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exhausted…

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, comfort food, exhausted, moon, orchid, sun dogs

last night I was so tired that I fell asleep and forgot to write a post…

on my way to work in the morning it was a bit foggy but beautiful sun dogs were my company on the drive… my phone was in the back of the car so I never did get a picture of them…

had fun taking a shot of the orchid against the picture on the wall… not exactly what I had I mind, but it was entertaining to try…

moon will be full in a few days…

took this tonight on my way down the stairs…

made one of my favourite comfort foods for dinner… not sure how well it fit into my new eating plan… canned salmon with sliced potatoes in a white sauce… added mushrooms and water chestnuts and used a very small amount of the sauce… usually the potatoes would be pan fried in butter but I used a tiny bit of avocado oil and steamed them to finish… liked the crunch of the water chestnuts a lot…

heading to bed…

aquasize…

26 Thursday Feb 2015

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aquasize, big girl pants, photos, tulips

haven’t been swimming for weeks…

felt as though the first half hour lasted a day…

eventually I got into the swing of things and made it through the hour…

today, at the office, I spent a few minutes taking pictures of the tulips…



between them and the light I am enjoying every day, even if it is cold…

pink…

25 Wednesday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, orchid, pink, PinkShirtDay, sunshine

last night I searched through my closet and found this pink shirt to wear today…

actually the only pink piece of clothing I own… but I dug it out to wear to support the PinkShirtDay initiative to fight bullying… last year I forgot until much later in the day… 

amazing how many people commented on the colour…

when I got home tonight I took a picture of the new lamp… I think I like it in this spot…

more beautiful sunshine coming through the window so I took a few pictures of the light on the orchid…

hard to get a good shot the way the sunbeams were coming through the window…

it is quite astonishing to me how light and sunshine can raise my spirits…

bright…

24 Tuesday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, bright, sun, tulips

this morning I noticed how bright out it was on my drive to work… yay…

then, part way through the morning the sun came streaming through a colleague’s window and landed on her tulips… just gorgeous…



all of them have perked up since yesterday and look amazing… they have certainly brightened my day…

spent a wonderful few minutes wandering around the office taking pictures… I haven’t had a chance to look the shots over yet, but I had great fun… there were lots of tulips to check out…

flowers do make me happy…  

tulips…

23 Monday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, daffodils, flowers, Lung Association, orchid, tulips

this morning our delivery of tulips arrived… they are part of the Lung Association campaign…

I love flowers and in the depths of winter really enjoy them… just yesterday I had to toss the daffodils I had purchased the week before…

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some beautiful purple and white ones…

amazing how a little flower can perk me up…

spent time in the living room tonight with my friends and got to admire my gorgeous orchid… it is really stunning…

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took this picture of a macadamia nut dark chocolate which was a treat from Costa Rica… first chocolate I’ve had since November… apparently I was so excited I couldn’t hold still, lol… very tasty…

fitbit…

20 Friday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, Fitbit, health

been keeping track of my exercise since last April…

have found that I try to get in my goal of 5000 steps most days and been very proud of myself on the days I have gone way over…

got the Fitbit when we were having one of our stepping contests at work and have found it a great way to pay attention to my activity level…

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it’s only been since mid January that I started to record my caloric intake thanks to a comment from one of my colleagues…

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it is now imperative that I record what I am eating, so having the option to do most of the recording in one place is helpful…

I continue to search for something where I can record the blood sugar readings as well as the food log in a simple manner…

food…

19 Thursday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, food, fruit, snack, Thai coconut soup

today’s soup was a hit… next time I wouldn’t put the cilantro in until the very end and I would strain out the lemongrass… it was a bit fibrous-y… great flavour and the tofu tasted fine… it was called Tom Kha Gai (Thai coconut soup) and I would happily make it again…

saw the doctor this afternoon… she was pleased with my blood sugar numbers… have lost twenty pounds since the end of November and she is pleased with my exercise regime… I was very excited when she took my blood pressure and it was 120 over 70… woo hoo…

had supper out at the Clay Oven with my son-in-law and picked up a few things at Costco…

trying some different options for an evening snack… tonight I am having an orange and some walnuts… fruit is back on the list of things I can have, yum…

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souper…

18 Wednesday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, ingredients, online, Pinterest, souper

spent the evening gathering the bits and pieces to make tomorrow’s Souper Thursday offering…

saw this recipe on Pinterest and thought it looked like a good possibility…

first time making it and the first time I will do all the cooking at the office in the crockpot…

will be an interesting experiment…

cut up and packaged the various components… had to go online to figure out how to do some of the cutting of ingredients I haven’t used before…

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all ready:-)…

sunlight…

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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art installation, big girl oants, sunlight

on Saturday the sun shone through the bedroom window for a good portion of the day…

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even though I was feeling blue I enjoyed the bright sunlight…

we have been enjoying more sunlight over the last week or so… there are days when the sun shines all day and other days when it is sunny and overcast throughout the day…

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got this great shot of the sunlight highlighting a portion of “the installation”, lol…

diet…

16 Monday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, CancerCare, diabetes, diet, dietician, research

this afternoon I spent an hour and a half with the dietician that we saw about six or seven years ago just after George was diagnosed with heart problems…

she had been very helpful then and she was equally as helpful today…

I have been researching and consulting with all kinds of people for the last three months as I have moved into this diabetic aspect of my journey…

I had questions and wanted her take on some of the information I have collected…

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got lots of answers and up-to-date information… now I have to make a few changes to what I am eating… will start eating more fruit and need to include grains and starches in my diet…

but, on the whole, I’ve been doing a great job… yay me:-)…

and next time I see her I hope to do it at a CancerCare appointment…

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