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Well so far this year sucks too

March 4, 2008 by Tricia

It seems that my bad week, or maybe I should call it my bad year, continues.

I was so sick on Saturday that I stayed in bed until 8:30 pm! I had my period and the pain was so bad that I just couldn’t move. I’ve got endometritis, combined with Crohn’s disease it’s a real killer, and that causes me a ton more pain than anyone should ever have to go through. On top of that I broke out with a couple of zits. The last thing I need these days is to have to use an acne treatment too! Geesh!

The pain in my left side was so bad that I thought I’d end up in the hospital that day. I don’t know if the pain was from my Crohn’s or Endo. It wouldn’t go away at all no matter how much medicine I took and the only thing that made it feel a bit better was to keep my hand pressed to my side for hours on end. It finally started to ease up at about 6:30 that evening, but I stayed in bed for another two hours until I was sure I felt better.

Chris had been bringing me drinks all day. Warm drinks like coffee. He’d also been checking on me and bringing me pain medications whenever I called out for some more. By the time I came downstairs I was weak and dizzy. I think the pain meds took their tole on me and I kind of felt hung over. I also hadn’t eaten all day so I think that’s partly why I was so weak and dizzy.

I still have twinges of that nasty pain in my left side even today. I guess i”m still recovering from whatever my body was going through on Saturday. It’s been no where near as bad as it was on Saturday but it’s still hanging around. Seriously that day I wondered if either a cyst burst or even if my bowel burst and if I was getting peritonitis.

I just want to feel better. Even if it’s only for one day.





Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: bad week, bad year, bowel, burst cyst, Chris, coffee, crohn, crohns disease, cyst, disease, downstairs, Endo, endometritis, hanging, Hospital, in bed, inflamatory bowel, left side, medication, medications, medicine, pain, pain in left side, pain medication, pain meds, peritonitis, Saturday, severe pain, sick, treatment

I love Dogs and I’ve found a great site for dog lovers

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

I adore my puppy. She’s become my new muse. I’ve spent an awful lot of time over the last three month researching everything dog.

Whenever I become interested in something I tend to do a lot of research on the subject. I go to the library and borrow books, I search the internet for more information on the topic and I also tend to talk to others that are also interested in the same topic. Often I read so much that I end up creating a website to not only discuss my latest intense interest, but also to create a place for others so that they can quickly learn all the things that I’ve learned on one site. I certainly did this when I became interested in reptiles! I’ve got two huge reptile related websites as some of you probably already know.

I haven’t gotten to the “make a website” stage yet and I may not this time round, but you never know. What I have been doing is visiting a number of dog and Labrador Retriever related websites, joining dog forums and reading up on dogs in general.

You might remember that my puppy was quite sick when we got her. I had to learn as much as I could in order to try to make her better. She’s doing a lot better these days. She’s still got some problems, but over all she’s doing quite well. I thank the many great sites that I discovered for helping me help her recover from her many ailments.

One of the sites that I came across along the way is the I-Love-Dogs.com website. If you’re thinking of getting your first dog or getting another doggy companion you can spend some time on the site reading the pros and cons of various dog breeds and of course looking at the many dog pictures that proud owners are more than happy to post.

I-Love-Dogs.com is a major dog portal where you can talk to other dog owners, discuss dogs in general on the forums, talk about your dogs health or behavioral problems or share some tips that have worked for you and your dog companion.

Along with the extensive dog forums you’ll find sections with dog games, lists of great dog names, free stuff for your dog, recipes for home made dog food, articles about dogs and dog training and many other great dog related categories. Heck you can even shop for supplies for your dog too.

If you are a dog owner you should take a moment to visit the I-Love-Dogs.com website. I’m sure you’ll find something there of interest and you’ll probably learn something new too.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Our Puppy, Recreation, Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: article, articles, books, buy a dog, categories, cons, discuss, dog, dog articles, dog behaviour, dog breeds, dog companion, dog food, dog food recipes, dog forums, dog games, dog health, dog information, dog names, dog owner, dog owners, dog pictures, dog research, dog supplies, dog training, eating, Food, forum, free, free stuff, happy, Health Fitness and Beauty, help, home, information, interest, interesting, Internet, Join, lab puppy, labrador retriever, Love, Midnight, picture, pictures, problems, pros, puppy, read, reading, reptile, research, searching, shop, sick, sick puppy, talk with dog owners, tips, training, visiting, website, websites

What a bad week

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

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I’ve had such a bad week it’s not funny.

I felt the need to put up a cute semi funny picture … better that than think about something that happened to me on Tuesday that still scares me!

I’ll probably write about what happened sometime over the weekend, but not right now. I’ll just say that something happened while I was walking my puppy and I thought that we were both going to get beat up! It kind of made me lose my faith in the thought that more people are good than bad.

I hope that you’ve all had a better week than I have!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: bad week, beat up, care, cute, fright, frightened, funny, funny picture, mad, people, photo, piggies, pigs, puppy, Scared, scary, threatened, three little pigs, walk, Walking, weekend

What’s your favorite menswear style for women?

February 24, 2008 by Tricia

Have you ever noticed how great mens clothes look on some women?

Certainly some things, like mens shirts, feel much more comfortable and cozy to wear then a ladies fitted blouse. Come on admit it, I bet there’s few women reading this that haven’t thrown on one of their boyfriends or husbands shirts at least once.

My husbands actually shorter than me so I’m not in the habit of wearing his clothes. He, on the other hand, has been known to wear some of mine! No, no I know what your thinking – it’s not like that at all! … he’ll sometimes be lazy and grab one of my coats to put on or one of my sweaters or even my shoes when he’s got to go outside. He looks awfully silly in my puffy winter ski jacket or and he stretches my shoes with his wide feet when he wears them!

vest.jpg It’s not likely that I’ll ever wear any of his clothes, but I do like some menswear fashions that have made their way into female fashions. Take for example the womens vest. It’s obviously been converted from menswear. Womens vests are often tapered at the waist and contoured to fit our curves and can be very flattering when worn with a blouse and skirt or perhaps even some Denim stovepipes or dress pants. That would be a great outfit either for the office or for a casual night out depending upon which items you chose to wear with the vest.

That’s what I like about vests. They’re so versatile.

belt.jpg You’d of course need to accessorize your outfit. A womens western style belt and perhaps a studded purse would look great if you were wearing the vest with a pair of straight legged jeans.

I really like the belt that I’ve shown you above. It has a feminine pattern to it, but it still has a bit of it’s masculine roots. It’s a good thing that my purse is on the other side of the room as I have a strong urge to pull out my credit card and do a little online shopping!

When you think about it, a lot of womens fashions today originated as menswear. In a way we’ve all been wearing mens clothing and probably didn’t even realize it. Vests, jeans, shirts, womens suits, belts – what other types of clothing can you think of that were originally only for men?

Filed Under: Fashion, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, accessorize, belt, clothes, clothing, coat, comfort, credit card, curves, denim stovepipes, dress, Fashion, fashions, feminine, fitted, husband, items, jeans, men, mens shirts, menswear, online, Online shopping, original, pants, purse, shoes, shop, Shopping, skirt, straight leg jeans, studded bag, style, vest, western belt, women, womens vest

In the Spring I plan on riding my bike more often

February 22, 2008 by Tricia

Spring will be here soon and if you’re like me, suffering through a very cold winter with lots of snow, you’re probably yearning for the nice weather to arrive. Usually by this time of year I’ve got cabin fever. It’s not quite as bad this year because we’ve got the puppy and whether I like it or not I’ve been getting outside every single day. No matter how cold it’s been. Brrrr

As I said when we got our puppy one of the reasons we got her was so that I could get more active. That new resolve had led to a lot more walking. I think I probably walk at least three to five extra miles each day now.

When the weather gets better, in about a month, I’ll get my bike out and hopefully start to go for rides a few times a week if not every day. If I don’t ride too fast our puppy can trot along beside me for while I go for a short ride.

We do need to get another bike though. My husband Chris has two bikes but neither of them are in good shape. One is a ten speed that only has one speed now! The other is also a 10 speed but it’s totally dismantled.

So I think one of the things we’ll purchase in the next month or so is a new bike for Chris. We have great bike trails near us here in almost downtown Toronto and then there’s always the boardwalk area at the beach too. They’re great areas for both walks, runs and bike rides.

I took a look at the Beach Cruiser website and I really like one or two of the cruiser bike styles. I think Chris will like them too.

I really like the yellow one that I included an image of at the top of this post! It’s so bright you couldn’t miss it and I like the style too. It’s a womens model and the price is quite reasonable too! Who knows, maybe I’ll even get myself a new bike too! They accept credit card and Paypal as forms of payment. Perhaps I could get the two of us new bikes using the earnings in my Paypal account. Now that would be nice!

They have cruisers for men, women and children as well as low rider and chopper style models too. Take a look at the site if you’ve been thinking of getting a new bike or if you have plans to become more active this Spring.

I’m certain that any of the cruiser models would make a fantastic gift for someone special in your life too.

Filed Under: Gifts, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hobbies, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Shopping, Sports, Toronto Tagged With: active, activity, beach, beach cruiser, bike, bike models, biking, boardwalk, cabin fever, children, chopper bike, Chris, cold, cruiser bike, cruiser models, Downtown, excercise, gift, Gift Idea, husband, life, long winter, low rider, mens cruiser, models, new, price, puppy, purchase, reasonable price, spring, styles, Toronto, trails, walk, Walking, weather, winter, women, womens cruiser

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