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A special anniversary

April 3, 2012 by Tricia

I just found out that a very good friend of mine will be celebrating a special anniversary later this month. She’ll have worked in her job for 25 years at the end of the month.

I don’t just mean that she’s been working at the same career for 25 years, but that she’s also been working in the same company for that time as well. These days that’s pretty rare what with companies going out of business and layoffs and so on, not to mention people changing careers. A few days ago I realized that in June I’ll have been a nurse for 20 years, but I’ve worked in several private clinics and hospitals in that time.

I think I’m going to get my friend a special gift. I’ve been looking online and I found a site that has gourmet Anniversary gifts for her – things like delicious looking chocolate covered berries. Yum! I’m fairly certain she’ll love those. I’m going to order some for her and hope that she likes them.

Enjoying the sun

March 22, 2012 by Tricia

It was such a beautiful day today. Actually it was a beautiful week! It was so warm and sunny – unbelievable. I know it’s March break and quite a few people probably went south or to the Caribbean but the weather here in Toronto was almost as good as what you’d get in most vacation spots. Honest!

The weather broke records this week. Not just here in Toronto but across the country.

Today was the warmest day of all. It was 86 F! When I went into my backyard this afternoon I seriously thought about going back inside and getting the patio furniture. I mean, it’s March .. it’s way to early to be thinking about setting up the Patio furniture for all I know we could have a snow storm next week but with the kind of weather we’ve had most of the last month let alone the whole winter I think I probably could start setting up for summer.

Speaking of summer and patio furniture, I might look for some new modern outdoor furniture to accompany the patio furniture that I currently have. I’ve always wanted an outdoor couch or a true outdoor room.

Has the weather been warmer than normal in your area too? If it has, are you getting outside to enjoy it?

Our dollar keeps going up

March 22, 2012 by Tricia

I keep watching our dollars value go up and up. I”m Canadian and our dollar has been worth more than the US dollar for a couple of months now. If I didn’t get paid most of my income in American dollars I wouldn’t mind so much, but with the conversion – often through Paypal who takes their own cut, I’m losing money.

Hmmm .. maybe I should just invest in gold bullion. Gold’s been staying high in value for the last year!

I feel bad hoping that the Canadian dollar falls below the US dollar again, but that’s what works best for me.

Walking the dog

March 10, 2012 by Tricia

I love taking my dog for her regular walk but tonight she was a pain to walk. She kept pulling and worse … she kept darting onto people’s lawns to grab sticks and branches or other things.

She was startling me when she’d run or dart to grab things. I guess at first I thought she was either startled or being chased so that scared me .. then when I realized that she’d just about pulled me off my feet and scared me just to get a stick behind a metal building .. well, that made me mad.

It was also kind of cold and windy out this evening when I took her out so our walk wasn’t quite as long as I’d planned.

I think one of the problems is that my husband and I have very different styles or rules when walking her .. my husband used to try to be strict with her when walking her but I think he’s slacked off lately or else my dog doesn’t respect his authority (I sound like Cartman from South Park now LOL) so when he’s been walking her for several days and I talk over she just tries pulling me all over the place .. but after I’ve walked her for a few days she walks by my side calmly without pulling .. so nice. Soon enough … I’ll be the only one walking her.

I don’t recommend the stress diet

March 10, 2012 by Tricia

I’ve been on a “stress diet” the last four months. I really don’t recommend it to anyone. Not at all, because what I’ve been going through stress wise is highly unpleasant, but there’s been one benefit that I don’t mind. I’ve managed to lose weight because of the stress that I’ve been under. Actually I’ve probably lost too much weight because of the stress that I’ve been under.

I’ve lost something like 35 pounds. I don’t even know anymore how much weight I’ve lost. I stopped weighing myself about a month ago when I’d lost about 30 pounds. My pants and tops have gotten a bit loser in that time but not dramatically so, so I don’t think I’ve lost anymore than an additional five pounds or so. Hopefully not more than that.

My hair dresser when I saw her last week could see the difference in my weight before I even took off my heavy winter coat .. so I guess it’s a fairly dramatic weight loss. However you’d never know it at home … my oblivious husband hasn’t said a word. I actually had to point out how much I’d lost … of course he’s lost quite a bit as well .. needless to say the stress that I’m going through has to do with my marriage. Sigh.

My hairdresser warned me not to lose anymore weight … but at the same time she was trying to learn how she can lose some weight of her own. LOL .. she kept asking me things about weight lose products like how does 7-dfbx work? and so on … maybe because I’m a nurse she thought I’d know about weight lose products too?

Anyway … since I have so much stress in my life and since my life is going through so many changes she decided to cheer me up and she offered to give me free highlights so I accepted her offer. So I went home that evening with blondish highlights in my short auburn hair and it looked great. Still does!