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Reminiscing about our trip to Vegas last year

November 14, 2008 by Tricia

Do you ever think about holidays you’ve had in the past? Lately I keep thinking about our trip to Las Vegas last year. It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago I was in a hotel in las vegas actually, I was in Vegas for the first time in my life.

I had a good time meeting bloggers that I’d known for a few years. Well known them interacting with them on their blogs or my own blogs and talking with them on forums.

Unfortunately my trip to Vegas wasn’t the best holiday I’ve ever been on. My Crohn’s was acting up and I also partied a little too hard on the first night I was there. I’m sure the combination was what did me in for the rest of the trip. In fact, on the second day i ended up being so ill (not hungover, ill with abdominal pain from the Crohns and bad fevers) that I had to stay in bed all day.

I did manage to make it to the blogging convention that I’d gone to Vegas for in the first place, but I didn’t do much else. I didn’t even try my hand at the casinos!

Even though a good portion of the trip was kind of lousy for me I enjoyed the atmosphere in Vegas and I’d love to go again … sometime when I’m feeling really good so that I can do as much as I want!

Have you ever been to Vegas? If so did you have a good time?





Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Items to Try, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: bloggers, Convention, crohns, holiday, hotel, Las_vegas, partying, remembering, Reminiscing, trip, Vegas

Dancing Dogs

November 12, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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I found this picture at a humor site and I just had to show it to you!

I have no idea if it’s photoshopped or if someone was extraordinarily lucky in getting two dogs to stand up and look like they were dancing. Either way it’s a fantastic photo isn’t it?

I love the dogs little sweaters too, don’t you?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Humor, Pets and animals, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: adorable, cute, dancing_dogs, funny, Humor, luck, lucky, photo, sweaters, Wordless_Wednesday, WW

A perfect gift for someone recovering from surgery in the hospital?

November 2, 2008 by Tricia

Chris was just talking to our friend J. She lives out of town with her husband, but in three weeks she’ll be in Toronto for open heart surgery! She’s had some heart problems for a while and it’s time to get them fixed before her problem gets worse.

When we talked to J’s husband earlier in the week we invited him to stay with us while his wife is in the hospital. He hadn’t even thought of where he might stay or even how much parking would cost if he spent most of the day in the hospital at his wife’s bedside.

We aren’t sure how long our friend will be in the hospital, but we do know she’ll be sedated and intubated for a few days after the surgery so that she can recover from the surgery better, so I expect she’ll be in the hospital for one to two weeks or longer. Can you imagine how much it would cost her husband to stay in a hotel and to park his car at the hospital on and off for two weeks? Or to drive back and forth from where they live (two hours from Toronto)? Yeah, so he’ll save a LOT of money if he stays with us!

Anyway … I know what being in the hospital is like. It’s noisy, it’s boring and if you aren’t feeling well it’s even worse. It’s nice to have friends and relatives drop in, but that can make you even more tired. So I was trying to think of something that we could get our friend so that she could pass the time in the hospital.

I just visited Buy.com to check out their weekly sale page, but I didn’t find anything that might be appropriate for someone recovering from surgery in the hospital. Then I had a great idea. Why not get her a portable DVD player? I was looking at the Philips DCP750 and it looks like it has all the features she’d need.

Now I just have to secretly find out if she has a portable DVD player and if she’d be allowed to use it while she’s in the hospital. I’m pretty sure that once she’s out of Intensive Care she’d probably be allowed to use it. It would certainly be a great way to pass the time and both she and her husband could spend time watching movies on the DVD player.

Does that sound like a good gift for someone spending a couple of weeks in the hospital? Any other ideas?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Gifts, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Movies, Toronto, Video Tagged With: DVD_player, gift, gift_idea, Hospital, hospital_parking, hospital_stay, intubated, open_heart_surgery, portable_dvd_player, recovery, sale, save_money, stay_at_house, weekly_sale

Halloween Dogs – Trick or Treat?

October 31, 2008 by Tricia

Happy Halloween to all

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Trick or treat!

I’m sure these ghostly dogs want a treat.

Obviously I was waiting for Halloween to post this picture, but even though I’ve had the picture for a few years now, I kept forgetting about it.

I hope that everyone is having a great Halloween. Are you celebrating?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Pets and animals, Recreation, Shopping, Web and Technology Tagged With: dogs, dressed_up_dogs, funny, funny_picture, ghost_costume, Halloween, Humor, treat, trick_or_treat

We’re probably skipping Halloween this year

October 30, 2008 by Tricia

I still haven’t decided if we’ll be celebrating Halloween at our home tomorrow evening. Most years we decorate the front of the house with Halloween figures and some of that fake spider web stuff, but we didn’t do that this year.

Why? Well .. we’ve never had a dog at Halloween and Midnight barks and jumps around like crazy whenever anyone comes to our porch (mailman) or knocks on the door so I can just imagine how she’ll react when little kids all dressed in their cute Halloween costumes start coming to the door in droves.

I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be scared by the kids in costume, she loves kids, but I’ll bet she’d scare them with her barking and jumping. Plus it will be very tiring for us telling her to stop barking for hours on end and holding on to her collar every time we open the door!

So yeah … we’re thinking of just not participating in Halloween this year. If we don’t, I’ll lock our outside screen door so kids can’t come into the enclosed porch and I’ll close our decorative heavy curtains (that I rarely close) so the house will appear dark.

I really enjoy participating in Halloween and or holding Halloween parties, but with Midnight only being a little over a year old and rather hyper I think it will be easier to just skip Halloween this year.

Do you participate in Halloween every year – handing out candy to the kids or have you skipped it on occasion for some reason?

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Our Puppy, Toronto Tagged With: barking, candies, candy, costumes, curtains, decorate, dog, excited, Halloween, jumping, porch, scaring_kids, skippng_halloween

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