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Do you find Jail time encouraging?

Posted by on April 16, 2007 1 Comment

Naughty girl Courtenay. I think thats how I feel today. I actually had an awesome day today. We just relaxed and enjoyed the day without busying ourselves through it. I only did the dishes I felt like doing and I never even looked at the laundry and I ate whatever I felt like. Thats where I felt naughty. I thought I might make it through Emily’s birthday weekend, but between 2 parties, 2 cakes, 2 tubs of icing and a pie auction…well I didn’t make it. Lucky for me I have Morgan to help me when I get all weak and silly about sugar. Man its hard not to just stuff your face when stuff tastes good. I’m glad I can go to the gym tomorrow and that we’ve been walking so much. We’ve been on long walks everyday so I don’t feel quite as bad as I could. My clothes still fit good and I haven’t really gained much, but I certainly do feel very good healthy wise.

We had home group tonight. I’m really enjoying it. I still find it one of my favorite times of the week. Its been nice being able to go again. I missed several weeks because I was away and so I felt like I was pretty far behind in our book, but I think I’m starting to get caught up. We just seem to be moving ahead faster than we have before. The book we are studying is called God Meant it for Good by R.T. Kendal. Its the story of Joseph and his Journey. I really love the insight into his life and the things that Joseph went through to prepare him for what lay ahead I find really encouraging. As I have never been in jail I should find any job or issue easy to deal with properly right? Because I never had it so good right? Haha…well maybe not, but I should at least take courage from Joseph’s story.

CK2

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Gotta Get a Maid.

Posted by on April 9, 2007 1 Comment

It rain today. It seldom does that here. I really like it when it rains. Everything smells so fresh and clean. Its fun. I went for a long walk today and listened to my ipod. It was really relaxing, just walking in the rain.

So I got my act together and went to the gym. I did my weigh in and YAY I’m still down 4 pounds this month. It would have been more if it wasn’t for my psycho couple of weeks, but down is still down. It felt good to still be down. I was a bit worried. Maybe its good that I don’t have a scale at home. I’m hoping to get a digital one soon though. I hate the gyms scale is so inaccurate. Drives me crazy. Well so far being back on the health kick isn’t very fun, but at least I’m excited about it again. Makes it easier to work out and say no to left over easter chocolate.

My week is flying by and going no where all at the same time. It feels like Friday, but its Monday. I guess thats a good thing because I have lots to get done this week. We have a youth service on Sunday and a pie/servant auction to do too so there will be plenty to do to get things ready.

Looks like I’m going to get more time to work on my goal of organizing this week because My in-laws are coming for Emily’s birthday and we have to make a bedroom in the basement again. I’m looking forward to getting more done downstairs. It rarely sees me except to do laundry these days. I know I need a maid. Yeah gotta get me one of those. Haha

oh and I found some other old school pics.

LeLu and Cootie

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Resurrection Sunday.

Posted by on April 8, 2007 1 Comment

Probably the best day ever. My life would be absolutely meaningless without Resurrection Sunday. Well not the one in 2007, but the one a long time ago when Jesus rose from the dead. It really makes my life worth living. The thought of living this life without the knowledge that Jesus died for me and then rose again is…well sad. But today I am full of joy instead. Todays Easter service was great. I really enjoyed it. I had a blast playing the drums today. I even heard a few new rhythms come out of these hands.

Emily and I went for a really really long walk. It didn’t start out as a long walk, but it ended up that way. We were going to do the big loop around town. It takes about 45 minutes normally. We made it all the way around the loop and were headed past Save On when I realized that Emily had turfed her hat out of the stroller. AHH. That hat cost me 1 penny on Ebay + S&H. How could she be so careless and throw her hat out of the buggy. Ok well I wasn’t actually mad at all. I laughed and we turned around and backtracked. I probably wouldn’t have cared, but I really like the darn little hat. Its so stinkin cute. We finally found the hat most of the way back to where we started. Haha. silly Emily.

Well tomorrow is hop back on the health wagon. no more pop and pizza. Needless to say it was a rough couple of weeks. Ill find out the damage tomorrow at the gym. I’m even going earlier than normal tomorrow because Morgan has a dentist appt. and Thats the only time I can go. I’m not really looking forward to stepping on the scale tomorrow. I’m supposed to do a weigh in too. This is the first time Ive been nervous about a weigh in. the last few were so fun because Id practically melted the weight off. I’m pretty sure I’m still at a loss for this month, but it cant be that much. I’m still in the process of writing some new realistic goals for myself. Well see how it goes, but theres no way I’m going back up. Down down down!

MC dad

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Day Trippin

Posted by on April 5, 2007 Leave a Comment

15. Thats right. 15. It’s the number of steps Emily has taken all by her little old self. She doesn’t even need encouraging to walk she just goes and goes. I’m loving it. Ill admit shes quick so it isn’t always easy to keep up, but its still so fun. Shes gotten really good at saying “bye bye” and waving. She says daddy and Mama and bubba and I think she says Heidi too. When we were driving in the car the other day she was singing to herself and we heard her sing the melody of twinkle twinkle. It was super cool.

The next week is gonna be pretty busy again. Tomorrow we are going road trippin to who knows where just because we can. and then on Saturday its Gabe’s birthday so we are gonna party. Theres all kinds of youth stuff this week and then on the weekend its Emily’s birthday and a youth service and I think I’m preaching at church. I’m not sure what I’m preaching on yet, but I hope its interesting. haha.

Ive spent the last 2 days knee deep in paper. We are helping my parents with organizing their office. Its fun. I’m not sure why, but I like organizing stuff it doesn’t matter whose it is. So far we only lost one important piece of paper, but we found it again later. whew.

dang. I just realized that my gym is closed tomorrow. I haven’t gone once this week. Ive been so tired and had meetings and kind of didn’t feel great anyways. I was totally gonna go tomorrow, but now I cant. I’ve been floundering in my goals of late. I think its because Ive been feeling so good about my self its easy to just settle with where I am. I really don’t want to give up so I’m going to have to set some new goals and hop back on the band wagon. I think I need to set some more maintenance style goals. Its too hard to eat like a vegan/gymnast/stick/boring person all the time. hmm. Ill have to give that some thought.

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The 32's dance.

Posted by on March 17, 2007 2 Comments

I’m doing the 32′s dance all day today. My sister is home for a few days house sitting. So today while we were visiting I stole a bunch more of her clothes. I have nothing to wear right now. Typical girl statement hey? But I really don’t, all my clothes look either tacky(Ill admit it sometimes I have bad taste) or like drapes. So Yippy I borrowed some of Roxy’s Clothes. Its pretty much the best thing in the world because I borrowed a couple of pairs of jeans and they are both 32′s. I don’t think I’ve worn 32′s since high school. So that’s my dance of joy today.

Tonight we had these missionaries from Romania come to speak at our youth church. They are such interesting people. I love to chat with them. I have the hardest time at missionary updates because I want to drop everything and move to their country and save babies and fight off snakes and tell savages about Jesus. Ok well maybe not that extreme, but their presentations always make me cry and I just really get emotionally recked. I love it. I don’t ever feel like I’d rather not see it and live my extravagant life. I’d much rather be challenged to action. Heres my action today. Check out their Website. It’s pretty cool.

I’m getting all excited for my conference at the end of this week. I was supposed to be leaving tomorrow, but now I get to leave on Tuesday. I’m glad about that because I get an extra couple days in my own bed and Emily doesn’t have to travel as much. I’m a bit sad that I wont get as much time at the coast to see friends, but I don’t have to rush back on Sunday I could stay an extra day or 2 if I want to. I’m going bra shopping! (just a tidbit no one needed to know, but I’m excited about anyways.)I love gift certificates.

Oh and I invented a new drink. I call it an African Haze. It like a London Fog, but with rooibos (pronounced roy-bus) tea. Soo Good!

Climbing

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Freecycling Maniac

Posted by on March 15, 2007 2 Comments

Gotta love Freecycle. If you aren’t a freecycl-er you need to become one. Ill admit, 100 Miles freecycle group isn’t very big yet, but its getting better. Its this group set out of Yahoo, where you offer things you have to give away for free. Ive got a fee boxes of baby clothes and other cool stuff too. Today I replied to a lady and lent her some maternity clothes. Its nice to be able to help each other out free of cost. If I never see the clothes again…well at least I wont have them in my house forever.

I’m slowly making the transition to all my own food for Emily. I found this cool book at the library that gives alot of good recipes for making baby food.I didn’t sign the book out tho cause I had late fees and no moneys with me. I’m going to go back tomorrow and get it. I think we are pretty close to using all our own food. Ill be glad to see the end of the jars. They aren’t exactly cheap either. I really like to know what I’m feeding Emily. I’m skeptical of jarred food.

I made it to the gym this morning!Yay. Ive been sick and then busy and then a day or two of lazy so I hadn’t been in a while. I was pretty happy because altho I hadn’t been eating amazing I did still lose a couple of pounds over the weekend. 12 to go until goal 4. I’m excited that all my hard work is paying off. I think it even convinced my mom to join the gym too. Total since Jan 1st 35lbs. Total since Christmas 42lbs!!um…yay me.

Johnny Cash's

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Shes at the 30…the 40..and she’s still running!

Posted by on March 7, 2007 2 Comments

Today is a super day because I have officially lost 40 lbs since Christmas!! I’m pretty happy about that. Ok no I stoked to the roof. I went to curves today and I wasn’t particularly excited to work out, but once I stepped on the scale I got all excited and worked really hard. Only 14 pounds to go until shopping day. Thats gonna be so fun.
I think Emily is growing again. She always gets so sleepy when she’s growing. Normally her morning nap is only an hour, but today she’s slept for almost 3. Yesterday she had a really long nap too. I like it when she has long naps because she’s always in such a good mood and I get a lot of stuff done. Like blogging.
I am almost all the way through sorting my little kid boxes. Morgan and I sorted them all out yesterday afternoon. We managed to get rid of a lot of silly things and garbage. I find that if you keep something for enough years, even if it is garbage, it becomes sentimental. Like I really need the paper bag I got from the CN tower in grade 10. “Keep the memory, not the clutter”. Maybe I’ve been watching to much mission organization. I think Im going to put together a mini scrap book for each of our trunks. That way special papers and pictures and things can be remembered without just being a pile of misc paper in a box. I keep adding to the list of de-cluttering rules in our house. Here’s what I have so far:
1.No cardboard boxes allowed!
2.Keep the Memory, not the clutter.
3.If you haven’t seen it/used it in the last 2 years is gonzo.
4.If its not mine or yours, whose is it?
5.throw out that, it’s crappy!!
It’s a start anyways. Oh yeah. I found my foreign currency too!! Yay.

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Curly Sue

Posted by on March 2, 2007 1 Comment

Last night at Timmy’s Roxy *very loudly* says so everyone can hear “Happy 30th Birthday Courtenay”. These people at the other table are all like “oh thats nice its her 30th birthday”, but its not! I’m only 24 today. So there. I had a sweet Birthday, minus being sick and Emily being a total butt head. We are both still sick and it sucks. Speaking of sucks…
During My oh-so-great birthday dinner at my parents, I was taking a sip of my float while my mom was taking a picture, but it took her forever to take the picture and so as smart as I am I replied with this extremely witty line ” I cant suck forever”. That was followed with immediate looks of shock and absolutely no need for a joke having done all I needed to burn myself.
Today I braved my fear of the word perm and got one. All I said to the lady was “Don’t make me look like a poodle”. I spent the next 3 and a half hours being permed and “voila”. I’m a poodle. Ok its not really that bad. I actually like it. Its going to take some getting used to, but I really do like it. All it took was a clip and I was looking a bit more like me again.
I braved another fear and signed up for Curves today. I start tomorrow at 8 am. I think I am excited. I wasn’t so sure, but today I tried some of their machines and thought they were ok. I did an initial weigh in and am so stoked. Only 17 lbs until I get a big huge shopping spree. I’m 177lbs today!!
My Dad got me a special treat for my birthday. A round of IRN-BRU”s for everyone. This little shop in town sells them. That made for an extra special birthday. Thanks Dad

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