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Strange Weather

October 10, 2006 by Tricia

I think my husbands in love with a weather man!

It was about five years ago when I first began to suspect that my husband was watching the weather on TV for more than the daily weather report.

I started noticing that he’d pay more attention to the weather report when a certain weather man was on. No. strike that. I think what made me notice his interest was that when other weather men or women did the daily weather he’d switch channels, but he wouldn’t when this particular meteorologist was on.

If Anwar wasn’t on Global he’d switch to another news program or to some other TV show that was on. I’d ask him:

“Why’d you switch the channel? Don’t you want to know what tomorrow going to be like?”

“Nah, it’s ok. let’s watch this.”

Meteorologist Anwar Knight When Anwar, yes that’s the meteorologists name, was doing his weather forcast Chris would watch the TV set intently. He’d get this funny little smile on his face and he’d even … giggle on occasion. WTF?

“Ok Chris, why are you smiling when he’s doing the weather?” I asked one night.

“He’s just funny. I like him.” Chris replied.

“Yah, you like him. Right.”

One day we were in a drug store, and as we approached the cash registers Chris suddenly got all excited and started moving to a particular cashiers line. “I think it’s him!” he said with a smile. “Who?” “It’s the weather guy, you know, Anwar!”.

Chris stood patiently behind him line waiting for his opportunity to strike up a conversation. I can’t remember exactly what he eventually said to him but I think he told him how funny he thinks he is when he does the weather and some other mundane conversation. Anwar clearly was in a hurry or perhaps he recognized the look in my husbands eye and wanted to make a hasty exit.

Now I’ve seen Chris when he’s met celebrities before, and far more famous ones at that, and he usually seems much calmer about it. We’ve run into Getty Lee, the lead singer from Rush, in the liquor store, and Chris even delivered products to his house when he used to deliver non-perishable grocery products way back when.

As the years went by I got used to Chris’ habit of watching this particular weatherman. In fact I generally found it pretty funny, and I’d tend to watch Chris more than the weather report, because he had such a look of adoration in his eyes whenever Anwar’s face was on our television screen.

Sometime during the past year Anwar disappeared.

We stopped watching weather reports. I never new if the next day would be sunny or if it would rain.

Then, one day, Chris was watching CityTV and the weather report started. Chris was about to switch channels when all of a sudden he got that little smile on his face. Yes, Anwar had switch jobs and now he works for CityTV.

My husbands happy because he can now indulge in his little Man Crush, and now I know that it’s going to be cloudy tomorrow with a chance of rain in the evening.

All is well in our little world.

Does anyone else’s husband have a little man crush goin’ on? Are there any women out there that think they’re a little bit in love with another woman on TV? Let me know. I’m sure I’m not alone in this. I’m not, right?

*Chris is aware of this post and it has his stamp of approval. He’s not afraid that he’s less of a man because he’s got a little Man Crush. Yep that’s my guy- secure, confident, and a little in love with a TV personality.





Filed Under: Life with Chris Tagged With: Chris, CityTV, Global, husband, In love, Life with Chris, Man Crush, Meteorologist, Weather forcast

Coffee and Drool

October 9, 2006 by Tricia

I’m an idiot.

Doc Mom, sign me up for your idiot of the week would you?

Chris and I went to his parents home in Brantford Ontario (home of the Telephone, and Wayne Gretzky’s home town). We were there to celebrate our Canadian Thanks Giving.

It was a typical holiday family gathering – parents, aunts and uncles and siblings … uh no, there wasn’t any siblings. Chris’ two sisters and their husbands were supposed to be there but they didn’t show up.

We visited for a while then we sat down to a meal of –

  • Turkey
  • Maple Ham – I do NOT like Maple, I’m not a good Canadian
  • Mashed potatoes
  • Mushed I mean mashed turnips – not a fav
  • A combo dish of baked candied turnip and sweet potatoes
  • Two types of stuffing – I luv stuffing (get your minds out of the gutter)
  • Carrots
  • Three types of cranberry (jellied, whole and some kind of cranberry and marmalade mix?)
  • some red wine
  • A tiny slice of Chocolate caramel brownie cheese cake and a scoop of maple (yuck!) walnut ice cream.

Oh yes I also had a beer before dinner and one after it too.

After a bit more visiting, we snuck into a neighbors house that is under construction to see how the huge house was coming along. When I say snuck, I mean just about everyone that was at the dinner went to the empty shell of a house. Then Chris’ dad decided he wanted to take us to lovely downtown Brantford to show us the changes that are taking place there. I took some pictures since it has a quaint small town feel to it.

Then we visited for a little longer and then since we were taking Chris’ Uncle back home to Toronto we decided to hit the road.

We stopped at a Tim Hortons to get some coffee for the trip as we were leaving town. I don’t like drinking my coffee when it’s hot. I kind of like it best luke warm. So I opened it up, and sipped a bit. I was sitting in the backseat and I didn’t have a cup holder so I rested the coffee cup between my legs.

I almost never sleep in the car but I guess the turkey, full tummy, wine and beer got to me and I fell asleep for at least half an hour.

I woke up when my husband pulled off the highway and headed towards his Uncles home. My head was leaning far to the right. I blinked a few times “Where am I?” and “Why is my mouth wet?” Ew I was drooling! Yeah, my head was at such an angle that I must have drooled while I was asleep. I drooled enough that my shoulder was a bit damp too. Ew.

But that’s not why I’m an idiot.

Remember that coffee?

No, it didn’t spill. It must have continued to stand while it rested between my legs and I slept, BUT and this is a big but, it either sloshed a bit or the hot coffee steam made my pants wet.

Yeah, I woke up and discovered that I had Coffee Crotch. LOL And no I didn’t pee myself. Yes I’m sure. It was just the front and a bit of my pant legs that were damp and smelling strongly of coffee. Needless to say I had a shower and a change of clothes when we got home. No more coffee crotch for me.

I’m always doing some silly thing. Hopefully that was the dumbest thing I end up doing this month.

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It’s click and comment Monday and yeah, I don’t have a renter, but please feel free to visit one of the links in my blogroll ( My blogroll is rolled up to the left under Extra Helpings) or maybe visit Doctor Mom since I linked to her at the beginning of this post. Then you can see her Idiot of the week Candidates. Anyway, visit someone and leave a comment, then visit their renter or someone on their blogroll and leave a comment there. Do this at least five times to spread the bloggy love.

Filed Under: Pulled a Trish Tagged With: Click and Comment Monday, coffee crotch, drool, drooling while sleeping, idiot, Pulled a Trish

Dwarf Dahlia

October 8, 2006 by Tricia

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I grew Dahlias the first two years that I had my garden – The tall kind with huge 1 foot wide flowers. They were called Dinner Plate dahlias. I didn’t grow them last summer because my backyard garden is maturing and I thought the dahlias took up too much room. Unfortunately I found that I really missed seeing those lovely flowers that always seems so bright and cheerful.

This past summer I decided to grow some Dahlias again, but this time I purchased dwarf dahlias that only grow to approximately two feet tall. I believe the one pictured above is a form of dwarf cactus Dahlia. I have it in my notes somewhere but I can’t find it right now. I planted 4 Dahlias in my boulevard garden, and now every time I look out my front window I’m greeted by the sight of my tall sunflowers with these beautiful pink Dahlias at their knees.

Have a great Sunday! I’m off to the in-laws for our Canadian Thanks Giving dinner and get together. I’ll be back this evening to make the rounds to my Green Thumb buddies. See you later.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday Tagged With: Cactus dahlia, Dwarf Dahlia, garden, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, plants

Sleeping Dragons

October 7, 2006 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Sleeping:

Chris and Puff the Chinese Water Dragon –

Chris and Puff the magic dragon

Chris was spending some time with our water dragon Puff, but he fell asleep while watching TV. I took this photo about 8 years ago.

I don’t have any of my Chinese water dragons anymore. Now I know that many of you that are viewing these photos don’t care for reptiles, but these lizards are beautiful. Unfortunately you aren’t seeing the best of my photos because I had to find ones to fit the sleeping theme. I do have some beautiful photos of my dragons. In fact, three of my photos and an article that I wrote about the care of Chinese water dragons were just published in an annual magazine called Reptiles USA 2007. I’m amazed that I have an article running in a magazine for a whole year.

sleeping dragons

Night, Puff and Rogue all fell asleep together in one big pile o’ lizard. I miss those girls. They were my babies.

Now, as I said earlier, I know some of you don’t like reptiles, but if you are leaving a comment please don’t say anything bad about them – these were family to me. They were beautiful, smart and sweet.

If you are a Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt participant please feel free to leave a link. All other links will be removed. Please don’t link and run either as that is rude.

Filed Under: Photo Hunters Tagged With: Chinese Water Dragon, lizard, Photo Hunters, reptile, Saturday photo scavenger hunt, sleeping

The Brazilian takes his leave

October 6, 2006 by Tricia

I just realized that our Brazilian boarder is going home tomorrow and I haven’t even written a rant post about him. What a change.

It’s not that he’s been a perfect boarder, but he certainly was better than the first two that we had. The first boarder slept all the time and seemed depressed. We just couldn’t connect with him at all. The second boarder was manipulative and lied continuously. I still have nightmares featuring the second boarder. **Shudder**

The only problems that we’ve had with this Brazilian student has been that he goes out with his new friends a lot lately every night. Now that’s not bad, in fact I kind of like it because we have the benefit of having a boarder and the extra income but the boarder isn’t around. No, what bothers me about him being out is that he doesn’t call and let us know whether he’ll be coming home for dinner or not. His room and board includes dinner so I’m obligated to provide a meal for him, but it’s kind of hard to figure out whether I should be planning a meal for two – me and Chris – or for three when he doesn’t let me know whether he’ll be home.

The other complaint is that all of the products he uses are extremely scented from his deodorant to his shaving cream. That’s a problem because I seem to be very sensitive to scented products. I get immediate intense migraines when I’m subjected to scented products like perfume or cologne, and occasionally I start having trouble breathing and have to use my puffer.

By tomorrow evening we’ll have our home back to ourselves. We had wanted to get another short stay boarder but we haven’t had any luck with the “English studies” agencies. None of them seem to be looking for home stay parents right now. I wanted to have another boarder for October and November and then have the house to ourselves for the whole month of December. I really don’t want to have a homesick student around at Christmas time.

Monday is our Canadian Thanks Giving day. On Sunday we’ll be going to my husbands parents house for a Thanks Giving get together, but I’m not sure what we’re doing on Monday. I might invite my sister and her kids over and cook us a nice Turkey with mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes and carrots, and peas. If I do that, I suppose we’ll have a pumpkin pie too. Yum. Yeah I think I’m going to do it.

Are there any other Canadians out there that are going to family gatherings this weekend?

Filed Under: Borders, Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: allergy, asthma, Brazilian boarder, Canadian Thanks Giving, perfume, scented products

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