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We missed our chance to see Van Halen

October 24, 2007 by Tricia

My husband and I are trying to get out more. You know, trying to do things we both enjoy. We share a love of music so we thought that over the next few months we’d make an effort to get out and see some of our favorite bands in concert.

One of the bands that we both would have liked to see was Van Halen. Unfortunately they already played here in Toronto! There’s two upcoming concerts that we could get Van Halen tickets for, but the show in Boston is on a Tuesday and well that’s maybe too far to go, and the other is in Montreal – also not that close.

The Montreal concert is on Saturday November 10th. If only it was a few days later! We’ll be in Las Vegas at that time.

So I guess we won’t be seeing Van Halen. I think I’ll have to get my act together and do a little research as to what future concerts we might want to see and try to get tickets in advance.

At least living in a big city like Toronto we have lots of opportunities to see bands when they come to town on tour since almost every big band comes through here.





Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: big city, Boston, concert, Favorite bands, husband, Las Vegas, Love, Montreal, Music, November, Saturday, show, ticket, tickets, Toronto, Van Halen, Van Halen concert

Sudden desire to get a puppy

October 24, 2007 by Tricia

When I woke up yesterday morning I got this strange idea in my head that I just can’t shake.

I want a puppy.

It’s a crazy idea. But it’s like the lights turned on in my head and I can’t shut it off. I say it’s crazy because my husband and I are both allergic to furry animals.

Of course what I really want is a baby, but that’s not happening and due to my illness it might not happen at all. So what’s wrong with a puppy?

I think we can handle the allergy part of the equation. We’re both allergic to dust mites and a few other things so we take allergy medication every day anyway. That should cover our allergy to a dog.

Obviously I won’t just go out and get a puppy to test my theory. I haven’t even told Chris yet that I have this crazy idea turning around and around in my head. When I do though, maybe we’ll spend some time visiting several of our friends that have furry pets to see how we do on those visits. If we’re ok we’ll probably be ok as long as we keep taking our allergy medications right?

Sigh … yeah it’s a crazy idea.

Filed Under: Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Pets and animals Tagged With: allergy, animals, baby, Chris, crazy, dog, friend, friends, husband, idea, illness, lights, medication, pets, puppy, visiting, want a puppy

Sedum is lovely in the Fall

October 21, 2007 by Tricia

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Sedum - Fall Colour

Our Sedum plants have been flowering for about a month now. I took this photo shortly after they’d started blooming. Aren’t their tiny delicate little flowers pretty?

I even enjoy this plant when the flowers begin to die and dry up. The flowers and their stalks dry and turn a brownish color. You’d think that would be ugly, but it’s quite ornamental. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that some people cut these dried flowers and stalks and put them in Winter dried flower displays in their home. That’s how nice they look even when they are dead.

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Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: autumn, bloom, color, dried flower arrangement, dried flowers, flower, flowers, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, home, photo, plant, pretty, sedum, sedum flowers, tiny flowers, winter

It’s my wedding anniversary tomorrow

October 21, 2007 by Tricia

You know what? I just remembered that it’s my wedding anniversary tomorrow. Yes I knew it was coming up, but I didn’t realize how close we were to the 22nd until just now. Tomorrow … gee I wonder what we should do to celebrate?

It’s our 13th anniversary. Hmmm with a number like that maybe we should just ignore it. Nah, it should be a lucky thirteen in this case. We’re happy.

Thinking back I believe I can remember every detail of our wedding day, but for the life of me I can’t remember what kind of bridesmaid and groomsmen gifts gifts we gave out. Strange. It was probably jewelery related since Chris and I had been jewelers when we met, but weren’t any longer by the time we got married.

Do you remember all the details of your wedding day or did it just go by in a blur?

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Relationships and Dating Tagged With: 13th, anniversary, bride, Chris, gift, Gifts, happy, jeweler, late, married, remember, Wedding, Wedding anniversary

My dream house

October 20, 2007 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Practical

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Ok well this might be exactly my dream house, but I’d like one with many of it’s features.

I love this houses wrap around verandas and upstairs balconies. I think it’s a very practical use of space and well, practically or not I just love houses with upper and lower balconies and porches.

This house is in the Beaches area of Toronto.

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Photo Hunters, Photography, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: Beaches, dream house, house, nice house, photo, photo hunt, photohunt, the beaches, Toronto, upstairs balcony, wrap around porch, wrap around verandah

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