 2009.

Run by two chefs, Colleen O’Hara and Jeana Johnson, Good 2 Go Taco offers their customers a different menu everyday. It just depends on what recipe Johnson has pop into her that day and the local agriculture available for her disposal.

The price is right at just $3.50 a piece serving breakfast and lunch Tuesday- Sunday. Breakfast is served from 7 am – noon and then the restaurant rolls right into lunch until 3 pm.

While they may not have an everyday menu, the chefs post the day’s fare on their Facebook page for those eaters that like to plan ahead.

Offering at least one vegetarian taco, Good 2 Go Taco has something for everybody.

Here are a few examples of what you might find on their chalkboard menu when you go in for breakfast or lunch:

Breakfast:

1. Chuckwagon- Beef chili, cornbread, sweet potato and eggs with cheddar cheese
2. Heck Raiser- Mexican Chorizo sausage, red pepper, onions, red beans, rice and eggs

Lunch:

1. Kirk Camarones- Sauteed shrimp, capers, tomato and rice
2. Chaaty Kathy- Braised chicken, lentils and quinoa
3. La Vaca Loca- Steakhouse fare in the palm of your hand-grilled flank steak, potato with poblano gratin.

You are just 10 minutes away from Good 2 Go Taco  …  so be good and GO!

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