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Snow – no winter can’t be coming yet

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Wow, I’m just watching the news that I taped earlier and I can’t believe it snowed last night in Barrie Ontario! I know it got quite cold here in Toronto, but to hear that it snowed in an area that’s only about two hours away … that’s not good.

Usually we don’t get snow here in Toronto until at least November and often it’s near the end of November at that. I hope that’s still going to be true this year.

I’ve already been freezing for a month. I don’t know why, but this year I’ve felt colder than I usually do at this time of year. I’ve been wearing sweaters and curling up in blankets when I’ve been in the house watching TV or working on the computer.

I’ve lost about 18 pounds in the last month and a half … maybe that’s another reason why I’m feeling so cold lately? I’m getting thinner and it’s a big change for my body to lose that much weight so fast. No I haven’t been using any thing like apidexin to lose weight. I’ve lost it because of my migraine medication and how it’s made a lot of different foods and drinks taste so different. Which of course means I’m not eating as much nor drinking pop or sweet drinks. LOL





Waiting for our dinner to be delivered

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My husband and I are treating ourselves tonight.

We’ve been on a very tight budget since we got a new car in August. Finally … things are looking a “little” better. Not great, but we have a little breathing room.

So we’re doing something we having done in months – we’re ordering food in for dinner. Swiss Chalet. Mmmmm. I can’t wait until the delivery guy gets here with our chicken dinners.

The last time we ordered in from this restaurant the guy had something that looked like a barcode scanner that he used on our debit card. It was kind of cool. We’re paying cash this time though so I probably won’t see that gadget this evening.

Do you eat out, get take out or get food delivered to your home very often? If so, how often?

On my own for the day

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My husband is out of town today. Normally he has Monday’s off, but this week, he changed shifts with someone at work and he ended up having today off.

As it happens that worked out well for him, because on Sunday evening we found out that a close friend of ours father had passed away. The visitation and funeral is out of town … in my husbands home town, so early this morning he got his things together and drove out of town for the day.

I didn’t go with him because I haven’t been feeling very well for the last week or so. I’ve had awful abdominal pain .. maybe yet another Crohn’s flare. Although oddly enough I’m feeling a little bit better today (hopefully that continues!). He went early so that he could see his parents and he had to go over to his aunts. We’re storing our pop up trailer on her property and she didn’t like where it was parked so he had to move it to the back of her yard.

Anyway … because of all the phone calls last night making arrangements for todays trip our PVR is pretty full! All the new and returning TV shows started again last night and we didn’t get a chance to watch very many of the ones we taped. We only watched House, Chuck and Weeds (from Sunday night). Tonight I’m taping a bunch of shows and I don’t think my husband will be home until 10:30 or later. I’ll probably watch a few shows that I don’t think he’ll be that interested in … but I think our PVR will be at about 90% by the time he gets home! LOL So early in the TV season and it will already be full. Oh boy.

So I guess tonight I’m eating alone, walking the dog on my own, and spending most of the evening on my own too. Sigh … Oh well .. at least this trip out of town should cut out the trip we were planning for this coming weekend to take care of the trailer.

When Chris does get home I’m going to try some acnepril. I’ve been breaking out lately so I figure this is worth a try. I’ll let you know in a couple of weeks if it’s helping.

Ok … off to feed the dog!

Our Car insurance went up – and we thought it was going down Grrrr

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A week or so ago I wrote a post about how we’d just saved a lot of money on our car and home insurance by making a few adjustments on our policy.

What I didn’t know what as that when we bought our new car near the beginning of August and my husband arranged everything with our insurance company. I thought that our car insurance rates had gone down a little bit – especially after we’d made a few adjustments to our policy a week a later. Boy was I wrong!

I guess with some changes to Ontario Insurance Laws that went into effect in early September and the fact that our car is newer – even though it’s a small 4 door 4 cylinder sedan – safe, efficient and that my husband and I have PERFECT driving records – our car insurance went up by about $60 a month.

GRRRRR

Once I saw how much money they took out of our bank account for the monthly policy payment we gave them a call. Of course their computers went down shortly after we started our talk. Uh huh. Before their computers crashed they did say that our payments had been adjusted upwards to cover the slightly higher expense of the new car coverage and that it will go down in the new year when our new contract starts.

I’m going to be calling them back on Monday to clarify exactly how much we’ll be paying when the new contract starts and their computers better not go down again! If I’m not happy with our conversation I think I’ll be spending sometime checking out prices at other car insurance companies next week and see if we can get a better price. If I do find one, hopefully it will be a company that also has house insurance and gives a discount when you combine car and house coverage. Our currant insurance company gives a 20% discount for combining insurance coverage.

Our neighbors and their BIG bed

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Earlier tonight, as my husband and I were having dinner our dog started howling at the door.

We got up to investigate the noise that had startled her. It turned out that our next door neighbours were in the midst of struggling to get a brand new mattress in their front door.

They weren’t having an easy time of it. For some reason they had decided to buy a king sized bed … even though their house (identical to ours) is very small and a king sized bed will probably just about take up most of the master bedroom.

Anyway .. since they were having such a hard time getting the mattress – a latex mattress BTW, inside their house, we decided to try to give them a hand.

It’s actually a good thing that we helped because we had to lift the mattress over the upstairs banister in order to get it to the top floor. It would never have made the turn at the top of the stairs without all of us lifting it up otherwise.

So I presume that they’re now putting their new bed together. I think with all that lifting and building they’ll probably be tired enough to sleep tonight. I hope their new bed is comfortable!

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