Category Archives: Day to Day

Sitting here listening to Annie Lennox.  Her new CD Bare.  Sure is a good listen. 

And I am sitting here in front of the little electric heater in the office.  The rest of the house is quite chilly tonight.  But we are promised to have the part installed in the furnace tomorrow.  Oh! for hot showers again and for heat in the house. 

Today started off with Gatecrashers.  Needed that this morning – time to pray.

Then to work where most of the sedations went smoothly – but the first one – well she should have gone to the toilet before we started.  I got peed on!  And this afternoon a couple came in with the cutest little two year old.  It was obvious she was the boss but she was so cute.  Her parents were so concerned and that was nice to see.  It is easy to get information across about how to cut down on the rate of decay when the parents are so concerned.  Hopefully the fluoride varnish will arrest the decay. 

Tonight we ordered in a pizza for supper.  There is a new Pizza place – Groovy Anthony’s and we tried it out.  The pizza is really good – and thick.  If you like meat on the pizza I would recommend it.

Then out to send a Western Union transfer to the Cameroon. 

And now I’m going to spend some time in a good book before crawling into bed.  Good night all.

We realized as we were getting ready for bed last night that we not only have no HOT water – we have NO water at all!  It seems the plumbers turned off the water to the boiler and it resulted in all the water being off.  Not quite sure how to turn it back on since it all looks like it goes through the boiler – although it doesn’t make sense.  Surely there should be a way…  But 11 pm is no time to call a plumber unless we want to pay dearly for water! 

So I have already been out this am to Tim Hortons.  We may be able to wash up at someone else’s but we cannot start the day off without coffee!

Had a great night out – and all that JAZZ.  It was fantastic!  Jeff Healy’s Jazz Wizards

I love how the music works in Jazz.  It just seems to have a life of it’s own constantly flowing, working with the different instruments, changing as it’s played yet staying the same. Improvizing seems to bring out the music’s personality and the mood.  And there is always mood in Jazz.  And they all make it look so effortless like it’s just the music playing itself, when you know its a gift paid for with years of playing till it’s been perfected.  Jazz always seems to me less like music performed and more like music just coming out because it has to. 

So glad Christian keeps up on what is going on in the music world or I might have missed this.  And it was too good to miss.

Took Rachelle out for a change too, and that was nice.  She’s up for a few days – “studying”.  She chose a poor few days to come though as our furnace is on the fritz again.  Needs some new part.  So it’s cold showers or bucket baths for the next few days.  At least the whole boiler hasn’t blown.   

We had a potluck lunch today at the office.  I don’t know when I have eaten so much aside from a major holiday meal  – even at Easter I think I ate less.  The food was just too good and it is pretty hard not to try a little bit of everything.  The deer sausage was fantastic as were the ribs and Penny made something that she thought were called palashkis – but none of us knew the proper name.  It didn’t matter – they were meat filled little bread thingies and they were good.  And then the dessert – Annette made something called drumstick cake and it was soooo good that it was irresistible.  And there were other dishes every bit as good.  One of the best staff meetings we have ever had! 

But then we had to go back to work.  It is very hard to stay awake when one is very comfortably full. 

When patients got a bit mixed around and it ended up that our therapist had been assigned a patient she could not treat – it was out of her scope of practice – we offered to let her treat one of the little kids that needed some fillings instead.  Our therapist is the one who brought the ribs.  She has a secret recipe and will not give it out.  We almost were able to offer to treat her little patient in exchange for the recipe.  But she caught herself  just as she was slipping into sin and refused to make the exchange!

Then tonight I went to hear a presentation on gardening that the church women sponsored.  Gardening and a variety of desserts.  I like to garden but this weather makes spring seem far away still.  It was a great evening – they had a great presentation.  And the desserts were too good to resist – but I only had a little.  I was still too full from lunch.

Kieran has done it – at last!  He has his first tooth.  Took 10 months it did.  Now Grandma can admire the tooth not just search for it. 

Wandering around the blogesphere tonight checking out some of my favorite blogs that I have missed for a few days.  This by Chuck took me back a few days to Easter and I don’t mind revisiting these past few days again.  So have a look at his retelling of the story.  I found it refreshing – new words for a sacred event.

We had a good long practice tonight.  It was very different playing in another church.  The shape of the room is different and the sound system a whole lot bigger.  And I was miked for the first time.  We don’t have enough capacity for that in our system.  So it was a good and different and a learning experience.  I really wonder what I sound like – maybe it is better not to know – just play along and not worry too much about it.

We are providing the music for the combined Good Friday service that several of the churches in our city get together for.  So, O God, make my fingers play the right notes!

Christian was anxious to get home to study for his Chem 30 test tomorrow.  That didn’t take him long – I hear him downstairs drumming now.  Think we may have to remind him of our noise bylaw – no drumming after 11:00 pm!

And speaking of bylaws – Leo was not happy with the changes made in the city’s bylaw for smoke free places.  The councillors kind of gave too many concessions to the buisness people and smoke free won’t happen in bars till 2006.  WIMPS !!!  Money is more important than people’s health.  Well I guess that will keep me out of the bars!!

This is turning out to be a busy week – I guess it is the most important Christian holy day.  And of course we don’t treat it so much as a vacation as Christmas.  We just fit it into the busy schedules of our lives and life just keeps going on.  Although I must say, I am very happy that our office has decided to take the Friday(which is a stat holiday here) and the Monday off.  We’re almost as proliferate with our vacation days as government employees!  And so my sisters who are coming with their families and my family will take a little bit of time to get together at my dad’s.

Something seems to be wrong with my image uploader.  I will see if I can get it fixed.  The images show up on my fusion publisher so I’m not sure what is wrong.

Update:
Well as you can see the pictures below are just fine now.  Leighton – thanks.  These Prairie Fusion guys are sure great!

So we went to this place today

The day was beautiful for the drive – got a bit windy in the afternoon but was nice and warm. 

The girls danced well.  As the adjudicator said as she called them up ” Now that is Hip Hop!”  They were awarded gold with a mark of 89.  So here are my wonderful girls – well only one really belongs to me – Grace is on the left as you look at the picture.  Natalie is Grace’s best friend and dancing partner.  They have gone to the same school since grade 2 and danced together for about 5 years.  And they are both petite so make a great pair at dancing – both are less than 5 feet tall.

My aunt came by our house tonight.  She comes by frequently since we only live a few houses away from her apartment.  She has this relationship with our dog Sam.  Actually she would spoil Sam to death if we didn’t fairly strictly enforce the “no treats” rule.  She used to bring along some scraps every time she came.  And almost every evening or day after her visits Sam would have a little problem.  Sam seems to have a delicate enough stomach to not tolerate treats.  And the kids would end up having to clean up some little deposits in the basement.  So we had to get strict about the no treats or I’m afraid it soon would have been no Sam.

Tonight Sam and my aunt went for one of their walks.  Sam walks ahead pulling my 80+ year old aunt behind.  And they love each other.  I think Sam gets more excited about the walks than my aunt but it is a close one to call.  I was worried about them managing OK on the street which is still a bit icy but they went and came back just fine.