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CandyTuft

September 24, 2006 by Tricia

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Scabiosa

This is a photo of Candy Tuft. I planted seeds in my front flower bed, oh, 4 years ago and it keeps reseeding itself every year. I had originally thought that this flower was Scabiosa, but once the comments started coming in I realized that I’d made a mistake. oh dear!

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Lynn, thank you so much for nominating me for the Blog Emmy award of Excellence. Wow. I’m not sure I really qualify for that one, but as the cliche saying goes “It’s just nice to have been nominated.” and it’s true. Thank you!

If anyone wants to vote for me … Lynn nominated me for the Excellence Award (design, writing, friendship etc). I’m up against some stiff competition so I could use a vote or two.

I nominated several bloggers in the various categories. (Mr. Fab (I was first Fab, Dutchie snuck in while I was writing my nominations), Shelli’s Sentiments, Lifecruiser, SugarFused, SugarSnaps, Bloggingchicks and TnChick.)

I just wish there were even more categories or awards so that I could have nominated more of you. There are so many great blogs out there, and wonderful people behind those sites too.

You have until 6 p.m. today to nominate your favorite bloggers for awards or to vote on those already nominated. See my last post for a link to the Blog Emmy Awards.

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday Tagged With: Blog emmy awards, flower bed, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, pretty weed, Scabiosa

Is Bin laden Dead?

September 23, 2006 by Tricia

Bin Laden There are reports in the news that state that Bin Laden might have died in late August in Pakistan due to a typhoid infection.

True or false I don’t know:

CBS: Bin Laden Alive or Dead?

France, US, unable to confirm report bin Laden dead

So what do you think? Are the rumors real this time round? After all we’ve heard it before haven’t we?

I’m pretty sure that this won’t make any difference in Al Qaeda’s agenda even if this is true. Do you feel the same way?

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment Tagged With: Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, Dead, General Musings

Blog Emmy’s

September 23, 2006 by Tricia

Just a quick note (Saturday Photo Scavenger hunt post below this):

Mysterious Lady from Mysterious lady’s Clues to life is taking nominations in several categories for the blog Emmy awards.

Visit her site and nominate some of your favorite blogs. (hint, hint 😉 )
Mysterious Lady’s Clues To Life: Let The Blog “Emmy’s” Begin!

I’m still choosing my gown for the award ceremony. Tell me which colour gown would go best with my green/hazel/brown eyes below.

While you’re here, don’t forget about my blogrolls. You’re welcome to join them if they suit your site:

Canadian blogroll, Toronto Bloggers, Green Thumb Sunday, Fabulous Photoblogs.

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: award, blog emmy, Mysterious lady

These Eyes are watching you

September 23, 2006 by Tricia

PSHunt
Grab the Scavenger Hunt code.Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants.

This weeks Theme is EYES:

eyeswatching

How do you like that one?

My eyes are the green ones – with flecks of yellow, I had a fever on Thursday and my eyes turn green or even almost yellow when I’m sick- and Hazel/ Brown ones (when I’m not really ill my eyes are hazel or brown). My husbands eyes are a grayish blue – kind of crystallized.

I was racking my brain this week trying to figure out what type of photo to present for this theme. Eyes, eyes … what can I do?

So on Thursday I held the camera up to my face and snapped some photos of my eyes. Then my husband came home and practically peed his pants (do men do that?) when he saw what I was doing. Hey, my pics were turning out … it was just a little weird. So he took over and took a few of the pictures. You can see him reflected in my eye taking my picture in the second eye at the top.

As Chris and I were standing in the kitchen taking pictures of each other eyes our boarder came home. Now, he was really puzzled as to what we were doing, and I don’t think he understood when I tried to explain that it was for a photo project that I was doing on Saturday. Oh well. He volunteered his eyes though- that’s his in the bottom right.

This project shouldn’t have been too hard for me … after all, I think I used to have some kind of eye fascination. You should have seen the walls of the bathroom in my first apartment. I spent a few months clipping photos out of magazines. Most were head shots, some were body shots, and for some strange reason a few feet fell into that pile too. Some of the head shots were large and I just cut an eye or two eyes out of several of those. Why? I don’t remember – perhaps I didn’t really like the actor or actress or think the face was all that attractive, but I suppose I thought the eyes were.

Is this starting to sound weird? It wasn’t really. Honest. It was just a redecorating plan and half joke. I haven’t talked much about my love or renovating our home, or painting the walls, or the venetian plaster effect that I did in our living room. I might if I feel better and my husband and I start doing more renovating this winter.

I had a room-mate in that tiny little apartment of mine. One night she went out to a party or a club and I stayed home. It was her birthday the next day and I wanted to play a joke. Quite an elaborate joke. Once she left I got out the wallpaper paste and my stock of clipped photos and I went into the bathroom. I think she went out around nine in the evening. I was just finishing up the job when she returned at oh about 3 a.m.

I’d been hoping to either be in bed when she returned or perhaps finished and watching TV. Oh well, she caught me, but I got to see her reaction. She loved it. It was actually pretty cool, a collage of famous and gorgeous faces. Here and there I’d placed some fantastic looking pictures of men – shirtless of course.

You wouldn’t think a bathroom would be a “must see” when new people came to visit, but it was. Just about everyone that saw it loved it. A few people who used the washroom or showered in there came out saying they were a bit freaked out by all the eyes looking at them, but they still liked the room.

People would go in and look at the pictures and try to figure out which actress or actor it was, or which model. I did that a long time ago. I doubt that that bathroom is still decorated with my collage of photos, but it would probably be even more interesting now than it was then since all those actresses and actors have aged or weren’t all that famous then as they are now.

I wonder if it’s still up?

Has anyone else done any interesting collage decorating?

Happy Autumn! It becomes fall at uh 4:03 a.m. (or something like that). Enjoy!

Filed Under: Photo Hunters Tagged With: collage, collage wallpaper, decorating, Eye, Photo Hunters, renovating, Saturday photo scavenger hunt

Son of Darth Vader?

September 22, 2006 by Tricia

My 200th Post!

Sleep apnea nose maskThis is what I’m going to be greeted with each night when I go to bed. Lovely huh?

Chris was diagnosed with severe Sleep apnea in June or perhaps early July. Shortly after his diagnosis the company that supplies the machine and mask called and asked that Chris come in to get his machine and be shown how to use the equipment. We didn’t know how much it was going to cost us so we delayed a bit. It turns out that our government actually pays for the machine ($750 or so) but Chris has to pay for the special nose mask and I believe the tubing. I haven’t checked yet but I think I can submit that bill to our medical insurance company and perhaps get some of that money back. I hope so ’cause it cost us over $400.

I still don’t really know what it sounds like other than the light purr of the machine beside the bed. You see, Chris was told to slowly work his way into using the mask all night. Which means he’s only using it for about an hour or two at a time and then taking it off. I’ve been having a very bad week with my pain so I’ve been on the main floor in the living room working on the computer when he’s been trying out this mask.

He’s had the machine for a week or so but hasn’t used it every night. However, on the nights that he does use it for a short while he seems to snore less. Hopefully by the time he works up to wearing it all night we’ll both end up getting better sleep!

I was pretty sure that Chris has sleep apnea for oh, pretty much the whole time we’ve been together (yikes 17 years!). When my doctor was sending me for sleep studies to try to figure out why I can’t sleep after working night shifts (even though I haven’t been working at all lately) I mentioned Chris’ snoring to her and told her that I thought he had sleep apnea, mainly because he snores, snores, then doesn’t seem to breath for a whole minute or so, then the snoring starts up again. As usual I was right.

I’m happy that we’re finally addressing the problem. It’s quite common for people with sleep apnea to end up having heart problems. We’ve already been through a heart scare with Chris. Two years ago he kept passing out at work and he had changes on his electrocardiogram that looked like a very rare cardiac arrhythmia called Brugada. He ended up staying in one of the best hospitals in Toronto for cardiac problems and had many tests, but they couldn’t reproduce the arrhythmia. That’s good, ’cause he would have ended up with a built in defibrillator if they had diagnosed his problem. He has permanent changes to his ECG but the doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with his heart. We know something happened but we don’t know what. So far so good though, he’s been feeling pretty good for most of the last year.

I’m hoping that now that we are taking care of the apnea perhaps he’ll do even better, or that at least treating the apnea might prevent further trouble from developing.

Does anyone else have a spouse with apnea? One who uses the breathing machine? Does it make much noise? I hope it doesn’t end up that I feel like I’m sleeping with Darth Vader or something!

God! With my abdominal troubles and Chris questionable heart problems and now sleep apnea it sounds like we’re getting old. We aren’t! Look at that pic of Chris we’re both still relatively young, but I guess we have a few more problems going on then others. Oh well.

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I’d like to thank my two landlords this week:

Neurotic Mom – we’re plotting against the famous Mr. Fab Muhhhaaaah!

And ITTM – Does it mean they like my site that they picked me, or just that I was first to bid? Hmmm

Filed Under: Blogging, Life with Chris Tagged With: breathing machine, nose mask, sleep apnea, snoring

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