My GROUCHY DAY!

Did you ever have days where you just didn't get enough sleep and like a zoombie you walk around doing the morning usual things and just wanting to crawl back into bed again. Talk about a GROUCH!! I was the queen of Grouch this morning. However, I thought I'd do something nice and have bacon and eggs, meanwhile, deep in my mind remembering the single life I had and could have gone back to bed without guilt. Everything I did, just took so much effort. First I had to clean up the dog pee that Tom pointed out to me on the way to his computer. It seems I get up every single morning and the first thing I have to do in inhale whatever chemical coming out of that spray can to make the urine disappear, wondering as well what the heck it's possibly doing to make cancer cells appear in my body!! Then it's the usual scrubbing on the spot to clean it up and swearing as I do it, calling the dog every name I can think of and wondering what I could put in his food to shorten his little life and pee filled bladder! Then I'm making the bed thinking after the 5000 times I've made beds, I was getting pretty pissed off doing it. I then run out to turn the bacon, then into the bathroom to finally wash my face and get more pissed of at that wrinkled, sleep deprived, ugly and mean face staring back at me, with a look that could stop and elephant dead in it's tracks!

Back into the kitchen, the bacons done, turn on the stove, pop in toast, crack the eggs in the pan, and grab what dishes I need to make the table. Out comes Tom and causually sits down to read the paper, while I'm now THROWING the dishes on the table and pitching the knives and forks from the kitchen at the table, not caring where they land! Thinking, he could at least set the table!! There's your knife and fork Tom!! Suddenly, it all became his fault for how I felt. The butter was hard, so I put it into the micro to soften it a little, and of course, forgot it. Butter is now all melted and the micro had to be cleaned out!! GRRRR, my mood is getting worse. I pour the orange juice and tell Tom his breakfast is ready. I'm sitting down by now, eggs and bacon and toast on his and my plate! He takes his sweet time coming to the table, which puts me over the edge!!!!!!! He says "nice breakfast" I say "YEAH!" in a not so pleasant tone. He asked me whats wrong and I reply "Don't talk to me right now!!" He looks mystifed, but says.. 'Ohhh, okay!" We ate in silence!!!

After we ate, he did help to bring a couple of dishes in and set on the counter right on top of the dish washer. I'm still in a foul mood but coming out of now that I'm more awake and fed. However, my mood went to foul again!! Why can't men put them IN the dishwasher instead of saving me one more step of having to do it.WHY??? I'll never figure that out!!!

So, I get the kitchen cleaned up and Tom is going to get out of here, as he must feel a little nervous around all these knives in the kitchen and with my mood, it's better to get out while the going is good. He's going to take the dog for a walk!! So, I quickly think of what a Bitch I've been and tell him to wait and I'll go with him. Plus the fresh air may clean up my head and mood.

We walked arm and arm, a loving couple, dropping the whole morning's tension and chattered about this and that and the day was back on track in a good way.

Neither of us got much sleep the night before, so when we came back in, we went for a snooze. We slept for about an hour. I didn't think I slept at all, but he said I snored. We got up, had a drink of cold orange juice, he went on to reading the paper then going to the computer room. I read my email, and just could not keep my eyes open. It's just one of those days when the body is telling you go to bed and rest So, that's what I did. Woke at 2pm, to beautiful huge flakes of snow floating past the patio door. Just like home!! I thought I'd get up and go for a walk and go to M&M for ice cream. When I sleep in the afternoon like that, I wake up always wanting something extremelly cold to eat. It's been like that since I was a kid. But by the time I got out of bed and looked out, it was melting on contact with the ground and had turned to rain! Darn.

So, I drank more orange juice, sat down and wrote my daily post! Now it's supper time!! It's leftovers, so it won't be bad to make and I'm out of the mood I was in earlier, but the mood is a fine line today. Don't we all have these days one time or another. Today was mine. Hopefully tomorow is someone elses.....hopefully somebody I either don't like or else has an wonderful understanding husband like mine!!

chow for now.

Picture of the day: This is Scootamatta Lake gals, drinking OPRAH drinks and having a grand time, giggling and laughing and OPRAHING ourselves through the night. Every gal here is funnier then the gal next to her! What fun had by all!

Oh Lord, What Will I Ramble About Today?

Life hasn't been very exciting today, so be prepared to be bored with this one! Lets see....got up, showered, left my hair uncurled, so it lookes like a mass of pubic hairs on my head!! ( I didn't say the blog wouldn't be shocking....you all know me better then that!!) Then I attacked the pineapple I bought yesterday, cutting and slicing it up for breakfast It was delicious and very, very sweet and so juicy! The hardest thing I did today was to put soap in the dishwasher and push the button!

Then Tom and I have books we've almost finished reading, so we cuddled up in bed with the electric blanket and finished our books. Mine was that mystery I mentioned in an earlier post with the expression "feeling your neck". I'm not a great mystery reader, and always find them so unbelievable and I seem to be able to know "who did it" before the book is hardly 1/4 way though! But, I stuck it out! Then we had tea and cookies and now, I'm watching Dr. Phil as I write this stuff. His show is as sick as always!

I had a note from Lynn this morning and she told me about the mural in the cafeteria in the College where I worked in Ontario being obliterated over the Christmas holidays!! I couldn't believe it!! This was a beautiful, colorful mural on a huge wall in the cafeteria, depicting life at the college, with students and staff, captured in paint, going about their daily work there. The Artist, worked for a year or more, taking pictures with his camera of daily life at the college, then painting it in beautiful colours on the wall. It was bold and interesting and gave life on it's own to a rather institutional, drab setting. I could stand and look at it and everytime, see something different and also pick out staff and students depicted with the painters brush. It was fun to see it being painted and coming to life. I can't believe there was no talk or discussion with the staff or students before the Christmas holiday about removing the mural. When school resumed in January, the wall had been painted all white.....the painting GONE!! When I read that, I was shocked and sick about it!! Why??? Why, in the "powers that be" in their wisdom, would want to get rid of it for. Apparently they said, that after only a few years, the paint was chipping. Then I read that the Artist who painted it was furious and if he had been notified, he could have restored it! AHHHHH!!! It makes me so mad!!! It was a lovely piece of art, and I hope the Artist has legal rights to have the College make amends to his work.

That's my rant for today!

Well, not quite finished ranting, but on a different subject! Did you see where Australia has decided and is advising their people that Canada is a bad place to visit.

Australians are advised to be cautious because of "the risk of a terrorist attack" in Canada, heavy snow, windchill and ice in the winter, and forest fires that can erupt "at any time."
British Columbia, in particular, was singled out as being in an active earthquake zone and "subject to avalanches," along with Alberta.

Lord!! Canada isn't the only place that gets huge amounts of snow and ice and windchill!! I can't believe they probably still think we live in igloos in 2008! Don't they listen to the news and see what's going on in other places in the world? I always thought Canada a pretty decent and safe place to live, although will admit a little shiver of fear whenever I think of our high chance of earthquakes along the Pacific coast. Last year, I decided to put together a survival kit....just in case. So far, I have a flashlight, you turn a crank to get light, instead of using batteries that will die out. Then I kind of forgot about survival! So, to all you people in Ontario reading this, you can rest assurd if an earthquake happen's here....we have light!! Guess, I should get on this some more and become more serious. Maybe Australia know's something we don't.

The sun continues to shine here and it's lovely out. We've had a good week, weatherwise and otherwise! Friday has been a quiet day at home. We'll have our supper soon...spareribs and salad, and then I'm cutting up apples and pears and throwing in candied ginger, and cooking it all together in the microwave. Getting hungry thinkingof it!

Then my bath, jump into bed, start a new book or watch tv and there ends another day and another week. They do fly by! Here's wishing you all a fun filled and safe weekend!

Picture of the day:

This is my cat Batman. He's a well travelled cat that flew with me from Ontario to B.C, also been up into the interior of BC to the Cottage a few times. He's approx. 16 years old. Beautiful cat with an attitude and is VERY demanding!!!

This is the Love of my life! Having a little snog in the forest. That's TJ between us, our other pet. She's a Maltese, 11 years old and a pain in the neck!!! Sorry TJ, but it's true!

Another Beautiful Day

As Mr. Roger's would say.."It's another beautiful day in the neighbourhood...ta da da da!!" The sun was out all day long and it was about 11 C. Sweater weather here! The mountains are still incredible!!

Tom went to the dentist this morning, so I stayed home and cleaned and cleaned! I would love to throw out so much stuff, and if I'm in this mood tomorrow, that I was in this morning, this place will be absent some stuff that hasn't been used in quite some time!

Tom came home, we had cottage cheese and fruit for lunch and then Patricia called and she's still not feeling well but when I mentioned the fantastic sale they are having at Alia, that I was at on Sat, she suddenly felt better and felt like shopping. Funny how a sale perks us women up! So, off we went to have a peek!!! She found some good "must have" dress jackets and I got some free hangers!! Can you believe that! Never spent a penny....there!

Then we had a coffee at Tims and complained about how our kids and grandkids don't appreciate us and never call and how we are "mother orphans!" Seems us grandparents have the same complaint! After we recharged ourselves and felt better about complaining about things, off we went to Wal Mart. I'm looking for sun glasses, because my favourite and only pair that stays on my head when not in use, has these little grabbers on the arms that hold in my lack of hair head!

I've already glued my old pair last week and so we looked and looked but couldn't find a pair. So gave up and on we went. Past a store with beautiful scarves on sale for $5.00. I pulled out a nice blueish/purple one with gold running through it and threw it over my neck and Patricia said "Oh Linda, that color looks wonderful on you!" That did it! Out came my $5.00. I now own another scarf! She bought one, even more beautiful, that I had my eye on but didn't scoop it up fast enough, so she now Patricia owns it. Damn! Then we went to the Dollar Store to buy eye glasses for a buck! She picked out a nice pair, with green tinted frames. that I wanted!!! It was the only green pair there!! Damn!! I'm shopping alone from now on!! I told her to try it on again, to give her a second opinion so that I could tell her they looked awful on her, but I just couldn't do it! They looked fabulous on her, but I knew, I'd look better...Damn! Came out of the mall and just as I was getting into the car, my glued together sun glasses fell and broke completely!! Ewww, I could have cried! They are beyond glueing now!!

Then we came home, both in awe of how beautiful the mountains look and passed a photographer catching them with the sun shining on them. I bet it makes a lovely picture for a postcard!.

Last week, we had a really bad wind storm. Not as bad as the one that knocked the heck out of Stanley Park, but pretty bad. I had a friend going over town through Stanley Park on a bus and a tree fell in between the Lions Gate Bridge and the bus. They closed the bridge because of the winds so the bus couldn't go anywhere! The people had to get off the bus and walk into the city, and continue from there. Well, part of the major streets was closed off, because the wind had blown out a big pane of glass from one of the high office building, making it very dangerous, should the glass fall to the ground. It was just hanging loose, ready to fall. It was dangerous for workers to get up to remove it in the high winds. She said as they walked through the streets, they could look up at all the office and condo buildings and hear the wind rattling all the windows and wondering if they too would blow out. She was scared out of her wits as were the other people. It sure makes you think of the destruction either wind or an earthquake could do in a big city. It seems the winds get stronger and stronger here. I know that night, our patio furniture on the bedroom deck was blown all over the place and our windows were rattling in the frame. Scary stuff!!!

Well, it's supper time and we are having hot, mile high, corned beef sandwiches with a pickle!!

I bought a whole pineapple when I was out so we'll be eating that for awhile!! I read that if you cut off the leaf part and turn it upside down and put it in the fridge overnight, the sweet juices flow through the pineapple, and makes it DELICIOUS!

We eat lots of fruit, not enough vegetables, but Geez....can't win them all!!

Have a great day folks!!!

Picture of the day!

If I could have written it in stone, I would have, but sand and my heart is the best I can do!!

Ahh, What a Grand Day!

Well, it's one of those warm, sunshine filled days in Vancouver, that feels like Spring has sprung!! The mountains look absolutely incredible with the snow on them, and with the sun shining on them, it's a beautiful scene, that even a camera can't capture. Walk around the deck and the ocean is very blue, with both big cargo boats and little sailboats sailing on it. It's so clear we can see the mountains in Victoria way off in the distance. As the sun goes down, the mountains take on a whole different look and everytime I go by the patio door and glance out, I have to comment on how beautiful they are.
It's the time of year that the buzz of gas trimmers can be heard along with the branch shredders and grass blowers, getting rid of broken branches and fallen leaves on the street, working hard at keeping everything neat and tidy. The window washers are out with their big lifts and high platforms, working hard as well. Frankly, I could do without all the noise, but it's still a beautiful day.
Tom and I went out for breakfast this morning, then did some grocery shopping, took the dog to the park for a walk, and then to Indigo to look around at the new books. It's been fun. We always seem to have something to laugh and giggle about or tease one another.
Just as we got inside our door, my cell phone was ringing! We've only had this cell phone for over a month now and nobody ever calls us!! So, when I heard the little tune playing, I got so excited when I realized it was my phone, I could hardly get my purse open fast enough. Then I had to figure out how to answer it. I kept yelling "hello, hello", but then realized, I must have to push something! By then, whoever it was had hung up. I spent 10 minutes figuring out how to see what I push to find out who the caller was, but it just said private number! Damn. Then another 10 minutes seeing if you can call back a private number, but I couldn't get it to work, so just gave up. I wonder who it was?? Only Tom's family and my friend Patricia has the number, so it may have been them. I suppose they will call back if it's an emergency.
I thought I had the "Comment page" fixed, but apparently I don't, so back to the drawing board and see if I can figure out how to make it work so that people can leave a comment. The problem with these free programs, they want you to add these little extra's but thats when the advertisements start to show on up the page as well and I really don't want that. It would be great if I knew how to write html, but that's not within my scope of intelligence! I'll keep looking around and see if I can find a program that won't put the advert's on.
Picture of the day!
This is a picture of my mom on the left and my Nanny on the right. As my aunt pointed out, they look like sisters, don't they! I think it was before I was born, so it's an oldie!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNN!!

Happy Birthday to Lynn! You didn't think I'd forget you, did you?? Never!! For everyone who doesn't know Lynn, she is a very good friend of mine. We began working together in the Library at the College back in 1976. It was the College's big mistake when they hired me to work with Lynn, who has the same warped sense of humour as I do. What a pair we made!! We laughed our way though about 7 or 8 years of sheer enjoyment working together, scheming and plotting our next joke on some poor unsuspecting victim..student or staff both. What one didn't think of the other did, and when one of us came up with a crazy idea the other fed of it and the plot would thicken! I would write and tell you some of these "worth firing" things we did, but even though I'm retired and safe, Lynn is still working! So, Lynn, when you retire, we'll sit and write our memoirs! Maybe they will make a movie or tv show out of it!! What do you think!!

Then I went to work in the Health Center, because our beloved boss, Ron, who we loved and put up with our antics for many years, and enjoyed them as well, retired and our new boss, who worked in the Library for years and saw we just enjoyed our job wayyyyyy too much, decided in her wisdom (or lack of) that we should be parted. My desk was moved into the back room, away from where all the fun was. Like moving the bad kid to the back corner, however, I still managed to have fun back there, mostly tantalizing and annoying the new boss, until she just gave up on me! By this time, I hated it enough that when the job in the Health Center opened up, I bid on it and got it. Life was good there also, but I had to put on a more professional personality, but Lynn and my friendship never faultered and she still remains my best friend at the College. I made it though until early retirement and Lynn is still there and is a very well respected and very much liked person who contributes much to her position.

So, Lynn, on your day, I wish you everything I possibly can that life for you is wonderful and soon all your dreams will come true. I know that 2007 has been a rough year for you and I wish 2008 is a turn around and a smile will be on your face every day! (Now, I know what you are thinking about that smile on your face every day, because we think alike, and if that's what you want...go for it!) hahahahha.

Last night, Tom and I went to see "The Bucket List" and we don't often go out at night, so it was sure different. I kept saying, "it's spooky out here!" The show was good and two great actors. A sad ending, but I didn't need kleenex, as I'm tough like an old boot, but Tom gave a little sniff now and then. Tom is endearably VERY emotional and I love him for it. He has such feelings that come to the surface very easily. He can get watery eyes, watching a sad commercial!! But we enjoyed the show.

Whenever we do happen to go out on the rare occasion at night, even if we are home before 10, I seem to be totally exhausted the next morning and can hardly get out of bed, I'm so tired. Well, I slept right through to 9 am. Tom is often up through the night and then gets up at 7 to join Bill and his Powerpoint friends from Cambridge, Ontario for lessons on the computer. He never misses. Usually, I can hear them trying this and that out and lots of laughter going on, but this bunch have been doing this for years and have formed a good strong bond of friendship. It always ends at 9am here, which is noon in Ontario. Instead of waking me up, Tom crawled back into bed with me and snuggled up close. I was laying on my stomach with my arms right down by my side. Just then, the cat jumped up and lay full length on the other side of me. The sun....yeah....the SUN, was actually shining brightly and hot, right on the bed. The cat was luxurating in the heat. I felt like a trussed turkey in a hot pan! Tom on one side, started to snore, blowing morning breath in my face, so I turned the only thing I could (my head) and was face to face with Batmans bum! His tail was flicking my face back and forth. That was it!!! I was having such a good sleep!!! So, off went the cat and I was out of there! I thought I'd surprise Tom with some nice raison muffins, and got out the dishes and discovered I didn't have any flour. So, I came to check my computer and write on here.

We went to the Library yesterday and listen up everyone...those who laughed at me and shook their head at me..listen up!!!! Remember whenever I would use the phrase " they were feeling their neck", everyone looked at me like I'd invented a saying out of nowhere!! WELL!! The book I got from the Library is called "No Time To Say Goodbye" by Linwood Barclay. And there, on page 31, 10th sentence down, it says " Now I was feeling my neck. Aaaahhhhh!!!! So there all you people who never heard that before and thought I had made it up!!!! I read that in bed last night and instantly sat right up, yelling "Victory!" I feel goooooood!!!!

Well Tom is now up, we've had our breakfast of cottage cheese and fruit and coffee. I still have to make the bed and then we are taking the dog for a walk.

Oops..was going to mention to those Irish relatives out there, that I came across another new book at the Library called "An Irish Country Doctor" by Patrick Taylor. It looks good and the fly says it's an authentic Northern Irish voice telling down to earth stories. A cupboard full of delightful characters, quirky, funny and deeply moving. So, look for it in your library if interested.

Also, I fixed it so that you don't have to join Google to leave a comment. Anyone can click on the "leave comment" on the bottom of each post, and I'll get it. See I have a counter on here now too, but I think it counts up with me checking evey 10 minutes to see if anyone has been here!! It's kind of driving me nuts! So leave a comment now and then.

Lynn, just found out you and Ellen share the same birthday. Just finished watching her show.

Again, have a great birthday and lots of love to you, my friend!!

x0x0x0

Picture of the Day:

Lynn is in the blue, and my other friend is Dianne who also works at the College and her and I have also have had some fun times together! Dianne and I just missed being put in the Clink one time didn't we? Remember our cross country skiing day when we had to get up a hill on the ski's and we knocked everyone behind us, when we fell. It was like TIMBER!!! Look at that Lynn and the innocent face she has!!! OHHHHH BOY!!!! There's a fun person full of devilish ideas in that head!!

Weekend's Over!

Weekend is over and back to my blog. Actually, I did write, but my computer coughed and I lost what I had written. I didn't have the energy to repeat myself, so thought I'd take a break for the weekend.

Saturday, we met Martin and went to the White Spot Resturant for eggs bennie...delicious! Martin and Tom came home to work on Tom's computer and I went off to the mall. Soon as I walked in, I met one of my Red Hat friends, and one of my favourite gals there, and she was glad to see me, so we went for a coffee at Tim Hortons. We talked about my trip (she works at the pier where the cruise boats come in and helps the people get aboard the ship). She showed me all the fantastic buys she got at all the stores having great sales. So, off we went after our coffee to look around together and entice each other into buying. Funny, when one is all excited about the sales, and what they found, it get's the other into the mood for buying...and I did!! I bought a really nice sweater with cats on it. But we had fun and it was fun to shop with her.

Martin and Tom were still working but closing up on working on computers when I came home. Toms printer just wouldn't work from my computer, so we just left it. I'll send all my things I want printed to Tom's email and he can print from there. However, after Martin left, I closed off my computer and later in the evening when I went to check my email, my computer just couldn't find the network. I just had to shut it off and hopefully between Martin on the phone the next day and Tom operating it, that it would begin to work again. Well, here I am, so it worked!

Yesterday, the sun came out!!! Yippeee!! We had planned on going to the movies in the afternoon, but Tom's cold had taken a turn for the worst and he could hardly get out of bed, but I finally got him up and into the shower and let the steam do it's work at clearing out his chest.

He had breakfast, and felt much better. Boy, men are sure babies and soooo demanding when they are sick! I thought things got better with age....at least some things!

So, the show was out of the question, so, I took the dog for a walk, came home and we watched tv and drank tea, and just relaxed. Had an early dinner...sheppards pie and salad, and then, I had my bath and went to bed to sit and watch the finale of The Amazing Race. I was glad the two I had picked to win, did win. The Oriental dad and daughter were great, but they looked like they already had lots of money and this other couple didn't. Lights out, fell asleep!!!

Pretty boring post eh!! I have to be in the writing mood to write "good letters", and I guess, I'm not in that mood at the moment. I have the bed all pulled apart and I just heard the dryer shut off, so I guess, I'm just anxious to get the bed made up, so I can go lay in it!!

Today was to be the beginning of my New Years Resolution and go to the gym and do the treadmill and exercise machines and also swim laps. But I wanted to get rid of all the cold germs off the sheets and pillowcases from our hacking and coughing. So, the sun is shining today and it's warm out today, so I'll walk this afternoon. I think we may go to see "The Bucket List" tonight.

I hope everyone is having a great day. Thanks for the comment Lisa, it's fun to get them and see someone is reading these things.

Picture of the day: Our towel elephant! Every night, when we came back to the cabin there would be a neat little animal made out of towels on our bed. Always different and so cute. Also our bed turned down and a chocolate on our pillow. The only thing they didn't do is tuck us in!!!