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My favorite organic store

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A couple of weekends ago my parents in law came in to Toronto for a visit. They stayed all weekend. They were here to visit my husbands sick uncle but they also spent time with my husband and I.

During my in-laws stay we took my mother in law and my husbands Aunt to this store where we buy all of our various multivitamins and other health foods called The Healthy Planet. My Mother in Law always visits The Big Carrot whenever she comes to Toronto so we knew she’s love this new store too.

While we were there I mentioned that I love there organic chocolate covered ginger and my mother in law took it upon herself to buy a huge bag of them for me .. I mean huge … it must have been three pounds! You don’t buy a chocoholic a big bag of chocolates like that! I hate to say this but there’s gone! My husband had some, but I ate the bulk of them – three or four a day and ta da … there gone.

Anyway .. do you have a favorite store in your city that you go to for buying bulk or organic food and vitamins?





My husband might be giving guitar lessons soon

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My husband is a musician … well I guess you could say he’s a part time musician as he doesn’t play music for a living although he would if he could.

He’s been playing guitar since he was nine years old and along the way he learned how to play 13 other instruments. He’s quite accomplished.

Now he’d like to at least start teaching others how to play guitar and possibly other instruments. I guess he’d do this from home. We’re just starting to look into how to set this up as a part time business. I mean we could advertise online or send out direct mail marketing or just start out small by posting some flyers on the bulletin boards at the hospital where my husband works.

Of course we’ll have to see if there are enough people interested in taking lessons and if the times that they want lessons fit with my husbands schedule etc. Hopefully everything works out. It would be a great way to make a little extra money, plus my husband just loves playing guitar so it will get him playing regularly again.

Absolutely freezing this past weekend!

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It seems that we always have one day every weekend where we run around to different stores buying the things we need to get us through the week. I guess it’s a good thing that for the most part we manage to get the majority of our shopping done each week in one day instead of shopping several times throughout the week.

This past Saturday was our big shopping day and we sure picked the coldest day of the year to go out. I really mean that. I was -33 Celsius outside during the DAY! For my American visitors that’s -27.4 F. Bone chillingly freezing!

Our neighbors were “visiting” their house and must have been doing some kind of toxic renovations because they had their windows open most of the day. Can you believe they had their windows open when it was that cold outside? They either really had to do whatever they were doing renovation wise and couldn’t put it off until it was a little warmer outside and would make a little more sense (and be a little less costly) to have the windows open all day or else they really aren’t all that smart!

In one of the areas that my husband and I went to do some of our shopping there seemed to be payday advance loans stores on almost every corner. You know … like donut or coffee shops. LOL I don’t think I’ve ever seen a street or area that had so many cash advance or money lending places so close together. Not that I’ve noticed before anyway. Strange. Perhaps that area has a higher incidence of people that borrow money? I suppose that information could be discovered. It was strange though.

Even though it was such a cold day in Toronto on Saturday I’m glad that we went out and got everything we needed because as it turned out, we spent a good portion of Sunday fixing our leaking upstairs toilet. Yeah … I can’t say that my husband nor I had a very fun weekend … but everything is done now.

Extra hours for my husband

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My husband lucked out this week. He’s getting a lot of extra hours at work. One of his co-workers was working on Monday and she threw her back out and I guess she hurt herself bad enough that she might not be back in all week. So my husband is working 10 to 12 hour days.

Of course he’s really tired. He just stumbled by me mumbling something about letting the dog outside for a minute and then he was going to bed. Maybe he should take some multiple vitamins to help give him some extra energy and keep him healthy.

His co-worker who hurt her back might even be off next week so he might get extra hours next week too. Good for us money wise, but my husband will have to find a way to get more sleep so he’s not so tired.

Full after a very late dinner

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We had a late dinner tonight. We just finished about an hour ago and I’m still full.

The reason why we had such a late dinner was because my husband got called in to work this afternoon. Normally he doesn’t work on Mondays, but someone was sick so he was called in to work in their place and he ended up working into the evening so we didn’t end up having dinner until about 9:45 pm or so.

We had a big dinner too … We had some left over turkey, rice, peas, grilled peppers, and cauliflower. Oh and a small salad on the side. We didn’t have big portions, but it was a big enough dinner. If we ate that much every night we’d need pills to lose weight! LOL Well maybe.

Perhaps instead of just taking the dog outside the house for her last outing of the evening maybe we’ll go for a walk around the neighborhood. That might be a good idea anyway as we’re expecting freezing rain tomorrow so the dog probably won’t be getting any long walks tomorrow.

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