I have hit a point in my life where I realize that I have to do something for myself. I need to reset the direction my life is going. I need to take charge of my health. So, a week ago I quit smoking.. put the soda pop aside and decided to join the "Y".
I have to admit that once I put the determination to quit on the table, will power followed right behind and it wasn't half as hard as I expected it to be. As a matter of fact I have to admit that it was downright easy. Oh sure, I crave a cigarette but it is easy to just say no I am not having one and with each passing day it is easier.
The Diet Pepsi was actually a bit harder to quit than the smoking... especially when I am at work. However, I am sticking with the water or the diet iced tea... mostly iced tea because it is supposed to be good to help you lose weight and I have 55 pounds that has to come off. So far my trainer has me working on just the bike and the treadmill, he says that I need to build up my cardio before he will allow me to start any weight training... pfffffft!!!! Darn it after all I want to start loosing the weight now, not later but I guess he knows best. I was very discouraged that after one week instead of loosing I had gained three pounds... I was almost ready to give it up already. I blame that on Alan though because I know better than to weigh myself that often and I shouldn't have done it but he was excited to see how much he had lost... no more scales for me until the end of July.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
So much for the bland diet!!!
I think I am destined to be in pain LOL. I just can't eat plain food, I don't have it in me. I have to spice it up some or I just can't eat it, it's as simple as that! So I eat the good food and suffer the consequences. Thank Heavens for Tramoset and Imodium, at least they help keep me from suffering too much. :)
We have discovered a Chinese restaurant in Sarnia that is top notch.. believe me, they are a rarity around here. This one is scrumptious!!! The hot food is hot and the cold is cold... the buffet has a humongous selection to choose from.. all you can eat and believe me, I can eat an awful lot. The best thing about them is that they are cheap.. yeppers, Cheap. We can even afford to go there to eat. Oh my.. the mushrooms in Oyster sauce are to die for... yummy, the curried chicken is perfection, the honey garlic ribs are beyond description.. oh yeah they even have a sushi section too. :) They have quite a large seafood selection, which being a Newfie pleases me to no end. Crab legs, so many different kinds of shrimp that I couldn't name them all, smoked salmon, cheese crab, oysters, and I better not forget the scallops. :) This is on top of all the chinese dishes. Now I have gone and made myself hungry after eating a huge t-bone steak for dinner. Sheeeeeesh, can never fill the huge hole I call a stomach.
This week we went to visit the Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic site in Dresden. It was very interesting. The site commemorates the life of Josiah Henson, the Black slave who's biography inspired the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is built on part of the land where he lived. The Museum has a building that contains a lot of artifacts from that period and a lot of slave history, as well it has the last house that he lived in, another house from one of the fugitive slaves, the church, part of the sawmill they used and the Henson graveyard.
Now of course I learned about slavery in school and I have known of existence much the same as anyone else. I have to say though that walking through the site and standing in his house, sitting in the church.. it was a little over-whelming. It seemed to make it more personal. Looking at the whips, chains, the neck clamps and the other stuff almost made me cry. I couldn't possibly imagine the suffering they went through. I could almost hear them cry out. How could any human being treat another in that way? To think they were not even considered to be humans.. how did they stand under the burden! It is not that I learned anything new, it was just that I was brought a little closer and had my eyes opened. Not a pretty sight.
I don't know what this week will bring, we shall just have to wait and see. I am thinking about making a trip to the Moore Museum but it will depend on how well my money lasts LOL
We have discovered a Chinese restaurant in Sarnia that is top notch.. believe me, they are a rarity around here. This one is scrumptious!!! The hot food is hot and the cold is cold... the buffet has a humongous selection to choose from.. all you can eat and believe me, I can eat an awful lot. The best thing about them is that they are cheap.. yeppers, Cheap. We can even afford to go there to eat. Oh my.. the mushrooms in Oyster sauce are to die for... yummy, the curried chicken is perfection, the honey garlic ribs are beyond description.. oh yeah they even have a sushi section too. :) They have quite a large seafood selection, which being a Newfie pleases me to no end. Crab legs, so many different kinds of shrimp that I couldn't name them all, smoked salmon, cheese crab, oysters, and I better not forget the scallops. :) This is on top of all the chinese dishes. Now I have gone and made myself hungry after eating a huge t-bone steak for dinner. Sheeeeeesh, can never fill the huge hole I call a stomach.
This week we went to visit the Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic site in Dresden. It was very interesting. The site commemorates the life of Josiah Henson, the Black slave who's biography inspired the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is built on part of the land where he lived. The Museum has a building that contains a lot of artifacts from that period and a lot of slave history, as well it has the last house that he lived in, another house from one of the fugitive slaves, the church, part of the sawmill they used and the Henson graveyard.
Now of course I learned about slavery in school and I have known of existence much the same as anyone else. I have to say though that walking through the site and standing in his house, sitting in the church.. it was a little over-whelming. It seemed to make it more personal. Looking at the whips, chains, the neck clamps and the other stuff almost made me cry. I couldn't possibly imagine the suffering they went through. I could almost hear them cry out. How could any human being treat another in that way? To think they were not even considered to be humans.. how did they stand under the burden! It is not that I learned anything new, it was just that I was brought a little closer and had my eyes opened. Not a pretty sight.
I don't know what this week will bring, we shall just have to wait and see. I am thinking about making a trip to the Moore Museum but it will depend on how well my money lasts LOL
Monday, May 25, 2009
What a Relief it is!
Well I have been so worried and not a little scared. I finally broke down and went to see the doctor about my problem. He agreed that all the symptoms were those of colon cancer and set me up with scopes to look into it. After I came out of the anesthetic the nurse told me that they did two biopsies and before I was discharged was given an appointment to see the doctor today for the results. I have to admit that walking into his office today I had trouble breathing past the knot of fear in my chest. Turns out that all the worrying was over nothing. I have a spastic colon LOL. So I have been put on a rather bland diet to say the least.. all my favourite foods are now tabu, no spices, no garlic, no pepper, no salt,... may as well eat cardboard!!!! Oh dear, nothing will ever taste the same again. Now this is going to take some getting use to. I mean I do like a little food with my garlic and spices. I mean you take the spices out of a kitchen and you may as well remove the cook.. I dont know how to cook without my spices. Heck, that means even Ketchup is no longer on the menu because it has spices. I am sure that over time I will come up with passable meals in the meantime we shall have to suffice with the cardboard. At least there is always Jello for dessert.
Now that the worry is gone maybe I will be able to get back to do normal and do some scrapbooking. Although, to be truthful there hasnt been an awful lot happening to get many photos.
We have gone to Rhondeau a couple of times but those dratted little birds are so full of energy that they are hard to get good shots of. They wont stay still for two seconds. I will spy one sitting in a tree but by the time I have managed to line up the shot, they have flown away. I have seen a lot of different warblers this spring, it is exciting to watch them and to listen to them.. such a beautiful sound. I wish I had a way to record it.. the sound of the birds, the wind whispering through the trees, with the waves crashing against the shore in the background.. my but that would be such a beautiful thing to fall asleep to every night.
I am working again every weekend now so I dont get to go as much as I would like, but then if I werent working, I wouldnt have the money to go so it is a catch 22 situation. LOL
I am off to bed now to have the first good night sleep in a few weeks.
Now that the worry is gone maybe I will be able to get back to do normal and do some scrapbooking. Although, to be truthful there hasnt been an awful lot happening to get many photos.
We have gone to Rhondeau a couple of times but those dratted little birds are so full of energy that they are hard to get good shots of. They wont stay still for two seconds. I will spy one sitting in a tree but by the time I have managed to line up the shot, they have flown away. I have seen a lot of different warblers this spring, it is exciting to watch them and to listen to them.. such a beautiful sound. I wish I had a way to record it.. the sound of the birds, the wind whispering through the trees, with the waves crashing against the shore in the background.. my but that would be such a beautiful thing to fall asleep to every night.
I am working again every weekend now so I dont get to go as much as I would like, but then if I werent working, I wouldnt have the money to go so it is a catch 22 situation. LOL
I am off to bed now to have the first good night sleep in a few weeks.
Monday, May 18, 2009
The Next Level
If you are looking for challenges to boot your mojo, or you just want something new to inspire you, look no farther than The Next Level. The Next Level is an exciting new concept whose aim in is not only to produce really creative Weekly Challenges that are not tied to any specific brand, but also to explore new avenues, ideas and techniques with a completely fresh approach. They will be launching on June 1.. check them out.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Birthdays are so much Fun!!!
I am now officially old!!! I think once you go above the double nickles you are supposed to be old but I refuse to grow up even if I am old so there. On Saturday we celebrated my birthday by going to Rondeau Park.. love that place. I packed us up a nice picnic lunch and off we went. It was a beautiful day with the sun shining down on us. The trails were perfect. The Carolian forest was alive with flowers bursting from forest floor and the birds were singing, the trees were in full bud.. it was just a great time to be there.
We watched a Red Bellied Woodpecker for a while, such a beautiful bird. The Chickadees play peek a boo with us from the tops of tree they have such a marvelous song. The Cape May would not stay still long enough for us to get a good look at him, I got some yellow streaks but that is all. I did get a pic of another bird that I have no idea what it might be, when I first took the pic I thought it was a Robin but after looking at it, I now know it isn't. I will send the pic to the Park department to find out what it is. It was a great day even if we didn't spot any "special" birds. :)
I finished the album for my BFF and she was thrilled with it. She looked through it several times commenting on this and that. So I was happy to have been able to make it for her. I love being able to do things for her because she is always to happy with them.
I have made a couple of layouts for myself. I did one of my Mother who passed away in 1998.
Theresa decided she needed an Hammock so she made one.. Her mother took some pics which just had to be scrapped :)
I love this photo which Janet took at the Toronto Zoo.
That's all for now, I will have more later. Donald has his track and field day later this week which I will be attending (with bells and my camera of course) so you can count on lots of layouts coming from that one. hahaha
We watched a Red Bellied Woodpecker for a while, such a beautiful bird. The Chickadees play peek a boo with us from the tops of tree they have such a marvelous song. The Cape May would not stay still long enough for us to get a good look at him, I got some yellow streaks but that is all. I did get a pic of another bird that I have no idea what it might be, when I first took the pic I thought it was a Robin but after looking at it, I now know it isn't. I will send the pic to the Park department to find out what it is. It was a great day even if we didn't spot any "special" birds. :)
I finished the album for my BFF and she was thrilled with it. She looked through it several times commenting on this and that. So I was happy to have been able to make it for her. I love being able to do things for her because she is always to happy with them.
I have made a couple of layouts for myself. I did one of my Mother who passed away in 1998.
Theresa decided she needed an Hammock so she made one.. Her mother took some pics which just had to be scrapped :)
I love this photo which Janet took at the Toronto Zoo.
That's all for now, I will have more later. Donald has his track and field day later this week which I will be attending (with bells and my camera of course) so you can count on lots of layouts coming from that one. hahaha
Monday, April 27, 2009
So So busy!!!
Hi, I have been so busy that I haven't made any posts for a long while. What have I been doing you may ask.. well.. I have been working on the album for my BFF and I have it almost finished, just four pages to go. I have 44 pages done so far, wow I can't believe I have done so much in such a short time. I gave her a sneak preview.. she hasn't seen the album or anything, just a few pages and she is just gloating over it. I am quite happy with it too, I think it has turned out very nice. It hasn't been the easiest thing to put together, not knowing who half the people are or anything about what they are doing etc... a lot of the pages don't even have titles. I have made up for that lack with a lot of bling and embellies. LOL
Now, that hasn't been the only thing I have been doing .. oh no, I have also been busy at DT Boot Camp at WeScrap. Now I have to tell you that it has been exciting, fun and yeah a little bit hard too. There is nothing like learning all the ins and outs of being on a Design Team like learning at Boot Camp from the pros. We learned all about how to do challenges, incite chat on forums and for the final week... well that was the oh la la of oh la las.. we were broken into teams and sent of to act as a Design Team. Our job was to organize and co-ordinate a crop, complete with challenges, projects and games. I am the leader of our team. Personally I think we have done an exceptional job on organizing our crop... we shall have to wait and see what the Generals think. :) All I can say is that it was a great learning experience and I was proud to be part of it.
I have also been involved in two online crops this week, one at My Sketch World and the other at Creative Scrappers... not only that but I had to work Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Okay so I really didn't work on Sunday I dragged myself through the day but I still get paid for it :) WOW.. I made myself tired just typing it all.
Now, that hasn't been the only thing I have been doing .. oh no, I have also been busy at DT Boot Camp at WeScrap. Now I have to tell you that it has been exciting, fun and yeah a little bit hard too. There is nothing like learning all the ins and outs of being on a Design Team like learning at Boot Camp from the pros. We learned all about how to do challenges, incite chat on forums and for the final week... well that was the oh la la of oh la las.. we were broken into teams and sent of to act as a Design Team. Our job was to organize and co-ordinate a crop, complete with challenges, projects and games. I am the leader of our team. Personally I think we have done an exceptional job on organizing our crop... we shall have to wait and see what the Generals think. :) All I can say is that it was a great learning experience and I was proud to be part of it.
I have also been involved in two online crops this week, one at My Sketch World and the other at Creative Scrappers... not only that but I had to work Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Okay so I really didn't work on Sunday I dragged myself through the day but I still get paid for it :) WOW.. I made myself tired just typing it all.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Reveal Day
Today is reveal day at Just My Sketches. I am always blown away by the talent the DT has. We have a wonderful group of gals there and they do amazing work.
Here is the sketch we had to work with this month:
Here is my layout for the sketch:
Here is the sketch we had to work with this month:
Here is my layout for the sketch:
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