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I’d love to get away for a winter holiday!

March 16, 2010 by Tricia

I’ve wanted to go on a holiday all winter! Not that winter here in Toronto has been all that bad. We’ve had barely any snow and it’s been quite a bit warmer than it usually is! More spring like than anything!

Still … a holiday would be nice. I’d be happy to go anywhere. Niagara falls for the weekend or a week in one of those beautiful Outer Banks beach rentals.

Actually considering that it’s already March Break and Spring arrives this weekend, perhaps we’ll hold off on a “winter” holiday and try to take some time at the beginning of summer. Chris has a one week lay off from work coming up in June (yeah cut backs!) so depending upon how our finances are doing maybe we could take a mini-holiday during that time. Maybe just going up to a friends cottage would satisfy that need for a vacation that I’ve been going through.

Did you take a winter vacation this year? If you did, where did you go?





Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Toronto, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: beach, cottage, holiday, Niagara falls, rental, spring, spring like, vacation, warm winter, winter holiday

I’m so stressed out!

March 12, 2010 by Tricia

I haven’t been feeling like my normally cheery self the last few days. Not even close …

I’ve had two colds or perhaps one loooong cold almost all year! Out of the 10 weeks that we’ve had so far in 2010 I’ve only had two that were cold free. That sucks! I do think I’m finally starting to recover from this latest cold though so maybe in a few days I’ll be done with this virus once and for all.

We’ve also continued to have trouble with our awful renter neighbors. They were supposed to be kicked out by the Sheriff on March 2nd … but as I suspected the home owners daughter in law didn’t do all the paperwork correctly so now they’re going to be evicted by the sheriff on the 23rd. Hopefully they pack up and move on their own this weekend or the next as I think if it comes down to a formal eviction things are going to get nasty. These people are just bad evil nasty people.

I’ve been more stressed the last few days because the renter neighbors – who’s turn it is this month to use the tiny shared driveway we have – have been having a lot of cars going in and out at all hours of the night.

I haven’t had much sleep in the last few days because our dog barks every time she hears our neighbors “visitors” slamming their car doors or talking just outside our house … you know at 2, 3 and 4 a.m! Grrrr

Plus my brother was visiting from Vancouver over the last week so I was staying up to try to keep the dog quite while our neighbors were doing whatever stuff they were doing in the middle of the night.

Now thanks to the cold and all the stress I’ve been under my Crohn’s is really acting up and my abdomen feels like I just had bariatric surgery or something. I mean … it hurts. I don’t want to do anything but lie on the couch and not move, because every time I move or drink or eat anything my abdomen hurts really bad. Damn Crohn’s. What a terrible disease this is.

Hopefully if I take it easy over the next few days my Crohn’s will settle down, my cold will go away and I’ll start to feel better. With any luck our awful renter neighbors will move out on their own as well … I know that will help me de-stress!

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Items to Try, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Trouble sleeping Tagged With: abdomen, all hours, awful neighbors, cars, cold, crohns, disgusting, driveway, evicted, Evil, nasty, neighbors, night, pain, renters, sheriff, slamming doors, Stress, stressed, virus

Our power if flickering on and off

March 12, 2010 by Tricia

Ahh! What’s up with all the power outages today! It’s making it hard for me to get any work done.

My husband called me from work about an hour ago to ask if the power was out here at the house. I guess it’s out at the hospital just down the street where he is (thank god for emergency power). I told him that it was fine.

I think I spoke too soon. Shortly after he called our power flicked on and off and then a few minutes later it did it again. It’s happened about five times now. It keeps knocking out my router too, so if I want to use the internet I have to keeping going over to our router and modem, unplug them for a few minutes and plug them back in to get connect.

If this keeps up I’ll have to put the router on disability insurance LOL.

It’s raining and kind of windy here in Toronto this afternoon … maybe that’s messing up some transformer? Or maybe our power is flicking on and off now due to whatever the problem is a few blocks away at the hospital.

Don’t you just hate it when the power keeps going on and off?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Toronto Tagged With: electricity, hydro, Internet, modem, pain in the butt, power, power outage, router

Scummy renter neighbors about to be kicked out

March 3, 2010 by Tricia

I know I’ve said it before, but it really does look like we might be getting rid of our awful renter neighbors soon. I certainly hope that we will!

We got a call last week from the home owners daughter in law. She said that they’d been trying to kick out our horrid renter neighbors since December! That was news to me because we’d called them to complain about a few of the things the renter neighbors were doing in December and they didn’t say a word.

Anyway … they haven’t paid rent since December and we know they were late on rent in November …pretty bad record since they only moved in in the middle of September huh? But of course our friends that had lived in an apartment building with these scummy people had told us that they wouldn’t be there long as they have a record of not paying rent or bills and just generally being awful people.

They were supposed to be out my March 1st. If they weren’t out, according to the owners daughter in law, the Sheriff was going to come on March 2nd – yesterday, and lock them out.

Well that didn’t happen. So I don’t know if they came up with the almost $5000 they apparently owe or if the Sheriff’s office is backed up and there’s been a delay in their eviction. I think I’ll be called the owners daughter in law later this evening to see what’s happening because we want these people gone just as much or possibly more than they do!

I have a feeling once they get their house back and the scum of the earth renters are gone they are going to find a lot of damage to the house. We’ve heard them pounding things on and off for the last three months. They’ve either been building something in the basement or they are destroying stuff. I certainly wouldn’t want to hear the insurance quote the owners are going to get once they see the house and need to fix it up again.

Oh and these people are really stupid. The home owners I mean – not the renters … they’re seriously considering renting again!

Hmmm .. lets see their first renter destroyed the carpets, broke a chandelier and a window or two and painted over oil painted walls with latex so that everything was peeling. Now these people owe about $5000 in rent and have built up legal expenses for the home owners, plus they’ve probably damaged the house … and yet they still think they might rent out to a third person?

They’re stupid! They’d be better off letting the house sit empty rather than renting again. They obviously can’t pick good renters and they still didn’t go back and call the employers that the bad renter neighbors listed on their application (they only called the supplied phone numbers which were obviously set up as the guy had just got out of jail so he couldn’t have been working for the company he’d said he was.).

I’m just keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that the conniving renters didn’t come up with a way to delay their eviction and that the sheriff will be coming to kick them out sometime soon! I’m also hoping that if it does come down the sheriff showing up to lock them out that it goes down smoothly. these people are really bad news … I just have a feeling that it could come down to a stand off with the police or something. Yeah – that’s how bad they are!

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: appeal, awful neighbors, bad neighbors, conniving, court, evicted, eviction, home owners, kicked out, move out, police, renters, scary, scummy neighbors, sheriff, sneaky, stand off, stupid, stupid landlord

Telephone scammers

March 3, 2010 by Tricia

I think I’m going to start unplugging our phone during the day. Seriously … sometimes our phone rings 10 or 15 times a day and rarely is it a call from someone I know.

Nope … 99% of the calls we get during the day and in the early evening are from what I’ve started to call telephone scammers. It’s come to the point where if I don’t recognize a number a I don’t answer the phone. I also check the number on the internet and I find most of the numbers that I check listed on complaint boards stating that such and such a number is from a company that says it can lower your credit card interest rates, or extend your cars warranty or even some type of insurance marketing.

We listed our number of the Canadian do not call list, but the thing is most of these calls aren’t coming from within Canada – they’re coming from the US or even the Philippines. So the do not call list doesn’t apply to them. Grrrr.

Don’t you just hate telephone scammers?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: callers, car, credit card interest, do not call list, Insurance, ringing, scammers, telephone, telephone calls, unplug phone, warranty

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