In A Mood - But Aren’t We All?

I started back to Bootcamp this morning at 6am across the street at the park. I can tell you that 530am came upon me way too fast. It is only 8pm and I’m zonked, especially when thinking about having to get up at 530am tomorrow morning, lol. I wish diet pills worked and weren’t just all hype, else I’d buy Phentermine without prescription. But we all know that the big drug companies that make these ‘diet pills’ would never actually release anything that actually worked…as soon they would be out of business as everyone got to their normal BMI’s.

Ah well, exercise always makes me feel good and when I actually do watch what I put in my mouth…that makes me feel good too. Let the dieting begin…

Tags: Survivor Bootcamp, Weight Loss, Workouts

Next weekend I am helping a friend cleaning up his rental house so that it hopefully can be rented out again for June. I am bring my cleaning supplies including my Swiffer Mop which I love. It does wonders on my parquet and ceramic floors and I don’t have to drag out water and a bucket like other floor mops. Just attach a clean pad and go! Actually I love all Swiffer products.

Tags: Swiffer, Cleaning Products

I really, really, reallly want to get away. I find I am constantly checking out Sell Off Vacation flight deals and packages and contemplating taking off for a week or even a weeked. But then, I now have a dog, I have Bruiser to take care what do I do with him? I wonder what Dad is doing next week…

I had a family wedding on the weekend to go to in St. Catharines. I was basically just around the corner from Jeff’s place, it was a bit odd, lol. The wedding was short and sweet and when the minister went to announce the new couple, he announced them David and Ashley…his name is Dan. To make it even a more faux pas…the minister was the groom’s father, lol. Supposedly the grandmother wrote a cheque to the couple and accidentally put David on it and the family was talking about it before the ceremony.

The dinner afterwards was nice, I got to see a lot of family that I don’t normally see, almost all my aunts/uncles on my Dad’s side, except one. And I also got to see an old babysitter of mine when I would spend weeks in the summer with my Grandparents at their trailer. They didn’t recognize me and I swear they almost passed out when they realized who I was. That was fun.

Ashley and Dan have not yet gone on their honeymoon, they are flying out this weekend to Florida and then hopping on a cruise ship for the week. These two married young…Ashley is but 20 years old…’cept they’ve been going out for almost 8 years. Talk about soul mates.

Tags: Family, Weddings

I talk about not sleeping well a lot on my blogs. Though I wouldn’t say I have a sleep disorder, I just go through periods of not being able to fall asleep easily or wanting to sleep constantly. I know quite a few people who have gone to a sleep disorder center to help them get a good night’s sleep and they have been able to help them with and without the use of equipment.

One of my co-worker’s is one such friend and she has sleep apnea and recently had her 2nd sleep study after a year on the device she has to help her get a better sleep. She says she has found a great night’s sleep but would love one day to be able to do so on her own.

While we sleep, our bodies repair themselves, so if we continuously lack a good night’s sleep we suffer and our bodies suffer. Left untreated sleep disorders can cause high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, memory problems, weight gain, impotency, and headaches. Those are just the health side affects, loss of sleep can also be responsible for job impairment and motor vehicle crashes. Depending on where you live and what benefits your employer provides, the cost of the
sleep study could be relatively low and maybe free. So if you only dream of a good night’s sleep…do yourself a favour and get one.

Tags: Sleep Study, Sleep Disorders

My first baseball game of the season is tomorrow night and of course…it is suppose to rain! I am not sure what position I will have but I asked for back catcher as I really came into my own at the end of last season in that position, once my team mates (mostly men) knew they could wing one at me and I wouldn’t jump out of the way but actually try to catch it.

I was trying to figure out what I was going to read after I was done The Other Boleyn Girl, but today while at Walmart I found the 2nd book from Nora Roberts newly released in her Signs of Seven trilogy. I may have to reread book one as it was out in Jan/Feb. I should be finished up with TOBG tonight. I do want to check out Chapters on Friday to find some other books from Phillipa Gregory that are written about the same incidents but in different perspectives.

Talking about reading, I do know that I MUST open my CGA books this weekend (Information Systems) and every evening until my exam. I don’t think I will ever defer an exam again…it is too hard to study on my own with no real time guidelines, lol. Structure sure helps especially when I get in one of my lazy moods which have been in for about 6 months now.

Bruiser has his 2nd vet visit Monday…I’m excited for him to get all his shots so we can go to dog parks on the weekends. We are going to Woofstock in June with Jackie and Gunther (bulldog) and we are looking very forward to it :)

Tags: CGA, Softball, Baseball, Woofstock Toronto

I have a pretty good memory. I can memorize most things and in fact was able to write a 3 hour exam in 40min in college for auditing. I even had to sit for 20min as you couldn’t leave before 60min. My teacher was concerned as she thought I wasn’t finishing the exam and I laughed and said I was finished. I walked away with an A- in that class.

Sometimes though, I wish my memory wasn’t so good. It would be nice to put things away or forget them, especially those concerning my childhood and my mother. I guess we all have things we would love to forget…how about you?

Tags: Memory, Forgetfulness

I am in a sleeping mood as of late. I go through these periods of restlessness and then over sleep. It doesn’t help that my memory foam mattress is super duper comfortable.

When I am not sleeping I am reading. I am currently reading The Other Boleyn Girl and loving it. I think I will have to get her other books as well as I enjoy her style. Although based on historical events it is quite fictional and I have also been having fun researching on the net, Anne Boleyn and her sister, Mary.

Anyone else read this book? What did you think?

Tags: The Other Boleyn Girl, Reading, Sleep

I bought a pair of size 12 dress pants today which along with my size 10 jeans that used to be overly baggy in the waist (thighs are a different matter) were tight…was a huge eye opening for me that I must get my food under control or else go in search for the best diet pills around (lol). Survivor Bootcamp starts May 12, I just need to hold on until then…hopefully I don’t see the number 14 prior to then…it seems so far away.

Tags: Weight Gain, Survivor Bootcamp

I have Bruiser almost potty trained to use the balcony as his potty area when he really has to go. I have had only a few pee accidents here and there and I am very happy with him. Obviously the best scenario is 100% outside but when it is 5am in the morning…a pee pad is acceptable to me.

It has been overly nice here in Southern Ontario for April and so I brought out my patio furniture and set it up in one of my many corners of my balcony. I saw a Lazy Boy outside chair at Canadian Tire that I am tempted to go check out. Since my side of the building doesn’t get direct sun…it would be a great place to sit in the summer and the laptop screen would be viewable unlike my condo when the screen just viewed black because of the sun. I also ordered two hanging plants for the balcony as well from one of my coworkers children’s school fund raiser. One of the many fund raisers I’ve so far helped out.

Tags: Puggle, Puppy, Potty Training

I was just thinking about how many uses wipes seem to have nowadays. In my own home, I have doggy wipes, cleaning wipes (Mr. Clean), facial wipes and personal hygiene wipes. There are also medical wipes , nail polish wipes, hand cleaning wipes, etc. I’m wondering though…are these wipes biodegradable? Will have to take a boo at the packaging of those I do use.

Tags: Wipes, Green

I am sitting here watching HGTV’s Propery Virgins which makes me envious of each couple/person that appears on the show. Currently it is a couple from France who recently immigrated and have been renting an apartment in Toronto and are now interested in buying. They got a home loan approval at $300,000 and have $40,000 to put down so they could spend up to $340,000 - at least that is what the host always tells them: home approval plus down payment equals highest house cost. Of course there are closing fees, etc which play a part of the final equation and so her ‘property virgins’ always tell her that although they could spend $340,000 they don’t want to spend at the top of their limit.

Home loans nowadays seem so easy to get. It is what you can get which is my current issue. I paid off a heck of a lot of debt with selling my condo in Hamilton and moving here to Mississuaga but for what I want in terms of a condo here in Mississauga I need to try to have most of my debt paid off as I don’t want to buy into a ‘renovated apt’, I want a real condo that was built as a condo. I want a nice upgraded kitchen, bath and ensuite laundry!

But it won’t be until the summer or late fall that I start shopping around for
home loans again. With the car repair costing closing to $4K…that will take me almost 4 months to pay off…which takes $4K away of paying off other debt. But right now…I don’t mind where I live so there is no real urgency to get out and get out fast.

Tags: Home Loans, Condo Purchases

I’m sitting here waiting for an ODBC data base query to calculate into my Excel…had a report due today and messed it up. Gave them their client’s billable hours instead of ALL billable hours for all clients…uggh!

I need to get home, Bruiser didn’t get a crate break today and I feel awful, but I got to get this done.

As for other things…still no car and no call about said car. I’m seriously not impressed with my dealer at all and tired of being car-less. Though I have opted to only take the car to work on Thursdays to save money and fuel but not having it at all right now is driving me bonkers!

EEK! Too much data for the spreadsheet to handle! Later!

Tags: ODBC, Data Query, Car Repairs

I love the look of Pedestal sinks but I’m wondering…where does all the crap go? I mean my medicine cabinets are full, the cabinet under the sink is full and I am also using a shelf in my linen closet. Between first aid stuff, makeup, perfume, face and hair cremes, etc, etc, where do people put their everyday use stuff?

Yeah…I need to turn off HGTV and switch to Space soon!

Tags: HGTV, SpaceTV

Have any of you every done a detox? I’ve been thinking about it but I have no clue where to start to look for a proper, healthy program. I’ve looked at many including the orovo detox, natural spring detox and even the Martha’s Vineyard detox diet. There are so many articles, claims, refutes, etc that I really don’t know if I should even try. I don’t wish to live off of it, just a week or to to clean my body parts out and help me get back on track.

Tags: Detox, Dieting