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Spinning Class and Veggies

Posted by on March 19, 2008 2 Comments

In an effort to get more in shape, I’ve gone and done something drastic. I signed up for 6am spinning classes at a new gym. AHH. What’s wrong with me. 6 am is ridiculous. Seriously. I’ve just been getting a bit crazy needing exercise and feeling all psycho without it so there we go. The last time I signed up at a new gym it helped me knock of some good weight, so I’m hoping for some more success again. I’ll step on the mean old scale in the morning and report back with the Courtenay Weight exchange, which I’m glad doesn’t affect finances because Id never put it down when things aren’t going so well. I had planned on running a marathon this summer, but that got knocked out of the picture after a few short runs and a big dose of “I hate running”‘s so now we are working with biking, which I really do like. Maybe for Emily’s birthday someone will get her one of those strollers that goes behind your bike. Those nice ones from MEC. That’d be cool then because I’d already be conditioned for biking. YAY. So here’s hoping this is helpful to my goals of being fit and eating good.

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Speaking of eating good. Man it has been nice to be back home and not eating out for every meal. As part of my eating habits changes I made one large change to my diet. Morgan and I were driving along and I said “Honey, theres something important I have to tell you, and I’m not sure if you should be driving while I do, but I’m just going to say it anyways”. He got all nervous like I was going to tell him something crazy like Id killed someone or bought a puppy or something(odd analogy I know). Then I said “I want to be a vegetarian”. So there I said it out loud. Or out type. I haven’t told many of my carnivorous family, but I will one day. I decided to be a vegetarian and see where that takes me. It’s a bit weird at this point in my life to make such a big change, but thats what I’m doing. It might not be forever, and I might be a bit of a hypocritical Vegetarian once in a while, but thats life. So there you go. Wow what I typed doesn’t even sound like me. a 6 am cycling class and a vegetarian. hmmm…I may have been abducted by aliens or something…I dunno. The best thing ever is that every time I typed vegetarian (haha including this time) The spell checky said I spelled it wrong. haha. Typical. Well anyways back to school I go.

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Someone turned up the speed on my life.

Posted by on January 16, 2008 1 Comment

Someone put my normal life somewhere and I can’t find it. I think I’ve looked everywhere. I’ve sat down at my computer almost everyday in the last week. “I’m going to blog” I say to myself, desperately wanting some time do just be silly and write. Twice I made it two sentences into my post and randomly closed the browser and walked away. Which I could do right now, but I wont. Life has just turned into this crazy cycle of school, babysitters, meeting, classes, screaming toddlers and quizzes. So here I am. I’ll try and catch you up the last week. AND I’ll try and make it coherent. I think I’ve been over tired forever.

I’ve still been going to the gym. I really didn’t feel like it today so I’m blogging and enjoying some very expensive me time instead. I did a good job working out, but I’ve had a harder time eating good this week due to reading so much and sitting in a chair all day long. I have bad study eating habits. So my goal it not to get the freshman 15 in the next few months. haha. I’ll go weigh myself soon and put up the CWX.

I got 18/20 on my first Psychology quiz! I’m pretty happy with that. Nothing else I’ve handed in has been marked yet. I’m finding I need sooo much more time to work on school than I thought I did. I’m a bit stressy about that, but I think I’m starting to figure it out. Morgan has been really awesome about giving me extra time and just sending my upstairs to study.

I’m going snowboarding tomorrow! YAY! I probably shouldn’t just because I could use the day to study, but I’m taking a day off to enjoy my day and be with friends and fam and not take everything so seriously. I’m going to help Morgan and Roxy get better at snowboarding and Coco is going to come with us too. It’s going to be soooo awesome. I’ll try and get some pictures or something.

Emily is waking up so I have to go deal with real life now, but maybe, just maybe, I’ll post again before next week.Cheers.

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?WX

Posted by on January 4, 2008 Leave a Comment

I’ve decided to start a new blog meme. Its called the “?WX”. Its the weight eXchange. Kinda like the TSX (Toronto stock exchange) or some other stock exchange. But this way I can post weekly stock in my weight gain or loss. Silly I know, but a way for me to keep tabs on where Ive been and where I’m going. Then just like when they say why a stock crashed or rose I can put the causes beside it. Please feel free to have your own ?WX. Mine will be the CWX. Courtenay’s Weight eXchange! I like Pluckymama’s “Weight Loss Wednesday” report so I think Ill try to update my stock on Wednesdays or days when I do so great I have to put it down.

CWX™ = down 2.4?

Made it to the gym again today thats 3 times this week. They were only open that many days, or I’d have gone another time. My back is a bit sore today. The squat machine has a hit out on me. That sucker is mean. Why I otta… It was a great feeling to make it so much this week. The fall was so hard to kick my butt. My whole body feels better already. I slept way better last night too. I decided to stop whining that my gym doesn’t have any cardio and just use the treadmill we have here. I have to stop making excuses. It’s like I’ve made my old gym into this perfect place where workouts were easy and all the machines were great and I loved it more than Disneyland. So not true. There was at least 2 machines that I loathed! They only had 1 elliptical so if it was in use I was out of luck. Although I kind of had a personal trainer and it was like 5 dollars cheaper a month, it wasn’t Fitness World by anyones standard. SO. No more excuses Courtenay.

Emily made me laugh so hard I cried yesterday. She looked at me and said “18 months.” I said “pretty close. You are 20 months” So she said “20 months”. Then I followed that up with “How old are you?”. Emily looked up from her high chair and said.”I’m fine thanks, how are you?” It was one of the funniest things she’s said this week. She got 2 Robert Munsch books and 2 Phoebe Gilman ones for Christmas. So we’ve been letting her read them. She’s has gotten alot less rough on paper books. It’s so fun to read full stories to her and especially the classic books that I read when I was little. So she walks around the house saying”Murmel, Murmel, Murmel” and “Jillian Jiggs pigs”. It’s really cute. I didn’t even remember Jillian Jiggs until Jenny read Em the story with the line “Jillian, Jillian, Jillian Jiggs! It looks like your room has been lived in by pigs!” Took me right back to the good ol days.

ChickenMy Feta Chicken with Zucchini turned out pretty good. I would probably add less lemon next time, but overall I quite enjoyed it. I took a picture for you. Tonight is Canton Beef. It sounds really tasty. I forget what the side dish is, but I’m sure that’ll be great too.

Oh and here is the song that is stuck in my head…Thanks Morgan!*sarcasm*

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I'm cooking Fish

Posted by on January 3, 2008 1 Comment

Well, I’m already down 3 pounds! 3 in 3 days. Not even like I’ve been crazy about it or something. Just extra Christmas weight I guess. I went to the gym again today. 2 days in a row. It was a bit harder today, but I couldn’t sleep in any longer. I made myself go to bed early so I could get up without feeling so tired. Another FlyLady tip! Sensible enough, but why do I always ignore sensible things…dunno.
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I’m enjoying working with FlyLady tips. Theres lots to do, so I just end up cleaning everything my way. But I have been shining my sink and getting dressed to the shoes (crocks). It seems to be working. Our house is WAY cleaner and MK is even inspired to clean up stuff. It’s really relaxing to have a clean house. I never thought I’d care as much as I do. When my kitchen is clean, I’m way more inclined to make something healthier to eat. So bonus #2. I took a picture of my FlyLady sink today for your very much optical pleasure.

Tonight is our first night with our new meal planners too. Thanks Grama! Got a subscription to Savingdinner.com for Christmas. Tonight is Feta Chicken and zucchini. It’s gonna be delish. I’m really hoping it will help us eat healthier meals and keep our grocery costs to a minimum. Nothing like saving money whenever you can right? If It turns out pretty I’ll take a picture.

Emily has decided she hates having water poured on her head. She used to do just fine in the bath with water on her head. Now she stands up and says “It’s ok” and shakes her head. It’s kinda sad. We are just going to have to figure out a better way to wash stinky’s hair or else she’ll have to keep showering with daddy. She was sitting in the tub playing with her toys and she started pretending she was cooking. Here is word for word her conversation with me.

EM: “Im cooking fish!”(she put her soap bottle in a cup and stirred it around)
” Oops I drinked it all”(drinks some bath water)
“I’m making more” ( fills the water up again in the cup)
(Then she offers me some and I pretend to drink it) “Ooops. Mommy ate it all. Silly Mommy. ”

It was pretty hilarious.
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We’ve started potty training! Em has already gone pee 3 times on the potty. As soon as she found out she gets a treat for going potty she was soooo excited to go. We can hardly keep her in clothes now. We bough some pull-ups and she likes her “special panties”. The little dragons go all blurry if she pees her self. No poopies yet, but she hasn’t had any while not in her bed either. So we’ll see how this goes. If anyone has any tips they’d be much appreciated.

She’s also decided she doesn’t want to be fed at all. She will only eat if I let her “Scoop it iself”. It’s made for a bit of a messy transition, but she’s actually quite good at it. She can even eat cheerios without making to much mess. She is best with yogurt or cottage cheese, but she will eat anything if she can “scoop it iself”.

I think I’m going to make some Chai tea and fold laundry while watching Big Trouble with Tim Allen and Kronk!

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January Goal Update!

Posted by on January 2, 2008 Leave a Comment

Well I was mistaken on my blogiversary date. I thought it was at the beginning of January, but its at the end so you’ll have to wait longer for the special celebration. It has been a year since I started working hard core at my goals. So today you get an over all goal up date. I’m afraid it’s gonna be a real date and I’m going to own my stuff, instead of telling you that I made it 100 percent. I have to look back on the last years goals so I can work towards setting this years goals. Statistically most people don’t complete there goals, but statistically those that set them do better than those that don’t. So here is my update:

Goal 1: “I am going to get healthy.” – Rough percentage of goal completed…64%. (I used a calculator) I started the year at 214 pounds….AHHHH. I worked my butt off (Literally) until April. I worked less hard at eating goo in the summer, but Emily and I put some serious miles on the stroller so that worked out ok. The fall wasn’t so good so I hit a plateau. Followed by a rough Christmas season. I’m a sucker for guacamole and chocolate. Today I went to the gym and did a weigh in and although I am up almost 12 pounds…Today I weigh 182 lb. Yay! Total loss of 32 pounds! I’m feeling a bit crappy about the disaster called December, but I’m already working away at it again. I won some battles and lost some. My gym, that I loved, closed. I join a gym I don’t love, but kept going. I won an inches lost competition at my new gym. I ate alot of guacamole. I ate alot of salad. I learned lots, and I haven’t quit yet! I decided I’d rather fight this battle at the low end than the high end of the scale, so There is more work to be done. I am now officially 22 pounds away from my goal weight. So this goal carries over into 08. I think this is a lifelong goal.

Goal 2: “I am going to grow in my relationship with Jesus.” Rough Percentage completed…How do you measure something like that?? I guess the bible says you can measure things by their fruit. There have been alot of good things that have happened this year. I think it was a good year for doing things. Lots of preaching and worship and traveling with crazy youth. I still don’t feel like I’m growing to the place I want to be yet. I think it’s ok to be frustrated with a lack of spiritual growth. I think it causes you to seek to grow. I love the paradox or opposites of not needing to strive to be good enough, but wanting to be at the same time. I think this years goal is going to have to include learning to BE with Jesus not just DO stuff for Him. Confusing yes! Exciting YES!

Goal 3: “I am going to get my house organized.” Rough Percentage of goal completed…75%. I think I did pretty good on this one. The only cardboard boxes in my house are ones that Christmas ornaments came in that are easier to put them away in. I de-cluttered all the rooms in the house. Currently my basement is a disaster because Christmas is only shoved down there. It needs to be tetris-ed back into the shelving units. I got new shelving units and clear bins and did a pretty good job of organizing everything down there. I even had a laundry station there for a while, until “Somebody” decided we needed another table in the office. So overall I think I did a pretty good job. I’ve still got a few ideas up my sleeve that will finish the job off, but we have made huge progress.

SO… overall I think it was a pretty great goal year. I did all that and I have a toddler. Crazy I know. Hopefully by next week I’ll have my new goals up. and we can look forward to another productive year. Cheers!

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The Rule of getting Wet.

Posted by on August 25, 2007 Leave a Comment

Today we took our friends Nathan and Danielle to our quaint little restaurant Nanna’s and Poppa’s. I thoroughly enjoyed my lunch and Em wasn’t overly bad. This has become a crappy phase. The whole “NO NO NO NO NO” thing is getting old. Even if she wants something she says no. It like having to use reverse psychology constantly. Today she grabbed Morgans arm while he was turning on the ipod dock. She knows she isn’t supposed to touch it, so she grabbed his arm firmly and said “NO HANDS!”. Soo cute. We had her infant development lady come and watch her play this week. Its neat because you get to see where she is at for her age. Because she is a preemie they keep checking on her. This weeks conclusion:?? Emily is ahead in everything!! Yay! We were pretty sure she is ahead in her speech, but figured she’d be behind in her motor skills or something, but nope. The only thing is that with her being ahead we hit the 2 year old stage much faster I guess. The Lady warned me about that. Im sooo excited.

We decided to go for a walk around Sepa lake today and dragged our Nathan and Danielle with us. It was a gorgeous day. We walked around to the bridge and found it closed for repairs. They have redone all the 108 lake trail bridges. Soo nice. Anyways. We decided to keep on walking maybe to the beach or something. Halfway to the beach Emily decided she was walking and that was final. She walked a long ways. She even stopped to pick up some dried up bear poop much to her mommy’s “EW. Gross!!!” factor. At the beach we stopped for a swing. It was so nice so we kept talking and walking. Half way between the beach and my parents house Em did her business and so we took a detour to steal diapers from my parents house. By that point it was too far to go back the other way so we kept right on walking. I used to ride my bike around the lake all the time, but I haven’t for years so it was really nice to be out there again.

We have this funny thing that says “Pretty much any time Courtenay is near water she will get wet. It doesn’t even matter what time of year it is”. If you know me for very long you will find out that is true. I figured I was doing good by avoiding the lake and not even walking on the beach. WRONG. We got back to Sepa lake and as we were walking around it to where we parked we noticed it was getting really cloudy. Then it started to mist us. It felt nice because we had just done a 6 or 7K walk. But then is went rapidly from spitting at us to raining to pouring, to dumping and by the time we made it into the parking lot hailing! how crazy is that. It was a gorgeous day. I guess its my fault for not just tripping and falling in the lake. Sorry guys for getting you all wet. Haha.

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TMNT

Posted by on August 2, 2007 Leave a Comment

TMNT
Took me back a couple of years. Roxy and I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last night. The new one. Being as I was obsessive about it for many a year as a small girl. The funny thing is that I thought that I probably wouldn’t like it anymore…wrong. Ok so once a geek always a geek.

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Speaking of Geek. We only have one episode left of the rerun 05 Beauty and the Geek. Its been fun watching the “Social experiment”. We were right ticked tho because the first season it reran didn’t air the final episode. I skipped it and ran the aftermath one. NOT cool. So we knew who won, but not why they did…stupid station. We checked to make sure this one was going to have an ending. We wouldn’t have watched it otherwise.

Em has been the nap queen for the last couple of days. I think she is teething really badly. She has been awake for like an hour before wanting to go back to sleep. Then she naps for like 4 hours and gets up all grumpy still. She went to bed without 1 tear last night. Not even an eep. She rolled over onto her tummy, stuck her butt in the air and closed her eyes. She was so tired I guess, but she wasn’t even grumpy. It was so nice for a change. She normally goes down fine, but cries or complains for a minute or two.

I’m trying to psych myself into cleaning mode. I did a bunch on the office this morning, but I still really want to get the basement done. The office is easier to do because its just trying to get stuff sorted out and then put it away. The basement is …well scary. I’m hoping I’ll have more time next week because Morgan is on mornings and will be home more. YAY!

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Butt Fly and the Slander Party

Posted by on July 30, 2007 Leave a Comment

I actually feel like blogging today. I haven’t had alot of time to lately. I posted the other two posts cause they made me laugh so hard. Most of the videos are so such crappy quality that youtube will probably laugh at me for posting them, but I might anyways.Heres the Snowboarding one.

The title is one of the funnier parts of my week. We looked after Elijah and Janaya on Saturday. They are 1.5 and 4 yrs. That was the day Emily learned her first 3 syllable word.”Butt Fly”. So what if she turned it into a two syllable word. it cracked me up. She says it better already. I’m a bit sad that she does. Her second 3 syllable word was “cheerio”. The while playing all day Janaya played with Emily’s little phone and was pretending to talk to her friend Asia. Lucky for Janaya because she got invited to Asia’s “Slander Party”. I looked over at Morgan and said “I’ve been to some of those, they’re awful”. We are still laughing about it and thinking of throwing our own “Slander Party”.

You haven’t lived until you’ve had a Diaper explode in the washing machine. How it got there I’ll never know, but what I do know is that I had to re-wash everything and pick up a “butt load” of the jelly diaper stuff. I’m just glad it wasn’t a poopy. icky icky icky.

I’ve started running with Morgan. I was going to do the podcast for running about 3 months ago, but that never happened. I’ve been waiting to blog about it unlit I actually made it into the second week of running every second day. The podcast has techno music to run too and a guy that tells you when to run and when to walk, so you don’t have to look at your watch. its called from the couch to 5K in 9 weeks. We are on week 2 which means we run for 9 minutes already. In intervals of 1minute and 30 seconds with a walk in between. It sounds easy, but when the guys says lets speed back up for the 5th time, you want to kill him or at least make him wax his legs or something. I’ve been walking everyday too. A couple of times I’ve finished my walk and gone straight into the creek.

We walk and run with Emily in the jogging stroller. She loves the running, but sometimes gets bored with the walking. She sings to herself while we are doing “The Loop” around town. Man we would love to be back at the “8″. Running the lakes would be so much more fun. I want to get one of those behind your bike style baby carts. I think you can get them cheaper at a MEC gear swap. I’m hoping we can pick one up soon because I love to ride my bike.

I’m getting my wedding ring and engagement rings soldered together this week. I talked to my jeweler and they think its a good idea to do. The two rings rubbing together can make them wear down really fast. I’m not sure I’ll like them that way, but here’s hoping. She said she didn’t recommend I get that done if I only wore my wedding band to work or something, but I always wear both. I guess I could see it if I wore rubber gloves all day or something like that. My engagement ring would be to sticky outey for that. I can pick up my rings tomorrow. I feel nakey without them on.

Em is waking up. I think we’ll walk down to the library and check the mail. The Library has cardboard books for Em so I think we’ll pick some new ones up today. Oh and Em got some new Robeez today. They are so cute(brown w/hearts). She changed sizes again. We picked some new ones from the catalogue (white trainers)and they’ll be here next month.

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ON

Posted by on July 21, 2007 2 Comments

I think they are through! Well at least one of Emily’s top teeth is through. What a whiny crappy thing to have to go through just so you can chew stuff. Haha. My little toddler is sleeping away her blues while her teeth come in. She has practically slept all day for the last two and slept most of the night. She gets all whiny at about 6:30 am, but manages to sleep still. Lucky for mommy. I slept better last night so thats good. I’ve felt like quite the insomniac for the last two weeks. I really haven’t slept well at all.

I have a really tough decision to make. I’m kind of nervous about it too. I need to get a hair cut. If I don’t I’m going to look like a snow beast. Im thinking of going for shoulder length and thinning the crap out of it. It will probably look like a shih tzu(see*) got murdered on the floor of the salon, but I think it will be worth it. It’ll be nicer for the rest of the summer. I think the thing I’m most worried about is how lazy I am to do my hair. I think I need to make a pact with myself to not wear bandannas ever again. (except when dressing up. All good pirates need bandannas) . I’m also pretty worried because if you read yesterdays blog Roxy got her hair cut and well it turned into a mullet. I’ve already told Morgan that if I get mullet-ed I’m shaving my head. No ifs ands or butts. Next week Morgan works afternoons so I think Ill book a chop chop.

I am officially ON. We aren’t going anywhere for the next little while and my house is free of crappola food so I am ON. I’ll admit I am having a lack of interest to going to the gym, but I can actually go next week so I’m going to go. I’ve decided this very minute that if I go to the gym 5 days next week I’m going to get a present! Maybe an album from itunes or something. Yeah! Wish me luck or wish me determination or something.

I’m going to go do laundry.

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Heres a hair cut I really want.
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(*)ok so Leah and I went to see the fish guy at the pet store. Remember the guy with the puberty voice. And we wanted to buy some fish, but we went to look at the puppies. While we were looking the fish guy comes up and says those are “shizzoo multipoos, very adorable. I don’t like to say the shhh part” (include voice cracking for effect and realism). Ok so after we picked ourselves off the floor and died laughing extremely discretely so as not to offend we got our fish. Leah Fish and Courtenay fish to take with us to college because we would miss each other. End of odd story…

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You Are a Credit to Your Race.

Posted by on June 16, 2007 4 Comments

This week is still going good on the Kick my Butt plan. I slowed a bit in the last two days, but that would be due to me drinking less water and a delicious London Fog. I’m drinking alot more water today so thats good. I really wish it wasn’t raining. I want to take Emily for a walk sooo bad, but its so yucky out.

I just put her down for a nap. She was starting to get whiny and came up to me saying “nigh nigh” over and over again. It was so cute. Needless to say she fell asleep really fast and Mommy is enjoying some down time. Wahoo! So I put some laundry in and snagged a bottle of water from the fridge and came upstairs to type away. I turned on itunes, but didn’t really feel like listening to anything in particular so I decided to enjoy the silence. Definitely weird for me.

Relay For Life is coming up next week. I’m not doing as good as I was hoping on my fundraising. I’m at $285 right now. I usually hit $400. I guess I have one more week to go, so we’ll see. It’s probably because I didn’t just have an o-so-cute baby this year. Thats ok with me. I’m glad I didn’t. Cause then I might look like I did in my last years pictures. I have come so far. I decided I was going to post my last years Relay picture along with a recent picture. Its hard to look at, but one does need to every once in a while. I was still me, but there was alot more of me to love last year. 48 pounds more. Kinda makes me shudder.

I’m trying to decide if I should take this running challenge I found out about. Its a podcast that can get you from the couch to 5K in like 10 weeks. I think I’d like to do it, but I’m not sure how Ill be able to time wise. I guess I managed to make time for the gym so maybe…hmm. It’d be neat to be able to run 5K. I never thought running was worth doing unless you were kicking a soccer ball, but now I see it as a time to get outside and enjoy where I live. And I’d get a chance to be alone! gotta take those chances when you get them.

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Emily’s first time Colouring. “Not in your mouth, on the paper!” She loved it.

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