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bedtime…

08 Wednesday Apr 2020

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been noticing that how we use our time has changed in this covid-19 period of our lives…

apparently I couldn’t have started my retirement at a better time…

in conversations with friends we’ve talked about how it doesn’t really matter what bedtime we have, because for many of us, we don’t have to get up at a certain time…

last night was an example for me… I went to bed at 8 in an effort to get rid of a nagging headache… I woke up around 1, still had the headache, and couldn’t get back to sleep so eventually I got up, had a hot tub and spent a few hours reading in the living room…

there was a full moon so I spent a lovely few minutes with my camera and tripod taking photos…

finally around 5:30 I went to bed and slept until 9:30;-)…

just saw this post on Instagram from @canadianchocoholic… an example of changing times…

as emails come in from banks and other organizations; tv ads mention options to delay payments; the government continues to come up with ways to assist businesses and individuals in these crazy times, I truly am blessed that my home is safe, my income is secure and I don’t need to leave for any reason…

time is fluid…

focussed…

07 Friday Dec 2018

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crazy morning…

I usually set my alarm for 6:30 but always wake up before it goes off… I’ve been having trouble sleeping for the last week or so due to a sore neck so didn’t put on my alarm as it was my day off…

woke up to a call from my daughter at 7:51… unfortunately I had an 8 am doctor’s appointment;-(…

flew out of the house wondering what my blood pressure reading would be, lol…

was only a few minutes late as the office is close to home…

my blood pressure was great which was amazing but my A1C was not so great… still in the safe zone but it has been creeping up over the last year…

early on following my diabetes diagnosis I did not consume any sugar and was so strict with my diet that my life was overly focussed on food… the good news about that was how low I was able to bring down my A1C without meds… the bad news was that the strict eating was causing problems with my quality of life… since then the doctor and I agreed to relax my eating to find a happy medium…

today we decided that I need to find something between crazy strict and what I’ve been doing recently…

so, not so many treats… and I also think I need to be sure to spend a bit more time on the treadmill every day…

crummy…

03 Tuesday Apr 2018

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the weather has been decidedly crazy lately…

last week I wore sandals to work… since then there have been threats of snow almost daily…

happily, for many of the days, at least the sun was shining…

nearly everyone I talk to has been feeling crummy with the up and down temperatures… hard to know whether to wear a light jacket, the middle jacket or the really heavy duty cold one…

hard to believe we haven’t had much snow at all this winter considering that it’s been so cold…

crazy…

cupboard…

13 Monday Nov 2017

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a while ago my oldest asked why I left the cupboard door to the garbage open…

I think it is so I can have access all the time, but it did make me think back to years ago when one of my best friends always had her drawers and cupboard doors open when she was cooking…

seemed dangerous and made me crazy…

so it was a bit humorous that apparently I have started to leave this one door open…

this morning there was a tiny rainbow in the kitchen as I was taking the picture…

have to think about this a bit more and maybe start closing it …

crazy…

07 Wednesday Dec 2016

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after such a late start to winter the snow has been coming down like crazy for the last few days…

when I looked out this morning the driveway looked like it had just a bit of snow, but when I opened the garage door I discovered this drift…

clearly the car wasn’t going to make it through that… so I shovelled for a while… wasn’t too windy or cold, in fact I could hear water dripping from the eavestrough as I worked… 

it was, however, very heavy… and there wasn’t really anywhere to pile it up, so I did a bit of walking and dumping, lol…

eventually it was cleared enough for me to get the car out…

the drive downtown was slow but steady and most of the roads had little snow on them, thanks to all the workers who have been working around the clock to keep the city moving…

snowed off and on for most of the day and my grandson got dropped off at my office to come home and shovel again…

we parked on the street so he could work without anything in his way…

he worked outside and I made supper inside and we finished at just about the same time…

then we visited… well, he played on his phone and I wrote my blog while we waited for his dad to pick him up when he was done work… 

happily we had lots of conversation in the car and over supper…

just need to bring Shadow in and then head to bed…

repair…

18 Monday Jul 2016

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four years ago today I went into surgery for a hysterectomy due to cancer, and a hernia repair… I had two different surgeons involved to get everything done, basically at the same time…

just four months after George died I had been to accountants, financial experts and lawyers to put my affairs in order… I wasn’t sure I would wake up…

I remember that morning, as I lay on the stretcher, my heart pounding, wondering if I had done everything needed so that my girls wouldn’t have too much trouble dealing with my stuff if I didn’t make it… I didn’t want them to struggle the way I had when my beloved died…

I was so thrilled to wake up and learn that the surgery had gone well and the prognosis was excellent…

my body has always reacted poorly to any drugs and the pain meds they gave me kept me from sleeping and made me slightly crazy… eventually (within 8 hours) I was able to convince the doctors and nurses to stop all medication… I have always felt it easier to deal with the pain than the side effects of medication…

so, it was painful for a while, but my head was clear and I knew the pain would subside as my body repaired itself… 

and I was so happy to be alive, that helped too…

every step of my recovery was supported by family and friends… people sent me flowers, brought me food, sat with me, walked with me, ate with me, called me every day, stayed with me, and did chores around the house and yard that I couldn’t manage – for the first six weeks I couldn’t lift anything over a pound… what an amazing group… 

fast forward to today… I am healthy, able to lift and carry, have lost around 40 pounds, walk regularly and eat carefully… I am managing my diabetes with diet and exercise and feel pretty darn good…

still have the most amazing group of people in my life… 


I just realized a few days ago that there are no morning glories in the garden this year… made me a bit sad… we’ve had them in the garden for many years… I just love their beauty, the surprise in the morning when they open, and the inner glow they seem to have… when I was in hospital in 2010 for a six week stint, I remember George taking pictures each morning before he came so he could show the blooms to me…

I miss my beloved each and every day but know I truly am blessed as I continue down this new path…


life is fleeting…   enjoy every moment…