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Waiting for Spring to warm up

by The Diva

I can’t believe how much rain we’ve been getting here in Toronto. It seems that every time I try to go outside with the dog it starts pouring! Oh and our dog is a Lab .. a dog that traditionally loves water, but for some reason not rain drops. Uh huh … strange dog.

When we come back inside she goes to her crate where we keep a folded towel and she jumps up to stand at the side of the crate to look at it, indicating to me that she wants me to get the towel to dry her off … even if she’s not really all that wet because really she just wants to play with the towel. My dog is just too smart.

It’s been raining so much or other wise so miserable for the last few days that we really haven’t been out as much as we normally are. I took advantage of a break in the rain this afternoon and took the dog out for a long walk. While I was out I ran into one of my neighbors, a lady who just loves my dog and always stops to pet her and gives her a treat every time she sees her, and I guess she’s working from home these days. She told me she was just taking a break from working on her computer. She was busy trying to install inetsoft performance management software for her company and then it was back to work for her.

It seems more and more of my neighbors are working from home. I’ve worked from home (being sick on medical leave) for five years but when I first started blogging and doing some work from home I was the only one in the neighborhood that I know of working from home … now just about every house seems to have a person staying home doing work.

Anyway … I’m hoping that the rain will stop soon and Spring will start to warm up to normal temps. It’s been cold, wet and just kind of miserable. How has it been in your area?

Filed Under: Blogging, Home and family, House and Home, Items to Try, Pets, Recreation Tagged With: beg, blogging, cold, crate, dog, medical leave, miserable, neighbor, neighborhood, rain, raining, sick, smart dog, spring, stay at home, towel, wet, work, work from home

Still finding new things on my laptop whooohooo

by The Diva

I’ve had my new laptop for about three weeks now and I’m still exploring everything that’s on it. It certainly came loaded with quite a bit of software … in fact, I think i”ll probably end up taking some of it off the computer after a while if I don’t find that I use it because my new laptop has two hard drives and the operating system seems to be installed on the smaller hard drive which means everything so far is getting installed on that hard drive so it’s filling up quickly!

The new laptop is an Asus and if you’re familiar with Asus they come with tons of software and as I said I’m still trying to figure out what it all is … like smart login manager, and asus multiframe, asus access, asus, ap bank .. Clicking on the programs has gotten me into trouble once or twice so I think i’ll do internet searches on them first to figure out what they are. LOL I just wish there was a better explaination somewhere on the computer as to what all this special Asus variety software was about.

Oh and there’s a built in webcam. I’ve never had that before on a laptop or desktop. Trouble is .. again, I can’t find anything about how to control it. There’s barely anything written about it in the manual. Odd. Anyway .. once I figure it out I can use it for Conference calling on Skype with my friends and family. I’m certainly looking forward to that! Actually maybe if I just download and set up the Skype software perhaps the webcam will work? Probably. I guess I should test it while I can still return the laptop huh? I mean, if it didn’t work …

Ok back to finding out what other fun stuff is on my laptop …

Filed Under: Blogging, Electronics, Entertainment, Items to Try Tagged With: asus, asus software, bells and whistles, computer, conference call, control, figure out, finding, hard drive, how, laptop, manual, new, operating system, skyoe, software, stuff, webcam, work

My husband needs a new job

by The Diva

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.

Filed Under: Home and family, Items to Try, Managing the bills, Married Life Tagged With: hospital, husband, job, lay off, looking, new job, part time, sucks, terrible, work, workers, workplace

Helping relatives move

by The Diva

My husband just left to go and help his cousin and his wife move into an apartment.

I’m not quite sure what happened, but they had a house outside the city and I guess they got into some money troubles and had to sell. Their house was on the market for at least six months and just sold about two weeks ago and now, his cousin is moving back into the city. I’m not exactly sure why their moving so quickly .. maybe their house had a fast closing date?

Anyway .. usually I would help with a move, but I’m just not feeling all that well today. So I’m staying home with our dog and my husband is running around helping with the heavy lifting. Hmmm maybe I got the better deal?

I think my husband’s cousin is going to be changing job soon too. He’s been working for a company that transfers data to microfishe … but I think that’s fazing into digital. He mentioned something about getting into Forex trading the last time I talked to him. I think he bought some Forex trading software and he’s been teaching himself how to use it in his spare time. Maybe he’ll figure out how to make some good money on the side – even if he doesn’t end up changing jobs.

Anyway … it’s a late day move … my husband just left the house at 3 pm! I have no idea when he’ll be home. I also think his aunt is feeding the gang. She mentioned something about making Chili when I was talking to her on the phone. Hmmm … maybe Chris can talk her into letting him bring some of her homemade chili home for me? She apparently makes delicious chili. Of course, it probably won’t sit all that well on my stomach … but then, nothing I eat this week has.

Filed Under: Finance, Home and family, House and Home, Items to Try, Real Estate Tagged With: apartment, chili, closing date, cousin, diner, family, financial trouble, food, homemade, house, husband, money, moving, new job, software, sold house, trading, work

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