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I hate being stuck at home on medical leave

Tricia — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:50:29 +0000

I’ve been off work due to Crohn’s for going on five years now. It’s tough being on medical leave from a job you love for so long. I’m sick of feeling sick all of the time and frankly I’m more than a little bored.

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like I’ll be returning to work any time soon. I’m just not getting better. I tried a new medication this month that was supposed to help lower my pain levels and of course I ended up getting hives and having other reactions to it … so, so much for that. Too bad too, because I think it was helping a bit!

So now my doctor wants me to put in a new disability appeal. I did that the first year I was off work but they turned me down, but now that I’ve been off for so long my doctor thinks I might have a chance at getting disability coverage from work … so I might give it a try.

It was so disappointing last time when I was turned down though. That’s one reason why I put off trying again. So wish me luck!

Need a great wedding gift idea

Tricia — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:39:32 +0000

We just found out recently that my niece will be getting married at the end of the year. She had been planning to get married next June, but her fiance joined the armed forces and he’ll be shipping out in January (I think) so they pushed the wedding date up.

So now I’m trying to figure out what to get them for a wedding gift. Of course, we’ve had a lot of financial problems this year so while I want to get them something very nice I also have to try to keep the expenses down.

At least it’s a good time of year to be looking for a gift since there will be lots of Christmas sales coming up! No Black Friday sales here in Canada of course – since we already had Thanksgiving in October (and we don’t have a big sale associated with it unlike our US counterparts).

They are just starting out so I guess they need just about everything … well everything but Couture Jewelry since my niece grew up with a mom and aunt me) in the jewelery trade. LOL

Any good wedding gift ideas for a couple just starting out?

I need a TV in the bedroom

Tricia — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:06:41 +0000

Do you ever feel so crappy that you just want to stay in bed? I feel that way a lot thanks to my Crohn’s and this strange tiredness that’s come over me in the last couple of weeks.

I’ve been thinking about it, and since we have an extra TV upstairs,, why not set it up so that I could actually stay in bed occasionally when I want to? All we need is a TV wall mount and we’d be all set. Yeah .. we don’t even have the TV set up … but if we got the wall mount and maybe put the TV on the wall across from the bed it would be great.

Not that I like watching day time TV though … LOL I guess we’d need to set up a DVD player too.

Do you have a TV in your bedroom?

Ugh – Fast food for dinner

Tricia — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:50:21 +0000

I was so tired tonight that I didn’t cook dinner. Actually I fell asleep for two hours and didn’t wake up until my husband came home from work!

By that time it was 8 pm and a little late to start cooking. So we had McDonalds for dinner. We don’t have that often. It’s rare. But I always feel guilty after eating such a high calorie meal! Where’s some Medifast coupons when you need them!

Oh and the salt! Did you know that Canadian fast food apparently has even more salt in it than American fast food? Why? I don’t know … but it’s sickeningly salty.

Do you ever feel guilty after eating a fast food meal?

What a beautiful weekend (and our injured dog)

Tricia — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:08:58 +0000

It’s beautiful here in Toronto this weekend … it’s like a very late Indian Summer. The sun is just about to set, but it’s still 17 C (63 F) out- and that’s pretty warm for November!

If only it would stay this warm instead of getting cold again soon! Oh well .. at least it’s still supposed to be warm tomorrow before it slowly begins to cool off again. We’ll make the most of it I guess.

Actually, since it was so nice out today my husband decided to take our dog to the beach for a run and swim. Unfortunately, after being out swimming in the Lake for two hours or so, she limped back to shore. All of her feet were bleeding! It turns out she somehow scraped all of her toenails off to the nub! My poor baby.

We’ve taken her to Cherry Beach here in Toronto to swim in Lake Ontario several times – in the same area – and nothing like this has ever happened before. Maybe there’s more rocks under the water right now? Very strange.

So after cleaning up her feet she’s just resting beside me on the couch. My husband and I are just staying in the living room watching TV so that she doesn’t get up and start trying to follow us around. I figure if her feet have a rest maybe they’ll feel a little better. I hope!

My husband has control of the remote so I’m not having much fun! He’s flipping between sports news, music docs and uh infomercials for things like a dip machine – which BTW I think he’s interested in getting! LOL Why do guys always change channels like every five minutes?

If our dog, Midnight, hadn’t hurt herself so badly I’m sure we would have spent the last couple of hours outside doing the last of our garden work. I still have some mighty tall sunflowers to chop down!

Did you have nice weather this weekend?

I’m freezing!

Tricia — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:35:45 +0000

It’s cold here in Toronto today. Winter’s a comin’! Brrrr!

Geez, if I’m already hating the cold this much in early November I wonder how I’m going to get through January and February? Maybe I should buy myself a few lottery tickets and use my winnings (ha ha) to take one of those lovely warm orlando vacations ?

Hey, I can dream, can’t I?

I’ve been freezing for the last hour or so, just waiting for our furnace to come on. It finally did as I started writing this post. I guess I could have turned up the thermostat – but I didn’t want to do that. Instead I just piled on warmer clothes. Although I suspect once the furnace is done heating up the house I’ll be able to take my sweater off.

At least in the winter when it’s really cold out the heat comes on regularly. That’s one thing I hate about Autumn and late spring. The house cools more gradually so it’s a long wait at time for the furnace to come on. Oh well .. at least those months are better for our budget.

Is it cool in your area today too? What are you doing to stay warm?

I hate seeing my garden die down in the Fall

Tricia — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:20:40 +0000

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I used to love Autumn, but now that I garden there’s some sadness whenever fall arrives. I hate to see my garden die down for the winter. I know it’s part of a cycle, but I sometimes wish that I lived in a climate where my plants could bloom year round.

Hmm maybe this year I’ll be as successful as last with my indoor plants. Last year, between my garden plants blooming from late March until early December and my indoor plants (Orchids, indoor tropical hibiscus, Amaryllis etc) blooming from late December to April I had blooms all the time. It was lovely.

This is a picture of the Cosmo’s blooming outside my house in my planted boulevard. They’re starting to die down, but a few of the flowers are still stubbornly blooming.

I like how the petals of this rose, Yves Piaget, go wild as the flower begins to die down. Isn’t this a pretty rose? I love it’s color.

What’s blooming in your garden right now as we head for winter?

Getting ready for a whirlwind weekend

Tricia — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:38:13 +0000

Oh oh, my brother in law is coming to Toronto for a visit. He’s a great guy, but his visits really tire me out and uh, well, they don’t bring out the best in my husband as he and my husband turn into teenagers again. In other words they drink and party and live to regret it the next day. LOL

Luckily his visit will only be for about three days, so that’s not too bad.

I do have to remind him to smoke his cigars outside though. I actually don’t mind the smell of cigars, but not in the house as the smell lingers for days! I think he smokes Rocky Patel cigars but I’m not sure. He also brings American cigarettes when he comes to visit and I don’t like the smell of those in the house either. They have a much stronger smell than Canadian cigarettes.

Anyway … I guess we’ll have to get the house ready for his visit next weekend. His youngest son has a hockey tournament here, so i guess they’ll be out watching hockey most of the time.

Do you ever have house guests that turn your whole house upside down when they visit?

My neighborhood smells like cookie dough

Tricia — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:28:35 +0000

Every night when I take our dog outside for her final outing of the evening, usually around 11:30 pm, the air has a sweet scent. Almost sickeningly sweet.

I think I figured out what the smell is. We have a Peek Freans factory not too far away … maybe a few miles, and they must be cooking up batches of cookies or other PK products at that time of night.

I guess it could be worse … I could be smelling industrial products or something! Luckily it’s just a nice, if somewhat overpowering, sweet cookie dough smell. LOL

Do you live near a factory? If so, do you ever smell whatever they are making?

One good thing about living near a cookie factory is that they have an outlet store. We haven’t gone there for a few years, but when we last went there we bought BAGS of stuff … like enough cookies and chips and other items to last for months! It has amazing prices … 50% or more off cookies and other items. Hmmm maybe we should make another trip to the factory?

When we have gone on a shopping spree at the Peek Freans outlet store we don’t just get stuff for us … we give some of what we’ve bought to friends or family or I used to take some of the cookies to work for the other nurses and doctors to enjoy.

So much for going out on long walks!

Tricia — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:24:28 +0000

Now that the weather is getting cooler I was thinking of taking the dog out for long walks more often.

I have Crohn’s and my health isn’t all that good and walking in warm weather only seems to make me feel worse. However, we just found out some scary news about our new renter neighbors so I don’t feel good about leaving the house empty on a regular basis.

I’ve gained a little bit of weight while I’ve been off work due to my illness. Mainly because I feel so crappy most of the time that I’m just not active enough … but it’s only a little extra weight … I’m certain that if I could just get more active I’d be back in shape in no time. Certainly I don’t need a weight loss product just more exercise.

The trouble is that we learned the new neighbor has a history of breaking into houses! So uhm … it’s a good thing that I’m home almost all the time!

I guess if I do start going out for walks more often I’ll alter the times I go out so there’s no regularity to what I’m doing – just in case their keeping track. Doesn’t that suck that we have neighbors we can’t trust?

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