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Stalker neighbor, power outages and battery clocks!

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I think I’ve mentioned my neighbor Sofie before on this site. She’s my elderly neighbor that I call my stalker because she’s constantly knocking on my door or following me around the garden or worst of all staring at me from her window as I work on my desktop computer.

Thankfully I have a laptop now so I can hide from her sometimes!

Well … lately we seems to have a lot of small power outages. I’ve actually noticed that this has been happening at about 6 a.m most days. Most of the time the outage is so fast it doesn’t knock out our clocks or anything else, but early this morning I guess it was a fraction of a second long enough to mess with our electric clocks.

When our clocks go out so do the neighbors! Arghhh … Sofie hasn’t banged on our door yet to reset her clocks but she will. I know she will.

One of our electric digital clocks has batteries in it and even if a power outage is a few hours long it will say the correct time when the power comes on. We’ve spoken to our neighbors family about getting her some of these clocks. They aren’t expensive so I have no idea why they haven’t yet.

I’m at the point now where if they don’t buy her a clock today or tomorrow I’m going to go out and buy her two and give them the bill. Gas and time expenses included!

Why do some families not take care of their elderly relatives properly? I’m certain it’s their lack of care causing her to fixate on us .. me .. so much.





Messy Garage? Get organized

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If you have a garage attached to your house you might appreciate the many products that are being sold at Carguygarage.com. You know how almost ever garage gets disorganized at some point? Well this site sells all the latest products in garage organization amongst many other items.

If your garage is so full that you can barely fit your car inside you’d better take a look at this site. They have everything from racks that will allow you to hang bikes from the wall, to cabinets and workbenches for those that use their garage as a workplace, or to store their tools.

We don’t actually have a garage. We barely even have a driveway! You can’t drive down our driveway … it’s only 10 feet or so wide and we only own half the driveway.

Even so, there are still items on this site that I would purchase such as the garden hose and cord reels. I mean, I’m a gardening nut and I hate having my hose just lying in a tangled pile! One of the hose reels even has four wheels on it so you could push your whole hose out to where you need to use it! I like that.

Check out the site. I’m sure you’ll find some products that will help you get your garage organized.

Fire, electricity and stupid people

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We had quite the scare yesterday. I plan on writing out the full details on my main blog Tricia’s Musings sometime later today but I’ll just tell you it involved fire and electricity, neighbors stupid people!

Remember how I was mentioning we had a really bad storm here in Toronto early last week and that trees fell down and crushed houses in our general neighborhood but luckily not on our block? Well it appears that the tree next door to us might have had a bit of damage.

Just to summarize a branch fell on the power line that was under the tree. The power box is right there too beside the power line and the branch got zapped by the electric wire. Neighbors all round were outside staring at the flames but were too stupid to call 911!

I called 911 and got the fire department and police to come and check out the problem. Meanwhile the electric box attached to the wire exploded!

The neighbor who owns the tree is our Karaoke neighbors and they were terrified and stayed in their house. Right … there’s a fire in the tree that’s hanging over my house and I’m going to stay inside? No way!

Anyway, I’ll give a full account on my other site at some point later in the day. It was a bit of excitement that got the adrenaline pumping!

Shop online and save money at KeepCash

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If you enjoy shopping and you enjoy saving money you must visit a great site that I’ve just discovered called KeepCash. This is an online coupon and hot deals sites and I’m fairly certain that online shoppers will love it.

There are hundreds of popular online stores listed on KeepCash. Just visit the site and either browse by deals, store, category, recently added or expiring soon listings until you find a store and coupon that you can use. Then, all you’ll have to do is click on the coupon and start shopping at the chosen store. It’s that easy!

I happen to love The Body Shop so I was happy to see that it’s listed on KeepCash. At this time there are 14 different The Body Shop coupon codes listed. I love it!

KeepCash is updated daily with new coupons and great deals that will save you money as you shop. Hey … if you were going to go shopping online anyway why not save some money while you’re at it?

Bad days

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Can you believe I’m still feeling ill and getting worse. I think my Crohn’s is in full flare. I hate this. The week before last I spent the majority of the week, day and night, lying on the couch. That’s how sick I was.

Then last Saturday evening I suddenly felt a lot better – for about 36 hours. Of course I chose that time to get a lot of gardening work done and probably over did it so I slowly went downhill again over the week and by Friday I was back to being a couch potato again.

Yesterday was the worst. I have lots of meds that I take and some of them are pretty heavy duty pain meds. One of the pain meds I take twice a day as it’s a long acting pain medication. Two of the others are faster acting and I can take them when I’m having bad pain that needs immediate control. Well .. I almost never take the short acting pain medication during the day. The worst of my pain is in the evening and through the night.

Yesterday however my pain was so bad that I ended up having two percocets through the day on top of my long acting pain meds. I never do that!

Today is a bit better. Maybe I got on top of the pain again. I don’t know. All I know is that I can’t take much more of this constant yoyo’ing back and forth between tolerable pain and unbearable pain.

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