BEING SICK AND KEEPING FIT...ON OXI-MORON??

well i have a head cold. full sinus, plugged, then runny nose, headache behind the eyes and inbetween them.
BUT I AM TELLING MYSELF I AM FINE!!!
left work early and intended to just lay down for 10 min.....fell asleep! (oops)

but here is the real kicker.........i am on a "get healthy journey"
as of tomorrow i have been going to the gym for 2 months. i have never skipped a planned nite, and added an extra night just this past weekend on the advice of my trainer. i am a mental case, and am scared that if i miss a night due to head cold i will find other and numerous excuses to never go back.

so last night i went to yoga.....2 hours of yoga.........5 friends, my mat, my own box of kleenex, and me!..........brings a whole new meaning to "DOWNWARD DOG" WHEN YOUR NOSE IS RUNNY! GROSS!!!!!!

tonight Jason and I went to the gym.( i am slowly weaning off my trainer, basically due to financial reasons, and long term life style changes (thats my trainer's words)), so jason and i did my routine. we worked out hard..........and i could feel my throat getting sorer by the minute!

my point being this...........DON'T YOU FIND IT IRONIC THAT AS I TRY TO WORK HARD TO GET MY BODY HEALTHY, MY BODY SEEMS TO BE WORKING HARD SPREADING THE SICKNESS FROM MY HEAD TO MY THROAT!!!!!

in case you were wondering, measure day last week at the gym was another sucess. not as large as the previous one, but i am told that too is normal. i lost another 1.5 inces off my belly, for a total of 3.5 off just my belly. think i have lost a total of 12 inches over the entire body.

yes, dispite, if am being honest, i would like overnight drastic results, i am proud of myself.

SAVING AT LEAST $100

school pictures never even used to be a thought at our house. it was a givin that we would always buy them.........until this year. i realized during spring cleaning a couple of weeks ago that LAST YEARS school pictures are still in the original envelope, never making it into a frame for our home, let alone getting into cards and sending to relatives..........who most likely just put them into the garbage after a token stay on the fridge.

SO.........this year i am rebelling! no i am not a great photograher......i do not own a great camera, but thanks to a gift from my husband, i do own a digital camera now. i took the kids down to kinsmen park today..........fall being my favorite season, the leaves there made a beautiful background, and in litterally 7-10 min i had captured moments worthy of replacing school pictures!

this one of ethan ..i uploaded wrong pic...and cannot figure out how to erase it! HELP TWINK!

SO TRUE

Laugh often, long and loud.
Laugh until you gasp for breath.
And if you have a friend who makes you laugh,spend lots and lots of time with them.

Michelle sent me an e-mail.....at the bottom was this. i LOVE it

well i think i will start with girls group as i can chalk it up to a new thing i have tried and repeat to all, that at many times my life resembles a sienfeld episode.

First we went to COP to zipline, but ended up riding the zorbe ball!! FUN!! the entire ride is only about 30 seconds...........but 30 seconds jammed pact with greatness!!!

off then we were to kinsington to look at the neat shops and try a new chinese resturant.

oh where to begin?? all waitresses were chinese.........no really chinese you know small steps, fast walking, abrupt head nods, smiles as they don't fully inderstand what you are saying anyway....and because they think we are funny little white people who order too many dishes....

3 times i asked this one waitress for something........well tried to ask for something, but she kept walking away mid breath. then they served us cans of pop, which is great as you don't feel ripped off by the whole fountain pop thing. but the funny part is they all stood in a line watching us eat, and at the first chance they would scurry by to lift our cans to refill our glasses......mine inparticular about 3 times in 1 minute.......apparently i don't drink fast enough, and i'm starting to think their wages are the bottle return money.

funniest thing was when Twink said she would take the left overs and told one girl that she "could just put it all in one bucket". This was the funniest thing this little chinese girl ever heard. with a little chuckle she said "in one bucket"...laughed...and repeated it a couple of times! they really do think we are odd little white people.........and apparently we order too much dishes....and need "SLOP BUCKETS"

Twink, a.k.a. the poperatsy, of course had her camera with her, and thought it may be fun for me to have my picture taken with the walking away waitress. the waitress gave me a big hug, and our moment was capptures forever! (ok i cannot figure out how to move the picture to here, but that is us at the top).....best part......as the waitress was looking at the picture on the back of Twinks camera, this little, and perhaps only chinese man in the place, walks out from no where, looks over the girls shoulder and says "TWINS" as he keeps walking!!

LIKE I SAID.... A SIENFELD EPISPODE!

in other "news".................i went to the gym tonight........thursday is workout #20 so it is measurment day. i think that i have lost more inches..........not 10 like the first time but some. feeling great! leg pressing 115 lbs.............my trainer says that is impressive.........i honestly wouldn't know if that is true or if he was kidding. i do know it is heavy!

all in all a pretty good last few days. looking forward to friday, where i get to spend the day with my husband............and to the last weekend before hockey gets in to full gear!!!

i am hoping to say good-bye to the blue wall in my house!

UNSURE

I have had a few people comment on how i have not updated the "blog". well at least i know i have readers..........NOT SO MANY COMMENTERS....i guess.

was shocked myself , to see the last date of the last post. the reason there has been a large gap is that i have been "UNSURE". I am a person who talks openly and honestly about my life. Perhaps i should be more private, but i think getting it out helps to get rid of it too. having said that i still feel "UNSURE" as to how to continue on. do i mention it, or skip it. the topic, for the most part taboo.
so i have decided to menton it. My mother passed away on August 21, 2008 from a heart attack related to the complications due to diabetes. She had been in the hospital for 6 months following a partial leg amputation, right leg just above the knee, again a result of comlpications of diabetes. She was 53 years old.

although death is a sure thing........how we deal with it, how it effects us, how it will change us...is "UNSURE"