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vroom, vroom…

05 Saturday Oct 2013

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big girl pants, Corolla S, first big purchase on my own, George's job, Nelson Gaspar, test drive, vroom, Woodhaven Toyota

so, today I really had on those big girl pants… was up and out fairly early, headed to Woodhaven Toyota to speak to Nelson about a new car, depending on whether they could give me a good enough deal.

Crystal and I had gone six or eight months ago and not had a positive experience, so left without a new car and I was prepared for that to happen again today…

had a good meeting with Nelson Gaspar and then we took out a Corolla S for a test drive… I have never been the one to drive out of the lot, that was always George’s job… I might have driven for a little bit when we found a parking lot, but my job was also to check out the passenger spots, front and back, while he did the major driving portion of the test…

was very nervous, but Nelson did a great job and before I knew it I was breezing down the highway and through the beautiful fall trees… George would have loved this car – you can use paddle shifters on the steering wheel like a race car driver and drive in Sport mode for faster turning… AND it has heated seats, lol…

me and my new car

 

after much finagling, the car was mine… looking forward to picking it up on Tuesday… leaving behind our current car will be difficult as we had it together…

later in the day Crystal, the little boys and I went out to celebrate with dinner at The Keg…

first really big purchase on my own…

technology…

04 Friday Oct 2013

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big girl pants, playing, Styles, Technology, Word 2013

spent some great time this morning working with Styles in Word 2013… learned some tips and tricks on Wednesday when we had training, and I got the time to play with it a bit this morning with another colleague…

so much fun to work on creating a template that is going to save huge amounts of time in the future… I’ve worked with styles before but never really understood them, but I think I’ve seen the light and finally get it… woo hoo…

on top of that, I’ve been using a new app that I found on App of the Day… It is called Saver… helps keep track of expenses in a simple, easy to use format… you add in items as you purchase them and can take a photo of a receipt or type in a note… shows you how much you’ve spent in a number of categories…

I use my credit card to pay for everything and then pay it off at the end of each month… found this a helpful way to be mindful of where I am in my spending…

really like this one…

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feathered friends…

03 Thursday Oct 2013

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big girl pants, fall outfits, feathered friends, Grandpa, leaves, multi coloured trees, purple finches, raking

spent some time watching a family of purple finches as they stocked up on food before their flight to warmer climes… they are not nearly as bright as in the spring and early summer…

purple finches at the front feeder...

purple finches at the front feeder…

that same day I took some pictures of the leaves as the colours change… every day as I drive to and from work I see less leaves on the trees and more on the ground…

trees n their fall colours...

trees in their fall outfits…

also got a shot of a yard down the street that was filled with leaves…

leaves on the ground...

leaves on the ground…

the elm trees haven’t shed yet, but soon when the boys come over they can do some raking and playing… it will remind them of doing that very thing with Grandpa I am sure…

sunflower…

02 Wednesday Oct 2013

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big girl pants, drying, seed head, sunflower

yesterday I brought the sunflower seed head in…

sunflower head drying out in the kitchen...

sunflower head drying out in the kitchen…

wasn’t really sure it was ready, but it felt like the right thing to do…

now it is drying in the kitchen…

sunflower...

sunflower as it filled in…

not sure how long to wait for it to be dry…

closeup of sunflower in the front flower bed...

closeup of sunflower in the front flower bed…

four years…

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

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big girl pants, current job, efficient, four years, great interview, pretty darn lucky, tech guru

yesterday marked four years at my current job…

I had an interview with a church one evening, and then the next morning the interview for this position… I remember coming out to the car and telling George that if I didn’t get the job, it wasn’t that I was lacking, just that someone else was a better fit, as I had done a great job during the interview…

I can remember the first and second interview, and the first day on the job… it was a Wednesday and there was a staff meeting that morning…

tomorrow we will be gathering as staff for some computer training and I am excited and looking forward to that… I am considered one of the tech gurus at the office and am always happy to learn about a new piece of technology, or how to make something work better or more efficiently…

the job has morphed from the receptionist that I was hired as… talking with a colleague today she noted how the duties have changed as the organization understood my skill set and adjusted the position to benefit…

every year I have done something to celebrate and thank the members of the team, who have walked with me through some pretty profound events during this time … often it has been a rose for each person to enjoy… this year it was chocolates and nuts…

flower from the garden last year on Sept 30...

flower from the garden last year on Sept 30…

I love my job, the work I do and the people with whom I spend my days…

pretty darn lucky is all I can say…

 

the light…

30 Monday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, changing light, colour change, sliver of the moon, the light, virginia creeper

as I sit here looking out at the dark street after my friend has headed home tonight I think about the changing light…

sliver of moon in the morning...

sliver of moon in the morning…

this morning I got a lovely shot of a sliver of the moon in the sky and that was around 7:15 or so… it is quite dark when the alarm goes off in the morning… although I am usually awake ten or fifteen minutes before Michael Buble starts singing Everything, I always wait to hear it once through before getting up…

spent a few minutes taking some pictures of the virginia creeper by the garage and the trees down the street…

virginia creeper by the garage...

glorious colours in the virginia creeper by the garage…

you can see the colour change, but also the fact that one of the trees is already devoid of its leaves… there is a big heap of them on the lawn and in the street…

trees shedding leaves...

trees shedding leaves…

I had started taking vitamin D again as it helps me deal with the lack of light, but while I am on the antibiotics I am not able to take them… oh well, not too many more days of the pills…

Fall…

29 Sunday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, Fall, leaves

colours have been changing and leaves have been falling…

took this picture from the bedroom this morning…

while I was out and about running errands today I saw many absolutely stunning views…

always amazing how in just a few days the majority of leaves can drop…

think Fall might really be here, lol…

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productive…

28 Saturday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, downpour, feeling better, Kobo, productive, wifi

quiet, but productive day… had planned to run around and do a few errands, but there was a steady downpour all day long so I stayed inside…

feeling much better, absolutely no pain and there don’t appear to be any side effects to the pills, which makes me feel even better…

tidied in the kitchen and got lots of laundry done…

stack of clean towels...

stack of clean towels…

spent some time on the computer organizing and purging… bought some new books for my Kobo and connected the wifi to it, which I hadn’t done before…

lots of clean facecloths...

lots of clean facecloths…

watched some TV and read a bit…

think I’m going to bed now as I hardly got a nap in…

 

unhealthy…

27 Friday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, buds, CancerCare, diverticulitis, drugs, flowers, health issues, morning glory, out of sorts, trouble swallowing pills, unhealthy

been taking a number of drugs lately as I am dealing with a few health issues… had quite a scare at my CancerCare check-up the other day and it turned out to be just a little thing but it did mean taking some drugs…

then a couple of days ago I started to experience abdominal pain, which might have been a side effect of one of the drugs I was taking, but it moved to my side and made me think that possibly my diverticulitis was acting up… hasn’t bothered me for nearly four years… saw the doctor and he agreed so now I am on more drugs…

I don’t like drugs, and often they don’t like me… I am always leary about taking a new one as I don’t know how my body is going to accept it…

pills...

pills…

usually I would prefer to deal with pain rather than drugs, but sometimes you just can’t get around it, sigh… hopefully I won’t be on these for long and they will do the trick…

besides not dealing well with drugs, I have difficulty swallowing pills… not nearly as bad now as it used to be…

one of the meds that was prescribed was 8 quite large tablets that I had to take all at once with food… after lunch yesterday, two of my colleagues tidied up the kitchen and chatted while I worked at getting these pills down… it was quite wonderful to just have them there supporting me and I was able to get the job done… not sure I  could have done it at home, on my own…

today I felt out of sorts, cold, slight headache, just not myself… think it was my body responding to that large dose of antibiotics yesterday… finally tonight I am starting to feel better… and I realized that my side had not bothered me at all today, yay…

morning glory buds...

morning glory buds…

there was one morning glory blooming today but there were many buds as well… looking forward to more blooms…

George salad…

26 Thursday Sep 2013

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best salad, big girl pants, George salad, great group

spent quite some time preparing a salad for Souper Thursday… it was my turn and I couldn’t think of a soup I felt like making, so instead made a George salad…

he made the best salads… not sure if it was the tiny size of most of the pieces, the exact variety of veggies and cheese he put into it, or just the love that went into the process… anyway, they really were renown in our circle…

I’ve tried to make it a few times, but it just doesn’t taste the same… maybe it was also about the fact that someone else was making it, not me…

as always when I am preparing food for others, I spend a good part of the time thinking about the people who will be eating it… always makes the time go by and helps me enjoy the process…

as it was for our entire lunch, I also prepared some chicken and eggs, cheese and almonds that could be added in if desired, to be sure it was filling…

George salad...

George salad…

it was a big hit and everyone enjoyed it… soup would have been good though as it was rainy and miserable outside…

what a great group of people I work with…

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