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19 Wednesday Nov 2014

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what a wonderful evening…

picked up by friends and headed to Tres Visi Cafe on Grosvenor and Stafford…

dinner was delicious…

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veal with lemon and capers, fettuccine Alfredo on the side… the picture doesn’t do it justice… sadly the wait person and I had a slight communication problem but she was quick to redo the meal so that I got this one… it was amazing and I ate every scrap on my plate… should have taken a picture of the after… would have licked it but didn’t want to embarrass my friends, lol…

we were celebrating two birthdays – one each from July and October… there was a great deal of conversation about how we would divide up the bill to be sure that the birthday women didn’t pay for their own meal, but contributed to the other birthday person… what we decided was that we should only celebrate one at a time because it was way too difficult to calculate for two…

superior service the entire time we were there…

lots of laughter and conversation…

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finished dinner with a delightful creme brûlée…

amazing women who always lift my spirits and make an evening special…

mothers…

18 Tuesday Nov 2014

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had a great conversation about mothers recently…

from a group of six, one had an excellent relationship with their mom, two had regular ones and three had difficult connections with their mothers…

always interesting to learn about other people’s history and how it shaped them…

my mother had a nervous breakdown when my brother was born and spent the next twenty years in and out of hospital… certainly affected our relationship… although we didn’t connect for most of my life, we did become very close during the last years of her life…

for the last four months we spent every day together… I was extremely blessed to have that time with her and get to say all the things I needed…

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I wonder about my legacy to my girls…

healthcare…

17 Monday Nov 2014

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this morning I took a picture of the hibiscus… it was glorious…

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been thinking about healthcare recently… various people I know are dealing with issues…

I think back to all the appointments we had with doctors and surgeons about my hernia repair, and how all that red tape and slowness meant that I only needed one operation to deal with the hernia and cancer… how miraculous was that, lol…

getting on the good side of the support staff seems to be so important… whether it is the receptionist at the doctor’s office or the staff at the nursing station… these are the people who can move the process forward…

when George was in heart failure and the appointment with the cardiologist was weeks away, I had a great conversation with one of his staff and shared how ill George was… when a cancellation came up a day later we got in to see the doctor and I believe that saved his life and gave us another six years together…

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tonight the five blooms had reduced to two… still beautiful, but quite the change from earlier in the day…

much like life…

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another wonderful sunset…

pretty…

16 Sunday Nov 2014

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when I woke up this morning I heard scraping outside… couldn’t figure out what it was… once I know what the sound is, I can ignore it, but when I can’t figure it out it makes me a bit crazy…

looked out the window and saw this…

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pretty isn’t it… fresh snow always looks wonderful… particularly if you don’t have to go out…

once I got downstairs I checked out the hibiscus which has three flowers and lots of buds…

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I did go out to the grocery store and the pet store… the driving was fine…

tonight Jeff changed the filters and hopefully the water will clear up…

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many pretty things today…

lonesome…

15 Saturday Nov 2014

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as I move along this new path in my journey I do get lonesome for my beloved… I miss him all the time, but mainly I am enjoying my new life…

of course there are days where I feel down… this weekend I couldn’t unhook the hose to empty the hot tub… he had the strongest hands that could open/twist/turn anything… the fish tank is getting cloudy and he would have known exactly what type of filters we need… I’ve tried a couple of different kinds, but still don’t think I am getting the right ones, sigh…

was talking with someone who lost their partner shortly after George died… they have filled their time with other people, hardly ever on their own… recently they commemorated their partner’s passing with what sounded like a full blown funeral…

we will be celebrating George’s birthday in a few weeks, likely with burgers and milkshakes, maybe apple pie, three of his favourite foods… we will be together and share stories and laugher, and maybe a few tears but likely less than last year or the year before…

interesting the different ways that we each respond as we deal with these life altering events…

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sunshine…

14 Friday Nov 2014

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I think the hibiscus is in just the right place in the living room… must be getting the correct dose of sunlight…

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there were at least thirteen buds this morning… looks amazing considering it probably only has twenty or thirty leaves on it…

IMG_9333.JPGthis picture was taken when I arrived home and the sun was shining in and making some beautiful shadows…

got upstairs and took this picture of the sun going down…

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enjoyed a very short walk getting home… crisp but lovely…

a great day filled with sunshine… haven’t had a lot of it lately so really appreciated it… happy to be able to take the time to enjoy the moment…

meals…

13 Thursday Nov 2014

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had a delicious breakfast this morning at The Met… a lovely french toast casserole with fruit salad and some bacon, yum…

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at lunch we had a wonderful Thai soup made by a colleague… it is their specialty and is a lovely treat whenever we get it…

tonight, at aquasize I started coughing… think it might have been the chemicals in the water… a couple of others were coughing as well…once I got home I didn’t know what I wanted, so I made myself a hot lemonaide…

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two out of three meals were great…

supper ended up being two crumpets with melted cheese on top…

boots…

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

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snow was on the ground again this morning… had to put my boots on… I go as long as possible wearing my sandals… even once I am wearing my boots I use my sandals at work… they are by far the most comfortable shoes I have…

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after work I helped a friend download and learn a new computer program… great fun… whole process went very well… download was a piece of cake, and we were able to copy data into the program without any issues either… we entered new data and saved it easily… looks like it is going to be a great program…

tonight I am feeling cold and tired… going to climb into my pyjamas, get under the covers and get lots of sleep…

remembering…

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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woke up to snow on the ground this morning…

snow on the ground...

snow on the ground…

when I went downstairs a red hibiscus was in full bloom and I could see the snow on the ground… reminded me of a poppy…

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hibiscus with snow through window…

spent a good portion of the morning watching the Remembrance Day service from Ottawa…

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sunrise…

remembering my mother and father and George’s father and their service to our country… neither my father or George’s ever talked about what they did…

my mom’s work involved removing or adjusting pictures of ships so that when they were published in newspapers anywhere in the world they wouldn’t be recognizable as a certain ship… she was heavily involved in having this statue designed and raised at the Legislative grounds… this picture was one I downloaded from the internet, and there was no information about who took it…

statue of women in the three services at the Manitoba Legislature building...

statue of women in the three services at the Manitoba Legislature building…

had a quiet day thinking of them and also George… his dad died just a few days before Remembrance Day which made the day very special for both of us…

home…

10 Monday Nov 2014

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spent the majority of the day at home…

did some laundry and brought in a couple of plants from the garden… saw the pictures from our photo shoot a while back… they came out very nice…

spent some time in the kitchen… made chicken soup and home-made macaroni and cheese… put together a spinach salad and picked up chocolate haystacks and raspberries…

had a nap and finished my preparations for dinner…

texted with my daughter in Ottawa who is sick with the flu… my home-made macaroni and cheese is one of her favourite meals when she is here… she was a bit sad, although she really isn’t eating…

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I might have made a bit more than we needed for our dinner tonight…

it was lovely to have the day off so that I was well rested and enjoyed getting ready for our ReImagining gathering… because we meet in Mondays, I am often rushed after work…

great to spend time together and learn at the same time…