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It’ll be quiet around here soon

August 10, 2007 by Tricia

Haha! I think it’s going to be a little quieter around here for a while! Our noisy neighbors are going on vacation! An orlando vacation. Yeah!

I think they are leaving sometime next week and they’ll be gone for at least a week. No more karaoke parties for a while! No more tuba or electric guitar vibrating through my walls. Yeahhhhh!

Then, as I said the other day, they might also be moving! They’re going to put their house up for sale sometime in September to test the market. Oh I hope that they get an offer or two! Their house is a corner lot which I’ve heard are harder to sell, but then they have almost twice the yard space of everyone else in the neighborhood so that might help them sell.

Oh I can’t wait for them to go on their holiday and then maybe move away.





Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Socializing, The Neighborhood, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: going on holiday, guitar, holiday, house, house for sale, karaoke, moving, neighbor, neighbors, noisy, Orlando, sell house, tuba, vacation

My brother the baseball fanatic

August 10, 2007 by Tricia

My brother, the one that lives in the Toronto area, is a huge baseball fan. So much so that one of the first things he suggested for our family reunion that’s coming up at the end of August was that we all go to a baseball game. So yeah, we’re going to see a Blue Jays versus the Red Sox game on August 31st.

I’m not a huge baseball fan myself but I do prefer to watch it live rather than on TV. So our get together at the baseball game should be fun.

Anyway, back to my brother. He’s decided that he’s going to get world series tickets too. Oh did I mention his wife is also a huge baseball fan? Yes, they even went on a trip to Florida about 10 years ago just to visit Spring training camps. So I’m not surprised that they want to finally go and see the World Series.

Have you been to the World Series? If not – would you be interested in seeing a game if you could?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Games, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services Tagged With: baseball, baseball game, Blue Jays, brother, Canada, Family, florida, game, interest, Red Sox, spring, spring training, ticket, tickets, Toronto, watch, World series, world series tickets

What happened to that Pirate show?

August 9, 2007 by Tricia

There’s so little to watch on TV that lately Chris and I, in our down time, have been reduced to watching cartoons on TV! King of the Hill, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama. I’m starting to feel like I’m back in lower school or high school!

I’m so bored of television! It’s not like I watch much TV, but when I do feel like watching there’s never anything on.

What happened to that Pirate show – Pirate Masters? – that was on Thursday nights? I thought it was only going to have a one week break, but it wasn’t on this week either.

I guess we’ll have to start renting some movies or something.

If my husband had his way we’d always watch war and religion based documentaries. Not that some of those aren’t interesting and or informative from time to time, but when it comes to documentaries I prefer biography, travel, history, and wildlife related documentaries.

What do you like watching on TV these days? Are you are bored as I am?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Television Tagged With: bored, cartoon, Chris, documentaries, family guy, Futurama, husband, King of the Hill, Movies, nothing on, Pirate Masters, renting movies, show, Television, The Simpsons, TV, watch, watching

We need to get our renovation projects finished!

August 9, 2007 by Tricia

I keep longing for our home renovation to be finished. Yes we’re still working on our living room. Chris is hoping that we might be able to talk his brother into helping up put the tin ceiling up while he’s visiting. That’s be cool if we could get him to help but when the two of them are together it’s usually just one big party so who knows if it will happen or not.

Once we’re done the living room we have the basement, the upstairs bathroom and the kitchen to refinish. I hope that we can get them all done over the next two years or so. The house will look magnificent once it’s all done.

I have it almost all planned in my head. Each room will have style but will be extremely functional.

I think the kitchen reno is what I’m most looking forward to though. I don’t like our current cupboards or counter top and I want to move where both the fridge and stove are located. My idea kitchen would have granite countertops, hardwood cupboards, a hardwood floor and one of those nice storage cabinets on wheels that I could move to the center of the kitchen when I’m busy preparing a meal and cooking to make it just a little easier.

Our bathroom might be a big reno job. We have the worlds smallest bathroom right now. What I’d like to do is move the bathroom into the tiny spare bedroom that’s currently beside the upstairs bathroom. If we moved the location of the bathroom we’d have a decent sized washroom that we could have a bath and shower in and make very luxurious if we wanted.

What room of your house would you like to renovate and what would it look like when you’re done?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Shopping Tagged With: basement, basement renovation, bathroom renovation, Chris, cooking, granite countertops, hardwood cupboards, hardwood floors, home, Home Renovation, house, idea, Job, kitchen, kitchen renovation, remodeling, renovate, renovation

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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