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Feeling Stressed

December 20, 2011 by Tricia

For some reason my head has been filled with all of the things that I have to do for the last few weeks. By things I have to do I don’t just mean holiday kinds of things I mean getting the upcoming taxes done and cleaning the clutter out of the house and several other much more serious things. I’ve been under a lot of stress lately and things might be changing around here in the near future.

One of the things I’ve been thinking about – oddly enough … is the fact that I have a pop up trailer stored on my husbands aunts property. I think she’s wanted us to move it for quite a while. We haven’t used it in ages and I’m not sure we’ll ever be using it again … so I think it’s time to take it to an rv repair place and get it fixed up and then maybe think about selling it. I’d love to keep it in the hopes that I would use it – but really, I’ve had it for about 15 years and I’ve only used it maybe three times and that was in the first few years. So I guess this is just more “clutter” to be cleared.

It’s funny the things that go through your head when you feel like you have a lot of things to do but you’re trying to figure out where to start? Ok … time to go and try to de-stress .. like that’s possible these days.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: cleaning, clutter, destress, holiday, serious, Stress, things to do, think, thinking, trailer, weeks

Still busy getting those last minute gifts

December 10, 2011 by Tricia

Brrrr it’s getting cold here in Toronto. I’m so glad I’m inside my nice warm house tonight!

I’m still busy trying to finish my Christmas shopping. I can’t go out shopping tomorrow but I think I’ll be hitting the stores on Monday once again. Until then … maybe a little more online browsing and shopping – provided I find some good gift ideas of course.

How have you been doing with your Christmas and holiday shopping. I’ll bet that most of you are finished already aren’t you? Well I’m not and I don’t think I’ll ever be an early to finish holiday shopping. I guess that’s just not my style.

One thing about shopping late into the season is that the stores start lowering prices the closer we get to Christmas. I’ve found some great deals by waiting until a few days before the 25th! Speaking of deals … my brother in law called earlier this evening and he told me that he’s getting his kids and all of the nephews and nieces certified gold coins as a gift. That won’t be their only gift I’m sure, but he wants to start them out with a collection and since the coins are made of gold they’ll always have value. I think it’s a good idea, hopefully the kids will like their gifts.

Well .. happy shopping if that’s what you’re up to this weekend! Otherwise stay warm and have fun.

Filed Under: Canada, Gifts, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Recreation, Shopping, Toronto Tagged With: christmas, coins, collection, department stores, finish, finished, Gift ideas, Gifts, happy shopping, holidays, lower prices, nephews, nieces, online, Shopping, stores

More doctors appointments ahead

December 5, 2011 by Tricia

Well it looks like I’m going to have a busy week with doctors appointments – again.

Tomorrow I have to see my Endocrinologist to find out the results of my thyroid biopsy and blood test results. Hopefully everything is ok and we’ll just keep an eye on the tumor on my thyroid for a while longer.

Then, on Wednesday I have an appointment with my family doctor. She’s always behind by about an hour, so I’ll be bringing my Kindle with me to keep me busy!

Speaking of keeping busy … I was bored on the weekend – Chris was away again and I decided to see what was on TV. I ended up watching an old episode of Restaurant Makeover. Do you ever watch that show? It ended up being about a restaurant I know – in fact the restaurant is owned by a friend of ours wife’s family. I know when they had the makeover done the restaurant was practically torn down top to bottom and the menu was redone. They even had a new Restaurant System put in. It wasn’t the same restaurant at all when the makeover team was finished.

Have you ever been to a restaurant that’s had a makeover – either one they’ve done themselves or had done professionally as in by a designer etc? Did you like the restaurant as much or more afterwards?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Television, Toronto Tagged With: biopsy, blood work, busy, doctors appointments, endocrinologist, Family, Family doctor, Food, menu, old episode, restaurant makeover, results, tear down, tests, thyroid, tumor

My dog is so spoiled!

November 29, 2011 by Tricia

I think by now everyone in our neighborhood knows our dog Midnight. Luckily it’s a fairly dog friendly neighborhood as there are quite a few people around with dogs of their own. Our Lab seems to be well liked by most people that meet her – and I’m thankful for that. Of course she’s a friendly girl and I’ve tried my best to train her well.

I think our dog has been getting spoiled lately.  Naturally she’s just loving every minute of it.  About three months ago we found a very nice round dog bed and we put it in our bedroom for her to use whenever she’s upstairs and she just loves it.  Whenever she comes upstairs she goes in each room – two spare rooms and the main bedroom and jumps on each bed, and then she jumps down and rolls around on her doggy bed.  I guess it’s no wonder that I’ve nicknamed her “Goldy Locks” what with her trying out all the beds to see which one she likes best. LOL

Just like the information listed above, my dog must have her favorite toy. I think she has it with her pretty much wherever she goes in the house.  She tries to bring it outside with her too .. but when she has brought it outside she’s tried to bury it so we don’t let her bring her favorite bone outdoors too often.  I’m sure she’d freak out if she lost it!

Do you spend a lot of time with your dog or cat?  Do you pamper your pet too?  Tell me what you do with your pet.

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Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: cat, dog, dog bed, dog food, favorite toy, Food, fun, happy, house, iams naturals, outside, pampered, pet care, pets, play, rolls, spoiled dog, upstairs, walks

Puncture marks in my neck!

November 24, 2011 by Tricia

I’m in recovery mode tonight. Earlier today I had to go to the hospital for a thyroid biopsy. I’ve had thyroid biopsies before and normally it’s not that bad, but this time my neck is pretty sore. It’s swollen too. I think everything is ok though – I’m certainly keeping an eye on things.

The irony of the situation is that I’m supposed to have a thyroid biopsy every 6 months but because my doctors be very slow this “6 month check up” has taken almost two years! Hopefully the results are benign again. If they are I’ll buy my doctor some cohiba cigars dominican as a gift … well maybe not … I have been waiting a long time to have this test done.

I think I’ll go and get an icepack to put on the side of my neck. It sort of feels like a cross between a sore throat (it hurts a bit to swallow) and pulled neck muscles, so I’m sure the cold pack will help a bit.





Filed Under: Canada, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Ontario Health Care, Toronto Tagged With: check up, doctor, Hospital, hurts, needle, pulled muscles, recovery, sore neck, sore throat, swallow, swollen, test, thyroid biopsy

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