16 Monday Apr 2018
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arrangement, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, living room, office, talent, widow
so the flowers sure do look better…
these were the ones that went to the office and are sitting on my desk…
these are the lovelies sitting on the table in the living room…
wonderful to be surrounded by such talent;-)…
02 Monday Apr 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, book, coffee, food, friends, house cleaning, lunch, manicure, reading, Tea, treat, widow
had a wonderful day… treated to a manicure and lunch with a very special person…
after our manicures we went a few doors down and had lunch… she started with a fancy cup of coffee and I asked for a cup of tea, but they don’t have tea on the menu… something about doing things well, and just focusing on coffee…
we shared a yummy cauliflower, roasted sweet potato and kale salad… then I had a carbonara pasta topped with shrimp… very tasty… she had a pizza named after a person, lol…
as we ordered our dessert my friend asked for plain coffee and was told they only make the fancy type… so, no regular coffee or tea… odd…
after we finished lunch, I headed home and spent the afternoon deep in a book… another treat as I haven’t done much reading lately…
final treat of the day was having the cleaning crew come and freshen up the house…
very nice end to the Easter weekend…
27 Tuesday Mar 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, cookie, invitation, lunch, spa, treated, widow
yesterday my day was filled with lots of treats…
in the morning I received a lovely invitation to lunch and time at a spa…
at noon a colleague treated me to lunch… it was tasty…
and in the evening one of my BS buddies brought us chocolate from Florida and fresh baked cookies…
I certainly am blessed in so many ways…
24 Saturday Mar 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, friends, lunch, manakeesh, moments, skating, street food, sugar, walk, widow
Saturday is usually my do nothing and rest up from the week day…
today I had a lunch date with two lovely women… besides getting me out of the house, it was the first time in weeks that I went for an actual walk to get there and back…
ended up wearing my winter jacket because it was a bit breezy and felt like -13 with the windchill…
I really enjoyed being out in the fresh air…
we had a great time at a new Arab street food restaurant and tried different things… manakeesh with eggplant and cheese was my first pick and then I followed up with Halawa Banana and Pistachio Sweet Manakeesh… I also had a chai tea latte which was delicious and when I checked later, may have had 20 grams, or 4 teaspoons, of sugar in it… yikes… no wonder it tasted so great…
the picture shows my meal and the desserts that my friends had, lol… hadn’t had a visit with them for ages so it was really wonderful to spend time together…
after my walk home, which hopefully dealt with some of that extra sugar, I spent some time watching figure skating…
good day…
08 Thursday Mar 2018
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had a magical time with flowers today…
there were tulips at the office and I got time to take pictures for a social media post we were working on…
when I arrived home the sunlight was streaming through the living room window and making the vase of flowers look amazing… so I spent a lovely time taking pictures…
to top off the day, the house magically cleaned itself… it smelled good when I walked in and seeing the toilet paper folded was the confirmation…
well, the cleaners came although I hadn’t been expecting them, lol…
what a blessing…
02 Friday Mar 2018
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bed, big girl pants, blessed, castles, dinner, exhausted, grandsons, ice, ice castles, The Forks, widow
had a wonderful evening with my two youngest grandsons…
met up with them around 4:30 and then we wandered The Forks, visited the Ice Castles and had dinner out…
they must have gone down the slides a dozen times… now we are home and in various beds watching tv…
what a blessing to have time with them… although I am exhausted, lol…
01 Thursday Mar 2018
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got a lovely gift today from a colleague who had been home for a holiday…
it is a dress, but I will have it shortened to make a very cute top… the detail around the neck is particularly nice… makes me feel a bit like a queen when I have it on;-)…
my colleague is hoping she will eventually convince me to wear a dress… can’t even remember the last dress I’ve worn… I do wear floor length dresses occasionally although at work they end up getting caught in the wheels of my chair… and I wear sarongs all the time at home…
as we were leaving the office, took a few shots of the lovely rose at her desk…
colour matches my new top…
04 Sunday Feb 2018
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wearing those big girl pants a lot recently…
met with my finance guy and reviewed my portfolio… we discussed when I might need to begin removing funds from my RRSPs and how long the money will last…
it is complicated as the whole thing is a guessing game about how long I will live and need the money…
thinking how blessed I am that I have these problems as there are so many out there whose struggle with finances is much more difficult…
sure do miss my beloved during these times… feels a lot less stressful when there are two of you dealing with these issues…
10 Wednesday Jan 2018
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on Monday my BS buddies were over and we were catching up on our recent activities…
everyone drinks decaf coffee while I have tea…
I had my new mugs out and one friend was using the snowflake one…
it looks cool in the light and when it is full you can see the liquid through it…
I took this photo the other day of the light reflected in my tea…
made me reflect on how blessed I am with wonderful friends and so many treasures in my life;-)…
03 Wednesday Jan 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, family, furnace, fuse, nest, process, son-in-law, thermostat, widow, wire, work
so the smoke detector was installed on Thursday afternoon… and I am loving it… a cute little ring of blue (a nightlight) appears when I walk under it… so far no alarms, which is good, nor has it talked to me yet…
on Friday my son-in-law went out and found the Nest thermostat at a good price and on Saturday he began the process of installing it…
it was a long complicated piece of business… by 7 pm that night, it was 63 degrees Fahrenheit in the house because after the first install, and putting back the original thermostat, the furnace refused to circulate any heat… the furnace service people came out around 8 pm and discovered that a fuse had blown, so they went back to the shop and brought a new one and installed it… this particular fellow didn’t know how to install the Nest product so we left it so that the house could warm up… it was rather chilly…
on Tuesday my son-in-law tried again, after he had gone out and bought more fuses, in case we blew another one in the process of hooking up the new thermostat…
once again, the new one wouldn’t work so he reinstalled the old one… he walked over to the furnace company’s office and left a message for the owner to give us a call… a while later we heard back and they figured out that there needed to be another wire…
which meant that the drywall ceiling in the basement hall had to come down so he could run the cable… he removed it and cleaned everything up beautifully, but by then it was too late to move to the next step…
today, while I was at work, he was able to pull the wire (without cutting into the plaster in the hall, yay), connect everything, and set the temperature, because it finally worked perfectly…
we added it to my app and I can now change the temperature from my phone… although it does say it is -8 outside, whereas the weather app says it is -22, lol…
seemed like such a simple little job, but he didn’t stop until it was done;-)… I sure am blessed…
