June is National Iced Tea Month and summer is here, so what a better way to start off right than with some fun facts about iced tea, courtesy of Honest Tea:

As of June 1^st iced tea is 106 years-old

Studies show that drinking tea is a good way to build strong bones – that is what an hgh spray also claims!

Despite its many variations and flavors, all tea comes from the same plant

Honest Tea Half & Half offers a healthy way to satisfy summer thirst with USDA certified organic and Fair Trade certified tea with slightly sweetened lemonade and is only 48 calories per 8-oz serving.

About 85 percent of the tea served in the United States is iced tea.

According to the Tea Association of the USA, Inc., tea is nearly 5,000 years old. It was discovered in 2737.

I remember how in the days of old, when people belonging to the upper class had formal dinners, it was customary for women to go together outside the dining room into a salon to be among themselves and talk, while men stayed or transferred to an adjoining room to enjoy stronger wine or liquor and Acid cigars.

There are people who convert an entire room to store their cigars, because cigars need to be kept at a specific temperature to maintain its humidity and taste. These are men who keep cigars like a collection. For people who only keep and maintain a few cigars, a cigar humidor will do. A humidor is a box that keep cigars moist. Cigars mature like wines do. The longer they are kept in a controlled environment, the better they taste. Keep the humidor at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. All humidors have humidifiers. To maintain the right humidity inside the humidor, all you need to do is to squirt distilled water or humidifier solution (propylene glycol and distilled water) into the box every now and then.

CAO cigars are touted to be the best cigars, as they have their own quality standards for rating cigars. I am sure it is one of the types of cigars many would like to try.

It’s the first day of June and I only have six more months to make sure I lose weight or I lose my bet with the husband. I am getting back on track with a regular exercise routing and a strict diet. I warmed up by trying to get back to my physical activity last weekend and the only thing I am really battling with is portion control of food. Would Lipovox help me in losing weight? Let’s see first if I can do this the hard way.

It’s the first day of June and rainy season looks like it has arrived. I am sure it is also the start of flu season so it is imperative that all of us in the family take our vitamins. We also need to schedule the kids for their flu shots before school officially starts. I also need to start drinking vitamins too. Lately, I notice I get tired easily and my mom said I look pale. Even if I am big, it doesn’t mean I am as strong as I look.

An automotive insurance company will invariably find out and examine your driving record and credit report before it makes any transaction with you. It will determine your rates based on its findings. There is almost no driving related fact that you can hide from them, so it is better to come clean at the outset. Therefore, before you purchase insurance you need to gather all the information you can about your driving record and your credit history.

Your driving record for the past ten years should be enough because insurance companies usually do not bother to look further than that. How far back they will look varies from company to company. What they are interested in is the number of tickets and accidents, if any, that show on your driving record. Find out which insurance company will look at the record of the least number of years in your past. This is important in cases where the driving record shows improvement in driving over time. You may have been a not-so-good driver eight or nine years back but have improved over the last two or three years. So you would want your insurance company to consider the records of the last two or three years only.

Insurance companies also look at your credit reports, which can be easily obtained from an agency that reports credit information. Therefore, it is important to have a clean credit history. If you are thinking about terminating your existing credit policy (in case you have one), it is best that you do it following the proper official procedure. Terminating a policy by not paying your bill at the end of a term is inadvisable. This is because the insurance company marks you as a defaulter and mentions it in your credit report, which negatively affects the possibility of your getting insurance from other companies in the future.

That’s my three favorite things when I enjoy a day in the beach. It’s too bad I am not there right now. The kids are asking for another summer trip before school starts and we are thinking we can give in to their request but we need to go nearby. It would not be a problem if we own a house by the beach, like the houses featured along Tamarindo. It  is a small, peaceful beach town on the Pacific side of Costa Rica. And it’s one of the hottest real estate markets in the world right now. Hundreds of condos and homes are being developed in this once secret paradise, but don’t worry about overcrowding. The locals have kept closely adhered to conservation standards that maintain the natural beauty of the location. Tamarindo Real Estate must be booming with clients and sales.

Oh well, maybe I can just have my mango shake right now.

People should always treat their cars like their kids – they need to be clean all the time, inside and out. That’s why cars need to maintained in the car repair shop for oil change, brake checking, car wash and more every now and then. They also need to be insured, for your safety and peace and mind. You can say, cars can be as expensive as taking care of one of your children.

Even spills and stains on car floor mats need to be removed. A plastic spatula makes a great scraper for hard to remove stains. You should also use the gentlest solution for the stain removal. Let this solution of soap and water sit for about fifteen minutes and then wipe it away with a damp sponge. Use a solvent cleaner for greasy stains such as lipstick, crayons, shoe polish, etc.