05 Tuesday Dec 2017
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big girl pants, cool, iPhone, mesmerizing, photos, snowflakes, widow
I love taking pictures of snowflakes, but the conditions have to be just right…
they are so cool and mesmerizing…
got these shots a few days back…
01 Friday Dec 2017
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big girl pants, boys, Brandon, Brandon Day 2, drive, eat, food, iPhone, meals, pool, volleyball, widow, work
so far… we’ve been to the pool and done some office work…
we have been to a lot of volleyball… three games in fact… two for our boys and one of the girls’ games…
had some fun with my tripod and the new tiny holder for my iPhone…
eaten a lot of food… not quite as well rounded meals as usual…
and driven back and forth, and around the town quite a bit… I believe we passed Brandon University at least four times, lol…
but I did get two Christmas presents:-)…
although we ate out for each meal, we had supper in our room as we were worn out…
everyone is tired, but it was a good day…
18 Saturday Nov 2017
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big girl pants, chocolate, flowers, home, iPhone, lunch, moments, Nhu Quynh, pictures, PTE, reflection, Technology, widow
been doing a bit of reading on taking better photos with my iPhone…
today I spent some time working on a reflection picture… here’s one of the pictures that came out fairly well… maybe not as dark as it should have been…
then it was out and about for lunch and our play at PTE…
lunch was a lovely treat…salad rolls and a noodle bowl at Nhu Quynh on Ellice… delicious, and I even managed to bring some home for tomorrow…
the Christmas decorations at Portage Place were pretty, so I took a few pictures… then on to the play… the set was made up of suitcases… very cool…
had some of a dark chocolate Callebaut bar... delicious…
then home for a nap… was up very early this morning…
18 Monday Sep 2017
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stayed home to rest and recover from this silly cold and plugged ear…
looking out the bedroom window I noticed a wasp on the outside… tried to get a picture but that apparently scared it…
I went outside once to take a few pictures of the hibiscus and discovered another wasp on it…
happy with the pictures…
did eventually get one of the hibiscus flower, lol…
31 Thursday Aug 2017
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2017 Ottawa Day 1, big girl pants, cake, chocolate, family, iPhone, memories, travel, vacation, walk, widow
well, today I’ve travelled in cars, planes, boats and on foot… all of it very good…
on my flight I watched a movie through WestJet Connect… first time I’ve used Connect and also the first time I’ve watched a movie on my phone… sadly the flight ended before the movie… apparently you can purchase internet access… might have to try that another time…
was picked up at the airport and we went to visit all the Ottawa signs and in the process wandered through Byward Market… just love how beautifully the produce is set out…
first actual stop was for a Beavertail… we shared a garlic and cheese one… yum…
then stopped and took pictures at every Ottawa sign downtown, lol…
walked over the bridge to see MosaiCanada which was very cool…
I will post more pictures of that later…
took a water taxi back to the Locks and walked along Sparks Street till we came across Bier Markt where we enjoyed a delicious dinner of mussels, duck wings and a Brussels sprout and kale salad…
back home for tea and a sliver of Baked Expectations Deadly Chocolate Mousse which I brought from Winnipeg…
now to bed…
18 Tuesday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, iPhone, laptop, lunch, meeting, project, telephone, The Forks, widow
wonderful day…
lunch out with a friend… went to The Forks…
ordered a tasty lunch…
caught up on our lives and discussed a project we are working on together… this is great because we haven’t worked together on anything for quite a while…
and then tonight I spent time with two wonderful women working on the same project… we had laptops, iPhones and telephones to get us through the meeting, lol…
so much more fun to work with others on any project…
pretty special day…
22 Thursday Jun 2017
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big girl pants, bracelet, charge, iPhone, links, purple, Siri, Technology, widow
today I stopped in at the Apple Store on my way home from work…
for the last few days Siri has just started to talk even though I am not touching the phone… bit creepy actually…
I’d also had a strange message on the screen saying that Apple had found some viruses…
right away I closed all the apps on the phone, but between that and the Siri chats, felt like maybe I should get it checked out…
got in to see someone at the Store within minutes and they ran a few diagnostics and it appears the phone is fine… they did wonder if I might be saying something that sounds like Hey Siri which would then make her respond…
they also suggested turning the phone off every day so it could have a rest;-)… didn’t know it needed breaks too, lol…
then I found the watch repair section at Sears and finally got the links taken out of the purple band for my Charge 2…
came out very nice… now I have 3 choices for bracelets to wear with it;-)…
16 Wednesday Nov 2016
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Apple Store, big girl pants, camera, eTransfers, iPhone, tech, technophile, widow
been working with a lot of difficult technology issues over the last few weeks…
makes me happy when my own technology is working well, lol…
when I was in Atlanta with my daughter in June she had this cool gadget that would let you upload photos from your camera directly onto you iPhone… as soon as I got home I picked one up at the Apple Store and carry it with me all the time, along with my camera…
I’ve also been starting to use eTransfers… my credit union has just started to take them… my kids and friends are starting to send me money and I even know how to send it to others, lol… it is very cool…
a young friend commented on how well my big girl pants are fitting when we discussed a recent eTransfer, lol… she is a technophile as well…
30 Sunday Oct 2016
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big girl pants, carving, George, halloween, iPhone, music, pictures, Poke Balls, pumpkin, walk, widow
this afternoon I was sitting in the living room listening to music I’ve recently downloaded to my phone…
took quite a while to get the music to play… checked my settings, my volume and everything else I could think of… after fussing with it for a while, tried turning the phone off and then back on… after that it worked fine…
made me laugh because that is usually the first thing I recommend to colleagues and friends when they explain about a computer glitch…
was listening to Willie Nelson as I waited for my kids to get here so we could carve pumpkins…
last year we did the carving at their house in their newly renovated kitchen… it has a huge island which was great for a number of people to stand and sit around while worked on their masterpieces…
George had such fun choosing and carving the Halloween pumpkins… he was always the last one at the table, after everyone else had run out of energy and patience and left partially finished pieces…
he taught the girls how to scoop out the seeds and goop and then have the fun of drawing and cutting out a face… with the grandkids times had changed and the designs were much fancier… which also made them more difficult to complete… and often they all wanted the same pattern… but he would figure out how to get everyone on track and having fun…
then there was always the exciting part when candles were inserted and the lights went turned out and the magic would be revealed…
such fun memories;-)…
here’s what we did today…
they picked up costumes on their way over so we did get pictures… yay… they are the cutest onesie jammies… a frog and two foxes…
we used the pumpkins that the kids grew in their garden… the carving went well… everyone decided on simple looks… came out great…
pizza, wings, salad and Halloween cupcakes for supper and then we went to the Park and took a few laps around the Formal Gardens…
full day…
05 Tuesday Apr 2016
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big girl pants, camera, computer, eyefi, histograph, iPad, iPhone, pictures, snow, Technology, widow
happy today to get my camera back from the hospital… it had been there for a couple of weeks and I was really missing it…
pleased it wasn’t an expensive fix and it is back to its usual wonderful self…
am going to have to re-enter all the info about my eyefi to get it connected again, so that will be a job for the next few days…
had a friend look at the Olympus to remove the histograph from the view on the screen… I had tried a few times, without any success, to delete it as I find it distracting… he couldn’t figure it out either, lol…
had some fun downloading pictures from my iPhone to my computer at work… this was great because I had taken 77 pictures of an event last week and wanted to get them into a folder on my office computer and didn’t want to send them in groups of four by email… much simpler and way quicker…
technology is great when you think about it…
just this afternoon we were looking at a form we had used six years ago when I started… it collected all the information but was handwritten so then we had to guess what had been entered… now, we email a fillable form which comes back typed and makes entering the data simple… if it isn’t filled out when a person arrives, we have an iPad available so that it can be completed in the office…
here’s the view out the window today…
enough with the snow already…
herbiggirlpants 
