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WE ARE NOW PRE-LEASING ZENITH MERIDIAN APARTMENTS

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We are so excited to announce that we are now pre-leasing our newest community, Zenith Meridian Apartments in Englewood Colorado.

Zenith Meridian will be Shea's first apartment community in Colorado and it is centrally located in the Meridian International Business Center. We have paid a lot attention to the details in Zenith Meridian, the interior spaces of Zenith Apartments are well-designed and beautifully decorated, bright, spacious, and offer outstanding views of the Rocky Mountains - it is apartment living at its finest! Sophisticated. Stunning. Spectacular. Zenith Apartments is 100% smoke-free and the most exciting new community in South Denver - check it out today and let us know what you think!

Contact our leasing team to learn more about this awesome community - (855) 434-6929

WOODBRIGE APARTMENTS EASTER EGG HUNT 2012

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Woodbridge Apartments would like to thank everyone who came out to the Easter egg hunt this Saturday, we had so much fun and we hope you did too!

We look forward to more awesome events! Let us know if you have any great event ideas that you would like too see happen at Woodbridge Apartments in Irvine.

HAPPY EASTER FROM SHEA APARTMENT COMMUNITIES

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Shea Apartment Communities would like to wish our residents, their families and friends and Happy Easter. We hope you have a fun and relaxing day!

How do you celebrate Easter Sunday?

CREATIVE EASTER EGG STUFFERS & FUN EASTER EGG HUNTS

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Easter is just a couple of days away and that means it is Easter basket and Easter egg hunt prep time. If you are looking for new and exciting idea to fill your Easter eggs without overdoing it on the candy, you are in luck. Here are some great Easter egg stuffers that will excite the kiddies without getting them all hyped-up on sugar.

EASTER EGG STUFFERS

1. $$$
2. Stickers
3. A healthy snack - trail mix, cereal
4. Gift Certificates
5. Play doh
6. Stick-on tattoos
7. Easter socks
8. Race cards
9. Gum
10. Hair clips (for girls)
11. Marbles
12. Jewelry
13. Get out of chore coupons
14. Grow capsules – kids love these. (These are little capsules that when you throw in water they expand into animals, etc.) 
15. Sea shells
16. Bubbles
17. Army Men
18. Rubber stamps
19. Mini nail polish
20. Chap stick

And if the traditional Easter egg hunt is a snore, spice it up this year with a fun new idea!

EASTER EGG HUNT IDEAS

1. Scavenger Hunt. Instead of letting the Easter Bunny deliver the Easter baskets this year, make your kids work for them. Have your kids wake up to find an egg with a clue that takes them to the next egg until they reach their Easter basket.
2. Puzzles. Make your Easter egg hunt a family affair. Fill Easter eggs with individual puzzle pieces (a small puzzle) and color code each puzzle. Then give each family member an egg color that they must hunt. When the Easter egg hunt begins, each member must hunt for their Easter egg color and put their puzzle together. Whoever finishes their puzzle first wins an Easter prize.
3. Pictures. This is a spin-off of the puzzle Easter egg hunt. Instead of using a puzzle, print out fun pictures and cut them into different shapes. Then give each person a color of Easter eggs they have to find. Each participant of the hunt must put the picture together, first person to solve the picture and shout out what the picture is wins.
4. Find the person. Hide Easter eggs with all the adults names that are at the Easter egg hunt. When the kiddies find an egg they must go find the person who’s name is in the Easter egg. The person can either give them a gift or tell them a clue; to make it interesting mix it up between the two. Not only does this make it fun for the kids, the adults will enjoy this hunt too.

Do you have any Easter traditions?

VINEGAR - 4 USES IT TO TIDY UP YOUR APARTMENT

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Vinegar, it smells a little sour but can be used for so many things, to eat, to drink and to clean your apartment. You can now stay away from expensive cleaning products, vinegar works just as good. Not only will you save money, you will have a clean and sparkly apartment - all you have to do its crack open a bottle of vinegar, pour it in some water and you are ready to start cleaning.

1. Mop those dirt floors. Splash vinegar into a bucket of water, dip your mop and get scrubbing. Don’t worry about the vinegar smell, this goes away quickly! To add a heavenly scent, put a couple drops of your favorite essential oil.
2. Fabric softener. Throw some vinegar in the wash while your clothes are on the rinse cycle, when your wash is complete put your clothes in the dryer - your clothes will come out of the dry softer and fluffier than ever!
3. Clean your microwave. Do you have stains that are tough to fight? Microwave a bowl of vinegar to loosen up the grime and just wipe goo away. It usually takes 5 minutes in the microwave to loosen up the grime then let the vinegar condensation sit for an additional three minutes.
4. Remove tea stains. Place your stained tea and coffee mugs in a sink filled with hot water, add a splash of vinegar and some dish soap. Soak for twenty minutes to an hour (depending on the stains) and then rinse.

What do you use vinegar for?

A FREEBIE AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE TO CELEBRATE SPRING – TODAY ONLY!

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Not only is it the first day of spring... It gets even better! Today and today only Outback Steakhouse will be giving away free Bloomin’ Onions – Why?! To celebrate spring of course! All you have to do is mention the code word “Bloom into spring” to your server and the FREEBIE is yours!

Locations by our Shea Apartment Communities:

Apartments in Orange County

• Laguna Hills at 25322 Cabot Road, or call (949) 829-0683
• Irvine at 15433 Culver Drive, or call (949) 651-8760
• Costa Mesa at 1670 Newport Blvd., or call (949) 631-8377

Apartments in Fremont

• Fremont at 5525 Stevenson Blvd., or call (510) 252-1595

Apartments in Dublin

• 6505 Regional Street, or call (925) 833-9335

What’s your favorite thing about spring?

GET FREE FRIES AT BURGER KING THIS ST. PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND

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First off, HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! Now let’s get to the good stuff…

Burger King is sharing the luck of the Irish with all of their customers today and tomorrow. You can have it your way and get a FREE “pot” of fries with a side of green dipping sauce – woohoo! Don’t you just love free things?! The green dipping sauce is Irish ketchup aka Heinz dyed green, it tastes the same and the red stuff so there is nothing to fear. BK is just getting in the Irish spirit and we thank them for that. Hey, you don’t have to wear green or be Irish to feel lucky this weekend.

Just in case you are worried about calories and all the bad stuff that comes with fries, I have some good news. Burger Kings new fries, which were released last year, are only 240 calories per serving and are cooked in trans-fat-free-vegetable oil. The fries also have 20% lower sodium than the previous fries. Know I’m not saying fries are the healthiest of choices but it is hard to resist such a delicious creation, especially when they are free and come with green ketchup!

Shea Apartment Communities would like to wish everyone a safe and Happy St. Patrick's Day - Keep Calm and Pinch On.

Please remember to drink responsibly.

Are you going to head to BK to get some free fries and green ketchup?

ST. PATRICKS DAY DRINKING & EATING AROUND ORANGE COUNTY

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Throw on some green to keep the pinchers away and head down to your favorite pub to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this weekend. It’s the best day to celebrate all things Irish – the Irish jig, the Irish food and of course the Irish beer! This year you can relax and have some fun because St. Patrick’s Day is on a Saturday – yeah! Make sure to get to your favorite bar early because they tend to fill-up fast since this is one of the most popular drinking days of the year.

Here are some local St. Patrick’s Day celebrations around Shea Apartment Communities’ Orange County Apartments.

Hennessey’s Tavern, Dana Point & Laguna Beach. Hennessey’s is a great place for our Dana Point apartment and Laguna Beach apartment residents to partake in the Irish celebration. Start your morning off right with an Irish breakfast – a Guinness! Choose food from a traditional Irish menu of corned beef and hash, corned beef sandwiches and corned beef and cabbage plates. If you do not fancy Irish food, not to worry, Hennessey’s menu also has a selection of American food to keep you strong all day long. Specialty drinks will be served at the bar and you can dance the day away to the Irish bagpipers. If you want to take something home to remember your 2012 St. Patrick’s Day, Hennessey’s will have T-shirts, tanks and cups for sale.

Silky Sullivan’, Fountain Valley. If you’re really in the St. Patrick’s Day mood, our Fountain Valley apartment residents should enjoy the THREE DAY celebration that Silky Sullivan’s will be throwing. At Silky Sullivan’s you can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day from March 15 – 17, now that’s a party! This authentic Irish bar will have live entertainment and a special Irish menu complete with green beer.

Stadium Brewing Company. This is the perfect spot for our residents that live at City Lights Apartments in Aliso Viejo. Why?! First, residents can walk to it and second, this bar knows how to party. All the servers will be wearing fun costumes, a classic rock band will be performing live from 9:00PM until closing, playing a few Irish tunes of course. To top it off they have awesome Irish specials all day – drinks: 22 oz. green beers $8.00, Irish whiskey $5.00; food: corned beef and cabbage, Ruben sandwiches and shamrock corned beef and bratwurst stew.

Where are going to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?

HOW TO MAKE GREEN BEER IN 5 SECONDS

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In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day we are going to talk about all things green this week and what better way to kick it off then to make green beer. Not only is it super easy but it only takes about 5 seconds – plus it is a must for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

1. Purchase the beer. Purchase a light colored beer or ale. You can use a dark beer green but you will have to put so much food coloring in that your teeth will turn green when you drink it. If you are really festive then a dark beer might be right up your ally but for most people this is something they would like to avoid.
2. Pour beer. Poor half your beer into a glass or mug – simple enough!
3. Add the green. Place 4-6 drops of green food coloring into the beer.
4. Poor beer. Poor the rest of your beer into the glass or mug. This should mix the food coloring, stir lightly if needed.
5. Enjoy and repeat as needed. For some reason green beer just taste so much beer, I’m not sure if it’s because we only drink it on St. Patrick’s Day but for any reason ENJOY!  

Do you have any other tricks to make your beer festive on St. Patrick’s Day? 

FIVE AWESOME THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH AN ONION

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Onions can make you cry when cutting them, spice up a dish when adding them and be useful around your apartment when using them – ONIONS… Not just for the kitchen anymore! Here are five awesome things you can do with a store bought onion.

1. Eliminate new paint smell. You love the fab new paint color on your apartment walls but not the scent that comes with it! When new paint odor gets too hard to bear cut open several, fresh onions and place them in a bowl filled with a little bit of water. In a couple of hours the paint smell will disappear.
2. Rust be gone. Are your cutting knives looking rusty?! Forget about cleaning chemicals and remove the rust all-naturel. Grab an onion and stab your rusty knives into it a couple of times (a really rusty one may require a bit more stabbing), making sure the rust on the knife touches the onion. Hey this may even help you relieve some stress – two birds with one stone.
3. Relieve a bee sting. When you get into a battle with a bee and the bee wins, grab a cut onion and place it over your sting to relieve the throbbing pain.  Please remember that if you are allergic to bees seek medical attention.
4. Correct your pets ‘mistakes’. We all love our furry little friends but sometimes they can wreak havoc around your apartment – chewing, tearing or soiling. If you live in a pet-friendly apartment at a Shea Apartment Community and want to nip your little fur balls mischievous ways in the butt, leave several onions where they like to cause trouble. They do not care for the beautiful scent of an onion and will not return to the scene of their crime.
5. Repel bugs. If your flowers and/or garden are getting attacked by bugs and animals, whip-up a batch of environmentally-friendly insecticide to keep them away. In a blender, puree 4 onions, 2 cloves garlic, 2 tablespoons cayenne pepper, and 1 quart water. Set the mixture aside. Now dilute 2 tablespoons soap flakes in 2 gallons water. Pour all the contents of in a blender, shake and start spraying.

Do you have any other uses for an onion?