The salt they listed on the label was only for a 250 ml serving. That’s about a cup of soup. Now if you are only having soup for your meal I think you generally have more than just a cup, especially when the can has twice that much in it. Right? So the sodium listed for a 250 ml serving was 650 mg. It was even higher in potassium at 750 mg per 250 ml, yet if I’d only had a cup of soup I would have only had 130 calories which isn’t a lot when that’s all you are having, particularly if you haven’t eaten in several hours and don’t expect to eat for several more hours. So I had the whole can of soup and ended up having over 1300 mg of sodium.

That’s horrendous! That’s more sodium than some fast food burgers!

I’m in Canada and in a recent fast food study they said that Canadians have the most salt in their fast food and I’m starting to think that we might have the most salt in our canned and processed food as well. I tend to read labels and stay away from overly salted foods but this time I didn’t read the label before I purchased the soup. Shame on me. I certainly won’t be making this mistake again.

I feel bloated already! I’m going to have to stay away from anything salty for a couple of days. Hmmm it’s warm out … maybe I should go sit in my neighbors metal building and use it as a sauna to sweat out this overdose of salt? Nah that’d probably be as bad for me as the soup was!

Oh well – lesson learned – Read the label before buying or opening!

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I’ve noticed a lot of changes in my neighborhood as I walk around with my dog. Some houses are getting painted or having a new fence put in. Others are having some landscaping done. Still others must be having either some home repairs done or some renovations because I can hear hammering or sawing as I walk by or I see those big bins in their driveway for reno materials.

One house that I walk by regularly just got a new metal garage put up and it’s kind of cool looking. It has a sign on it that says – metal residential buildings and I guess they’re the makers of the building. No idea how much that would cost but it’s going to last for a long time I think.

Anyway you can definitely tell it’s Spring around here, there’s lots of work getting done! I’ve been working on my garden and getting some work done in the house – with more to come … How about you?

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There’s actually been plenty of flowers around since early March. We had a warm winter and that gave all the plants a head start. My garden is at least a month ahead of itself in growth and I have flowers blooming and plants coming up that I normally don’t see until the end of May! I’ve even had kids stop and try to pick some flowers for teachers on their way to school.

I’m glad that I do have so many flowers blooming in my yard. There’s been some years when things have been very slow to get started. On those years I believe I actually bought flowers and some blooming plants to have in the house just because I was longing for some colour after a long drab winter.

Have you been getting lots of rain in your area? Is it helping the plants grow?

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So … I kept myself busy doing other things … like cleaning up some areas of the house that needed cleaning and organizing. Like the basement – still. There’s a large area filled with my husbands music equipment. not guitars or anything like that. It wouldn’t be good to keep guitars in the basement but items like his pedals, an amp, music stands and several of his mics are in the basement. I even came across a really cool microphone made by blue microphones. It has an old fashioned look to it. I didn’t even know he had a microphone like that. Pretty cool!

So yet another area of the basement is now organized .. and I did that alone, again. I’ll have the whole house done – on my own pretty soon.

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Something I do most weekends lately. I’m getting tired of this.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if he calls in a little while and says he’s too tired to come home or that his parents want him to do something for them so he’s staying overnight. He’s done that many times. I’m really not happy living like this anymore and I can’t wait for this to be over. We’re sort of living separate lives – we just need to officially make it official. In the meantime I need to get back to work and start pushing around both computer carts and medication carts. I need to earn money and keep busy .. get my life back.

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I know everything is still in my head and naturally all that I know is not in my books because I’ve learned quite a bit from my experiences as well. However every little bit helps.

I know that a lot of medications have changed and or new medications are being used just in the six years that I’ve been off work so that’s another thing that I’m trying to brush up on as well. When I had my meeting in the hospitals Human Resources department last week they did suggest to me that I take a look at the new medications for Diabetes, Hypertension, things like the side effects of hexaghen and so on.

I just wish I knew what area of the hospital I’m going to be placed in. I guess it all depends on where there’s an opening. My old job in the ER is not available at this time but I’ll be trying to get back there once I get back in the hospital I’m sure.

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Our street, or actually the street across from us is also one of the only ones in the area that people can park in without having to have a permit so people that don’t live on the block park here regularly too. One of the people that doesn’t belong on the street, who tends to park and right in front of my house is a van that has a logo for hayward pool heater parts on it. I’ve only been seeing it in the last month or so, but it’s been here regularly. Last fall it was a deck company.

Does your street get a lot of parking on it too? Does it bother you? I don’t mind as long a I can find parking. Every second month we have our shared driveway and then on the odd months we park on the street, but usually we’re ok parking wise.

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My desktop computer is getting old and while it still works well I’d like to replace it sometime in the near future. I like having a desktop computer as a backup computer. Perhaps a h8-1010 hewlett packard canada computer. I was looking at one of those the other day.

I’ve found that it’s getting harder to find desktop computers in stores. Not so hard online, but in stores it’s harder. Why I don’t know .. I know laptops are convenient but desktops are still more powerful or at least that’s what I’ve found unless you drop a ton of money on a laptop. What do you think?

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Spring is definitely here and it’s way ahead of itself this year. My garden is weeks ahead of itself. If I didn’t know it was the beginning of April I’d think it was early May when I look at how big the plants are in my backyard and how many leaves are already on the roses and so on.

One of my friends is so ready for summer to get here that he’s already getting his cottage prepared. He’s been up there getting it set up already and he normally doesn’t open up his cottage until the end of April! Oh and he’s already looking for a pwc battery for his Jet Ski. The water in the lake is still too cold to use a Jet Ski but if the weather keeps up the way it has I’m sure people will be in the water by May.

How’s the weather in your area? Has spring sort of jumped into early summer or at least into late spring due to a warmer than normal winter in your area too?

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We were going to continue to finish cleaning the basement tomorrow. Chris has a lot of his music equipment in the basement. Not his guitars, but other things like his K&M Stands, his music books, his favorite stools to sit on when playing guitar on the road and so on. All of that stuff needs to be organized.

It’s amazing how much music related stuff has accumulated in our home in the time we’ve been together! Oh well, maybe we’ll sort out all this stuff on the weekend or next week.

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