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I really need a holiday

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I was just babbling on my other blog about how I need a holiday and soon! The weathers been so bad here this winter … I even think our snowy week managed to knock me out on Wednesday as I had a terrible migraine all day.

So … a holiday … Maybe we’ll take another trip to Las Vegas. We had a lot of fun when we were there last November. We’re a little short on funds this time round though so I’ll have to try to find a great deal or some cheap hotel Las Vegas if I can.

Ok I’m obviously still suffering from my migraine … they tend to make me talk funny and I guess type funny. I meant cheap Las Vegas hotels of course.

Do you have any suggestions for a hotel that won’t cost too much but that’s also nice and on the strip? We stayed in the Imperial Palace last time and I don’t want to stay there again.





The puppy is chewing everything!

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I think my puppy is going to have to have a bare bones crate for a while.

She’s at the end of her teething and she’s gotten back into chewing everything in sight. Her chewing had slowed down for a while, but now she’s back to ripping things up again.

We have a bed for her in her crate but we’ve found that if we keep her in her crate for any period of time during the day she starts to bite her doggy bed so we remove it during the day. It goes back in at night as she doesn’t seem to bother it through the night but during the day’s a different story.

We also have a towel in her crate. It softens the noise of her pacing around in the crate or the noise she makes when she’s playing with her toy bones and other toys. Well, she’s in the crate now and she’s chewing like mad on her towel. I guess we’ll have to take that out all the time now too.

I feel bad for her. I want to make her more comfortable by giving her soft things to lie on when she’s in there but she keeps destroying things.

I sure hope she moves out of this chewing phase sometime soon!

Is Construction ruining your city?

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I was watching the news last night and I was shocked to hear about how a church in protesting about how the commercial real estate near it is being used.

Like most people living in large cities I’m starting to get more than a little frustrated by all the construction going on all the time. There are so many condo’s going up in downtown Toronto it’s crazy. In fact, our whole shoreline has changed from the time I moved here in the 80’s. You used to be able to see the lake as you drove along Lakeshore Boulevard, but they might as well change the name of the street now as there are so many condos along the waterfront that you can barely see the lake from the boulevard anymore.

Still, if someone owns a property and if the city approves of the construction the owner should be able to build what they planned to build shouldn’t they? This one church doesn’t think so. The commercial property owner has plans to build two condo’s on the properties near the church and the church is protesting at city hall.

I guess I’m divided on this issue. On one hand I feel that there’s been too many tall buildings built in the city – particularly along the lake shore, but then as I said if the city is allowing the construction to take place I guess the builders have a right to put up their buildings.

The problem really lies with City Hall. They need to limit the number of new buildings allowed in each area of the city. They also need to preserve some of the areas that enhance our city and or make it unique – like our water front.

If you live in a big city how do you feel about the commercial properties that have been built in the last decade or so? Do they add to your city? Were they needed? Or do you think the new buildings are destroying something that was special about your town?

Strange stormy weather

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Well we’re in for some more strange weather.

Yesterday we were supposed to have an ice storm but it seems to have missed the Toronto area. Thankfully!

I don’t think we’ll be so lucky tonight. We’ve got another ice and snow storm headed our way. It’s supposed to start sometime this evening and go through into tomorrow. I think there’s more snow coming over the rest of the week too.

Luckily it won’t be all that cold and with any luck whatever drops down on us will melt fairly fast.

Yesterday it really warmed up here. It got up to 12 Celsius (53.6 F)! So some of our huge snow pile on the front lawn and the five foot high snow banks on either side of our driveway managed to melt a bit.

Chris was enjoying the warm weather so much that he suggested we go to The Beach area and take Midnight for a walk on the boardwalk. It would have been her first time visiting the beach and seeing Lake Ontario. Unfortunately I was still feeling quite bad yesterday so I just wasn’t up to going. With any luck we’ll have another nice warm day like that soon and we’ll get to see our puppy frolic by the water soon.

I hope I’ll be able to say that all of our snow has pretty much melted away soon.

How’s the weather in your area?

Well so far this year sucks too

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It seems that my bad week, or maybe I should call it my bad year, continues.

I was so sick on Saturday that I stayed in bed until 8:30 pm! I had my period and the pain was so bad that I just couldn’t move. I’ve got endometritis, combined with Crohn’s disease it’s a real killer, and that causes me a ton more pain than anyone should ever have to go through. On top of that I broke out with a couple of zits. The last thing I need these days is to have to use an acne treatment too! Geesh!

The pain in my left side was so bad that I thought I’d end up in the hospital that day. I don’t know if the pain was from my Crohn’s or Endo. It wouldn’t go away at all no matter how much medicine I took and the only thing that made it feel a bit better was to keep my hand pressed to my side for hours on end. It finally started to ease up at about 6:30 that evening, but I stayed in bed for another two hours until I was sure I felt better.

Chris had been bringing me drinks all day. Warm drinks like coffee. He’d also been checking on me and bringing me pain medications whenever I called out for some more. By the time I came downstairs I was weak and dizzy. I think the pain meds took their tole on me and I kind of felt hung over. I also hadn’t eaten all day so I think that’s partly why I was so weak and dizzy.

I still have twinges of that nasty pain in my left side even today. I guess i”m still recovering from whatever my body was going through on Saturday. It’s been no where near as bad as it was on Saturday but it’s still hanging around. Seriously that day I wondered if either a cyst burst or even if my bowel burst and if I was getting peritonitis.

I just want to feel better. Even if it’s only for one day.

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