shhhh ..... it's a secret! ;)

So I have a secret ..... I started a new blog ..... it's because there is a new path in my life ..... we are pregnant!! :) I think just about everyone knows now so I figured it was safe to tell all my readers here! I probably won't be posting here anymore either so this way you can follow my new journey on my new blog. We found out almost three weeks ago so that makes me 8 weeks pregnant now! I still have a long way to go and I am not even finished my first trimester yet but we were too excited to not tell anyone! I figure this way too that if anything bad were to happen then I will have tons of support! :) So I was going to get my hubby to upload the pics we took of my pee sticks but he was busy last night and I forgot to ask so I just uploaded one from the Internet! ? he he It's the same brand of one of the tests I took so it's kinda the same!? ;) So if you are curious and don't mind a little detailed info on girly stuff then you can follow my new journey!

Thursday

Tonight is bowling night (5 pin), we go every Thursday from 9pm till about 11ish - it makes for a super long night but it is nice to get out, especially now that winter is coming. Lately I have been trying to have a nap before we go just cause I get so tired!

We went shopping last night too with my hubbies Grandma, she saw something and wanted to get it for us but wanted us to look at it first. So off to Zellers we go, it was a glidder rocking chair - I liked it and it is something I have always wanted so she bought it for us. An early Christmas present, I think!? I can't wait to get it set up and try it out but so far it is still in the back of my car! he he I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet and have no idea on what to get people - I wish we would just buy gifts for the kids and not everyone but it is hard to convince my hubby of this. It's not that I don't like giving gifts I just don't like giving gifts that people won't use. And when you are 60 years + it becomes really hard to think of something they actually "need" and not some dust collector that they will never use!?

Weekend review

So we had our race banquet on Saturday, it was good. One of the racer's own's his own catering company, they catered last year and it was really good - this year was the same. I would recommend him to anyone looking for a caterer, they serve appetizers, the main course that consisted of lots of salads and fruit, chicken, salmon and roast beef with all the sides to go with them and then at 11pm they brought out the late lunch! It was really good, of course I ate way too much. Hubby got a trophy for most valuable employee, which was a complete surprise but well deserved.

The rest of the wekend was pretty lazy on my part, we did some visiting on Sunday but I however was too lazy to clean the house! ;) Hubby said he would vacuum today and take the garbage out so we will see if that gets done!

I got a picture from my brother of my niece on Halloween. It is her first Halloween and looks super cute! Her she is.....

~~ Wednesday Weigh in ~~

Well its been a while since I've weighed in, I think the last one that I posted here was week 59 at 172.6lbs? It is now ....

Week 62 = 170.6lbs

(-2lbs)

I'm actually really surprised by this weigh in, I feel like I've been eating every hour, although they are "good" snacks I've still been snacking a lot! ;) I think I will do bi-monthly weigh ins so every 15 days or so? So my next weigh in will be November 15th, I will still weigh myself at home every week but I just wont be posting anything till the 15th.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

As most of you know, today is Halloween! It's a fun time of year, a time of year that my hubby really enjoys. This is our second year converting our garage into a Haunted Garage, it is fun to have the neighbors come by and their kids seem to really enjoy it. Hopefully this year we will have more kids then last, the weather should be nice so there's no reason why people won't come out!? Halloween sure isn't like when I was young, there were kids everywhere no matter what the weather was like. We didn't have all the indoor activities like they do now in the malls, which I'm sure as a parent you are grateful for having the choice to Trick or Treat indoors as opposed to bundling up your little one finding a costume to fit over top of the piles of clothes and facing the elements of outdoors!? I think I still prefer the old fashioned way, where you walk your neighborhood and yell at people's doors, maybe get a few scares!? BOO ! ;) But at least now you do have that choice. We didn't buy any new costumes this year so I will be dressed up as a skeleton again and the dog will be in her sheriff costume! Last year we just left her in the house but I think I would like to try and have her outside, hopefully she will be a good dog! :) I will try to take lots of pics and post some here on the weekend.

Weekend Review ... a day late ;)

Well the weekend was busy for me, or at least Saturday was fairly busy - I managed to get all my visiting done and was home for supper! :) I started off Saturday morning and went to see my brother at work since my Mom is not much of a morning person anymore I needed to waste time till she was ready for company! ;) So I asked my brother what the kids wanted for Christmas, he didn't really give me any more ideas then before I asked!? How could you're kid not have a Christmas wish list!? I remember when I was his age, my list was sooo long I had to edit it! My brother ended up giving me two CAT shirts that they had on clearance, they are nice and I always wanted a CAT shirt. Next stop was my Mom's, by now she should be dressed and ready for company! LOL I visited her for about an hour or so and then went to see Denise, we also had a good visit since her little one was napping we could actually have a conversation!! :) Then I went to my Dad's and had a super quick visit with him cause by now I was super tired and wanted to go home! I'll have to go back to my Dad's soon anyway so I can empty out my old hope chest.

Sunday was pretty relaxed, the usual house cleaning crap - we decided not to go visit the Grandparents cause hubby got invited to go Quading with the boys. I got a little scrapbooking in on Sunday and I cleaned out my pantry! Oh- and I went grocery shopping for "staples", that's about it for my weekend! Tomorrow is weigh in day and I think it should be a good one? We will see, I feel like I'm eating all the time but good things!

Happy Friday! :)

It was a bit of a challenge getting to work this morning, it rained/ snowed last night so the roads were a little icy. A lot of the bridges in and around town were closed so you couldn't even go over them if you wanted too!? I took my usual 'ring road' highway to get here today, which wasn't too bad but when I got to the overpasses it looked like someone had put blue, red and yellow Christmas lights all over it cause of all the emergency vehicles on it! Then everyone that was detoured to go down the highway the opposite way they wanted to go, cause they couldn't get over the bridge, started driving trough the ditch to go the way they wanted! It was crazy - I thought there would be another accident for sure!

Well my BBT dropped to 36.68C (98.02F) so that can't be good news~! I guess

that maybe I am just having one of my 35CD!? I am woke up this morning to a nasal drip! I think I may be getting my winter cold, now that I'm at work and dealing with this nasal issue I am also dealing with a very hot face! My cheeks are hot hot hot - I'm very flushed today, my throat better not start to get scratchy! We have our race banquet next weekend and I don't want to be sick for that!

Not too much planned for this weekend, tomorrow I am going to head out to St.Albert to visit Denise and on Sunday we may go visiting the Grandparents!? If it's nice out I would like to use the leaf sucker upper thingy that the hubby has to suck up all the leaves that have fallen off the hedge in the front yard (looks kinda messy and will probably turn into mush over the winter). Other then that I don't think I have anything on my agenda, hopefully we will finish the Halloween Haunted Garage - I'll try to take some pics and post here when it is done. My brother is trying to plan a "play date" for his new puppy and wants me to come over with my dog for a visit, maybe during the week sometime or this weekend?! I'm trying to convince him to come to my house for Halloween and bring the kids to check out the Haunted House and the dogs can play in the yard!? ;)

Getting back on track

Well I think I am getting back on track, it is Wednesday today and usually on Wednesday's I have my weigh in ..... so I peaked - it looks good, I'm back down to where I feel I should be but I am not going to do an official weigh in post until the end of the month, then again mid-month (Nov.15th). As for my BBT it is still what I like to consider high (even though I don't know what my low is) 36.80C (98.24F) but I am still too chicken to test and see if it really means anything? Hubby thinks I should wait till Friday, which I think will be tough but I really don't want to see a (-)!! It's like getting a F on a test in school - feel like such a failure!

It is gorgeous outside today - almost nicer then a summer day! Maybe it's our "Indian summer", hopefully it will stay nice for Halloween? Hubby is working hard on getting the haunted garage done, I took a quick walk through it yesterday and it's starting to look really good! I didn't sleep very well last night, kept tossing and turning, so I'm a little tired today. Not too much else is new in my life? I think I will go out to St.Albert again this weekend and visit Denise before the snow starts to fly and I won't want to drive that far! ;) Other then that .... I don't think I have any other plans! ? Quite the boring life now that the summer is over!

Stuff ....

The city opened another section of our "ring road" yesterday, the orange section on the map above is now open. Which made my drive to work this morning a snap!! It was awesome, I work on the right hand side of the map kinda on the road where the little green square is and I live almost at the first yellow dot on the orange line. So I just jumped on the freeway and away I went, 8 minutes later I was at work!! :o There are no lights on this section of the highway and the speed limit is 100km/hr so it moves quite well. It pretty much cut my drive to work in half! :) !!

So last night we went over to my MIL's to watch her after her surgery, she seemed OK - just a little tired. I just sat and watched TV for a while and every once and a while I would check on her in the bedroom. She sat up with us for a little while and was telling us how they couldn't get her to sleep so they just went ahead with the surgery anyway and just froze her! ewww -- I don't think I could do that! I would pass out! :P Speaking of passing out ... thankfully there was no drama last night and I never had to call 911!! I don't do well in those situations! ;)

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Well AF is now 4 days late and my BBT is still fairly high - 36.76C (98.17F). Which is good news but I have had a 35CD before and I don't feel any different (I don't think)? So I'm kinda scared to POAS, not because I'm worried about seeing a BFP but in fact I really don't want to see another BFN! I think I would rather see AF - it's less discouraging! ? We'll see ..... I think I will give it a few more days and just watch my BBT, if it stays high then I will use my last HPT to see what it says! ;) Hopefully it stuck this time! :> I'm so nervous and I just know that now that I actually said something AF will show up .... that's usually how it goes, once I show just a little bit of hope I get crushed! :(

Weekend review

Well - back to work for another work week! :( I often wish that we had tons of money and that I could stay at home, not that my job is hard. It's not very exciting at all, but I just enjoy being a homebody! ;) I'm sure after a while though the luxury would wear off and it would become just as tedious as coming to work everyday and at least I have adult contact here, at home I would just have my dog! he he

So as for my weekend, I felt I had to work a little harder to work off some extra pounds so I tried hard to keep myself busy. Friday was pretty relaxed though and I don't think we did much. Saturday was house cleaning day and then I went outside to rake up the leaves. We don't get too many leaves in our yard since we chopped down the four large trees but there was still two

garbage bags. The hubby started planning his "haunted garage" for Halloween and moved his car over to his parents. I also went shopping to Costco on Saturday and bought some stuff to put in our new upright freezer. Sunday I decided to clean the basement, the cob webs were starting to get to me and there was this musty smell that I hate! I bought some reed diffusers at Costco (three for $25) and put two of them downstairs. Last year we went through most of our boxes from moving in and sorted out stuff we want to keep and stuff for a garage sale that was suppose to happen this fall but didn't! So I had to move all our garage sale boxes back into one of the bedrooms in our basement so that hopefully the hubby will start demo on it!! Then I vacuumed the entire basement (top to bottom) and moved the treadmill into a corner so if I wanted to I could still use it. I think it looks really good now but would look even better if the drywall was taped and mudded so I could put a coat of primer on it! ;)

We have to go over to my MIL's tonight, as I am typing this she is getting surgery done to her jaw/ mouth. I think she is going to be hurtin' when we go see her after supper!? I guess she needs to be watched for the first 24 hours and my FIL needs to step out for a few hours so it's up to us to go watch her. I hope nothing major happens cause I don't really deal well in those situations! We were hoping to jump in their hot tub for a little while but now my hubby has plans to go met this guy for a job so I may be stuck by myself and probably won't go in.

Wednesday weigh in ?

I have decided that to weigh in every week at this stage in my weight loss journey is becoming frustrating, too record one pound up this week and then a half pound lost the next. Last week I decided that I am no longer going to post my weekly weigh in's on here anymore, I thought that from now on I would like to only post my weigh in's once a month. However lately my weigh in's haven't been the greatest and I am wondering if I should still post them so that I am liable for them and not feel like it's OK to keep gaining! I am now officially 4lbs higher then my lowest weight and even though it is only 4lbs it feels like 14lbs!! I feel really heavy lately, my clothes don't fit right and I feel like I have little energy. It's funny how 4lbs can make that much of a difference and maybe it's because TOM is around the corner and only a few days away but it still sucks to see the scale go up! I think it is time for me to smarten up, buckle down and get back on track! I feel like I am headed for a train wreck! I think I will set a new mini-goal ... it's been a while since I had one of those and with Halloween just around the corner with all those tempting mini chocolate bars I need to stay focused! My new mini-goal is too loose 5lbs by our race banquet on Nov 3rd, that's 2 weeks away - and I think should be achievable?! I want to look my best at the banquet and I want to be able to enjoy the meal without the guilt of making a piggy of myself! ? Then if I end up gaining a pound or two from the banquet meal it won't put me over my 5lb leeway that I said was OK to fluctuate between.

The hubby took the dog back to the vet today to get her stitches out and for him to see how she is progressing. Well I just got off the phone with him and he

said that the vet says everything looks really good. She seems to be healing good and it's OK that she is not putting full weight on her leg just yet, that it is part of the healing process. She has also had a cough since coming home and he said it was because they put a tube down her throat and it got a little irritated but should clear up on it's own (just like my MIL said). So I guess she goes back again in 4 more weeks too check it out again for the final time and by then she should be good!? ;)

I went out to St.Albert last night for the Jobie meeting, which was short and sweet but there was lots of people there that I hadn't seen for a long time so I ended up socializing longer then expected and didn't get home till 10pm. I also stopped by my Dad's house while I was out there to pick up some old puzzles I had. My MIL is going for surgery on the 22nd and asked if I could pick some up so she would have something to do. So I just grabbed them all - my back seat is full of puzzles! Some of them I have never even opened the box yet, they are brand new! I used to love sitting down and build a puzzle, I would put a 1000 piece puzzle together in an afternoon and if I liked it I would build it again and again. Now I have no time for puzzles but I still enjoy helping build them.

BBT = 36.84C (98.31F) -- It sure would be nice if my BBT stayed high!! If it drops to 35C then I may get grouchy! ;)

Sleepy today ....

Well they say that only 26% of our city voted yesterday!! That's pretty bad - they said before that they were expecting low numbers but 26% is really low!!



I'm really tired today, maybe I didn't sleep very well? Tonight I have to go to a Jobie meeting, I told them in June that I would come back for this meeting to return all the scrapbooks I borrowed. The only problem is that this is my late week at work so I am here till 5pm and then I have to go home, get changed, grab a quick bite to eat and be out in St.Albert for 7ish. And it will probably take me an hour to get there cause of rush hour!? I'm going to try the new freeway that they just built, hopefully the traffic won't be too bad on it and I can get there a little quicker. I also plan on it being a late night too, the meeting probably won't be over till 9ish and then I'll visit for a bit and drive all the way back home! ;)



The dog hurt her leg again yesterday, being an idiot outside and running with the neighbor dogs. Hubby was mad at her and when he brought her in the house she was limping so bad that she wouldn't even put weight on it at all - just limped around everywhere. I massaged her leg a lot and this morning she seems to be better!? Tomorrow is her doctor appointment and I'm hoping that he likes what he sees?

BBT this morning was 36.68C (98.02F)

Weekend review

So my Mom left on Sunday to Vegas, the sad thing about it all is that I could have been going with her if I would have had an up to date passport! But then I found out after she left that that law has not been passed just yet - as of January 2008 you will need a passport to go so I could have actually went with her!? grrr Oh well - we couldn't really afford to go anyway (not after spending almost $2000 on the dog!).

Speaking of the dog, I am a little worried that this operation she had has done nothing at all to help her leg?! Maybe I am just expecting too much, it has only been a week and a half, but she seems to be no better off then she was before? She doesn't seem to want to put any weight on her foot when she is just standing but when she walks she will put some weight on it? I hope it wasn't a complete waste of money or I'll be pissed! She goes back to the vet on Wednesday to get a few stitches out and we can ask him all our questions then.

Today is voting day!!! I however will not be voting, I know it's my demographic right to vote and I should vote but I have no idea about who to vote for and what they stand for! ? It just bores me to watch those debates or read about the different candidates! I trust that there are enough people out there to vote for me! ;) I'm sure that statement alone is enough to boil my hubbies blood - he has tried for many years to get me to vote, it just isn't in me!

As for the rest of my weekend .... it was good, I didn't do much and I think I am starting to pay for my laziness. My jeans this morning were a little bit tighter then usual and maybe that has to do with the fact that TOM is coming but I think it has a lot to do with my lazy attitude! ;) I would like to start doing my pilates again, I really enjoyed them. Denise and her hubby came over on Saturday night and we sat around the fire outside, it was really nice. And on Sunday we visited the Grandparents, something we haven't done in a really long time. We also picked up a shuffle board from my in-laws that they wanted to get rid of and we were happy to take off their hands! :) Now we just have to finish our basement so we can entertain people and they can play a few games on the shuffle board! he he On the weekend I also bought a BBT, I thought it would be fun to track and see for a few months. This morning I was at 36.86C (98.35F) -- pretty hot!! LOL But that's cause TOM is almost here (maybe?). ;)

Some pics of puppy!

I finally made time to upload a few pics of my puppy after her surgery. This first picture was taken when we finally got home from picking her up from the vet. She doesn't look too happy in this pic, maybe she is still doped up!? lol I bought her the little green frog in front of her as a "get well soon" gift, she seemed to like it but not as much as the stuffy my Mom bought her! :(

You can just barely see the cut they made on her knee, apparently there are no stitches there that need to be removed so they must all be inside stitches? You can also see another tiny little cut close to her tail where she had a skin tag and the vet removed free of charge for cosmetic reasons only! ;) There are stitches on that cut and they need to be removed in another week.

Her leg actually looked worse a couple days later, you could see some bruising on her knee that went from purple to brown and now it is a shade of yellow. And it was like she had razor burn on the inside of her leg? It looks much better now and I think it must feel better cause she is being playful again and wants us to throw the ball for her when we go outside. I think she even forgot herself cause she squatted down really fast and then started yelping, she just over did it a bit. She is starting to eat more now, which is good, but she still isn't eating quite as much as before the surgery!? She is also coughing more now too so we will have to let the vet know about that when we take her in to get the stitches removed.

Weigh in Wednesday!

Week 59= 172.6lbs

(+1.6lbs)

I'm not surprised, I haven't been on top of my water intake lately and I'm pretty sure that is what my problem is. Either that or it's because I haven't been exercising very much. I looked at my little graph chart that Ticker Factory plots for me after I register my weigh in with them and I noticed that my dots are starting to go up hill!!! I must put a stop to that!!! I am also thinking that I will only post my weigh in's once a month now instead of every week? It is frustrating to post that I have gained a pound this week and then the next week I post that I lost it!? Which equals nothing!

Yesterday was a fairly busy evening for us, after supper one of our track friends came over to talk to my hubby about working on his car. And then after he left my inlaws came over to help my hubby get our new upright deep freeze downstairs! I'm so happy we finally got ourselves a good deep freeze, now I can clean out the fridge one a bit and move things downstairs and maybe be able to stock it up a bit! Of course with all the visitors the dog was getting excited and wanted to play but she isn't quite ready yet. She ended up hurting her leg and started yelping, now she is limping again! :( It's nothing major she just over did it, I just will just be nice to have her back at 100%!

holidays are over ! :(

So, I'm back at work today :( Actually my holidays felt like they lasted a really long time and they didn't fly by as usual! ? Although I am awfully tired today, the dog kept me up for most of the night. I think her fur is starting to grow in and it is itchy but she can't scratch it so I have become her own personal bum/ leg scratcher! ;) Either that or she has just become more of a sucky dog and just wanted me to pet her!? I'm not sure but she kept head butting the bed so that I would pet her!? Apparently the hubby didn't even notice! grrrrr

So to wrap up my holidays, Friday I re-arranged our bedroom so that now the bed is away from the window and the heat register is not covered by the bed. Then my mom came over bearing gifts for the dog and some nice warm fuzzy socks for me! I can't remember what I did Saturday!? Probably nothing! he he Sunday was so nice outside, but I decided to go through the filing cabinet and shred old papers and organize it a bit better so I was stuck inside. And on Monday we had our absolute last race of the year! And boy was it busy!! Lots of cars showed up to make their final trips down the track and thankfully they all left pretty early too so we went out for dinner with some of the staff. When I got home there was a delivery at our back door, I had forgotten that we were getting our up-right deep freeze that day!! Yah! Now we just have to get it downstairs!

So we ended up doing nothing for Thanksgiving, no turkey dinners, no ham, no family festivities. We were OK with that though it was nice just doing our own thing. Hopefully everyone else had good Turkey day, everyone in Canada that is!?

Weigh in ..... Thursday ?! ? ;)

OK -- so I forgot! he he .... with all the things I had to do yesterday I completely forgot to weigh in until after I was already dressed and I wasn't about to get undressed just to weigh in. So I changed my weigh in day to today! ;) Yesterday morning I had to get the dog to the vets for her surgery and had to leave the house by 7:30am. Of course traffic was horrible and there were accidents everywhere so it took me extra time to get to St.Albert, a drive that usually takes me 30-45 minutes took me over an hour yesterday! After I dropped her off I planned on doing a little visiting since I was in the city but my girlfriend wasn't ready for me to come over till 11am, so I went shopping! I went to Michael's and spent my gift card on some new die cutter shapes for my new Cricut die cutter! Then I went to the local bookstore (Chapter's) and looked around to see what they had and get a coffee at Starbucks! Then it was almost time to go to my girlfriends so I headed back in that direction. I had a good visit with her and met her new baby boy, he sure is a cutie! Then I headed to my other girlfriends house and had a good visit with her too. I headed home around 3:30, oh - and the vet called at about 12:00 to let us know that she was out of surgery and that everything went well! :)

So this morning I weighed in and for:

Week 58 = 171.0lbs

(0lbs)

no loss.... no gain!

I'm OK with this, I thought I had over did it the other day when we went out for our anniversary/ birthday dinner at Red Lobster but I guess I did OK or maybe it was because I gave myself that extra day to burn it off!~? lol

Well I have four more days off from work, and we picked up the dog this morning. She seems to be doing OK, not as dopey as I thought she would be but she does seem more tired then usual. She is now on three different meds and one vitamin, she doesn't seem to have much of an appetite yet - hopefully that will improve a bit by tomorrow. I took pics of her shaved leg and I must say it looks good, you can barely even see where they cut her open -- no stitches to take out, all of them were internal. I should have asked how many stitches but didn't think of it. We have to do 12 weeks of physio!!! :o And he said as long as I take her for short walks and she is using her leg we shouldn't need to do too much physio. So hopefully I can download the pics I took and post a few here for you!

Tuesday .....

Well my holidays are going good so far, I am starting to get a little nervous about the dogs surgery. :( My weekend was good, it was our last weekend full of racing!! The race season is officially over, just in time too - everyone was getting tired of being out there. Now we just have the banquet to go to which I can hardly wait for!! I went for a ride down the track in one of the guys race car during our "fun day" Saturday, his car is much faster then our car was and it was quite a thrill to feel what it was like to go that fast! Usually when you have a passenger in your car you're only suppose to go 1/8 mile instead of the full 1/4 mile but Lorne kept his foot in it and we ended up going 10.3 in the 1/4 mile @ 132 miles/hour!! I gave him crap that he didn't shut it down half track but it was still kinda fun! ;)

I didn't have time to go shopping on Saturday cause I slept in too late! :o So instead I went shopping yesterday, I found some gift cards that we got as wedding gifts two years ago and thought that I should spend them before they expire or I loose them! So I bought the hubby some new pants and looked for the little couch I wanted to buy for the dog but was having a hard time finding one! I looked at Zellers, Toys R Us, and Wal-Mart and all they had were one seater couches like a love seat, which would be way too small for my dog! So instead I just bought another "dog bed" from the pet store.

I was also shopping for my "die cutter" and went to Michaels to find one but they were all sold out and the price on theirs was soooo expensive ($399) I asked if I could use one of the 40% off coupons but they said that you can't use those coupons on the "Cricut" cutter products!! But when I was at Wal-Mart looking for the couch I looked in their craft center and they had the exact same cutter for half the price!! So I picked it up from them and I bought some of the "Cricut" paper to try out the cutter with! Of course as soon as I got home I had to set it up and try it out! It is so easy to use, I really like it and think it will make some really nice cards and scrapbook decorations! Now I just have to buy more programs for it so I can cut more shapes! I also haven't quite figured out yet how I am going to attach the cut pieces onto paper? It cuts some of the patterns so skinny that there isn't really much room for the tape method I use on my scrapbooks and I'm not sure if I use a glue stick if it will leave glue marks everywhere ?~ I'll just have to play around some more with it!

So not only do I have to weigh in tomorrow but I also have to drop the dog off at the vets! I want to do some visiting while out in St.Albert so I should probably call them today to make sure they are free! ? I am now off to do some grocery shopping, it is the first Tuesday of the month and we get 10% off so we usually make this our big shoppping day! Then when I get home hopefully it will be a little warmer out and I can clean out my flower beds and paint the shed! ?

TGIF ...

Finally .... the Friday before my holiday's begin! It seemed to take forever to get here but at last, my last day! I have a fairly busy week planned which kinda sucks cause I'm sure it will make my holiday's fly by! :(

Tonight we have the Street Legal races (unless they get rained out) and we were suppose to have tomorrow off but now the track management has decided to have a "fun day" from 4-7pm tomorrow night!? I wish they would have made it for longer, seems like such a waste to just go out there for three hours!? My Dad also comes home tomorrow night so we need to remember to pick him up from the airport at 9pm! Since we don't have to go to the race track till 4 on Saturday I am hoping to go do a little shopping. I decided I am going to spend my birthday money on a new "die cutter" from Michaels, it is for cutting out shapes and words for scrap booking. I also would like to make my own Christmas cards this year and use it too make cute shapes and such. I also want to make a stop at Toys R Us to try and find a kids couch that folds out into a bed. Like this one in the pic but I'm hoping to find a "Princess" one or animal print. After our dog has her surgery she will not be able to jump on the couch so I thought it would be nice to spoil her a bit and get her her very own couch that can be folded out into a bed for night time!!! :) I pre-bowled last night so that I can stay home with her Thursday night, hopefully she isn't too much of a suck! ;)

Then Sunday is more racing, it is our last weekend so I'm quite excited about that! And for the rest of my holiday's I would like to paint our new shed that we just built, clean out my flower beds and maybe clean out some cupboards. I think I might also look for some good sales on sweaters for the winter, I am absolutely freezing already and it's not even that cold out yet! I don't know what I'm going to do when it is subzero temps! I also need to start walking again and I think I will just go on the treadmill for now until the dog is healthy enough to go with me. I feel like I need to move more and get active again I just feel so ot of shape! ;)

Weigh in Wednesday

Lately I feel like I have been so lazy! Since the dog is unable to go for walks I have lost my walking partner. I suppose I could go downstairs and walk the treadmill for a while but I'm too lazy! So I just sit and watch T.V. and relax, last night was "Beauty and the Geek" and "The Biggest Loser" - both were really good. I'm OK with my weigh in this week considering I have been overly lazy lately and we had a birthday party on the weekend. For this weeks weigh in ....

Week 57 = 171.0lbs

(+0.2lbs)

Not bad ? As long as I stay in that 5lb range I am happy, although I do prefer to see the 16_# instead! I think we are going for supper tonight, to the Red Lobster. I'm not much of a seafood lover but my hubby is and they have a good grilled chicken that I usually get. I can hardly wait for this week to be over!! I start my holiday's on Friday and am excited to relax a little more and not have to worry about going into work! I plan on cleaning out my flower beds, babysitting the dog (after her surgery) and hopefully getting some visiting done! Hopefully I'll still be able to find time to blog and keep you up to date? ;)

Weekend Review

Winter is definitely quickly approaching, it has been so cold lately, maybe it's cause I have less 'insulation' but I am awful cold lately and it's not even winter yet! I think I need to go buy some nice sweaters, all the one's I have right now are much too big for me - which is nice around the house but when I go out I feel like they make me look bigger then I really am! ?

The weekend was good, racing of course all weekend - Friday was the

regular Street Legal night where anything exciting rarely happens! Saturday went fairly smooth except for when there were incidences at the oval and they had to use our ambulance so we couldn't race till the ambulance got back. After the races on Saturday we had a 50th Birthday party to attend, my in-laws neighbor who was also our photographer at our wedding. Sunday there was a power outage so we were standing around at the track waiting for the power to go back on (even though there are about 10 generators out there and we could have used one of them). I think everyone is just getting tired of being out at the race track, there is only one more weekend left of racing and then they want to have a Street Legal race on Thanksgiving Monday. Because of racing on Sunday I missed out on my girlfriends baby shower and my nephews birthday party! So, I'm hoping that while I am on holiday's next week I will be able to make a trip out to St.Albert and stop by to visit my girlfriend to see her new baby!

Today is our 2nd year anniversary!! I can't believe it's been two years already! ? It seemed to have flown by! I think we will go out for dinner sometime this week to Red Lobster, it will be a birthday/anniversary dinner combo!

TGIF

We find out today if our dog is healthy enough to handle surgery! :( Yesterday my hubby took her back to the vet to have her leg looked at again. She is still limping and doesn't like to put any weight on her leg so she holds it off the ground just a little and then it starts to shake. I wish I could have went with him cause apparently our reg doctor gave the new doctor (the one we saw last time) sh*t cause she misdiagnosed a major problem! She told us that it was just inflamed and gave us some "doggie celibrex" and told us to take it easy for 2 weeks and now this vet is telling us that those 2 weeks were vital weeks and we could have done something about this a lot sooner had she not misdiagnosed our dog!? I'm no mad at her, but I definitely won't be scheduling any visits with her anymore!

So apparently (hopefully I get all this right), the vet says that there is a tendon in the knee that helps it bend/ twist (like our knee) and our dog has pulled this tendon. I keep telling everyone she needs a "knee replacement" cause the way my hubby was telling me about the surgery sure did sound like a knee replacement, he told me about how they replace some of the bone where the knee joint is and fix the tendon with what I described as elastic bands (and he agreed they are like elastic bands) -- sounds kinda like a knee replacement? So if we don't get the surgery done then eventually the joint will wear itself down and become very painful for her, to the point where she probably won't walk on it at all. She is only 10yrs old so she does have more years to her life and she is fairly active now so we agreed that surgery would be the best thing for her!

I'm on holidays the first week in October so this is probably when we will get the surgery done so that I can help my hubby out at home with her. I feel so bad for her, she is such a suck when she is sick and I'm sure she will milk it after the surgery. Just like a little kid! She is our baby and I worry about the surgery and how she will be after!? I have faith in this vet, he is the same one that spayed her and amputated her toe for a biopsy. I have never had any problems with this vet which is why I continue to drive the 45 minutes to see him. I just worry now cause she is older and like humans the older you get the harder surgery is on you. I also guess I have to kiss the siding for the garage good-bye this year cause that's about the same price as the estimate for the surgery ($1800)!! :o

Weigh in Wednesday

Week 56 = 170.8lbs

(+1.8lbs)

Not bad for celebrating my birthday on the weekend and having cake and other unmentionable goodies! ;) Next week is our 2 year anniversary so we will be going out for dinner then too! I am happy with this weigh in and figure that this is where I will probably remain for a long time, in between 168-172.

We have these little aphids (little black flies or 'fruit flies') at work that keep buzzing around me and seriously pissing me off! They keep trying to drink my coffee and eat my fruit! Disgusting! I hate them and wish I knew how to get rid of them! This is one of the only reason that I love winter! No bugs!

After watching the season finale of "Big Brother 8" - which BTW I wasn't too happy about who won. I started watching the new season of "Beauty and the Geek", they have thrown a few twists into this season and it should be interesting to see how everything plays out!? Now I just have to remember to keep watching it. The other show that I can't wait to start is "Amazing Race", I love both of these shows.

Weekend Review.....

Well the weekend went really good, lots of people showed up - some I expected but some I was surprised showed up! My brother and SIL came early cause they had the kids and would have had to leave early, everyone else showed up around 5:30-6pm. We had BBQ hamburgers and hot dogs, the weather was really nice and I even got lots of gifts - that was unexpected! I had to open my gifts in front of everyone and surprisingly there wasn't any "prank" gifts, I got one mystery gift (where they never signed the card) but it is really nice lingerie and not some cheesy gag gift. I was surprised at how early some people left, maybe because the sun sets so early now that it feels a lot later then it really is? And of course we had a few that just wouldn't leave! ;) We finally made it to bed by 3:00am and then got up the next day for breakfast with the in laws! :) It was great!

We didn't do much on Sunday, besides breakfast and clean up a bit. It was a pretty lazy day! Even though I only had a few drinks I still felt drained on Sunday and enjoyed my lazy day! ;) I must have slept funny last night cause this morning my arm is killing me! I can barely move it, my elbow hurts a lot! Maybe it's old age!?

Speaking of old age, the dog doesn't seem to be getting any better and it looks like her leg is bugging her even more now?! I need to make another vet appointment to see what else we can do about her limp, hopefully it won't cost too much to fix her up!?

Happy Birthday and TGIF !

Well today is my 30th Birthday and I woke up this morning to 30 pink bras and a giant blow up clown on the front yard! I was so expecting penguins .... not bras! I thought the bra thing was for older ladies, ladies that lived through the "burn the bras" days!? I'm so embarrassed -- mostly cause of the giant clown! ! :P

Last night at the bowling alley they made a big announcement on the PA about me turning 30! And tonight we have to work at the Street Legals, where I am also expecting something -- I'm not too sure on what yet but I'm sure there will be another announcement!

Then tomorrow I was suppose to work but I told my boss that I had too much too do and wasn't going to make it in, which he was fine with. So now instead I get to clean the house, go to Costco to pick up supplies, get a hair cut and wait for people to show up for our BBQ! I'm actually expecting quite a few people, maybe like 40? I'm shipping our dog over to the 'grandparents' so that I don't feel like I have to watch her all night and can kind of relax a bit. The weather is suppose to be awesome, which is great cause I really didn't know what I would do if it was crummy weather.

My Dad is spending the night at our house tonight, he is leaving early tomorrow morning for Belize. He lives quite a distance from the airport and we are a little closer so he won't have to get up quite as early. We have friends that live in Belize and he usually goes down once a year to visit but usually it is in Feb not Sept, which is rainy/ hurricane season!

So I'm thinking that today is going to be a long day but at least it is Friday and I can kinda sleep in tomorrow! :) I plan on letting loose a bit (diet wise) for the weekend so I don't expect a very good weigh in next week but you only turn 30 once ... right!? ;) I would love to go for breakfast (bacon n' eggs) on Sunday morning, I haven't done that for a long time! But I guess that depends on how I feel, although I don't plan on drinking at all (not after last weekend!) but I guess we will see what happens! ? I get to POAS tomorrow morning so that will determine a lot of what happens! ;) Keep you fingers crossed but I starting to think that it might be a BFN! :(

Weigh in Wednesday

I feel like I have every feeling going through me today .... I'm excited, slightly disappointed, a little depressed, grouchy, eager, anxious! ? I think I will be better after the weekend is over, I just have a gazillion thoughts going through my head - mostly about life in general. I am very happy about my weigh in today, it seems like that +5lb gain was probably, most likely due to the wine because for this week....

Week 55 = 169.0lbs

(-5lbs)

So it looks like all the weight gained last week has been lost this week (except for 0.2lbs but that's minor). I took the dog off her "bed rest" and have started walking her again, just short walks but they still seem to affect her leg?! We need to take her back to the vet to either get more medication or to pursue other options? I don't think it hurts her, it's not like she is whining as she walks, but I do feel bad for her and wish her leg would get better?!

The leaves are starting to change color, I absolutely love this time of year - not too hot, not too cold and very pretty colors. Although today is a little colder then most fall days, it feels like winter is just around the corner!? I'm not a big fan of winter but this year I would like to do a little more winter sports like maybe take my nephew tobogganing once and a while or go to the ski hill.

weekend review

I was awfully tired this morning and almost slept in, it's a good thing I had a shower last night cause there was no time this morning! The weekend was good, full of racing and nothing too exciting happened which is good. We were having some issues with moisture on the track, due to all the rain we have had recently and because the track is built on swamp land the water table seems to be quite high so we kept having to check the track for water making the day seem a lot longer then it should have been!

I have a busy week as well and don't think I will have any time to rest, I need to get everything ready for my b-day party this weekend and since we have bowling on Thursday night and a Street Legal race on Friday night plus I'm suppose to work Saturday morning it looks like the only time I will have to do anything is the beginning of the week!? I need to make a salad and chili, clean the house, wash the sheets in the spare room and go grocery shopping for other snack food! I think I will opt out of working on Sat. I just have way too much to do, the hubby offered to help but I have other plans for him!! he he ... He needs to do all the outdoor stuff like finish working on the POS in the garage, clean up the driveway, mow the lawn and finish the shed!! All this needs to be done by Wed ... crazy! :P

On a lighter note ..... I snuck a peak at the scale ... I know I shouldn't have and it usually makes for bad news on weigh in day but so far the scale says I'm back down to 170 so maybe that +5lb gain was from too much wine!? I also feel a little better now, my queasiness has seamed to settle and my back ache has moved up and now my teeth seem to be sore - weird !? ? Maybe it was a mild case of the flu ? Hopefully I'll be 100% by Friday!! ;)

~~ TGIF ~~

Well I did call in sick yesterday, it didn't help much - just let me sleep in for a bit. I'm back at work today and my back still feels funny, I feel like I have a lot of pressure on me - if that makes any sense? Like if someone was sitting on my stomach? I'll give it a little longer before I go to a doctor though, cause I'm stubborn like that! Last night was our first night back at bowling, it was nice to see everyone again. We found out that the guy that has been our "president" for the past few years is not coming back this year so we need to elect a new one. Me and the hubby are also debating if we want to be the ones to buy gifts this year. I think it would be fun and I really do enjoy looking in the flyer's and finding deals but it's the shopping part that bugs me! Dealing with the sales crowds and Boxing day crowds ... just to get the deal! :P It was quite a long night and I am even more tired today ~~ almost slept in this morning!

This weekend is full of racing, one of the last full weekends, the season is almost over - which couldn't come any quicker! I don't think we are going to have the garage sided before my b-day. I didn't want to have it half done or have a mess in the backyard so we agreed it would probably be best if we just waited. Hopefully that doesn't mean wait till next year and it will hopefully still get done this year, just not till after my party! ? But then again ... it seems like everything we (I) wanted done this year is going to have to wait till next year now !! Like the garage sale, finishing the patio door, put the new sky light in, start on the basement ... just to name a few! :P

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What kind of friend are you?

Wednesday weigh in ....

I don't get it ..... I'm so confused with my weigh in today!? I'm actually a little mad about it! I have been feeling ill for the past 4 days and have not been eating as much as I should have been. In fact I barely ate anything at all on Sunday and spent most of the day in bed! ? I would have thought that that would account for a loss not a gain!? The only thing I can think of that would amount to this big of a gain is the fact that I have not been taking the dog for her nightly walks! With her being on bed rest for a couple weeks it has made me feel like I can "take it easy" for two weeks too!!!?? But I cleaned the house like crazy on the weekend and cleaned my car inside and out - which was pretty hard work! ? I haven't been cheating, at least not what I would consider a cheat. We had BBQ steak on the weekend but I stuck to my 4oz and ate lots of salad and veggies!? I haven't gone out for any fancy dinners, we went to DQ for dinner last night before grocery shopping but I had a salad! ? I've been keeping up with my water intake, if not more cause of my upset tummy it's about the only drink that doesn't upset it more!? It just sucks! So my numbers for this week are:

Week 54 =174.0lbs

(+5.2lbs) !!! :o

I seriously don't get it? I think this is the biggest gain I have ever had!? And although I am almost certain that next week it will go down again I still had to check the scale three times to make sure I was reading it right!? Well at least I did sleep a little better last night except for I woke up in the middle of the night burning up? I was sweating like crazy? I however do feel a little better this morning and don't seem to feel as queasy but my back is killing me! I can't even yawn without feeling sharp pains in my back and rib cage? Well - hopefully next week will show better numbers or I may have to switch to once a month weigh in's!?

Weekend Review

The weekend was fairly busy and yet I feel like I got nothing done! ? The weekend started Friday after work with the Street Legals, it was a good night with racing that lasted till about 11:30pm. A new Corvette hit the wall which caused a delay- we had to stop and clean it up but then it started raining so we just gave up and called the race. After racing we went out to BP's with some of the staff and didn't get home till 2am.



Then on Saturday my hubby started working in the garage early with his buddy and I headed off to St.Albert. I stopped in at my SIL's to pick up a bowl she had of mine and had a quick visit, then off to my Dad's for another quick visit and to drop off my camera for him to take on his trip. Then off to my scrapbook ladies house to pick up my prize and to purchase supplies for my winter projects. I spent a little more then I had expected but at least I shouldn't have to buy anything for a while! ? I was hoping to stop at the Farmers Market and make a few more visiting stops on my way but I started to feel like crap so I headed home. When I got home I started cleaning and got all my chores done before supper! The hubbies friend was still over and the were still working on his car so we had them (him and his girlfriend) over for supper and I decided to open a bottle of wine. I am now thinking that I should have left the wine alone! Another couple came over for a visit and so all three of us girls were sitting on the deck drinking wine while the boys were in the garage. We went through 7 bottles of wine!! We were up till 4am sitting around the fire talking and the next day I felt like total crap! My tummy was doing flip flops like crazy and I couldn't keep anything down! The only thing I had all day was a banana, half a pear, and some soup for supper. It was horrible! Needless to say I went to bed early!

On Monday I decided to put my fall/ Halloween stuff out and I washed my car. The hubbies friend helped him build a new shed for us cause he helped him on his car. We have to build this new shed to put all the stuff in it from the old shed, then tare down the old shed, side the garage and move the new shed back to where the old shed was. Pain in the butt if you ask me and I think the shed is going to be impossible to move after it is built!? My Mom also called yesterday to see if I had a passport but I told her that mine had expired a few years ago. She was going to buy tickets to Vegas for my b-day and take me with her but since I don't have a passport I can't go! ? :( Oh- well maybe next year!?

I was up again for most of last night with a gutt ache again!? It feels like heart burn, indigestion, and nausea all in one!? I feel like crap - I've got this gaggy feeling in my throat every time I stand up. I hate how on the days you feel like crap always seem to be the busiest!? The phone won't stop ringing which is making me get up to pick my orders!? grrr I hope I feel better tonight or it is going to be another long night?!