tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65422298525134902132024-03-13T09:33:41.792-04:00 Big Girl PantiesI live in my own little world, but don't worry they know me in here!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.comBlogger333125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-89853471443619335232014-12-21T14:41:00.000-05:002014-12-21T14:41:19.927-05:00December Happenings.....Merry Christmas
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I know I am really getting bad at doing my blog but things
just might change now I will have a bit more free time on my hands, or maybe
not. I’m not sure what I got myself into but I will be working in the field of
children again. It’s been a while since I sang the “Clean up song” but I still
know it. I’m lucky it’s a very short song. I have taken on the job of Child
care for my grand-daughter. Her mom ( my daughter ) has decided to enter the
work force again, a bit sooner than what she planned. She had decided to take
the full maternity leave her factory offers new moms and enjoy a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>full year</u></b> off to bond and become
“the best damn mother on the earth” as we all thought once upon a time. Well
life doesn’t always work out the way you think it will and she was no
exception. It turns out that she is pregnant again. My daughter along with millions
of other women in today’s generation rely so much on the “bull pucky” that is
written in the How to be the best mom ever books. Apparently she read that you
can NOT get pregnant while breast feeding. The “fable” is that while a mother
continues to produce milk her hormones also double up as a natural birth
control thus making it safe to have date nights with their significate other. I
tried to warn her that that was soooooooooooooooooooo not true, but I’m a mom
of decades gone by and apparently things have changed. The books today are the
Gospel according to whatever author has written it. Well my dear sweet daughter
learned the hard way that what is written is NOT always the truth. I had to
hold back giggles as she cursed herself for even picking up those books let
alone believing EVERYTHING written in them was the truth. Well anyways it turns
out ok for me since I get more time with my granddaughter and once the baby is
born I will have more time with him/her since mom will definitely WANT to be at
work once the house that was once two, became three and will soon be a house of
four. Her last words on the baby issue were “she is NOT leaving the hospital
this time without having a permanent fixture in place for herself and there is
no romantic date night until her man has something permanent done as well. As
she said, 2 permanent fixes is better than 1!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here we are 4 days until Christmas. This year we are pretty
much guaranteed a green Christmas and according to the weather station our
temperature will be 10C that’s 50F for my American readers. I’m beginning to
wonder if Canada is slowly becoming the New Age Tropics. I have no doubts that mid-January
on we will be cursing the cold and snow, but it sure is different from the days
when I was a kid. Climate change really is happening. This is the first year in
a long time that I actually had fun fighting the crowds in the store as I shopped
for a little one. I forgot how fun it was pressing all the buttons on toys and
hearing the noises, songs and characters that come with the different play
things. It’s now my turn to buy the noisy toys and send them home with my
granddaughter giving mom and dad as much pleasure as we had while they were
young kids!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also pretty damn grateful
that all my kids will be at the dinner table this year along with a dear
friend. I think I’m just as excited as a kid this year, looking forward to the
fun, laughter and love that will be at the dinner table this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I never did anything on my bucket list this year, but I did
have a pretty good year filled with a few surprises and connected with a friend
from way back. This year as in 2014 I did have time to look at myself as to
where I am and where I am going. I learned not to expect change but to look
forward to the future without any expectations after all I have always been a
firm believer in the word Serendipity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I want to wish all my blogger friends a wonderful and safe
Christmas Holiday and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2015.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-25903530113130501322014-10-24T16:14:00.000-04:002014-10-24T16:14:36.601-04:00October Happenings<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Time flies when you’re having fun! We are in the home
stretch of October and things here have been busy. I’m awaiting a phone call to
start a new job, the best paying job to date so I’m sitting on pins and needles
waiting for the phone call to come in. There is still a few weeks before I start
so I am excited. This one has benefits which I have never had before. I’ll be
working for a place that has many companies throughout Ontario and I’ll be the
front line once again. To say I am tired of the temp jobs is putting it mildly
but finally it looks like my time has come to be on a full time payroll again,
more to follow about this job when I am behind the desk with pen in hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thanksgiving went well this year. We had dinner at my
daughters place on the lake and what a wonderful day it was. The weather was
perfect for a walk around the area surrounding the lakeside community. We even trekked
through a wooded area leading to a horse farm. I had to laugh at my daughter
because even though an electric fence sign was CLEARLY posted she had to check
it out for herself and ended up down on her knees with a jolt that made her
cuss loudly. A few others had to check it out as well and yes they were sent to
their knees too. What can I say…trial by error? Dinner was delicious and
filled with laughs about our walk and even Hanna joined in the laughter while
putting in her 2 cents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Halloween is just around the corner and this year I “swear” I
am not buying candy to give out. The area we live in has no children so if we
do get any kids; it’s just the odd teenager trying to scoop up some candy. For
the past 3 years I have bought candy, chocolates and chips to give out to the
Tricker Treaters and having so much left over I am “forced” to eat it myself,
since I can’t let it spoil! So it’s going to be a candy free zone at my house
this year maybe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I think we are feeling the ends of Indian summer here. The
weather has been gorgeous with afternoons being sweater weather and the nights
giving us frost, but hey, we are Canada after all so it’s par for the course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Speaking of Canada, we had some horrible events unfold over
the last 2 weeks. Last week in Quebec, 2 members of The Canadian Armed Forces
were purposely struck down by a vehicle. One of the soldiers died of his
injuries, while the other soldier suffered some injuries. This week all eyes
were on Ottawa when yet another unarmed young Canadian Soldier was shot at
point blank range several times as he stood Guard at the Canada's National War
Memorial in what has now been declared as being described as an attack on
Canadian Parliament. The shooter was killed in a blaze of gun fire inside the Parliament
Building. It was certainly a shocking and sad day for the family of this
Soldier as they watched in disbelieve while the Media captured the attempt to
revive their loved one on national television. This really P***ES me off but
what is even worse is how some take this tragic event and compares it to the
many tragic shootings in America. I’m speaking of Rosie O’Donnell’s remarks
saying that many people lose their lives in America every day while one person
loses their life by gun fire in Canada and the whole country morns. To me this
was a total disrespect towards Canada and our Military since it was in no way comparable. Its
heart breaking for anyone to die a senseless death but to make it seem like
this Soldier's death should not be mourned by his country is beyond disrespectful. Shame on
you Rosie! Shame on you! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This month we also have a Municipal election happening for
all of Ontario. Voters in the province of Ontario will elect mayors,
councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of
the province's municipalities.</span></div>
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it is over since I am tired of the phone calls from the different candidates
asking for my vote. I’m tired of the constant posting of political views and
being told “Don’t forget to Vote” on Face Book so I have started to delete any
posts regarding this. Call me bitchy, but I am a grown woman who DOES vote and
as far back as I can remember voting has always been a private thing since they
have private booths where one can cast their vote in private. The political
debates and constant political views on Facebook are really annoying. We get
enough of that during the Televised Debates with all the Candidates. I often
wonder if these people who insist on being political on a Social Network would
stand at the voting booths and declare to everyone that enters who they are
voting for…I think not! So why do it on a social network? Ok that was more a
rant than anything, but oh well </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-76720110196064646612014-09-12T12:27:00.000-04:002014-09-12T12:27:08.698-04:00The "Green Thing" ...then and now!!!!This was posted on my Facebook and I definitely thinks this should be shared!<br />
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the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic
bags are not good for the environment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The woman apologized to the young girl and explained,
"We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today.
Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future
generations."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The older lady said that she was right -- our generation
didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to
explain:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer
bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So
they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back
in our day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that
we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags
was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was
to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school)
was not defaced by our scribbling’s. Then we were able to personalize our books
on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing"
back then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in
every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't
climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But she was right. We didn't have the "green
thing" in our day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't
have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling
machine burning up 220volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes
back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or
sisters, not always brand-new clothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green
thing" back in our day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV
in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember
them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we
blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do
everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used
wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn.
We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we
didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on
electricity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing"
back then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of
using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled
writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor
blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade
got dull.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode
their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour
taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house
did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room,
not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a
computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out
in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful
we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back
then?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't
take much to really piss us off... especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced
smart-ass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how
much. — with Molly Day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well said Molly Day…well said!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-89519410622922009242014-08-31T10:52:00.002-04:002014-08-31T10:52:45.677-04:00Good-bye Summer 2014
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was good while it lasted but as they say, all good things
must come to an end and the summer of 2014 has officially come to an end this
weekend. I really didn’t do a lot this summer yet the time seemed to just slip
away. I spent some time out at my daughters place and even did a weekend of dog
sitting there. It was nice and relaxing even through the bouts of doggy back
door scoots due to a very emotional dog missing his mom and dad’s attention.
Since Hanna has arrived my daughter and her other half has been on the usual
running around introducing Hanna to family members that are scattered over the
entire Province of Ontario. We all know how hard it is to travel with a baby so
putting two English Bull Dogs into the back of the car along with Miss Hanna
was out of the question. They did as many day visits as possible so they would
not have to leave the dogs alone too long, but there were times when they had
to spend more than a few days away from home, leaving the dogs in very capable
hands of friends and neighbours. It just so happened that Miss Ava (one of the
Bull Dogs) decided that enough was enough and decided to let mom and dad know
that she was not happy about all the away from home travels and she decided to
have the back door scoots when she was in my care for the weekend (oh goody
goody). I managed to keep things as clean and smell free as possible and was
able to have some nice relaxing time as well. We had a few get together with
family and friends as well. There is nothing like relaxing, laughing and having
fun with a few drinks and a camp fire on a summer night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My cousins from the States came up this summer and it was a
real treat to have them here. My cousin’s husband is a retired U.S Marine and
has such a southern drawl that you can’t help but have fun when he talks and
jokes around. We had a few friendly discussions about the American accent of Pennsylvania.
They insist it is us that have the accent yet when they say the word “wash” for
some reason they include the letter r in the word as in “warsh”. Even my spell
check could not figure out this spelling as I was typing this and kept saying
it was the wrong spelling! It was a great visit for sure and they even want to
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going back to my childhood and reading the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn”. For me Mark Twain always brings me back to my childhood and even though
I am an adult I found myself on that raft sailing down the Mississippi River
along with Huck and Jim. I’m not sure why but this summer I was filled with
memories of my childhood from making tents out of blankets thrown over the
clothes line to trying to catch fireflies at night and on a few occasions I was
able to capture them in a jar. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be
honest and tried once again to catch them this summer but was unsuccessful. I
guess I was quicker and my eyesight was keener when I was a kid. I also did a
Netflix Marathon of the show “Lost”. I had watched a few episodes when it was
in TV but was unable to watch the series. Well I watched from Season 1 episode
1 to season six the very last episode. It was rather dumb but also intriguing.
I became addicted to watching them and sat dumb-founded yet riveted by the
adventures of the survivors of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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few weeks since we had to attend a family get together this weekend. I’m hoping
the temperatures won’t soar into the high 30’s with the humidity into the 40’s.
We haven’t had too many heat waves this summer but when we do get them it’s
been brutally hot. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That about sums up my
summer of 2014. I hope everone had a great summer, stayed safe and were able to
make some great summer memories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-58188933818682288852014-07-16T12:55:00.000-04:002014-10-24T12:59:14.359-04:00Summer Time Laziness!It's been awhile since I posted and I have no excuse accept that I was being lazy. My granddaughter is growing like a weed and I am having so much fun with her. She is spending this weekend with us as mom and dad are going to a wedding out of town. I'm rather surprised that they actually have decided to go away without her since they dote on her hand and foot. She certainly is a little princess and even at 2 1/2 months I think she knows this already. I'm sure I will be getting many phone calls during her visit to check up on how things are going but as I told my daughter, I was a new mom once upon a time and manage very well. I am experienced in all ways so we will just be fine without her. Somehow I don't think that will stop the phone calls and I will definitely keep my cell phone close at hand just in case she calls and I am not close to the house phone. <br />
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This passed weekend I attended my Aunts 80th birthday party. She is the sister of my mother and since mom died when I was only in my early 20's my Aunt had become a close confidant becoming like a mother figure when I needed one. She suffers from osteoporosis and has become very frail and fragile but she's still as sharp as whip! The party was a huge success and it was amazingly drama free (accept for a few people that are a cracker short of being a full box). There was no family drama although a few could be seen standing in a corner whispering about this one or that one, little did they know that they were actually being whispered about. I guess most families have a few of those kinds of people and my family is no different. I spent most of my time going around visiting with family I hadn't seen in well over 20 years. It was a wonderful day filled with plenty to eat and drink, combined with lots of memories, tears and laughter.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’m not sure where the time went, one minute it was the end
of April and now is already going into the second week of June. I guess it’s
true “time flies when you are having fun”. Work was finished for me the 1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>
week of May and I have to say that I really am glad about that. This last job
stint was a learning lesson to say the least, but at least I can say that I did
it. I worked for a very well-known Taxation Corporation and even though the
people I worked with were super friendly and very easy to like, the politics of
this place was enough to make me regret my decision. The business it’s self is
a great one, but the way they take advantage of people who have no clue on how
to make tax season a little less painless is really frightening. I cringed so
many times as people came to me to pay for the services they received and I had
no choice but to smile as they handed over a ridiculous sum of money <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and say thank you for choosing H&R Block
and we hope to see them again next year. Had my supervisor not had the desk
right behind me since she was also a Tax Pro and could also hear what I was
saying, I would have discourage some customers into coming in to us and would
have sent them somewhere cheaper. I was Front End Reception and was responsible
for looking at the customers forms and Government slips, putting them into
files and then assigning the right “Tax Professional” to the right customer. I
was the one they paid once the service had been rendered, I was the one that
would direct them to the proper places in order to apply for different services
to help next Tax Season to be a better one and I was also the one they complained
to when they were out-raged at the total cost of everything. This is a job that
I doubt very much that I will ever do again for this company!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Nana”. This time it was to a human baby and not another English Bull Dog. Her
name is Hanna and she is just perfect. Oh I intend to spoil this little
princess so much and smile as I secretly whisper “it’s your turn now” when she
is cranky and mom and dad have to deal with her. I now know the wonderful
feeling of having a second generation begin as I watch this little princess
sleep in my arms. This picture is my first born holding her first born. What an
amazing feeling it is!</span></div>
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going to make the most of it. I’m going to soak up the summer sun (being
careful not to fry my skin) and just relax and let the days take me where they
will! I have nothing really big planned, no bucket list items to do, but one
never knows what will happen, so I’ll just take it day by day. I hope everyone
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Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights
get longer. Life gets better and every summer has a story. ♥<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-11273136255215236782014-04-30T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-30T07:00:01.278-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….26th of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This pet peeve goes along with my Laundry Pet Peeve and that’s
when people do not do up the zippers of their clothing when they toss their
laundry into the basket. That makes more work for me since I’m the one that has
to do the damn zippers up so they don’t snag on my sheer blouses and other
items that share the same wash space. I honestly don’t know why some find it so
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promise to visit everyone’s blog. I know I should have done so during the
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or a sign of being tired. It’s just the way we are, just like sneezing, burping
or farting. Usually IF one is being polite they well say excuse me of bless me
when the burp, fart or sneeze. What really ticks me off is the ones that like
to let everyone within a 500 foot radius know they are yawning. They let out
this loud almost obscene sound as they stretch their arms wide and most times
they never cover their mouths! It is then that this sound becomes contagious. Once
the first person emits this loud sound, the rest of us follow suit it’s just
the way it goes. I find once I have that first yawn it’s like I am over-come
with a case of the yawns. I didn’t start out sleepy but when the yawns begin to
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commercialized it has become I still love the thought of Santa. My pet peeve is
the fact so many people get up in arms about shortening the word Christmas to
Xmas. The reasoning behind this upset is that the word Xmas does more damage in
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when I’m in the chat mod either by text messages or by chatting with friends and
family on a social network. I’m not religious but I do know what Christmas is
and what it represents. It just seems funny that the ones that make a big deal
of the greeting Merry Xmas are usually the ones that spend mega money during
the holiday season ignoring the fact that they are also contributing to the commercialized
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ceremony is always beautiful and heartfelt. Unless you are totally against
getting married I don’t know one person who doesn’t like to attend a wedding.
What really irks me is when people bring their unruly children to such a
wonderful event and let them run wild. The bride is supposed to be the star of
this event with the groom running a close second, but sometimes the unruly children
steal the spotlight from this happy couple and decide to scream, cry, kick and
run amuck while the “I do’s” are being said. There is nothing more irritating then
trying to listen to the heart felt vows while a child or children are acting
up. I’m not saying all children act up, but hells bells, if you know your child
will not sit through the ceremony then parents should leave their children with
a trusted friend while the ceremony is taking place and then go to pick them up
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-82740895884266520152014-04-25T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-25T07:00:00.802-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….22nd of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Voting booths are available in all polling stations in order
to allow the voter complete privacy when casting their vote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What peeves me off
is when I receive the calls from the people working on the campaigns asking if their
political candidate can count on my vote. It’s supposed to be a private thing
and yet the phone calls start and don’t stop until the day before the elections.</span></div>
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It is not a law (at least here in Canada) that people have to vote and some
choose not to. That’s all fine and dandy until the wrong person gets voted in
and then the ones who did not vote are the first ones to start complaining. As
far as I am concerned the ones that do not vote have no say on what happens
once a new government has been elected whether it be Federal, Provincial or Municipal.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-82134912547467914812014-04-24T07:41:00.001-04:002014-04-24T07:41:29.406-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….21st of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ulterior motive - doing something partly because you think
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I used to work with a person who had ulterior motives for
almost everything they said or did. She was actually a good friend or so I
thought, until one day I was no longer useful to them. She found she had bigger
fish to fry so I was left in her dust as she worked on furthering herself. People
who have ulterior motives are don’t care who they step on while they try to get
what they want by any means possible.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-16839579030252407452014-04-23T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-23T07:00:03.126-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….20th of 26 Pet Peeves<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is nothing better than curling up on the couch with a
cup of tea and sitting down to watch a good movie on TV. I’m not one for the
gory ones or the ones with constant killings; I’m more of the drama, action or
love story type person. What really is a pet peeve of mine is when you are very
involved in the movie and the questions start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Picture this scene….. I am curled up on the couch in the
living room with the other half watching a movie. Someone on screen is murdered
and all you see is the hand holding the murder weapon. The questions then begin…..
"who did that?". Or someone breaks into an office and starts looking
through the drawers of a desk and they ask "what is he looking for?".
Do they think that, despite seeing exactly the same amount of the story as they
have, I have been made privy to some extra information? I always shush him and say I'll explain what's going on in a minute, but by the time I do that I have missed something important which really ticks me off. If that's not bad enough, I could be really involved in watching a program on TV when the phone rings. The other half will answer it but instead of moving out of the room when he is talking, he will sit in the same room as the TV and carry on talking as though he's the only one there. I have tried to do the subtle hint of turning the volume up and giving the I'm going to kick your ass if you don't shut up look but that seems to have no effect. All I can say is grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-11261779283622633102014-04-22T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-22T07:00:00.750-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….19th of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Selfie….defined in today’s society as a person who takes
pictures of themselves in any way possible, usually by their cell phone cameras.
It seems like everyone is getting in on becoming a selfie from the President of
the United States to famous actors and actresses. It’s not a bad thing and I
feel it’s actually nice to see famous people act more like one of us instead of
being stuck up and snotty, but there IS a limit.</span></div>
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Every chance she gets, any place she is she will take a selfie and post it on Facebook.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-531094657575602082014-04-21T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-21T07:33:12.210-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….18th of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hello my name is DM and I am colour blind. I’m not talking
about being medically colour blind as in not being able to distinguish colours,
I’m talking about refusing to allow myself to base my judgements on others
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in today’s world even though it is 2014. It seems every time I read the paper,
watch the evening news or listen to the radio there is someone somewhere that
is either calling foul because of their race or a tragedy happening because
someone did not have the right skin colour. It makes me cringe when I hear
people talking about how much they don’t like someone and their reasoning has
nothing to do with anything in particular except for their skin colour. It’s a
really big pet peeve of mine when I hear people trying to mock the way others
talk by trying to imitate certain accents. As far as I am concerned, we ALL
bleed red blood which makes us ALL the same.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-35068612804708542242014-04-19T07:49:00.000-04:002014-04-19T07:49:12.883-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….17th of 26 Pet Peeves<br />
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quantity of air in a bag of potato chips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Potato chips are one of the very few junk food items that I do
like to indulge in. My favourite flavour is a toss-up between Ketchup and Dill
Pickle chips. Since I usually can’t decide which flavour I want I end up
getting both and then put a handful of each flavour in a bowl so I can have
double the treat. There is nothing like relaxing on the couch with a good book,
a glass of wine and a bowl of chips to while away the hours. There are so many
flavours and so many different companies that make them yet they all have one
thing in common. It seems that when I buy a full bag of chips there is only
half a bag of chips and the rest is filled with air. The quantity per cost we
are getting is nothing to be happy about. Now I know people have complained and
it has been published that the companies fill the bag with air so that the chips
do not get all broken during packaging, shipping and then put on display, but
in all honesty, when has anyone opened a bag of chips and found none had been
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-21736114308230327752014-04-18T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-18T07:00:00.451-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….16th of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The beaver is a well-known animal and in fact is indigenous
to Canada. It even has a place on the back of the Canadian nickel. The beaver
is known for its huge sharp teeth that can chew through a tree making it fall
to the ground. As far as my schooling has taught me humans have no connections
to the beaver in as far as genetics go so why on earth do people chew the wood
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Pencil chewers are a very big pet peeve of mine. There is
nothing worse than going into the pencil holder at work and finding pencils
that have been chewed on. I’m not sure if people think they will gain magical
thinking powers if they chew on the ends of the pencil or not but if they do
gain those powers why are they not thinking that chewing pencils is gross for
other people who use the same pencil. Good grief I have even found the ends of
the pencil erasers chewed. The tin surrounding the eraser all squished together
with the eraser bulging out and the least bit of pressure while trying to rub
something out will cause the rubber tip to break off.</span><br />
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the pencil just for pencil chewers. I guess I’ll have to invest in a few of
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-78115990942307044542014-04-17T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-17T07:00:00.888-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….15th of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-size: small;">Good things grow in Ontario, at least that what the
television commercial says. I do love my own Province of Ontario but I have
some major pet peeves when it comes to living here. One major one is our Health
Care System here. I know most people feel we have it made by having free Health
Care, but just remember things are not always as they seem. Times have been
tough all across the world and many of our Doctors have moved out of country in
order to make a proper living. One can’t blame them but it does leave people
like me and thousands of others without a Family Doctor. About a year ago I was
bitten by a friend’s cat on my finger. It didn’t look serious but it hurt like
heck. It did bleed a bit but nothing serious. The cat had all its shots so I
knew I was safe. Well, it turned out that I wasn’t as safe as I thought. A few days
later my finger started to throb and I noticed a small red line appearing on
the top of my finger and started to move upward on my hand. I knew I had to
seek medical assistance and since I didn’t have a Doctor I had to go to the
public walk in clinic. Imagine my surprise when I told them and showed them my
problem and I was turned away. I was told there were too many people in the
clinic already and maybe come back tomorrow. I was pretty damn upset so I went
to the emergency room at our local hospital and they in turn told me to go to a
clinic out of my city limits. I was so damn upset that I just went home. I did
the thing Doctors always say NOT to do and I logged onto the computer and
started to Google what I could do. I did find a web site and read carefully and
did what they said to do. I was lucky enough that the next day the red line had
begun to go away and the following day my finger was 80% better. That my friends
is the outline of Ontario’s Health Care System!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-49582783420077320872014-04-16T07:30:00.000-04:002014-04-16T07:30:01.110-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….14th of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-size: small;">I know, it’s gross, but in all honesty we ALL pick our noses
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">My pet peeve is the ones who do it in public, not caring who
sees them. The person sitting in the car at a red light finger up their nose, the
one sitting in the office who has been constantly sniffing and then you glance
over and their finger is up their nose. Then there are the ones who just don’t
care and go digging for their treasures and then bring it to eye level, roll it
in their fingers and then just flick it away. I remember as a child my mother
told me that if you pick your nose you run the risk of getting your finger
stuck up there or worse yet you’ll leave a space where your brain can fall out.
Now I am not saying I never pick my nose but hells bells when I do I make sure I
do it in private and I certainly don’t take whatever decides to come loose and
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-57044237382550918702014-04-15T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-15T07:00:00.799-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….13th of 26 Pet Peeves
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My door is always open to family and friends and I really do
enjoy having the rooms of my house filled with fun, laughter and the B.S tales
that always seem to happen. To me that’s what makes life so good! I do have a
pet peeve with the people who snoop where they shouldn’t. Anyone can help
themselves to tea, coffee, a cold drink or snacks if I have them on hand. The
only place that is off limits besides my bedroom is my medicine cabinet. I know
we are all curious by nature, but it is said the curiosity killed that cat.
That may not be true but if one is caught snooping one might wish they were
that cat. I know damn well certain ones that come to my house are the preverbal
snoopers so I set a small trap to try and dissuade them from this nosey habit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was watching a talk show one day and this was one of the
topics so I was very interested in seeing what was said. One of the co-hosts
said he cured a medicine cabinet snooper by setting a trap. I listened very
closely and since my bathroom is on the main floor I knew he had a good idea so
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">First, place a note inside the cabinet saying something like…”caught
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marble just inside the medicine cabinet making sure it is close enough to the
edge before you close the door. When someone goes to open the cabinet the
marble will fall and clank against either the sink or the counter when it
falls. This in turn will make a noise startling the nosey person and letting
them know they have been caught after seeing the note. It is funny when they
come out of the bathroom with a rosy embarrassed look on their face trying NOT to
look at me. I just smile and say nothing since the note said it all.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286562104729728387noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6542229852513490213.post-61313387545813590322014-04-14T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-14T07:00:00.150-04:002014 A-Z Blogging Challenge……….12th of 26 Pet Peeves
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consuming and damn it I always seem to miss the fabric softener cycle so I have
to revert to the dryer sheets for some loads. Not only that, but as soon as I think
that I have finished the laundry it seems the dirty clothes fairy has decided
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What really is a pet peeve of mine for laundry
is when others do not turn their clothes right side out after taking them off
and then just tossing them into the hamper. Not only do I have to turn shirts
and pants right side out, but when they leave their socks all balled up and I have
to stick my hand into them and straighten them out in order for them to get
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just lets it sit there for days. One time I actually put folded piles of
clothes all over the bed thinking they would put the clothes away, but no such
luck. Those piles went from piles on the bed to a huge pile on the floor.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The greatest snack food, well at least for me is popcorn. I
remember my mom standing over the stove with the burner beat red shaking a
covered pot back and forth. Soon I would hear the sounds of the corn popping
and that delicious smell filling the house.</span><br />
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changed. The amount of un-popped kernels left at the bottom. It really is
frustrating, especially with the microwave popcorn, when the bag puffs up, the
last couple of pops can be heard, the wonderful smell fills the house and you
open the bag to only a half filled bag of popcorn. You pour it into a bowl and
the remaining half of the popcorn lay scalding hot, un-popped at the bottom of
the bag. I have read that the un-popped kernels have been nick-named old maids
or spinsters. What a very unbecoming but accurate name for those stubborn
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jeans; the wonderful comfortable piece of clothing that I just
love. After working in the office all day in my dress slacks there is nothing I
enjoy more than coming home and changing into my old comfortable jeans. I will
admit it is hard to find ones that fit me just right and I am picky about them
but once I find the perfect pair, they become part of me. Believe me I know how
hard it is to find the perfect pair of jeans that look stylish AND look good on
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> What I cannot understand for the life of me is the baggy show your
underwear type jeans. The kind that the crotch hangs down to your knees and don’t
even get me started on the “skinny jeans”. In my eyes, it doesn’t matter if you
are male or female, when you wear these, they are very unflattering. For the
female I’m not sure jeans were intended to allow lines that are supposed to be
covered to show through and for the males, well showing your junk by allowing
it to be VERY revealing in the frontal area is definitely not a flattering
manly type of look either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I is for Interruptions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conversation with one person and another person comes in and tries to either
take over the conversation or shift the conversation to something else. I’m
sure this has happened to everyone at some point, but it really ticks me off.
There is no problem if someone comes in during a conversation, but they should
have enough grace to not interrupt what’s being said and wait until there seems
to be a break or the conversation has ended and then go on and say what they
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">First let me be clear, I’m not talking about those huge
assed vehicles that are more like a tank then anything. Why anyone would want
to own one of those is beyond me, but that’s neither here nor there. I’m
talking about those people who have to hum to every song they hear, even if it’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I work in an office where there is music playing quietly in
the back ground from the time we open the doors until we end the day. Thank
goodness it’s not that sleep inducing kind of music or I would be in trouble. I
love music and even in my old job I’d be the only one in the office and I would
turn on the radio in order to have music fill my day. I’ll be honest and say
that I cannot sing if my life depended on it and the only time one will hear me
sing is if there is a song I just love playing on the radio while I am stopped
at a stop light. It’s at those times I will belt out the chorus not caring if I’m
in the right key or not. I have a co-worker who will hum to every song </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">she hears which is very nerve-racking. This co-worker is like
me and even when they hum you can hear the off-key notes. I sat there staring
at them one day when a rap song was playing and we all know that even if you
can figure out what they are saying, it’s not a type of song that one can hum
to. I’m not the only one that seems to find this shall we call it “musical
entertainment” irritating. Another co-worker that sits closer to this person
than I do politely left an anonymous note on the lunch room wall that read <strong><span style="color: red;">“you can't hum when you plug you nose! Try it and prove me wrong!!!!!" </span></strong>Although this didn’t stop the humming the amount of happy face stickers
that surround this quote on our lunch room wall certainly adds a splash of
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