26 Tuesday Mar 2019
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I’ve been thinking about so many in my circles who are dealing with difficult situations…
some are dealing with health issues, others with family problems, and still others are struggling with their work situations…
as the weather warms up and the sun gets stronger every day I am reminded of how good my world is…
02 Saturday Mar 2019
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recently read something on Instagram that was a reminder for me…
someone I follow had a conversation with another person (whose name wasn’t provided) about motivation to get up in the morning, and their comment was:
…when you figure out what that something is that you love, and get to do it, you’re excited for what unfolds each day…
it struck a cord… I do love what I do… my purpose at work is to help everyone on the team be able to accomplish whatever they are working on in the simplest and easiest manner… maybe I’ve forgotten that…
and as it happened, I spent an hour this morning, once awake, considering an issue with our database and coming up with a simple workaround that will produce the outcome needed but cut back on the process to achieve that outcome… looking forward to getting to the office on Monday and trying it out;-)…
it is good to remember how lucky I am…
30 Tuesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, computer, connect, conversation, pictures, telephone, widow, work
in the middle of a telephone conversation tonight I realized I needed to look for something on the computer I’d brought home from work a month or so ago…
what a process… had to find a spot on my desk… find the slots to plug in the keyboard and mouse and get them in the right way… search through the files only to discover that what I was hoping to find was not there;-)…
in the end had both computers going and kept using the wrong mouse or keyboard and wondering why they weren’t working, lol…
now to get some help transferring everything from the old computer to the new one… not even gonna think about how many pictures I have to move…
24 Wednesday Oct 2018
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today was Election Day…
was at the polling station ten minutes before it opened as I was trying to vote and get to work on time…
when I arrived I checked my information to be sure I was at the correct location because there wasn’t a single car in the lot or any signs… at five to the cars started to pull in and filled the parking pad… shortly after that a person came out and put up a sign advising that this was a polling station…
waited until 8:01, only to discover about 15 people lined up inside… the door didn’t open for another few minutes… often the first people are guinea pigs as the various workers figure what to do, sigh… bit of that this morning…
finally got out and headed to work… would have been on time except for the lights all flashing red along Portage…
miss my beloved on days like this… voting was something we always did together…
02 Tuesday Oct 2018
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, cards, flowers, Kings Florist, moments, nine, widow, work
Sunday marked nine years that I have been at my current work…
it is a great place to work and I have enjoyed being there since day one…
over the last few weeks I prepared thank you cards and ordered flowers…
they arrived on Monday morning… beautiful…
it is always a treat to see how much everyone enjoys receiving a note and choosing a flower…
ordered enough so we could put a few at the front desk;-)…
Kings Florist do a great job and even sent a few extras… I sure am blessed…
30 Sunday Sep 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Chihuly, drive, Facebook, Fall, family, girls, memories, moments, return to work, September, surgery, weather, widow, work
I’ve been thinking about September… it has been a good month for me… as a kid I always liked starting school… and as a parent I also enjoyed when the girls headed back to school….
I started with my current employment on September 30, 2009…
following an eight week time away with pancreatitis and gall bladder surgery, I returned to work on September 28, 2010…
after a second surgery and being away from work for ten weeks, I returned September 27, 2012…
hadn’t realized how close those dates were until Facebook reminded me of the above facts…
usually the weather is beautiful as the leaves slowly change colour… this year there’s been a lot more rain and temperatures have plummeted…
one of the things I miss is the fall drive that my beloved and I would often take to enjoy the colours…
happily for me the sun is peeking out of the clouds off and on today;-)…
09 Saturday Jun 2018
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been watching ads on tv for the Red River Ex, which is always a sign of summer…
they brought back some wonderful memories…
when our kids were in baton – so, quite a few years ago – my beloved and I worked at the gates welcoming guests… it was fun and paid well for the four or five years we participated… always so interesting to see how people present themselves…
people were either thrilled and happy to be there or irritated beyond belief, lol…
the other piece it reminded me of is how often it rains during the Ex, lol… rain suits were a staple… should be good for the garden…
fun memories…
took this picture last week;-)…
22 Tuesday May 2018
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I was so excited yesterday when the sound of the waterfall filled the garden…
the kids came over and did a number of jobs around the house and garden… I had made a list for each person of what needed to be done and the items were checked off one by one…
my son-in-law dealt with the pond… he did have a bit of help from the younger boys as they helped clean out the leaves…
the pond was up and running before supper… after supper the fish moved from their winter condo to their summer home… they are really big now although for a while they will be hiding as they get reacquainted with the space…
tonight all the windows are open and I can hear the sound of running water…
03 Wednesday Jan 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, family, furnace, fuse, nest, process, son-in-law, thermostat, widow, wire, work
so the smoke detector was installed on Thursday afternoon… and I am loving it… a cute little ring of blue (a nightlight) appears when I walk under it… so far no alarms, which is good, nor has it talked to me yet…
on Friday my son-in-law went out and found the Nest thermostat at a good price and on Saturday he began the process of installing it…
it was a long complicated piece of business… by 7 pm that night, it was 63 degrees Fahrenheit in the house because after the first install, and putting back the original thermostat, the furnace refused to circulate any heat… the furnace service people came out around 8 pm and discovered that a fuse had blown, so they went back to the shop and brought a new one and installed it… this particular fellow didn’t know how to install the Nest product so we left it so that the house could warm up… it was rather chilly…
on Tuesday my son-in-law tried again, after he had gone out and bought more fuses, in case we blew another one in the process of hooking up the new thermostat…
once again, the new one wouldn’t work so he reinstalled the old one… he walked over to the furnace company’s office and left a message for the owner to give us a call… a while later we heard back and they figured out that there needed to be another wire…
which meant that the drywall ceiling in the basement hall had to come down so he could run the cable… he removed it and cleaned everything up beautifully, but by then it was too late to move to the next step…
today, while I was at work, he was able to pull the wire (without cutting into the plaster in the hall, yay), connect everything, and set the temperature, because it finally worked perfectly…
we added it to my app and I can now change the temperature from my phone… although it does say it is -8 outside, whereas the weather app says it is -22, lol…
seemed like such a simple little job, but he didn’t stop until it was done;-)… I sure am blessed…
17 Sunday Dec 2017
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accomplished, big girl pants, boxes, grandson, Jamie Noordman Photography, moments, presents, teenager, tidy, widow, work
what a productive day…
started out with a few photos which demonstrate that a teenager was in the house…
there was stuff everywhere… a hat and headphones on the table in the living room… his gym bag by the fish tank… a bag of presents in a chair… didn’t get shots of the messed up bed and clothes in the basement, lol…
but he accomplished so much on our project… it had been difficult to walk into the computer room… I may have a slight problem with saving empty boxes, lol… and other stuff…
the top picture is from our family photo shoot in October taken by Jamie Noordman Photography… we both had our phones out and he was Snapchating with his friends… clearly we were both having fun…
today we worked well as a team… he dragged things out and I sorted and distributed stuff into various categories… at one point the hallway was filled with bags and boxes… we will need another day to finish, but it is so much better in there…
things were dropped at the Civic Centre recycling, Value Village and put into the garbage…
we popped out, delivered a few things and picked up a final joint present…
a wonderful Christmas present, I gotta say…
