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rainbows…

08 Sunday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, International Women's Day, rainbows, snow

what a beautiful day… the ground was covered with a tiny blanket of snow when I woke up… got this shot of the neighbour’s garage roof… the snow was glittering…



apparently somebody’s been running around on it… likely one of the neighbourhood squirrels…

because I did all my running around yesterday got to have a relaxing day…

spent time thinking of all the amazing women I have met and learned about over the years on this International Women’s Day…

the sun shone into the bedroom so beautifully that I had to take a few pictures…



of course I had to tidy before taking the pictures, lol… you can see some of the rainbows from the crystals if you look closely…



I love laying in the sunlight…

had supper all prepped and ready well before the kids arrived… the biggest boys spent some time with the fish and I am hopeful the tank will be clear by tomorrow… 

the sidewalks and driveway were cleared…

the chemicals finally made it into the tub, kitchen is tidy and I have walked for half an hour on the treadmill…

gonna watch tv and have a hot tub soon…



Jane’s…

06 Friday Mar 2015

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flowers, friends, Jane's, lunch

had a lovely lunch at Jane’s… met a great friend and we had a wonderful time… lots of laughter and sharing of stories… always enjoy our time together…

the space is bright and open and the ceilings are very high… the staff were so cute and worked very hard to make sure we had a great experience… it is staffed with culinary school students…I had lamb shank with couscous, broccoli rabe, ribbons of carrot and zucchini,  with a pear salsa… yum… everything tasted very nice although I didn’t finish the couscous… I still haven’t had any that I’ve enjoyed…

brought home my flowers after work… trimmed the stems and rearranged them into two vases… one for upstairs…



and one for the living room… the vase they came in is very beautiful…



what a lovely way to end a long week…

warm…

05 Thursday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, flowers, gentle, healing, memories, slippers, warm

I’ve been wearing slippers for the last number of months because the kitchen floor is cold half way into the room from the sliding doors…

this is quite unusual as I rarely wear things on my feet… I wear sandals all year round at the office…

what I am missing is the heated floor in the bathroom… can’t feel the warmth through the slippers…

when we put in the heating wires under the tiles we thought the heat would radiate out from the pad, but it didn’t we learned, so the space right in front of the sink is cold…

the day has gone by gently… messages and calls from family and friends… flowers from the kids, lunch with colleagues… surprise supper out with some of the kids…



I am home, cozy in my bed, thinking of my wonderful life…

had some great moments when people commented on Facebook about pictures and memories of George… warmed my heart…

it has been healing in a way… 

goodbye…

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, death, George, goodbye, Paulo Coelho, Pause

this morning I read an article that touched me…

it mentioned a quote from Paulo Coelho:

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

made me wonder if I have to let go of George… and exactly how I would do that…

not sure I want to let him go, but maybe it is the sadness that I must let go…

how do I remember the special times and not feel the sad moments…

thought that I’ve been doing fairly well…

tomorrow marks three years since his death… trying to figure out how to deal with the day…

for the last few years I have had dinner with all of my kids… this year they have things happening and we can’t gather without a lot of complex organizing, so I said we wouldn’t… 

I am sure I will speak with my daughters at some point in the evening but felt I/we needed to be moving forward…

maybe that’s why the quote touched me…

Monday was a very bad day… he died on a Monday… 

we will see what tomorrow brings…



exhausted…

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, comfort food, exhausted, moon, orchid, sun dogs

last night I was so tired that I fell asleep and forgot to write a post…

on my way to work in the morning it was a bit foggy but beautiful sun dogs were my company on the drive… my phone was in the back of the car so I never did get a picture of them…

had fun taking a shot of the orchid against the picture on the wall… not exactly what I had I mind, but it was entertaining to try…

moon will be full in a few days…

took this tonight on my way down the stairs…

made one of my favourite comfort foods for dinner… not sure how well it fit into my new eating plan… canned salmon with sliced potatoes in a white sauce… added mushrooms and water chestnuts and used a very small amount of the sauce… usually the potatoes would be pan fried in butter but I used a tiny bit of avocado oil and steamed them to finish… liked the crunch of the water chestnuts a lot…

heading to bed…

aquasize…

26 Thursday Feb 2015

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aquasize, big girl pants, photos, tulips

haven’t been swimming for weeks…

felt as though the first half hour lasted a day…

eventually I got into the swing of things and made it through the hour…

today, at the office, I spent a few minutes taking pictures of the tulips…



between them and the light I am enjoying every day, even if it is cold…

pink…

25 Wednesday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, orchid, pink, PinkShirtDay, sunshine

last night I searched through my closet and found this pink shirt to wear today…

actually the only pink piece of clothing I own… but I dug it out to wear to support the PinkShirtDay initiative to fight bullying… last year I forgot until much later in the day… 

amazing how many people commented on the colour…

when I got home tonight I took a picture of the new lamp… I think I like it in this spot…

more beautiful sunshine coming through the window so I took a few pictures of the light on the orchid…

hard to get a good shot the way the sunbeams were coming through the window…

it is quite astonishing to me how light and sunshine can raise my spirits…

bright…

24 Tuesday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, bright, sun, tulips

this morning I noticed how bright out it was on my drive to work… yay…

then, part way through the morning the sun came streaming through a colleague’s window and landed on her tulips… just gorgeous…



all of them have perked up since yesterday and look amazing… they have certainly brightened my day…

spent a wonderful few minutes wandering around the office taking pictures… I haven’t had a chance to look the shots over yet, but I had great fun… there were lots of tulips to check out…

flowers do make me happy…  

tulips…

23 Monday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, daffodils, flowers, Lung Association, orchid, tulips

this morning our delivery of tulips arrived… they are part of the Lung Association campaign…

I love flowers and in the depths of winter really enjoy them… just yesterday I had to toss the daffodils I had purchased the week before…

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some beautiful purple and white ones…

amazing how a little flower can perk me up…

spent time in the living room tonight with my friends and got to admire my gorgeous orchid… it is really stunning…

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took this picture of a macadamia nut dark chocolate which was a treat from Costa Rica… first chocolate I’ve had since November… apparently I was so excited I couldn’t hold still, lol… very tasty…

fitbit…

20 Friday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, Fitbit, health

been keeping track of my exercise since last April…

have found that I try to get in my goal of 5000 steps most days and been very proud of myself on the days I have gone way over…

got the Fitbit when we were having one of our stepping contests at work and have found it a great way to pay attention to my activity level…

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it’s only been since mid January that I started to record my caloric intake thanks to a comment from one of my colleagues…

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it is now imperative that I record what I am eating, so having the option to do most of the recording in one place is helpful…

I continue to search for something where I can record the blood sugar readings as well as the food log in a simple manner…

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