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15 Saturday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, bright, dim sum, hot tub, melting, snow, treat

took this picture from upstairs this morning… sun was shining

20140315-213941.jpg you can see how the snow is melting on the deck rail and even on the bench…

went for dim sum with the kids and then we went to pick up a bit more wool and of course we found a few other bits and pieces… I got a ceramic knife and look forward to testing it out tomorrow…

stopped at the mall for a while and when I finally got home I had a nap…

later I had the left over dim sum for my dinner…

last night I had a lovely hot tub… it wasn’t very cold and clouds were floating across the sky while the nearly full moon shone brightly… lovely and quiet as the jets didn’t come on… nice treat…

melting…

14 Friday Mar 2014

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backyard, crocus, melting, snow, sun, waterfall

can you believe what you can see in this picture…

20140314-211154.jpg it is the top of the slate waterfall rock… and it has been completely covered in snow for weeks…

even though it has been a bit cold out, the sun is warm, even hot, when it shines…

every day I can see that the snow has melted in the backyard… of course, there is a lot of it that still needs to melt, lol…

looking at the picture you can see that all the snow on the rail of the deck is gone already… yay…

every time I look at the crocus I imagine the time when I’ll be able to walk outside and see spring flowers blooming…

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good day…

13 Thursday Mar 2014

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bathroom ceiling, big girl pants, CPP, good day, ice dam, insurance policy, poor me, purple hyacinth

three things happened today…

found out that I hadn’t lost the form from CPP… apparently you have to get them online now… thankfully my accountant let me know before I had to ransack the whole house…

my insurance broker brought me the documents and card for the new health benefits… nice to have that in place…

 

bathroom ceiling...

bathroom ceiling…

 

I’ve been able to get past the poor me business about the ice dam… water has stopped dripping into the bathtub, and how lucky was it, that the leak was over the tub… the roof is nearly clear of snow, and the water is going down the eavestroughs… once it is all dry I will have someone in to replace the ceiling in the bathroom… will need to have someone check out the integrity of the roof and see if it will last for another few years…

purple hyacinth...

purple hyacinth…

and the hyacinth is opening and it is purple…

all in all, seems like a pretty good day…

taxes…

12 Wednesday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, forms, George, T4, taxes

thought I was ready to give my tax info to my accountant when I realized that I haven’t received the CPP information yet…

now I have to go through everything just to double check…

reminded me of having to get the taxes done when George died…

in the end we had to file his for two years following his death, because of the time he died…

used to be all you needed was a T4, but now there are investment forms, government docs and who knows what else… I guess the good news is that I have investments which we didn’t have for many years…

remembering all the years we owed money and how we would struggle to find a way to pay…

table is covered with lots of papers as I go through everything to see if that one doc might be there somewhere…

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hoping that once they are done I won’t owe money again… and hoping I can find that last document…

exercise…

11 Tuesday Mar 2014

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condo, exercise, fish, groceries, walked

yesterday I walked home from Portage Avenue…

first time in weeks that I’ve actually walked outside because it has been so cold… by the time I got home my hips were killing me… yikes I am out of shape…

at lunch today it was nice, although not as nice as yesterday… I walked down to the grocery store which is a few blocks away from the office and picked up a couple of bags of groceries…

they were a bit heavy but I made the trip without feeling too tired… I had worn better boots, so maybe that was the problem yesterday…

even remembered to bring the groceries home at the end of the day…

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the fish were happy to see me when I got in… they get lots of exercise swimming around their condo, lol…

smiles…

10 Monday Mar 2014

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crocus, hyacinth, smiles

these beautiful crocus flowers brought a smile to my face this morning… following the less than stellar weekend…

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so did meeting with my BS friends tonight…

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think this hyacinth might be purple… we will see…

dripping…

09 Sunday Mar 2014

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beloved, big girl pants, ceiling, dripping, ice dam, meltdown, snow, snow blowing

this morning I went outside to do a bit of shovelling so that I could get to the hot tub…

it was warm, amazingly, and water was dripping from the various icicles which were hanging across the back of the house…

took a few pictures while I was out there…

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this one shows how the snow was actually melting along the edge of the deck…

a bit later I went to have a shower and discovered water dripping from the ceiling into the bathtub… realized that it was from an ice dam that I had been taking pictures of earlier…

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called and consulted with my son-in-law and he agreed he would look at it when they arrived for dinner…

had a bit of a poor me meltdown wanting my beloved to be here to look after me and fix this…

later the kids had some fun in the snow while their daddy blew lots of it out of the driveway…

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then there were ladders, hammers, roof rakes, and long bars as the two oldest boys tried to get rid of the ice dam…

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fought with those big girl pants today…

keep track…

08 Saturday Mar 2014

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computer, desktop, email, hacked, keep track, laptop, url

this morning I got some shots of the beautiful diamonds in the snow…

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then I spent about two hours on the telephone with MTS (my internet service provider)…

all to do with the hacking of my computer a few weeks ago… my
laptop is still not back and so I decided to use the desktop to pay some bills…

rarely do I use it which meant that all of my favourite sites weren’t on it…

I didn’t remember the URL, or username for my credit card… had to search for the URL for my air miles program…

when I was hacked, the credit union helped me change my username and password right away, while I was at the office… rather stressed, I left that information in a notebook at my desk and have completely forgotten it, sigh…

in the process of finding the URL and username, the website sent me an email…

so, I tried to open my email on the desktop… using the new password that MTS had helped me change… my email wouldn’t accept it…

called and spoke with a lovely young man who reset the password and told me to wait five minutes and enter it… tried that, didn’t work… called again and spent a very long time with another person who gave me a different password which eventually worked but the email still wasn’t working… after he climbed into my computer and downloaded updates it eventually cooperated…

but he clicked something and now all the emails are gone from my phone, sigh… guess if I can’t find that spot I will need to call them back tomorrow…

has taught me that I need to keep a list of my favourite urls and user names… now, where will I put that list…

prayers…

07 Friday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, crochet, health, prayers, surgery shawl, yarn

been crocheting a lot lately… making prayer shawls and blankets for those in my circle who have been facing health issues…

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this blue one was for someone who recently had surgery and will have some healing to do…

as I work on them I think about the person they are for and try to infuse healing thoughts and good vibes into the yarn… when I worked on this one the Olympics were on and lots of energy was racing around the room…

I don’t know how to follow a pattern, but I know how to do single, double and triple crochet stitches… once I’ve got it to the size I think I need, I crochet all around it… every one is different and a learning experience, lol…

this one was for someone else who recently had surgery…

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the really funny part is I never remember to take a picture when they are finished…

sadly, I am now working on another one… not sad to be making it, sad that my friend is not doing so well…

wishing health and happiness to all my friends and loved ones…

weather…

06 Thursday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, driving, snow, weather

started the day driving to work in a snowstorm… it was warm but the snow was coming down and had been for most of the night…

it was early, as we had an event… by the time I got to the office I could barely see through the windshield as it was iced over…

when we returned to the office the snow had stopped and it was quite nice…

when I left to come home it took a while to clean off the snow and ice which covered the car…

the drive wasn’t too bad although there was lots of mushy, dirty snow on the streets and it was a bit slippery…

a little while ago I went by the window and lo and behold it was snowing again…

here’s what it looks like…

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can’t remember when we last had a winter like this…

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