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Our friend is finally getting married

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I was talking with a very good friend of ours earlier today. I’ve always thought of him as a confirmed bachelor a la George Clooney … but it seems I was wrong, so very wrong.

He’s had a girlfriend for about two and a half years and it seems that he’s ready to make it permanent. Just having the girlfriend for this long has been a record. I’ve known this guy for about 25 years and prior to this I’ve never known him to see a girl for longer than about two weeks! So you can imagine my surprise when this relationship lasted and lasted and now when he told me earlier today that he wants me help finding an engagement ring.

I think I just about fainted when he told me he was about to get engaged. He really should have told me to be sure I was sitting down. LOL

I guess sometime next week we’ll meet up and go out and look for the perfect engagement ring. I used to be a jeweler so I still have some great contacts that we can use to get him a very good deal. My husband was a jeweler as well so I’m sure he’ll have some input as well. In the meantime I told him to take a look at various Semi mount diamond ring styles to get an idea of what he thinks his fiance to be might like.

Hopefully he has an idea of what kind of style she’d like. If he really doesn’t seem to have a clue when we go out looking I might suggest that he proposes without a ring and then lets her have some input on her engagement ring. Not quite as romantic, but it’s better than totally hating your ring.

Me and my growling dog

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I’m all alone at home this weekend. Well, not totally alone, my Labrador Retriever is here with me to keep me company so I guess that’s a good thing.

My husband went to his parents house in Brantford on Friday to help his dad get a few things done around the house. They were supposed to get the eaves troughs cleaned out and re-parge an area of the foundation that was cracked but it’s been raining a little bit here and there so I don’t think they got a lot of outdoor work done. I could be wrong though.

My husband’s been pretty good about checking in while he’s been away from home. He’s been calling and filling me in on a little bit of what he’s been doing. I guess his sister showed up at his parents house today and was helping his mom vacuum and somehow between his mom and his sister they managed to suck a sock up into the vacuum tube or something so my husband spent about two hours trying to unblock the tube to no avail.

I guess while he was trying to work on the vacuum he and his sister were talking. His sister and her husband have two RV trailers up North on a property but they want to get another one so more family members can go up for visits so now they’re applying for rv loans so that they can make it happen. Personally I think two RVs are enough.

Hopefully Midnight, my dog, and I get through tonight ok. Something is setting her off. She’s lying on the couch with me, but she’s growling every two or three minutes. That’s really not like her, but she’s been doing that for the last hour or so, so she must be smelling something outside or maybe since my husband isn’t her maybe she’s feeling more protective. I don’t know, but the growling is setting me on edge.

It’s going to be a long time before our neighbors move in

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Our neighbors that come to their home infrequently to renovate were here for a few hours today. I really don’t know about them … I mean .. who buys a house, a year ago now, and only renovates it ones or twice a month? Who has the time and money to do that?

At the rate they’re going their house won’t be finished for about five years!

Right now they have no walls inside, or well just frames and as I said they’re going at a snail pace so it doesn’t seem like they’ll be moving in any time soon. I guess it’s a good thing his parents don’t seem to mind them living with them!

I was talking with the woman and she was telling me that there were going to eventually put in a laminate flooring called armstrong grand illusions. It looks nice. I’m sure their house will be very nice once they get everything done, but as I said, it’s taking forever. I was looking forward to having new neighbors, last year, but … I’m going to have to wait a long time before that happens!

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.

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