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Big City Roads

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This weeks Photo Hunt theme is Road

Since this weeks Photo Hunt theme is Road, I decided to show you two of my favorite road pictures.

I took this picture in August, 2006, when Chris and I and a couple of friends took a road trip to Chicago to visit Chris’ brother and see a Bruce Cockburn concert. (Bruce Cockburn is one of my husbands favorite musicians).

Driving in Chicago

It was raining lightly that evening as we drove through the city trying to find “The Little School House” theater where the concert was being held. I took the photo while in the car with my Nokia 6682 cellphone.

The second picture that I’ve chosen for this weeks theme is a photo of Yonge Street in downtown Toronto.

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Toronto is the 5th largest city in North America and Yonge street is the longest street in the world … however, since there was a street festival going on (just ending) the road was closed off … so it doesn’t look anywhere near as busy as it normally is. In fact, you’d be hit by a car or two pretty quickly if you stood in the middle of Yonge street taking a picture like this on a normal day!

I wonder, did everyone participating in Photo Hunt interpret “Road’ as literally as I did?





Cool looking ergonomic office chairs

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I’ve just been visiting a website with really nice chairs. The store is called Designer Seating and they carry a wide range of Hag and Capisco chairs.

These designer chairs would be perfect for the office or home office.

I’d love to get one! The chair that I use in my home office area (the dining room table) is an office chair, but it’s so old that the arm rests are starting to fall apart! LOL … yeah, I do need a new chair.

Both the Capisco and Hag Chairs are modern in design, but in addition to looking cool they are ergonomically designed.

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Capisco Chair

I guess the best way to tell about these chairs is simply to show you a picture of one. The one that I’ve added an image of, to the right, is a Capisco Chair model 8127.

You can click on the picture to see a large image if you want to read the descriptions beside each major component of the chair.

The chairs have been created to constantly adjust to your body’s center of gravity. So if you shift to one side the chair will adjust to your position.

Isn’t that cool looking?  You can sit in it  the way you normally would sit in a chair or sit so that your chest faces the back rest (that’s the way I understood the description on the website anyway).  It gives you great support no matter which way you sit on the chair.

It looks like the majority of the Capisco chair styles are adjustable, so if there’s a head rest it’s adjustable, arm rests – adjustable and so on.

One thing that I really like about this company is that they are environmentally conscious.

The seat of the HAG Capisco is made from recycled bumpers and plastic packaging from household waste. The plastic components are labelled by type for at-source-sorting. Both the production process and the choice of materials satisfy the most stringent environmental requirements.

I believe that this company is located in the UK. The prices are in pounds.  Unfortunately I can’t find any shipping information on the site so I don’t know if they ship outside the UK.  Either way, if you like the look of these chairs why don’t you visit the site and see all of their designs? I’ll bet you’ll find something that you’ll like!

Aw, this is sweet

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I’m sitting here on the couch trying to work on my laptop and my puppy, missing Chris this evening, decided to come and cuddle.

She has her head in my lap.

So sweet.

Midnight isn’t really a cuddler or lap dog. She loves her attention, but mostly in the form of play. When she was a young puppy she didn’t even like getting her belly rubbed! Of course she had tummy problems so maybe rubbing her tummy hurt.

She’s only just recently become a little more cuddly. Like just this week. Hopefully she’ll start cuddling up to us on the couch a little more often as she realizes she can get some great attention this way.

A gas or electric fireplace would be nice in our home

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I was speaking with my sister-in-law last night about their upcoming move to a new house and the discussion gradually lead to my sister-in-law asking how our renovations were going. Of course this caused me to laugh, as our renovations have been stalled for a few years now.

You cannot believe how tired I am of looking at our unfinished living room/ dining room ceiling! It just needs a day or two’s more more and it will be finished! Hopefully we can get that done before the year is over.

Once the main floor reno is done I’ve decided that the basement will be our next project. Our house isn’t very big and all we are using the basement for right now is storage and as a laundry room, so it would be nice to make all that extra space usable.

I think I’ve mentioned what I want to do in the basement a few times now. It’s going to have a small spare bedroom, a storage room, laundry room, nice bathroom and the remaining area will be a rec room / TV room. Well, I think that’s the plan.

I’ve been thinking that it would be nice to put in an electric or gas fireplace when we renovate the basement. My brother renovated his basement a couple of years ago and he added a gas fireplace and it just makes the room. Plus basements tend to be cooler than the rest of the house, so having a fireplace down there would help us keep the room at a comfortable temperature.

Now as you know, I’m in Canada, but I happened to find what appears to be a great online store in the UK that specializes in both electric and Gas Fires. I know that I have several regular readers from the UK, so I thought this store might interest you if you’ve been thinking of renovating your home or perhaps replacing an existing fireplace.

The company is called HotPrice.co.Uk and they stock all of the leading brands of fireplace manufactures. Plus, as I said they seem to have a huge selection!

I haven’t given much thought yet whether we’d install a gas or Electric fireplace. Certainly we won’t be installing a full fireplace. Our house is just too old and that would be a huge renovation in addition to what we’d already be doing to our basement.

I think I’m partial to the inset gas or Electric Fires. They don’t take up much space and are as attractive as the outset fireplaces.

If you’re interested in getting a fireplace for your home take a moment to visit HotPrice.co.Uk. You can get Gas Fires in wall mounted, inset and outset styles in a range of traditional to contemporary designs. Their electric Fires come in both inset and wall mounted styles.

As I briefly mentioned earlier, if you are interested in a full fireplace, you’ll find a large selection of full fireplaces at HotPrice.co.Uk. They have designs made of limestone and wood, and you can even find full fireplaces that appear to be made of stone. They’re just gorgeous.

If I had a large home I’d want a full fireplace however since our space is already compromised we’ll likely go with one of the inset or perhaps a wall mounted electric or gas fireplace.

Do you already have a fireplace in your home? If you do, is it full, gas or electric? Do you enjoy having a fireplace in your home?

Tomorrow night is FEAST night

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Tomorrow evening we’re going to be going out of town to celebrate our brother-in-laws birthday. We’ll be going to an old friends of ours’ home to have a feast.

Our friend, J, loves to cook. Whenever she has these parties (and believe me, she’ll use any excuse to have a dinner party) the meals are always HUGE. Like 8 to 10 courses and three to five desserts! If she invites 10 people to her dinner party there’s enough food to serve 50!

Oh and it’s not light fair. It’s full of fats, sugars and all the bad stuff. It’s usually delicious, but I’m sure if we were to attend her dinner parties regularly we’d soon have clogged arteries!

We have one major problem though. Since this dinner party is out of town we normally stay over at Chris’ parents whenever J has a party. Too much food and too much drink isn’t a good mix for a two hour drive home!

We can’t bring our dog! J hates, hates, hates … did I say hate? Yeah, she hates dogs. So there’s no way we could bring Midnight with us. Plus … Chris’ parents have been invited to the dinner party as well, so they won’t be able to take care of our puppy either. Midnight’s so hyperactive anyway, I wouldn’t saddle them with her, she’d probably end up knocking one of them over or dragging them own the street. She certainly drags me around!

On top of all of that, Chris’ sister and our brother-in-law will be moving in October, so they’ve asked if Chris could come over and help with a few things around their house to help prepare them for the big move. So … Chris is going to drive to Waterloo this evening, help our brother-in-law with a few things and then drive back to Toronto tomorrow morning … well, I know him … he probably won’t get back until early afternoon.

I’ll stay home and take care of the dog while Chris is gone.

Then, sometime late tomorrow afternoon we’ll drive to Paris for the dinner party … but we can’t party too hard as we’ll be leaving Midnight at home alone (in her crate) and we’ll have to drive home sometime after the big FEAST is over.

Don’t count on any new posts on Sunday … There’s a good chance I might be a little hung over and or my tummy might be upset by all that food. Most of J’s dinner menus usually don’t go well with my Crohn’s and she’s the type of person that doesn’t seem to understand if you beg off eating something she’s cooked (simply because you can’t digest it!). LOL So I guess I’ll be eating a variety of tasty food, but probably paying for what I ate on Sunday and who knows … maybe well into next week if it irritates my already irritated Crohn’s affected system. Ugh …. (don’t worry I won’t be too stupid about what I eat.)

So I guess I’m going to try to do a day or two’s worth of posts this evening! Hope my fingers don’t cramp up with all the typing!

What are your plans for the weekend? Any dinner parties or family trips planned?

BTW I haven’t been to one of J’s parties for a while (Chris has, but I haven’t). The last one I went to was in the summer of 2006. Long time readers of this blog might remember that that’s when I tripped and fell on a weirdly shaped curb and tore a tendon in my knee (took 8 or more months to heal and hasn’t been the same since). Luckily for me that was my last most spectacular klutzy move. I haven’t done anything nearly as self-injury causing since that time. Let’s hope that if I go tomorrow night I don’t trip and fall or klutz out in any way!

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