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It’s Freezing!

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Chris called from his parents house a little after midnight. I’m surprised he was back at their home. Usually our friends parties go on and on well into the early morning hours.

He was standing outside using the cellphone when he called because he didn’t want to wake his parents while he talked. He was freezing. I happened to look at the weather widget on my computer and it was only 8 Celsius (46.4 F)! Now, as I write this at 1:30 am it’s dropped almost three degrees and it’s 5 Celsius (41 F)! That’s darn cold! If it keeps getting this cold at night I’m going to have to bring in my tropical plants!

I think Chris was shivering while he talked to me, either that or he was slurring from the drinks that he’d had … but I think it was shivers. Well … hopefully it was more shivers than slur.

Wow, if it’s getting cold this fast this year maybe we should plan a trip to a warm area this winter? Maybe get an Orlando rental home for a week? Oh yeah I could get into that!





Another out of town party to go to

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We’ve been invited to a surprise anniversary party this weekend. One of our friends is having her 10th wedding anniversary and my husbands sister decided to give us a call and set up a little party.

I certainly hope our friends don’t already have plans of their own Saturday night or else my Sister in laws plans are going to backfire! I can just see it now. Our friend Jan dressed up in her best sexy lingerie hiding behind the door as she greets us in surprise with a “What are you doing here?”. LOL

Our get together is actually planned for the afternoon, perhaps just to be on the safe side in case they do have romantic plans that evening. Naturally these friends live out of town, about an hour and a half away, so we might even end up staying over at Chris’ parents that night. We’ll see how things go.

Movie Night

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Have you seen the movie “The Queen”? We recorded it off the movie channel last night and we’re just about to begin watching it.

I’d love to get your take on the movie. Didn’t it win an Oscar last year as well as several other awards?

I love settling in to watch a good movie every once in a while. I hope I enjoy The Queen.

Oh yes, I’ll be watching the movie and doing work on the computer. I’m so behind it seems I can never just have a few hours with the computer off unless I’m actually out of the house buying cabinet hardware, gardening supplies or some other thing!

knocked out

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I’ve been so ill today.

When I finally got out of bed I knew I didn’t feel well enough to sit at my desktop computer to check my email. I get tons of email each day – a good portion of spam, mixed with mail from the five mailing lists I run, blogroll requests (which I haven’t taken care of today, sorry!), comments on our sites, personal emails and direct emails about sick animals (has to do with my mailing lists and websites). So I guess after listing all that you won’t be so surprised when I say that I get 1,000 to 1,5000 emails each day? It takes a long time to go through that pile and I just couldn’t sit at the desktop computer to do that today.

So I lay down on the couch and took care of the email that I’ve set up to be collected on the laptop. I’ll still have more to deal with when I turn the desktop on, but half of it’s been managed in some way or another.

As I went through my mail I was having a lot of pain so I asked my husband to bring me half a percocet. I almost never take percs during the day. Only at night when I’m hoping they’ll take care of my pain enough to let me get some sleep. I take long acting pain meds every 12 hours, plus other medications, but I hold off on the percocet as it hits me too hard.

The half perc put me to sleep. I slept from about 5 pm until 7:30 pm and I’m so woozy now! It’s not good timing either as I have so much work piling up – mostly for this site. Hopefully I’ll perk up soon and feel well enough to do some of the work that needs to be finished!

I just remembered the laundry! I’ve still got to fold and put away all the kids bedding, sheets and towels that I had to do after having a houseful of guests last weekend! Oh boy.

I’m missing out

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I’m not feeling well again today. Are you as sick of hearing that as I am?

It’s a real drag. I had plans for the day. Exciting plans.

I wanted to go downtown and perhaps see one of the films being shown at the Toronto Film Festival. If I couldn’t get into one of the films I’d planned to walk around the area where the majority of films and parties were being held to see if I could spot some stars.

Naturally I would have had my camera with me to take photographs of the stars.

The other thing that I had on the agenda was to plant some plants that I purchased last week. I bought some beautiful carnations, some very cool looking daisies, two different colors of Heather, and some kale and ornamental cabbage plants. I love the last two in the fall as they get quite colorful when the weather gets cool and look very attractive in the garden.

Oh and we also wanted to get some fire glass for our gas fireplace. Man is that stuff cool. We’ve got to get some by the time autumn comes around and we start using the fireplace more often.

Well there’s still tomorrow. Actually the film festivals on all week so there’s lots of time for me to get downtown to do some film and star sightings. I suspect some of the best sightings might be this weekend though.

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