Got the most kick-@$$ heater! It still rankles that i have to foot the bill for an external, portable heater, when i pay for heat from the building in my condo fees, but such is life in a small unit where the balcony doors have a chilling effect on almost all the full-length of the heating unit in the living room, and in living on the North side of the building, and getting virtually no direct sunlight.

So niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice to be toasty and warm! All that suffering, and a $90 tower heater cured it in a jiffy! I can afford a $90 investment in my well-being; in surviving the Canadian Winter in comfort! I like to be so warm i am sweating lightly. Or rather, GLOWING slightly, because women don't SWEAT! Men SWEAT, women GLOW! Have always liked being cozy indoors in Winter! My place is soooooooo much more comfortable!!!!!!!

The advantage of a Northern exposure it that colors are truer, which helped when i was doing color knitting. If i pick up sketching, and drawing with oil like @Blueberrybook recommends, it will come in handy there again too.

I always enjoyed art class in high school, and am a specialist in action-portraits. I liked water colors of flowers in French Immersion. Lastly, i liked multi-media in depictions of trauma in art therapy.

I'm tied up trying to learn to cook tho. That's my priority. Getting healthy, which may not include losing weight, as i am in menopause, and find it next to impossible to lose weight now. Also, i don't mind being fat so much anymore.

I'm not looking for a partner, and if a female friend would be so concerned about my weight that she would reject me for it, i don't want her friendship anyways, because that's shallow.

Also, i am more and more attracted to Middle-Eastern culture, and their loose flowing abayas are very flattering to me. I still have my pretty face, and lovely coloring, so being thin hardly matters to me anymore. Western women worry too much about their weight. Enjoy life, enjoy food, i say!

I cook to entertain my neighbors, too, who have helped me in the past, and it is my pleasure to have them over, and spoil them rotten. My mom was an exceptional hostess, so i am only being true to my roots! Feels great! Like i am paying an homage to my mom!

Drinking cola from my new stoneware mug, part of my new collection of high-end arty dishes, which have a contemporary Middle-Eastern vibe. Each plate, and bowl is a different riot of color. I think i already mentioned them, but i am just transifxed by them. I sent my sister, (who lives in another city), images of them, and she said, "Stunning! I loooooooooooove the vibrant colors!"

The utensils are these really unique iridescent purple-and-turquoise color, (i think i already said), but mention again because i am soooooooooo in enraptured with them! The are heavy-weight and really seem to be exceptionally good quality. I can't wait til my Family Day party on the 17th when i will showcase my new tableware!

The online shopping return guy came and i sent back all the stuff i ordered during a pressured-online-shopping-spree late one night. Some refunds are issued immediately, without waiting for the product return! Marvy! So glad to have that all off my hands, and survive that night's bad judgment unscathed.

It was just like i BORROWED all the merchandise! The return service didn't require any packaging or labels, and helped me get stuff off of high closet shelves that was to heavy for me, (i could get it up there, but couldn't get it down). Really good service, and the guys were totally pleasant and professional.

They were both Middle-Eastern looking. I find the Middle-Eastern men really treat a powerful women with respect. You definitely have to take charge with them, tho, but one the power dynamic is established, they fall all over themselves to help!

A good experience!