Seraphim Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 We got home an hour and a half ago thankfully. Going to bed very soon and back with my cats. Unfortunately, when we left home some one had turned the heat off before we left because it was about 5 C. The house was 10 C when we got home and poor kitties must have been frozen. Heat is on now and almost 20C inside now . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 My gift from hubby. Diamond studs , with princess cut diamonds, from the first Canadian diamond mine . It is located in The NorthWest Territories, the Ekati Diamond Mine . The actual diamonds are inscribed with a number identifying them as Canadian diamonds from that mine . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 28, 2023 Author Share Posted December 28, 2023 I apologized to my brother today. He said no problem I just love you and don’t want this move to be hell for you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 29, 2023 Author Share Posted December 29, 2023 Leaving for the house up North today with more stuff and seeing how the renovations are going . Our family up there is sick with the flu so we won’t be meeting up with them . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batya33 Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 2 hours ago, Seraphim said: Leaving for the house up North today with more stuff and seeing how the renovations are going . Our family up there is sick with the flu so we won’t be meeting up with them . Hope they recover soon! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 29, 2023 Author Share Posted December 29, 2023 15 minutes ago, Batya33 said: Hope they recover soon! I hope so. They sounded pretty sick and they also had Covid 4 weeks ago. My husband’s aunt is 87. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boltnrun Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 I know about ten people who have had Covid in the past six weeks or so. It definitely is not "gone". I also have family members who are sick. Hopefully they all recover soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 7 hours ago, boltnrun said: I know about ten people who have had Covid in the past six weeks or so. It definitely is not "gone". I also have family members who are sick. Hopefully they all recover soon. I know many as well who have it right now . It is still going around for sure . 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻For everyone to get well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 Going to the nation’s capital today. It is about 1 hour and 20 minutes from us . It has been about 6 C and foggy and raining for a week and a half sooooooo annoying. Today it is -10C and the miserable fog is gone and the snow will resume. Thank goodness! I hate rain with a passion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batya33 Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 1 minute ago, Seraphim said: Going to the nation’s capital today. It is about 1 hour and 20 minutes from us . It has been about 6 C and foggy and raining for a week and a half sooooooo annoying. Today it is -10C and the miserable fog is gone and the snow will resume. Thank goodness! I hate rain with a passion. I hate cold rain. We had that -not too much -during our recent trip out west. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 11 minutes ago, Batya33 said: I hate cold rain. We had that -not too much -during our recent trip out west. Yeah, I lived in Vancouver, BC when I was a kid and the rain was ridiculous. But the clouds have to drop all the rain to pass over the costal mountains and then the Rockies. So Vancouver it rains A LOT. Part of BC even has a rainforest! This weather pattern was stalled over the province for ages and it was no white Christmas for us because of El Niño. Thank goodness the cold air has returned. The province has been hit hard with Covid and influenza and gastro and pneumonia. We have been so lucky and remained healthy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batya33 Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 I was in Vancouver once. Mid September 2005. I flew on Sept. 11. I LOVED it - biked in Stanley park and had awesome seafood too. Was there on business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 15 minutes ago, Batya33 said: I was in Vancouver once. Mid September 2005. I flew on Sept. 11. I LOVED it - biked in Stanley park and had awesome seafood too. Was there on business. I spent a lot of time in Stanley Park and the various beaches. My brother spread our father’s ashes on Third Beach, the beaches there were my dad’s fav place in the world. So my brother flew his ashes across the country and spread them there, well half of them. The other half are buried with his parents. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batya33 Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 6 minutes ago, Seraphim said: I spent a lot of time in Stanley Park and the various beaches. My brother spread our father’s ashes on Third Beach, the beaches there were my dad’s fav place in the world. So my brother flew his ashes across the country and spread them there, well half of them. The other half are buried with his parents. Incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boltnrun Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 I had planned to take a trip to Vancouver and specifically wanted to visit Stanley Park. Then Covid happened. And of course I'm not traveling via airplane now because I don't feel safe. Someday I'll make that trip, when Covid is more under control. I understand it's beautiful! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 23 minutes ago, boltnrun said: I had planned to take a trip to Vancouver and specifically wanted to visit Stanley Park. Then Covid happened. And of course I'm not traveling via airplane now because I don't feel safe. Someday I'll make that trip, when Covid is more under control. I understand it's beautiful! BC is one of the most beautiful places on Earth for sure but you better love rain. I lived there from 1971-1975, 1980-1983. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 Seeing as we will be moving again I asked my husband and son where they feel they are from. They mentioned where they were little kids is where they are from . My husband never moved from his little village until he was an adult. Where he is from is so small there was no school even. He had to be bused to the next city . My son was born in a major city and lived there until he was almost 13. I was raised everywhere, East, West, major cities and tiny hamlets. So when people ask me where I am from I never know what to say . I am a child of everywhere. I am very lucky to have experienced so much of Canada. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 I can’t believe tomorrow is the end of another year. Just, wow. Time goes so fast. It gets faster and faster every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batya33 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 9 hours ago, Seraphim said: I can’t believe tomorrow is the end of another year. Just, wow. Time goes so fast. It gets faster and faster every year. Happy new year and happy 123123 day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Batya33 said: Happy new year and happy 123123 day! You too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 Yesterday when we got home we were so tired our legs barely got us to the house . This travelling around to everyone is getting too much . We are utterly exhausted and have bags under our eyes from not sleeping too well in hotels all over the place . So glad to be home . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 12/26/2023 at 1:44 PM, Seraphim said: Christmas was a firecracker for the first time ever as an adult I had a yelling match with my brother. Of course my mom takes his side and isn’t talking to me and said thanks for ruining her Christmas. And then expects me to leave all my food for my step sister to come today because she is too tired and broken to go to the store . 🙄🙄🙄😒😒😒So some how it is ok to not talk to me and blame me but need all my food . More about it later as we are at my MIL’s. Just suffice it to say my brother and his gf can’t mind their business and decided to be pushy. I figured out what contributed to this . I had inadvertently taken myself off caffeine. I can’t drink diet Pepsi anymore because it makes me feel like I’m going to vomit due to my new medication so I started drinking diet Gingerale. My mom had told me oh yeah, all pop has caffeine but root beer so I listen to the woman who has never looked it up and found out no Gingerale does not have caffeine. I wondered why I was in such a horrible mood with headaches and nightmares. That is why. So I will have one bottle of Diet Pepsi at lunch time which should avert the crazy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batya33 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 18 minutes ago, Seraphim said: Yesterday when we got home we were so tired our legs barely got us to the house . This travelling around to everyone is getting too much . We are utterly exhausted and have bags under our eyes from not sleeping too well in hotels all over the place . So glad to be home . We stayed in 6 hotels in 9 days for our trip. I feel you. I had to skip some coffee on our trip. I quit soda/diet soda many years ago - I was a tab and diet coke fiend for years. Do you drink coffee or tea as far as caffeine withdrawal? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 1 minute ago, Batya33 said: We stayed in 6 hotels in 9 days for our trip. I feel you. Yeah, it is getting too much combined in with new medication and holiday stress and my brother’s gf being pushy etc , no sleep and no caffeine. It all just did me in . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphim Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 I am not normally that unruly and angry . As I said I have never had a fight with my brother in almost 40 years of being an adult . We are always kind and loving to each other . We may not see each other that often, but we do love each other and are kind to each other. So that was totally uncharacteristic. I think it was all too much on my body and brain and I didn’t have the restraint and patience I usually have . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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