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Do you ever buy things and then not use them?

July 11, 2008 by Tricia

Last fall I bought and Elliptical machine so that I could get in shape. As it turns out I haven’t used it much in the 8 months or so that it’s been here. Isn’t that terrible?

Do you ever buy things that you end up not using? You know things like buying exercise equipment or some new gadget for your kitchen?

I used to do that with fitness club memberships. When I first moved to Toronto everyone I met had a fitness club membership so I joined the gang and bought a membership too. Only trouble was I never went. I hate that gym atmosphere. I prefer to either exercise alone or to do things outdoors like walking, hiking, biking and things like that. I think over a five year period I bought two or three memberships that I didn’t use before I finally got it through my thick skull to stop spending money on something I was never going to use.

Now I’m not saying that I won’t use the Elliptical. It’s just that I bought it when we got Midnight and she was a tiny sick little puppy and I was also sick with my Crohns (still am) so that made it hard to get into a routine and well … now that it’s summer I’m busy doing things outside. Perhaps this fall …





Filed Under: Crohns Disease, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Recreation, Shopping, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: atmosphere, biking, club, Crohns, elliptical, equipment, exercise, fall, fitness, gadget, gym, hiking, kitchen, machine, membership, Midnight, money, puppy, spending, summer, Toronto, trouble

My monitor wouldn’t start

July 11, 2008 by Tricia

The other day when I turned on my (lately rarely used) desktop computer the monitor wouldn’t turn on. I spent half an hour attempting to turn it on with it’s remote and also pushing the power button and it just wouldn’t start up.

I was so upset. We’d just bought the LCD viewsonic monitor at the beginning of January in a boxing day sale and here it was not working only 6 months or so later.

I finally decided to try unplugging it and then plugged it back in. Sure enough as soon as I hit the power button it turned on. I sure hope that that was only a fluke and not the beginning of trouble with the monitor.

Filed Under: Computers, Electronics, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: button, Computer, desktop, fluke, January, LCD, monitor, power, trouble

Going to Toronto’s Outdoor Art Exhibition this weekend

July 10, 2008 by Tricia

My brother just sent me an email to tell my that his son, my nephew, was going to have a photographic exhibit at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this weekend. I believe it starts tomorrow and runs through until Sunday.

Chris and I went last year after learning my nephew was having his first exhibit there and we were really enjoyed the exhibits. I really love pottery and sculptures so I took lots of pictures. Take a look at these glass fish that were at the show last year.

Of course I loved my nephews work too. He won awards and his artwork was published in a book last year. he’s a very good photographer.

We only purchased a small pottery vase at the show last year but now that I know what kinds of art work will be there we’ll probably buy a few more items this year. Certainly at a show like this with artists exhibiting items in the same field we’ll probably be able to get the best buy for our money.

Oh I can’t wait to see all the pottery, metal sculptures, wood carvings, paintings and well … just everything. It’s a fantastic art festival. If you are in the Toronto area you should go – it’s downtown at City Hall.

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: Art, Art Exhibition, artists, artwork, brother, buy, city, downtown, exhibit, festival, field, fish, glass, metal artwork, money, outdoor, paintings, photographer, pottery, sculpture, Toronto, vase, weekend

Tired after a busy weekend

July 6, 2008 by Tricia

We had a very busy weekend and now I’m wiped out. I can barely keep my eyes open right now.

Yesterday we did a number of things. I cleaned up the house – swept all the floors (are house is all hardwood flooring). While I was doing that Chris went to the store to buy mulch for the garden as we were planning to add mulch to the garden beds later in the day.

However, when he got home he told me there was a tour at The Brickworks about the lost rivers of Toronto and he wanted to go on the tour.

The Brickworks is where one of Toronto’s largest brick making factories used to be in the early 1900’s and onward. The site is no longer a brick making facility, instead it’s a nature reserve with ponds, walking paths and protective native flora that barely grows anywhere else these days. So we brought our Lab puppy Midnight along with us and spent several hours on the tour and walking around on our own. I have several great photos but I haven’t moved them to my computer yet.

When we got home we noticed our neighbor that had had a stroke back in February was back visiting her home so I spent 2.5 hours on her porch visiting with her before her family took her back to their home where she’s now living.

After that we spent four hours working in the garden – until 10 pm!

Think yesterday was a busy enough day? Today was just as busy. We decided to take Midnight to Cherry Beach as it’s an off leash park for dogs. We don’t normally let Midnight off leash as she’s pretty rambunctious, but we did once she started playing in the water.

Midnight swam in the lake for the first time and she spent literally hours fetching a nice driftwood stick that we found. She’s a good swimmer – especially considering that today was her first time swimming!

We brought so much stuff for our little trip – a 30 foot leash for Midnight, a shorter leash, her harness, two water bottles, my camera, a bag of treats for the dog and a few other things. Next time we might as well buy a bus when we go! I have no idea why Chris brought water. He was bringing it for the dog but um we knew she was going to be playing in the water which means she’d probably drink the lake water so why bring extra water?

Midnight played with several dogs in the water. It’s funny … once another Lab was nearby fetching things in the water along with Midnight all the other Lab owners seemed to converge in the general area that we were standing so all of a sudden there were 6 or more labs swimming in the water and running around chasing each other.

Needless to say Midnight had a ball and we had a lot of fun watching her and taking with all the other dog owners.

I took lots of pictures. I’m sure many are pretty much of the same scene – Midnight swimming back to shore with a big piece of driftwood in her mouth, Midnight running along the shore in the waves and so on … but I think they’ll be great shots once I get them on the computer. I’ll try to post some in the next few days.

So I guess we spent most of the weekend outdoors hiking and playing by the water. It was great fun but I’m soooo tired!

I hope that you had a great weekend too. What did you do?

Filed Under: Canada, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Our Puppy, Pets and Wildlife, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: brick, brickworks, camera, Cherry Beach, Chris, dog, driftwood, facility, flooring, fun, garden, hardwood, harness, home, House, lab, lake, leash, Midnight, mulch, neighbor, park, porch, puppy, reserve, stroke, stuff, swam, swimmer, swimming, Toronto, trip, water, weekend, Yesterday

Warnings on instructions most ridiculous I’ve seen

June 29, 2008 by Tricia

Chris and I finally got around to putting in our new window air conditioner on Saturday. Ok, well Chris put it in all I did was read the directions after he installed it. LOL

I took a look at the instruction booklet because I wanted to find out what the Dry setting was on the air conditioner. I’ve never had an air conditioner with a dry mode on it and you know what? The instructions never explained what it was so I’m still clueless.

What I did find in the booklet was the craziest set of warnings that I’ve ever seen! Geez, it made me feel like we should have each called for a life insurance quote and perhaps made sure our wills were in order.

Lets see there was a warning about the batteries for the remote. Specifically –

If you eat the liquid from the batteries, brush your teeth and see doctor.

Huh … who eats battery liquids and how much liquid is in a small AA battery anyway?

Here’s another one – Do not drink water drained from Air conditioner.

The list goes on. I’ve seen some odd and often humorous warnings on electrical appliance instructions before, but almost every warning in this air conditioner booklet is strange. Do they really think people are that stupid? Honestly?

Filed Under: Decor, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Items to Try Tagged With: aa battery, batteries, craziest, drink battery liquid, drink water, electrical appliance, funny warnings, instruction booklet, insurance, liquids, quote, stupid warnings, teeth, warning, warnings, window, window air conditioner

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