It has been a while......

I realize that I have not blogged in a while and while I told a friend of mine that I would sign in and then after a few seconds I would sign off. I don't know if that is being lazy or just not in the right frame of mind to get started. Anyway, I had been sick with the flu since our Thanksgiving, October 14 and I have not completely recovered from it.

I went to see my doctor and now I am being tested as my blood count is very low. A lot of things have happened and I have been busy at work and gets easily tired because of the low blood count. I have had 2 blood tests done and I have two more to do. Yes, a lot of poking. And I am petrified of needles but being diabetic I have learned to cope with it.

Sometimes I admire those people who blog almost everyday, my sister is one of them. Today, I slept in and took naps and watched tv and did nothing else as I have no energy. 

We had a dusting of the white stuff but not a lot. In the southern part, I believe they got more. This time I am prepared as I have my winter tires installed a week ago so I am ready.

Thanks for dropping by and I will have some pictures to post later. Enjoy the week.

First day of fall.........

It sounds good but feels ominous. It means that the cold weather, white fluffy stuff is not far behind. The trees have started to turn different colours of orange, yellow and red. But I believe this year the trees are still mostly green and it is almost the end of September.

This weekend, I washed my vehicle and I was going to have it detailed but it is not as messy or dirty so I feel like it will not be worth it so I did it myself. I like doing it and I have different kinds of stuff that I use to get it all cleaned and dusted and wiped. I had vacuumed it at the car wash and I thought it would be really dirty but the mats kept my carpet clean.

I also did a bit of fall cleaning in the house and in my balcony. I had started my Christmas shopping as well so I have time to think of what to get and not be in a hurry and it would be enjoyable. 

At work, it is still a bit stressful and a never ending supply of drama. I was offered to take a different position and I am considering it as it will take me away from all the stress and drama of the main office. So I am doing a lot of audits and clearing documents just in case I take this other position. I will be working with a person I get along really well which is good. So it is another work week for me. Enjoy the rest of the week.

Now too busy....

About a week or so ago, which was my last post, I confessed of my being lazy to blog. Now, in the past week, I was just too busy. Today, I was at work to do a random parkade mirror tag check and I was at work at 6:15 am and together with one of the security staff went down to start the check.

It was just a check of vehicles and that they have their tags. Well, we found drivers who are going way too fast and there was this lady who drove down so fast we had to stop her to tell her to slow down next time. She was so rude and it was really nothing to get upset about. So after the check, I called their parking coordinator to complain about her and that she be sent a memo to slow down.
I found out she is a manager and I guess she thinks she is entitled. While the rest of the drivers were so nice and thought it was a good idea. Some people.....their ego should be checked in at the parkade door.

Last week, I had lunch at the new restaurant across the street from our building. A Vietnamese restaurant, Hoang Long, it was busy and I had the grilled beef with lemon grass which was ok. Then another day, we went to Allegro and I had the linguine frutti di mare. It was really good and had a lot of clams, mussels, calamari and shrimp with white wine garlic sauce. I would go back to this restaurant. The price for that pasta was $21.95, a bit expensive for lunch but worth it. Besides, the company paid for it or was it the Vice President. All the same.

Was home early since I was at work early and had a nice nap. The weather has been warm for this time of the year so I will not complain, I will just enjoy it. So hump day tomorrow....until next time.

Just lazy......

I had a friend asked me if I have stopped blogging and I just realized that I have not posted in a long time. I am just lazy. I would go and think I would post something and I just did not have the energy to think of something to write so I would just go off line.

Some days I thought of something to post but I thought about it and it feels like I am just venting. Now summer is almost over and I am getting to that dreary feeling of winter coming. In fact, I had scheduled an appointment already to get my winter tires installed. I do not want to be in that position last year when snow has come and I still have my all season.

Then I thought I would try to blog everyday just like my sister but I think the longest I had done was a week or maybe 9 continuous days. I have been busy at work and when I get home I am so tired and I am in bed by 9:00 pm.  The fall tv line up has started and I watch shows that are back for this season. I am watching a new series, Cedar Cove and of course Duck Dynasty and Border Security. There's also shows on HGTV which will be starting later this month.

So, I am just lazy and I am ok. Thanks for asking. Maybe I will get the creative juices back in the coming days. Hump day, enjoy the weekend.

Wonderful memories....

Today, he would have been 32 years old. I wonder if he would have been married, with children. Perhaps not. Would he have been successful with the business he started, probably. What kind of car would he be driving? What electronic toys would he own? What kind of music would he be listening to?What kind of food would he prefer to eat? What places would he have visited? A lot of questions and really no answers.

For the last five years, that is what I struggled with. Questions and no answers. But with time, I have learned to have questions and I am beginning to learn that I will get no answers and now it is fine with me. I have accepted the fact that, this is how it will be.

I lived with the pain and now it is not as hard as before. Maybe the cliche time heals everything is true. I do not know about closure. Sometimes I think closure is forgetting and I do not want that.

Memories, that is what I have left and it is a good feeling to have. I remember a lot of them when he was younger and there are times when I can smile about them. There are memories when he was an adult and those I really treasure. I am thankful that there was this time in my life that I was trying to find out what to do and I spent a few months with him and my sister and we got some kind of bonding. And not knowing that would be the last I would spend time with him.

Now I can say I am at peace with what happened, though there are times I still do not understand why.But I am fine with it.

So Gino, Happy Birthday and I believe where ever you are, you are also at peace. You will always be in our hearts. 

Plant sculpture....

When you are looking at buildings, especially in the summer time I find I am always trying to see what kinds of plants they have in front of the building. Since the weather is an important factor that decides what one will put in to make the building look different from the rest of the others in the block.

There is a restaurant two blocks away from my building and they always have very nice plants and containers in the summer time. The city or the business association has the summer program of businesses ordering wave petunias in big planters that decorate the sidewalks and it makes the downtown area alive.

This summer our management staff decided to be a bit different and we had our landscape company do a plant sculpture. It is quite different, the only thing that I would have changed is the time they planted the flowers so it would have covered the whole sculpture.

 

This is what is in front of our office building, I call it the plant sculpture.



Plants.....

Over the long weekend a friend of mine called to ask if I wanted house plants. Her sister goes on vacation a lot since she has retired and did not want to worry about her plants so she is giving them away. So she picked me up that holiday Monday and we drove to get the plants.

The plants were big that I decided to only take two of them. They were both ficus plant and are tall and healthy. So we dragged them out and into her SUV. At leasetshe was prepared with blankets and rollers so it will be easy to transport it.

When we got to my building, I realized how tall the plants were and I was thinking it might really reach my ceiling. I sort of have an idea where to put it and at that time came to the realization that there is only one spot i can put it where it will look okay.



 

There that is how tall the plant is, there is only about 6 inches of clearance to the ceiling. The painting on the wall I bought in the Dominican Republic when my niece got married. The guy who helped me haggled for the good price passed away suddenly a month or so after we got back. I always think of him when I look at that painting.

 

 

That same weekend, C and I went to the farmers market and I bought this herb pot with basil, sage, chocolate mint and lavender hiding behind the sage. Since I did not plant anything this summer, this was a good buy for $10.00 as the pot alone I believe it is at least worth that.