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pattern…

04 Monday Dec 2017

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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…

rental

22 Wednesday Nov 2017

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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…

technological…

21 Tuesday Nov 2017

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been exceptionally busy recently at work, but I’ve been having some great fun learning new technological things…

along with other things I’ve been doing some in-depth work in WordPress which has been great… discovering so much more of what can be done…

today I spent some fun time with a colleague as we learned a few new things about Instagram…

learning something new about technology gives me such a rush…

you can tell from the photo that we are having fun…

finished the day off with a snack of chips and Lindt Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt…

delicious… and a nice ending to the day…

reflection…

18 Saturday Nov 2017

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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…

fix…

08 Wednesday Nov 2017

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hot, or not…

last night when I got home I had to add water to the hot tub as the repair person advised they couldn’t test it until it had more water in it…

so there I was at 6:30 pm topping it up… in the dark… at 6:30, sigh…

got hold of them again today and spoke with a different repair person who was able to explain it to me a little more clearly…

apparently the heater needs to be replaced… hopefully they will be here tomorrow…

not a cheap repair but they are confident this will fix the problem…

looking forward to being able to go out without having to wonder whether the temperature will be 103 or ???…

slideshows…

12 Thursday Oct 2017

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another beautiful early morning drive… was rather surprised by the amount of traffic…

ended my day with the last of the Thanksgiving mashed potato and green beans, made into patties and shrimp…

in between I learned some very cool things regarding photos on my phone… been trying for ages to save slideshows on my phone… and today a colleague helped me figure it out… so exciting… I do love technology...

gotta go and play now;-)…

reinvent…

30 Saturday Sep 2017

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today marks eight years at my current place of employment…

while the girls were small I was able to stay home… it was a special time and we were very lucky to make that work…

so I’ve worked outside the home for the last twenty years or so…

most of that time it has been in the not-for-profit environment…

joining this organization in September of 2009 was a great fit…

over the years I have been allowed to reinvent my position and focus on the things that I enjoy and have the skills and interest in…

this doesn’t always happen in the workplace…

I work with an amazing group of people and consider myself very lucky…

impressive…

25 Monday Sep 2017

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been thinking about the various bits of technology I use…

now that it is darker in the morning I am using my BeeWi SmartPad… it is an app that works with a bulb in the lamp in the bedroom…

it means I can turn the light on and off from my phone… very handy when going into or out of the bedroom in the dark…

attended a workshop on Saturday on learning to code… during the session, over a thousand people across the country were all trying to work in a single document… although it was planned for, unfortunately, this jammed up the system… it was very impressive to watch the facilitator and mentors problem solve on the fly, never giving up as they tried idea after idea and worked together to overcome the problem…

texts and emails were flying across the country and around the room as they worked…

technology can be such a wonderful addition to our daily lives, but can also be disruptive… always fun to figure out which it will be on any particular day, lol…

2017 Ottawa day 7…

06 Wednesday Sep 2017

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took the bus, on my own, to meet my daughter after she got off work…

we had lunch at Bier Markt... and I tried oysters again… they were yummy, who knew…

then we went to see Kontinuum… it is a free light show in the new subway… it was quite neat…

afterwards we walked over to the Parliament buildings and took a few tourist-y shots…

the bus from her house to downtown was just an ordinary one, but on our way home we got on a bendy bus… yay…

took a few pictures of trees and leaves on our walk from the bus to the house… the maple leaves are beginning to change colour… very pretty…

after supper we did a small 100% cacao chocolate tasting…

and ended with the cutest little Brix bar which is made to slide over a wine bottle…

cloudy…

21 Monday Aug 2017

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seems nearly everyone was talking about the solar eclipse…

since early morning the weather was not looking good… they were projecting rain and cloudy skies for most of the day…

we were sure we wouldn’t get to see anything but decided to go and stand outside just to be part of the excitement…

a colleague arrived back from lunch with the proper eyewear and just for fun we looked up…

and the clouds parted in a tiny circle and we saw the eclipse… it was great fun as we passed the glasses from one to another and even to a few passers by…

less than five minutes and the clouds rolled back in…

now that was a moment;-)…