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No more house guests

January 5, 2007 by Tricia

My home was invaded on Monday, New Years day, by my husband’s brother and his son. They’d come up from Chicago for a family visit last Friday and they decided to stay at our house for a few days while they were in Canada.

They weren’t supposed to come over until Tuesday, and I was not feeling well on Monday when they arrived. No I didn’t party on New Years – I stayed home by myself because I wasn’t well. Anyway, we had a nice time Monday evening and made plans to go to a hockey game on Tuesday evening.

Tuesday night I was so ill that I was actually falling asleep during a hockey game. I don’t think I’ve ever fallen asleep in public let alone at a hockey game! This one had brawls every few minutes too. I have no idea why I was so sleepy but I was, and I found myself nodding off several times. Very strange.

The evening was ruined at the end. My husbands brothers 18 year old daughter was flying in from Chicago that evening. Chris went to pick her up after the hockey game. They called her on the cell phone just as she arrived to find out what terminal she was in. Toronto has three terminals so it’s important to know which one your landing in or picking someone up from. Anyway, she had no clue, so Chris asked her to ask someone and call him back when she was getting her bags.

Well, she never did ask anyone. I had to figure out which terminal she was at by looking up the airlines on the net here at home. So it was a mess of phone calls back and forth and this girl doesn’t like to wait. of course when I looked at her paperwork when she got her it did say what terminal she was landing in. She was just being too dumb or stubborn to look at it.

Now if only that was all that went wrong. It wasn’t. The airline lost her bags! So when Chris and his nephew arrived back at the house – about two hours later than they should have she was in a horrible mood. So bad in fact that she didn’t even say hello to me. That really ticked me off because I was the only person she hadn’t seen in months and she couldn’t even say hello?

It’s not that she doesn’t like me or anything. She was just in a mood. She’s a real princess that one. If she doesn’t get what she wants she whines!

The rest of their visit was ok. We went out to dinner on Wednesday night, and the guys watched some of the World Junior hockey games that we’d recorded on the DVR earlier that day. Speaking of which the Gold match is on today!

Yesterday I had yet another doctors appointment in the morning. Chris went with me and when we came back the gang was just getting up. We’d found out the night before that the airport had found my nieces bags, and they were delivered to the house around noon on Thursday. My niece was finally happy. They left a while after the bags arrived and I went back to bed for a couple of hours because I’d only slept two hours the night before.

I’m just so dragged out. I’m in pain, not feeling well, and I’m totally exhausted but I can’t sleep because of the pain. This was not the time for me to have three extra people in my house.

I have a feeling we’ll be going out of town tonight. Chris’ brother is going to drive back to Chicago on Saturday, so he’s spending Friday night at their parents house, and I think we might go there for a final visit before they go. All I can say though is that if I’m still feeling like crap I’m not going.





Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Sports Tagged With: brother, Canada, chicago, Chris, crohns, dinner, Family, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, hockey, Hockey game, home, house guests, husband, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nephew, Niece, pain, restaurant, sick, tired, Toronto, visit

Disasterous Hockey game

January 3, 2007 by Tricia

We’re home from the hockey game. The Toronto Marlee’s lost something like 8 or 9 to 1, Geeeeez the Marlees are a bunch of brawlers. If those are the guys that are going to be sent to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the next year or two we’re going to keep losing for a long time to come.


Within the first 14 seconds of the game there was a pile of players punching each other and 4 penalties given out. I think the marlees got over 20 penalties through the game. Plus, when they have the puck and have an opening they don’t shoot the puck. They wait until their blocked and then shoot it. I must have seen 5 brawls in all. The last two were most of the teams fighting each other again – so that happened three times!

As I said earlier I’m not a big hockey fan at all. I barely understand the rules, but even if someone like me could see how bad they were playing then it’s bad.

Oh well it was nice to get out. I don’t get out much lately so this was fun – even if the marlee’s sucked the big one.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Family, Recreation, Sports Tagged With: bad game, Canada, hockey, Hockey game, leaf, losing, lost, marlees, Toronto, Toronto Marlees

House Guests!

January 2, 2007 by Tricia

Chris came home from Brantford yesterday with his brother and nephew. We’d talked around midnight late Sunday/ Early Monday to wish each other a happy new year and at that time we didn’t think Chris’ brother was going to come to Toronto until Tuesday.

Surprise … they showed up with Chris yesterday afternoon. I think they will be here until Thursday or Friday. I’m going to try to keep posting while they are visiting but if I don’t it’s because I have visitors. Don’t worry if this site goes quiet for a day or two. Ok?

This evening we are going to a hockey game. No not an NHL game, but I suppose it’s the second best type we could go to. We’re going to watch the farm teams for the NHL – the Toronto Marlees and the Syracuse Crunch at the Ricoh Coliseum. I think that I can bring a camera in, so I might take some photos.

I’m not a huge hockey fan – ahhh all the Canadians reading this are going to take me out back and shoot me now! LOL Hey – I do watch it on TV and attend games … I’m just not an avid fan.

I had asked people to write a link to two of our sites and I’d give them a link on this site – in a post. I asked this some time last week and the response has been very good. Unfortunately due to my not feeling well and having relatives in town and now in my house I haven’t had a chance to repay these people with some linky love. I promise that I will most definitely do that later this week. In the meantime if anyone else wants to get in on my link deal – read the post and I will get back to you by the end of the week with some linky love.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Family, Recreation, Sports Tagged With: brother, camera, Canada, Chris, digital camera, hockey, Hockey game, home, house, house guests, link on my site, Linky Love, marlees, Nephew, photo, Photography, photos, Toronto, visiting, watch

An Orlando vacation

December 29, 2006 by Tricia

I bet if I did a poll asking people where they are going for a vacation in the New Year many would tell me that they are going to Florida. Am I right? Why not? Florida, particularly the Orlando area, has many activities for both families and couples, plus the weather is quite pleasant during the winter months. It’s the perfect vacation spot.

I don’t know if we are going to have a vacation this coming year – I hope we do, but you’re talking to someone who’s been married for almost 13 years and hasn’t had a honeymoon yet so I don’t know. If I could talk Chris into it and if I felt well enough I’d love to go to Orlando Florida. What other place in the world has 52 theme parks? beaches, resorts, and inexpensive vacation homes?

I know, perhaps I could take Chris into going to Florida if I managed to book us a room in one of the Orlando Florida Hotels that’s near a golf course? I’m sure he’d love to play golf in Florida. We could also visit Disney World, Universal Studios, The hard Rock cafe – Chris is a huge fan of the Hard Rock and there’s a very big one in Florida.

The idea is sounding more and more appealing. I think I’ve talked myself into it. Now to work on Chris.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services, Shopping, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: beach, disney world, florida, golf course, hard Rock cafe, hotel, Orlando, theme park, Universal Studios, vacation

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2006 by Tricia

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I just wanted to take a moment to wish all of my readers and visitors a very Merry Christmas and or a Happy Holiday.

I hope you are all having a wonderful time with friends and family. Enjoy, and be safe!

Me … I’m here at home at the moment (Christmas eve at the time of writing) and my neighbors in the adjoining house are having a Filipino karaoke party! LOUD and very bad singing of Christmas carols going on.

I’m so glad that I’m going to be traveling out of town on Christmas day to visit my in-laws for a Christmas meal. That’s one great way to escape the karaoke neighbors, and our elderly neighbors who’s taken to banging on ALL of our windows until we hear her and open the door.

Have a Good One!

Tricia

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation Tagged With: crazy neighbors, Happy Holidays, karaoke neighbors, Merry Christmas

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