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A quick shopping trip

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When my husband got home from work tonight we hopped in the car and drove off to the closed Costco. We had to get there before the store closed at 8:30 pm and my husband hadn’t returned home from work until about 7:45 pm!

Needless to say once we got to the store our shopping trip was rushed. I only had to pick up one thing, but well, you know how shopping trips go – I think we ended up buying about 5 items! The most expensive thing was a therapy light that I need to use for Seasonal Affective Disorder .. my doctor seems to think I might be suffering from S.A.D. . I don’t think so but it’s worth trying for a couple of weeks – I did make sure that I could return the light!

While we were in line to pay for our items my husband noticed that the man in front of us was wearing radii shoes. Now he wants a pair. I have to admit that they’re kind of cool looking sneakers. Hmmm … maybe for Christmas.

Oh .. once we got home it started snowing heavily so we just made it home in time! I’m glad we didn’t have to drive in that storm!






Thinking of Christmas gifts for the kids

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I don’t think we’ll be buying too many Christmas gifts for our friends and relatives this year due to our poor financial situation, however I’m trying to get a few ideas together for the gifts that we’re buying for the kids.

I think I have the gifts for our nieces figured out, and I have a few creative ideas for the nephews. One of my nephews is really into baseball. He plays on a school team and then in the summer in plays in a community little league. So .. I thought about maybe getting him one of those personalized baseball bats. I think he’d love it. Gifts for the rest of the boys are pretty easy … video games, video games and more video games. They love them!

Guests for the holidays

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I was talking to my mother in law earlier this evening and it looks like we’ll probably have guests at Christmas time this year.

My brother in law might be coming for a visit from Chicago. We don’t know for sure yet, but my mother in law said he’s going to try to come to the Toronto area if he can .. if only for a few days.

I guess we’re going to have to visit a few cigar retailers to try to find his favorite cigars. He loves nothing more than having a cigar when he comes for a visit to Toronto … only this year he’s not going to have my husband to smoke with since we both quit smoking this year! I’m sure he’ll be disappointed but he’ll get over it.

Are you having out of town guests during the holidays? Do you do anything special when you’re expecting guests?

I’ll be treating myself to a shopping spree soon

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I think I’m going to have to treat myself to either a shopping spree in the mall or an online shopping spree soon.

Why? Well … I’ve been losing weight over the last month thanks to a medication that I’ve been taking for my migraines AND I also just quit smoking on Tuesday (so far so good).

So … not only do I need new clothes because I’m starting to swim in what I have, but I now have a little bit of extra money to spend on new clothes. Perfect! Oh and I found some dereon jeans online that I think will look great on me too … hmmm maybe I should just order them now?

Actually I may hold off my shopping for a couple of weeks (even though I do need clothes). I’m still losing weight so there’s no point in buying new clothes that might end up being too big in a month or two. I really don’t need to lose much more weight … I hope it slows down soon!

Time to upgrade the desktop computer

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I think my desktop computer might have a problem with it’s video card.

It has the same kind of symptoms that one of my old computers had a long time ago when it’s video card started to go.

My husband and I were actually thinking of doing an upgrade on our desktop computer anyway. It’s about 5 years old and it could certainly use more memory and if it needs a new video card … well I know there’s some really cool video cards that should work with my computer.

I use my laptop computer for my day to day computer work, but when I need to do graphic design I do that on my desktop as that’s the main reason I bought that computer. A good video card is important for graphics work (as well as gaming etc).

Have you ever done your own upgraded on your own computer? We haven’t done upgrades for quite a while, but when we used to do upgrades all the time (in the early 90’s).

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