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We’ve just got to finish our living room renovation

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We have to finish renovating our living room and dining room area soon. We started the renovations to these rooms in 2003 and then my mother died, my sister had an operation and ended up in a coma and Chris and I both got sick. Chris is better now, but I’m still sick so we just haven’t gotten back into renovating our home.

We probably won’t do anything now that it’s starting to get cold here, as it’s much nicer to do renovations when you can have the windows open or get outside for a break from the dust, paint fumes and so on. But … next spring … I mean it – whether I’m healthy again or not we just have to start working on getting the reno done!

We have people come to the door and they look up at our ceiling that’s covered in wood strapping just waiting for the tin ceiling panels to be nailed on to them and they say “oh you’re going for that rustic unfinished look, eh?”. Uh huh …

Plus I’m dying to get some new furniture. I’ll probably decorate with modern furniture. I saw this really cool couch at one of the stores on the Danforth that I’d love to get for our living room. I’ll have to go there again and take a photo of it so that I can show you. It would be nice to see if you guys like it as much as I do!

The furniture that we are using in our living room now is leather and it’s huge! I think that we’ll move that furniture into the basement (when we refinish that too) and create a home theater / rec room area down there.

Have you renovated your home on your own? Did you ever stall like we have?





Lovely Azure Monkshood

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Monkshood Aconitum

My Monkshood has been blooming for about two weeks now.

I have one that blooms in June (the Bi-Color), but the Azure Monkshood blooms only in the Fall. I love their beautiful bloom blooms and wish I had more of them to fill the garden at this time of year. They are so delicate and pretty.

Starting to get back into a routine

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Well … about a week ago I told you guys that I was going to change my whole routine -from how I sleep, to how I blog right down to getting some regular exercise.

So it’s only a week but I have made some progress. No major changes on the sleep front unfortunately, that’s still messed up, but I have gotten into a little better routine with my blogging and I pulled out the elliptical machine and started using it for 30 minutes each day. I do hope to build up to an hour or so of doing ellipticals each day or at least most days, but that will take some time.

Now if I can only get our dog Midnight to stop pretty much pulling me off my feet every time I take her outside we could start taking longer walks again. Earlier today she got excited when she saw a woman walking two dogs and at first she obeyed my command to sit and not bark, but I don’t know if one of the dogs made some kind of move when I wasn’t looking, but all of a sudden Midnight stood up and started running towards the other dogs with me dragging behind. The leash slide through my hand so fast that three of my fingers on my left hand still hurt. Boy was I mad at Midnight!

That’s what I’m dealing with on that front … but she’s pulling less and less each month so maybe walks with her can become part of my fitness routine again soon too. And of course, hopefully I start to sleep better again too.

Are you working on any goals to improve your health?

My PVR is getting full!

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I think I’m going to get new television show burnout soon. If you watch TV you already know that most of our old favorite shows started coming back about two weeks ago, and most will be back by the end of the week. Plus there’s new shows that started last year that we enjoyed but didn’t get to see for very long before the writers strike started and they went off the air. Well those are back too, plus there’s brand new shows to check out.

I tell ya, my PVR is just about full! I’ve spent a good part of the afternoon watching previously taped shows so that I could make room for shows like House and NCIS and others that are on tonight! This wouldn’t be so much of a problem if all the shows that we liked were on a different times and not two shows in the same time slot. The only way to get around that is to tape them and watch them later right?

I’m sure a few of the new and returning shows will end up being canceled by the end of November or early December so that will make watching or finding the time to watch the taped shows a bit easier.

What really sucks is that I want to try out a downloadable audio books membership, but it will have to wait for a while, because there’s no way that I have any time to listen to audio books with this backlog of TV shows filling up my PVR.

I guess it would be better if I didn’t like so many TV shows, but that’s the way things are working out right now. Hmmm We rent our PVR from our cable company .. I wonder if they have a newer model that has a larger hard drive? I’ve got to remember to check that out.

Do you find this time of year difficult too. I mean, finding time to do the things you need to do around the house yet trying to make time to watch all of your favorite shows premieres and check out new TV shows too?

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