Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
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This weeks theme is Classic
Here’s a classic photo of my city, Toronto, at sunset. The tall structure in the center is the CN tower. I believe it’s still considered the worlds tallest free standing structure, but I think a tower is being built in Japan that will rival it in height.
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So is everyone starting to think about shopping for the holidays? I know I am. Every time I go out to a store or even as I browse online I try to look for things that the people on my shopping list might enjoy. This might be the first year that I actually get my shopping well in advance of the holidays!
I’ve got another coupon site that you might want to take a look at. It’s called Abusaki.com and the site is filled with discount coupon codes. There are a number of well known stores listed such as Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, Fredericks, Target, Overstock and more.
You can search through the site listings to find a particular store or you can browse for Coupon codes and Free Shipping offers within the category listings. Shopping categories include clothing, accessories, auto-tools, baby, books and magazines, office, toys and games, computer electronics, financial, food and wine, gifts, flowers, health and beauty, hobbies, home and garden, jewelry, movies, music, sports, fitness and travel.
One way that this site differs from other coupon sites is that you can look around the site for coupon codes that you’d like to use while you shop on line, but you don’t have to use them immediately. Nope. You can store them in a basket and use them when you are ready. Abusaki.com also clearly lists when coupons are set to expire so if you store some coupons in your basket be sure to use them before it’s too late.
If you’re starting to shop for the holidays like I am visit Abusaki and see if you can find some deals.
Oh Man … I’m sitting here typing away and my stomach is just growling like crazy! it sounds like a volcano that’s about to erupt or the grumbling that you’d expect to hear from a monster hiding in a closet.
My stomach’s been very noisy this week. Sometimes it does that when my Crohn’s is really bad, and other times, after a long period of silence the growling seems to signify that my tummy is getting better. I don’t know what it means this time round, but I have been pretty sick this week already. Hopefully it means I’m going to start getting better for a while.
I must record the sounds sometime. It’s really loud and not your typical tummy growls sounds either!
Even though my stomach will growl when I’m not hungry – like when I’ve just eaten, this time some of the rumbles really are caused by hunger. I’d better start thinking about dinner and whether to cook or order my favorite Greek Food.
Hmmm … guess which one I’ll pick?
The house next door to use is for sale. The semi-detached … really attached house I mean.
Am I a bad person to make noise in my house when I hear a really noisy crowd of people go through the house next door? Am I?
Seriously. The other day when I wasn’t feeling well I was asleep on the couch and I was rudely awoken when the realtor or the people he/she was showing the house next door to started talking loudly at the top of his voice. I mean – he was so loud he woke me up out of a deep sleep!
In fear of the loud talker being a potential home buyer, I got up off the couch and started walking around my home – loudly. You know, walking on my heels. Thump, thump thump up and down the stairs. I also closed a few doors noisily, coughed a bit and turned the TV up a bit.
Nothing too terrible or was it?
All I was doing was trying to show the potential home buyer that if someone makes really loud noises in either home it can be heard.
You know, as much as I complain about our current karaoke neighbors they aren’t that bad. Unless their son is jumping on the couch or playing a really loud video game (sound up high, probably when parents aren’t home) we don’t hear them that much. I mean, we can’t hear normal conversations or anything. It’s just when they start playing their musical instruments – tuba? electric guitar, start singing gawd awful karaoke or have a party (with fellow karaoke buddies) that we really hear them.
But if a loud talker moves in … someone that we’ll be able to hear all the time, every day? Ahhhh! I swear we’ll have to move.
The person that was either showing or viewing the house the other day was sooooo loud!
So. Am I bad for making some noise of my own?
On Tuesday my husband got off work a little bit early and we scooted downtown to the Passport Canada office to pick up my new passport.
You might remember a post a couple of weeks ago where I was pretty mad at Passport Canada because they’d made a mistake on my passport listing my birthplace wrong? Well, we had to rush to get it fixed!
I’m happy to report that all the information in my new passport is correct! Whew. That’s a huge relief. I was very worried that I wouldn’t get my passport fixed on time for my trip next week. All this worrying over my passport and I’ll bet that no one asks to see it. Yeah, I’m sure that will happen.
I guess I’m not the only one who had to get their passport fixed though. While I was in the Passport office waiting to get my new passport I started talking to the lady next to me and found out that she was also waiting to pick up her fixed passport. I asked her what mistake had been made on hers and she told me that they’d put down that she was a man!
A Man! LOL
Funny thing is .. upon receiving my first passport with the wrong birthplace listed I called the passport office and they had trouble figuring out why a mistake like that would have happened since all of the information is supposed to be typed in and not chosen from a drop down menu as I had though. But really … come on … They’ve got to be working with drop down menus. The city they mistakenly put down for my birthplace would have been very close to the correct city on a drop down list and in the gender category there’s pretty much really only two choices right? I think the lady I spoke to was wrong about they typing the information in. Had to be.
Anyway … I’m glad they didn’t put me down as a man!