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I’ve just posted a bunch of pics of our front garden and my (slow) progress in civilising it to my photo blog… Civilising my garden. And in other news, we had cranes in our front yard this mornin...

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It’s John’s birthday today… he has Friday and Monday off work, and he’s taking the same days off next month for my birthday… unfortunately, my body decided that it didn’t want us to do anything f...

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I’ve been getting a bad case of cabin fever because I can’t really go anywhere unless John takes me, and I hardly ever get to spend any time outside (we went to the movies last weekend and saw In...

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I haven’t felt like writing in a seperate diary lately… sorry about that mama. Hope everyone has a happy Easter… we went to the 9am church service and were surprised to find it outside - good thi...

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Whew it’s been a busy weekend… we drove up to Orlando Friday night after John finished work and we didn’t end up leaving till 6pm so we got there at 8.30 and had a super late dinner of takeout ch...

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Looks innocent, doesn’t it… but it’s a furry bushy-tailed seed thief! The wildlife has found the bird feeder… I moved it from the empty back yard to the tree at the front and it only took a week...

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No more to say. Except that steering a scooter is difficult when your head is so clogged up that you’re dizzy and light-headed… went to the grocery store yesterday for a few essentials and just a...

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We went to Orlando for the weekend… we’d planned to come home on Monday because John didn’t have any calls booked, but he got a server call, so I said we should come home today (Sunday) instead. ...

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We had to take Tessica to the vet yesterday - she was circling the litterbox and not really peing so I thought she might be getting another UTI. So we put her in a carrier and took her over… the ...

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Chocolate coconut cheesecake brownies with caramel sauce… mmmmm! Brownies - 1 stick butter and 4oz baking chocolate melted in the microwave. Add 1/2 cup dessicated (unsweetened) coconut and 1/2 c...

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This morning we went to breakfast for Valentine’s Day… then we went to Michaels so I could get a silver paint pen for my poster. They didn’t have any that I could find, so we went to Hobby Lobby…...

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What we planned for today - go to work with John, sit in the car and read on my kindle while he did two SHORT calls, then go to Target to pick up a storage rack, then go to the gym for my exercis...

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I wish I was the kind of person people actually wanted to spend time with… I’m lonely and I have absolutely NO IDEA how to make friends… church was supposed to do it, but that church is very ‘sti...

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Oh my poor abdominal muscles… I tried a couple of the exercise machines yesterday and they didn’t seem difficult at the time, but my stomach muscles are complaining every time I cough today. Gues...

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The handyman is trying to fix our broken shower todady, so Scouty and Silver are hiding in the darkest corners they could find, and Tessie and Zho-Zho are wandering around looking consternated… t...

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My new knee brace arrived in the mail yesterday… the box and plastic mailing bag were SHREDDED! The brace was okay… but unfortunately when I tried it on it’s a piece of junk. It’s supposed to hav...

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Okay… I think I need to figure out what I’m upset about. I feel like biting people’s heads off and I have no clue why. It’s not PMS unless the ‘P’ stands for POST… nothing particularly bad is goi...

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Crap it’s cold this week… yeah, I know it’s Florida and we’ve got nothing to complain about - but it was cold enough yesterday that John wore his jacket over his work clothes - ALL DAY LONG! He u...

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Tired, cranky, and hormonal today… and almost everything that either of us has tried to do (aside from going to church) HASN’T WORKED! And I can’t go to the gym because John’s too tired to take m...

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Day 3 at the gym today… I was excited to go. I LIKE being able to push myself… and to be honest, I don’t care what anyone else might think about how feeble my attempts are compared to theirs. I’m...

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Went to work with John today… he had to go up north again and he specifically asked me to come because it’s nearly two hours each way. He said he likes my company on long drives. :) I said I’d go...

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I haven’t been feeling very well over the New Year period, so we never got around to doing some of the things we planned, and John suprised me last night with a mini-date night.... we ordered a p...

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How I plan to spend my New Year’s Eve - sleeping! It’s cold, wet and rainy in Florida and I feel like complete crud today… it’s good that we’ve never been the type to want to ring in the new year...

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Nothing much is likely to come of it, but John had an expression of interest for a job with a bank that he used to do work for - in CANADA! He said that if they could put him in British Colombia ...

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I took a few pics now I’ve nearly got things the way I want them… here’s one, more on my blog. plus details… I’m happy with how it’s turning out, but it’s probably going to take me another year ...

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