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Our basement is such a mess

September 28, 2007 by Tricia

I haven’t begun my Christmas shopping yet, but I am thinking about it.

Our basement is a mess! We have a lot of tools in the basement – among many other things. Our basement is a general storage area and isn’t used for anything but storage, washing and drying clothes, the toilet and showering.

My husband tries to keep the tools in order. There’s a work bench in the basement and he keeps the majority of our tools on or above it, but I think I might try to find a better form of tool storage if I can. Depending upon what I find and how pricey it is I could perhaps make a gift of a tool storage system one of Chris’ Christmas gifts.

It’s not like he needs a Christmas gift this year though … I mean we got him an HD video camera this summer. That should cover at least one birthday and Christmas I think! Me too. I don’t need anything. I got a really nice SLR camera this summer when we got Chris the video camera. I think we’re both good for a while.

But we could use something that would help us organize the basement. That would be practical, wouldn’t it?

More waste in health care

September 21, 2007 by Tricia

I haven’t been to my workplace in ages. When I first got sick I used to drop in every now and then to see my friends from work. However I haven’t even had any appointments in the hospital at all lately so I haven’t been there for a long time. Maybe even a whole year.

About a year before I got sick they were putting all new counters, reception and office desks in the ER. The counters weren’t built all the well. There weren’t enough electrical outlets for all our equiptment and the ones that were there had a hard to move cover over them. So much for quickly plugging in a pulse oximeter or blood pressure monitor to recharge!

Well, now they are completely renovating the ER. Expanding it too. So I suppose all the work that was done two or three years ago was for nothing! What a waste of money.

I’ll have to make a point of dropping in for a visit again soon. I miss the job and my co-workers.

Overworked? A little …

September 14, 2007 by Tricia

I’m seriously going nuts trying to keep up with all my blogs.

I’ve been accepting work for the blogs and perhaps I’ve taken on too much. It just seems like all I do all day is type, type and type some more.

I’m actually pretty happy with the work I’ve been offered. I’ve found all the products and sites I’ve been writing about interesting and I hope my readers have as well. There’s nothing wrong with writing about alcohol rehabs occasionally, but it’s nice to have articles that really fit well with my sites.

I just need a few more hours in each day to get them done. Sigh …

I need kitchen reno ideas – please

September 12, 2007 by Tricia

I can’t wait until we get a chance to redo our kitchen. I have no idea what the former home owners were thinking when they renovated. They had only renovated a year or so before we bought the house, but they went the cheap route – new floor and really cheap cabinets.

The fridge between the back door and the basement door all by itself so it basically looks strange where it is and makes it hard to use either door. The fridge is going to move to the other side of the room when we renovate. The stove is an old gas stove and it’s beside the kitchen door so there’s only a little bit of counter space to one side of the stove. I’ve got our big microwave beside the stove so if I’m carrying something hot I have to be sure that I can hold it for a few steps as there’s no place to put anything down quickly!

I won’t even begin to get started on the melamine cupboards and the cabinet hardware! Or the very small double sinks!

Kitchen renos are really expensive though … I’m trying to think if there’s a way I can renovate better than the former home owners, but without spending $30,000 doing it! The best way to do that is of course for us to do the majority of the work ourselves.

We’ve also thought of going to the local Habitat For Humanity Store, there’s one just about five miles from here, to look for used kitchen cabinets. We’ve looked before and you can get some nice wooden ones for great prices. Even if they’re a bit outdated they’re better than the melamine cabinets we’ve got now.

Got any ideas for me as to how else we can do an inexpensive kitchen reno?

The baseball crowd loved the music

September 8, 2007 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Music

Last Friday my husband and I and pretty much the rest of my family went to a Blue Jays versus the Seattle Mariners baseball game here in Toronto.

It was a great game. The Blue Jays won of course – after making several home runs! Oh and some of the cast of Heroes attended the game too and I was able to get some photos of them. That was interesting. I love that show.

After the game, when we were walking along the walkway leading from the stadium to Front Street we came across a man playing the accordion. I guess the crowd was in a jovial mood because as people passed the musician they broke out into dance.

I think that’s the musician right behind the man in blue who appears to be having a great time dancing to the music.

Oh and on Sunday and Monday we went to the beach. There was a live band at one of the bars we walked by on the beach and I can’t remember what song they were playing, but they sounded just like the band they were copying. Hmmm who knows maybe they were the real band?

On the beach people were playing volleyball, swimming, sunbathing, flying kites and even I’m sure I saw someone with a model rocket. I certainly hope they didn’t set it off at the beach. It was crowded!