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He started smoking again? Bad

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My husband and I quite smoking in October 2010 – or at least I thought we had both quit. I know for sure that I haven’t had a cigarette for 18 months … but it seems that my husband started smoking again and he’s been trying to hide that fact from me.

Unfortunately for him (and pretty much everyone around me) I’m a super smeller – which means I can smell everything – fresh sweat, cigarette scent on your clothes or hair, bad breath from across the room, fruit rotting before it even looks bad and forget about putting a banana peel or apple core in the kitchen garbage because the stink is too much for me within a half hour or so. So .. how could my husband think that he could pull off starting to smoke again and get it past me without me noticing? He might as well be smoking a Cohiba in the same room as me some days.

Luckily none of the smoke smell is tempting me to start again. In fact it might be helping me to stay quit as it smells disgusting to me. I just wish my husband (soon to be EX) would stop lying to me. I mean, if he wants to ruin his health -fine – just don’t do it around me – and stop lying about all the other stuff that he’s lying about too while he’s at it.





A weekend with family – lots of family!

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I just came back from my home town this evening. I only left home on Friday and I’m already back so it was a short trip, but unfortunately it was for a sad reason. My cousin died. She was the first of the grand children on my fathers side of the family to pass away. Hopefully it will be many many years before any more of us go!

I drove to Ottawa, my home town, with one of my brothers and his wife. I stayed over at my oldest brothers and his girlfriends house but the brother who I drove with stayed at a hotel because he’s allergic to my oldest brothers dog.

My Aunt – my only remaining aunt, was very happy and surprised to see my brother, my sister in law and I when we arrived at the visitation on Friday night. She didn’t know we were coming so I hope our presence gave her some comfort.

My cousin had been sick and in the hospital since sometime in November. She’d rallied and seemed to get somewhat better in December but she went downhill very fast last weekend.

I feel bad because I’ve sort of lost touch with most of my cousins. On top of that, being the youngest cousin in the family (first cousin I mean) I didn’t develop the same relationships with my cousins that my older siblings did growing up with my cousins that were closer to them in age. I mean … my oldest brother is 19 years older than me … and therefore several of my cousins are 10 to 20 years older than me as well .. I came a long a little late in the game. LOL Still .. better late than never and they were all happy to see me. I’m definitely going to make an effort to stay in touch with all of them from now on.

It was also good to see my oldest brother. I don’t see him often. Ever since my mother passed away I really haven’t been back to my home town – other than for my aunts 80th birthday celebration five years ago! So .. my two brothers, my sister in law, my oldest brothers girlfriend and one of my ex-sister in laws all went out for dinner after the visitation. We had a great time and a great dinner. Actually I think my ex-sister in law might have news … I thought I heard her talking to my other sister in law about a titanium wedding band … maybe there’s going to be invitations mailed out soon?

Ok .. well I’ve had a very busy and emotional two days. I think it’s time for me to have some rest. I hope your weekend is going well.

Books, Old Records and Guitar Lessons?

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I’m still busy cleaning and de-cluttering my house. Last night my husband and I did a little bit of the work together but it wasn’t all that productive.

We started working on an area of our basement where we store things that we’ll more than likely keep .. so we didn’t end up throwing out much stuff. I’m very into throwing out a LOT of stuff from the basement these days since the basement is one big cluttered mess. We have too much stuff. I stay stuff because that’s all it is .. stuff .. stuff we haven’t used for years, stuff we can live without.

Last night we discovered a couple of boxes of books that we set aside for sorting at a later time. I really didn’t want to “sort” things last night .. plus, once I know where all the books are and I’ve decided what’s going to be kept and what’s going I’m either going to set them aside for a yard sale or take them to a store that buys used books. The other things that we actually sorted through were three or four boxes of old records. Most of them are mine. Chris only had about 10 records in all the boxes and I guess I must have about 200. Gee I wonder how much some of them will be worth if I decide to sell them?

While we were going through all those records my husband and I kept talking about how our musical tastes have always been so similar. He swore some of the records that I know were mine were his – but then he remembered that they weren’t. Chris never bought things when he was a teenager or when he was in his early 20’s … he borrowed everything and that’s why he has so few records in that pile or records downstairs. LOL Anyway as we talked about music I kept teasing him that one of the things that he’d always promised me was beginner guitar lessons but I still have no clue as to how to play the guitar. Gee .. it’s been something like 22 years – you’d think I’d be able to play something basic having lived with a musician for that long .. but nope. I think he’s afraid to teach me. I guess if I want to learn I’m going to have to teach myself or take lessons from someone else.

I wonder what gems we’ll find the next time we try sorting out the mess in the basement! To be continued …

Such a mild winter

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We’re having such a strange winter here in Toronto. It’s been so mild. Well for the most part. We did get some snow this week, but it’s already melted and it’s even raining outside now. Yes … strange weather.

I was just thinking … if this weather keeps up and it stays mild and spring like that I’d like to do some outdoor activities … things that I would normally do in the spring or summer – like horseback riding or something. Of course I’d have to go looking for equestrian apparel if I were to do that, but it would be fun to go horse back riding in this weather. Maybe on the beach?

Actually speaking of the beach … perhaps this weekend I’ll take my dog to the beach. Oh not to let her in the water. I know the water will be far to cold – and I know she’ll still want to try to go in, she is after all a Labrador Retriever and she loves the water, but she’ll love just running along the beach on the sand. I’ve always loved going to the beach in the winter time. It’s different, but it’s nice.

Is it mild in your area too this winter? Are you doing things that you normally don’t do in the winter time?

Busy weekend with my sister in law

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My sister in law came for a visit this past weekend. She came to Toronto on the train on Friday and then went on to Oakville to visit with an old school friend on Sunday.

We had a very busy two days! Dinners out, shopping at the Eaton’s center, lots of catching up … I was tired out by the end of the weekend.

One night we went to a local restaurant for dinner and caught some live music. My husband was working that evening otherwise I’m sure he would have joined us. It’s too bad he wasn’t with us as I’m sure he would have been drooling over the guitars the band was playing. In fact, I think he really would have wanted to take a good look at the lakland 55-02 that the bass player was using. My husband is a guitar player, but he toys with the bass and I know he would have liked that instrument. Anyway .. the band was really good and so was the food.

The next day we had a lot of fun shopping. I needed a new winter hat so we had fun in the Bay with me trying on all kinds of hats. Of course I didn’t find a hat that I liked … but it was fun trying them all on. I gave my sister in law quite a few laughs.

What did you do this past weekend?

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