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Dumbest Survivor ever?

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Did anyone watch Survivor last night?

We didn’t watch it last night, but we did tape it.

I just saw the show and man wasn’t that stupid? I can’t believe the last guy is gone and only because he was dumb enough to believe the girls and gave away his individual immunity. I knew as each and every one of the remaining women picked up their pens that they were writing Erik’s name down.

I don’t know if he’s really the dumbest survivor ever, but after seeing the women back stab and trick several of the other guys he should have known better.

I’m hoping that either Amanda or Cirie wins on Sunday. Natalie and Parvati are just too evil to win. Even if either of them are in the last three I think they’ll have too many enemies on the jury to win.





We might go to a Rush concert in July

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When Chris’ brother was over on Sunday night he was trying to talk us into meeting him in Milwaukee in early July to go to a Rush concert. Both he and Chris are big fans of the band.

I don’t even know if Chris could get the time off in order to go to the concert. It’s in the middle of the week, July 7th I think and one of his co-workers is on holidays for the whole month of July so he’s supposed to be doing extra shifts.

If we find that we’re able to go I’ll have to look up some cheap hotels in the area for all of us to stay in. I’m sure Chris and his brother would be happy sleeping in the car for all they’d care, but if I’m traveling all that way I’m sleeping in a bed that night.

Any Rush fans out there?

Did I ever tell you that Chris used to deliver grocery products to the high end neighborhoods here in Toronto? This was like 20 years ago. He met Geddy Lee and his wife Nancy several times. Actually Geddy Lee didn’t live too far from our apartment and we’d occasionally see him and his little dog (a Maltese maybe) in the liquor store.

We lost a friend and family member

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We’ve had a death in the family.

On Friday evening we learned that Chris’ cousin had died suddenly. He was only 51 years old.

Of all of Chris’ family, this cousin that passed away was one of the few people that I really got along with well. He was a good friend and we’ll miss him terribly.

The funeral is on Tuesday, but of course it’s out of town.

I expect that beginning later today Chris and I will be driving in and out of town for the next few days as we visit with relatives, go to the visitations and then the funeral on Tuesday. Chris’ brother has already driven up from Chicago.

Considering that I’ll be away from home a lot over the next few days I’ve decided to try to bring my laptop with me so I can get some of my blog postings done .. maybe while in the car as we drive back and forth. I guess it’s a good thing that I purchased an extra, and larger capacity, laptop battery back in November. Now all I need is more laptop memory and I’ll be all set.

I’m not sure when we’ll be heading out of town today … so if you’ve come here for Green Thumb Sunday I’ll try to get my post up, but if I don’t please understand that it might be delayed.

The night the lights went out

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I was just telling my readers on my other blog that we just had a blackout here in my area of Toronto. Three hours of total darkness!

Our power flashed on and off at about 11:30 last night and then went out for good. My laptop was still on and for a minute or two I though I could still use it (I was writing a post) but then I realized that the Linksys router was out due to the power outage. So much for that idea.

I tried to go to sleep honest.

I waited for the power to come back on for a while, but when there was no sign of it returning I got ready for bed. Of course I never go to bed that early so I couldn’t sleep. I read a novel for a while using my husbands book light. Man that was handy. A bit awkward, but handy … but I think I’d only just fallen asleep when the furnace turned on and woke me up.

Someone must have hit a transformer or something. We haven’t had a power outage last that long for quite a while.

Once I got up and turned the computer on again (when the power returned at 2:30 am) I tried to go to local news sites to see if there was any news as to what caused the power failure, but I didn’t find anything. I did learn of a ground beef recall though … luckily we didn’t buy meat in any of the listed stores.

Behind every great man …

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Wordless Wednesday

Helping hand

Behind every great man … Is a great woman!

This one appears to not only be following her man, but lending him a helping hand. LOL

I don’t know why, but I like watching people do their thing. Whether they’re shopping in the grocery store or the mall or just walking down the street. Everyone is so individual. Sometimes you catch some pretty funny sights like the one above as well!

Not that I people watch very often mind you, but when I do I almost always see something interesting or strange.

When we went to Chicago in the summer of 2006 I caught this photo of a girl crossing the street in her almost thigh high boots. There’s nothing wrong with what she’s wearing. Not really … well, until you learn that it was mid August and about 100 F outside.

Hot and humid and it looks like she’s wearing winter boots!

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Good thing she had shorts on as I’m sure she must have been hot with those things on.

Do you take a moment to look at the people hustling and bustling around you?

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