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New Neighbors?

June 2, 2010 by Tricia

I think we officially have new neighbors.

The house next door to use, the one that was rented out to two very bad renters over the last year was sold about a month and a half ago. We’d heard from one of our other neighbors that talked to the home owners son that the new people would be moving in at the end of May … well the end of May came and went and we didn’t see any sign of the new neighbors, but we just noticed a light on in the house next door so I think they came for a visit.

The realtor lock box is off the front door now too, so I guess it’s official.

We’re just hoping that the new neighbors are nice people. We’ve been through hell with awful neighbors lately. We pretty much lived in fear with our doors and windows locked all the time with the last ones so I think we deserve to have some nice neighbors now.

I don’t care if the new neighbors aren’t really friendly. All I ask is that we don’t have any problems with our shared driveway and that they aren’t noisy or do anything illegal or potentially dangerous while they are living next to us. Yeah, my standards got a lot lower after the last renter neighbors.

We don’t know anything about the new neighbors. In fact they seem to have left the house now so we didn’t even see them. I’ve heard that they are an Asian couple which fits with the guy that I saw a few days before the sold sign went up. I think they got a three hour home inspection done before putting in a bid.

Anyway like I said, I don’t really care who our new neighbors are as long as they’re nice enough and easy enough to get along with. They could be muscle building protein powder drinking health nuts or geeks for all I care, just as long as we don’t have any problems with them.

I just hope that they didn’t buy the house next door only to rent it out again. That’s really our worst fear. Wish us luck!





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: get along, lights, luck, new neighbors, nice, renters, share driveway, sold

Missing out on a great opportunity

June 1, 2010 by Tricia

I’m disappointed today. As I said in my previous posts I threw my back out again and it’s really aching.

Unfortunately this means that I probably can’t do something tomorrow that I’ve been looking forward to for about a week.

I was invited to go to the Google Canada offices tomorrow for lunch to discuss my experiences with Adsense and possibly give some suggestions as to how they could make it better.

I was lucky enough to have been invited to the first Canada Google Partner day last October and I was surprised to have been invited to what sounded like a smaller and possibly even more informal gathering at Google so soon (or at all!).

I really want to go, but I don’t think that I can sit for very long with my back the way it is. Hmmm maybe they’d let me lie on the floor? LOL Nah, not going to do that!

Instead of going to Google Canada tomorrow I guess I’ll spend some time working on my websites and blogs and perhaps start searching for unique gifts for dad since Father’s day is coming up soon.

Hopefully I’ll get another invite to Google sometime in the future. Perhaps they’ll have another Partner day this fall? Sigh …

Filed Under: Back Pain, Canada, Cool stuff, Internet, Items to Try, Toronto, Web and Technology Tagged With: adsense, back pain, bad back, Google Canada, google invite, lunch, miss, opportunity

My poor tired husband

June 1, 2010 by Tricia

My husband just got home from work a little while ago and he’s exhausted! He’s been taking a few extra shifts from his co-workers over the last few weeks so he’s been working more hours.

I also kept him busy in the garden over the weekend. He was outside with me when he came home from work on Friday and then we put in several hours on Saturday and Sunday in the garden as well.

He’s more tired than usual this evening. I think it’s because they put in a new document management at work and he had to learn how to use it – even though he doesn’t produce many documents as a hospital attendant/ orderly.

If my back wasn’t aching so much I’d cook him up a nice meal … but I think we’re just going to relax and put a frozen pizza in the oven. Hey it’s easy and we don’t eat “fast” food too often.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Toronto Tagged With: dinner, exhausted, extra hours, garden, meal, new system, shift, tired, work, working

The garden is a lot of work at this time of year!

June 1, 2010 by Tricia

I’ll bet that some of you have been wondering where I disappeared to these last two weeks. Well, I can’t say that I went far! I guess I’ve been in the garden – trimming, tidying and planting, planting, planting!

Oh and recovering from each and every garden outing for a day or two! My back is acting up again and all the bending involved with taking care of a garden is just aggravating things.

It’s so bad today that I can barely get up and walk around. I dreaded taking the dog out a few times today because she tends to pull on the leash … and that makes my back scream!

At least the garden looks fantastic. Almost all of our roses (60 + rose bushes) are in bloom. The lavender is also starting to bloom as is one of our Peony plants and several of our Clematis. Everything looks great.

Our vegetables (well most of them) are planted as well, and with all the hot weather we’ve been having I expect to be eating a lot of salads and using several tomatoes in our meals sometime soon.

Now I have to get to work and do a search for a good price on some Branson tickets for the end of July. Chris’ brother wants to meet us there for a family get together. So we’ll see what I can find.

Ok time to take some Advil and put a heating pad on my back!

Filed Under: Back Pain, Canada, Chronic Pain, Gardening, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: aching back, back, blooming, clematis, flowers, garden, garden beds, lavender, planting plants, recouperating, roses, Sore, time

I can’t believe he did that!

May 20, 2010 by Tricia

I’m starting to wonder if my neighborhood is going downhill.

I live in a nice middle class area where most people seem to take care of their homes and there’s very few break ins or other crime … but still … it’s changed since we moved in almost 9 years ago.

I mean, the other day, after I had taken our dog outside to do her business for the last time that evening – around 11:30 pm, I saw a car stop in front of our house. As I was starting to close our front door I saw a man get out of the drivers side of the car and walk around to the back door on the passenger side.

The man sort of bent over a little bit and I wondered if he was talking to someone in the backseat or if he was leaning in the back window to get something.

I don’t know why I paused at the door to watch him, but I did. Little did I know that my husband who’d just gone upstairs to get ready for bed was watching from the bedroom window as well.

The man stood at the side of the car for a few moment and then walked around the car, got in, and drove off.

My husband called down from upstairs “Did you see what that guy DID?”

I said “no … I just thought he was talking to someone in the backseat.”

Then my husband said:

“That guy just PEED ON HIS CAR!”

“What?”

“He was peeing on his car!”

Who does that? Who pees on their own car … or well, I don’t know if the man owned the car, but still, who pees on the car they’re driving around?

Plus it’s not like I live on a quite side street. It’s fairly busy with cars going by 24 hours a day.

I know sometimes you just have to pee and you might not be in a place where you can easily get to a washroom … but why did the guy pee on his car? Why didn’t he walk into my neighbors yard and pee behind his big maple tree or walk down the side street that’s just beside our house?

Would you ever do that? Pee on your own car I mean?

Anyway … now you can see why I’m wondering if my neighborhood is going downhill. LOL

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: busy street, Canada, car, downhill, funny, Humor, man, Neighborhood, nice neighborhood, pee, peed, peeing, strange, Toronto, weird

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