15 Monday Dec 2025
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last week I received my first (and possibly only) Christmas card…
made me think of the cards I’ve received over the years… as it happens we sent very few cards, lol…
I am always so impressed with those who take the time to write cards and/or letters…
what a treat when one turns up;-)…
27 Thursday Nov 2025
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Advent, big girl pants, blessed, box, boxes, family, flattened, gifts, grandson, mail, moments, Technology, treat, widow
a very large, and heavy, box arrived in the mail…
I am sure that it is full of items for my Advent calendar… woohoo…
just yesterday morning I brought down the bag full of boxes which have been flattened…
my housemate will be rebuilding the twenty-four boxes and inserting the various items from my daughter into them…
then I will get the boxes and set them out to be opened one at a time during Advent;-)…
09 Thursday Jan 2025
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big girl pants, Canada Post, house, insurance, mail, moments, paid, Technology, uninsured, widow
so, in today’s Canada Post mail, I received a letter from my house insurance company advising that a payment was due on December 14th…
the date on the letter was November 23rd…
I called my insurance company right away and paid the invoice over the phone…
my first question to my agent was whether the house had been uninsured since mid December…
thankfully the house was covered…
I have now entered the date for the next payment to be sure it doesn’t get missed, lol…
23 Monday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Canada Post, email address, hearing, irritated, mail, moments, representative, Technology, widow
had to laugh when the first Canada Post mail that I received after the strike was from Bell/MTS, you know, the company I had been a loyal customer to for fifty years…
I called them to make sure I didn’t owe any money…
it took the representative quite a while to figure out that I didn’t owe them anything and they had received the equipment which I mailed back to them…
it was a bit funny that I had a terrible time hearing her as she kept fading in and out, lol…
I did not provide my email address to them as I don’t need any requests to return to them…
21 Wednesday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, Canada Post, mail, moments, online, shopping, stamps, Technology, waiting, widow
I’ve been waiting and waiting for stamps to arrive from Canada Post…
was able to drop some items in the mail a few days ago, but still need two stamps…
usually they arrive quickly, so I’ve been wondering what the problem was…
for whatever reason, I wasn’t sleeping, so went online around 2 am and noticed there were things in my Canada Post cart😳…
apparently, I didn’t finish the purchase all those days ago😂…
now they’ve been ordered and should really arrive soon…
15 Tuesday Dec 2020
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chocolate, Christmas, fridge, gifts, her big girl pants, mail, memories, parcel, permission, presents, purple, ribbons, widow, wrap
a parcel arrived from the kids in Ottawa… once I received text permission to open it, I discovered 3 boxes, a package that said it needed to go into the fridge, and a small chocolate bar, lol…
I had fun wrapping them and put purple ribbons on them before adding them to the growing pile under the tree… they are the first gifts for me…
it was funny to wrap my own parcels, but was a reminder of the few times I might have purchased my own gift, wrapped and put it under the tree… although usually those items would go to my beloved and he would wrap them up, lol…
fun memories… nice that now I can mostly look back on them without tears…
24 Monday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Canadian Chocoholic, driver’s licence, family, handy, health, mail, masks, moments, pictures, purple, Technology, widow, yarn
excellent mail day…
my updated licence arrived… I had gone to the insurance office about two weeks ago and was pleased that it turned up today, particularly with all the driving I’m doing… NOT…
I also received a parcel with three new face masks from Canadian Chocoholic… they are made from her newest fabric purchases and are beautiful… they aren’t screen printed, but two of them have elastic instead of the t-shirt yarn the others use… this was so I could wear them to get my hair cut, lol…
I love the ones with t-shirt yarn around my head because they are very comfortable, and hang nicely around my neck when not on my face, but they don’t work that well when someone is trying to cut your hair, lol…
29 Friday May 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Chihuly, chocolate, chocolate tasting, daughter, family, garden, happy, mail, masks, moments, purple, stickers, treats, widow
on Sunday as it was raining out a bit I came into the house and decided to do another of the puzzles from the Brain Games Sticker by Number In The Garden book that was one of the treats in the package that arrived from my daughter last Friday…
it included a number of items and was one (or two!) of my Advent All Year parcels:-)… she is trying to only go to the Post Office occasionally… besides the fun sticker book, there was a Chihuly postcard to colour, a Soma Coconut chocolate bar, a very cool magnetic bookmark, two face masks and a chocolate tasting!
pretty fine haul… we’d been expecting it since Tuesday and each day were disappointed when it didn’t arrive…
her app told her it had arrived and she texted and called me to check the mail as she didn’t want the chocolate to be out in the sun for too long, lol… she was on the phone as I brought it in and we had a lovely visit as I opened each piece of the package… right after we got off the phone, I did the first puzzle – a vase filled with lilacs, which we both love…
since then I’ve used the bookmark, eaten some of the chocolate bar but haven’t started on colouring the postcard… I haven’t been out yet so haven’t used the face masks, which one of her good friends made for me…
once she knew I had received the package she emailed me instructions on the chocolate tasting, which she had also sent to 3 friends in Winnipeg… I think we’ve also decided to do a Skype or Google Duo together for the chocolate tasting… should be fun…
not sure which picture I will do next:-)…
05 Sunday Apr 2020
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back, big girl pants, blessed, dressed, groceries, homemade, hot tub, mail, meals, moments, pasta, pjs, sauce, shoveler, snow, spaghetti, sugars, sunshine, widow
today, I got dressed, lol… I know that is a big deal for me and a lot of you, I’ll bet… not having to worry about anyone coming to the door makes pjs perfectly acceptable all day…
in the morning I cooked spaghetti and let it cool down so that the sugars would fly through my system when I warm it up…
looked in the fridge and found part of a jar of spaghetti sauce which I used as a base for my sauce…
the addition of spices, A1, ketchup, and soy sauce, with time to mingle together, makes for a tasty addition to the spaghetti… also added some frozen meatballs to get in the required protein… smelled lovely as it was simmering…
while that was cooking, I went out and shovelled between the front steps and the driveway… snow seemed heavier than in the backyard yesterday, lol… and my back is not so happy just now;-(…
my shovelers came by this morning and did the driveway and sidewalk (but not the connecting area)… very happy they were able to get that done as it needs to be clear for the mail carrier… and Tuesday my grocery order should arrive as well…
supper was tasty and there is enough sauce and spaghetti for two more meals… yay…
seemed like a full day;-)…
03 Tuesday Mar 2020
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Advent All Year, Amazon, big girl pants, blessed, family, mail, moments, package, shopping, smart home, Technology, treat, widow
got some treats in the mail…
the first was a package from my daughter… another of my Advent All Year gifts…
it held the cutest zippered bag with sea turtles on it… I think it might be the perfect size for my travelling technology…
and the package from Amazon with the two items I ordered just four days before… I had tried to purchase both items at local stores but wasn’t able to find them so went online and ordered them…
fun to get stuff, lol…
I also ordered a cube for the kitchen so that the pot lights can be connected all the time, and using one of the Kasa plugs we can turn them on and off as needed… it will also offer the option of plugging in a USB cord if necessary…
slowly but surely, the house is getting smarter…
a person could just live by ordering things online and never leaving the house, lol…
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