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Keeping in touch with old friends

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I was talking with one of my friends the other day that I hadn’t talked to for quite a while. She used to live in Toronto but she moved another province a few years ago and we just don’t talk or see each other anywhere near as much as we used to.

I’m so glad that we can Skype, email and talk on the phone!

Anyway … caught me up on everything that’s been happening and she told me that her son is going to be going back to school. He’s going to be getting an information technology degree. He’s very smart so I’m sure he’ll do quite well.

I think we’re going to try to get in touch with each other by Skype at least once a week. It’s not quite the same as getting together but it’s the next best thing.

Making plans for Valentines Day

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I’m trying to figure out what my husband and I should do for Valentines. It’s too bad that Valentines Day is on a Monday this year. Maybe we’ll celebrate it early and celebrate ll weekend instead?

We usually don’t do much for Valentines. Just having a nice dinner and spending time together is enough for the two of us … but this year, maybe we’ll either go out for dinner or get restaurant delivery from a really nice restaurant.

What are you doing or Valentines? Do you celebrated the holiday? Will you go out for dinner or will you stay in and cook a romantic meal?

My husband needs a new job

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I think it’s time for my husband to find a new job. He’s been working at the hospital for close to 10 years and he’s still in a part time position.

He’s worked in several jobs at the hospital. He first started when some cleaner jobs opened up and before long he went into portering and now he works in the Recovery Room. He loves what he does – it’s just that the position that he’s doing is only part time and there’s no full time opening available.

The other problem with his job is that our hospital has blown it’s budget over the last year so they’re making all the part time workers going on rotating temporary lay offs. In the last year my husband has been off work for a total of 6 weeks in temporary lay offs.

We’ve heard that they’re planning more lay offs for the summer so husband is starting to look for a new job outside the hospital. He really doesn’t want to leave his workplace because he really does enjoy his job, but we just can’t take the continued job insecurity and loss of income that the temporary layoffs cause.

We’re almost done eating all the cookies I baked in December

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My husband and I are finally clearing out some of the baking that I did in December. Not that there was anything wrong with it mind you … just that I went into baking overkill …. cookies, cookies, cookies everywhere!

This evening after dinner I took a look on top of our fridge and pulled down four freezer bags were I’d stored some of the cookies that I’d baked. The bags I took down only had a couple of cookies on them and lots of crumbs so we finished off a few of the cookies and crumbs and got rid of two of the bags. Maybe we won’t need to look for diet pills that work if we can get rid of the cookies soon.

I don’t think I’ll go on any more baking sprees for a while.

Having problems with my skin again ..

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I’ve been having some problems with my skin again. I really shouldn’t since it’s winter and the air is dry, but I’m breaking out a little bit and it’s bothering me.

I think it’s happening because of a medication that I’m taking for my migraines. The medication actually makes me sweat less and while you’d think this would actually help with skin problems it seems to work the opposite way … on my skin anyway!

I recently came across a site located at www.acneskincare.org and I think I’m going to spend some time late this evening checking it out. Maybe I’ll get a few ideas from it that will help my particular situation. Perhaps- in the meantime, some of you will also have some ideas for me too?

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