Tips and Tricks

Before I even begin, let me say that there are a lot of great places to go and party this St. Patrick's Day and if you know of a great place I missed, please put it in the comments. I am merely listing some of the great Irish-owned or themed places that that I have enjoyed over the years or that friends have recommended to me (I took a poll of my Facebook friends). With that said, let's get ready

If you missed the show today, we talked about this list and we were all both amazed by some of the thing on the list and oh so happy to hear that these things can actually help us shed a few pounds this New Years. You may know a couple of these already but I know at least two of them totally shocked and made me very happy.

You and I do it every year. We make a New Year's Resolution. Sometimes we keep them, most of the time we don't. But it's always worth a shot to better ourselves in the coming year, and hey, ya never know when one will stick! So what is the secret to meeting your New Year's goal?

This past Thursday we had "The Beer Guy" come into the studio to introduce us to some great "holiday" beers. It was fun and the beer was great but unfortunately he left us and took his cooler with ice with him! Party fail. So there we were with an entire case of beer but it was warm.That is when I remembered seeing this "beer hack" that is supposed to get warm beer co

So I am getting excited about our upcoming event Electric City On Tap this Saturday at the Schenectady Armory, but more about that in a minute. First I have to share this cool video I found with 21 different hacks you can use to open a beer bottle when you don't have an opener nearby.

Don't start in with the sexism, now.  I know.. I said "guys", but let's face it - it probably WOULD be a guy who would sneakily (while his wife wasn't home) pace his prized Craftsman wrench in the dishwasher to get the grease off of it.  Talk about arguments?  I can hear them right now.  But according to CNET.com, you shouldn't feel guilty.

I can't remember the last time that I got an entire night of uninterrupted sleep. It's definitely been more than a year and these days, it's not because of being in my third trimester of pregnancy and miserable, but because of my adorable little boy who randomly wakes up through the night, laughing every 15 minutes or so.

This is something that was a long time coming, in my mind.  Have you ever seen someone's post and then gone looking for it later?  Impossible.  Until now…

I haven't been this excited for Halloween since I was a little girl. I grew up in Scotia and wish I could say that my costumes were super cool, but I was obsessed with ballet, so I was a perpetual ballerina. So if you remember a little girl showing up for candy at your house, wearing the same costume every year, that was probably me.

So I came across this video claiming to have an easy way to peel potatoes and I have to say I was astonished. I don't know if I'm more astonished that it is really so easy or that I have never heard of this technique before. If you have I apologize for wasting your time but if you have never seen this before you may love after seeing this...

What a class!  What a school!  What a teacher! What a great time! (I get excited when it goes as well as it did during my visit to Mrs. Brooks' class.)

I don't know about you, but wow - I've had a rough week. And today I'm already having a bad day.  How do you turn things around?