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red…

26 Thursday Nov 2015

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allum, big girl pants, colour, hair, purple, red, strength, toxic

been getting lots of compliments on my hair lately…

  
made me remember back to the first time I coloured it…

had been working in a very toxic environment and was trying to wear red every day… red is a colour that makes me feel strong and I really needed to find strength wherever I could… didn’t have that many red clothes so I decided to have a little bit of red put into my hair…

never been coloured before, but I was desperate to feel some type of protection…

it was just a tiny bit at the front of my head which could hardly be seen, but I had red on every day… helped make me feel stronger as I struggled to get through those very difficult days…

not long after I got out of that bad spot I decided to put purple in my hair…

tried a few systems that I put in myself, but the colour would wash out with every shampoo…

eventually found a place that used allum and had my hair professionally done… seems silly to dye such short hair but it lasts a long time and doesn’t leave any colour behind on towels or pillows, lol…

have tried having a tiny bit in and other times there has been a lot… outside in the sun it always looks amazing…

my hairdresser did a great job this time and it looks very nice…

does make me giggle when someone says “I like your hair” because I don’t even think about it anymore… it is just part of me…

interesting how we get to a certain place in our lives…

break…

25 Wednesday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, break, Carbone Coal Fired Pizza, dinner, Gas, Grey Cup, horses, parade, Tea

two fun treats today…

got to watch a parade go by the office with horses and carts and lots of people dressed beautifully…

 
police cars were blocking Donald Street…  
 
it was getting colder, but everyone kept walking along…

  
assume it had something to do with the Grey Cup Celebration… didn’t get out quick enough to get a good shot of the horses…

lovely little break in the day…

then I had dinner with two dear young women… don’t get out often to eat, particularly on a week night… and it was excellent to be able to spend some quality time with these amazing individuals… they both give me energy… 

went to Carbone Coal Fired Pizza on St. Mary Avenue and had salad and thin crust pizza… yummy… I really do prefer the thin crust versions…

on my way home I stopped for gas… it was around six and there was a lineup… crazy… but now the tank is full… both my dad and George always said it was best to keep the tank at least half full especially in cold weather, so I’ve followed that direction…

when I got home I made a pot of Chocolate Rocket tea… at the restaurant I thought the wait person said they had green and red tea… wasn’t sure what red tea was, lol… apparently he said green or red rose… sometimes I don’t hear that well…

but the Chocolate Rocket was just what I needed…

now for some tv…

moon…

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

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aquasize, big girl pants, exhausted, glasses, moon, picture

really looking forward to the weekend… and it is only Tuesday…

went to aquasize tonight and had the teacher who really works you… I was exhausted but did make it through the whole class without giving up…

tomorrow there will be a full moon… usually means more phone calls, walk ins and odd happenings… 

took this shot of the moon on Saturday… picture doesn’t do it justice…

  
a few days ago I took this picture of the most adorable glass frames…

  

I know a number of people who would love these, lol…  

stash…

23 Monday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, collector, fabric, moments, quilter, stash, women

had a wonderful evening with some amazing women…

a delicious dinner where we shared stories and updates on our lives… followed by a few chapters of a very interesting book with some thought provoking questions…

these women have been with me for many years and through many experiences… some quite amazing and others very difficult…

at the end of our gathering out came someone’s stash of fabric for a quilting project… many of these women are serious quilters…

  

I have been a fabric collector for a number of years… I have gathered it, but don’t actually make things… use it for decorative purposes… 

haven’t been in a fabric store for at least five years, but I must say that looking at the stash did make my fingers itch a bit… 

my life has changed and I don’t have a need for fabric at this point in my life, but do enjoy seeing what’s out there…

enjoyed the moments…

headache…

22 Sunday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, critters, headache, overcast, snow

managed to get a few chores done around the house but that is about all…

bit of a headache hanging over me today… tried sleeping, but that hasn’t done anything to alleviate it…

happy I did the running around yesterday although the headache was there too…

looks lovely outside, although overcast… for a good portion on the morning it was snowing so there is a new dusting of snow over everything… always looks so clean afterwards… too bad the sun hasn’t come out… 

  
the critters have been out and about since the first of the snow… there are little footprints everywhere… not sure if it the bunny, squirrels or cats…

bit of sun might make my head feel a bit better…

think I will make some chicken soup… 

purple…

21 Saturday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, deer, hair, purple, Safeway, sunlight

so happy to get my hair purpled today… was supposed to have happened on Monday but something came up and we had to rebook…

my hair has been too long since last week and I have really forced myself not to go and get it cut… colouring is much easier the longer the hair is…

  
waiting for the cooking portion to be complete… as I left the house in Charleswood I watched this deer in the next yard…

  
so pretty… and the sunlight shining was lovely too…

popped into the Safeway store and picked up groceries… good sales today… had six or seven bags which included some items for Christmas…

got home, put everything away and had a short nap…

  
feels great and looks good too… a couple of people commented on it as I was shopping…

sticky…

19 Thursday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, entrepreneurs, Peasant Cookery, siding, snow, sticky, window

this morning I took this picture of the back door window from inside the house…

  
a bit of snow was sticking to it… not too bad considering the wind and flapping siding, which kept me awake for a good portion of the night…

  
the picture shows it mid-flap this morning as I was heading out to the car… at least it is still on the house… was wondering if I might have to run out in the night to find it if it fell off…

was at a great event after work to celebrate Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Day… it was at the Peasant Cookery and the location, food and service were incredible… delicious tiny bites to eat, with nice vegan and vegetarian options…

  
cannot thank Carly and Michelle enough for their excellent attention to detail to ensure the event went smoothly…

there was a lot of snow when I arrived home… good thing I didn’t have the car because I don’t think it would have made it up the driveway…

  
here’s the same window tonight… even more stuck to it…

  
pretty though…

glittering…

18 Wednesday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, focus, frost, genuine, glittering, Travis Bradbury, wind

started the day by taking a picture of the chair outside the back door on my way to the garage…

  
it was glittering beautifully in the light… frost…

read an interesting article today, by Travis Bradbury, on genuine people… really resonated with me…

I printed it and plan to highlight a different paragraph every day to remind myself of the important message for me… being real in whatever you do… good to have something to work toward…

hard to focus on anything tonight… the wind is blowing like crazy… and there is a piece of loose siding just outside the bedroom banging against the house… hope it is still there in the morning…

think there is going to be more than frost on the ground when I get up…

laurentien…

17 Tuesday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, colouring, colouring book, craft, grandson, laurentien coloured pencils, memories

there has been this new thing where adults are colouring in a variety of adult colouring books…

was talking with my grandson about colouring… asking if he might like one of these types of colouring books… wasn’t sure if he would find them too complicated… we were looking at a number of them… he thought he would like one of them… he usually uses markers on his projects so we talked about how he would need to use coloured pencils in these books… he thought he could do that…

since then I’ve talked with a few people about coloured pencils…

my daughter and I were talking abou what type to get if I was getting some for a present… she said not to get anything but Laurentien Coloured Pencils...

  
in a conversation with someone else, we were talking about when we were kids and getting a new package… and how special it was… usually you got them at the start of school… 

sometimes you would get a twelve pack, but if you were really lucky you might get the 24 pencil case… reminded us both of how much fun we had with them… she was flooded with memories just talking about it…

  
I checked in my craft box tonight and found this… they are still the best…

might have to get me one of them colouring books…

changes…

16 Monday Nov 2015

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A1C, big girl pants, changes, cholesterol, ducks, hospital, iPhone, moments, Pro-Activ

weather wasn’t quite so nice today… it was cooler and rainy for much of the day…

arrived early at The Forks for breakfast with a dear friend, so wandered along the river walk before the rain really got going… took this picture of the newest sign…

  

looks pretty cool, but then I spotted the mallard ducks… 

  
and geese… I do love my birds…

  
also took a few pictures of St. Boniface Hospital… reminded me that George’s bypass surgery took place in November of 2008 and he enjoyed the next four years… seems like a different life ago…

  
then there were the six weeks I spent there in 2010… many hours of looking out onto the river…

  
was realizing how I have grown and changed over the last few years… 

after breakfast I stopped to visit with a former colleague… not something I would have done before without causing a lot of stress…

went to the mall, had a problem on my phone sorted out, and picked up a number of gifts for Christmas… very happy to have that pretty much done… stopped at a few other spots to finish up the shopping… am feeling more excited about Christmas this year I think…

went to the doctor and was thrilled with the report on my A1C and cholesterol… it was so good that we don’t have to think about drugs for at least the next three months…

he was astonished at how low both numbers were… woohoo… I am sure the cholesterol came down due to the Becel Pro Activ margarine I’ve been eating every day…

also feeling less concerned about checking my blood sugar more often… he had me stop testing when I saw him last and I have felt like I lost a crutch… but I can trust that I know what I can and can’t eat…

haven’t lost any weight according to their scale but I think I am actually at about 160… think I have lost about 38 pounds since last November…

during the appointment I realized that it was last November that I was diagnosed with diabetes… lots of lifestyle changes since then…

some wonderful moments to savour today…

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