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George Costanza – a spokesperson?

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Ha, I just heard that Jason Alexander is going to be the new spokesperson for jenny craig. Good for him!

I tend to stay up late at night – due to my Crohn’s pain for the most part, and as you probably know there isn’t much on TV late at night … so I often end up watching old reruns of Seinfeld and other old sitcoms. So I see a lot of the old “George”. Plus I did manage to catch one of the Curb Your Enthusiasm Seinfeld reunion shows and yes … Good ol’ George has gained some weight.

It’ll be nice to see if in a year or so if he’s all slimmed down. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him slim, Have you?





I need to take better care of my skin!

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Wow, is my skin ever delicate! For some reason I was looking at my arm earlier today, don’t ask me why, and I noticed that I have all these little tiny scars on my arm. I looked at my other arm and the top of my hands and the same thing is going on.

I think some of the scars go back to when we used to have a very very large iguana. His nails would scratch my skin when I’d hold him – not enough to make me bleed … just a scratch or scuff .. but then I’d end up with a very light scar.

Now that we have a dog she scratches me up pretty good too. If I ask her to shake hands she paws me quickly several times and scratches me with her rough nails!

So .. now I have tiny, white criss crossed scars all over my hands and arms! The only times I’ve really ever notices it before was in the summer when my skin gets a light tan. Hmmm I wonder what I could do to fix it? I wonder if acne scar cream would work or if I’d have to get something stronger?

Does your skin scar from just a tiny scratch like mine does? When I say scratch I mean just a little skin scuffing – no cut, no bleeding, just a faint mark …

I think I’m actually glad the weekend is over!

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I’ve been so busy all weekend that it doesn’t even feel like it was a weekend. Too bad it’s over! LOL

On Friday our TV started acting up again. It’s a DLP that we bought in 2004. We can watch it for a while, but every once in a while the picture freezes and goes into weird black and white (mostly black) and there’s nothing we can do to make it work other than turning the TV off for 30 to 60 minutes then it works again for a while … sometimes. The odd thing is that when the picture freezes we can still hear the sound for whatever we’re watching.

Anyway .. since the TV is likely on it’s last legs my husband and I went out to Best Buy on Friday evening. They’re having a big sale on HDTV’s so it was the perfect time to look. After looking at just about every LCD and Plasma TV that they had we decided to get a 50″ Samsung PN50B850 Plasma TV. Unfortunately it wasn’t in stock so we have to wait until next weekend before we can try it out. Hopefully we’re happy with it.

When the new TV arrives, if our old DLP is still working we’ll put it in the basement for occasional viewing … like when my husband wants to watch hockey but I want to watch one of my shows. LOL

Then … on Saturday our new washer and dryer arrived! Our old washer died in August and the drier wasn’t working well. So we spent all weekend installing the new machines. Literally .. all weekend! I didn’t do my first washer load until 4:30 pm!

We also had a friend over this afternoon AND I have a huge migraine! Sigh .. I think I need one of those destin florida vacations or something!

Do you ever have one of those weekend were you just keep going and going? I’m actually glad the weekend is almost over. Now I’m going to lie down and hope my migraine goes away … and watch 24 on TV! (if our TV keeps working I mean!)

I’m getting sick of these four walls

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I think I’m starting to go a little stir crazy! I’ve mostly been stuck inside the house for the last couple of weeks and I’m tired of the view! LOL

As my regular readers know I have Crohn’s disease and I’ve been on medical leave from my job as an ER nurse for five years now. Unfortunately I can add a bad back into my list of woes now too. I found out about a year ago that I have a herniated disc in my lower back so the last year I’ve had a lot of back pain and a numb left thigh.

My back got really bad on Christmas evening. I’d spent the previous two or three days cleaning the house from top to bottom in order to prepare for three rounds of house guests during the holiday season and then standing cooking all day on Christmas day must have just been the last straw for my back.

Sitting during Christmas dinner was excruciating. You see when I stand too long it seems to make my tailbone go out and sitting or moving around becomes extremely painful. To top everything off, the next day I got new symptoms – my numb left thigh got even number and then my left thigh started burning – as if I was standing with my leg pressed against a radiator or something extremely hot.

So now if I stand for as little as 15 minutes my thigh starts burning! It’s an awful feeling! Luckily if I go and lie down on my side with my legs bent (sort of like a fetal position) the burning subsides.

Now … two weeks or more later I haven’t done a lot of sitting. I’m stuck inside the house because can’t stand or walk for long without everything getting worse … but, thanks to lying down a lot my back, tailbone and leg seem to be quite a bit better.

I did go out on Sunday … we bought a new front loading high efficiency washer and dryer set at a local furniture store. While we were there we looked at the new HDTV sets and some contemporary sofas. I know our TV is going to die sometime this year so we thought it would be a good idea to figure out which models we like … as for the sofas … well … if we ever do get around to renovating the basement I think I’ll bring our living room couch, sofa and chair set downstairs and get a new sofa for the living room.

We have NO money … but hey .. I can dream … and that little outing to the store- while it was hard on my back – was nice. It alleviated some of the boredom I’d been feeling by having to be stuck at home lying down all the time because of my bad back.

Have you ever been stuck at home for a few weeks (or months) due to illness or something like a bad back? I know for some people being stuck at home in bed for even a day or so can drive them nuts – so imagine weeks!

A quiet New Year’s eve and start to the year

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Happy New Year!

I just realized that I didn’t write a New Years post to thank my regular readers and visitors for visiting this blog in 2009! Thank you for sticking around and leaving comments and being faithful visitors. I hope that my posts continue to entertain you in 2010.

So how did you celebrate New Years?

My husband and I had a quite evening. We’d had three rounds of guests in our house from the 20th of December through to the 31st and a family wedding, so once the last of our guests were safely on an airplane home we went into relaxation mode.

We had a nice dinner on New Years eve, followed much later by a glass of wine and a piece of Chocolate Fudge cheesecake at Midnight on New Years. During the evening we watched two movies that I’d taped earlier and then caught the tail end of Toronto’s New Years eve televised celebration just in time for the count down to midnight.

We spent Saturday and most of Sunday relaxing. I think we’re finally rested up and recovered from the holidays or at least I hope we are!

We hadn’t been planning to do anything over the weekend at all, but late yesterday afternoon we ran into one of our neighbors and they invited us in to have a drink for New Years and to see their latest renovations. They’d just finished redoing their kitchen and man, am I jealous! It’s beautiful and oh, they put in double copper sinks! I love the look of them! It seems like our neighbors are starting off the new year just right.

So … what did you do for New Years? Did you get together with friends and family or did you just have a quiet evening at home?

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