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Vessi…

14 Monday Apr 2025

Posted by sulis303 in business, health, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather

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ankles, big girl pants, boots, Canadian, fit, happy, landfill, moments, shopping, snow, Technology, Vessi, waterproof, widow

so excited today to get my new winter boots…

the pair I’ve been wearing for well over twenty years have begun to fall apart in front of me;-(…

I wanted Canadian-made and decided to try Vessi… besides being made in BC, they are also waterproof…

I had hoped to try a pair on and went to the mall, but they aren’t carried in Manitoba…

so, I took a chance and ordered them online and was pleased to get free shipping…

I ordered them last week and they arrived today…

and they fit… I was worried as often when I’ve tried pull-ons, they wouldn’t go over my ankles, but I had no problem… yay…

now they will get put away for when the snow starts in the Fall and the falling apart pair will sadly head to the landfill…

handwritten…

25 Wednesday Oct 2023

Posted by sulis303 in business, family, health, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

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14 years, bathroom, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, fit, grandson, handwritten, Home Depot, medicine cabinet, moments, new, plastic, Rona, search, stock, widow

been having trouble keeping one of the medicine cabinet doors closed for the last few weeks…

I thought it was because the magnet on the mirror was separating from the plastic behind it…

the other morning I looked at it and thought it was no longer level…

at which point I discovered that the plastic where the door attached to the cabinet had broken… it took two of us to remove the broken cabinet…

what a treat to discover my beloved’s handwritten measurements inside the hole🤗…

after measuring the space, it was off to Home Depot to see if we could find something that would fit into the hole in the wall… and of course I needed two, sigh…

we found a cabinet that should work, but the store we were at didn’t have any in stock, so it meant another trip… after trying two other stores it was off to Rona, where we found two of the same cabinet at an even better price;-)…

it has been fourteen years since my beloved installed these cabinets when we redid the bathroom, so I guess it did pretty well, being opened more than ten thousand times, lol… that wasn’t a bad run…

and, just like that we have two new cabinets, although the space inside them is smaller, but they will work fine;-)…

arched…

30 Thursday Mar 2023

Posted by sulis303 in business, garden, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather

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arched, big girl pants, blessed, box, fit, garden, instructions, moments, online, pieces, snow, Technology, trellis, widow

well, that was fun;-)…

ordered an arched trellis online and it arrived a few days ago… I was a little worried because the package was taped up a lot and I wondered if all the pieces were going to be inside…

I hadn’t planned to put it together until the snow was gone, but was a bit worried about missing pieces and what I would do if I didn’t sort it out till later…

when it was undone, some of the bags appeared to have been opened and then re-closed… and, there were no instructions…

took a while, but after looking at the information from the link where I bought it, it came together nicely…

currently it is in three pieces… the two sides and the arch… not sure I could get it outside if I join it all together… the final two cross pieces and screws are waiting to finish it up…

might take the pieces out to the garage and finish it, or just wait for the snow in the side garden to melt so I can put it in its new home…

sure hope it fits the way I want…

earbuds…

13 Friday Aug 2021

Posted by sulis303 in business, life, loss, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, earbuds, fit, happy, iPhone, moments, music, online, shopping, sound, Technology, widow

received my new earbuds…

two or three weeks ago my pretty Samsung Earbuds just stopped working… all of a sudden they wouldn’t pair with my phone… of course they were not under warranty… the service department suggested I have them repaired locally but the local people advised they would have to send them away… it was going to cost $55 if they sent them away and I decided not to have them repaired… and it wasn’t clear how much the repair might cost…

I thought about it for quite a while and did a ton of research before deciding on these ones…

I want them mainly for phone calls which meant there weren’t that many options and ones that would be comfortable in my ears…

I finally ordered them on Wednesday, and they were delivered on Friday;-)…

they were easy to pair with my iPhone and music sounds good…

will have to see how they are on phone calls…

wish me luck;-)…

fit…

14 Thursday Apr 2016

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized

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band, big girl pants, fit, Fitbit, Flex, purple, replacement, ripped, weight loss, widow

a while ago I noticed that my Fitbit Flex band was breaking…

after I bought the Fitbit I ordered a purple band… I know, you are shocked… about a year later it ripped, so I ordered a set with 3 in it… a purple, pink, and turquoise one… of course I’ve only worn the purple one, but I was able to give the turquoise one to a friend… still need to find someone who could use the pink…

it’s been about another year when I noticed this break…

instead of just buying a new one, I emailed them, thanks to a suggestion from my daughter… they responded very quickly and said they would send a replacement… at no charge…

when I arrived home today there was a parcel on the step…

  

yay… and here is the new one on my wrist…

 

Fitbit Flex band

 

another exciting piece is that now it only has two open spots where it fastens… in the last year or so it has moved at least five spaces… I was actually wearing the small size while I was waiting for the replacement to arrive…

  
another visible example of how much weight I have lost… way to go me…

life is good…

fit…

21 Monday Apr 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, customer service, fit, Fitbit, maple syrup, Pier 1

got up and out this morning… found the Fitbit at the Apple Store and got some help getting it connected to my phone…

20140421-225150.jpgonce it was charged, got to play with it a bit… think it is going to be fun and an encouragement to be more active…

ran a few more errands including treating myself to a new bowl… because I hardly have any, lol… saw it on Cityline last week and went searching to see if I could find it… with some great customer service, was in and out of Pier 1 in record time, and it was on sale…

20140421-230331.jpgfinally, had a visit from a young friend who lives in Vancouver… she brought me some very nice maple syrup…

20140421-230526.jpglife is good…

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