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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!

Getting ready for the holiday, house guests and a family wedding! Ahhh!

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In just 14 days my niece will be married. I’m sure she’ll be both happy and relieved once the big day comes as she’s only had a couple of months to plan this wedding.

You see she was going to get married in June, but her fiance joined the Canadian Forces and well … that caused them to need to get married sooner – so that she can join him when he’s in training in another province.

Along with preparing for the Christmas holidays, a dinner at my in-laws, house guests for Christmas and then house guests for the wedding … I still need to find the perfect wedding gift for my niece.

She’s registered at one of our large department stores, but I’m still trying to decide whether to get her something that she still needs from her wedding registry, try to find a unique gifts for her or just give her money so that she and her new husband can purchase whatever they really need or something that they wanted on their registry list that they didn’t receive.

The other reason why I’m considering giving them money as a wedding gift is because they’ll be moving across the country to another province shortly after their wed .. perhaps the less things they have to move the better, right? They they can use the money, as I said above, to get what they need when they settle into their new home.

What would you do? Especially considering the holidays, house guests and a Christmas dinner with the in-laws out of town as well as getting ready for this wedding. LOL

Need a great wedding gift idea

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We just found out recently that my niece will be getting married at the end of the year. She had been planning to get married next June, but her fiance joined the armed forces and he’ll be shipping out in January (I think) so they pushed the wedding date up.

So now I’m trying to figure out what to get them for a wedding gift. Of course, we’ve had a lot of financial problems this year so while I want to get them something very nice I also have to try to keep the expenses down.

At least it’s a good time of year to be looking for a gift since there will be lots of Christmas sales coming up! No Black Friday sales here in Canada of course – since we already had Thanksgiving in October (and we don’t have a big sale associated with it unlike our US counterparts).

They are just starting out so I guess they need just about everything … well everything but Couture Jewelry since my niece grew up with a mom and aunt me) in the jewelery trade. LOL

Any good wedding gift ideas for a couple just starting out?

Our neighbors getting engaged!

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I know a secret! I was just talking with my neighbors grandson and he told me that this weekend, on Saturday evening, he’s going to propose to his girlfriend!

He was so sweet about it. I’ve known him since he was a teenager and he’s always seemed to really like me and value my opinion so he was anxious to tell me his upcoming engagement.

He hasn’t purchased an engagement ring yet though. He doesn’t know if his girlfriend will want to pick out her own ring or not. Since I used to work in the jewelry trade I was able to give him the name of a couple of very trust worthy jewelers for him to contact about getting an engagement ring made (for wholesale prices). These guys specialize in certified diamonds and can make custom settings so I think he’ll be in good hands. In fact, if he contacts them today he could possibly have a ring by the weekend if he decides to get a ring before asking his girlfriend to marry him.

Whatever he decides to do I’m happy for him! I just hope that she says yes!

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