up early on Friday to put out the box of pass-me-along items…
had to go back upstairs and get the phone to take a few shots of the beautiful moon…
tried to use my Nikon, but the battery was dead, lol… it is now sitting on the counter getting charged… I think I’ve hit something that is keeping it on wifi all the time which is why the battery keeps dying… going to have to do a bit of research to fix that😳…
so, the moon isn’t quite as clear as I was hoping for, but it does show how beautiful the morning was;-)…
I love the Olympics and have watched them for years… I remember a trip we took once and how we had to have access to TVs at the end of each day so that I could keep up with what was happening, lol…
I like to watch in real time so that means reorganizing my sleep schedule to get the best results…
for these ones I couldn’t decide how I felt about them going ahead this year… but now they are happening, I am in… I usually get a Canada Day t-shirt and had purchased one a while ago, but on July 1st I decided not to wear it… as the games began, I put it on;-)…
on Friday I was up at 5:30 am to watch the opening ceremony and ordered McDonald’s for breakfast so I didn’t have to stop watching to make something…
at one point during the first day I was switching between tv channels and streaming on my phone at the same time and I considered turning on the laptop as well… in the end I decided the laptop would be overkill…
I have slowed down slightly… apparently I need a bit more sleep these days…
the great thing about streaming is that I can watch some of the sports that I enjoy most but which don’t always get shown on tv…
the surfing, gymnastics and dressage have been lovely to watch, even if not exactly as they happened…
I’ve even taken the laptop out into the garden so that I can enjoy the weather and not miss anything, lol…
so happy to be able to watch whenever and wherever… retirement is a lovely thing;-)…
last night I set my alarm for the first time in ages… Big Brothers and Big Sisters were doing a pickup of donations and I’d been gathering things for weeks…
had to turn on all the lights because it was so dark… went out to sweep off the step but the thin layer of snow was frozen, lol…
I moved all the boxes from the den closet onto the front step… took a while…
then I turned on the motion sensor for the front camera and had a cup of tea while I watched my morning news program…
good thing I got up early because they arrived just after eight…
happy to see things that I no longer need, but are in excellent condition, get to be reused ;-)…
so… all summer I woke up in the morning and the light from outside was enough to start my day…
now I am talking to Google so she can turn on the lights, advise the temperature in the house, share information about the weather and the drive to work…
as I leave the house I have to remember to tell her I am out of here so she turns everything off, or down, for the day…
can I just say the weather has been silly for at least a week…
last Friday it was snowing as I went to an appointment in the morning… by the end of the day it was basically all gone…
on Wednesday it snowed like crazy and as I headed out to the car after work – in my sandals – I realized that I did not have a brush or scrapper to clean it off… happily I had a cloth in the trunk which helped clean off the snow from the windows…
when I got home I pulled out some brushes and cleared off the roof which was still covered with the wet snow… thank goodness it melted away overnight and the garage isn’t going to be filled with snow all winter…
today it has been raining/snowing all day so I haven’t left the house…
hoping tomorrow is better because I still don’t have a turkey, lol…
early start to the day with a dentist appointment for a filling…
usually my teeth are in great shape and the regular cleaning and check-ups keep any cavities away…
unfortunately last time I was in, she noticed a broken piece on one of my back molars… I hadn’t been wearing my mouthguard as much as I am supposed to, which might have been the problem…
let me tell you I’ve been wearing it every night since… don’t want any more broken bits, sigh…
this morning she was sad when she realized which tooth it was, because I gag easily, so doing work at the back of my mouth is always stressful… for me and for her… she doesn’t want to cause any unnecessary stress or strain on me if at all possible…
whenever she does a procedure on my teeth she works quickly and takes frequent breaks so I can breathe… this is one of the reasons that I found a dentist who dealt with “chickens”… and they love purple;-)… at the water station they have the cutest little purple cups…
today it went well until they were removing some of the stuff they had stuck into my mouth, lol… but, I survived…
I don’t have dental insurance and usually what I pay for 3 cleanings and check-ups is less than the insurance… today’s bill was more than anticipated, but worth it to stop any further decay…
once I got to the office I had a blueberry smoothie, which was purple too…
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