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fitbit…

20 Friday Feb 2015

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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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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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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:-)…

diet…

16 Monday Feb 2015

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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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hard day…

14 Saturday Feb 2015

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hard day… been on the verge of tears for much of it…

George was very romantic… he always brought me flowers and chocolate on Valentine’s day…

I’ve been thinking back to our last Valentine’s Day… he had picked up a purple jacket that I’d seen at Rona and had been coveting… a single rose, cinnamon heart candies and a mushy card finished up the gift… it was a work day and he had it all organized in the kitchen when I came downstairs…

I keep thinking it will get easier, but not so much today…

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for the last two years I have sent flowers to the girls because he always made sure they had a rose that day… last year I cried throughout the whole ordering process… this year I didn’t have any problem making the calls… guess that’s good, lol…

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had a quiet day… did a few chores around the house and watched a number of PVRed shows…

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had a lovely chocolate strawberry with a cup of tea this afternoon as a treat…

made it through the day and looking forward to a more positive frame of mind tomorrow…

some days those big girl pants are painful…

lighter…

13 Friday Feb 2015

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this morning as I was waiting for my ride I took this picture out the front door…

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the sky was much brighter much earlier… very nice…

for a good portion of the day the sun shone through various offices…

tonight when I got home it was light and bright… it was hard to see the TV as the sun streamed through the window…

it is so exciting to see the light lasting longer every day…

installation…

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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the art installation is complete… it was finished on Saturday… we got the last of the twenty-nine framed waterlily photos up… and when I say we, I mean my friend, while I passed the odd thing to her…

she did an amazing job… not only are the pictures even and square, there are stickies in the bottom corners so they stay level, lol…

when I described a wall of water lilies she was thinking it might be a bit, shall we say, boring… now that it is all finished she agrees it was the right choice for me… I love water and the lily flowers too…

every time I walk down the stairs, I see something different…

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this one reminds me of a walk through the Leo Mol garden with George in the summer of 2011… the ducks were a complete surprise in the pond… had never seen them before or since…

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this one brought back my time at the Butchart Gardens in Victoria with my kids, just before they moved from Vancouver Island… we had been on the cruise to Alaska, and spent time in Seattle… finished off with a wonderful day in the Gardens and had tea at The Empress… so many memories…

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this one was taken in October of 2011 when we spent ages sitting on a bench admiring the pond… might have been one of our last walks in the Park…

last night my daughter gave the installation her stamp of approval… phew…

wonderful to have these different memories as I move up or down the stairs…

beauty…

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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the steps were covered with snow as I waited for my ride this morning… I do love the clean look after a fresh snowfall…

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when we arrived at the office I had to go out and take some pictures of the snow on the trees, they were so beautiful…

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after work my shoveler arrived and did a great job getting rid of the piles of snow… he did need to take a few breaks to warm up his fingers…

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then off we went with his mom to have supper at Moxies and pick up a game… they dropped me at home and headed to their place…

there is so much beauty around us and often we don’t even see it…

look around and take a moment to enjoy what you are seeing…

snow…

10 Tuesday Feb 2015

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this morning there was a light dusting of snow on the ground… made me take this picture of one of the cute cushions I purchased this year…

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throughout the day whenever I looked outside it was snowing…

when it was time to leave the office there was lots of snow to shovel off the car… the temperature was quite warm and the roads were very sloppy…

we stopped at the grocery store and picked up a few staples which was great because I hadn’t shopped on the weekend and had run out of veggies…

it is beautiful out… the world is white… it isn’t snowing right now but there is supposed to be more overnight…

only yesterday we had been talking about the amazing quiet after a snowfall… looking forward to that quiet when I get up in the morning…

depths…

09 Monday Feb 2015

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what a wonderful re-energizing evening with my ReImagining friends…

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had chicken pot pie from Costco and it was delicious… with broccoli salad and Greek salad… topped it off with a small piece of lovely light cheesecake for dessert…

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then a great conversation about the goodness in the depths of the darkness of winter…

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exhausted when I got there, but filled with peace and contentment when I left…

once home had a lovely hot tub to top off the evening…

fabulous way to start the week…