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Hopefully getting back to blogging

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I’m sorry that I haven’t been posting much in the last week and a half or so. I’ve been very sick again.

I was actually in the hospital last week for a few days. My Crohn’s really flared up so I had to be treated in the hospital and stay there for observation for a while. God I hate being sick.

I haven’t been doing much since I got home. Just resting and slowly getting a bit better.

While I was away from home our closest neighbors- the ones on the other side of our semi-detached house had their baby! I didn’t even know she was so close to her delivery date. They had a little girl. I haven’t met her yet, but I did hear her cry once. I’m sure we’ll hear the baby more when she gets a little bigger and has stronger lungs for those cries!

Our other new neighbors – on the other side of our house – seem to be stocking up on cat supplies! Earlier today I saw the “boyfriend” going in and out of the house with Cat litter bags! They told us when they moved in that they have two cats, but with the amount of cat liter they brought in earlier today they either have a houseful of cats or they got a deal on the stuff! LOL

Hopefully I’ll feel well enough to get back to regular blogging soon. In the meantime I’m going to watch some of the shows we’ve been taping on our PVR .. I’m looking forward to seeing CSI and Ugly Betty tonight.

I hope you’ve had a better week than me!





Tired of seeing “fake” people on TV

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I’m still not feeling very well so I’m trying to catch up on the television shows that I’ve missed in the last week (due to visiting our friend in the hospital so many times).

I’m so thankful that we have a PVR. It’s like Tivo. We pretty much record all the shows we like to watch even though we try to watch several of the shows we like on the same night that they are on tv. This way though we can watch them without commercials and of course watch them whenever we want.

It’s definitely a good way to pass the time when you aren’t feeling well!

Is it my imagination or is just about every actor/actress on TV these days just a little too thin? What happened to shows with actors that looked like real people? I mean it’s like most of the characters on the shows I like are taking diet supplements like Ephedrasil hardcore or something. They’re just too thin, too muscular, too perfect …

Do you find that when you watch TV the people just don’t look like your neighbors, co-workers or people that you’d see in your city or town? I guess most of the stories aren’t much like real life either for that matter! LOL

Gift ideas for teens?

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After I wrote that post about wanting to get started on my Christmas shopping early this year, Chris and I had a little talk about what we’re going to do for Christmas this year – present wise, I mean.

Over the last few years our families on both sides have pretty much agreed not to exchange presents between the adults. Why? Well, everyone has children (except us) and we’re all established in our homes. We don’t really need presents. Oh they’re nice, but when you already have most everything you need or want you don’t really need to get Christmas presents.

So for the last few years we’ve all just been getting presents, for the most part, for the kids in the family. That’s still a lot of gifts to get! Between Chris and I we have 17 nephews and nieces, plus two on my side have kids of their own so add three more to the list (oh and add our two god-children as well!) If we were also buying for each of the adults individually we could add another 20 gifts to the Christmas list that we’d need to buy! So I guess we cut it in half … but it’s still a lot of gifts to buy.

Most of our nephews and nieces are in their teens and I find teens the hardest to buy for each year. Most of them don’t really need anything in particular. I mean they all have iPods, game players, closets full of clothes … so what do you get for a teen that already has everything?

As I said earlier I’m keeping my open for anything that’s on sale that might make a good gift. I think for at least half of the kids I’m leaning towards getting newly released DVD’s, music CD’s, and perhaps some popular games. I just need to find out what they already have (what games and game players, dvds and music) and what others are planning on getting them so they don’t end up getting two or more of something.

I spent some time this evening looking at the DVD section at Buy.com. There are a lot of great movies that have just been released on DVD and there’s a section there where you can pre-order DVDs that will soon be released like The Dark Knight , Mama Mia, Indiana Jones the Kingdom Crystal Skull, Step Brothers and many other movies. I figure that if I order some movies that are only being released at the end of November or in early December there’ll be little chance that the kids I get them for will already have these movies.

Of course, for some of the kids I might just buy them gift certificates. I’m fairly sure some of the teenage girls might like a gift certificate for one of their favorite clothing stores.

So do you have teens on your shopping list? If so, what kinds of things are you thinking of getting them?

Finally resting after a busy weekend

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It’s been a busy weekend! I’ve been to the hospital to see our friend that had heart surgery … oh … maybe five times!

She’s doing well but she’s groggy and in pain and of course she’s said that if she knew she was going to be in this much pain she wouldn’t have had the surgery. I told her once she starts to feel better she’ll notice that her pre-surgery symptoms like shortness of breath will probably be gone and as she slowly starts doing things that she hasn’t really been able to do for the last couple of years she’ll be happy she had the surgery. She wasn’t buying it this evening, but I’ll bet she’ll come around!

I’m still sick of course. What else is new, eh? I’m pretty sure that I’ve had a partial bowel obstruction going on since Friday or maybe even Thursday. If I don’t start to feel a bit better by tomorrow I might be going to the hospital for myself.

We also found out that another friend of ours, the best friend of our friends that have been in the hospital, is dying of Pancreatic cancer. He just took a turn for the worse today, so we might have some very bad news later in the week.

I know that some of you were probably expecting to see a Green Thumb Sunday post today. Between all the visits to the hospital to see our friend and my own illness I’m just not up to sorting through my garden pictures to post something for GTS today. Sorry.

Instead I’m lying on the couch watching 24:Redemption (we taped it on the PVR while we were visiting our friend in the hospital this evening). Geez it’s been a long time since 24 has been on TV hasn’t it? When was the last time a regular season episode aired … April 2007 or something like that I think! I can barely remember where 24 left off! I hope that between this movie and the start of the series again in January or February that they do some kind of recap show. I normally hate those shows (especially during the season when a show has been airing regularly (hint hint Desperate Housewives and Lost), but in this case I think it might be necessary.

Are you watching 24:Redemption this evening or did you watch the music awards or maybe even the Grey Cup (Canadian Football final game – like the Superbowl but not as well known)?

I think I’m fighting the flu or something …

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Do you ever have one of those days when you just feel … bleh? That’s the way I’m feeling today. Actually it started last night.

As many of you know I have Crohn’s so I’m not sure if my Crohn’s is just acting up more than usual or if I’m fighting a flu bug or something. Last night I started feeling weak and shaky and feverish (but the feverish part is nothing new, it goes with my version of Crohns). Today I’ve got bad stomach cramps and I just don’t feel up to doing much of anything.

It’s not like I don’t have tons of things to do … but I just can’t work up the energy to do much of anything at all.

So I’m just spending the evening watching TV for now. Speaking of TV did you catch this evenings NCIS? It was a creepy Halloween type episode. I also watched yesterdays episode of Heroes that we’d taped. I guess it will be a TV night. I’ll rest up and hopefully feel a little more like myself tomorrow.

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