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Concerned about a sweet neighbor

by The Diva

My neighbor across the street is a widow. She’s an older lady who lives alone and she’s been having a hard time lately. Luckily for her she has two great sons that look in on her frequently and come over to do yard work and get her groceries etc.

For a lady of her age she normally pretty spry. I mean, I see her out walking around every day and even driving her car once or twice a day. I think for a lady in her mid to late 80’s that’s pretty darn good! And no – she doesn’t appear to be a scary driver.

The reason I said she’s been having a hard time was because she just had surgery on one of her eyes and it didn’t go all that well to begin with so for a week or so she had blurry vision and couldn’t drive or even walk around very easily outside. I felt bad for her. I was offering to do extra things for her if she wanted. She did call me a few times to help her out.

One of the times I went over to help her with something we end up sitting down and talking over a cup of coffee and I noticed her mothers ring. She has a stone in it for each of her kids and each of her grandchildren. When I was a jeweler I used to make rings like that quite often. We called them Family Rings though.

My neighbor seems to be doing well now. She got the stitches out of her eye a few days ago and that made a huge improvement. That sounds funny to say “stitches out of her eye” doesn’t it?

Filed Under: Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try, Womens World Tagged With: blurry, coffee, driving, elderly, eye surgery, eyes, garden, groceries, help, helping, mothers ring, nice, older, sons, stitches, sweet neighbor, talking, walking

Exploring all the new features on my cellphone

by The Diva

I was playing around with my cellphone the other day. I had uploaded some pictures and videos that I had taken onto my computer from the cellphone and then I noticed that there was a major software update for my phone. So … I spent some time updating the software and then updating it some more. Luckily everything went ok!

Naturally once everything was updated I decided to explore all of the new features that were now on my cellphone. It’s a Nokia N8 BTW and it just got Symbian Anna. I know there’s yet another update that some people are getting but it’s not in my area yet.

The new maps are very cool so I decided to try them out when I was walking the dog. It was a very cold day so the gps was a little slow calculating my route when I made turns that it didn’t anticipate but otherwise it worked great. I really hadn’t used that feature or the maps for driving before, but I should because, well with this phone I don’t need a separate GPS navigation device.

Now I want to find new apps to download onto my phone. I was looking at an app that’s similar to Instagram earlier today that I might put on my phone. Watch my tweets for some cool pictures soon!

Have you investigated all of the cool features on your smartphone? There’s just so much stuff isn’t there?

Filed Under: Electronics, Home and family, Items to Try Tagged With: anna, cellphone, drive, explore, fun, gps, gps maps, mobile, navigate, nokia, route, software update, symbian, update, walking

My neighborhood is under construction this week

by The Diva

I’m tired this week. Almost every day there’s noise on the street very early in the morning. Why? Well … there’s construction crews tearing up our sidewalks for some reason. I’m not sure why, but they’re replacing some of the sidewalks that were put in two years ago when some of our neighbors had their waterlines improved.

On Tuesday the sidewalk right in front of our house was torn up with one of those big hammer drills. Our whole house shook like crazy! Luckily it only took about fifteen minutes for them to finish. Then … once they removed the broken concrete they cleared the area and at about 4:30 pm they put in new cement and smoothed it out and moved on to other areas.

Before they left the neighborhood they blocked things off with wooded blockades and put canvas over the wet cement but by 8 pm – only about an hour after the guys had left the area someone walked in all the wet cement in front of my house and apparent all down the street (doing the twist in the cement) mucking it all up. Who does that? So it’s all ruined! So I guess maybe tomorrow I’ll have another hammer drill making noise in front of my house again.

Now the sidewalk in front of my house is only partly useable because of the mucked up footprints in the cement. All the little kids parading by with their cute little personalized lunch boxes are having trouble walking on it. I hope they fix it soon.

Filed Under: Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try Tagged With: cement, construction, fix, improvement, mucked up, neighborhood, repair, ruined cement, sidewalk, terrible, walking, waterline

Time to hit the bike trails

by The Diva

Now that September has arrived it’s really cooled off dramatically! I can’t believe how cool it’s getting at night. We actually turned our furnace on for the first time this season this evening. It was just too cool in our house.

One thing I do like about the cooler weather is that it’s nice to get out and either take long walks or go for bike rides. Working out or being active is important year round, but I find it much easier in the spring and fall when the temperature outside is much more moderate to cool. I just get too hot in the summer if I really exert myself and well, sometimes here in the winter it’s just too cold to go outside for a long time.

Perhaps tomorrow if the weather is nice we’ll get out the thule bike rack and load up the bikes and go to a bike trail for a nice long ride.

Do you enjoy doing outdoor activities like biking, walking and running year round, or are you like me and prefer to do some of those activities when the weather is slightly cooler like during the Spring and Fall?

Filed Under: Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try, Womens health Tagged With: bike rack, bike trails, biking, cool nights, cool weather, fitness, long ride, running, September, walking

It’s going to be a busy weekend!

by The Diva

I think this is going to be a busy weekend.

We’re planning on going to a few free events including Toronto’s Beach Rib Fest, Luminato and maybe the Taste of Little Italy.

The Much Music Awards are also taking place on Sunday … who knows maybe we’ll visit Queen Street West and see if we can see anything. I know we’ll be able to hear it if we go to the general area, even if we can’t get close enough to see any of the five stages that they’re setting up.

All I need to do before I start my busy weekend is try to talk to a friend who’s convince she needs to buy phentermine in order to lose weight. Actually I should tell her to come along with us to all the events we plan on attending this weekend … that’s gotta burn more than few calories. Of course we plan on eating some of the food at Rib Fest and Taste of Little Italy – but only a little. I’m sure all the walking we’ll be doing will help balance things out.

What are you up to this weekend?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Food and Drink, Home and family, Items to Try, Music, Recreation Tagged With: Beach Rib Fest, busy, eating, food, fun, Luminato, MM, Much Music Awards, Queen Street W, taste of little Italy, Toronto, walking, weekend, yum

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