CPR…

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

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spent the morning in a refresher first aid course… we’ve done one every couple of years… this is my third…

always seem to do them in early December… just before or after George’s birthday…

the whole conversation around CPR is always difficult and brings me right back to the night he died… but practising what to do is also cathartic…

I keep thinking about the person who called 911 and then stayed with him until the emergency team arrived… did they hold his hand, did they give him CPR…

I miss him so much, and try to remember the good things and not focus on the sadness…

tomorrow he would have turned 66…

the moon was nearly full as I walked home from the grocery store after work… I was too cold to stop and take a picture of it, but took this when I got home…

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and noticed that a critter has been running all over the roof of the garage…

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maybe one of George’s squirrel friends, lol…

blogging…

02 Tuesday Dec 2014

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yesterday marked my second year on WordPress…

in that time I have written nearly every day, 747 posts to be exact…

more than 150 people follow my blog and the most popular topics include life, her big girl pants, and nature…

pretty good considering the day I started I was just going to see what it was about, lol…

my goal had been to share the experiences I had gone through following the passing of my beloved… not sure if I’ve done that…

for the last few weeks, every time I walk by the garden window at night, three of the solar lights twinkle all night long… I’ve decided that George is helping them twinkle:-)…

I’m learning to deal with my new reality and am finally over the poor me stage…

so far the sugar hadn’t been too much of a problem, but I guess the real test will come around Christmas…

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treats…

01 Monday Dec 2014

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yesterday an Advent calendar was delivered to my door… it was from my daughter in Ottawa…

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a carton filled with 24 boxes… such fun to open one each day…

this morning I opened box 1 and discovered striped purple socks and a dragonfly stick-on…

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wore them when I went for a walk today…

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at work I wear sandals and don’t usually wear socks in my boots unless I am going to be doing a lot of walking…

still thinking about where to put the dragonfly…

treats…

01 Monday Dec 2014

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yesterday an Advent calendar was delivered to my door… it was from my daughter in Ottawa…

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a carton filled with 24 boxes… such fun to open one each day…

this morning I opened box 1 and discovered striped purple socks and a dragonfly stick-on…

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wore them when I went for a walk today…

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at work I wear sandals and don’t usually wear socks in my boots unless I am going to be doing a lot of walking…

still thinking about where to put the dragonfly…

1000 days…

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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I have this app called Dreamdays on my phone… it counts up to and down from important dates…

today marks 1000 days since my beloved left this world… in four days it would have been his 66th birthday…

we went to Rona today to pick up a tile and a new faucet for the kitchen as the old one has been dripping for a few weeks…

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thankfully Jeff was able to replace it for me… don’t even think there was any cursing, lol…

when my chariot arrived, it even included a snow shoveler…

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for most of our years together George did all the shovelling, other than the few years his heart wouldn’t let him…

a thousand days seem like forever and a blink of an eye all at the same time… I’ve missed him every single one of those days…

snow…

29 Saturday Nov 2014

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was up at 5:30 this morning and looked out the window to see a bunny wandering through the back yard…

Friday morning when I was putting out the garbage there was a bunny sitting in the middle of the back lane… spent a few moments watching until it moved into a yard…

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those are bunny footprints…

it snowed through the night and a bit this morning… trees look stunning…

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the garden is beautiful all covered in the snow…

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sunshine added to the beauty today…

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got lots done… reorganized the laundry room by putting the dressers back… never did hear back from those foundation guys… did laundry and cleaned out the cabinets under the fish tank…

finishing the day with some tv…

diagnosis…

28 Friday Nov 2014

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well, the results are in… been diagnosed with diabetes…

not exactly how I was imagining spending the next stage of my life…

I guess I should be happy that it hadn’t come on earlier in my life, as many of my elders dealt with the disease…

had been once to the doctor, and was semi-prepared for what I heard yesterday… already been cutting back on sugar, but I hadn’t even thought about having to stick myself with a needle 3 times every day…

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been having a bit of a pity party but hoping to be over that in a few days…

good news is that I should be able to deal with this by watching my diet and getting more exercise…

a friend is diabetic and is a walking dictionary on the disease… another has a partner with it, and she knows tons as well… my daughter is on Weight Watchers and is sharing food information… so there’s lots of help for me as I move forward, learning as I go…

sad about the chocolate though…

taxis…

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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been in a number of taxis lately…

continue to wonder how they can fiddle with all the equipment in their vehicles…

most of us aren’t allowed to text, or even pick our phones up while we are driving…

I am nervous when I’m at a stoplight and want to take a picture…

I have been watching them… they are connected to their dispatcher with a screen on the dash and have their hands at this piece of technology very often…

they also have GPS that they are looking at as they drive, which apparently they are allowed…

interesting…

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filter…

25 Tuesday Nov 2014

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first thing this morning the sky was amazing…

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it stopped me in my tracks and I spent a few minutes enjoying the moment…

before I left the house I added in the first of the chemicals to the hot tub as the temperature had finally reached the nineties…

on my way home I stopped in at Pet Traders to get an opinion on the pump in the fish tank… we’ve had the tank for at least twenty years… got some great assistance and came out of the store with a replacement pump, filters and a large container of fish food… and they were having a Black Friday sale so I saved 30% on everything…

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when I got in I added the next chemical and had supper… after a nap I read the manual but felt a bit intimidated… think I’m going to wait for my son-in-law to help me put it in properly, lol…

now I’m heading out for a hot tub… haven’t had one in a couple of weeks… woo hoo…