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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.

b&G
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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Goal-pdate

Posted by on June 5, 2007 Leave a Comment

Croc-xperiment day 2.

Crocs

I cut it close to wearing my crocs out in public today. They are just so darn convenient to slip on if you have a baby/diaper bag/purse/anything in your arms. We’ll see how this goes.

Ok and on to Goals…dun dun dahh.

Body Break

Goal 1: “Keep fit and have fun” (thank you and Hal Johnson & Joanne Mcloed…dang now I’m going to have the body break song stuck in my head). The last 2 weeks have been somewhat disastrous in the eat good department. I think if it hadn’t been for a series of unplanned exercises Id be…well larger. I had my first real gain since I started in January. Added a nice 5 pounds back on. Grr stupid ice cream. but I’m back to normal life, whatever that is and back to the gym. I got a new scale that is digital and reads to .02 of a pound. Its encouraging because you can tell if you even loose .02. I loathe the scale at the gym its so inaccurate. If you stand on it funny it reads screwy.

Jesus Fish
Goal 2. Growing in my relationship with God. Being a real god chaser. I just got back from a steady stream of conferences. Sometimes those moments are real thrive and dive things. This year it really felt like a solid upward movement. I had some really awesome words spoken over my life. All really consistent too. The words “adventure” and “artist” kept coming up. All from different people. It was a cool thing for me. I had shelved a few thing to work on other things and so now I’m back in the groove.

organizing
Goal 3. Get organized in 2007. My oh-so-thoughtful-in-law’s got me these awesome hangers and shelving units. They have revolutionized my closet space. Its awesome. We switched from the drawer system to the hanger system and I’m loving it. Its working out rather well. Morgan and I are even sharing(miracle) one dresser for sox and skivvies too. Its super. Next we have to work on the basement because Morgan was being helpful while I was away and reorganized stuff into the walkway. Thanks hunny.

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Final 10!

Posted by on May 14, 2007 1 Comment

I got halfway through a post yesterday when Emily woke up and the rest of the day was shot. I went back to my post this morning, but found it to be rather boring so I deleted it and we are starting fresh.

Emily has the worst attitude today. Its crazy. She keeps freaking out over dumb stuff. Dealing with Toddler temper tantrums isn’t very fun. I’ve read so many different ways to deal with them, but I haven’t found something that fits us yet. Thankfully its nap time and I get a few moments reprieve. Grr. I think she’s waking up again. What is this?? AHH!
I have been overhauling my house. It was in serious need of a good cleaning. I’m going away for the long weekend and my in-laws are staying with Emily so I wanted to make sure the place wasn’t icky and cluttery. Man its relaxing to walk around in a clean house. I think I’ll even clean out the fridge today. I spilled a box of baking soda everywhere and I’ve been putting off cleaning it up. It looks like it snowed in my fridge. Or like a snow globe that has yet to be shaken.

Perfect segue into…

Sylar on last weeks Heroes. Its ok if you didn’t see it cause Sylar went psycho and killed his mom. Who does that. Seriously. I’m stoked for Heroes tonight. Only 2 episodes left. This is the only TV show Ive ever watched that I haven’t missed an episode. YAY for Tivo! Thats not true. Morgan rented the first season of 24 and I watched all of that. Loved/Hated it.

Oh yeah and guess who won the challenge at my gym. ME! I lost the most inches at the gym in the last 2 month. I won some candles. oooo. Plus even tho the last 2 weeks didn’t go so great I still lost a pound. I’m in the final 10 baby yeah!! I know everyone says those are the hardest, but I didn’t do so great on the last ten and now I’m back in the game. I’m pretty excited about it. Yay Me!

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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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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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Crybabies'R'Us

Posted by on March 18, 2007 2 Comments

Emily has been having a seriously rough crybaby day. I now know why they call them crybabies. I’m not sure what the problem is, but she’s been extremely emotional all day. She cried for the last half of church and everyone all the way from the front could hear her in the nursery at the back. She had a little nap and then was at it again. AHH. Ok I’m actually ok with it today. I think if I was headed to Kamloops as planned I might not have been as calm and cool about it. I really hasn’t been getting to me like it does sometimes. I’m just trying to be there for her. Who knows maybe she’s teething again and just not showing the same signs as the last time.

I’m trying to get my house all cleaned up before I go. I’d rather come home to a clean house than a messy one. So I’ve even resorted to setting the timer to help me remember to change the laundry over. I’m hoping that at least the main floor and the bathrooms will be cleaned up before I go. We’ll see. I’ll clean most things, but I’ve decided not to clean up Morgan’s salsa dish that he left downstairs and let grow stuff. It’s nasty. I don’t do nasty. So far thats the biggest problem with having moved the T.V. downstairs. I’m enjoying watching less T.V. and not having the T.V. clutter in my living room, but I’m really hating the dishes and pop cans and other crap that keeps getting left down there. I’m more ok with clutter than dirty stuff, and since I’m trying to de-clutter the dirty stuff frustrates me even more.

A bunch of my Youth left today for a week long hardcore discipleship school during spring break. I’m pretty excited for them. They are going to be challenged and learn so much. I’m hoping to see some great things come out of this experience. I think they are really going to love it.

My lungs have been alot better in the last few days. I think I finally kicked my cold. HA! It took a long time, but I’m glad its over. I like feeling like me and not like some lethargic snow beast who whines alot.

When we were so little

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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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Stupid Cupboard Latches

Posted by on February 28, 2007

Last night we watched this sweet new show called Eureka. Its really cool. I’ve only seen one episode so far, but I’m hoping I like them all this much. Season one is over and season two starts in July, but I’m going to have to track these down. I think there might even be a “Firefly” good quality to this show. I’m holding out for great things. Heres a snippet:
“For years, the government has been secretly relocating the world’s geniuses (and their families) to the idyllic Pacific Northwest town of Eureka, where daily life straddles the line between unprecedented innovation and total chaos. When U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (Ferguson) wrecks his car and becomes stranded in Eureka, he quickly realizes that all is not what it seems. After the town’s eccentric inhabitants unleash a brainchild with a catastrophic aftermath, Carter steps in to restore order and consequently is let in on one of our country’s best-kept secrets.”
Sounds great to me. Gotta love snippets.
I’m starting to feel a bit better today. My head still feels a bit clogged, but overall I’m feeling a lot better. I hate being sick. It sucks. I’m pretty sure Emily is over her cold too. She’s acting more like herself again.
Along with moving the T.V. downstairs we got to sort more things and get rid of more junk. We sorted through 4 boxes of China and only kept 2. We Binned them and for a place upstairs for them so now they are usable. Morgans china had been boxed since the he lived at the cedars 3 and a half years ago. I’m happy to keep some china and I’m happy its usable again.
The constrains of baby proofing. I find myself ever frustrated at the baby proofing things around our house. From plug to those stupid cupboard latches. They are driving me nuts. I’m glad that Emily is safe, but I wish there was another way. Maybe Ill have to invent one.
Eureka

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*Insert Old Man Noise Here*

Posted by on February 27, 2007

As my tiny tot falls deep into dreamland…I type. I’m still feeling rather ill today. It’s pretty much the best thing ever to not be pregnant when you are sick. You can even take herbal things to make you feel better. “They”(whoever “they” are) don’t even recommend taking echinacea while pregnant. So yay me, I’m all drugged up and happy as a clam.
We are still going great guns on the get organized side of things. Ive been overhaulin’ the kitchen and Morgan has been working more on the basement. Today we moved our couches around yet again. The T.V. is going downstairs finally! Ive been wanting to do that for even. I think that if a living room is not centered around the T.V. the whole family will feel more productive. Plus the more I read on childhood obesity the more I care about healthy habits all the way from sleeping and eating to daytime activities. I’m not completely against watching T.V., but I do want it to be something special not the norm in everyday life. I have never wanted to be one of those stay at home “Oprah/Soaps/lame daytime T.V.” Moms. I think that watching a movie or something we’ve Tivo’d is ok, but just surfing because its there is a bad idea. Health Habits make for a Healthy Family. I should submit an article on this to Health and Sanity. Maybe, Just maybe, they would agree with the overall rising in Childhood obesity running a three legged race with the rise in T.V./internet time for kids.
I think I’m starting to sound old.” *insert old man noise* Why when I was your age we played outside with sticks, and we liked it”.

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