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Oh my head!

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I’m having terrible luck these days.

I feel like I’ve been getting sicker and sicker with my Crohn’s disease over the last few weeks. Then last week I had flu like symptoms that hung on until Saturday or so and then as if that wasn’t bad enough I woke up with a terrible migraine on Sunday.

My headache was so bad that I lay on the couch most of the day and evening and took far too many Tylenol. Late in the evening I tried putting a heating pad on my neck and shoulders and it helped a bit but not enough.

Finally Chris offered to massage my neck and shoulders so I sat on the floor in front of him while he kneaded my neck, shoulders and back. Every time he tried to massage with a bit of force it hurt really bad. I know he wasn’t massaging hard at all but it left my whole upper back and lower neck feeling bruised! In fact the area still has a tender bruised feeling and it’s more than 48 hours later!

Oh and I still have a headache! Not as bad as on Sunday, but it’s still there.

I wish all these aches, pains and symptoms would just go away. Even if they’d only disappear for a day I’d be happy.





Some of my solar lights aren’t working

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I think I’ve got to get some new solar lights for my garden. We actually bought some new ones this year and they’ve got a switch on them so that you can activate them, but a couple of them don’t seem to be working.

I’ll have to go out in the garden at night and figure out which ones aren’t on. It could be that the batteries just aren’t recharging in the sunlight, or there might be something wrong with the light fixtures, or for all I know maybe we simply didn’t turn on that little switch that activates the light.

I guess I should check them before I think about buying new ones huh?

I’m just disappointed. We have a fair amount of solar lights spread out throughout the garden, but when a few areas aren’t lighting up properly at night it looks funny to me.

I’m the only one bothered by it since they’re in the backyard … but still … I want the things that I buy to work.

Oh oh I’m stuck planning a party

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Chris’ uncle is turning 80 in November and his mother just called us and put us in charge of planning a surprise party. Yeah, we’re going to surprise and 80 year old man. I hope we don’t scare him into having a heart attack!

So now I’ve got to rent a hall, plan a dinner and send out party invitations. Oh I have to try to figure out the guest list too, preferably before I send out the party invitations of course.

Normally I don’t mind planning parties, but I kind of feel like this has all been put on me. Everyone else is out of town so I really won’t have any help. Also, if I can rent a hall for the right date the party will take place only a few days after Chris and I come back from Las Vegas, which means I’ll be out of town the weekend before the party that I’m planning. So forget any last minute arrangements!

Hopefully this doesn’t end in chaos.

The concert was fabulous

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Well my husband went to the Rick Wakeman concert last night with the kind man who saw my post and gave him a ticket absolutely free of charge.

He said it was amazing. Chris wouldn’t stop talking about the concert for at least an hour when he got home. I’ve nicknamed my husband SirTalkaLot so you can imagine the barrage of babble I found myself listening to. LOL

He had last week off work and had to go back to work today so I kept telling him just to settle down so he’d be able to sleep. He didn’t. He’s a musician as well so he had the chords going through his head and as a result of being so hyped up he didn’t sleep well.

I’m glad he’s so happy, but I swear sometimes it’s like living with a teenager!

Your Life in Canvas – Check out PaintYourLife

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Have you ever thought how nice it would be to turn your favorite photo from your wedding into a canvas painting? Or perhaps you have a lovely photo of your parents together or your children that would make a beautiful portrait painting.

Well I’m pleased to tell you that PaintYourLife has made it possible to turn your photos into paintings.

PaintYourLife states that all their work is 100% handmade by portrait artists and as you can see from the photo that I’ve included above the paintings are of high quality.

I took a few moments to look through PaintYourLife’s gallery, looking at before and after comparisons of photos that had been sent in my clients and the paintings that the portrait artists had created and the work is just amazing.

It’s very easy to have a painting made of a favorite photo too. All you need to do is find a clear photo that you’d like to have made into a canvas. You can turn photos of people, pets, buildings or landscapes into paintings. It doesn’t have to be a high quality photo but if it’s a high quality photo all the better. You can send your photo to PaintYourLife via a digital upload or by postal mail.

Once you’ve picked out the photo that you want to have turned into a painting just visit the PaintYourLife site and fill out the request form. You can choose to have your painting done in oil, watercolor, charcoal, black or color pencil, pastel or acrylic. Then all you need to do is decide what size you want your painting and then tell the company whether you want the canvas sent to you unframed, Stretch canvas (Gallery wrap) or pick out a frame.

Doesn’t that sound easy?

Believe it or not once you send in your photo it can be made into a canvas in as little as 10 days! You’ll also get to preview your painting before it’s shipped to you.

I bet you think this service is expensive. It’s not really. You can get hand painted oil portraits or watercolor portraits for as little as $99. That’s quite affordable when you consider the high quality of the painting you’ll receive.

PaintYourLife portrait paintings would not only make a lovely addition to your home, but a beautiful gift for someone you love.

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