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Getting ready for our new TV

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I’m crossing my fingers and knocking on wood in the hopes that my cold is getting a little bit better. I was totally miserable yesterday … and I guess I’m not much better today, but the runny nose is slowing down, so hopefully that’s a sign that my cold is beginning to get better.

I have a lot to do this weekend, so I hope that I feel at least a bit better by tomorrow. You see we’re hoping that the new TV that we bought two weeks ago is finally at the store so that we can pick it up. I’m so looking forward to checking it out and getting it all hooked up to the new home theater that we bought last weekend.

Plus, last weekend we started to do some small renovations to our living room .. ie finally re-hooking up two electrical outlets that we hadn’t hooked up the last time we did renovations to our living room dining room.

We were going to rearrange the furniture in the living room in preparation for the new TV last weekend, but that’s when I started getting sick so we put that on hold. So tomorrow we might be picking up our new TV, rearranging the room and then fiddling with hooking everything up. I expect to be busy for hours! We also have to remember to get some new air filters for the furnace … It’s time to put new ones in!

Darn … my husband is just talking to the guy from Best Buy right now and our Samsung Plasma is NOT in. It might be two more weeks! Crap! Ok now I’m ticked!

At least the sales guy from Best Buy is working with us … he’s going to give us another $100 off the TV (we’ve already got $200 off it!) or 50% off on a new TV stand. Our current stand is specially built for our DLP so I do think we need a new stand … we’ll see. Sigh





Renter neighbors and their noisy car

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I can’t wait until our renter neighbors either move out or get kicked out. I can’t say that enough.

They’re a bad bunch. They got the house next door because they lied about their jobs (they don’t work) and because they have three young children … but it seems like there are more than just the five of them living in the house .. maybe three extra guys.

They always look like they’re high and as I’ve mentioned in the past they seems to be scamming the cable company and Bell Canada … they’ve broken into their cable box (it still sits open all the wires exposed). I can only imagine what they’ve done to the inside of the house.

They’re car is the biggest issue that we face with them these days though. The woman has been working lately and every night she comes out and starts up the car at about 10:15 or so and then goes back inside while letting it run. She doesn’t come out again until about 10:45. So yeah .. she lets their car warm up in the driveway for about half an hour.

We have a new car idling law here in Toronto and I believe you’re not supposed to let your car idle for more than 3 minutes, so her warming up her car for 30 minutes is insane. Just think how much gas she’s wasting?

On top of that they’re car has a major muffler problem and an engine problem so it’s crazy noisy. With my ears blocked because of this head cold the noise just goes right to my head. Actually their car is so noisy that I can feel the engine vibrations as I sit on the couch!

To top that off I saw the husband walking into the house today with a bunch of car parts … maybe Mopar parts or something. I hope it’s to fix up the car and not to sup it up so it’s even noisier!

Our driveway is really tiny … barely enough room to park one car. By this I mean that drivers and passengers must walk on the neighbors lawn once the car is parked in the tiny driveway. So we’re sharing the driveway. We have it for a month and then they use it fr a month. On Monday we take over the driveway again and I’m dying for that day to come.

Did I say that I can’t wait for these rotten neighbors to leave?

Does your dog act differently when you’re sick?

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I don’t think my dog knows what to make of me now that I have a cold. She keeps coming up to me with her bone wanting to play, but of course I’m feeling so bad I just can’t!

She’s also fascinated by all the tissues I’m using. She watches me bring tissue up to my face and has a puzzled look on her face when I bring it away from my face again … I don’t know what she’s thinking … maybe she thinks the tissues are something I should be eating? Naturally she also tries to grab the tissues as I put them in a bag (yes I’m blowing my nose so much that I have my own personal garbage nearby).

Does your dog act different or seem confused when you’re sick with a cold or the flu?

I sure hope that I feel a bit better by tomorrow. my nose is raw and my lips are chapped from mouth breathing … like I said earlier I wouldn’t want to be getting an insurance quote looking and feeling like this!

Sniffle sniffle … cough cough

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I can’t hear very well, I’m mouth breathing and my eye sight is blurred from tears. Yes, you guessed it, I have a bad head cold.

I don’t think it helps that I’m attempting to make ribs in my slow cooker right now either. I think the BBQ sauce (ie vinegar and onions in it) is making my eyes water more than they would be.

I know it’s just a cold, but I haven’t had one for close to 15 years so I’m absolutely miserable! I’d sure hate to be trying to get a life insurance quote right now with the way I look and sound!

Hopefully I’ll feel a bit better tomorrow. Otherwise, if you don’t hear from me for a day or two it’s probably just the cold that’s keeping me away from the computer.

Spaghetti and meat sauce – yum!

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Tonight I’m making my home made tomato meat sauce and spaghetti for dinner. Yummy!

Ok it’s not totally home made … what I do is combine a canned of stewed tomatoes and a jar of tasty tomato sauce, a pinch or two of Italian seasoning, plus some extra Thyme and Basil, some ground pepper, and my “secret ingredient” two tbsp of brown sugar.

Then I fry up about a pound of lean or extra lean hamburger and once it’s cooked I add it to the sauce mixture and let it simmer for an hour or more on low heat. I almost never use regular ground beef as it’s too greasy … plus if I did I’d have to use something like Fastin to keep the weight off! LOL

Once the sauce is almost done I measure out enough spaghetti for my husband and I (with a small helping for our dog!) and cook that for the required amount of time – usually between 8 and 11 minutes depend upon what brand of spaghetti I’m using or what kind (ie whole wheat versus regular).

Once the Spaghetti is done I toss it in a tiny bit of olive oil, serve it in bowls or on plates and then top it with some of the delicious sauce. I think most people mix the sauce and spaghetti or toss them together, but I just like the sauce on top and I mix it as I eat my meal.

Since there’s only two of us, the meat sauce mixture makes enough for about 8 meals … so I often freeze half of the sauce to use a week or so later and then we eat Spaghetti for two days or so with the sauce I didn’t freeze.

I like making big batches of food – It’s not easy cooking for two, and since I don’t feel all that well quite a bit of the time it’s nice to have food that’s already cooked that we can just thaw or heat up easily … or rather that my husband can heat up if I’m really feeling bad. LOL

Do you ever make your own meat sauce for spaghetti? Do you make extra food (whatever kind) to freeze for later use?

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