07 Friday Sep 2018
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app, BeeWi, big girl pants, iPhone, light, purple, Technology, widow
having to turn on the bedroom light in the morning, sigh, so I’ve started to use my BeeWi iPhone app to turn off the light when I leave the room…
had a bit of fun with changing the colour of the bulb… nice to play with, but I’m sure it will end up white again, lol…
so far I don’t need to use it to turn the light on when I come upstairs after work:-)… sadly the time is coming when I will need to…
25 Wednesday Jul 2018
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application, big girl pants, chair, dermatologist, doctor, freeze, skin, sting, Technology, waiting, widow
this morning I had an appointment to see a dermatologist…
I always find seeing a new doctor a bit stressful and this was no different…
a colleague had seen this particular specialist before so I kind of knew where I was going…
arrived a few minutes early and then waited for quite a while before making it into the actual room…
the chair was huge and I waited till he arrived before sitting in it, lol…
from there it was very quick, as he looked at the spot under my eye, confirmed it wasn’t anything to be worried about, and then sprayed it with something to freeze it off… didn’t hurt as he was doing it but sure did sting later…
will need to go back in a couple of months as he didn’t think one application would remove it…
11 Monday Jun 2018
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big girl pants, iPhone, recording, simple, technique, Technology, text, widow
have spent the last hour or so trying to record my iPhone screen so that I can show the steps necessary to complete a particularly task… interesting learning process…
sounds really simple, except for when you go too fast, or slow… or someone sends you a text, or Twitter let’s you know someone is tweeting after a long time… all in the middle of the recording…
then, after all that, when I emailed it, the video was a bit fuzzy…
but, I think I’ve got it;-)…
04 Wednesday Apr 2018
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big girl pants, happy, memories, moments, nametags, printer, process, remembering, Technology, volunteer, widow
been working on nametags for an event I volunteer for occasionally… off and on over the last week I’ve designed, prepared a list, merged it, printed, separated and stuffed them…
it has reminded me of the first year at my current position when I would agonize over preparing nametags for any events we did… for the longest time I would lose every seventh name on a list… then the printer and I would fight over the printing process… eventually I would come out on top, but only after numerous trips to the printer and a lot of stress…
since then I have refined the process of making nametags and enjoy the various steps, which is particularly handy as I make them all the time…
no matter what, it still takes a good bit of time and energy to get a set ready, lol…
happy the job is done…
17 Saturday Feb 2018
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big girl pants, flower, iTunes, manicure, Olympics, shellac, sun, Technology, Total Wrapture, widow, yellow
last night on my way home I picked up an iTunes card so that I could upgrade one of my apps, and now I have some more shapes to play with for pictures, lol…
enjoyed a quiet day watching Olympics and napping…
I did run over to Total Wrapture to have the shellac removed from my fingernails…
for some reason the beautiful white French manicure turned a strange shade of yellow/orange… the aesthetician had never seen anything like it… that’s me… special… although the polish didn’t chip, my nails do not feel great now that it has been scraped off…
the sunshine made me think it was warm out, but with the wind, it was rather chilly…
final other activity was to take some pictures of my flowers in the sunlight…
that yellow ball in the sky really does brighten everything up;-)…
08 Thursday Feb 2018
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back door, big girl pants, garage, garage door, gate, opener, remember, shift, Technology, widow
in recent weeks I’ve been entering and exiting the garage via the big rolling door…
over the last couple of years midway through the winter something shifts in the garage and the door I usually use won’t stay closed… so, currently, I have a stool up against the door to keep it from opening … which means that I need to come and go through the big door…
rather than have to open and close the gate into the backyard which has an odd handle, I’ve been using the front door of the house to come and go…
so,!as I walk towards the house and get inside, I have been reciting back door, back door, back door so that I remember to go and shut the door with the opener located there… otherwise I forget and hours later realize that the big door to the garage is still open…
so, tonight, it occurs to me that I could bring in the remote from the car and use it to close (and open) the door from the front of the house and not worry that I might forget to close it, lol…
duh…
I have put the remote in my jacket pocket so I don’t forget it in the morning, lol…
31 Sunday Dec 2017
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big girl pants, drawer, jobs, pictures, printer, Technology, tidy, trees, un-decorate, urge, widow
had the urge to get a few unfinished jobs completed, so while my son-in-law was here we tacked a couple of them…
last night I printed a number of pictures to put in a frame that I’d picked up a while ago and hadn’t been able to decide on what should go in it… I’d been waiting for the professional photos that we had taken in October… but once I started choosing I ended up with pictures that I, or the kids, had taken… it was fun because my son-in-law had got the wifi printer working perfectly so that I could print right from my phone… I do love technology, lol… unfortunately I stayed up very late to finish the job…
so this morning I hung the frame up… yay me, although consensus has it that it might need to come down a bit on the wall…
then he helped un-decorate the two small trees, box them up and put them away in the basement… looks way more roomy in the living room now… left everything else up for New Year’s dinner tomorrow…
I’ve had an IKEA drawer for ages that needed to be put together and installed so he also did that… took a few minutes to decide where it would actually fit…
it is going to make getting the pots out a lot simpler, although it has to be held open or else it slides shut on its own… apparently the kitchen cupboards might not be perfectly level…
and finally this evening I emptied out a drawer that was filled with expired crackers and cereal, lol…
I feel very accomplished;-)…
13 Wednesday Dec 2017
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app, big girl pants, colour, light bulb, plug, Smartpad, Technology, widow
this morning I remembered to take a few shots as I was using my BeeWi SmartPad app…
I find it so handy, particularly at night when I am heading upstairs and have my hands full…
I can turn it on from my phone downstairs before I head up… it also can change colour but I don’t really use that piece of it…
thinking I might get a few more of the light bulbs and maybe even one for a plug… not sure what else they have…
technology is such fun when it works, lol…
04 Monday Dec 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, birthday, daughters, dinner, FaceTime, family, memories, pattern, Skype, Technology, traditions, widow
today marks six birthdays without my beloved…
it always felt that he lost out because often his birthday and Christmas would be lumped together… particularly for the many years that we really lived hand-to-mouth…
for all of our family birthdays, the birthday person got to choose what we would have for dinner… for the last number of years we have had burgers, French fries, milkshakes and apple pie in his memory… he especially liked the burgers just down the street…
the first few years we Skyped with the out of town kids… one year we had a phone and an iPad so we could get both of them in the room with us…
last year everyone was busy so I had a quiet day remembering so many fun times we had over the years…
our plan was for the city kids to come over tonight but the momma is sick so they stayed home… wasn’t planning to connect with the out-of-towners but was able to FaceTime with my daughter while she had her supper…
I was going to stop and pick up groceries and then a burger, but it was miserable outside so in the end I drove straight home and then ordered a thali platter…
time with my BS buddies and now to bed… life has settled into a pattern and I wear the big girl pants more and more easily…
not sure if that is a good thing or not…
22 Wednesday Nov 2017
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big girl pants, car, hospital, rental, Shadow, shopping, Technology, widow
this morning I had to leave Shadow at the car hospital… it was rather sad…
took out the car emergency bag, the quilt, and the grocery bags from the trunk… the parking pass and garage door opener from the front… and, finally, the snow brush from the back seat…
then spent quite a while at the car rental place getting another vehicle… a long involved process that included walking around the rental car looking for any teeny dents or scrapes…
it was difficult to leave her behind… likely for two weeks, while she has work done to fix her up like new…
didn’t like the feel of the new car and it has the touchiest brakes ever… stopped to shop and parked a long way from everything as I tried to figure out all the stuff…
did manage to connect the phone and get the seat and mirrors in the right position…
then I had to take a picture so I knew what I was looking for when I came out, lol…
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