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Ohhhhhh what a weekend!

August 13, 2007 by Tricia

I’m supposed to be in Niagara Falls right now.

Chris’ brother came to visit from Chicago and our house has been full of people since Saturday. Chris’ brother, T, brought his daughter and son, as well as a friend of his daughters so that was four extra people, then Chris’ younger sister came to visit with her husband and their young daughter. Include Chris and I in that total and that makes nine people milling around our tiny home!

On Saturday evening we went to The Taste of the Danforth. Never try going to the most crowded street festival you’ve ever been to with nine people! OMG we spent more time losing the teenagers and looking for them than doing anything else. I was so terribly disappointed since this was my first time going to the taste in three years and it was a disaster.

After we got back from the Taste of the Danforth more people came to our house! A few old friends of Chris and his brother showed up and we sat in the garden and talked, and drank until the wee hours.

On Sunday we were supposed to go to Ontario Place, The beach, a beach club, dinner and then the CN tower. Well … it rained for a good portion of the afternoon so we made it to the Beach Club and sat on the patio under under umbrella’s by the lake. It was actually pleasant even though it was drizzling for at least two hours while we were there. We then ended up going to a nice restaurant in the Beaches called Quigley’s. I had a few of the baby back ribs I ordered (very large portion sizes) and yum, all of the home made very delicious fries that came with my meal. I doggy bagged the remainder of my meal, and so did a few of the others we were with so we have lots of left overs to graze on this evening.

Our plans changed, again, as usual … and we were supposed to do the CN Tower today and Niagara Falls, but I just wasn’t up to it. I’ve been getting sicker and sicker over the last couple of weeks and two days of house guests, staying up late, drinking when I shouldn’t and being more than a little bit over stressed must have made me feel worse because I had a terrible night last night. I don’t know how many times I was up to the bathroom. I felt so ill, nauseated, in pain, fevers, chills … there was no way I was going anywhere today – including the doctors appointment I was supposed to have at ten a.m.!

I’ve spent much of the day lying on the couch groaning in pain. I’ve only just come back to life and it’s already after 7 pm!

I did have fun getting together with our friends and family, but considering how ill I’ve been it was too much for me. Plus I shouldn’t have drank anything! Not that I drank a lot mind you. Two drinks on Saturday and three on Sunday. That’s not too bad, but considering I don’t really drink much anymore that was enough.

I took photos of the crowds at the Taste of the Danforth and some lovely shots while at the beach – including one of my husband when he went swimming. He climbed up on some rocks and mooned everyone! LOL Yeah, I got a snap of that!

I’ll post some of the photos over the next few days.





Filed Under: Canada, Chronic Pain, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Recreation, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: beach, beach club, brother, Canada, chicago, Chris, CN Tower, crohns, crowded house, dinner, doctor, drinking, Family, fever, friends, garden, guests, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, house, IBD, ill, Inflammatory bowel disease, life, Niagara falls, pain, partying, plants, rain, restaurant, Saturday, sick, sister, Stress, sunday, Taste of the Danforth, too many guests, Toronto, visit

Beauty and the Beast

August 13, 2007 by Tricia

Beautiful.

I surround myself with things that I feel are beautiful. Just viewing a miracle of nature such as this Moulineux English rose makes me happy and relaxes me.

I live in so much pain, especially in the last couple of weeks due to my Crohn’s flare, that it’s important that I do whatever it takes to make myself feel better even if it’s just gazing at a lovely flower.

Maybe this is my Beauty and the Beast – the beast being my pain and the beauty being the gorgeous plants in my garden?

What relaxes you or makes you feel better when you’re in a bad mood or in pain?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Recreation Tagged With: beautiful, beauty, crohn, English Rose, flare, flower, garden, happy, hate, live, Love, nature, pain, photo, photos, plants, relax, rose, sharing, special

Nodding off

August 10, 2007 by Tricia

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I’m so tired.

I feel like this cute little puppy.

Hey, have you ever fallen asleep while you’ve been at the computer? I don’t know why, but that’s what’s been happening to me lately.

As you might know I have a lot of pain because of my Crohn’s disease so I’m often up well into the night. Well, at a certain point in the night my pain meds finally kick in and suddenly I’m peering at the computer screen with one eye open, one eye closed. I’m always in the middle of something when this happens.

It’s not unusual for me to nod off when this happens. Then I’ll wake up a bit – my head probably bobbing all over the place, try to figure out what I was doing, blink several times because for some reason I can no longer see properly and then I nod off again.

I think I’m approaching that point right about now. So I’d better finish up what I’m doing or it won’t get finished!

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: computer, crohn, disease, falling asleep, meds, nodding off, one eye open, pain, pain meds, puppy, sleeping, sleepy, tired

Save your money and drink filtered water

August 10, 2007 by Tricia

I was just discussing how wasteful I think the purchase of bottled water is on my other blog My World.

I’ve never understood why people buy case after case of bottled water. Recent news reports have stated that tests and investigations have shown that the bottled water that is often marketed as spring water is really just local water.

So that means that you are paying more per liter or gallon for bottled water that’s the same as the water coming out of your tap than for gasoline for your car. Think about it!

if you really don’t like the taste of your local tap water why don’t your try one of these new portable water filters. I think they’re a fantastic idea. Just fill the bottle with tap water and it gets filtered right away. Yummy.

You won’t be throwing away plastic bottles that may or may not be recycled. You’ll save money and you’ll still have decent water to drink.

Filed Under: Culture, Health Fitness and Beauty Tagged With: blog, bottled water, buy, filtered water, gas, local water, Money, portable filter, portable water filter, recent, recycle, save money, tap water, waste, water

The house is getting cleaned and I’m not lifting a finger

August 9, 2007 by Tricia

Wow!

Chris is actually helping with cleaning the house! He’s actually initiating it!

I hate having guests drop in when the house isn’t tidy. I think Chris has finally listened to me. He came home from work yesterday and started vacuuming. I refinished our teak table. Then today he came home from work and he got to work cleaning the upstairs bathroom!

Wow!

It’s funny because just yesterday I was thinking of hiring a cleaning service. I’ve toyed with the idea before but there was no way I could justify the expense when we lived in our tiny apartment. Now however with our house, and my health not being the greatest having someone come in to clean once every two weeks or so might be a good idea.

I mean, I think that’s why Chris kind of took over on the cleaning yesterday and today. He normally doesn’t do too much cleaning. He helps out, but he’s not the main cleaner. He knows I’ve been feeling really bad the last week + and how I feel about having guests in our home when it’s not up to par so I guess that spurred him on.

I’m not complaining! The house is cleaner and other than answering his questions as to what cleaners to use etc I haven’t had to do a thing! Hmmm maybe I should be “sick” more often?

Filed Under: Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris Tagged With: bath, bathroom, Chris, cleaning, cleaning service, crohns, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, home, house, housework, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, pain, renovate, renovation, sick, vaccuming, vacuum

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