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Friday…

11 Friday Apr 2014

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big girl pants, Friday, good news, hard times, hot tub, long week, Technology, violet

thank goodness it is Friday…

seems like it’s been a very long week…
difficult times for friends, technology issues and possibly a cold coming on…

some good news… an appointment made, conversations with my girls and my grandson getting into a great program…

have enjoyed some lovely times in the hot tub as the weather has improved…

my violet is getting ready to bloom again… this is what it looked like the last time…

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events…

09 Wednesday Apr 2014

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big girl pants, events, funerals, health and loss, journey, melting snow, snow, struggling

was thinking about going to events such as funerals… a friend had just been to the first one since her mom died… we talked about how often it is about your own journey, as much as that of the one recently departed…

made me think of the first funeral I attended after George died and how emotional it made me… thankfully I was with good friends who passed Kleenex and hugged me throughout the service… hadn’t expected that it would be so hard…

will be attending a funeral on Saturday and will be thinking of my friend as she takes the necessary steps to keep moving through the process…

feels like many people I know are struggling with health and loss these days… as I think of them, it reminds me of what a good place I am in most of the time… I am well, safe and have friends and a good work environment… pretty darn lucky…

this morning I took this picture of the backyard… lots of snow on the deck…

backyard this morning...

backyard this morning…

tonight I took a picture from the same spot…

backyard this afternoon...

backyard this afternoon…

the deck is nearly clear of snow… very exciting as I am hoping to sit out there for a bit if the sun shines in the morning on the weekend… the deck can be 3 or 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding area when the sun is out…

I am looking forward to getting some work done in the garden and being able to sit out there and enjoy the pond and birds…

soon… all part of wearing those big girl pants…

 

sunshiny day…

08 Tuesday Apr 2014

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big girl pants, dirt, juicer, melting snow, sunshiny day

sun was shining all day long… perks me up… every day it is getting warmer as it shines into the yard, or through the windows…

on my way out to the car this morning I took this picture of the sidewalk and snow…

20140408-205353.jpg you can see how one side is still covered in snow, but the other side shows lots of grass and the snow bank is much smaller…

every night when I get home the backyard seems to have less snow in it… there is lots of dirt coming into view… these are the spots where the landscapers tried to put down soil and grass seed to see if they could level out some of the dips they created during the pond construction… doesn’t look very grassy just yet, lol…

tonight I baked chicken thighs, made some basmati rice and prepared a glass of carrot juice… haven’t cooked a proper supper during the week for a while and really enjoyed it… there’s enough for lunch tomorrow…

feels like I will be sitting out on the deck before you know it…

highs and lows…

04 Friday Apr 2014

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big girl pants, birth, devastating news, friends, highs and lows, new grandparents, support

this morning I heard about the birth of friends’ first grandchild… they have been waiting for a while now as she was a little bit late… very cute, she looks just like her daddy… my friends are “over the moon” as they start down the path of the new and amazing world of grand parenting… so much more fun than parenting, lol…

at the end of the day, got some very disturbing news as another friend discovered that she has some serious medical issues to overcome… not even sure I heard all of the information, as my head stopped processing at the beginning of the conversation…

daffodils from a friend...

daffodils from a friend…

what can I do for my friends… completely different events, but likely will need the same types of support… listening and celebrating each step of their new journeys, sending prayers and healing vibes…

really, where would we be without our friends…

 

sorting…

03 Thursday Apr 2014

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big girl pants, pass-me-overs, sorting

this morning I put out two large bags and two boxes filled with pass-me-overs…

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it is always so great when you can let go of stuff you don’t need…

I’d been gathering bits and pieces for a few months but hadn’t dealt with the collection… now I feel a bit lighter…

of course there is still tons of stuff to sort and pass along to others…

I hope they came this morning as this afternoon the snow came down again, can’t believe it…

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the depths…

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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65, beloved, big girl pants, celebrate, depths, mixed up, pain, snow

tonight I stopped and picked up some fish and chips, which I have been craving for weeks… didn’t even put away my things when I got home… it was delicious…

have been really down for a while and it wasn’t until tonight when a friend called that I realized what the problem was…

another friend is turning 65 on Friday and tonight their family were having a come-and-go to celebrate…

when the invitation arrived I faced the fact that George would have been 65 last December… it didn’t mean much at the time, but this celebration kind of kicked me in the gut… don’t get me wrong, I’m glad our friend is having a great special birthday, but I’ve been stuck in my own pain…

we were invited to add a note to an online card and include a picture of our family… didn’t know what to do about that either… should the picture be of my family now or what my family used to be… In the end I sent a picture of our group… that seemed to take care of the request, but I am still trying to figure out who my family is…

20140402-211358.jpg things seem so mixed up right now… April second and the garden is filled with snow… I remember the year George died and how we were out working in the garden raking the grass in the middle of March, just a few weeks after…

apparently, you never know what will bring on the pain… as another friend said, likely I will have days like this for the rest of my life… hopefully they will come less often as time goes by…

Junos…

30 Sunday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, BTO, crowds, JUNOs, MTS Centre, music

well, just got home from the Junos at the MTS Centre downtown…

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there were a lot of people there…

we arrived about twenty minutes before it started and it was easy to get in…

it was great fun to be part of the “behind the scenes” action… to see what happens while the commercials are on… to see the cameras and teleprompters, the people running around after each act, mopping down the floors to be sure they were safe for everyone…

the Jennifer Jones team got a standing ovation when they were announced as presenters… Chris Hadfield was cool and also got an ovation… he sang a few lines of a BTO song before he introduced them…

many performers there whose music I knew, mainly from my driving in the car and listening to the radio…

the finale with a couple of younger bands joining BTO on the stage for Taking Care of Business was a great ending…

then we just had to get out through all the people, but the girls made sure we made it safely… even though we waited a bit, there were big crowds going the same direction as we were…

a memory to add to my collection…

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birthday two…

21 Friday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, birthday two, life changing, Montreal, present, remarkable

four am this morning marked the birth of our first daughter, in 1978…

had barely left my desk for a minute the day before, as I tried to finish up a huge report for one of my colleagues…

we got home and then headed to the hospital, because I wasn’t feeling one hundred percent… expected them to look me over and send me home…

got there around four pm, and she was born twelve hours later at four in the morning…

not too big a deal… except that she was six weeks early…

thankfully she was fine, and for her second birthday present we brought her home a little sister…

20140321-212708.jpg she sent me this picture today as she, her husband and a good friend of theirs were on the train to Montreal to celebrate their birthdays…

life certainly changed for George and I from the moment she was born…

being a parent has been and continues to be a remarkable experience…

waited…

19 Wednesday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, Cancer Society, daffodils, eye appointment, haircut, snowplow, waited

rushed home from work, opened the garage to take the car out to go for an eye appointment…

and found the car was covered in snow from the storm on Sunday, when we had it out to barbecue in the garage…

quickly cleaned it off and headed to the appointment… they had booked it a year ago when I was there, but I was not on their schedule today… very kindly they said they would fit me in, but it did mean that I had to wait… probably for about 45 minutes…

left there about 6:30 and went to get a haircut… when I got there was told there were three people ahead of me… decided to wait, thinking maybe 40 minutes or so…

left there at 8:30…

still hadn’t had dinner…

drove down my street to discover that the plows had been down on their first run, but had not cleared out the driveway and there is a hill about a foot high and a couple of feet deep…

parked on the street and then spent half an hour shovelling an area that I guessed the car would fit through…

didn’t want to leave the car on the street in case they hit it as they were working at cleaning the driveways…

happily I got it into the driveway and parked in the garage without a problem…

finally got some supper and while I was eating I heard the plows coming down the street to clean out the driveways, lol…

happy I had these beautiful daffodils at my desk today… they were a fundraiser for the Cancer Society…

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just this minute realized that I hadn’t closed the garage door… yikes…

green…

17 Monday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, death, green, money, processes, St. Patrick's Day

St Patrick’s Day… all about green…

wore green clothes and took a green treat for my colleagues…

was talking with someone about all the steps you have to go through when someone dies…

still wondering how you find someone who knows what you need to do… it felt like I bumbled my way through the process and luckily made it without any huge mistakes…

the list of what to do from the Funeral Home covered a few of the things that had to be done, but was certainly not complete for my situation…

so much of it had to do with another green thing – money…

felt like every organization I was in touch with wanted some…

insurance companies that wanted specific information which had to come from the doctor and which had to be paid for… Land Titles, who needed me to pay them to change the registration of the house… the leasing company that required a safety check so that the car could be put into my name… and so on…

when someone dies, a lot of green gets used up…

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