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24 Saturday Mar 2018

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Saturday is usually my do nothing and rest up from the week day…

today I had a lunch date with two lovely women… besides getting me out of the house, it was the first time in weeks that I went for an actual walk to get there and back…

ended up wearing my winter jacket because it was a bit breezy and felt like -13 with the windchill…

I really enjoyed being out in the fresh air…

we had a great time at a new Arab street food restaurant and tried different things… manakeesh with eggplant and cheese was my first pick and then I followed up with Halawa Banana and Pistachio Sweet Manakeesh… I also had a chai tea latte which was delicious and when I checked later, may have had 20 grams, or 4 teaspoons, of sugar in it… yikes… no wonder it tasted so great…

the picture shows my meal and the desserts that my friends had, lol… hadn’t had a visit with them for ages so it was really wonderful to spend time together…

after my walk home, which hopefully dealt with some of that extra sugar, I spent some time watching figure skating…

good day…

tea…

28 Saturday Oct 2017

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on Thursday I ran across to the CityPlace Farmers Market looking to refresh my stash of Teamate loose tea…

I really love their Ginger Peach and often make it in the evening using my wonderful Wall left handed tea mug… but sometimes it feels like too much effort… I usually make tea in a thermos, take the bag out after it has steeped and then have it for the next while… I don’t want to use loose tea in my thermos as it would be very difficult to get it clean afterwards…

a friend mentioned they had suggested to the tea person that they should put it into teabags… what a brilliant idea…

as it happens I have tea bags from David’s Tea, so I filled a few and then put them back into the empty Teamate package…

this morning I used one of those bags…

worked perfectly… and way less work…

made me think of my beloved… our all time favourite tea was Apricot Ginger from Twinings… we were so sad when it was discontinued and we never did find a good replacement… until now…

I’ve spent the day watching figure skating… drinking my tea and remembering how my beloved would watch tv in the basement, particularly when I was watching skating, so he wouldn’t have to watch it, lol…

sure do miss him…

competition…

20 Friday Jan 2017

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watching skating on tv tonight and thinking of my dear friend Ellen…

when I come across a skating competition I still turn to grab the phone to give her a reminder call, lol… 

we would always call one another when one of the events came on to be sure the other knew about it… and once it was over we would spend time debriefing…

lovely memories…

lazy…

27 Saturday Feb 2016

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lazy day…

spent the day watching sports… some great figure skating and speed skating on… also watched a few cooking shows…

  
only actual chore I managed was to water my plants… noticed that my amazing orchid, which I bought mid-October, has finally started to drop some of its flowers…

  
it has bloomed for over four months…

decided to make the red lentil curry for supper… and to double the recipe as the can of tomatoes was twice what I needed… was putting everything together after I cooked all the lentils, only to discover that I had green curry paste not red… oops… so I made it with what I had…

  
not quite the same but still tasty… a bit more spicy than the red version, lol…

  
enjoyed it with brown basmati rice, cilantro and brussel sprouts on the side…

starting…

23 Saturday Jan 2016

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spent the morning at MBlog 2016 with a room full of bloggers wanting to grow… many great tips on organizing and content creation… a blog is a conversation advised Kyla Roma… we spent time looking at our own blog and working through our brand and who we wanted to be having the conversation with…

  
as the speaker, Kyla kept us moving forward so that by the end we had lots of content to work with for the coming year… 

I spent time remembering that the reason I started to blog was to share some of my experiences following my husband’s death and my desire to share as I move forward in my life’s journey…

it was energizing to hear the sound of wisdom being shared and see the animated faces of the bloggers as everyone soaked up knowledge…

  
left the event filled with ideas floating around in my head…

once home I watched figure skating on tv and had a nap… hadn’t slept well last night… snow started just after I arrived home… 

  dreamt of my beloved coming in after shovelling and when I woke up thought he was in the basement watching tv… took a few moments to realize that he wasn’t… 

maybe a combination of thinking of his loss, snow falling, and the skating, brought on the dream… my neighbour and I would call one another whenever skating was on to be sure the other didn’t miss any programs… I would watch upstairs while George would watch his programs in the basement… shook me up a little…

skating…

27 Sunday Oct 2013

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spent quite a few hours over the weekend watching figure skating…

brought to mind my dear friend and former neighbour Ellen… for many years we would call one another to be sure the other knew that there was some skating event taking place on tv… often if George or her husband answered they would try not to pass on the message as neither of them wanted to watch…

got to be quite the game… just recently I heard that her husband died as well… feels like an era is over…

yesterday I stopped and purchased a new battery charger for my camera because mine had vanished… today I went to pick up the phone in the kitchen and what do I spot, but the charger… can’t believe I have been walking past it as I searched all through the house for it… maybe George moved it, lol…

spent some time working on a little project and had a lovely visit with a friend…

had hoped the kids might rake up the leaves while they were here today, but they weren’t able to make it over so I had a roast dinner on my own… but I do have some leftovers for the week…

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