32 posts tagged “billy”

I wanted to start writing a list a day for 30 days, as I thought this would inspire me to blog more. It really hasn't. I assumed I would be posting at least twice a day and I simply haven't. I'm not giving up, but I just wanted to throw that out there.

I accomplished much on my list of yesterday. Additionally, the house is clean and I just took the homemade taco sauce off the stove. William and I decided to have steak night, great night, date night tonight despite the fact that he is on call this week-end. The weather is supposed to be piss poor, so it won't interfere too much with his week-end if he gets called out, but hopefully not tonight.

I don't recall an August when the yard looked so green. Usually by now the grass is burnt and sad, but not this year - although it looked pretty bad in June. It's raining now, and although I wouldn't say it's 'pouring', it has been raining hard and steady for well over an hour now. The dog looks at me like I'm responsible.

I'm through thinking about Vick. He's playing again and despite my desire to be President of Sports - there is nothing I can do about it. I'm not going to change people's minds and it doesn't do me any good to think about that tool anymore. So, I'm over it - but you won't catch me watching a minute of any game he is a part of, even if (gag) he makes it to the SuperBowl.

Next week I'm going to shampoo the carpets. I wanted this done after the painter left in March - March of 08! It's way overdo and getting me down! It's super easy to clean our carpets because of the layout of our house and I don't feel I have to move our bedroom furniture, as 1) we built the house and the carpet under the bed or dressers shouldn't be 'dirty' per se, and 2) the 110 lbs pooch hasn't had access to those areas. A good vacuum should take care of the bunny habitat under the bed and behind the dressers.

I'm waiting for MomG to come home from London so I can kill 5 birds with one stone... drop off the pooch, hit the bank (didn't do that yesterday), the butcher, the LCBO, and the grocery store.

For now: perhaps a nice little nap on the couch with the pooch.

Ah.

Yesterday everything went as planned... Billy was actually home from work hours earlier than expected as some part was the wrong size. I nodded and pretended I knew WTH he was talking about, but I was just happy to see him... It all worked out.

We had an amazing steak (Schinkels' rocks), I had a bottle of Erie Shore Summer Sun before dinner - perfect for a hot summery day, and Concha y Toro Cab Sav with the steak - it was good, but a bit big and jammy for me... We watched a couple 'Prison Break' episodes, and they were 'okay'. I could do without that show.

All in all it was a fab night.

Today should prove to be quite awesome. I think Billy and I are going to take care of business a bit around here... I want to get that mulch down that Billy raked from the front yard, and I think William may cut the grass. I would love to find some more flowers (a lot of things are on sale now...) and we're almost out of CoffeeMate - so I may have to run into town.

We are golfing today with Revenue Canada John and his Revenue Canada wife. Should be fun!

Here are some pics from the yard from a couple of weeks ago which I forgot to post...

 

 

 

 

 

Life's good...

This week has flown by... I must have been busy because it was here, then gone - a good thing.

I accomplished some things at the house in Windsor and am now ready to move forward - a good thing. I felt really overwhelmed when I arrived there on Tuesday, but things are looking up and I'm excited about the project and progress again.

OMG - I still have to find a digital converter for my mom - she has satellite, but doesn't get in local channels - Boston is decidedly not local - even Chicago for weather purposes would be more useful - so she's like a converter for her little TV on the porch. Anyways, I think I've been to 10 places and they are all sold out. Damn people that waited until the last minute!

I did a lot of work for golf this week! I still have about 6 places to contact for donations for our tournament. I'd rather personally visit the businesses then call, so I might work that in - I'm better in person than on the phone... I'm grateful that someone stepped up to help me too... I also compiled a list of local courses, and their ladies league day and times so I can go to the course and hopefully speak to the captain about our tournament, and the fact that we've opened the tournament to non-RCGA members (means you don't need a handicap - just an estimate of one...) Even if only 2 people from each course enter our tournament, that's still 7 teams or 14 people - worth the effort I believe. I'll start that next week.

Today I have a tee time at 9:51... the 2nd time this year I'm scheduled to golf on a Saturday, but it rained (thank God) all last night. It looks like it's cleared out, but the dilemma is Billy has to either work today (and golf tomorrow with me, John and J's wife, it supposed to be sunny and 84*F, 12:30 tee time - have some drinks after, etc.) or work Sunday and golf today (with the guys that he normally golfs with on Sundays - he has a great time with them - I'm the tee time after him...) Because we plan on having some drinks tonight, watching Prison Break (yes, completely jumped the shark, but we've watched the series from the beginning, and we have all of last season's episodes still to watch...) making an awesome steak dinner, etc.... I'd rather golf tomorrow - but with William having to work, of course it's completely up to him... I wish he could do both...

Hmm... what else... I dragged the pooch to the vet yesterday - she blogged about the experience, check her out in my neighborhood.

Last night there was a fantastic light show around 9:30. It was nice to sit outside with William and watch the sky. It makes me excited for the fireworks next week! This week-end is going to be great - life's good.

So where has LG been? Well this week I've spent 3 very exhausting days at the house in Windsor. I decided that if I ever started a home renovation company - which I would never - I would call it 'FSH Renovations' - Fucking shit hole. Hahaha. It's actually been quite fun, but very tiring as I've filled 1.5 dumpsters with garbage, and have compiled STACKS of cardboard to recycle.

My ass is sore, as I'm not used to climbing up 10 stairs with a recycle box of garbage, down 5 stairs and back again - probably about 100 times yesterday. I'm not lifting much weight as I'm obviously very concerned about my back. Slow and steady wins the race - and fills the dumpster.

I'm starting to see the finish line, and until the kitchen is completed I really have only 3-4 days of work to do there, not including painting the front porch.

So that's that. I'll be back there on Monday, and for now I'm loving being at home.

Tomorrow is William's birthday and I can't believe that I'm going to be married to a 43 year old! Wow! He's golfing Saturday afternoon with friends, then I think getting together with a few guys to play poker. Sunday we're heading to MomG's in the afternoon for a birthday celebration. Tonight William is working late, then we're indulging in our week-end tradition of an awesome steak dinner, drinks, TV shows and hot tub. Perfect!

This morning I'm cleaning the house, running a few errands in Essex, then meeting KT for lunch. The poochy is already at MomG's as Billy went to his mom's to work out first thing this morning and took her with him, so I have an empty house to clean. Much easier to do without a pooch staring at me, following me room to room, and not to mention paw prints on the (soon to be) clean floor.

This week-end should be interesting as MomG is also babysitting a tiny poodle for a week. Halia and Ginger see each other all the time, but living together is another situation! She will have to share the bed with Halia and I don't think either spoiled dog is used to sharing anything. I'm sure MomG will have some good stories! 

Life is so very good, and aside from a few extra elbees I'm carrying, I'm in a really good place, and have never been more content and happy with life!

I am so lucky. Some might thing that luck has nothing to do with it, but I don't really feel 'deserving'... what have I ever done to 'deserve' it? I think sometimes, with some people, 'deserving' leads to entitlement... and I don't want to go there! So I'll stick with lucky...

Here's the story.

I bought two steaks at Schinkels' yesterday, as per usual week-end treat, and although they were cut nice and thick, they were very narrow. Very, very narrow. In fact the butcher commented that he had never seen such a narrow strip before. They didn't weigh much, but looked like quality. I bought a bottle of Wayne Gretzky wine (ha ha, lately we've been buying 'famous people wine' in search of my favorite, so far Greg Norman is in the lead...) to continue our lovely tradition.

I told William about the steaks, and later he was at Romano's to purchase hot sausages and kielbasa, he noticed that their AAA New York Strips were on sale for dirt cheap, so he decided to have two cut for us.

Oh yes, 2 steak dinners in a week-end.

William is on call this week-end, and doncha know that someone is stuck in an elevator in downtown Windsor at 5:30! ARG! He leaves and we'll have a late dinner which I prefer anyway...

When he finally came home, (and here is the point) he did so with two bottles of wine, realizing that I only had 1 bottle of red for 2 nights of steak gluttony.

That is so thoughtful! Seriously I almost cried, and not because I was happy to see more booze... it was just very kind... I'm sure he didn't want to linger in Windsor after the call, and just wanted to get home, but he stopped for me anyway.

It is the little things that are important. Now Dan Ackroyd is in the running for famous people that make wine... I'll let you know...  

To all of you out there!

So what does Valentines Day mean to some? I think of a few people I know, (and have known) over the years... husbands buy their wife an expensive gift because it is expected of him, but more importantly so she can brag to her friends (and anyone who may be in earshot) how much her husband loves her. Husbands take their wives out to dinner, although the restaurants are packed, to avoid the silent treatment. Husbands buy cards they hardly read, saying things they don't mean, and simply sign their names at the bottom, because if you don't do at least that, you obviously don't love your wife.

Silliness!

I'm incredibly grateful and appreciative that I married William. Tonight we'll continue my (our) favorite week-end tradition of staying in, grilling huge steaks with all the good stuff, having drinks, watching some TV shows or a couple of movies, and chatting in the hot tub.

I value Billy everyday, and he does me. I thank him for working so hard for us, I ask him if there is anything I can do for him while he is working, I show gratitude when he brings in the recycle boxes, I try to make his favorite dinners, I almost always greet him at the door, (because I'm truly happy to see him) and I genuinely want to hear about his day. I know that I have the extreme luxury of time to be thoughtful, but I really think it's the little, tiniest of things that make up a good life. It's also not worrying about the small things, thinking before speaking, consideration, empathy, letting go, and bearing in mind the big picture.

I'm really lucky.  

I'm so lucky for so many reasons... We have a great family and health. Billy has a job where he will always be in demand. I truly have more than I need, and for all those reasons, I'm seriously grateful.

Christmas was wonderful and fun. When I opened Billy's 'big' gift to me... (after we discussed not exchanging gifts...me thinking already that the 'big' gift was a sweet new 6 rescue club - can't wait to hit that baby!) I started crying. It sounds so stupid, but he bought me a camera that I secretly pined for, but I told nobody about. How he knew that I wanted that exact camera - I have no idea. I didn't even search it online or anything! His being so in tune to my wants (the camera was way too expensive for me to ever ask for) that it really moved me into tears.

Big baby! Oh well.

I received fantastic gifts from everyone! It makes me feel a little guilty that I have so much. I hope that people feel the same way about the gifts I gave to them... it would ease my mind a little I think.

Life is good.

Last week we drove up to Bothwell, to Sloane's and picked out our Christmas tree. It's quite the experience to go to Sloane's, they go all out... here's a photographic tour...

It's like Sherwood freakin' forest...

Even the bathrooms are cute. Smelly, but cute.

We adopted this campfire for about 30 seconds... it was too cold!

At first we thought, 'Slim pickins!'

Free horse rides, but you can't bring your tree aboard..,

Giant sand hill... sometimes I wish I was a kid again! I'd be on that like a fat kid on a Smartie!

After the tree hunt, we skipped the usual 'Crabby Joe's' in Chatham for one of Billy's long ago past favs: Chatham Burger... it was awesome... anyways, this is how the conversation went...

Me: Wow, she looks like she is really into that Gyro...

Billy: Kinda reminds me of you this morning, but it wasn't a gyro...

When leaving I snapped this pic and said,

'This kinda reminds me of you this morning, but you weren't holding a burger!'

Okay, that was wrong, but remember? Life's fun!

So be sure to keep reading...

There is a Thursday night game this week, and the Browns are starting Brady Quinn as QB, replacing Derek Anderson... I'm not sure how I feel about this. DA played so well at the end of last year, I hate to give up on him, as he is not the only problem with the Browns. I don't even know yet whether I should take Denver or Cleveland in my pools... dilemma dilemma...

Secondly, I'm still quite excited about the possible upcoming cruise. It made me think of all the great times that Billy and have had, and not just cruising either... We've had great trips to Tennessee, camping and week-end getaways - once to Toronto, and a couple to Cleveland. Actually we even make an average Saturday night at home special with a good dinner, drinks, hot tub and DVR'd shows... I'm very lucky.

So anyways... I started wandering though some of my old pictures of cruises and I've decided to post some. I wasn't that into photography (if you can call it that) then, and often we'd be too busy or distracted to take pictures... plus I can't believe what a difference in quality a digital camera makes! We had an 'advantix' camera on a couple of cruises and well, I lost it!

Here are some pics with a little description...

This was a gorgeous beach in Grand Cayman on our first cruise together in 2001.

Here's William and I on the ship overlooking Jamaica. Am I wearing overalls? Yes, yes I am.. they were KT's for sure, as I never had a pair of my own... that shirt Billy is wearing... I've never seen it since, and we moved in together days after this cruise... hm! 

Here we are dressed for a nice dinner... that's KT's dress... my right boob looks like it might explode - what's with that?

Billy got in trouble for repeatedly jumping off this boat in Mexico... If there is a chance for him to jump off anything over 2 feet off the water, he will... it's a theme of our vacations... this is the trip where I lost the camera, so there is not a lot of pictures.

This is where we went white water rafting in Mexico. It was all granite rocks and just gorgeous. We had a great time!

Holy crap! I had brown hair! I dyed it black about 2 weeks before this trip, and my friend tried to lighten it, but it was falling out in clumps... I look funny with dark hair... we were both a little bit more, um, portly on this trip... oh, and that's not KT's dress, it's mine...

Here we are at Kauai Lagoons in Hawaii... if you ever cruise into that island, it's the course you see on the right. It was gorgeous and we golfed with the most annoying person in the world, but we had an amazing time...

Yeah, it was pretty darned nice!

Billy likes this picture, but I don't even think it looks like me... somewhere in the scanning process what appears to be a large black fly is just below my chin... oh well... and that's my dress by the way...

I love this pic. It's the view from the top of Diamond Head. That's the small mountain you see in pictures of Honolulu. We flew in a few days before our cruise departed, and we rented scooters, cruised around, hit a beach, then decided to walk to the top of this thing... there is stairs... when it was blazing hot. What a great view. I loved it here...

I love this pic of us... we were having some cocktails in the main lounge with some nice people we had met. What a great time! Oh, and that's KT's dress...

Well, that's my little walk down memory lane. I'm looking forward to more adventures... I'm so lucky...

Sprained my back that is.

Oh yes... I did a quick post yesterday, checked my email, and when I went to stand I discovered that I couldn't stand up straight. I thought perhaps I was just stiff... oh no, oh no. It's pain reminiscent of this post... Super! I've talked to my chiropractor, (as I can't even go see him as I wouldn't be able to make it from the car into his office without substantial embarrassment to myself, as I'm hunched over like a 103 year old) and he wants me to get x-rays and a CAT scan as he is concerned about the re-injury factoid in addition to my Golfer's Ass Syndrome which only ended 3 short weeks ago, by the way.

<Sigh>

For the last few days before this I've been feeling great. I appreciated the lack of sciatic pain, and how good my body felt... now, un-so much.

The only good thing to come out of this is that I showered and washed my hair yesterday and couldn't dry it, and now I'm sporting fabulous Texas Hair... oh I just love it! (Usually my hair is either fuzzy or stick straight... I'm pretty sure the combination of not washing all the conditioner out of it combined with severe bed head has resulted in a great hair day if nothing else...

See...

Thank God for a great husband who totally does everything for me, and the fact that he has a great job with good coverage.