21 Wednesday Oct 2015
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the sky was lovely yesterday morning…
luckily I was able to take a few pictures as I was the passenger in the car… the colours were very pretty…
a beautiful sky makes me very happy…
when I got home I slept for an hour while my supper was cooking… then, after I ate, I slept through a number of shows and woke up in time to go to bed… and I slept all night… apparently I was really tired…
this orchid is so gorgeous… makes me smile every time I look at it…
20 Tuesday Oct 2015
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big girl pants, dimsum, fish, salt water, together, tropical
on Sunday the kids and I went for dimsum at our favourite place…
it was really busy and we had to wait about half an hour to be seated…
but they have a beautiful salt water tank so we all spent time admiring and checking out the tropical fish…
hard to keep the youngest from putting his fingers on the glass…
the fish are wonderful colours… there are bright blue, yellow, striped, even some purple ones…
this little creature looks like it is made up of feathers…
the neon green ends on these are so pretty…
the time flew by as we took turns pointing out different discoveries to one other…
what a wonderful way to spend time together…
17 Saturday Oct 2015
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, friend, rules, terminology, Ultimate, walk
don’t think I’d heard of Ultimate until a few years ago when a colleague mentioned it…
since then I’ve seen people playing it in the Park by the Lyric, but I’ve never actually watched…
today I was at my first game… my friend let me know she and her daughter were at Assiniboine Park for a tournament…
usually on Saturday I spend the day vegging out and watching tv…
great way to get me up and moving, lol… I got ready and walked over to the Park… had a visit with my friend and learned some of the finer points of the sport while we watched her daughter play…
there aren’t any referees and lots of support from the sidelines… the rule book is very long so having individuals like my friend, who has played for twenty years, around who know the rules is a great benefit… had to giggle as one of the coaches went to the rules online from their phone for a bit of clarity…
this is a mixed league and being a good sport is very important… and there is no body contact…
always so happy to see that the kids treat one another well… the handshake at the end of the game is just the same as my boys have with their soccer and volleyball games…
teams for this tournament played with four males and three females on the field…
there was a great deal of terminology to learn… not sure that I got it all, lol…
excellent way to spend a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon… don’t think this will be the last time I watch Ultimate…
13 Tuesday Oct 2015
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feel like I haven’t been as good as I should have about eating lately…
yesterday, besides a lovely turkey dinner, I ate three cookies, sigh…
took the rest of them to the office this morning so I wouldn’t be tempted to eat any more of them…
my new doctor has advised that he doesn’t want me to take any blood sugar readings, because they can cause additional stress… I wonder if it causes more stress for me when I don’t know what my levels are…
today I got back on track… had a smoothie for breakfast… with berries, yogurt and spinach…
doesn’t look that great, but tastes good and is healthy…
for lunch I had some salmon with wild rice, and fresh veggies…
for my supper I had turkey leftovers, with reheated mashed potatoes and cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and turnip… instead of gravy, I decided on stuffing…
been doing some research and have discovered that reheated potatoes have a resistant starch when consumed… also using Pro-Activ margarine which helps lower cholesterol…
hope I can stay on track…
10 Saturday Oct 2015
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spent time in the garden today…
first thing was emptying the hot tub…
takes quite a while to drain…
then, while it filled, I emptied pots and baskets… also cut back, and cleaned off the dahlia tubers as I prepped the garden for winter, sigh…
brought in the last of the flowers and blooms from the dahlias… hope they continue to bloom like the canna has…
put out a few Thanksgiving decorations, set the table for Monday’s dinner, and watched some tv…
made stuffing… tomorrow I will prepare the vegetables, which makes it much more relaxing on Monday…
I looked out the window at one point and the light looked odd so I ran downstairs and checked the front and back windows…
the sky was spectacular…
out the back…
through the front… just a few minutes later this is what I saw…
have been blessed to have caught so many gorgeous views of the sky in the last while…
so much to be thankful for…
06 Tuesday Oct 2015
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advance poll, big girl pants, canna, duty, election, ID, online, vote
took this picture first thing of one of the cannas which was blooming… had cut the two spent blooms off when it came into the house on Sunday…
stuck the stalks into another pot to let them finish drying so I might be able to plant some seeds in the spring… then I spotted this…
our election is coming up and everyone was supposed to receive a voting card in the mail…
I haven’t received one…
have lived in this house for over forty years… have voted in every election since I was old enough… always had the appropriate documentation for each of those elections…
went online to see if I could figure out what to do in this situation… checked the voters list and I am on it… but couldn’t find a phone number to speak with a live person, or an answer to my question about what to take to the polls to be sure I can vote…
tonight I found this in my mailbox…
hope I have read it correctly… planning to vote at the Advance Poll on Friday as I am off, and it is at the Community Club which is just a few blocks from the house…
will take my ID and go early in case there are any problems…
tonight I took another picture of the same flower…
beautiful with the light shining on it…
looking forward to voting and making my voice heard… hope everyone else who is eligible makes use of this right…
02 Friday Oct 2015
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big girl pants, Blaze, Delta, food, gazpacho, MyFitnessPal, smoothie
every day is a test to eat as well as possible…
weekdays, I usually start with a smoothie… pretty easy to make and goes down fairly quickly… been using plain Greek yogurt with a fruit yogurt, frozen fruit, spinach and almond milk… I use my immersion blender and drink it right out of the measuring container it gets made in… I try not to use too much sweetener so don’t put any in the smoothies which is why I include the fruit and fruit yogurt…
lunch today was a treat…
met my daughter at Blaze in the Delta… had a steak sandwich with a small goat cheese, quinoa and chickpea salad…
nice… not sure I’d order the salad again, but I really like their beet salad… there’s something about the place… remodelled not long ago, but it has a kind of cold atmosphere…
had a square of a small chocolate bar mid-afternoon… usually if I have a snack, it might be almonds or a few chips…
for supper had kale and quinoa bites with cauliflower and asparagus mash, radishes and a quick gazpacho…
try really hard to balance off, particularly if one meal is not as healthy as it should be…
record my food intake in the MyFitnessPal app on my phone… stayed in my calorie range…
pretty good day…
01 Thursday Oct 2015
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big girl pants, comments, moments, Outlook, Pauseworks, sunrise, velcro
yesterday was filled with lovely messages from my colleagues…
among them came an email with an ezine article from Pauseworks.com…
it talked about how we act like we are covered with teflon when given compliments… we tend to brush them off…
and we treat negative comments like velcro… letting them stick…
this certainly rang true for me…
I remember years ago, having performance reviews that were filled with positive comments… but a single, not so positive, one would gnaw at me and I would forget or ignore all the good stuff…
for some time now I have been working hard to accept positive affirmation without putting a but into my response…
yesterday I accepted all of the comments… and soaked them up…
then I added them all to my comments folder in Outlook… great place to pop into and read when a day isn’t going so well…
the sunrise this morning was lovely…
sunlight on the top of the trees on the other side of the house…
just happened to look out at the exact moments to catch the beauty…
30 Wednesday Sep 2015
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today I celebrated six years at my current work… I was so excited that I barely slept last night…
had been thinking for weeks about what I could make as a thank you gift for my colleagues…
decided on coasters with some of my photos on them…
had a hard time choosing the pictures… going through my albums I needed thirteen but picked about fifty… decided to make them all, lol…
that was a good plan because I wanted everyone to be able to pick one they liked, not get stuck with something that didn’t speak to them…
spent time on Pinterest looking for a good process and then spoke with my daughter about best practices…
tried Modge Podge on a few, but that didn’t work… was very nervous about trying the resin but it was very simple once I got the hang of it…
as I worked, I thought about which person would choose which picture… I was right for about half…
my workplace is pretty special… I have been able to expand my “job” to fit my skills and likes and that is quite wonderful…
my colleagues are all great people who care about one another and the people we work with…
in my work life I have been blessed… I haven’t really seen my positions as work, more as a calling… and this position has been no different…
I am forever grateful to have these people in my life…
24 Thursday Sep 2015
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big girl pants, clouds, morning glory, sky, traffic, yesterday
yesterday the clouds were lovely throughout the whole day…
stopped at the end of the street on my way to work and got this picture…
had an opportunity, at a light, to shoot the sky toward downtown…
enjoyed the clouds reflected in one of the buildings on my arrival at the office…
view over the new police headquarters…
like the clouds particularly when there is still some blue sky visible, lol…
and finally, on the drive home, got this picture of the church steeple and sky…
sadly I was in some dreadful traffic at the time and had ample opportunity to check out the sky…
not sure why I have been so struck by clouds recently, although we have certainly had more dull overcast days over the last few years… way more than we used to have…
maybe that is why I love the morning glories which look like they are lit with sunlight from within…
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