unfold…

02 Saturday Mar 2019

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big girl pants, happy, Instagram, love, moments, remember, unfold, widow, work

recently read something on Instagram that was a reminder for me…

someone I follow had a conversation with another person (whose name wasn’t provided) about motivation to get up in the morning, and their comment was:

…when you figure out what that something is that you love, and get to do it, you’re excited for what unfolds each day…

it struck a cord… I do love what I do… my purpose at work is to help everyone on the team be able to accomplish whatever they are working on in the simplest and easiest manner… maybe I’ve forgotten that…

and as it happened, I spent an hour this morning, once awake, considering an issue with our database and coming up with a simple workaround that will produce the outcome needed but cut back on the process to achieve that outcome… looking forward to getting to the office on Monday and trying it out;-)…

it is good to remember how lucky I am…

pillar…

01 Friday Mar 2019

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big girl pants, blessed, light, moments, moon, pillar, pink sky, sky-watching, spectacular, sunrise, weather, widow

woke up early this morning and enjoyed some lovely sky-watching…

saw the most interesting light pillar… not long ago many photographers in the province had noted multiple columns in the sky, so I was excited to have spotted it…

the moon was visible out my bedroom window… and then there was a lovely sunrise…

spectacular way to start the day…

discontinued…

28 Thursday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, City Place, discontinued, Farmers Market, favourite, Tea, tea bags, widow

today I went in search of tea… my all-time favourite one has been discontinued and I’ve been searching for a replacement…

I stopped in at the Farmers Market at City Place and talked with two different tea companies… going to pick up a sample next time from one, and got a few samples from the other…

I also went online and ordered my second favourite tea… and it was delivered to the office within a few hours…

lovely collection…

will be filling some tea bags tomorrow…

carpool…

27 Wednesday Feb 2019

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beloved, big girl pants, Canada Goose, carpool, colleague, friend, pictures, traffic, widow

yesterday I drove to and from work with a colleague…

carpooling is always more fun than driving on my own… I’ve carpooled with a number of people over the years… for years I rode with a good friend who worked close by… also with another colleague… and for many years my beloved drove me to and from work…

one of the best things is that I can take pictures, lol…

waited in the living room for my ride and got a photo of the very slow traffic on our way home…

at the end of the day I walked up the street in my heavy Canada Goose jacket, which kept me toasty warm… sadly the zipper on my usual Canada Goose jacket isn’t working properly so I’m wearing the heavier one…

looking forward to traveling with her tomorrow…

information…

26 Tuesday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, dad, debilitating, flowers, happy, information, Lung Association, Spring, tulips, widow

we always know when Spring is on the way when we get information about tulips and daffodils circulating around the office…

we always order, and get, the tulips first…

they are a fundraising campaign of the Lung Association…

this is close to my heart as my dad lived his whole adult life with emphysema, a debilitating disease…

it is wonderful to see flowers everywhere in the office;-)…

defective…

25 Monday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, Charge 3, defective, Fitbit, good service, replaced, service, widow

yesterday my Fitbit went dark again, sigh…

I went ahead and hooked it up to the charger and held it for the requisite 14 seconds and it came back on… although it seemed to take forever to get completely charged…

then I emailed the person who had given me the directions on what to do, just to let them know that it had happened again…

tonight I received an email advising that they will replace the defective Charge 3…

have ordered it and it should arrive within a week… unfortunately it comes with a black band rather than the lovely purple one that mine came with…

once it arrives, I will just change to my band…

pleased with their service…

feels…

24 Sunday Feb 2019

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have decided that it needs to be Spring…

bought this cute little crocus plant and am enjoying watching the blooms open…

the sun is shining out there and it feels like Spring… in the house, lol…

except that the temperature is minus 34…

picked up a few Spring-y tops on Friday…

maybe if we imagine it enough, it will come sooner;-)…

shenanigans…

23 Saturday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, bunny, garden, hot tub, icicles, loud, pet, shenanigans, widow

backyard shenanigans…

came across my bunny friend in the garden…

I feel a bit like she’s a pet;-)…

then much later I heard a loud noise but couldn’t see where it came from…

just a while ago, I looked out the window and spotted this icicle that had fallen onto the hot tub…

happy I wasn’t in the hot tub at that moment, lol…

shovelled…

22 Friday Feb 2019

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aquasize, backyard, beloved, big girl pants, fish and chips, garbage, memories, recycling, shovelled, snow, supper, widow

felt like I was wearing those big girl pants all day long…

this morning I went out into the backyard and shovelled the windrow outside the gate so that I could get the garbage and recycling bins into the back lane…

it has been weeks since I’ve taken it out…

put two bags beside it… not sure if they will take those or not…

I decided on pickerel for my supper… instead of the deep fried French fries that my beloved would make, and which were amazing, I baked them in the oven… a recipe from my grandmother… fish and chips was one of the regular suppers that he would make, particularly on swimming nights… makes me think that I need to get back to aquasize…