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What? No party?

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Well it seem that Chris is doing a bit better today. He says he still feels wiped out, but so far he hasn’t seemed to have had any fevers. Hopefully whatever it is that was bothering him will be gone by tomorrow.

We were supposed to go over to our friends this evening. I don’t know if they own a foosball table or if they rented one … but they get along really well with some of their neighbors and they invited a few of them over, as well as some friends like us for a Foosball tournament and BBQ.

Chris, who loves nothing more than a party, decided not to go. He just wants to stay in and take it easy tonight. So that tells me right there that he’s still off. At least he’s not being his typical man self and being really whiny about being sick. LOL Men are great, but guys – you can be such PITA’s when you’re sick.

So he’s just sitting around doing a bit of work on the computer and watching the hockey game. Go Ottawa! That’s my hometown … gotta root for them now that Toronto’s long gone.

I think we’ll have a delivered dinner tonight.





My sick man

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When Chris came home from work on Friday night just after 8 p.m. he said he was so tired he pretty much just wanted to go to bed. Normally when he works the 12 noon to 8 pm shift he’s not all that tired because he tends to get more rest than when he works the 7:30 am shift and ends up getting up at 5 am!

So this was unusual.

Since he was so tired I decided we’d better eat right away, but he didn’t even want to eat dinner.

That was totally not like him. Wiped out, no appetite and his stomach had uhm … caused him to run to the washroom twice the evening before .. So I walked up to him and put my hand on his forehead and sure enough he had a fever.

I spent the rest of the evening checking on him as he lay on the couch watching TV. I gave him a Tylenol as soon as I discovered his fever, and managed to get another one into him before he headed for bed at about 1 am. Why he stayed up so late when he came home so wiped out I don’t know – but he did.

He doesn’t get sick too often but when he does he’s miserable. I’m hoping that he feels better when he wakes up.

I’m the one who gets fevers all the time in this house. I get fevers at least five times a day! At least now he’s got a recent reminder of how zapped you can feel when you get a fever.

Other than feeling feverish and wiped out he said he didn’t feel too bad. No headache or upset stomach.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that he’s back to normal by morning or else this is going to be one long weekend!

Still working on those photos and getting some ideas

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I’m just about done all that photo editing. I can’t believe how long it’s taken. I have to remind myself the next time I get a camera in my hands not to take 100 photos! Geezz!

Well I have been busy photographing lots of things this week. In a little while I’ll be posting some recipes for some of the fantastic dinners we had this week – with pictures of course! Who knows, the way I’ve been cooking and talking about cooking this week perhaps I’ll even start up a recipe/cooking blog. Yummy. Hmmm maybe I’ll call it “Drool Worthy”? LOL

This photo may not be drool worthy, but it is a picture of my favorite little Japanese Maple tree in the back corner of my garden. I love this tree. It’s leaves just opened in the last day or so and it’s looking lovely:

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Photo editing can be boring

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You know what I hate about taking photographs? I take too many! I wish they were always framed just perfectly so I wouldn’t have to do anymore than upload them to my computer and use them as I wished.

Instead, I’ve been sitting here for a couple of hours going over my latest batch of photos – cropping images, creating duplicates that zoom in on aspects of the photograph that I want to highlight and so on. It’s kind of fun in a geeky kind of way, but when I’m not all that into it, it can sure be tedious.

I guess since I’m working on the photos you can expect to see a bunch of new photos across our sites over the next few days. Watch for them!

Discuss diets and healthy living at the Tincap forum

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If you’ve been dieting and working towards losing weight, but perhaps having some difficulty because you’re trying to do it all on your own, you might be interested in taking a looking at Tincap’s weight loss program. Tincaps is a peer support community for healthy living.

First and foremost it is a forum. The various sections of the forum discusses the many types of weight loss plans, weight loss supplements and treatments.

Some of the more recent and ongoing discussions are about Isagenix – a cleansing program that helps one to lose weight, Combo diet pills, Chà de Bugre, and Top Crazy diet plans of our times. Some of the “diets” listed in that last discussion are pretty strange!

Within the Healthy Lifestyle forum you’ll find discussions about diet programs, exercise, Scams, fads and Rip offs, Articles and knowledgebase, as well as books and magazine articles. The General section contains information about the site, world news related to diet and health, and the Classifieds where you can find exercise related DVDs and tapes for sale, as well as books and various diet and health related equipment.

I think these forums would be great for people who are considering starting a diet and or exercise program who’d like to check out the various types of diets available. You know to see what really works, and what in the end has turned out to be a scam, waste of money and or not work at all.

Those who have tried many of the diet fads and weight loss treatments would make great members for this forum as well as they could discuss the pros and cons of the diets they’ve tried.

I also believe that this forum would be a great place to talk to others in order to help get motivated or re-motivated about your weight loss goals.

Membership is free. So, if you are trying to lose weight and or attempting to work on a healthier lifestyle why not check out the Tincap forum? You many learn a lot, and you might be able to help other members as well.

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