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Happy Thanks Giving!

October 8, 2007 by Tricia

So …. Did all my fellow Canadians have a great Thanks Giving?

We mostly did things around home this weekend.

On Saturday I ended up going out on yet another shopping spree! Our printer hasn’t worked for ages and each week it seems I’ve been getting someone asking me to sign and fax something back to them or when we purchase something like tickets to a concert the tickets are electronic and must be printed out. So we needed a printer.

I got an HP all in one printer. The all in one includes a fax, scanner and printing capabilities.

We actually had to use it as soon as we finally got it set up on Saturday because Chris bought tickets to see Saga play in a Toronto bar and of course the tickets were electronic and the only way he’d be able to get his tickets was to print them out. I was also able to print and sign our confirmation for our airline tickets for our Las Vegas trip and then fax it back to the company from which we’d purchased our travel package.

Sunday was just a lazy day. I wasn’t feeling well at all so I spent way too much time lying on the couch. Thank you Crohns. I did however pick out some new themes for a few of our sites and I will be updating this site and a few others sometime this week. Especially now that I really know how well widgets work. Perhaps I’ll finally get this site to load quicker! Yeahhhh! Oh yeah, the new theme will load the content first – not the sidebars first like this theme does. I hate that. I’m sure you do too.

Earlier today we went to my husbands home town and had Thanks Giving dinner with Chris’ family. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, my mother in law cannot cook. She bought preformed chicken breasts – you know those pressed boneless ones? Yuck. There was also sausages, milkless mashed potatoes, squished turnip and stuffing. Needless to say the only thing that I found decent was the stuffing.

I guess I’ll be cooking Chris and I a small turkey dinner sometime this week as I was really looking forward to turkey and what we did end up eating was really disappointing.

How was your Thanks Giving?

A great site to get movie, retro and funny t-shirts

October 8, 2007 by Tricia

When you come home from work or when you are just sitting around relaxing at home – what do you wear?

I suspect that many people, like me, would answer that they dress in jeans, shorts or sweats and a t-shirt when they are relaxing at home. Ok, I know some of you and I’m certain that a few of you might answer pajamas or even less, but most of you probably dress in comfy pants and t-shirts right?

Since I work at home I seem to wear a lot of t-shirts. I haven’t purchased any new ones for a while, but I might buy some soon as I’ve been looking at an online store that specializes in
funny t-shirts. Some of the best ones that I found on the site have lines from great movies.

When I was browsing through the movie t-shirts section I saw that there were shirts from the movie SuperBad like this Team McLovin t-shirt.

Do you remember Olivia Newton John? I wonder what’s she’s up to these days. Do you remember when she came out with an album? I can’t remember what it was called, but the hit song from the album was Lets Get Physical. I hate to say this, but I remember when they used to play that song in fitness clubs all the time and I do believe that it was a t-shirt slogan if I’m not mistaken.

Whether it was a slogan or not, I did find a Lets Get Physical t-shirt in the retro section at Flippin’SweetGear.

There’s actually quite a selection of t-shirts ranging from funny t-shirts to political, holiday, movie or tv and retro themed t-shirts. There’s also long sleeved shirts, hoodies, baseball caps, boxer shorts, mugs and other gear with funny phrases on them too. The prices for the t-shirts and other items are reasonable. Being in Canada I always check to see if an online store will ship to my area so I was pleased to find that any items purchased at Flippin’SweetGear can be shipped throughout North America or even internationally.

Check it out for yourself then come back and tell me which t-shirt was your favorite.

What the Phlox is going on?

October 7, 2007 by Tricia

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In my Green Thumb posts on As the Garden Grows and You are in My World Now I was talking about how we’ve had some strange weather here in Toronto.

Flowers are still blooming away as if it were August or September rather than October, as you can see from the photo that I’ve included of the Phlox that is growing in my garden and that it’s currently on it’s third set of blooms!

My raspberries are still producing fruit, and as I said on my gardening blog, some of my flowering vines have begun to produce berries of their own too. Berries that I’ve never noticed before.

It’s been a warm sticky weekend here in Toronto as well. We had air conditioning of all things on yesterday since it was so muggy! Crazy weather.

I hope that the weather in your area has been a little more pleasant than it has been here.

Any Canadians reading this? Happy Thanks Giving! Yes, here in Canada we celebrate Thanks Giving a little earlier than our American friends. Probably because the weather is usually a lot cooler in many parts of our country by this time of year. Not this year though … LOL

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Old Friends

October 5, 2007 by Tricia

Last night around 6 pm as I was waiting for Chris to get home from work the phone rang.

I always look at the display on the phone to see who’s calling and if I don’t recognize the number I often don’t answer it as it’s usually someone trying to sell me something or lately one of our Provincial political parties asking “Can we count on you?”.

So I looked at the telephone display and I saw the words “the Jewelery Doctors”. At first I thought why is a jewelry store calling me? I’m not in the business anymore and the only reason I could think of was that maybe something happened to my sister who’s still in the jewelry trade and they were calling me to help her.

Then a little light went on and I remembered that the Jewelery Doctor was our friend old Bob. Chris and I used to work in the same building as him when we were both jewelers. That’s how we all became good friends.

If you ever need custom made jewelery you must visit Bob. His work is not just “designer inspired jewelry”. No, it is designer jewelry. He can make absolutely anything you can think of and his designs are amazing. I didn’t do the same kind of work as Bob. Chris’ work in the trade was closer to Bobs and I know he aspired to create beautiful pieces like our friend bob.

We had a nice talk on the phone. I probably haven’t talked to him for about a year since he’s a hard man to get a hold of. Chris, in fact, had been downtown on Tuesday when he went to submit our Passport applications to the passport office and he’d dropped into the jewelry trade building that we used to work in to visit with my sister and some of our old friends. Unfortunately Bob wasn’t around when he’d dropped in, but he heard that Chris had been there so he was calling to say hello.

Unfortunately Chris wasn’t home when he called and when Chris tried to call him back he’d already left the office.

It’ll probably be several more months before we all end up talking again.

That’s one nice thing about good friends. Even if you don’t manage to talk or get together often it’s easy to fall right back into place once you do get together.

Cavemen are ok

October 5, 2007 by Tricia

In mid-September I wrote a post about an upcoming new series. The post was about the new show Cavemen. Well, the show premiered on Tuesday night and thanks to us having a PVR I’m only just now getting around to watching it.

I said in my original post about the show that it was either going to suck because the idea was strange or that the writing would be so good that it would be an excellent show.

There’s more normal Homo Sapiens in the show than there are cavemen, and the cavemen consist of two brothers and an old friend living together in an apartment in San Diego.

If you forget for a moment that the guys are cavemen it’s just like watching a fairly good sitcom about three single guys living together, working and trying to find love in the big city. Well, one of the guys, Joel, has found love. He’s dating a Sape – short for Homo Sapien which is frowned upon in Caveman culture.

In the premiere episode he breaks the news about his new girlfriend to his brother and friend. It’s a big deal!

Oh and like any sitcom with three guys living together one is practical and tries to hold everything together – that’s Joel the one with the Homo Sapien girlfriend. One of the other guys, Nick, is kind of neurotic. He’s been working on his dissertation for a year and hasn’t written a thing. He’s the guy who seems to like analyzing things. Then there’s the screw up, Andy. He’s pining for the girlfriend he left back home and he seems sort of hopeless. I think Joel and Nick will spend a lot of time looking out for Andy.

I don’t know if this show will make it or not, but I liked it enough to watch it again.

Did you see the show? What did you think of it?

Happy Thanks Giving!

A great site to get movie, retro and funny t-shirts

What the Phlox is going on?

Old Friends

Cavemen are ok

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