Dinner with a close friend......

Friday night I had a very nice dinner with a close friend from my old office. We went to Tropika, a Malaysian restaurant. We had time to talk a lot and made other plans to do things later.

We had Pineapple fried rice, Tropika chicken and mixed vegetables with coconut milk. They were all good and we started with a cocktail, Chee chee, I believe it's the drink/cocktails of the 80's. It was good and refreshing. As usual, it was too late before we remember to take pictures. She did take a picture and she will email it to me.

It is my birthday today, so she treated me to that dinner and gave me a very nice birthday card with a ticket so hopefully I will check if I had won anything.

I had to tell her that I had dropped or cut my friendship with another lady who I think is a bit toxic and I would rather have one less friend who I don't trust now.

I really enjoyed our time together and hopefully we will do it again.

Thanks a lot CG. It was a fun night.

2 years of blogging.....

I did not realized until the other day that I have been blogging for 2 years now. I started my blog October 1, 2010.

It took me a while to figure out how to do it and I remember one time, my blog looked like it only had empty space. My brother-in-law was able to figure it out and I am now very careful about editing or other stuff to do with my design.

Thinking of what to say/write was the most difficult part of blogging. One time I tried to see if I could blog everyday like my sister and I believe it only lasted 10 days for me. There are times I could only blog once a week so I just do it when I feel like it or when I have something I think would be interesting.

I also forget to take pictures even though I remind myself that I have to take pictures.....just like last Thanksgiving while waiting for people to arrive, I told myself I should take a picture of the turkey because it turned out really well and the colour of the skin was golden brown. But of course it was too late by the time I remembered it.....I had already carved the turkey.

My friends let me know how I am doing with blogging and I appreciate their comments and suggestions. Well, I guess I would be blogging for a while yet.

Thanks to all my readers and for their comments whether it is in this blog or by emailing me privately.

Projects.....

I have just started on my next project, cleaning and wiping my souvenir teaspoons collection so I can display them. And the problem is this...

 

There are more than 200 teaspoons in this box.  I guess it will take a bit of a time to get it done.

I will just sit on the floor and do it while watching tv. There better be really exciting shows to watch while I am doing this.

 

 

And this is where they will go. I have to rearrange my coin collection to make room for the teaspoons. This is my coffee table. I am excited to see how it will look like.

 

 Just finished watching the voice and it is exciting to find out what happens to the stolen members.

Breaking Amish is also getting interesting.....how much of it is real, I don't know.

As my sister would say it 4 more sleeps before the weekend.

My birthday is this Saturday....no plans yet.

 



Whatever post.....

A productive weekend.... I did not go anywhere this weekend as I did not feel so well when I came home Friday. I took it easy that night and just watched tv.

I watched The Secret Princes and I do not know how real is that show. The one Lord can't even carry a conversation and no wonder he can't find a date. I watched Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Once in a while I follow a recipe from there.

This week end I was in the mood to bake and did biscuits and a loaf of white bread. I have not baked a loaf of bread in ages and it turned out so well. First time in years using my long loaf pan.

Maybe for my birthday next week I will bake a birthday cake. I used to bake a lot of cakes when we lived in Yellowkinfe....up North where winter I heard has arrived.

I forgot that I had gone out to get groceries and washed my SUV. I did not know they were open on Sundays and when I was driving home from the store, I saw it was open. Unfortunately I did not vacuum as I had my winter tires there. Yes, it is time to change tires.

My next project is to clean my teaspoon collection from all over the world and put it where I have my coin collection. That would be a lot of work but finally I have a place for them.

Some of the biscuits I baked.

 

Loaf of bread that turned out really well.

 

My fave snack when watching tv.

 

Another work week, hope it goes really fast.

 

 





A kind person.....

A building with 25 floors and hundreds of people living in it is like a small community. The lobby becomes a meeting place where you see people you know or just met.

I have been in my building for more than 3 years and I know a lot of people but there are also movements and people I like move out and on to a different building or bought homes.

There is one resident here who is retired and every morning he likes to be in the lobby and read his papers or flyers. He uses a wheel chair. I don't get flyers in my mail box as I have put a no flyers note in it.

We have a place where you can get them and this gentleman would get me my paper and flyers every morning on my way to work.

Today, I was sick so I took the day off and when I went out my door to throw a bag of garbage, the paper and flyers were hanging on my door handle.

This is not the first time and I really appreciate that. I like to read my Metro and look at flyers.

What a nice person!!! It makes me feel good that there are kind and wonderful people around.

It's Friday, enjoy the weekend.

Recycling and the cheque....

My place of work is proactive when it comes to recyling. We have one building which won a prize for being a green building.

We have all kinds of bins in our kitchen for waste, plastic, paper, cardboard and so on. Under my desk is a plastic container for recycling paper and another for regular waste basket.

As part of my job, I handle the deposits and any cheques that need to go to the bank or to a vendor.

One day, I was working in the reception area and Fed Ex came with a package. I opened the package and took the envelopes inside and gave to the recipients and threw the package in the recycling bin.

Then I had to go help across the street in one of our new buildings and did not come back until close to lunch, In the meantime our Project Manager was looking for me and looking in my desk for a cheque intended for him.

When I came back, he was after me for his cheque and I told him there was none for him and he was adamant and I too was determined to let him know there was none for him. When he told me that there was one sent by our head office in the same Fed Ex package and that it was close to a million dollars, I got worried and when I thought about it, I realized it might have been still in the package which was now in the recycling bin.

Thank God, it was still there and the million dollar cheque was inside the package. I don't know maybe because it was so big, it did not fall off when I did it the first time.

From then on, every time a big cheque comes...they will say....do not give it to her. I guess I will never live this down. There have been cheques more than that and it goes to the intended recipient. A lesson learned....check the inside of the package or envelope. There just might be something big there.

The fluffy white stuff.....

Yes, the dreaded white stuff fell today but luckily did not stay....a bit wet and temperature not so cold. But still it was nasty, knowing the cold weather is upon us.

I have appointment to change to winter tires next week and the forecast is in the teens. Hopefully, it will stay for a bit longer.

It is time to take out the coats and jackets and winter boots, gloves and hats and toques and scarves.
Not to forget warm clothes, sweaters and cardigans.

I am glad I will be away for while visiting sunny California. At least it will be a lot warmer.

So there it is.....old man winter is getting ready to come back....yuk ....it will be for 6 months and I will start counting the days when spring is here.

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