Hi again,
I just want to take a moment and think about and thank the Canadian soldiers who fight for Canada. Yesterday we lost 4 more soldiers and a reporter and it is so sad but I am so grateful for the bravery of these men and women who risk their lives for this great country of ours. Whether we are for or against this war, I think we can all be proud of the brave soldiers. I don't always know where I stand on my opinion of whether Canada should be there but I do know without a shred of doubt that I support the soldiers who are fighting and I am proud of the soldiers who are so brave to do a job like this. We are free in Canada because of the soldiers past and present that have fought and are fighting for us. I also send my sincere condolences to the families of soldiers who have passed away. Losing a loved one is very difficult. As we look ahead to 2010, let's remember those who have risked their lives to give us the opportunity to continue to enjoy the freedom and security in Canada.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
It's that time again!
Hello again,
It's that time of year again! The time of year where I reflect on the year that was and wonder about the year that will be. I would like to mention that I do not make New Year's resolutions because I have always been against that because they are often difficult to accomplish and we should never just make these once a year and I prefer to make "resolutions", or goals as I call them, once a month.
2009 has been an interesting year for me as every year seems to be. lol Even though I am still recovering from back surgery, it hasn't kept me from living my life as full as I am able and that is also why I feel I have so few regrets each year at this time. It isn't to say I don't have periods where I wish that I could be able to do more which do happen and I remind myself that it could always be worse and I remember all the things I still can do and all the improvement I have made. I had alot of technical firsts this year and I am very proud of myself for that. Firsts such as being able to drive again for the first time since before my first surgery in 2007 or being able to go into grocery stores again which seems so familiar almost and normal again! I still have my limitations and I still need help from my family for some daily needs and I still can't be up for more than about 1.5hrs at a time but they are small compared to the challenges I have overcome. If I can bring up 2008 for a moment, I was simply happy that I had managed to be able to get changed without the help of my mother and be able to sit up for more than 10 minutes!!! Also 2008 I still needed more surgery and it was a rough year. This year has been filled with improvement versus just trying to keep going and pushing myself and trying to stay positive despite little improvement. Though I have dealt with more frustration this year due to being so close to having my life back but it being just out of my grasp! As far as other events, I had a major battle with the government over financial assistance and lost and at one point had a total of $4 in my account! That was a pretty tough month and caused a great deal of stress and uncertainty over how I would get by. We did major renovations on the house (well my dad did) and I got a new room that does not leak! It isn't rotting either!!! YAY! I spent between 5-6months with my sister doing glorified camping I guess while the new part was being constructed. It was interesting and nice to be technically on our own without parents sort of. I also became a proud new Auntie! My older sister and brother in law had a wonderful and adorable baby boy! I also got in over my head with starting almost 400 plants in the greenhouse! oops. but it turned out okay with the help of my family and our yard looked beautiful! Even after the huge hail storm in August! We had a major wind storm also where we lost huge branches and our neighbors lost half the roof of their barn and we have never seen wind so strong or so fierce. This is just a snapshot of all the things that have happened this year! I probably should stop before I bore people any further. :) I suppose reading this is like looking through a mountain of someone else's photos.
Now for the look ahead to 2010. The first thought that comes to mind is how my family and I always said we would have this or that done in or by 2010! Something would come up that we could not accomplish at that time and we would say "we will do it in 2010!" At that time, 2010 seemed so incredibly far away like it would never come. lol But now it is here and I don't know if it is humanly possible to complete everything we said we would do in 2010. Though we have accomplished some of those things which we said we would put off till this coming year. As far as my life goes though, I hope to see me working again this year and having the life back that I have missed so much these past 6yrs. I miss having the ability to go to work and have a job and an income and the independance that comes with it. I just want to be able to work again! I did feel that I would start working this last fall though so I can not say for sure whether this will indeed happen but I am pretty sure that it will.... hopefully. I really have no idea what this year will bring and it is so full of unknowns which makes it so exciting for me! I know I don't make resolutions but I do look at each new year and each day even as a clean slate where anything is possible! Some fear the future because it is unknown but I love it because anything can still happen where the past is known and lived already. Not to say I don't enjoy each day though because I am too excited about the future-I try to live each day the best I can so I can look back without regrets because I just sat around waiting for things to improve. Life isn't something that comes I suppose but it is what you do each day and every moment counts because you will never get that moment back to live over again.
Sorry I have rambled on quite a bit now so I shall leave it at this and hopefully even one person has enjoyed sharing this time of reflection and wondering with me. Happy New Year!!!
It's that time of year again! The time of year where I reflect on the year that was and wonder about the year that will be. I would like to mention that I do not make New Year's resolutions because I have always been against that because they are often difficult to accomplish and we should never just make these once a year and I prefer to make "resolutions", or goals as I call them, once a month.
2009 has been an interesting year for me as every year seems to be. lol Even though I am still recovering from back surgery, it hasn't kept me from living my life as full as I am able and that is also why I feel I have so few regrets each year at this time. It isn't to say I don't have periods where I wish that I could be able to do more which do happen and I remind myself that it could always be worse and I remember all the things I still can do and all the improvement I have made. I had alot of technical firsts this year and I am very proud of myself for that. Firsts such as being able to drive again for the first time since before my first surgery in 2007 or being able to go into grocery stores again which seems so familiar almost and normal again! I still have my limitations and I still need help from my family for some daily needs and I still can't be up for more than about 1.5hrs at a time but they are small compared to the challenges I have overcome. If I can bring up 2008 for a moment, I was simply happy that I had managed to be able to get changed without the help of my mother and be able to sit up for more than 10 minutes!!! Also 2008 I still needed more surgery and it was a rough year. This year has been filled with improvement versus just trying to keep going and pushing myself and trying to stay positive despite little improvement. Though I have dealt with more frustration this year due to being so close to having my life back but it being just out of my grasp! As far as other events, I had a major battle with the government over financial assistance and lost and at one point had a total of $4 in my account! That was a pretty tough month and caused a great deal of stress and uncertainty over how I would get by. We did major renovations on the house (well my dad did) and I got a new room that does not leak! It isn't rotting either!!! YAY! I spent between 5-6months with my sister doing glorified camping I guess while the new part was being constructed. It was interesting and nice to be technically on our own without parents sort of. I also became a proud new Auntie! My older sister and brother in law had a wonderful and adorable baby boy! I also got in over my head with starting almost 400 plants in the greenhouse! oops. but it turned out okay with the help of my family and our yard looked beautiful! Even after the huge hail storm in August! We had a major wind storm also where we lost huge branches and our neighbors lost half the roof of their barn and we have never seen wind so strong or so fierce. This is just a snapshot of all the things that have happened this year! I probably should stop before I bore people any further. :) I suppose reading this is like looking through a mountain of someone else's photos.
Now for the look ahead to 2010. The first thought that comes to mind is how my family and I always said we would have this or that done in or by 2010! Something would come up that we could not accomplish at that time and we would say "we will do it in 2010!" At that time, 2010 seemed so incredibly far away like it would never come. lol But now it is here and I don't know if it is humanly possible to complete everything we said we would do in 2010. Though we have accomplished some of those things which we said we would put off till this coming year. As far as my life goes though, I hope to see me working again this year and having the life back that I have missed so much these past 6yrs. I miss having the ability to go to work and have a job and an income and the independance that comes with it. I just want to be able to work again! I did feel that I would start working this last fall though so I can not say for sure whether this will indeed happen but I am pretty sure that it will.... hopefully. I really have no idea what this year will bring and it is so full of unknowns which makes it so exciting for me! I know I don't make resolutions but I do look at each new year and each day even as a clean slate where anything is possible! Some fear the future because it is unknown but I love it because anything can still happen where the past is known and lived already. Not to say I don't enjoy each day though because I am too excited about the future-I try to live each day the best I can so I can look back without regrets because I just sat around waiting for things to improve. Life isn't something that comes I suppose but it is what you do each day and every moment counts because you will never get that moment back to live over again.
Sorry I have rambled on quite a bit now so I shall leave it at this and hopefully even one person has enjoyed sharing this time of reflection and wondering with me. Happy New Year!!!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
A very mixed day
Hello again
Well I would love to say I had a great shopping trip today getting great deals and leave it at that but I had a bad experience today that I must also share.
First the great news! I got 2 bags of Pro plan cat food for 1.39 each which are regular priced at 12.99. YAY! I also got Folgers gourmet coffee for just over a dollar which normally retails for about 7.00. Double yay! I also got Hagaan Daz ice cream for 4.00 and it normally costs about 7.00. These are the most notable deals among many.
Now for the bad side. I went to Walmart needing underwear and shopping for underwear can be frustrating and no worries-I will not get into the details of this excursion. lol But I will say that in order to know what underwear to buy, I do need to see it. This may be a touchy topic for some but when I find underwear that I am seriously considering, I need to open it to make sure that the underwear is what I need. I do not rip the package and I only take out the top one to make sure that I am buying the correct package. Then I neatly fold it up and put it back. I also look for the package that is already opened previously by someone else. Well today the employee at the fitting rooms decided that I was creating a major crime and I was "manhandling the underwear" and that it is not allowed and a whole spiel about germs and what not. I understand that and that is the reason why we wash it first before wearing it. She hung around me every chance she had and would not leave and while I had to discuss something private with my sister, she listened in said stuff and i was ready to smack her. She also took any packages we touched and took them to the counter-maybe to disinfect them? lol I guess we contaminated anything we touched. lol I feel that the underwear come in resealable bags so that you can make sure you are buying the correct underwear because you can not return underwear. I also feel that as long as people don't ruin the packaging of the underwear they do not take that it is not such a bad thing. I also feel that maybe this whole problem could be avoided if maybe there was a way to see the underwear without having to open a package. This of course is my opinion and it may differ from others but I feel the need to share it. The way the lady treated us at Walmart had me annoyed and I wanted to rip open a bunch of packages and throw them on the floor and leave. But that would not solve anything. I wish this experience had not happened and had not affected how wonderful my great shopping trip was. But that is life I suppose-the bad comes with the good right?
Well I would love to say I had a great shopping trip today getting great deals and leave it at that but I had a bad experience today that I must also share.
First the great news! I got 2 bags of Pro plan cat food for 1.39 each which are regular priced at 12.99. YAY! I also got Folgers gourmet coffee for just over a dollar which normally retails for about 7.00. Double yay! I also got Hagaan Daz ice cream for 4.00 and it normally costs about 7.00. These are the most notable deals among many.
Now for the bad side. I went to Walmart needing underwear and shopping for underwear can be frustrating and no worries-I will not get into the details of this excursion. lol But I will say that in order to know what underwear to buy, I do need to see it. This may be a touchy topic for some but when I find underwear that I am seriously considering, I need to open it to make sure that the underwear is what I need. I do not rip the package and I only take out the top one to make sure that I am buying the correct package. Then I neatly fold it up and put it back. I also look for the package that is already opened previously by someone else. Well today the employee at the fitting rooms decided that I was creating a major crime and I was "manhandling the underwear" and that it is not allowed and a whole spiel about germs and what not. I understand that and that is the reason why we wash it first before wearing it. She hung around me every chance she had and would not leave and while I had to discuss something private with my sister, she listened in said stuff and i was ready to smack her. She also took any packages we touched and took them to the counter-maybe to disinfect them? lol I guess we contaminated anything we touched. lol I feel that the underwear come in resealable bags so that you can make sure you are buying the correct underwear because you can not return underwear. I also feel that as long as people don't ruin the packaging of the underwear they do not take that it is not such a bad thing. I also feel that maybe this whole problem could be avoided if maybe there was a way to see the underwear without having to open a package. This of course is my opinion and it may differ from others but I feel the need to share it. The way the lady treated us at Walmart had me annoyed and I wanted to rip open a bunch of packages and throw them on the floor and leave. But that would not solve anything. I wish this experience had not happened and had not affected how wonderful my great shopping trip was. But that is life I suppose-the bad comes with the good right?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Score!!! Gotta Love coupons!!
I am part of a site called Smartcanucks.ca and it is about saving money and coupons and freebies. I love it! It helps me to save so much money! The latest deal? I had coupons for Friskies cat treats and they normally cost 1.69 and I got them for 0.20 cents each!! Wow huh? I went to London Drugs where you are allowed to stack coupons with different bar codes and was able to combine a few that I had to get 4 bags for 0.20 each. This stacking is pretty new to me and I would not have learned about this if it wasn't for Smartcanucks and the great people on that site. Please check it out! the web address is www.smartcanucks.ca
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