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.. goodness ..

28 days later, and she's alive!!

Recap:

• Beginning of the month - began working full time AND got a $1.00 raise!
• July 7th to 15th - Went to Wasaga Beach on vacation. FUN times, and pictures to follow...eventually
• Since then - still working full time...not sleeping well, gym 3-4 times a week. Up to a a three day schedule now, instead of two. This means I'm making progress :D
• Going to commit myself to Rhonna 21 day challenge, without actually signing up...no time to do the journal, but I WILL make time to make the changes...to do daily, beginning Monday:

1. Stretch in the morning, and then again before bed to improve flexibity
2. On non-gym days...do at least 50 crunches on the stability ball
3. Take GNC multi vitamin
4. Take BeneFibre
5. Take Greens+ daily detox formula

We'll see how it goes. I have been sleeping poorly, and feeling a little...drained lately, so maybe this will help me out. hopefully!

in other news....

got to go to Ikea the other day. love that store...i bought two bed side tables and a dresser for going to Kara's apartment. now all that is left is the bed, and maybe a desk....then of course is the task of moving everything there and putting it all together, but i will cross that bridge when i get to it.

bought "the wreckers" - stand still, look pretty, album on iTunes the other night. Not bad. Not great either, but easy, light country tunes.

Sold my computer to my brother. He gets it on Monday night, and during the day monday i will be ordering my new LAPTOP [:D] from Dell. And I get a discount through work, which is wicked sweet!

.. ten days later ..

I think I am coming to terms that I am just a bad blogger. Always have been. Probably always will be as well. Not really a good thing, but something I can handle I suppose. It's because I'm never home...Can't blog at Nathan's because their internet is SOO slow. Can't blog at work because well...it is work!

Went to my little brother's 8th grade Grad last night. He looked so cute :) Kind of a boring night, and not well planned, but it was over by 8.30 and We were home by 9.00.

And why do they have Taylor Hicks singing on a Ford commercial. That kind of irritates me. I liked him on idol, but he's not really idol enough yet to be doing endorsements. Even for a major idol sponsor.

So I've been working on my mini Wasaga album. We're going next Friday, so I'm hoping to have it all finished and ready to go by then. Maybe when we get back I will even remember to add some pictures.OOH! And I bought my new camera the other night. Samsung S600, for fifty dollars off. Yeeehaw. And small enough to keep it in my purse, and it hardly takes up any room. And still 6.0 megapixels :D

.. Things Left To Do [but not all tonight] ..

1. Finish Chapters 8 and 9 in Cognition Textbook
2. Definitions for Chapters 4,5,6,8 & 9
3. Get gym bag ready for tomorrow [stability ball day]
4. Clean off bed so I can actually get to sleep
5. Get off this stupid computer...

.. at this moment ..

Not much time for typing, but just a few minutes for updating. Exam in Three days, and still lots and lots of reading and catching up left to do. Work today, with a printer that went on vacation!! Awfully hard to get your paperwork done when you can't even print anything off!

I got my two new books in the mail today, yeehaw! Unfortunately for me, I also opened up the box. Bad idea when I am supposed to be studying Cognition, and not scrapbook pages, lol :)

Bought a new pair of sunglasses on the weekend, since I managed to break my old ones, and then proceed to lose them before I could get them fixed! These ones are a super dark gray with sparkly bits along the sides. I think, if i could, I try and make everything I own at least a little bit sparkly. Then I could always look alive, even if I wasn't really feeling it...like right now!!

.. almost ten "aye-emm" ..

Sitting in the chair, with the window open and the wind blowing in as the train rolls on by. Most people hate the noise of the trains. I've lived near them since I was five. Even in two moves, they've still been close. Always comforting, except once in a while when it's 2.00 am, and I can't seem to fall asleep.

Spent even more money this morning. Ordered a skirt for Wasaga and Cuba, and a Top to wear to the wedding. Still need the rest of the outfit, but at least I have started. I feel kinda crazy buying clothes for the end of January...but I know there will be nothing to find if I wait until the Fall.

Not going in to school today. No new material, just review - I'd rather spend the 5.5 hours of wasted bus ride time doing some real studying instead. And studying is right up at the top of my To Do list for the day. That and washing my gym clothes. Yuck!

.. recently I ..

1. Bought 4 movies, and I'm watching the second one right now. Watched Just Like Heaven last night, and am watching Elizabethtown right now. Still have Crash and Mr and Mrs Smith left.
2. Booked my spot, paid the deposit and the insurance for CUBA in January.
3. Found out my Final exam for summer school is a week tomorrow, but I am SO not ready for it yet.
4. Have been feeling more confident in myself - how I look, how I feel, how I talk...and I can't quite figure out why.
5. Have been getting angry about things, but am moving on, not hanging on.
6. Moved my cactuses to the bedroom window so they can soak up some sunshine.
7. Ordered 2 new books from AMAZON.CA: Love your Handwriting by Heidi Swapp, and Scrap City
8. Decided I'm not going back to Kathy's in the fall, but am moving in to Kara's apartment in Vaughn. And I am totally, totally excited. [I sense a trip to Ikea in my future!!]
9. Went to a bonfire party, and got pretty drunk, and didn't really sleep, and had a lot of fun just laughing and BEING...It's amazing how easy it is to forget to just be sometimes.

.. Soo ..

...someone totally ate the rest of my icecream. Probably for the best since I am not supposed to be eating things like that anyways, but disappointing none the less. I'll have to find something else instead...maybe tea and a Hop 'n' go bar. I love those things!!

I did get my hair cut last week...so now it sits on my shoulders, once I've straightened. Perfect. I am getting tired of my boring boring brown hair though. It's too bad highlights are so high maintenance, because I love them...Just can't afford them these days. And don't really need them I suppose. I'm trying harder to "go without" these days. Sometimes it is certainly easier than others, that is for sure.

Tomorrow I am back to school. Which means I should probably try to get some work done tonight, since I managed to totally slack of last week, and get absolutely nothing done. nothing. Hopefully I can change that tonight. After I have a shower
And eat
and straighten my hair
and fix my work out shcedule

haha

.. ten twenty-eight ..

Almost 10.30 on Thursday morning. Been up for an hour and a half, and have doen nothing yet. Absolutely nothing. Room is still a mess. Haven't finished reading chapter for OR even started chapter five. Haven't really stopped complaining.

HAVE:

1. moved the big container out of my room. It's now sitting in the hallway, lol.
2. Been eating more fruit, though not neccessarily move veggies. Still working on that one
3. Been going to the gym. Even made up a work out schedule to follow. Oh ya - I'm hard core. Going tonight...and tomorrow...and Saturday as well.

I can't remember if I wrote about Ashley and Jeff's wedding yet. Probably not if I can't remember. I'm going to CUBA January 26.07 for my first wedding ever! A whole week in a hot country - wicked sweet. $1279.99 + $99.04 tax ... + $87.48 in insurance. Still have to call and find out what exactly does the insurance cover. Ya I know, I'm a loser - buy the insurance before I even know what it covers, lol.

In fact...I should probably go call about that now, before I forget. And I should probably eat something for breakfast as well.

.. YUMMY ..

Maybe this is why i like the UFC so much!!


<----Mike Swick






Rich Franklin
----->
and Nate Quarry









I don't know any sane girl that would like to watch these dudes rumble in the octagan for a bit!! :D

.. before today ..

So Monday it was 29 degrees here...42 with the humidex, which trnaslates to disgustingly hot - Poor air quality alert, smog alert, and extreme heat advisory. Gross. I'm all for warmer weather, but it would be nice if it could stop at warm, and not continue to unbearably gross...

Went to Matt's house on Sunday for Rotisserie Chicken on the BBQ, swimming, sunshine, and then to the movies to go and see X-3...it was good, but not great. And short too...it seemed like there should have been more development, more to the ending...more something.

Saturday I slept while Nathan had to work in the morning, then got up and ate, and went to the gym - 3 days in a row...go me. Saturday night was UFC 60, Hughes VS. Gracie. All of the fights were really good, and it ended early, as usual. People are always so suprised when they find out that I love watching the Ultimate Fighter. I'm not sure why I like it, but it's not really worth wondering about. Maybe because most of the fighters are hot and half naked, lol!!

.. stupidness ..

Feeling angry tonight...Not spending as much time with Nathan lately because we are both in school, which means more nights at home, and less nights at his house. This translates to him getting grumpy when talking to me on the phone, me getting upset because he's being kinda rude, then him being fine, and not getting why I'm sounding frustrated, when he announces out of nowhere that he's going to bed.

And the next day it's like nothing ever happened. Once, I can handle, even twice...But it seems to be a common thing these days

And I hate going to bed angry. I don't get enough sleep as it is.

.. i solemnly swear ..

1. To exercise at least 3 days a week
2. To eat more fruits and vegetables and less junk
3. To be a better blogger/commenter [ie: stop lurking!!]
4. To finish reading chapter 4 tonight, and get chapter five done by Friday night!!
5. To get this big container of winter clothing closed up and put into the basement by tomorrow night
6. To complain less, and enjoy more

.. sunshiney day ..

What sucky weather for a Holiday weekend! Of course, it gets sunny today, after the weekend is over! Oh well, I didn't do anything exciting anyways...After Nathan's episode at the gym on Thursday, we decided no late nights - which was fine with me, because I was exhausted! Still tired today too, so I slept on the way to school, and on the way home...Nothing else to do for those 2.5 hours [each way!!]

So I have been trying to eat better lately...I'm noticing though that now I am eating less junky food, I feel hungry ALL THE TIME!! I feel like some unsatiable animal that could just eat and eat and eat all day! I hope that is normal, lol :D. Although, I guess with going to the gym as well I will be burning more energy than in the past, and I guess that would make me pretty hungry as well...

Right now on my iPod:

1. Sunshine - Hipjoint and Anders Johansson
2. Phobic - Plumb
3. Inside and Out - Feist
4. Boys Don't Cry - Plumb
5. Stranded - Plumb
6. Build me up Buttercup - The Temptations
7. Hips Don't Lie - Wycleff and Shakira
8. Speechless - Melissa O'Neill
9. SOS - Rhianna
10. Not Ready to Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
11. Real Life Fairy Tale - Plumb
12. Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
13. Why - Jason Aldean

* * * * *

So my orientation for the gym was yesterday. Jenn decided to come with me, which was cool. Steph showed us a bunch of the machines, proper form, what each machine works...and we even got a free training program to start us off, which we didn't know we'd be getting. I won't be doing it every time I go to the gym, but I will try and do it everyother trip though. Jenn and I are planning on working in some excersises on the stability balls as well, so we will probably alternate between the ball and the machines. We'll see, lol!

.. What a Day ..

School today...So 5 hours on the bus. 5 hours of wasted time. Too bumpy to read, because I have to highlight while I am reading...and I hate all those wiggly lines. But I got a few minutes of sleep thrown in there both ways today, so that's good I guess.

So...I was on the bus ride home, and my cell rings - I'm expecting Nathan to call, but it is Jenn, so I am wondering - what's Jenn calling for? She was calling to tell me that Nathan had passed out during his personal training session, and was getting carted off to the hospital in an Ambulance!! So I start panicking [because I tend to do that], and actually get to the Hospital before the Ambulance and Matt and Jenn arrive! So...I start panicking again, and then, when the ambulance gets there, they want me to sign him in, but won't let me see him. Then JUST as I am about to be able to see him, the medic comes into reception, sneaks the paperwork from the receptionists hands, and tells me to keep on waiting!!

Meanwhile, I'm sitting there waiting for 20 minutes, no news, no nothing, and his mum shows up, and waltzes right on in there, no questions asked! Not that I am upset that they let her in - she is his mum after all...But just upset that they wouldn't let me see him, when he was all by himself, and doing okay anways...GRR...Needless to say, he is fine, and they sent him home, no restrictions. But he's taking the day off tomorrow anyway [My orders, LOL]. I wish they could have figured out what caused his blood pressure to drop so low that he passed out, but they are not 100% sure...I'm just glad he is okay though!

But now I am home, sitting in my messy crowded room, amd wondering if I am ever going to make it to the gym this week...I want to go swimming, and do some time on the treadmill and bikes...And the leg machines too. The consultant at my assessment said they would strengthen my muscles in my knees, which translates to No More Pain!! Maybe I'll make it there tomorrow anyway...by myself EEK!

.. Down down ..

Downloading...it's addicting. I'm a bad dowloader too...I do get most of my songs from iTunes these days, but I must admit that in a pinch, Limewire is my best friend. So, I have been catching up on blogs for, oh, the last hour or so, and was reading through one of Nadine's posts and she was talking about Pandora, which I love. She metioned a song that she liked by Plumb, and holy time warp! Do you ever suddenly get reminded of music that you LOVED years ago, and somehow managed to forget about? I do...and then it's like DUDE! How could I ever have forgotten about this?!?!

Needless to say, I've been searching and searching for Plumb songs, and listening as I catch up on Blogs. My personal fave is "stranded". Love it. Used to listen to it every single day when I was younger. Bet I'll be doing that again for the next little while too...:D

My room is still a FREAKING huge mess! Seriously, I have to CRAWL over things, just to move in here! It's hard to combine two rooms full of stuff into one tiny space...Winter clothes in a plastic container to move to the basement. Gym bag and laundry basket with no home. Big Ass bed that takes up half the space, but I couldn't possibly live without. 2 book shelves crammed with books, movies, magazines, scrapping supplies, camera's, notebooks...A desk that is about a foot too deep, but I don't really want to give up [besides, it only cost $30.00 from Ikea!!]

Anyway, I need to make some changes to my cardio playlist on the iPod...fill the dishwasher for mum before she gets home...get ready to watch the Finale of BONES - SO excited about that one!

Two posts in one night! I'm on a roll!!

.. Wednesday Ramblings ..

I mean really, how much do I suck? Vanishing for almost two and a half weeks! I'm back, now now anyways, LOL.

. So I am in summer school now, taking Cognition. I wanted to take Psychology of the family, but it is at the other campus, and just wasn't going to work. We already had our midterm in that class...I think it went okay, but I am not %100 sure yet. no grade until next Tuesday probably. We got our final grades for 05/06 released yesterday... 6 A's including one A+. Go Me :) My GPA went down though a bit from last year which is disappointing, but maybe if I work mucho hardo [LOL] in Cognition I might be able to pull off an A+ in it, and pull my GPA up a bit more.

So I worked today, and got the bus home from Whitby after my Dad dropped me off. perfect timing too, since th ebus was pulling up right as I got there! No waiting in the rain either - even better! While I was waiting in Oshawa I started talking to one of my old boyfriends, Scott. Man, he was looking rough. He's only a year older than I am, and already he has a little girl, Brianna [beautiful name...] I'm so proud of him for taking care of her though....He was lookign worn out and stressed, but his face lit up when he talked about her, and I could just tell that he meant every loving word. I can't decide if I am surprised by that or not...I don't really think so...he always just needed something to be passionate about. Why not be passionate about her I guess...Nothing beats that.

I joined the gym last week too. It is SOOO nice there! I did my fitness asdsessment yesterday...She took my Body Fat percentage, showed me some of the machines, booked me for orientation. All in all, not too bad. The pool is my favourite part of it though. They have the pool and the hot tub, and they are both Salt Water, instead of chlorine. So it tastes funny, but no green hair :D

Time to read about attention. Yeehaw....:S

.. back to school tomorrow ..

I mean seriously, how much does that suck? Had my last final on Thursday morning [and holy crap was it ever hard], and tomorrow is Tuesday, and it is back to school again. No extra days off to enjoy. Friday at work, and today at work, and the weekend spent as usual. Except that Nathan was sick, and his parents were gone, so we had to stay home for the dogs

Exciting.

And, to top it all off, I can't even take the summer school class that i WANT to take, because it is at the campus, and there is absolutely no way I could make it there in time. Without leaving at like 5.00 am, and that is just too early for me to even think about. Crap.

Went to the scarpbooking store on Friday, and bought a few things. paper mostly...some cardstock. Charlene told me again that I should be teaching classes there. which is super flattering, but I don't exactly know how to take it, since they haven't actually ASKED me to teach. And I wouldn't even know where to begin! I've never even BEEN to a scrapping class before, let alone taught one!

My room is a mess and it is making me feel crowded and claustrophobic...maybe I will remember to write more once I get some tidying up done.

.. Tuesday Again ..

I don't even have an excuse for not updating. Zilch, nothing, Nada. :P My last exam is in two days, so I have been reading up and doing problems for the past few days. Still lots more to do though, unfortunately. I'm feeling weird today. Maybe tired...maybe apprehensive...maybe in need for change. Who knows.

Next week I start summer school. And working three days a week. That should be interesting. So far I am enrolled in Psychology of the Family. I'm still working on Cognition, but so far, no luck. I'll probably just go to the lectures anyways, and ask the prof if they'll give me permission to join. We'll see how that goes.

I'm kinda pissed about work though. Bryan used to work with us, and then he got promoted, and not he works in Mississauga, instead of with us at the Zoo. So technically, he's not OUR employee anymore. But now, all of a sudden, he's in everybody's business, planning schedules that Ada and I ALREADY made, and changing things without telling us what he's changing! I told him that I want to do the special function billing and tracking, and then he writes on the schedule that I have to train the new guy on it. WHY? I'm the one that will be doing them anyways. I said I don't mind doing Inventory keying, and I have to train the new dude on that too. GRRR... It's just frustrating that everything is up in the air, and nothing is being explained. And, now that Bryan is gone, I am doing a bunch of stuff that HE did before, and my poisition is still the same, and I haven't had a raise or anything....

.......... *SiGH* I sound like a whiney little kid :( .........

I got my hair cut last Tuesday. It sits pretty much on my shoulders now, like it did when I got it cut last time. I'm brutal for getting my hair cut...like every four months, and that is it.

Whatever.