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I am a klutz

by The Shopping Maniac

Did I tell you I’m a klutz? It seems that every few months I managed to injure myself. The last injury I had wasn’t totally my fault though, I’ll tell you about it …

You see we’ve been renovating our house and around the beginning of June, my husband had an extension ladder and he left it inside the house in the living room in the hallway and somehow late at night when I was walking from the kitchen, I managed to trip and fall on the ladder. This resulted in a lot of noise – a very loud clatter, a lot of bruising to one of my legs and a lot of swelling to my left hand and then an hour later a trip to the emergency room.

So to keep a long story short, I seem to have damaged ligaments in my left hand which of course is my dominant hand and I’ve been in a splint for a little over a month. Were still not 100% sure exactly what’s going on with my hand. This Tuesday, I have a bone scan because one of the bones in my upper hand, apparently, is swollen, at least that’s what the MRI showed. so depending what the bone scan shows could have a slight break in that bone. Who knows? Either way it’s good to be at least a couple more weeks before my hand is back to normal.

So as I said at the beginning I am a klutz. If I keep injuring myself every so often I’m going to need one of those roll about rentals. you know, that’s like a walker. Hopefully my klutziness stops soon. In the meantime, maybe I’ll just wrap myself in bubble wrap.

Hoping to hear good news

by The Shopping Maniac

I can’t wait to hear from my nephew to find out how he did this weekend. My nephew and my brother-in-law drove to Brockville, because my nephew was invited to join a Brockville OHL hockey team and if he does join the team and he has a good chance of getting in the NHL. Pretty cool!

My nephew seemed really calm and cool and collected before he left, but I’m sure he had some nerves, even if he wasn’t showing it. I know that he took his lucky susan b anthony dollar with him. I certainly hope that gave him some luck.

They’re apparently back in Toronto now, but they’re staying at friends tonight, I don’t know if they are going to call tonight or if I’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning when they come here for a visit to hear the news. Hopefully it’s good news!

Trying to have a relaxing weekend

by The Shopping Maniac

I was planning on just relaxing this weekend because this past week was extremely busy. We’ve been renovating our living room dining room all this past week, plus I had a few big appointments that made the week stressful. So … I’m due for a relaxing weekend.

So far my weekend hasn’t been all that tranquil. I tried going shopping earlier today and one of the stores that I needed to go to was also having renovations done. They were getting new shelving put in so they were closed … pharmacy shelving from mfried.com it looked like. I guess I’ll have to go and pick up my prescriptions next week instead. I wish I’d known they were closed before I drove all the way out there.

Sunday is definitely going to be a relaxing day. How is your weekend going?

Finishing our renovations

by The Shopping Maniac

We’ve been in renovation mode for a couple of months here at our house. It’s a been quite a while since my husband and I were renovating our home non stop like this. Back when we first bought our house in 2001 we did a lot of renovation – everything from knocking down walls to refinishing floors to painting and doing all kinds of repairs.

Then after about two years of constant renovations I got sick and we just stopped. We weren’t done renovating, not by a long shot, but we stopped … for about three years, then we started again for a few months and then stopped again until just a few months ago.

Now we’re just trying to finish up all the renovations that we started in the past. Finally get the house looking good. We have most of the supplies that we need. I think we just need a little more paint and maybe we might need to buy welding supplies for when we do the upstairs bathroom but otherwise we have everything we need stored in our basement.

I can’t wait until our renovations are done. I’ve literally been waiting 11 years to see how everything is going to turn out.

More than a year and a half since I quit smoking

by The Shopping Maniac

My husband and I both quite smoking about two and a half years ago, but sometime in the last 6 months my husband secretly started smoking again.

Well I say six months but I don’t know exactly when Chris started smoking again because as I said he did it secretly but I know he’s been doing it since at least last December – probably longer. Now I’m really sensitive to all smells, and especially the smell of cigarettes so I can really tell when he’s had a smoke … so I’m just waiting for him to come home after having one of his favorite cohiba cigars or something .. that will fun.

I’m just happy that I haven’t even been tempted to start again. I’m certain I’m quite for good. I can’t wait to make the two year mark!

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