Flash Back Friday - Thursday, February 18, 2010

 Okay, i know i should add comments but this story really speaks for itself....and to this day i still hate laundry and i am still afraid of bumping into that scary lady.

 Laundry Room Ediquette

So...Monday was family day and I decided to celebrate it by doing my laundry. This is a big deal for me because I hate laundry and I have lots of clothes...lots and lots of clothes. There was a time when I was younger that I would buy new clothes instead of doing laundry....but I am a grown up now...and new clothes can be expensive. - i still prefer buying new clothes to doing laundry....the first thing i would do if i ever got rich would have someone else do do my laundry.  Although would it be weird having someone else do your laundry, cleaning your underwear?
So I get to the laundry room..and woot woot...two machines available...(insert happy laundry dance here).
I put two loads in and set my cell phone alarm.....back to my apt I go. I re-load my laundry basket with the next two loads and await the finishing of my first loads.
DING!(laundry alarm)
So I head back down to the laundry room to switch over my laundry to the dryer and start another load of washing...when....<SCARY MEAN OLD LADY ALERT>...an older lady was standing by my washing machine. It makes me laugh that i still remember this interaction down to the tiniest detail.  I can't remember what happened last week but this interaction clearly had an impact.  I think it was around this time that i decided i couldn't wait to get old so i could be a mean old lady without having to apologize for it.
"They're taken" she says in a very territorial voice
"I know" I say in a confused and uncertain voice
"I'm using them" she says
"but that's my stuff in there, I am still using them, I'm not done" still confused voice because i don't know what the protocol is here. do I challenge her, and refuse to let her use the machine, do I try to reason with her? I just don't know what to do!
"They are mine now" she says in an even meaner tone..which I didn't think was possible..because she was quite mean before.
"Fine, you know what...you can have them" yes I caved...I don't like confrontation and yes I was afraid she would beat me up or tell the landlord on me or something.
BUT...she doesn't move away from the machines..and my clothes are still in there...I need to move them to the dryer but she won't give me any space.
"I'm not gonna steal the machines, but I do need space so I can get my clothes out..can you give me like 5 minutes to unload the machines?" I ask...in a clearly frustrated tone...which SHE IGNORES...AND DOESN'T MOVE. Crazy lady...really....you need the machines that bad...it looks like all you are washing are Lacy curtains. REALLY!?!?!?!
So I work around the crazy old lady getting more and more frustrated by her rudeness. I get one machine unloaded..and she immediately jumps on it...I get the other one unloaded...and...
"I guess I really only need the one machine" she says in a slightly guilty tone
"You know what...that's okay...you clearly need the machines more than me...I will just come back at a later time" I say in a bitchy tone...that's right I bitched out a bit. then I picked up my laundry basket..and stormed out. great exit. I am proud of that exit.  Normally i would screw that kind of storm out with some sort of extra comment that would completely take away from my parting shot.  And the best part...i don't feel bad about it at all....being bitchy. 
SIDE NOTE: I am now a little afraid of the laundry room because I don't want to run into that old lady again...she was really mean and scary!
So...new plan, only do laundry late at night...like 8pm..because she is probably in bed by then...old people go to bed early right?

New Friends

So last night, i went home and spent the night sneezing.  I went through almost an entire box of Kleenex and my nose is super sore. 
Me waking up this morning was not fun....and i have been feeling super yucky all day.  Did i call in sick?  Hell no, not only is it crazy at work and they can't afford to be off.  I have this two fold guilt issue about being off sick.  I am sure i mentioned it before, but for all of you people who are new here....it goes like this:
1. I will hear my mom's voice in my head saying 'are you really sick enough to stay home?' and immediately i will feel like i am some home mis-behaving...and won't be able to call in sick
2. Will start worrying that things at work will fall apart without me, and if i am not there...everything will go wrong and i need to be there to make sure things go smoothly.

Both of these things are crazy...i know it, and you know it....does that stop me from doing it?  Of course not.

So i also had a lovely embarrassing Tin moment yesterday.  On Tuesday when i added my new no doubt CD to my itunes....i added a very important song.  So i don't know if i have ever mentioned this before but i love Les Miserables.  It is like my favourite musical ever.  It may be because growing up me and Andrea would listen to it while cleaning the kitchen.  Andrea assigned us each roles.  she of course gave herself all her favourite songs and i sang all the other songs.  But it didn't matter, every song, was awesome.  My favourite was and still is On My Own, sung by Eponine.  This song always transports me to a different place.  So with my new headphones, that cancel out my surroundings, walking home from the grocery, this song comes on...and i start singing to myself and i am almost hit by a car turning into my parking lot.  Oh Les Miserables, what you do to me. 

I also made a new friend today.  I love making new friends.  Okay...so here is something weird, i love when i click with someone, and ultimately make a new friend that is on that same weird level that i am on.  But in a room full of strangers, i get all shy quiet and awkward.  It is not that i don't want to make friends but i am worried they won't understand my weirdness.  I am proud of my weirdness, i am proud and happy with who i am as a person.  But sometimes i wish i was more confident about the package.  It is still my one big blind spot.  I will walk into a room and if people are staring, i don't think it is because i look good...i think it is because some how my pants are on inside out or i have clown lipstick.  It is my optimistic hope that one day i will walk into a room and trust that i am pretty inside out.

Push and Shove!!!

I don't want to get you guys too excited...but No Doubt's new album comes out today.  I will be buying it on my lunch....if i get a lunch, if not, then i will be buying it after work.  i will immediately put it onto my ipod and listen to nothing but this album until i have every tiny aspect of each song committed to my brain.  This is my goal....this is my focus...this is what is getting me through the day. 

My tired/grumpy face continues.  I push forward. 

I got mustard yellow skinny jeans last night at Joe for 19 dollars.  I am telling you guys, yellow is the new forest green.  The colours of this season will be mustard yellow, a burgundy purple, and rich green (a bluey green but really more green than blue), and a smokey grey.  If they aren't the colours of the season, they are the colours of my season. 

It is not that i am not loving my job because i am...it is that i am physically exhausted all of the time.  Steph would be telling me that i am low thyroid...but we already did that test, and i am not...sad face, i wanted to join the thyroid team...i would have made us t-shirts....me and Alex would have worn them and dad would have shook his head and refuse to wear the t-shirt.  It would have been great.  I am only B12 deficient...it was a sad day when i got my test results back.

I have also accidentally been on a diet lately.  So i spend all day drinking all my exciting new teas....and by the end of the day....i realize that i have hardly eaten anything but have drank 4 - 5 cups of tea.  It is not on purpose, tea is so yummy!  And i know all you nutritionally smart people out there will be yelling at me saying my eating habits are horrible and the reason i am so tired and stuff lately is because of my lack of food...but it is not like i never eat...i do have dinner on a regular basis.  You know with all this practice/tea drinking...i bet i could finally do a cleanse without breaking after a day and a half.  Hmmmm....maybe just maybe.

Anyways, all of you need to go out and buy No Doubts new album...like right now!

What is the Deal?

Seriously.  What is the deal.  Why am i so exhausted.  Okay well Friday instead of going home to sleep at a reasonable hour, i went out and ate chicken wings and drank beer.  Now i know...i should be eating healthily and all that blah blah blah.  But i have been really good lately, working out and eating right.  I am allowed a few fun nights of food and drink.

But by the time i got home and into bed it was like 1:30.....i was asleep by 2am...and then....up by 6:30 to leave my house by 7am...to run at 7:30.  Let's just say that morning i was so tired and confused that i couldn't find my water belt but instead of looking....i just stood in one place while my brain mis-fired.  The run itself wasn't so bad....me and team injury made it through, there was a large chunk of walking but team injury finished strong.  Then we all went out for brunch....it was awesome that everyone came.  We enjoyed mars diner. 

Saturday...me and Amy had a sleep over.  We watched Cabin in the Woods, and so we could both be comfy we pulled out the pull out couch in the family room.  It was a weird movie but a good movie.  I should be scared but at the same time, it presented rules that i am pretty sure i will follow in order to avoid the scary horror things.  After that movie we watched What to expect when expecting.  It wasn't a bad movie...a nice refresher after a scary gory movie.  Then we were going to watch snl...but instead, we both fell asleep and woke up at like 2am....then spent the rest of the night tossing and turning on the pull out couch.  It is not a comfortable mattress at all.

Sunday, i took it easy...hung out with max and daisy and baked cookies and relaxed a bit.  It was nice but i was ready to go home....it took me about an hour and 45 minutes to get home...and once home i was so ready for bed.  But i have to return my library books today and i have one left to finish.  So i ended up staying up until 11:30 reading in hopes of finishing the book...i didn't.  But i am close..i should be able to finish before i return it today.

So now...i am back at work and i am tired and foggy...and i am wondering if something is wrong with me?  Why am i tired all the time?  What's the deal?

I am feeling the blah's......i am tired, i am lonely, and i am stressed.  I really need to get into my focused and pumped up mode.  i need to implement the anti stress plan.  I may have slightly mis-calculated because although i made the anti-stress plan...i didn't plan that i would be too tired to implement. 

Okay...so now i need to implement the perk up/pep up plan.  Step 1: more B12, Step 2: More of that healthy drink thing i drank last winter, Step 3: sleep!, Step 4: exercise more (that should pump up my endorphins...i have heard that people who exercise have more energy.)

Hair today, Gone tomorrow?

My hair has gotten so long....it is like mid boob length.  And it is great for doing sock buns and my pony tails are now super bouncy.  I still haven't mastered the one braid....but i am great at the pigtail braids....which i swore i would only rock at home because i look like a twelve year old.....but today i am breaking my rule.  it is just so long it is all up in my face.  So i did the pigtail braid at work and then clipped my bangs...which are super long but still not long enough to fit behind my ear....back with a paperclip.  Yup that's right, today my hair is office supply chic.

So here is the million dollar questions.  Do i cut it? or do i keep growing it out? 

I would love some fun colours and highlights.  Although last time i went to get my hair cut....my hair dresser decided i needed pretty hair and kept it long with my natural hair colour and lot's of blond highlights.  So now that that is growing out.  What's next?  Will my hair dresser still think pretty hair is for me, or will she let me do a fun and crazy colour?  Should i hold off a bit longer and not get it cut until December...then i have new hair for the new year?

So many questions!

Sleep is Awesome

So yesterday.....it was hump day....and i was very tired...and i got the hugest headache ever!  But i made it through the day and went home.  I went home and then drank some neocitrin and basically went right to sleep.  I was asleep by like 9:30, and i actually slept right through until 6:00am.  But Rem, woke me up around 6am...he wasn't happy with me sleeping that much...he wanted to play.  He kept pawing me in the face.  Then he put a mouse in my hand...and brought his fleecy toy and put it on my head.  He was like...I will not be ignored any more.  So at 6am...i played with Remy for 15minutes...then went back to bed until 8am. 
Can i just say....i love working so close to work....so close that i can get up at 8am and still be at work for 9am.  It fills me with happiness.

In other exciting news.....Alex bought the David's Tea press.  Now all we need is Amy to buy one and then we have all three! 

I don't have much to say today....so i will finish with a picture of the boots i bought a few weeks ago...they are my new fall boots.  Also...brown, which is strange because i normally buy everything in black...but lately...it is all about the tan/brown!



Also...i almost bought these boots:

Teas for Me

So as we move into a colder season, the need for tea increases.  I know you guys are all pretty tired of my tea talk...well except for Alex and maybe Amy because they share my obsession.  But i can't help it....i missed my hot tea.  I missed drinking all sorts of tea all day long.  I have my morning tea, a tulsi pomegranate tea that is suppose to energize you for your day ahead.  Then my green tea to drink after lunch to help keep me going through the afternoon.  Then my mother's little help before i go to bed to calm down and help me relax before i go to sleep.  It is a great tea routine.

Oh...so my headphones and shower curtain came last night....and guess what customs over valued one of my items by like $70.  So i was all grouchy at the amount of duty i had to pay....but then after complaining to Andrea and my friend Kelly...i turned the customs slip over and there are all these instructions about complaints at being over charged.  Woot.  I shall be filling out that form.

So...me and Amy are having our sleep over this weekend.  I am so excited i am starting to make our itinerary.  Amy turned me onto this baking and cooking website, joy the baker.  There are the best recipes on there....our last sleep over we did these milkshakes from the website....this time i am not sure what we are going to bake but there is a great garlic bread recipe that i am leaning towards.

In other news...i have finished my fundraising...now all i have to do is actually run the half marathon.  And make sure that Jenn finishes her fundraising.  If anyone wanted to donate to me but hasn't yet....please donate to my teammate Jenn.  She is fundraising in honour of her cat dodge, he was diagnosed with leukemia a year ago.  She has made a wonderful video, and she has twitter @dodgethecat.  Please follow her and support her.

As the Sands through the hourglass.....

these are the nail trends of my summer.

I was trying for a cooler title to my blog post...but now i feel like it is trying too hard...but at the same time..i have already committed so there it is.

Before i get into trend...i have to say....i am still in love with my new tea press...I keep giving press demonstrations at my desk.

So...let's get to business...i am going to tell you about my top three new nail trends of the summer.

1. Ciate Velvet Manicure:  so basically you paint your nails with nail polish and then when the second coat is still wet you sprinkle crusted velvet onto your nails.  It seems like an amazingly cool idea.  I haven't mastered the application because it takes a while to sprinkle the velvet on the nails and the nail polish dries before i get it as velvety as i want it.  So the next time i did it, instead of following the instructions..when my nails were wet, i just shoved the wet nail into the velvet container.  The nails were much more velvety.....but....and i didn't think this was possible but they were too velvety.  For the rest of the week, so much cat fur was stuck to my nails...it was awkward. 
So overall, very cool trend and once i master it...i think it will look awesome...for now i am giving it a 8/10

2. Sally Hansen Magnetic nail colour:  So this is a really cool concept and everyone else loved my nails when i did it.  But i didn't love it.  It wasn't perfect which drove me crazy.  So basically you paint your first coat normally...but the second coat it says in the instructions to paint a thick coat...and by thick coat...they mean very thick because then you hold a magnet over your wet nail and the magnet makes the iron particles in the nail polish all wavy.  So here are the problems...one - if you don't do a thick enough coat..it doesn't work...and two - the magnet is not wide enough to wave the entire nail...it really just does the middle.  And you know me...if there is the slightest thing off with my nails...it drives me crazy.  It looked cool but there were just two many technical problems for me to love it. 
So overall, i am only giving it a 7/10
 
3. Neon Nails:  okay i seriously loved the neon trends of the summer...it was my favourite trend of ever!  China glaze has the best neons....here are my favourites.


Okay...that is my summer nail experience.  In other news...while looking for pictures, i just found these nail polishes...and i need to buy them.

     

I have a problem

I need to stop buying new tea travel mugs.  Seriously!  Every time i go into David's tea they have a new travel mug that catches my eye.  And i wasn't able to say no this weekend.  I actually went on a mini spree....i bought that purse.  The fringe one.  But to be fair...it was an important purchase plus Alex emailed me and asked if i had bought it or not...and if i hadn't i needed to buy it.  And really that was all the encouragement i needed.  So after a long hard week, i went up to the store on Friday...and it was the very last one.  It was fated for me to own it.  Then well wandering back towards the subway, i stopped in at dynamite because.....well.....they always have great cheap work dresses.....and i saw it.  A new pleather jacket with contrast knit sleeves and a nice big floppy collar.  I knew immediately i needed to own this jacket....but they didn't have my size.  So i moved on....went home and spent all night searching online for a leather jacket with knit sleeves....without success.

Saturday was a short run...11km....it is so sad when i think that is a short run.  But it was a successful run, very little ankle pain during the run as well, i stayed at a steady pace of 6:30.  That is much faster than i normally run...i am usually around a 7:00km.  Dad thinks i should be at a 6minute km but that is very unrealistic for me.  I ran with Jenn this week, Caroline couldn't make it.  After our run, we decided we needed pancakes...so we went up to Mars dinner for some delicious pancakes...with side sausage.  So yummy. 

Now Jenn knows my obsession with Davids Tea....and we were like minutes from a location...so i took her up to introduce her to the best world...plus i wanted some new night time tea, to drink before i go to bed for some calm downness.  While there...i of course saw a travel mug that caught my eye....after much debate...i purchased it:   The yellow one.  It is a tea press.  Makes everything amazing.

So i went to my parent's on Saturday to see them off on their trip....then spent the evening relaxing.  I must have been really tired because i feel asleep right after the monologue in SNL. 
Sunday i hung out with Andrea and the kids....we went to the mall....where i bought that jacket i saw on Friday...they had my size at this location.  We picked up a few things.....Ally is not great at walking in a straight line....or looking where she is walking...she almost walked into so many things at the mall.  And near the end, she was so tired of walking she just sat down.

So...it was a full weekend....full of purchasing items, i didn't really 'need' but i REALLY NEEDED.  This week is going to be long and busy and stressful....but Friday...we are adventuring to Duff's for wings.  It is just what i needed.  And Saturday me and Amy are having a fun sleep over at my parents. 
So there are things for me to look forward to and should help me get through the week.

Today's Musings

So everyday when i come out of the subway exit heading to work...there is a 24hour newspaper person there handing out that free paper.  I always felt bad but never wanted one....mainly because i know this isn't the best opinion and pretty shallow but news makes me sad...so i just don't read it.  Anyways....i came out of the subway on Monday...and there was a metro person there.  I thought, that seems strange, this is 24hours territory.  But then today......they were both there....it was like a sharks/jets situation.  do you take the free 24hour or do you take the free metro?  I still take  neither...but the pressure is like doubled now.  Now i must reject two newspaper people instead of one person.

I also met up with Amy today and we worked out, we pumped some iron.  Then we wandered up yonge street and went into Urban Outfitters.  They had many things that i wanted...mainly a black scarf with pink stars......and a purse with fringe.  I have decided i am ready to accept the fringed purse. 

 
I may have to buy it....but i am going to think on it for a bit.

Running through the Rain

So this Saturday was the longest distance we will run in our training for the half marathon.  I woke up Saturday morning all nervous because my ankles are still questionable (the physio taped them up on Friday)...and it was raining.  I am not a fan of running in the rain.  I was worried my tape would fall off due to the rain.  So instead of wearing the shorts i was going to wear...i picked longer pants to keep the tape dryish. 
I get to the club.  We have our route...and off we go.  In the pouring rain....running.  The longer we run, the more water my clothes absorb.  But at least me being distracted by the rain made me not think about my ankles.  Me and Caroline....we ran our little hearts out.  We did a bit of walking near the end but her knee was starting to bother her...my ankles were starting to bother me...and i had swollen hands...sausage fingers are not fun.  And we finished.  On the way back to the club we decided instead of going for brunch in our wet clothes...we stopped and bought pants at Ardene's....they were more like leggings but they were 2/20.  then we got some flip flops.  And we were able to enjoy our crazy large brunch in relative dryness.  Did you know running for like 3 hours makes you super hungry.  It is because you are burning all these calories and stuff.  Steph encourages us all to get a big brunch. 

I have to say that i am feeling a bit better about the race because if i can run 21km in the pouring rain...a race should be no trouble.  I don't think i will be very fast but i will complete it.  My goal when i started this was to challenge myself.  After i am finished this half marathon...i am definantly going to take up boxing.  I am never going to be a runner but i will be able to say soon, i ran a half marathon.  We are just over a month away!

FlashBack Fridays - Thursday Dec 30, 2010

  I love this one.....just for the randomness of everything. 

Musings, Rants, and Career Plans

I work two and a half days this week.
During this short work week, i have lots of time to ponder things while I work because there is little interruption due to the ghost town that is work. 
Here are some musings:
- I may be in love with Jeff Bridges and not in the way where I love an older celebrity and wish we were just platonic best friends like me and Colin Firth.  I don't even know where the love came from...it was like I woke up one day and decided that Jeff Bridges, he is the one for me.  The love hasn't gone away....he is still the one for me!  Forget Ryan Gosling...so over that! 
- I think Ally and Braydon would make a great brother sister band.  They both love music and sing all the time.  We could call their album Cars, Trains & Alphabet Songs.  I still think they would be an awesome band...ally has the diva attitude and bradyon has that performer spirit
- I got an A & an A- in my classes this term and when i use to be in school that would have made me happy but that A- pisses me off.  I had a A+ before the final assignment and one of my group members was suppose to do something and they didn't so they screwed us all and that brought my mark WAY DOWN.  I am still quite angry about it.  Stupid girl...i deserved that A+
- i want a place to live with a huge kitchen and a place for me to craft without destructo kitty interruption but i don't think i am ever going to be able to afford something like that. 
Which leads me to question my life.  I have always been so certain about some things but i tend to compare my life to other people and feel inadequate for a second and then realize that if I had their life i would be miserable.  I am not someone who wants to get married and if i have kids - i want to wait until technology can teleport that baby out of me so i don't have to go through labour.  We are no where near that technology yet and i am fine waiting.  I think a baby and a husband may be fun.  The older i get...the less horrible the idea seems....i still want that teleporter thing...so i don't have to do the whole labour thing...i wish people would hurry up and invent that...i am not getting any younger.
But what really frustrates me is that people tend to think that i am in the wrong for having these feelings.  There was this one girl who actually told me that i am disappointing god by not honouring his plan for me.  I was like 'god wants me to get married, have a baby, and live the white picket life? Tell him to mind his business!'
Sorry....random rant there but just venting and getting way way WAY off topic.
To make up for the rant I will tell you an exciting new business plan me and Leah came up with.  So you know how I love military fashion and I always say whoever is the fashion designer for the military has the best job ever.  Well me and Leah decided with her contacts (working RMC Banquets) and my military fashion obsession we could become the new fashion designers for the military.  So i am gonna work up a look book and make a bunch of copies then give them to Leah who while serving finds the most influential military man in the room and gives him our look book all sneakily.  Then he will be so wowed by our military designs that we will be offered the job on the spot.  Although that may mean i will have to move to Kingston which will create a small problem for me being that they don't have an h&m....but with all the military contacts i will have maybe they can force an h&m to open in k-town.  Does kingston have an h&m now?  because if it does....maybe it is time to start designing those military uniforms.
Anyways,  i am gonna do that or become a bread baker....i really like baking bread.  but the problem with that is they have to get up so freaking early which just isn't cool....maybe i could be like a midnight baker where i bake and sell my bread and stuff in the evening.  that way i don't have to get up early.  I will have to think on that one.  I need to plan it out better.  I never did start baking bread....i have the yeast but apparently not the bread follow through.  New goal...i am going to bake a loaf of bread this month.  Just one loaf before the end of september.  then next month....i will bake two loafs!

Woops

So, i was working an event today....and i was accidentally rude to a random stranger.  I didn't mean it the way it came out...and i don't think he took it as rude.....so i think it is all fine but...i feel guilty about it now. 

I was at a work event today....and i was a volunteer, i was suppose to walk the crowd and cheer and because i looked official...lots of people asked me questions.  This one person was like where's a bank machine.....and we were at bank corner...every way you turn there is a bank.  I said something like 'well cibc is a bank, i think there is a bank machine right in there'.  It sounds really rude but it was more my internal thought process out loud.....where's a bank...cibc...bank machine there.  Oh well.

I am so glad tomorrow is Friday.  I am going to try to relax as much as possible this weekend.  Although Saturday's run is 21 km.  So crazy!
Oh and i am $200 away from my goal.  Everyone needs to sponsor me. 

http://tinyurl.com/erinisrunning

Ear Paranoia

So....you know how i am a whole bucket of crazy?  Well....since this ear thing, i have become very paranoid about putting things into my ears.  Specifically my ear bud headphones.  Since this hole in my ear is unexplained.  I am trying to come up with the reason why the hole happened.  I think it could be my ear.  And to be truthful, my right ear bud doesn't stay in my ear any more...it just falls out very easily...maybe that is my ears way of rejecting that type of headphone.  So i have started obsessing about my headphones and how i need over the ear instead of in the ear because that way there is no pressure in my ear and that way my ears will be less damaged.

I started scouring the Internet for over the ear headphones...now there are very specific groups for over the ear headphones.  The beats by Dre, which give you street cred because they are from Dre....but also and expensive and a great set of headphones.  Now i liked them but i felt they were just a little too street credy for me.....i don't want to be grouped into any headphone type.  I want to stick to the fringes....you know find a cool pair of headphones...but not too expensive....and not too big (i don't want my head to be weighed down by giant DJ headphones)....not too douchey (this is a hard factor to describe.....i don't want to look like audio sound is very important to me but still be listening from an ipod which i am sure is not the best listening device).   So after much looking, i finally found a pair of headphones i find meets all the qualifications i created.  I found them on ModCloth.  The picture is below. 

When i buy things on this website....because there is shipping involved...i buy a few thing that i have wanted for awhile, that way i save on shipping.  So i also bought this owl shower curtain i have had my eye on.  Picture below.

Susy Sunshine

Has left the building.  I am starting to get majorly stressed about work....and now there's the ear thing....and the ankle thing.  And my dad called me fat this weekend....well not really but he said i need to lose weight...which i almost wanted to say, 'thank you captain obvious'.  But really, i can't seem to bring my happy nature to the foreground. 

Okay....so how do we get around this.  Well let's talk it out and create a plan.  This is going to be a really stressful work time for me so it is time for me come up with a de-stressing plan.  This should will also lead into my exercise/workout plan.  I am going to get my yoga back up and running because i need it...i need it bad.  Not just to de stress but also for my ankle and running.  I also think it would be great fun to take up boxing.  I think it will be a great way to de stress by punching things.  I really like the idea of punching things. 

So....here is my plan.

Step 1: Try to not stress about work but if i do start stressing, remember that i am only human and i can only do my best.  If i am still stressed move to step 2

Step 2: Create a regular routine....Monday - run, Tuesday - boxing??, Wednesday - yoga, Thursday - boot camp, Friday - break, Saturday - run, Sunday - run. 

Step 3: Control my eating habits better....i am not saying diet....because i have this horrible angry reaction to not being able to eat the things i love...but what i am saying is....regular healthy breakfast, lunch, and dinner.....no more skipping meals, no more eating late at night.  I am already doing really well on the breakfast and the saying hydrated with lots of water....but lunch and dinner are still a problem. 

Step 4:  Try to do fun things and not be so serious all the time.....once i get into a stressful situation...i get very serious and grumpy and bye bye goes cheerful tin.  So i will have to reboot the cheerful.

In other news...this weekend...i decided...singing off key while in the shower may be my absolute favourite thing. 

I hope everyone else enjoyed their long weekend.