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diet…

16 Monday Feb 2015

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this afternoon I spent an hour and a half with the dietician that we saw about six or seven years ago just after George was diagnosed with heart problems…

she had been very helpful then and she was equally as helpful today…

I have been researching and consulting with all kinds of people for the last three months as I have moved into this diabetic aspect of my journey…

I had questions and wanted her take on some of the information I have collected…

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got lots of answers and up-to-date information… now I have to make a few changes to what I am eating… will start eating more fruit and need to include grains and starches in my diet…

but, on the whole, I’ve been doing a great job… yay me:-)…

and next time I see her I hope to do it at a CancerCare appointment…

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achy…

15 Sunday Feb 2015

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not feeling well today… every part of my body is aching… yesterday my neck and shoulders were sore, but today everything hurts…

went out and got groceries and had a nap after everything was put away… didn’t help…

know I’m sick because I had to tidy up the bedroom before climbing into bed… when I feel miserable I always want the bedroom to be organized… luckily it only took a few minutes…

picked up daffodils while I was out and have some of them in the bedroom to help perk up the space…

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the sun was shining on them for a portion of the afternoon…

thinking I will go straight to bed after supper and maybe get up around ten or eleven and go out for a hot tub… then back to bed…

this is how the hot tub looked yesterday when I was adding chemicals… it has been very cold but was lovely when I went out last night…

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hard day…

14 Saturday Feb 2015

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hard day… been on the verge of tears for much of it…

George was very romantic… he always brought me flowers and chocolate on Valentine’s day…

I’ve been thinking back to our last Valentine’s Day… he had picked up a purple jacket that I’d seen at Rona and had been coveting… a single rose, cinnamon heart candies and a mushy card finished up the gift… it was a work day and he had it all organized in the kitchen when I came downstairs…

I keep thinking it will get easier, but not so much today…

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for the last two years I have sent flowers to the girls because he always made sure they had a rose that day… last year I cried throughout the whole ordering process… this year I didn’t have any problem making the calls… guess that’s good, lol…

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had a quiet day… did a few chores around the house and watched a number of PVRed shows…

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had a lovely chocolate strawberry with a cup of tea this afternoon as a treat…

made it through the day and looking forward to a more positive frame of mind tomorrow…

some days those big girl pants are painful…

lighter…

13 Friday Feb 2015

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this morning as I was waiting for my ride I took this picture out the front door…

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the sky was much brighter much earlier… very nice…

for a good portion of the day the sun shone through various offices…

tonight when I got home it was light and bright… it was hard to see the TV as the sun streamed through the window…

it is so exciting to see the light lasting longer every day…

installation…

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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the art installation is complete… it was finished on Saturday… we got the last of the twenty-nine framed waterlily photos up… and when I say we, I mean my friend, while I passed the odd thing to her…

she did an amazing job… not only are the pictures even and square, there are stickies in the bottom corners so they stay level, lol…

when I described a wall of water lilies she was thinking it might be a bit, shall we say, boring… now that it is all finished she agrees it was the right choice for me… I love water and the lily flowers too…

every time I walk down the stairs, I see something different…

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this one reminds me of a walk through the Leo Mol garden with George in the summer of 2011… the ducks were a complete surprise in the pond… had never seen them before or since…

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this one brought back my time at the Butchart Gardens in Victoria with my kids, just before they moved from Vancouver Island… we had been on the cruise to Alaska, and spent time in Seattle… finished off with a wonderful day in the Gardens and had tea at The Empress… so many memories…

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this one was taken in October of 2011 when we spent ages sitting on a bench admiring the pond… might have been one of our last walks in the Park…

last night my daughter gave the installation her stamp of approval… phew…

wonderful to have these different memories as I move up or down the stairs…

beauty…

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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the steps were covered with snow as I waited for my ride this morning… I do love the clean look after a fresh snowfall…

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when we arrived at the office I had to go out and take some pictures of the snow on the trees, they were so beautiful…

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after work my shoveler arrived and did a great job getting rid of the piles of snow… he did need to take a few breaks to warm up his fingers…

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then off we went with his mom to have supper at Moxies and pick up a game… they dropped me at home and headed to their place…

there is so much beauty around us and often we don’t even see it…

look around and take a moment to enjoy what you are seeing…

snow…

10 Tuesday Feb 2015

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this morning there was a light dusting of snow on the ground… made me take this picture of one of the cute cushions I purchased this year…

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throughout the day whenever I looked outside it was snowing…

when it was time to leave the office there was lots of snow to shovel off the car… the temperature was quite warm and the roads were very sloppy…

we stopped at the grocery store and picked up a few staples which was great because I hadn’t shopped on the weekend and had run out of veggies…

it is beautiful out… the world is white… it isn’t snowing right now but there is supposed to be more overnight…

only yesterday we had been talking about the amazing quiet after a snowfall… looking forward to that quiet when I get up in the morning…

depths…

09 Monday Feb 2015

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what a wonderful re-energizing evening with my ReImagining friends…

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had chicken pot pie from Costco and it was delicious… with broccoli salad and Greek salad… topped it off with a small piece of lovely light cheesecake for dessert…

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then a great conversation about the goodness in the depths of the darkness of winter…

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exhausted when I got there, but filled with peace and contentment when I left…

once home had a lovely hot tub to top off the evening…

fabulous way to start the week…

six…

08 Sunday Feb 2015

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spent a good portion of the morning looking through photos from six years ago when my youngest grandson was born…

it was bittersweet, because right at that time I was going through a very difficult situation with work…

that day we spent a number of hours waiting at the hospital before things began to move along…

I remember George coming right from the end of his shift and just being in time to hold the baby after he was born…

and here we are six years later and celebrating this special day…

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life is very different…
new job I’ve been working at for over five years…
a widow for nearly three years…
cancer survivor…
living with diabetes…

every day I am reminded how important it is to enjoy every moment because we have no idea what tomorrow might bring…

comfortable…

07 Saturday Feb 2015

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this morning I put a few extra layers on and walked over to the “A” to meet a friend for breakfast…

they have a great inexpensive breakfast special which George and I would often have on the weekend… I’d walk and he would meet me there after driving the car over… he had trouble walking so it usually worked well… we’d often take a drive after breakfast… sometimes when it was nice out and he was feeling good we would walk over together….

whenever we walked anywhere we always held hands… when the girls were younger they thought it was embarrassing, but as they got older they thought it was cute, lol…

my usual breakfast is softly poached eggs, which I have on a piece of the rye toast, and bacon… of course these days I shouldn’t have the bacon but it was a bit of a treat this morning… final treat was half a slice of remaining toast with a tiny bit of strawberry jam…

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sitting there waiting for my friend reminded me of the day I had breakfast there all by myself… it was only the second time in my life that I ate on my own in a restaurant… even though I felt like everyone was watching me it also felt comfortable because we had been there so many times…

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when I walked through the doors at the hotel I had to take a picture of the worn handle… it makes me think of all the people who have opened the door over the years… that seems comfortable too…