02 Wednesday Oct 2013
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yesterday I brought the sunflower seed head in…
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 as it filled in…
not sure how long to wait for it to be dry…
closeup of sunflower in the front flower bed…
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…
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…
30 Monday Sep 2013
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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…
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…
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…
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…
29 Sunday Sep 2013
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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…
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…
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…
watched some TV and read a bit…
think I’m going to bed now as I hardly got a nap in…
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…
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…
there was one morning glory blooming today but there were many buds as well… looking forward to more blooms…
26 Thursday Sep 2013
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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…
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…
25 Wednesday Sep 2013
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ia couple of days ago someone asked if I had taken a picture of the beautiful sky…
I said that I hadn’t but didn’t mention that my camera is in the shop… I have really been missing it… the shutter hadn’t been opening properly for a few weeks and I was having to touch it to get it to open all the way… a couple of days ago it just quit opening…
I talked to someone at the store where I had purchased it and they gave me the name of a repair shop in the city to take it to… they also suggested it might be cheaper to just buy a new camera… I said I didn’t want a new camera because I really like this one…
at the shop, the woman who helped me, said they all say that, lol… they send a quote by email and you can accept or reject it… if you accept it, they go about fixing your camera… not sure what happens when you reject the quote, maybe you get your camera back in bits and pieces… anyway, they are working at fixing it and the price wasn’t at all bad… but I am missing it…
today, as I was leaving home, I got a picture with my phone of the sunflower… I think it now has all the seeds filled in, but don’t know how long it takes to be ready, or maybe it is ready now that it is all filled in…
sunflower this morning…
I ran out to pick up some lunch and going down the lane I spotted a butterfly landing under a car and got a shot of it, not a very good one though… I’m sure the people walking along thought I was a bit nuts…
butterfly downtown…
I am gong to be very happy when I get that camera back…
24 Tuesday Sep 2013
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, currency, life insurance, money, peace of mind, pension, RSP
had a few conversations about money recently…
brought back some memories of when George died and I was so worried that I wouldn’t be able to keep the house or have a life…
George did a good job of ensuring there was sufficient money available for me… there was life insurance money and RSP money and pension money… all of which enabled me to continue my life without any great difficulty… truly I have been blessed…
like others, I am more likely to spend some of it now, as opposed to waiting till I retire, because who knows whether I will be healthy in five or ten years, or even alive…
in January I took all of the kids to Mexico, thanks to some of the life insurance money that I received… I was able to take the Alaskan cruise with some of those funds as well…
now I have slowed the spending pace down a bit, but am thinking about what trip I will take next…
I think about all I learned after he died and I had to deal with insurance companies, credit card companies and government agencies… sadly, if you make any mistakes in the process it can take a very long time to get things sorted out…
but money isn’t everything, as I have seen with a few friends who have lots of it… it doesn’t really bring happiness or health, although it does provide some peace of mind…
there is also the currency of friendship, and health and caring for others…
remember…
23 Monday Sep 2013
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came home sick this afternoon… my tummy is not happy… had a sleep and a tiny bit of supper which didn’t help at all…
spent some time with my BS friends which is always lovely… we talked about life and love and family… we were all here, with one on Skype… we are getting used to this way of meeting which does remind us of the few years that one of us lived in Minneapolis and we met by speaker phone…
dripping on the left side…
realized this morning that the pond is still leaking… sent off an email with a couple of pictures and hope that it will be fixed before it needs to be emptied for the winter… I have now paid for the whole thing, so am a bit worried whether they will actually do something or not…
view of the low water level…
thinking of how I have grown over the last 18 months…
