12 Friday Dec 2014
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started the day with a Christmas cracker… there was one at everyone’s desk when we arrived at the office…
great fun to see what was in them, and the giggles we all had when we wore our crowns throughout the day and for a special picture…
ended the day at a lovely dinner at The Met… good company, good food, good evening…
Christmas is fast approaching and festivities are taking place everywhere…
still have lots to do…
11 Thursday Dec 2014
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couple of lovely surprises today…
my friend drove me to my doctor’s appointment this afternoon as she has been using my car…
afterwards we went to her house and she showed me a few exercises with weights and then she gave me two three-pound ones…
and they are purple… slightly different from the four pound pair I have…
was cooking my dinner when the doorbell rang and a friend of my Ottawa kids handed me a beautiful swag which my daughter had ordered from them…
it smells gorgeous… now I have to figure out where to put it…
how special is that…
10 Wednesday Dec 2014
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on Sunday Jeff figured out that the bulb I put into the light in the bedroom was bad… good news really because the light still worked fine…
then we had to search the house to find a bulb we could steal as none of the ones in the cupboard were the right size…
everyone left and I headed upstairs to discover that one of the two bulbs in the hall fixture had blown as well…
next morning one of the bulbs in the living room fixture went…
really need to go and get more light bulbs before every light in the house goes out…
09 Tuesday Dec 2014
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sat eating my breakfast looking at Love which my beloved made with his scroll saw… he was very talented…
been going through a bit of poor me… missing George and feeling a bit down with all the health stuff…
on our way home tonight we saw some spectacular sun dogs…
was hard to get great shots as the traffic was whizzing past…
so tired I wasn’t sure I would make it through aquasize class, but I did… then I made some soup with squash and chicken and onions… very nice…
now to bed…
07 Sunday Dec 2014
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big girl pants, Christmas, decorating, jammies, parcels, preparing, tree
spent the day in my jammies…
had a lovely time preparing parcels, listening to the Christmas music of Neil Diamond and Michael Buble…
wrapped parcels went by the tree…
might add a few more ornaments as I go through the remaining boxes, but it looks pretty good…
the coffee table looks exactly how I imagined, but still needs more purple balls… with any luck I will find more as i go along…
the little boys helped me decorate the stairs with trees when they arrived for supper… things are sticking out a bit more than usual… it would make George crazy because he didn’t like stuff taking up space on the steps…
beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
06 Saturday Dec 2014
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big girl pants, colours, decorating, hoarfrost, sunrise, trees
it was beautiful outside today…
got some lovely shots of the sun rising…
caught the red sun at just the right moment…
just a few minutes later the colours changed dramatically…
just a few minutes later…
was in the computer room and had to take a picture of the trees outside the window… the hoarfrost was absolutely beautiful…
through the computer room window…
heading out to do some shopping, I had to stop the car and get a few pictures of the trees on the street covered in hoarfrost… still have to check how the ones I took with my Nikon came out…
hoarfrost down the street…
I was trying to get a shot of the snowflakes on the windshield, but that didn’t work with my phone, lol…
ended the day putting up a small tree in the living room and started putting on the ornaments… this year I am trying to do some of the decorating differently and am having to choose what I will put out and where I will put it which certainly slows down the process…
after all that discovered that the light in the bedroom wasn’t working and changing the bulb didn’t fix it… gave up and will deal with it tomorrow… I did see a lovely table lamp on tv tonight that might look very nice…
there were a lot of trees in my day…
05 Friday Dec 2014
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been doing very well with my blood sugar levels…
getting up and eating breakfast before leaving the house is difficult… I have to do it because I can’t take my pills with water, so have to take them with breakfast as that is when I have to take my levels…
also finding the time to gather items for a proper lunch and snack for the rest of the work day takes a bit of time too…
it is going to be important to have lots of choices available in the fridge and to plan for supper before I leave in the morning, or organize that the night before…
last night, when I tasted the apple pie, it was very sweet… funny that in one week my taste buds have changed…
shrimp, wild rice, mushrooms, kale and broccoli salad…
hope that soon I will feel less tired… still having trouble finding things to drink as I cannot use any type of sweetener at this point… at work I’ve been having water with lemon in it, but by the time I get home I am kind of done with that…
George would be proud of me for wearing these big girl pants, even when I don’t want to, lol…
04 Thursday Dec 2014
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a good day… very few rough moments, which was lovely… birthdays have always been special in our family so marking George’s is important…
started the day by taking the last of the antibiotics, yay… been using George’s pill container as I need to take the pills with my breakfast now…
last pill…
Crystal and I walked over to the Burger Place and picked up burgers and milkshakes for our supper…
moon through the trees…
made her hold everything while I took the picture on my phone… met up with all the boys at home and then FaceTimed with the kids in Ottawa… they had picked up burgers and milkshakes at McDonalds… we had apple pie in both places as well…
supper was busy and we shared various favourite memories of Dad/Grandpa… from reading every word of a very long story to the little boys, to always starting a new conversation when someone was trying to hang up or walk out the door, to working with the boys around the house and a love of the garden and ponds…
he would talk to any and every person he came in contact with… and he would know lots about them afterwards… just today I was mentioning how that is one of the most difficult things – not having anyone here to share with…
it was good to all be together, even if it was over the airwaves with the iPad… we continue to talk about him so that we won’t forget how special he was…
all of the kids, some being naughty…
today’s Advent gift was a bottle of Baileys so I had just a little bit after everyone left… it will be interesting to see what that does to my blood sugar, lol…
what a gift to have met and married my beloved, and spend over forty years together…
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…
01 Monday Dec 2014
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advent calendar, big girl pants, daugjter, sandal, socks, treats
yesterday an Advent calendar was delivered to my door… it was from my daughter in Ottawa…
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…
wore them when I went for a walk today…
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…
