10 Tuesday Dec 2019
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this morning I let the alarm go off and let it play the whole song as I considered that I will only need it for two more days…
I might have to get up early in the future, but not for work;-)…
usually I wake up before the alarm rings, so I don’t often have to turn it off…
two more days… hard to believe I have made it to this place… it is exciting and a bit scary…
going to start with lots of rest, relaxation, and maybe even some reading…
09 Monday Dec 2019
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counting down these last few working days…
today I wrote procedures, did a bit of training, tidied files, and boxed up a number of my plants…
clearly I should have moved the plants last week when it was around zero… today is was -27…
it looks like they made it okay… I’ve emptied the box and tomorrow I will bring home the remaining plants;-)…
and then we will see…
08 Sunday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, Christmas movies, family, food, gingerbread, groceries, health, meals, moments, packed, shopping, widow
had the most wonderful quiet day today… I am particularly happy about this as I anticipate that the next four days are going to be packed…
wrote a few cards to pop into the mail, made chili and spaghetti with meat sauce, and put away the last few groceries from yesterday’s shopping trip…
the chili came out great… I added some hamburger and onion to the basics… delicious…
missed having the boys for dinner, but they were busy… we are planning to make a gingerbread house next time they are over…
packaged up some meals to share and for the coming week…
had a number of phone calls and enjoyed a few Christmas movies as well…
nice;-)…
07 Saturday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, board, bouquet, camera, flowers, happy, moments, pictures, presented, relaxing, vase, widow
last Friday I was presented with a lovely bouquet of flowers by our Board…
I have been taking pictures of them ever since… so happy to have my camera back to do so…
today I trimmed the stems and put the flowers into a different vase…
flowers make me happy and taking pictures of them is very relaxing…
06 Friday Dec 2019
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yesterday there was fresh fluffy snow covering the ground… it also dusted the wreath at the front door…
the sidewalk always looks so beautiful under a fresh snowfall… more so if you don’t need to walk out there…
this morning the icicles were shining in the sunlight as I left the house and then a bit later I spotted this deer as I was out and about…
the sun shining all day was a wonderful bonus;-)…
05 Thursday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, memories, moments, photos, Technology, transportation, widow
transportation…
on our way into work yesterday caught this photo of a plane coming in to land… headed right towards us…
and on our way home we got to see a bendy bus…
coming and going, lol…
04 Wednesday Dec 2019
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71, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, memories, moments, photos, remembering, treat, widow
woke up this morning thinking of my beloved… he’s been gone for seven and a half years, and I miss him every day…
I try not to use the same photos in more than one medium, but this is one of my favourites, so I am sharing it broadly…
he would have been 71… in his honour I made bacon and eggs over easy for breakfast, lol…
put on a purple plaid shirt and jeans… he was always in jeans and had a favourite plaid shirt that he often wore…
after a busy day, my grandson met me at work, we ran a few errands and had dinner out…
ended our meal with apple crisp and ice cream… my beloved made the best apple pie;-)…
lovely day filled with happy memories…
03 Tuesday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, giggle, memories, nametags, Technology, widow
I’ve been having a bit of a giggle thinking about nametags…
when I started in my position, one of the most difficult things I had to do was figure out how to make nametags for events and I thought it was going to make me go out of my mind…
I can still remember walking back and forth to the printer again and again in an effort to get them done correctly…
last week I made my last set of nametags… the funny thing is they gave me about as much trouble as those first sets of nametags did…
for many years I haven’t had any trouble with nametags at all, so that made it even funnier as I thought about it…
there is always something that catches you up, lol…
02 Monday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, journey, retirement, started, widow, WordPress
yesterday WordPress sent me a note marking seven years since I started blogging…
time has flown past…
and dragged slowly…
this was the first blog I wrote…
since then I have posted 2,573 times and had 25,300+ views…
wow…
my life has changed in so many ways, big and small…
the next event will take place a week Thursday, when I leave the not-for-profit organization where I have worked for ten plus years… retirement… a big step on the journey…
01 Sunday Dec 2019
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went to the Outlet Mall with my grandson… had savoury crepes for lunch… very tasty, but a little messy to eat, lol…
from there we visited quite a few shoe stores before he found just the right pair…
then we spent some time in the Calvin Klein store… the shopping didn’t take long, prices were great, but the line-up to pay was rather tedious…
there were lots of beautiful decorations wherever we walked…
always great to spend time with this kind young man…
