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Beautiful Chicago building

March 22, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Metal

In August of 2007 my husband and I drove to Chicago for a weekend visit with my brother-in-law. Given how long it takes to get to Chicago from Toronto we really only had one full day to see some of the great Chicago sites. I’d never been there before and I wanted to see as much as I could.

As we strolled downtown I noticed the Carson Pirie Scott department store.

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The store had the most beautiful ornate metal filigree that I think I’ve ever seen on a building. It was just a gorgeous site to see.

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Unfortunately the store was slated to close. I do hope that the city of Chicago managed to preserve this beautiful building.

I really enjoyed my visit to Chicago. I found that it’s quite a lot like Toronto and I hope to visit the great city again sometime soon, perhaps this summer. Of course if we drive that distance back and forth again I think we’ll either have to rent a vehicle or get a new car. I’m not sure ours will make that trip one more time! Oh that reminds me … I’ve to look up some rates for auto insurance online as I think it’s time to find better rates.





Filed Under: Culture, Family, Great Sites, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: beautiful, brother, building, Carson Pirie Scott, chicago, city, department store, Downtown, downtown chicago, filigree, husband, metal, ornate, PH, photo, photo hunt, photohunt, photos, preserve building, sites, style, Summer, the city, Toronto, visit, weekend

Hairy situation

March 19, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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Yeesh! Get that guy a comb!

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Humor, Recreation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: comb, funny, funny picture, hairy, hairy back, Humor, photo, scary, scary hairy, very hairy, Wordless Wednesday, WW

I wish I hadn’t woken up this morning …

March 18, 2008 by Tricia

My husband had an early shift at the hospital today. He was supposed to get up about about 5:15 in order to get ready for his shift. Lucky for him I woke up at about 6:20 a.m. and realized that he hadn’t gotten up yet!

As I was waking him up I realized that I was in horrible pain. The lower right side of my abdomen was just killing me. The was, and still is, similar to what I think a cross between appendicitis and a kidney stone feels like. Still … Chris had to get ready for work so as he went off to take a shower and shave I got his breakfast ready for him.

Aren’t I good wifey? In total pain and still taking care of my man. Uh huh – just a typical woman probably.

Chris went off to work and I settled on the couch with the puppy. Poor Midnight ended up spending more time in her crate today than out though since my pain continued all day. Lucky for me it did get a little bit better, but I had fevers at least four times so far today.

I spent most of the day on the couch watching TV, and surfing on the computer, browsing through a furniture catalog to get ideas for some posts on one of my other sites and trying on and off to sleep.

So I think I only had three hours sleep last night and so far only 10 minutes sleep during the day at about 3:30 – just before Chris came back home from work.

It’s a good thing I got up early for Chris sake, but bad for mine … I’d much rather have spent my day sleeping rather than in horrible pain.

Man I hate having Crohns.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Life with Chris Tagged With: abdomen, abdominal pain, appendicitis like pain, breakfast, care, Chris, computer, couch, crohn, crohns, fever, feverish, fevers, furniture, home, horrible pain, Hospital, husband, idea, ideas, Midnight, night, pain, puppy, read, right side, right sided pain, severe pain, show, sites, sleep, sleeping, surf, TV, watch, watching, watching TV, woman, work

Woman SAT on toilet for two years!

March 17, 2008 by Tricia

Holy crap! Literally!

You have to see this news video about a woman who sat on a toilet in a small trailer for two years. She has agoraphobia and was afraid to come out.

I know some bathrooms are really tiny, I’ve got a small one myself, but this woman must not have ever stood up during that two year period as her leg muscles atrophied and her skin grew around the toilet forcing rescue workers, when they were finally called, to have to take her out with the toilet attached to her.

Isn’t that the strangest thing you’ve heard all week … perhaps even all year!

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Humor Tagged With: afraid, agoraphobia, atrophied, bath, bathroom, bathrooms, couldnt stand, Humor, inside bathroom, inside washroom, leg muscles, man, muscles, muscles atrophied, never stood up, news, news video, odd, odd news, painful, rescue, rescued, sat for two years, sitting record, skin, skin grown around toilet, small, stayed inside, strange, stuck to toilet, trailer, trailer bathroom, trailer washroom, Video, watch, weird, weird news, woman, woman on toilet

I’m a post-a-holic – Stop me!

March 16, 2008 by Tricia

Oh my gosh. I think after this I’m going to turn off my laptop and not turn it back on again until sometime tomorrow.

I’ve done something like 22 or 24 posts today on many of my blogs and my fingers are about ready to fall off. My wrists too!

I’ve been in the kitchen for the last 45 minutes to an hour getting our late dinner ready. I made homemade spaghetti sauce and of course spaghetti. The sauce needs just a little longer to blend and then we’ll sit down for a very late meal.

It’s a good thing Chris has tomorrow off since he’s going to be up later than normal thanks to me being behind on dinner.

I’m just starving too!

So much for updating the WP version on all the Feverishthoughts blogs today huh? Tomorrow …

I have a fantastic post coming up for you. I’ll be auto-publishing it at 6 a.m. Try to remember to come back as it will be worth it. It’s something totally unbelievable!

Ok. I’m slowly backing away from the computer now …

Filed Under: Blogging, Dining and Restaurants, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Web and Technology Tagged With: 24 posts, auto publish, blog, blogs, Chris, computer, dinner, feverishthoughts, garlic bread, home, homemade spaghetti sauce, hungry, kitchen, laptop, late dinner, meat sauce, network, slow, spaghetti dinner, starving, turn off laptop, up late, Wordpress, wordpress updates, writing posts

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