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My interest in Interior design and the new Home and Garden website

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I’m seriously thinking of taking an interior design course. I know there’s some great Interior Design colleges here in the Toronto area but I keep being drawn to ones in the US, like Harrington College of Design. They have so many great courses. Courses that sound like I’d get a quality education and background in interior design if I went there.

I’ve always been interested in home decor, DIY projects and interior design. It all goes together for me. I’ve designed rooms for other people and myself going from tearing down walls, building shelves and other furnishings, using different techniques on the walls and then picking out what furnishings would work best in the newly designed room. I know this is something I could do … it’s just pushing myself to begin taking some courses.

Well, whether I ever do this professionally or not, my new domain that I purchased for my Home and Gardening site – As the Garden Grows, which will eventually move to homeandgardendiva.com will not just be about gardening. No it will reflect more of my passion for interior design and DIY projects. Just wait and see.

I’m really excited about the new site … now if I could turn that excitement into a learning experience at a school that specializes in design I’ll have it made.





Sleep, Pain and Caffeine

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I was just thinking about ways to make myself feel a little bit better and as I said in my last post I think a weeks worth of sleep is really what I need. I don’t sleep well and it’s been proven that people with chronic pain feel worse when they don’t get a proper sleep. There is a definite connection between pain and sleep. So I think the number one thing that I can do for myself that might help this horrible Crohn’s flare is get some sleep. A lot of it!

The other thing that I was thinking of was to change some of the things I drink and eat. Ok, well I can’t change much about what I eat. I can’t eat a lot of solid foods because I don’t digest them well and feel worse after eating … so for the most part – mush it is. Ok no I don’t eat mush … but I probably have a heck of a lot more soft easy to digest foods that most people do. Rice, soup, broths, apple sauce, cottage cheese, yogurt and chicken are the main things that I eat. Yummy huh.

I have noticed that I’ve been drinking a lot of coffee lately. Probably because I’m so chronically tired that I feel the need to get more caffeine in my system to wake myself up. I think I’m going to drink more green tea instead. Perhaps I’ll get some organic matcha. This is one of the best forms of green tea that you can drink. It’s full of antioxidants, and like all green teas it’s caffeine free.

I wouldn’t doubt that I’ll feel a bit better, if not a lot better, if I start getting some good sleep and perhaps stop drinking things with caffeine in them.

Yep, I think I’m going to start doing all of this today. I’m going to finish what I’m currently doing and go to bed. That will be a few hours earlier than it has been normally!

What a great start if I can do it.

Wish me luck!

I need a weeks worth of sleep

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Honest. My Green Thumb posts are coming. They are!! I just had to get a few things done on my sites first.

I’ve been kind of out of it today. Trying to get some work done but not really being very productive. I sure hope that I start feeling better tomorrow. I think it might be a very busy week for me.

I’m just going to do a bit more work and then try to get to bed for a good sleep. Perhaps if I get a little more sleep than I’ve been getting lately I’ll hold up a bit better throughout the day.

It’s awful feeling like you are in a fog, all the while being in pain.

I think what I really need to do is sleep for a week solid. Nothing but sleep. Perhaps getting that much sleep would reset my pain receptors and turn around this horrible crohn’s flare? I’m willing to try it!

If anyone knows what the potion was that sleeping beauty was given give me the recipe!

Discovery Cruise Lines offers cruise to those who have served

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Did you know that Discovery Cruise Line has decided to do something that I think is very generous for anyone in the military who is serving or who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan?

How does a one day cruise sound? That’s right. Discovery Cruise Line is offering a complimentary one day cruise from FT. Lauderdale, Florida to Grand Bahama Island. This offer is valid from now until December 31, 2008.

If you’ve served your country and this sounds like a nice break from it all, just visit the Discovery Cruise Line website and click on special offers. At the bottom of that page you’ll find a link titled “To the Men and Women serving overseas” that you can click to find out more information as well as register. Military ID is required in order to qualify for this very special offer.

The one day cruise is absolutely free. All of the costs will be covered, which means the meals, service charge, taxes and Bahamian Departure fees are all covered.

If you know someone who’s serving in the Military now, or who has recently served please let them know about this special offer.

The Birthday Meme

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Mrs. Lifecruiser has tagged me with the birth date.

3 Events that occurred on September 6th:

1522 – The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1952 – Canada’s first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal. – and it’s been reruns ever since!

1997 – Princess Diana is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion. – That was depressing!

2 Births September 6th:

1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress

1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian

Why did I pick these people? I like comedians and these are two funny people.

1 death September 6th:

1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941) of Creedence Clearwater Revival

Chosen because I enjoy Classic rock and CCR.

As you might have guessed by now, yes I’m a Virgo. Can’t you tell?

You are a Virgo if you were born between August 23rd and September 22nd, and your opposite sign is Pisces.

The sign of Virgo is associated with purity and service. Individuals born under this sign are thought to have a diligent, analytical, self-sufficient, controlled, orderly, and modest character but one which is also prone to fussiness, and perfectionism. In terms of anatomy, Virgo is said to rule the abdominal region, large and small intestines, spleen, solar plexus, lower lobes of the liver, pancreas, portal veins, umbilicus, hands, nails, and carpal bones.

Great – my abdominal region rules me? Who would’a guessed that one? LOL

I’m not going to tag anyone for this meme, but if you decide to do it let me know and I’ll link to you. (first five only please).

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