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Getting ready for the long weekend

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My husbands cousin just dropped by for a visit. He works in a car dealership and repair shop so he’s always driving a new car. Perks of the job. Must be nice, eh!

He was just dropping by for a few minutes to pick something up from our house and check on plans for our big family reunion weekend that’s coming up on Sunday. While he was here he was showing me the latest car that he’s driving. It happens to be an Audi. It’s all supped up – right down to the audi tt custom floor mats that he just got for it. As I said earlier – must be nice!

It seems like every time I talk to someone from my husband family they say they’re going to be at the party on Sunday so I guess it’s going to be quite a big gathering! We’d better get there early to help the in laws! My husband went to their house this past weekend to put up a big outdoor party tent. Hopefully we don’t get any big storms that blow it over before the party!

Noisy Neighbor Syndrome

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I feel like I’ve barely been getting any sleep over the last few months. Actually I don’t just feel like I haven’t been getting much sleep, I know I haven’t been. I have noisy neighbor syndrome.

What’s noisy neighbor syndrome you ask? Well I’d imagine that you can guess what it is if you try. We live in a semi detached house so our neighbors house is attached to ours – just on the other side of ours. In other words there is a common wall between our two homes and likely due to the fact that our neighbors have hardwood floors we can hear all the jumping and running around that their two year old daughter does every single day from 7 in the morning until sometimes as late as midnight.

I have chronic pain due to Crohn’s Disease and other illnesses so I don’t sleep well to begin with and lately it seems that whenever I am just about to fall asleep my neighbors daughter starts up with her noise. So yeah … noisy neighbor syndrome … Anyone know how to remove dark circles ’cause unless I start getting a good sleep I think the dark circles under my eyes are going to become permanent.

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!

I think it’s time to use the Elliptical Machine again

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I think it was about four years ago when I bought my elliptical machine. I used it for a while when I first got it, but I started to feel ill (I’m home with a chronic illness) and I had to stop using it for a while. Unfortunately … a while stretched into several years and here I am just getting around to thinking about using it again.

Funny how time flies isn’t it?

The machine is up in one of our spare bedrooms and it’s a big heavy thing. I had to haul it into the right position just so I could use it again. Then … I couldn’t remember just exactly what all the buttons and knobs were for so I went searching for the manual. Luckily I do keep most of the instructions of gadgets and machinery that we buy in one place so it was fairly easy to find. Now I just have to find a few minutes to sit down with the manual so I can learn more about how to use the elliptical to my best advantage.

Actually if I can find some time tomorrow to read the manual again then maybe I can start using the elliptical on Monday … you know, start at the beginning of the week. Even if I only use it two or three times a week that will be better that what I’ve been doing!

Do you have an Elliptical machine or other exercise equipment in your house that you really haven’t been using?

Time to get out the Christmas Decorations?

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We got our first real snow fall here in Toronto this week. I guess we have a few inches of snow on the ground and we expect more to come before the week is over. I guess we’re lucky compared to some areas near us who happened to get several feet of snow!

I think the snow actually made me have a bit of the Christmas spirit earlier today. We haven’t decorated the house for Christmas for about 6 years, but earlier today I seriously thought about pulling out our Christmas tree, Christmas decorations, the garland, lights, and of course our Christmas wreath.

Who knows .. maybe this weekend I’ll dig out all of our decorations and start putting some of them up. It’s been years since we’ve decorated so it would be a big change, but a nice one if we do it.

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