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07 Tuesday Feb 2017

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whenever I am sick I have to make sure the bedroom is tidy before I can climb into bed and sleep… strange but true…

thinking back to the many years when the bedroom was a bit of a disaster with clothes on the chair and a messy bed…

for the last few years the it is always tidy and the bed always made so that was very helpful when I arrived home just after noon today… sick…

felt silly because I am not really ill… just hot and cold, with a headache, sad stomach and very tired…

started chicken soup to have later, but might not finish it tonight… apparently it needs too much energy, sigh…

interesting how our lives and behaviours change over time… although I still can’t get into bed when I’m sick unless the room is tidy, lol…

cake…

06 Monday Feb 2017

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big girl pants, cake, chocolate, cold, friends, sick, tired, widow

could barely drag myself out of bed this morning… was so tired… 

really finding that I need that one do nothing day in the weekend to recover from the week…

cooked a small roast and baked a potato which gave me an hour to rest when I got home… finished off with a lettuce salad… good thing it was easy because I am still tired…

two of my Monday night friends came by and one brought a delicious bit of cake for us to try… chocolate with a lemon sauce and some whipping cream…

I licked my plate…

apparently I looked so bad they only stayed for a little while so I could get to bed, lol… I was cold and had to dig out a warm jacket… the others thought it was warm in the house…

hoping that a good night’s sleep will fix me up… really don’t have time to be sick…

overcast…

05 Sunday Feb 2017

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big girl pants, birthday, helium, overcast, shark, snow, sun, trees, widow

lovely sky this morning, even with the overcast…

that is the sun in the trees…a bit later it started to snow and it snowed for three or four hours…

picked up by my kids and went to their place to celebrate the eight year old’s birthday…

they showed me their shark, that they got for Christmas, after they topped up the helium…

ready for cake… it looked delicious and the birthday boy was happy…

got very quiet as everyone was gobbling it up…

home soon and then to bed…

drinks…

04 Saturday Feb 2017

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big girl pants, chocolate, drinks, hair, light, play, Pokémon, PTE, purple, widow

slept in and lazed around all morning…

went to PTE and enjoyed a great play…

started with a drink and ate chocolate during the play… pretty fine way to spend an afternoon…

enjoyed some people watching and was amazed at the different ways people wear purple in their hair… not always to my taste, lol…

caught a few Pokémon and many poke balls while I was out and on the way home walked down the street searching for a few more…

even at 5:15 the light was lovely as I got close to the house… so wonderful to see more daylight every day…

already feeling more positive as the days get brighter…

tubbing…

03 Friday Feb 2017

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big girl pamts, frozen, hammer, hot tub, ice, light, nap, tubbing, widow

lovely sunrise this morning…

felt cold last night so decided on a hot tub around ten…

headed out only to discover that the strap was frozen to the side of the hot tub… which meant the lid wouldn’t open…

back into the house to find the little hammer, turn on the outside light and then out again to bash the ice…

took a bit of energy to clear the ice away and then I had to take the hammer back in and turn out the light…

finally got the lid open and made it into the tub…

beautiful and toasty warm…

might have had a short nap…

worked rather hard for that hot tub, but I slept really well after that…

shortbread…

02 Thursday Feb 2017

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almonds, aquasize, big girl pants, cookies, shortbread, snack, weekend, widow

great start to my weekend…

shortbread and almonds for a snack before heading to aquasize… have two cookies left…

great class and now home to watch some tv…

heart…

01 Wednesday Feb 2017

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beloved, big girl pants, care, decorate, heart, remembering, Valentine's Day, widow

thinking about decorating on Friday for Valentine’s Day…

picked up two of these cute heart wreaths yesterday… have to figure out how to attach them to the front door…

also picked up these little hearts… not sure where I am going to put them…

also found these cool letters the other day…

can’t decide on where to put them…

interesting method of putting the batteries in… had to unscrew the cover and then screw it back once they were inside it…

thinking of putting them in the living room window so they face out… feel the need to remind everyone to love each other these days…

found the cutest napkins and some little hearts filled with candy for the kids…

remembering my beloved’s big and kind heart…

florist…

31 Tuesday Jan 2017

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arrangement, big girl pants, chips, florist, flowers, hydrangeas, Safeway, widow

needed chips and flowers today so I stopped at Safeway on my way home and picked up both…

spoke to the florist on duty and told him about the hydrangeas that I brought home a few weeks back and which died within a few days… he mentioned they would replace them so one batch of these flowers were free… nice…

had enough flowers to make two arrangements so I’ve got one in the living room and one in the bedroom…

munched on a bowl of chips while enjoying the flowers…

lighting…

30 Monday Jan 2017

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big girl pants, ceiling, lighting, lights, paint, sunlight, sunrise, widow

apparently yesterday was quite full…

started in the morning with a lovely sunrise…

wonderful to have the sunshine… a bit later I noticed the sun lighting up the waterfall…

picked up some cushions on sale while I was out grocery shopping…

while the kids were here for dinner they scraped down a large section of the kitchen ceiling where the paint had been peeling… what a mess it made, lol… but now I won’t have to worry about it falling on my head…

and finally last evening the lights all came on at the correct time and went off when they were supposed to…

lots happened and it was all fun… 

drops…

29 Sunday Jan 2017

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big girl pants, cataract, drops, eye, eye drops, George, glaucoma, sparkle, surgery, widow

been thinking about eye drops a lot…

in January or February of 2012, George had cataract surgery on his right eye… it made a huge improvement to his vision and he did very well during and after the surgery… 

the cataract came on very quickly and he kept thinking that he had something in his eye so we were very happy to discover that was the problem… saw a wonderful doctor, got on the list and into and out of the Misericordia in record time…

the one difficulty he struggled with was the eye drops which started out three times a day at the beginning and were still happening twice a day even when he went back to work…

he just couldn’t put them in by himself, lol… so it became my job to administer the drops…

I’ve been putting drops in my eyes every night for many years as I’ve been diagnosed with glaucoma… once you start taking them you have to continue forever…

recently I was doing some work in my computer photo library and came across a photo I had taken of his eye just a few days before his death… it was very close up and showed the sparkle that was always there…

here’s one that always makes me chuckle… 

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