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Making some rings for my friends

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Some friends of mine are getting married next year and since they know that I used to be a jeweler they’ve been asking for my help in designing their wedding bands. I helped them with their engagement ring a few months ago or rather I helped him design the ring and then figure out when to pop the question.

I got them a great deal on the diamond and the engagement ring was made of platinum so now they want their wedding bands to also be platinum. I can continue to design their rings and get them made for them but just for some ideas I suggested that my friends take a look at the platinum rings for men at Joy Jewelers for some design ideas. It sounds like they like the rings on the site so we’ll see what happens. Hey … maybe I just lost myself a sale. LOL

I’m actually glad that people don’t ask me to help them with jewelery as often as they used to. For a few years after I got out of the jewelery trade it seemed like I might as well be back in the business with all the requests I was getting.

The sound of music

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My husbands been practicing a particular song on his guitar almost daily in the last few weeks. He’s even bee bringing his guitar to work with him to play on his breaks and to practice with a few other people.

Why you ask? Well … Next Monday he’s playing at a special retirement dinner for the chief of surgery at our hospital. The doctor herself is going to be playing an instrument and singing and there are a few other people playing instruments and singing as well. I guess they’ve formed a “medical” band.

Chris always talks about going and playing in bars or at free Mike nights but he never seems to do that, however, he does end up playing at hospital related events every couple of months. It could be a talent show or the annual Christmas party or some special event – everyone seems to know and like Chris’ music so they ask him to play.

Since he’s been practicing so much at home I was thinking of getting him some nice headphones so that he can listen to the music as he plays even better. Headphones that will tune out outside noise. So I went searching and I found some Sennheiser studio headphones for sale so I might get him a pair of those. I’m sure he’ll like that.

I wonder what the next music project will be once this one is done?

Looks like the weather is getting better

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The weather is getting nicer. Finally! April was cool here in Toronto. That probably wouldn’t have been that bad, but when April turns out to be cooler than March and has snow when March didn’t .. well .. I’m happy that May has arrived. So are my plants! My garden is looking lovely.

The other day is was nice enough out that I spent some time working in my front yard. I was weeding the garden beds and fixing up the look of the front boulevard. I have a planted boulevard, but crab grass was starting to grow in the flower beds there so I spent a lot of time pulling it out. Hopefully it doesn’t grow back.

Everyone was enjoying the nice day when I was working in the garden. Lots of neighbors were outside either working on their own yards – cutting the grass etc, or out walking around. I said hello to a lot of people as I worked on my garden. One of the people that passed me was wearing one of those funny t shirts that made me laugh out loud .. but I can’t repeat what it said on here .. it was bad! I just about fell over into a bush when I saw it!

My front yard looks great. Now all I have to do is work on the back yard! The back yard isn’t that big, but compared to my front yard it’s a lot bigger – it will take longer to tidy up. Perhaps this weekend if the weather is nice. How is your yard and garden?

My hair grows too fast

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I can’t believe how fast my hair grows. I generally keep my hair fairly short because short hair seems to suit me best but I wish my hair didn’t grow as fast as it does. I seem to have to get my hair cut every four weeks or so …

My hair has grown so much since my last cut that I feel like I’ll be able to put my hair in a ponytail in another month or so if I don’t go and get it cut. Really … it grows that fast.

One good thing is that my hair is very healthy. I’ve always had compliments on how healthy my hair looks. I recently tried a sample of one of the products from Cleopatras Choice hair care and I really like it. I might continue using it on my hair … provided that it doesn’t make my hair grow any faster than it already does!

Do you find that your hair grows very fast too?

Lots of things going on today

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I’m having an interesting day … one that I think I’m more than ready to be done with.

My husband finally had a couple of days off in a row so we’re busy doing some much needed renovations on the house. Yes we’re actually doing the renovations – not just talking about getting it done sometime, someday. It’s started. The living room dining room reno will finally be finished – soon. LOL

My poor dog is totally baffled by what’s going on. She’s wondering what all this banging is and why everything smells like spruce wood and saw dust all of a sudden. Not that she minds the smell.

One thing threw me for a bit of a loop today. I finally got the call I’ve been waiting for from the Human Resources department at my workplace. I’ve been waiting to hear from them ever since I had my first appointment with them two weeks ago regarding going back to work. You know, that appointment that ended up with me being interviewed by five people for over an hour! Yikes!

Well, now they want to see me for at least half an hour. I’m not sure what it’s about this time. It could be yet another interview type meeting or maybe they’ve found a place in the hospital for me. I don’t know. All I do know is that it’s nerve wracking each time. I just want to get back to work – get my life back on track again. I’m starting to feel like a yoyo – back and forth, back and forth I go … Hmm but I bet I don’t compare to the best yo yo at yoyoplay. Uh huh.

A while back I thought it would only be a couple of weeks and I’d have my old job back. That was in January or February … here I am after convincing my doctors that I’m healthy enough to go back to work, and convincing the occupational health department at my workplace that I’m healthy enough to return and getting cleared to return to work and I’m still waiting. Hopefully it won’t be much longer.





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