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Pinga said:
Seeler, that is cruel. If i pick the wrong person, then I have said they are prettier than you.
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Ok! This is a picture of my two sisters, my brother and I. It was probably taken in the spring of 1948 (although it could have been the fall of 1947). Our ages were ten, eight, six and a half, and four. Actually in this picture both my older sister and my brother are both nice looking kids. And my younger sister was cute (and had the personality to match). I am the middle kid. As I hinted in another thread - I hated my blond ringlets that my mother so patiently and lovingly wound round her finger each morning while I squirmed or complained about tangles. I also hated that blue velvet jumper that my mother said brought out the blue in my eyes.
Yes, I'm the one on the left on the bottom step.
 
Pinga, you must be getting excited about your upcoming trip . . . thinking of all of the wondercafers who will be meeting up and having a wondervisit.

Tabitha, disenheartening situation for all those involved in the strike . . . but especially for the students who are most affected by it. Hope everything works out okay for those grads. High School graduation is a special and important occasion for those young people, and there can be enough stresses for them as it is.

I awoke early this morning . . . just before 5 . . . I had just enough sleep to not be able to get back to sleep, but not enough to last me through the day . . . at some point a nap is going to be necessary. The birds and ducks were doing their early morning conversations with one another. It got very cool here last night and the fog is hovering over the water. It is sunny and calm and clear. It is supposed to be a nice day (low 20's). Have to do a few errands in town this morning and then back to putter in flower garden. Tulips, hiacinths, daffodils, lily of the valley are done flowering. I think all the perennials are up now, and will be a bit before some of them bloom. Hoed and hilled potatoes yesterday.

Middle of the week . . . stroked a few things off my "to-do" list, and thinking about the things I'd still like to accomplish this week. My husband reminds me we are "retired" and we have lots of time. Seems like time is going too quickly. I'm thinking back to "working" days when we were younger . . . you had to pick and choose priorities cause you knew you weren't going to get everything done you wanted to in a few hours in the evening or on weekends. Now, we have everyday - all day - but it takes us twice as long to do a job as it did when we were younger LOL!

How is your week shaping up?

Have a great morning, all!
 
Seeler said:
Ok! This is a picture of my two sisters, my brother and I. It was probably taken in the spring of 1948 (although it could have been the fall of 1947). Our ages were ten, eight, six and a half, and four. Actually in this picture both my older sister and my brother are both nice looking kids. And my younger sister was cute (and had the personality to match). I am the middle kid. As I hinted in another thread - I hated my blond ringlets that my mother so patiently and lovingly wound round her finger each morning while I squirmed or complained about tangles. I also hated that blue velvet jumper that my mother said brought out the blue in my eyes.
Yes, I'm the one on the left on the bottom step.
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That's the one I thought, seeler . . . although I didn't really have a clue . . . a lot of personality shows in that one picture.
 
I was talking to a young man yesterday at work. He has done well for himself and is a leader in the org. His mother worked as a computer operator back in the day with me, she is just a bit older than I am. He shared how his mom & dad had sold their home, bought a cottage, and rent a small apartment near his home, and then a condo in florida in the winter. you could hear how much he loved her in his voice, and how much they enjoyed their role of grandparents. Your post about retirement reminded me of that Beloved.

A tornado went through north of toronto, just a small one, but, confirmed the weather was rough last night.

Today is my last day of work, so, I am excited about vacation, but dreading the vacation prep. There was a hilarious image on linked in, I'm right at the "try to finish" though for me it is to ensure that my intern has fulfilling work to do, that the few items that I do that are in "run" mode have someone to care for them. The outage two days before I leave just increases that stress.


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Pinga, I keep forgetting when your trip is, then the social threads remind me. It sounds like a lot of fun, I wish I was closer! Less tornados there too :) I hope you and Tabitha have a great canoe trip, with nice weather, it sounds like you both need the break!

Beloved, enjoy your nap!

I'm feeling better today. I might do some gardening, but it's been drizzling so we'll see. I found out my GP is moving in a few months, so time to find a new doctor. I think I'm going to stay at the same clinic, I moved once already to follow my current GP. I had a really good meet and great today, but I'm a bit disappointed, he only works at this clinic 2 days/week. I could drive to the other one though. The receptionist told me he was only worked certain days, but said when he got more patients (and he is one of the doctors taking on my GPs patients) that he would be working more often. Not true. He is going to work on the referral for me though, so that's one less appointment I need. It's also good to know another doctor, as my clinic allows you to make appointments with other doctors as long as they aren't too booked up, you don't just have to go with a walk-in doctor if you can't see your own GP soon enough.
 
3 days of work and I'm feeling the crunch of time. I'll get my work done fine
But Monday 3 house guests are arriving-tonight is a church leadership team meeting, Saturday is dragon boat sprints that I'm competing in, Sunday is a paddle with my OTHER canoe trip team
My to do lists are long-move bed to bedroom, clear off basement couch,
take 2 seats out of canoes, add painters and 1 kneeling pad, Pack my clothes, Pack food-get lunch supplies,
and so I'll do what I need to for myself first-get my clothes packed-then get house a bit more presentable
Pinga and friends can help with food stuff when they get here Mon-and we leave early Wed morning

and the usual fears-will it all fit? Will we have enough but not too much? and what will the weather be like?
I expect to be slightly stressed until we actually check in Thurs. am and begin our first portage....
 
Pinga, Tabitha, and others - it's interesting to hear about your work - and your plans for your vacations. It's strange, but that was one thing I found difficult about retirement (and I was forced into early retirement) was that I no longer looked forward to long weekends, statutory holidays, or vacation time. Not that I didn't keep busy - sometimes with family, bowling, church, dancing, volunteer activities I wonder how I ever found time to work - but not having a fixed schedule I no longer looked forward to the breaks in the schedule. When I wanted to be away for a week, a short while ago, I simply told people I was going. No sitting down with HR to look at the vacation schedule, or figuring out how many days I had off after having taken a few extra days when my bil died, and having put in a lot of overtime during the last two weeks of tax season.

So for those in the working world - enjoy your upcoming vacations. I wish I was 15 or 20 years younger and joining you on your canoe trip. That's the type of thing I always dreamed of doing.

Today was raining all day. I stayed in. Made a carrot cake. Put a roast in the oven. And tonight I have a church Council meeting. I'd better get going.
 
ah Seeler we'll be taking Charlotte-the boat you and seeler man paddled!
Feeling more relaxed after another day of work-most of the essentails done there now-a couple of things done at home and a church meeting. Now off to bed.
 
I'll be with you in spirit Tabitha.

Today is another wet, cold rainy day. But I have book club this afternoon to look forward to. One member of our group has had a short piece about the problems she and her partner encountered in arranging for their wedding accepted for publication by Breakwater press. She's quite excited about it. As we are. I was to her wedding a few years ago. It was beautiful, and done on a shoe-string with friends decorating the church hall and people bringing potluck for the reception.

Another member of our club has self-published a little booklet of stories of growing up in this city. She's my age. I grew up in a small settlement fifty miles away but came to 'town' on the train to shop or visit cousins. I can relate to many of the places and incidents she writes about.

And me - I'm kind of in a holding pattern, having finished two novels in the last few years. I'm considering self-publishing my one about the Northwest Passage. Today I may revise and read my little piece about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with regards to torture. Or it may be a listening day for me.
 
Good morning! It's beautiful here today. I had a good appointment really early this morning, and it went much better, I posted about it in health & aging. I took transit home, and had a nice walk back. Some chickadees were out in the park on my street. They allowed me to get pretty close too.

I mentioned something about my wisdom teeth before. Due to a few health conditions, it's risky to get them out, but at least one really needs to go already, and another two are causing some problems as well. I had a consultation booked, but it was a ways off. I asked about it, and got a referral for a different place, and have that appointment today. I'm a little stressed about that, as I even need to plan medications for just a teeth cleaning. At least I get to have a consultation first, many people just make an appointment to get them out and that's it.

I really like my dentist, which has never happened to me before. I can trust her. I had ok dentists before, but they all pushed to get all my wisdom teeth out when specialists were saying it was a bad idea after looking at my CT scans and other info. This one is recommending only 3. Much has also changed since I was told not to get them out. I've had a more recent CT scan, and while my specialists are concerned about the risks, the positioning of the teeth makes them agree that there are good reasons for them to go. Hopefully I can trust the surgeon I will be seeing today.
 
Well, my gear for camping is all packed in cute little net bags, sorted and checked off, and my gear for Vancouver is all in my carry-on bag.
I have charged my phone, camera and my tablet.
I have printed my boarding pass, and registered at the hotel.
I have reviewed my lists, sent them for last minute verification, and added to them.
Drive is arranged for the airport as my son will borrow mine while his is being painted.


(I have left my work cell phone and laptop locked away at work!)
I am expecting craziness at work when I get back, in part because, my email transitioned to a brand new system last night, and so there will be no out of office and no mail rules. I receive approx 3000 emails / day, more if the system is advising it has an issue. Lol, with no mail rules, those emails are going to add up and all be in one location, so , hmmm...I am guessing close to 50k of emails the first day back. haha.
I gave wisdom when I could, have been transitioning or requesting to transition most operational tasks for months, and put the rest out there last week. Shucks, retirement is looking good in 17months, so, transition planning is made easier by these longer leaves.

I am feeling more prepared, and less prepared than I have ever been for a trip.

Looking forward to seeing the BC folks and the wonderpicnic
 
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