- My stomach is shrinking, thanks to some disciplined eating and a daily workout. TG for a home gym!
- Salad is what I ate the most of on Thursday – a delicious spinach, bacon and pine nuts salad at Treadwells in Port Dalhousie and a Greek salad with chicken at the Yacht Club last night.
- The yard looks like shite – not just because of this dreary November weather, but also because I hate gardening (so shoot me!) and never touch it year round. A gardening service mows during the summer and that’s it. It just sits there, making me feel guilty. I’d asphalt the whole damn’ thing if I could.
- At home is where I’d rather be at any given time, despite the lousy, guilt-inducing garden. I like to travel, but I love coming home to my own nest.
- The smell of 4711 Cologne reminds me of Christmas – probably because it was what I used to buy as my mother’s gift every year, when I was a kid.
- Inspiration to strike is what I need right now! I have three speech drafts to work on today.
- And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to Lazy Friday Night with The First Husband; tomorrow my plans include finishing those damn’ speech drafts before leaving for dinner with friends in Port Dover; and Sunday, I want to read by the fire – but I’ll probably have to get some laundry and grocery shopping out of the way too! Much as I hate shopping, I thank the gods for living in Ontario, with its Sunday shopping.
Thanks to Janet for the template. Hope your father feels better soon.
Oh, 4711 Cologne is what my mom used to wear too!! wonderful memories.
Have a lovely weekend
Thank you, Mar, and thanks for stopping by. I visited Spain two years ago, spent a few days with my sister in Tremp and then managed a couple of days in Barcelona before we flew back to Canada. Loved it, want so much to go back and spend more time there.
Love your blog … have a great weekend.
Good job on the working out and stomach shrinkage
Keep up the good work! 
aww… Spinach salad… I am so jealous!
hehehe… inspiration… hmm… *spirit fingers to ya* there ya go
Thanks, Kool-Aid Mom. I keep hoping I’ll become one of those freaks who actually like working out, but no luck so far. I’ll keep plugging at it – not in any vain hope of becoming lithe and lovely (HA! as if …), just for good health.
The spinach salad was to die for. Some time I should blog about my own recipe, which always leaves people begging for more.
Thanks for the spirit fingers – if they could just poke me somewhere around my nether regions, I might finally get off my not-so-fat-anymore arse and do this thing.
Love your blog – like you, I live in fear that the tower of books by the bed will tip over and crush me one night. I’m really working on it, but the pile keeps growing.
speech writing drafts eh, that actually sounds interesting…depending on the subject matter…
and good on you for the decreasing bits…may the force be with you!
Good for you and the healthy body!!
I also had spinach salad today – at Swiss Chalet in St. John’s.
Here we have mild mild mild, saw a seal basking on a rock today, by the time I got the camera he gave me one disgusted look and slipped into the water.
I just ordered Margaret Attwood’s book that I saw on your sidebar. Did you hear the CBC series of her lectures?
Just brill..
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Thistle, sometimes it can be very interesting indeed, especially when I have to research a topic that is new to me. Other times, when I have to draft something for an annual event, it’s tedious trying to think of something new to say. Overall, it’s a good gig – I can work in my jammies if I feel like it and at hours of my own choosing.
Wisewebwoman, I can’t believe that you’re having such balmy weather on The Rock! It’s miserable and Novemberish here, neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring, as the Mammy used to say. I didn’t catch the Massey Lecture on CBC, because I rarely listen to the radio these days. But I did go to see her talk about it, in a conversation with Ian Brown, at Mohawk College in Hamilton a couple of weeks ago and she was excellent. I started reading her books in Ireland, long before I even thought of living in Canada, and have always loved her writing.
Salad is tasty. And yardwork sucks. Have a great weekend!
Thanks, Alan. Right back at ya.