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Yummy Abs

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The other night my husband and I watched an episode of The Hour on CBC. I wanted to watch the interview with Jake Gyllenhaal …. man have you seen his abs? I don’t know that kind of abs workout he did, but it worked and it worked well!

I haven’t seen the movie Prince of Persia and I probably won’t – at least not in a movie theater as it’s not really my kind of movie. Maybe I’ll wait until it’s on the movie network so I can watch it at home.

Anyway .. Jake seems like a really nice down to earth guy. He did a great interview with George Stroumboulopoulos (say that 10 times fast).

There’s always great guests on that show. Since it’s taped in Toronto I put my husband and I’s name in for free tickets. Maybe we’ll get some tickets on a day when a star or musciain that we’re really interested in is being interviewed.





A very close call

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Something happened an hour ago or so that’s left me shaken.

I was sitting in my living room working on my computer. It’s cool enough today that instead of having the air conditioning blasting I’m able to have the windows and doors open.

As I sat working I happened to turn my head and noticed a little girl running across the side street opposite my house. I guess she’s about 4 or 5 years old now, but I’ve been worried about her for at least two years because almost every day I see her running across the road – back and forth, several times a day. I had a feeling that something bad might happen one day.

As it turns out today was the day that something almost happened.

When the little girl was about halfway across the street a car turned off of my busy street into the side street that the girl was crossing. The car was going fast and when the driver saw the little girl he must have jammed on the brakes and swerved at the same time. He missed the little girl by a couple of feet, but crashed into two parked cars.

I jumped up and threw on some sandals and ran out the door. I think I was on my feet before the car crashed into the parked cars. I actually made it to the little girl (who was about 200 yards from my house) before the man got out of the car or anyone came out of the house she lives in.

The little girl was ok, but naturally she was terrified after almost being hit by the car. The man who was driving the car and who caused the accident was fine, but he was shaken up too. I have a feeling his day is only going to get worse once the various car insurance companies start calculating all the damages the accident caused.

I’m so ticked off at that little girls parents and or babysitter. I’m not sure who she’s with during the day, but whoever it is, they’re not watching her well enough if I can see her out alone on the street and running back and forth across the street almost every day. Sure it’s a side street, but it leads to a park so it’s fairly busy. I think someone should always be outside watching out for her when she’s playing in the front yard.

I almost feel like calling child services. I mean I’ve been worried about this kid being hit by a car for at least a year and a half and here it almost happened today. What would you do?

Rainy days

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It’s raining raining raining! I’m not going to complain about the rain though – we need it! This has been one of the driest years here in Toronto in a long time and my garden is loving all the rain.

Actually as I said in some of my recent posts we spent ALL of this last weekend tidying up the garden and planting new plants. We also spent a good portion of the weekend before last working on the garden, setting up the outdoor furniture and putting in the solar lights so now that it’s raining cats and dogs I’m happy that my new plants are being watered.

The last week of May was really hot here too and we were starting to water every evening so this rain is going to save us some money on our water bill too.

How’s the weather in your area? Are you happy sometimes when it rains or do you hate it? I just hope that the rain stops by the weekend .. I’d like to get out and enjoy the slightly cooler weather we’re having if I can. I think this summer’s going to be a really hot one!

New Neighbors?

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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!

Missing out on a great opportunity

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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 …

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