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insurance…

16 Thursday May 2013

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full day…

came home, had a quick peek at the new and non-leaking water heater and headed up to bed for a short nap while my dinner was cooking in the oven…

Crystal was here this morning to let in the repair guy who got the old tank out and new tank in in record time – I’m estimating $30 per minute he was here… luckily she can do some of her work online… then she came back in the afternoon to meet an insurance adjuster who came out to see what damage had been done…

new water heater...

new water heater…

have lived in this house for 40 years come September…  have dealt with the same insurance company, and never put in a claim in all that time… when I called this morning the woman I spoke with advised me, that besides the $1000 deductible, there would be an additional $100 fee for each of the next three years on my insurance policy for filing a claim…

wet carpet...

wet carpet…

the adjuster is sending out a contractor to look the situation over and get an estimate for drying out an insulated wall which might mean taking down a shelving unit that George built a few years ago and opening up the wall, and also lifting and drying a section of the carpet, which may also have to be replaced… hopefully they can come in the next few days to give me information so I can make a decision before I have to leave…

as a colleague said to me today, those big girl pants are getting to fit better every day…

the estate of the late…

13 Monday May 2013

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received a cheque last week from the CRA… it was a refund for 2012 taxes for George… next year I won’t need to have a tax form done for him…

cheque...

cheque…

after work tonight I stopped in at the Credit Union to deposit the cheque into the Estate Account as I don’t have a debit card for that account…

a few weeks ago I received a couple of cheques from Sun Life made out to the Estate as well… they are providing medical/dental coverage for me for a two year period through Rona where George worked… whenever they send anything it is always to the Estate… most people only have an Estate account for a year but I will need to keep this one for the next couple…

I am still in a state of flux because my employer’s insurance company will not take me on, as I refused the insurance when I started working there, as George’s insurance was quite good… we had gone through a period where we both had insurance and it caused nothing but hassles, so I gave that insurance up and only used his, which worked very well…

now I have to get this sorted out before next March… another job for those big girl pants… no doubt it will involve many phone calls with a variety of people… not looking forward to the process…

been missing George a fair bit lately… I talk about him a lot, which can sometimes freak people out, but I don’t want to just leave him out of my life… he is still an important piece of it… I lived longer with him, than without him…

but I did get some American money for the cruise…

Mother’s Day…

12 Sunday May 2013

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as one of my young friends wrote on Facebook today “celebrate your mother every day, not just one day”… and my kids do that…

made myself a lovely breakfast and sat out on the deck in the sun to enjoy it… spent some time with a new Peterson Bird app and figured out the songs I’ve been hearing lately… black capped chickadees and chipping sparrows have been serenading me…

my kids called to wish me a happy Mother’s day and make plans for the day… Crystal and all the boys came and picked me up and we went to the Zoo to see the penguins who have come for a summer visit… everyone in the city wanted to see them on this lovely day and we spent about 45 minutes in line waiting… but it went very well as the boys went off here and there while Crystal and I stood in the line… they had a picnic, visited Hudson, met a purple frog in the Discovery Centre, as well as visiting all the animals in the Barn…

finally we got to see the penguins… the three of them were in a small tank located in the old gift shop… they were all wearing cool jewellery… after a brief look we walked through the penguin gift shop and headed home…

hanging around...

hanging around…

great swimmer...

great swimmer…

after we got home, the girls had a nap, well maybe we should call it quiet time, while the boys entertained themselves… then we had steak, baked potatoes, mushrooms, asparagus, salad and lobster for dinner… yum, yum…

we all made funny faces...

we all made funny faces for the camera after dinner…

Jeff showed me a simple way to start the barbecue so I might just give that a try one night this week, wearing those big girl pants…

early birthday present from Auntie...

early birthday present from Auntie…

everyone left, I worked on a program for a group I belong to, printed some pictures, wrote my blog and am going to have a real nap… then a hot tub and to bed…

 

papers…

06 Monday May 2013

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had two important papers to deal with tonight…

first one was from Krevco… it was the water test for the hot tub… when you refill it you need to take the water in to be tested to be sure that everything is balanced… filled the tub on Saturday and it took until this morning to get to 103 degrees, which is my favourite temperature…

as soon as I got home from work I took a sample in and then came home and started adding the chemicals at twenty minute intervals…  looking forward to a hot tub tonight…

results for the hot tub...

results for the hot tub…

then I headed to Ness Physiotherapy, which is quite close to home, and I think was the place that George went to off and on… it was my first time having physio so I was a little tense… Tori advised that the problem areas were the iliopsoas and tensor fascia latae… she pushed and prodded, pulled, did some fancy thing with electrical current and gave me a page with some exercises to do to strengthen the sore bits…

finally got home and had a nap and some dinner… now off to do some exercises – one reminds me of aquasize and the other of yoga, lol… and then a hot tub… which apparently is a very good thing for the above-mentioned problems…

was missing George throughout the whole process, but did put on the big girl pants and got it all done… some days that is easier than others…

the car…

30 Tuesday Apr 2013

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don’t drive the car much… usually ride with someone to work and back… so the kids have been using it as one of their vehicles is a little under the weather…

my ride to work is planning on doing different things at the end of the day so I have to make some alternate plans for getting home over the spring and summer months…

Baby, as we call her...

Baby, as we call her…

one of my colleagues is off work for quite a while following some surgery so I arranged to use their spot while they are away…  so I will be taking the car to and from work for the month of May…  a bit ahead of schedule, but for the last few days I’ve brought it to work due to various other circumstances…

today, I had to go to my doctor… I finally broke down and made an appointment as my side hasn’t been recuperating as fast as I had hoped and there aren’t that many days until I leave for the cruise…

the thing is, he agreed with what I thought was wrong, but diagnosed it as a groin injury… this is particularly funny as one of my grandsons had a similar injury on the weekend… so now I have to take drugs at bedtime and spend some time having physiotherapy…  but the good news is that it should be all better by the time I leave…

not sure if I will be liking driving the car to and from work or not… I guess we’ll see how those big girl  pants are fitting…

brings to mind hearing a colleague say something the other day about borrowing my big girl pants, lol…

eyes…

24 Wednesday Apr 2013

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been struggling with a persistent infection in my right eye… had it since before Christmas and have been taking antibiotics and a topical ointment and seeing an ophthalmologist 3 or 4 times during that period…

I had been thinking that I should get Crystal to go with me this morning, but then thought I would wear my big girl pants as he would likely only give me another prescription and send me off…

well, how wrong could I be… today, he did a little surgery on it, right in the office… his office is located in the Eye Clinic at Children’s Hospital and there are lots of very small people in his waiting room… my little eye infection is not such a big deal… although while he was working on me, it felt like a rather big deal… it was miserable for quite a while afterwards, but right now I really can’t feel any sensation in it at all…  I am trying to keep my hands away from my face, just to be sure, lol…

eye following surgery...

eye following surgery…

reminded me of George’s cataract surgery just before he died… it was his right eye as well… we went through quite the time with giving him the drops that he had to have in it 3 times a day… every single time I put them in, he would jump, lol… but his vision improved a hundredfold…

George's eye following cataract surgery...

George’s eye following cataract surgery…

amazing the things that our bodies go through…

 

grandparents’ day…

22 Monday Apr 2013

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got the car back so that I could drive to the grade 2 class for Grandparents’ day… George and I had made it a couple of times before, but this will be my first year on my own as last year I didn’t hear about it in time to arrange to go…

put on the big girl pants so that I could figure out exactly where the school was… it is quite a distance from Crystal’s house but I think I got the directions fairly straight in my head… and then I printed out a Google map to get me there…

first thing the little guy said to me when he got here on Sunday was how much he was looking forward to the day…

found my way there, got into the classroom about a minute late and had a lovely time… after watching the kids work on a Smart Board calendar in French, we completed a survey about what it was like when we went to elementary school… there was at least one grandparent in the room who attended a one-room schoolhouse… after that we cut out pictures of things that we do together and pasted them onto a sheet of paper… we also added some words that described what the pictures were…

pictures that show what we do together...

pictures that show what we do together…

finally he read me a couple of French stories… then we went to McDonalds (along with about half of the grandparents and kids who had been at the school) for lunch, then back to school and work…

as we were driving back to the school from McDonalds we talked about how Grandpa would have enjoyed the day and how he wouldn’t have had any trouble finding the school or McDonalds…  we were both missing him…

another milestone…

standing firm…

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

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not long ago I was in a situation where someone was questioning me about something and I didn’t go to the what did I do wrong place… I’ve talked with many women about this place, and how quick many of us are to go there… this has also been very beneficial, as previously I thought I was the only person who could get there in a nano second, and apparently others go there as well…

I remained calm, brought forward the appropriate information and stood my ground on the matter…

path is clear although there is still lots of snow...

path is clear…

not exactly sure how I got to that place… whether I was feeling particularly knowledgeable about the subject, whether I just didn’t care about the outcome, whether I was just too tired, or whether I had just arrived in the place where I knew what I knew and believed it…

it was quite liberating and I hope I can find that place again and again…

a little chilly on the toes this morning...

big girl pants influence???…

maybe it was the big girl pants influence, lol…

visiting…

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

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crazy day at work, and then I put on the big girl pants and drove to the airport, parked, and met a friend who was arriving for a meeting at CCS, my former workplace…

she took me out for dinner at the Star Grill where we had a lovely meal, caught up on each other’s lives and shared lots of laughter…

we have only met face-to-face 3 or 4 times, but I worked with her by telephone on a volunteer committee for a number of years… during that time we had great meetings and learned a lot about websites…

DUCC website meeting...

DUCC website meeting…

it was wonderful to get together tonight and reminisce about the fun times we had… then I dropped her off at another friend’s home and returned here to find that WordPress is working on my laptop (shhhhhh)…

what a great evening…

clean bill of health…

15 Friday Mar 2013

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yesterday I had an appointment at CancerCare for a check-up… last time we were there the wait was over two hours… this time we were in a room within 20 minutes of arriving… waited for quite a while in the room before seeing the doctor… it is hard to feel peeved when you know that they could be giving someone devastating news or have been in an operating room saving someone’s life…

after the check-up the doctor advised that everything was fine and they would see me in six months…  they were pleased that I can no longer feel the mesh that was part of the hernia surgery, as many people feel it for a very long time… I had asked if I could have the check-ups with my GP instead of using up the space in the CancerCare system but was advised that it made more sense for them to see me, at least for the first two years…

made me think back to the few days that I was in hospital in July when I had my surgery… it was just four months after George’s death and two months since discovering the cancer… my time in the hospital was a roller coaster of bad reactions to pain meds and happiness that I had actually survived the surgery as well as huge sadness that George wasn’t there to look after me…

frst night at the hospital...

I have been wearing those big girl pants a lot since then…  when I think back I realize how I have grown in these months…

I think of my beloved every day and the impact of his loss on my grandchildren, my children and me…

and then I remember all the special moments in our lives…

George and Tavin...

George and Tavin…