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The neighborhood storm damage

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I’ve been out walking around the neighborhood this week and it looks like there are quite a few trees that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

Last Monday we had a lot of wind and rain here in Toronto and we lost power over night. We didn’t personally have any damage. Just a little windblown yard but that’s about it. However, as I said, there were a lot of people with damaged trees and trees fallen over in their yards or trees fallen down on their cars.

There are some areas of Toronto where houses are built in fairly low lying areas and they end up having flooding problems every time there’s a terrible rain so I’m sure there were a lot of houses with flooded basements too.

I should have taken some pictures of the damage that I saw. I think most of the trees have been cleaned up by now. Overall the storm wasn’t as bad here as I thought it might be. I know it was a lot worse on the US east coast.

When I was walking around look at damage I thought the local pharmacy had been damaged because I saw a lot of activity there but they were just upgrading and renovating a bit. I guess they had just got some new pharmacy shelving from mfried.com judging by the boxes saw outside and that must have been why there was so much activity there. They weren’t open for business the day I noticed them working on their store.

Do you experience Hurricane Sandy? How did you get through the storm?





Trying to have a quiet house

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My husband’s been trying to find something to do this week while I finish up a big school related project and start studying for a big exam. He was trying to do a little bit of renovations but that really interfered with my studying for my last exam so that’s not going to work this week.

Oh and it doesn’t help that the other day the stopper on our upstairs bathroom drain got stuck .. or maybe it does because that kept him busy trying to fix it a good portion of last night and part of today. It’s still not quite fixed!

Anyway .. tomorrow he’s going to go out and spend a few hours in a music store. He can kill a whole day there. Unfortunately he can also spend a lot of money in a music or guitar store if he’s so inclined too! I know he wants to pick up at least one audio cable. That’s ok. Maybe some guitar strings too. Hopefully that’s the end of the spending. Hopefully for the rest of his time there he just spends time trying out the guitars in the guitar booth and I’ll just spend my time at home studying studying studying!

Halfway through my courses

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I am so ready for my college courses to be over! I’m about halfway through my two courses and it seems that all I do is study study study. I suppose you could say I’m a good student, but I’m due for a break.

My worst problem with going back to school is that I’m taking online course and my husband is home quite a bit and since we’re doing renovations it’s quite distracting. I seem to study best when he’s not around.

I’m also concerned that I’m not moving around as much as I was before I “went back to school”. What with all this studying that I’m doing there’s a lot of sitting around going on. So .. I’m trying to get up at regular intervals and go up and down the stairs a few times, do some stretches and even go out for a walk with the dog. Anything to get up and get moving. It gives me a chance to stretch for a few minutes and gets my head out of the books.

Last weekend I was so busy studying for one of my midterm exams I wasn’t even cooking meals! I was totally glued to my books and the computer until I decided it was time to take my exam. The only interruptions I allowed was to get up and feed my dog, let her outside, or to open the door to the delivery person with the food that I’d ordered! Oh and my mother in law called and I had to talk to her briefly, but when she started talking about some new worship chairs that they’d just purchased for the church that she works in I decided it was time to get off the phone or else I’d be talking for a long time … back to the books for me!

Now I’m busy doing my regular studying and getting ready for a mid term in another course … oh and a big project in one of the courses too. I’m so ready for this to be done! Maintaining all of my websites and doing these courses takes ALL of my time. I’ll be sleeping a lot come mid-December!

So busy my home is being neglected!

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I’ve been so busy in the last month that I’ve been neglecting things at home. I feel like I’ve barely had time to cook let alone do things like house cleaning. It’s terrible. Oh I don’t mean it’s terrible that the house is a mess, it’s not that bad, it’s just it’s terrible that I’m so busy that I can’t find the time to do much else other than study study study!

It would be so nice if I could hire a cleaning service for the next two months or so. I’m not planning on doing that. Having a maid come in would probably be as disruptive to my studying as me getting up and doing all the cleaning myself anyway. Plus it’s not like things aren’t getting done, it’s just so much harder to do it with my time being consumed with school now.

On top of everything I’m doing I’m still maintaining all my sites, trying to find guest bloggers and weeding through all the email I get everyday. Oh and boy do I get a lot of email! I have too many sites and of course they all generate mail .. and then there’s the spam with sales emails from everything from SEO ads to things like carpet cleaning durham nc and so on. I found an easy enough way to manage getting through my email but it still takes me an hour or two when I first turn my computer on because there’s just that much email. Sigh …

Is your life extraordinarily busy lately as well? How are you managing it all?

I wonder if I can fix my couch?

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I think it’s time to think about getting new furniture. We have leather couches and unfortunately, we let our dog on the couch and she’s not easy on the furniture.

Our couch and easy chair are starting to get a little worn. Not too bad, but enough that it’s time to either stop having the dog lie on the couch or perhaps look up some leather repair kits info and see if I can do some repair myself. Who knows maybe I can get the couch and chair to look almost new again. That would be nice!

I’m in no big hurry to repair the couch and easy chair, it’s just another task on the list. We’re still renovating but once the renovations are finished I will be looking at the decor with a critical eye. If I can’t repair the couch and easy chair I’ll be moving them to the basement and getting new furniture. Hmmm .. maybe I should just browse around for new furniture. Hey, I like that idea!

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