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Posted by on June 20, 2009 3 Comments

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In our house coffee is not so much a favorite past time, but an important part of a complete breakfast. Most people don’t have more than one coffee maker, but like many things in our life MK and I are unable to share coffee makers. Two Computers, Two cars, Two toothbrushes(whew), Two coffee makers. This one is practical given that I’m drinking decaf for Avery’s sake. I had caffinated coffee yesterday because I couldn’t breastfeed Aves. It was like being ALIVE! I can see how someone could quit smoking and start again. I didn’t drink coffee almost at all since last September. Several of those months were due to copious amounts of pukage and an extreme dislike for food at all.  I’m not saying I’m an addict, but the first step is denial right?

Day 2 of fighting Thrush with all our superpowers combined. 24 hours of letting my body recover and 32 ounces of pumped milk down the drain *tear* and we are back on track. Avery isn’t nursing as well as before, but clearly her mouth still hurts. We’ll get there. I have more determination than I had before. I’m even going to try to be one of those Mom’s who can nurse in a sling. Maybe not grocery shopping, but capable for an emergency long lineup at Save-on.

I’ve been thinking alot about healthy eating again. It’s been really hard to eat much of anything healthy for the last little while. My life is starting to calm down and I’m looking forward to eating real food again. So my goal is to consume the rest of the junk in our house and not bring any other junk home. I think it will be pretty hard since my sister started working at DQ again and cheap blizzards make me happy.  I want to get going back to my GYM whenever I feel I  am up to spin class again. I’m trying to get out walking whenever I can, but this weeks rain put us behind on that one.

Apparently, I’m a bit of a bad influence when it comes to junk food(so I’ve been told). So from now on, I’m going to try and be the good influence.  The influence that doesn’t feel guilty giving her child 2 m&m’s, but eats the whole BIG bag herself. The influence that doesn’t put flax seed on her daughters cereal while eating cinnamon toast crunch or pizza for breakfast. The influence that doesn’t like to buy organic fresh veggies, but forgets to cook them till they are yucky.

I know dieting while nursing is a bad idea, but having a healthy diet while nursing is a GOOD idea. So that’s the new plan. I think the truck that drove through the front door of Husky was a sign to avoid going there for screamers. Maybe if they had have just stole the slushie machines this wouldn’t have been a problem!

So I think I’ll go have some All-bran buds on Yogurt and a nectarine for breakfast. Breakfast that has already passed by…haha

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I Quit the Bean.

Posted by on June 14, 2007 1 Comment

Well its working. I’ve been kicking my own butt. I lost the extra I gained and a couple more too. Grand total = 8 pounds until shopping spree. YAY! I find my new scale really encouraging. even knowing I lost .02 is encouraging to me. It really helps that we are starting to get into fresh fruit season. There is not much better than a juicy nectarine or some uber sweet pineapple. Ive been eating salads and fruit like they are going out of style.

AND I quit drinking coffee. a whole week know and I don’t really miss it. I’ve been drinking lots of tea and trying to switch back and forth between rooibos, green and earl grey when I want a nice cuppah. I’ve become the master of iced rooibos tea. Thanks Pluckymama! And no more pop for me either. I think thats making a big difference too. Pop = junk food. Water = healthy food. Simple math right. Its way easier to eat good without adding those into my diet.

I learned to make gyoza dumplings(kinda like wantons without the soup) at the community kitchen. They are awesome. I only ate 3 cause they aren’t diet awesome, but I made a whole bunch for Morgan and he loved them. I just keep adding to my repertoire of Asian cooking. I love the community Kitchen. It rocks my sox.

We thought Emily had chicken pox this week. She got all spotty and grumpy and scratchy and…well mostly grumpy. We took her to the Dr. and she said it was most likely a virus that was giving her a rash. YAY! lucky us. I was figuring it would be our luck to be the 1 in 100000000 parents whose baby after getting the chicken pox shot would get the chicken pox. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad because we all had it growing up. At least she wouldn’t remember it.

This morning Em woke up at 5 and cried for a bit and then again at 7. I finally got her up at 7:30. I was not impressed with my tiny tot for waking up so early. She even went to bed late last night. She normally sleeps until 9:30. Looks like we are in for another schedule change. seriously…every time I think I figure her out it changes again. That’s the way it works I guess. I’m hoping to keep her schedule a bit later still. That will work the best with our schedule. Plus I don’t want to give up my gym time before she gets up. Its way harder to go if she’s up. It will work out ok I’m sure.

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Hot guy sitting on the beach with a diaper bag. Do I know how to pick em or what?

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The Search for EIEIEI

Posted by on June 9, 2007 2 Comments

I’ve decided to go back to type blogging, rather than just talking it. I’m not sure why, but I like typing it better. Plus then when I say things mumbled it doesn’t thing I say “Royal bus” when I mean rooibos. Yesterday someone found my blog by typing in “the search for EIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEI”. That made me chuckle. Ha Ha. *Chuckle*. Ha Ha.

Emily got her first haircut yesterday. It looks so cute. Its like a little bob. Sooo cute. Ill go find the camera. I think Morgan took a picture or two while we were at the salon. I was trying to wait until my sister could come up to cut it, but I couldn’t wait any longer. It was getting in her eyes and really bugging her. I guess Roxy will have to do “cut 2″. If Em’s hair is anything like mine there will be plenty of cuts needed.

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This is Diane. She cut Emmy’s hair.
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Elisha got in last night and we stayed up late talking and laughing and stuff. It was fun. She wanted to do a Detox and since its way easier to do stuff like that with 2 people…looks like I’m doing on too. Its pretty much just veggies and oodles of water. I think I’m going to try to make iced rooibos again since that has loads of antoxidants in it. We’ll see how it goes. I guess I’ll find out how much my body will miss caffeine. I just like the stuff too darn much. mmm. Its gonna be hard to miss my morning coffee. I’m surviving so far today. we’ll see.

Yesterday I stopped on the side of the road in the 108 and honked at these people walking. I took a chance that they were who I thought they were. AND… It was Jennie and Terry. So I gave them a ride to the restaurant and Jennie chewed on Emily’s pudgy hand. It was nice to see them even for a few minutes. I’ll bet they thought I was some psycho, honking at them on the road. I guess that doesn’t rule out psycho.

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I have returned from whence I came.

Posted by on May 23, 2007 2 Comments

I think memorable is the best way to describe my weekend at avalanche. There were good things and bad things thats for sure. Heres a recap of the funny things. We are driving down the coquahalla when the van starts to sound a bit too much like a Suzuki. We pull over and the van is now toast. Yay for Elisha who saved the day having only caught up to us 10 minutes before coming from Vancouver. So Leesh saves the day! We get there and all is going well. We set up tents and head for the conference. Skip ahead a bit until Saturday night. The day has been pretty good so far and we stay up a bit late for a concert and then head back to camp. I’m wondering…did you ever played with dominoes as a kid? I did, but nothing even compares to coming back to the camp and finding that 2 of the 3 huge tents have played dominoes while you were away. I’ll admit, not everyone thought it was as funny as I did. Ok mostly they did. Skip ahead a bit more to Sunday Morning. At the church service they had this drumming contest. They asked who could drum so my group yelled me and I ran up to the front. I jumped on stage to meet my competition who happens to be a guy I know from Williams lake. Imagine that! Rival towns drumming it up. We played stomp on these barrels full of blue and red paint. It was awesome. My dress is now perma tye dyed. Well I lost, but it was a cheer contest so It could have happened to anyone. But I won a t-shirt. YAY.

We are working on a video for Youth and Church. I’m loving all the stuff we have so far. Its awesome. Ill try to put it up as soon as possible. Anyways. I’m zonked from a long weekend without much sleep so Im gonna go get a coffee and chill out.

Oh yeah and we got given a new hugemongous awesome HD LCD flat screen T.V. YAYAYAY!!! Just in time for the season finale of Heroes. Which rocked by the way.

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Garage me.

Posted by on May 5, 2007 1 Comment

Would that I had a garage for my band. We are still working on the video. There isnt much I can do so I’ve been playing with Jakes computer because It’s amazing. I miss working with Mac. I’ve been playing with Garage Band. Its so fun. So far I pretty much sound like one of theose tacky webpages with the crappy midi song playing in the background. But its my midi! I would really like to get a Mac. I think my podcasts wold…well exist. I dont love audacity. It works, but is definitely limited in its functionality. As DR. Brown would say…”Patient lacks cognitive function”. I relate that directly to programs with crappy issues.

I had a relay meeting tonight. I felt bad because it was for our team and I forgot. My mom phoned and so I was only 10 minuted late. I then felt loads better because aside from my mom no one showed up. Oh well. Theoretically I have a team of 8 right now. We lost acouple from last year, but have 2 newbies. Yay Gramma and Poppa! So my mom and I just had a quick coffee and then back to make sure Emily didnt freak out on Auntie Leesh.

It’s a good thing DQ isnt open right now. I think I could seriously injure for a blizzard. Rox showed me this new one she makes with carmel and kit kat. Its a-maze-za-zing. Leesh got me hooked on Mint Chocolate Iced capps from Timmys and now Im hooped. Im glad Im back at the gym on monday. I need to go! Im actually looking forward to it.

This week is gonna be busy. At least its just full of average stuff and not loads of deadlines like last week. I think it will feel like a walk in the park compared to the schedule of last week. It almost feels anticlimactic. hmm

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Another Saga of the JAM

Posted by on May 5, 2007 Leave a Comment

I’m perfect! In every way except for several. Still working on the JAM movie this morning. Nope didn’t pull an all-night-er, just thought about it and thought “I’m getting to old for this”. So we waited till this morning to attack it. All the phoootage we put on the mac showed up with a “sample” logo right across the front of it. GRR. But then I finally found my copy of Premiere and now we are cooking with fire. I think this is going to be a long saga in the saga of sagas. At least I have a good cuppah. Coffee makes me happy!

Em is still singing away this morning as she slowly wakes herself up. I think its one of my favorite things about the little munchkin. I need to put a camera in her room…hmm our camera does have a remote… this could work nicely. She’s singing “E I E I E I E I E I E I” she still never gets to “O”. One day “O” will be her anthem of choice.

I’m in a silly mood this morning. prolly a combo of not enough sleep and to much coffee. Plus Leesh and I are hanging out which always makes me silly too!YAY! For the record I’m not abandoning a friend to blog. That would be rude. I am blogging while some files format and she is on the other Laptop watching Tivo. Gotta love that.

Well Emmy is finally awake enough to get her(otherwise she gets up grumpy). So I’d better go get the little punk.

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African Haze

Posted by on May 2, 2007 2 Comments

Well I wasn’t away, but kind of took a break from typing things and just spent so time reading. It’s been very restful. I’ve been trying to allow myself actual rest time. It’s not easy. I’m not very good at resting or sitting still. You’d think I was ADD or something. I’ve been making a point of not just working of stuff because there is time to, but setting aside time to accomplish things and to rest.

I’m currently enjoying an African Haze. I think I might have switched from London Fogs, well no I’m sure I haven’t switched I love London Fogs, but an African haze is really nice. Its good too because there is less caffeine. Gotta love Rooibos Tea. I go through phases where I only drink one thing. I need to go through another water phase!! I was thinking about how much coffee I drink the other day. I realized it would be much harder for me to quit drinking coffee if I was to get pregnant again than it was the last time. I enjoy my cuppah way to much.

Last night I went out with the girls to play games at Timmys. It was sooo fun and funny. But the funniest part happened before anyone even got there. I was sitting at a table by myself. I got there early to work on my sermon for youth tonight. With my ipod blasting in my ears and my pen tapping on the table I was deep in thought. Directly across from me sat a well dressed guy about my age reading a news paper. As I’m sort of staring out the window thinking I notice that this guy keeps looking at me. It was really weird. I was like “what is he looking at?”. I started to feel all awkward like I was being checked out. I shifted in my chair and moved my hand so my wedding ring was well visible because as much as being checked out is flattering, and I’ll admit my hair did look really cute, I am taken. It was then that I realized the guy wasn’t checking me out. He was really annoyed that my cell phone kept ringing and I wasn’t answering it. He was really just trying to tell me to turn the stupid thing off. Now I feel like sinking into a hole. Man I’m glad my thoughts aren’t played on a screen sticking out of my head or I’d feel awfully foolish.

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Let the Festivities Begin

Posted by on April 13, 2007 2 Comments

Tonight is Emily’s First birthday party. Tomorrow is her party for all her little friends, but tonight is for Family. Lots of the fam will be here. Sunday is her actual birthday, but we are super busy then too. I’m in the middle of making another cake. The first one turned out good, but the bottom ripped a bit so I’m making another one and trying a new method of pan greasing. I’ve finally settled on which cake I’m going to make, but I wont describe it Ill just take a picture when it done and you can see for yourself.

Man I have a headache today. I’ve realized there is a reason I get a headache every Friday. Morgan has to nap in the afternoon so he only makes decaf coffee. Its the stinking caffeine thats doing this to me. I didn’t think It really effected me, but obviously it does. I’m like an addict coming down off a high. well sort of, in some weird sort of way.

Ive been overwhelmed with all the stuff I needed to get done for this weekend. From Emily’s birthday to the youth service and everything in between. I’m feeling pretty good about it right now tho. I find that once things start to roll I’m not stressey any more I just go with it. Its weird for me to be stressey at all because I never used to be. I wonder what made the change over for me. hmm.

  • Well I might not get 8 minutes to write much in the next couple of day, but we’ll see. Check out this cake…

Crooked cake

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