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Change of heart: I suddenly like peanut butter after hating it all my life

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It’s four in the morning? What am I still doing up?

If I was asleep I wouldn’t have just had a snack disaster! Well … it was a disaster for my taste buds at the very least.

I’ve hated peanut butter all my life. I’ve even written posts about how much I hate peanut butter, but much to my surprise, about two months ago I suddenly got a craving for peanut butter. Why … I’m not sure. No, I’m not pregnant, but I did wonder if I was when these strange yearnings to eat peanut butter started.

The only thing I’ll eat peanut butter on is soda crackers. You know those little crackers you buy to crumble into your soup? The thought of eating a peanut butter cookie or peanut butter or just about anything with peanut butter still disgusts me … but I’ll eat it on crackers it seems.

Usually when I buy a box of soda crackers I get the unsalted kind. We usually only use them in soup. My husbands favorite soup is Chicken noodle and mine is Vegetable and both are way too high in sodium (well unless I make a homemade soup that is) so why add even more salt by using salted crackers.

We ran out of crackers last week and on Sunday when we were grocery shopping the store only had salted crackers. I decided to buy them just in case my peanut butter craving hit again.

Big Mistake!

It tastes horrible! I know because I just had a snack and ughh … that was gross! If I had spread peanut butter on salted soda crackers when I first had my peanut butter craving two month ago my desire to eat peanut butter would have ended right then and there. Absolutely disgusting I tell ‘ya.

Isn’t that weird though? I suddenly got a craving to eat a food that I’ve avoided and hated my whole life for no apparent reason.

My craving really startled my husband. He can still remember me telling him to get away from me or to go and brush his teeth after he’d eaten peanut butter just because I couldn’t stand the smell of it on his breath, so imagine his surprise when I wanted to buy a big jar of the stuff?

Perhaps using peanut butter on my puppies toys (as a treat and to keep her occupied and out of my hair for a while) might have helped trigger this craving?

Have you ever had a sudden change in taste? Craved a food that you hated? If so, what was it?





I can’t thank my brother enough for a special gift

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I don’t think my brother has any idea how happy he made me last week. He gave me a gift that I’d been wishing for, for years without even knowing how much I had wanted it.

So what did he give me? Two free passes to the Canadian Golf Open this past Saturday. Now that wasn’t what I’d been wishing for years. I’m not a fan of golf. It’s interesting I guess, but the best part was after the Open semi-finals on Saturday there was a Tom Cochrane and Red Rider concert. That was what I wanted!

I’ve been a fan of Tom Cochrane and Red Rider since I was a young teenager and I’ve always wanted to see the band in concert.

When my brother got in touch with me about two weeks ago to tell me that he might be able to get my husband and I passes for either the Saturday or Sunday I thought that was very nice of him. I thought my husband would enjoy watching the golf. However when he got the passes and told me that he’d picked the Saturday pass because ther was evening entertainment and told me what the entertainment was I nearly fainted.

So last Saturday we went to the Canadian Golf Open for a little while in the late afternoon (it had rained a good portion of the day and play was delayed by over two hours) then we set up our double folding chair right in front of the grandstand. We had primo seats for the concert!

It was amazing! Tom started out by singing Victory Day, then followed up with Big League, then Sinking like a Sunset. After that he did a song dedicated to his daughter Cody which I believe was called Northern Star, after that they did a slowed down version of Good Times, followed by Human Race, White Hot and Life is a Highway. They came back for an Encore and did Lunatic Fringe and ended with Boy inside the man.

I love each and every song and believe me I was singing along and moving to the music. It was fantastic!

I’ve already thanked my brother profusely and I’ll be thinking of him as he attends a seminar about corporate performance management this week! Ah, he doesn’t mind the work related courses or travel that much … heck, this past Friday he was able to attend the Canadian Golf Open by volunteering to man a booth there for his company.

A pretty little rose called Lavender Dreams

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Lavender Dreams – what a lovely name for these tiny roses that bloom in clusters on a low growing rose bush.

Lavender Dreams rose

My Lavender Dreams rose is growing in my front flower bed, but it’s in the shadow of the much taller Balloon flowers and a slightly taller roses so this photo has that sun dappled shade look to it.

The Lavender Dreams roses don’t seem to have any scent, but they make up for their lack of scent by putting out an almost continuous parade of blooms throughout the summer.

Another lovely lavender shaded flower that I grow in the front yard is this beautiful clematis.

Close up of pink clematis flower

We have a metal trellis attached to the bricks on the left corner of the house and the Clematis vine grows up the trellis each year. At least twice each season this clematis has a flush of beautiful pink to lavender flowers.

At this moment the vine is just heavy with flowers and it’s drooping badly. Yet it still looks beautiful.

Pink Clematis - vine

Do you have any easy to grow vines like Clematis or easy care rose shrubs like Lavender dreams growing in your garden?

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Going to a concert tomorrow night!

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Tomorrow Chris and I are going to the Canadian Open golf tournament at Glenn Abbey. My brother managed to get the two of us free passes for the day.

My husband is more into golf than I am. I’m not into it at all, but I still think it will be kind of interesting to go to the tournament as I’ve never been to one before and there will be some big names there. Plus who knows I might even see some celebrities too.

My brother had a choice of day passes to get us. He could either get us day passes for the semi finals on Saturday or the Finals on Sunday. He went with the Saturday passes because from Thursday to Saturday each evening after the rounds are finished there’s supposed to be a free concert. Tomorrow night Tom Cochrane and Red Rider are playing and unbeknownst to my brother that is one of my favorite bands of all time. I’ve never been to a Tom Cochrane concert so I’m super stoked to go.

The only problem with our day and evening away from home is that we have to leave our puppy alone. We can’t bring her with us unfortunately. We do have an idea though … We’re trying to reach one of our friends that lives in this condo hotel in the West end of town to see if he’ll doggy sit for us. He loves Labs and if he’s free it will be the perfect solution to our little problem.

If we can’t get our friend to doggy sit we’ll just go to the tournament in the late afternoon. As I said neither Chris nor I are that into golf. The main reason we want to go is for the concert. Even if we don’t go until the late afternoon I imagine our puppy will be alone for 6 or 7 hours. Since I’m home most of the time she’s never been alone even that long! This could be interesting.

My desktop computer is so much faster than my laptop

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Lately I’ve been using my desktop computer more often. We got our Laptop two years ago and I let myself fall into the habit of using the notebook pretty much 100% of the time, however lately my laptop has been slowing down and it’s becoming frustrating to work on it.

My desktop computer on the other hand is nice and fast! We did a memory upgrade last year and well I guess the computer chip is faster than the laptops as well even though the Desktop computer was purchased in 2004. You’d think it would be the other way around with the laptop being faster … not in this case!

The main reason I had started using the desktop computer more often lately is because I purchased some programs that don’t seem to work on the laptop. I have something wrong with my .net framework installations on the laptop. They’re installed for programs that need them, but the programs won’t work, so there’s got to e some corrupted files or something else going on.

I guess I’ll have to completely remove all the .net framework installations, clean the computer up with a net framework cleanup program that I downloaded a while ago (through Microsoft) and re-install. I’m just worried that some programs will crash badly when I remove the installations and then I’ll have even more trouble.

So for now I’ll just have to use the software that I purchased recently only on the desktop!

I am enjoying working on my old computer again though. As I said earlier it’s so much faster than the Laptop. Even blogs and websites I visit seems to load faster. Now if I could only get my laptop working close to the desktops speed I’d be happy.

Does your computer make you frustrated with it loads programs or websites slowly?

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