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Busy few days – updating website and more

May 24, 2008 by Tricia

Gee I haven’t made a post on this blog for a few day … what’s up with that? I usually post at least one if not two or more posts a day.

Well … to tell you the truth I’ve been pretty busy over the last few days. I’ve been doing a major update on my main website (reptile related info). The site needs a complete redesign, but there were a few issues I couldn’t ignore any longer so I spent the last three days working on updating various aspects of each and every page on the huge site.

I’m a real type A personality and once I start something I usually keep going until I get it done and well, that’s why this blog and most of my others are lacking new posts for the last few days. I think I’m done working on the main website for a while so things should get back to normal now.

Other news … I was right, I am losing weight. I’ve got Crohns and I’ve been on medical leave from my job as an ER nurse for close to two and a half years. During my time with Crohns I’ve gone through periods of massive weight loss. One time I lost close to 40 pounds in one month … weight I really didn’t need to lose! That was bad. I wouldn’t doubt some people thought I was taking handfuls of weight loss pills. Strangely enough, over the last two years that I’ve been home I never did go through a period of weight loss due to the Crohns. Instead I seemed to have gained a little bit of weight very slowly during my medical leave.

Well it seems things are turning around. My metabolism is revving up as I’m constantly hungry and the weight I gained seems to be coming off. I’m not doing anything different really. I’m a little more active now that spring is here, but I still feel pretty yucky so it’s not like I’m going out jogging or anything.

Anyway, I consider this good news – well as long as I don’t start losing weight really fast it’s good news. I’ll be lookin’ good by the time it’s warm enough here to start wearing shorts.





Filed Under: Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Internet, Web and Technology Tagged With: blog, busy, crohns, design, ER nurse, home, hungry, Internet, losing, medical leave, metabolism, nurse, personal, post, posts, reptile, Shorts, spring, Technology, two and a half years, type a personality, update, web, website, weight, weight loss, yuck

Two squirrels sitting in a tree …

May 21, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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“Wait … you’ve got something on your face. Let me get that for you.”

Aren’t these squirrels cute?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Pets and animals, Photography, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: adorable, animal picture, clean, cleaning, cute, face, funny picture, groom, grooming, kiss, sitting in a tree, Squirrels, Wordless Wednesday

Grape Hyacinths and hosta – Oh My!

May 18, 2008 by Tricia

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Muscari and Hosta 2

Don’t these grape hyacinths (muscari) look just lovely in front of the yellow green leaves of Hosta Sum and Substance? It’s a lovely color combination isn’t it?

This photo was actually taken last summer. I’ve been too busy this week to get the photos of the garden that I did take this past week transfered from my camera to the computer. If anything the muscari looks even nicer this year. I will get to those photos shortly!

I picked this picture for this post because I thought it might look great with the new theme for Tricia’s Musings too.

My garden is doing wonderfully this year. There’s only one rose that’s struggling and all the rest of the roses and other plants seem to be doing well. I think we’ll really enjoy our backyard this year.

Oh speaking of enjoying the backyard and garden, our puppies having fun with it too. Yesterday we watered the garden and of course Midnight was outside with us on her leash. She loves the garden hose. She spent all her time trying to get her head and mouth under the water. I kept telling her that she’s going to love that cool hose water come summer.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Toronto Tagged With: backyard, camera, color combination, computer, cool water, doing well, drinking water from hose, fun, garden, garden hose, Grape Hyacinth, grape hyacinths, green leaves, Green Thumb Sunday, having fun, head and mouth, hosta, Hosta sum and substance, hyacinth, last summer, leaves, Midnight, Muscari, new theme, photo, picture, plant, plants, puppies, puppy playing with hose, rose, roses, Summer

Super busy long weekend

May 17, 2008 by Tricia

The other day I wrote a post detailing all of the things we were supposed to do on this long weekend here in Canada. It’s what we call the May two four or more formally the Victoria Day long weekend. Our long weekend came early this year. In my mind it really should be next weekend. In fact it caught me by surprise being so early.

As things go our our Saturday night plans fell through. We were supposed to go over to a friends house for a barbecue, party and perhaps even some early fireworks. Unfortunately our friends mother happened to call him on Friday and reminded him about the birthday invitations that they had on Saturday night. I guess it’s his great aunts birthday and the whole family is getting together for a big shindig.

That’s ok. Chris and I were busy enough today! We’re going to have a busy weekend so we got some gardening work done earlier today. I’m sure we won’t have time to do any gardening on Sunday or Monday! Tomorrow we’re going to a brunch at a another friends and then there’s fireworks on Sunday and Monday night.

I believe next weekend is the Memorial Day long weekend in the US. Do you have big plans for that weekend? And how about my Canadian friends – are you as busy as I am seeing family and friends this weekend?

Filed Under: Canada, Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: aunt, aunts, barbecue, barbecue party, Birthday, brunch, Canada, canadian, canadian friends, Chris, Family, family and friends, fireworks, friend, friends, friends mother, garden, Gardening, house, invitations, long weekend, memorial day, monday, monday night, mother, Party, saturday night, shindig, sunday, surprise, Victoria Day, weekend

Tricia’s Musings has a new look

May 17, 2008 by Tricia

Well … what do you think of the new look of Tricia’s Musings?

I’ve been downloading and testing WP themes for months in order to find just the right one for this site. I finally decided on this theme about a week ago.

The only problem I’m having with it is that I can’t figure out how to put a header image in it without dropping the sub-navigation bar. I’m sure I’ll figure out how to put in a custom header eventually.

Please let me know if this theme doesn’t work well with you browser. I’ve tested it on the latest version of FireFox and Internet Explorer 7 and I’m pleased with how it’s performing.

I’m planning on organizing the sidebars a bit better and I’ll utilize some of the special options in this theme such as featured video and featured posts shortly. It’s really a great theme. It was a custom theme but the designer decided to offer it up for free at the end of April. I love it and I hope that you do too.

I was supposed to have a custom theme made for this site. I won it in November, but my latest emails to the designer have gone unanswered and I couldn’t wait any longer. I’m pretty disappointed with how things worked out. If she does ever get in touch with me perhaps I’ll use whatever theme she came up with on one of my other sites.

Filed Under: Blogging, Web and Technology, Web Design, Wordpress Tagged With: browse, browser, custom, custom header, design, designer, email, featured posts, featured video, firefox, free, free theme, header, header image, Internet, internet explorer 7, look, lots of options, navigation bar, new, new look, new theme, November, organizing, problem, sidebar, sidebars, sites, special, Technology, testing, Tricias Musings, trouble with header, Video, web, WP, WP theme

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