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surprise…

11 Thursday Dec 2014

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big girl pants, exercise, surprise, swag, weights

couple of lovely surprises today…

my friend drove me to my doctor’s appointment this afternoon as she has been using my car…

afterwards we went to her house and she showed me a few exercises with weights and then she gave me two three-pound ones…

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and they are purple… slightly different from the four pound pair I have…

was cooking my dinner when the doorbell rang and a friend of my Ottawa kids handed me a beautiful swag which my daughter had ordered from them…

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it smells gorgeous… now I have to figure out where to put it…

how special is that…

diagnosis…

28 Friday Nov 2014

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big girl pants, diabetes, diagnosis, diet, exercise, needle, pity party

well, the results are in… been diagnosed with diabetes…

not exactly how I was imagining spending the next stage of my life…

I guess I should be happy that it hadn’t come on earlier in my life, as many of my elders dealt with the disease…

had been once to the doctor, and was semi-prepared for what I heard yesterday… already been cutting back on sugar, but I hadn’t even thought about having to stick myself with a needle 3 times every day…

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been having a bit of a pity party but hoping to be over that in a few days…

good news is that I should be able to deal with this by watching my diet and getting more exercise…

a friend is diabetic and is a walking dictionary on the disease… another has a partner with it, and she knows tons as well… my daughter is on Weight Watchers and is sharing food information… so there’s lots of help for me as I move forward, learning as I go…

sad about the chocolate though…

exercise…

09 Thursday Oct 2014

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woke up this morning and got dressed with the appropriate clothes for yoga…

downstairs I looked at all the items for the soup and realized it was Thursday, not Friday… a bit disappointing…

soup was great… everyone enjoyed it and there is a bit left to have after yoga tomorrow…

after work had a twenty minute nap and got ready for aquasize…

was completely exhausted when we finished… not good to leave such a long period between classes…

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exercise…

22 Thursday May 2014

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aquasize, big girl pants, exercise, improved, pho, routine

tonight I went to aquasize for the first time in ages…

was a bit worried whether I would make it through the class without becoming exhausted, but made it through no problem…

reminded me of yoga… just last week I was realizing how much better I have become… we did a pose that a year ago I was only able to hold for a few seconds and I can now do it as long as everyone else… sometimes you don’t realize how you are improving…

was great to spend some time with my friend as well… we are hoping to get back to a regular schedule when she is in the city…

happily we got to go out for pho after swimming… I was very happy about this as I hadn’t organized anything for my supper…

20140522-221924-80364632.jpgone of the great things about their pho is there are always leftovers for the next day…

hope I still feel great tomorrow, lol…

exercise…

11 Tuesday Mar 2014

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condo, exercise, fish, groceries, walked

yesterday I walked home from Portage Avenue…

first time in weeks that I’ve actually walked outside because it has been so cold… by the time I got home my hips were killing me… yikes I am out of shape…

at lunch today it was nice, although not as nice as yesterday… I walked down to the grocery store which is a few blocks away from the office and picked up a couple of bags of groceries…

they were a bit heavy but I made the trip without feeling too tired… I had worn better boots, so maybe that was the problem yesterday…

even remembered to bring the groceries home at the end of the day…

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the fish were happy to see me when I got in… they get lots of exercise swimming around their condo, lol…

shovelling…

22 Friday Mar 2013

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last week we had another good sized snow fall…

while I was waiting for my ride I went out to clear the sidewalk… I couldn’t believe how much snow there was… and of course the wind was blowing so lots of the snow came back to me, lol…  it is getting rather difficult to toss it as there is so much of it…

except when he was under orders not to, George did all the shovelling… for some of the time when he couldn’t shovel, we hired a young man who would stop by now and then to clear the sidewalks and driveway…  he never did the job to George’s satisfaction but the driveway and sidewalks were usable…

George taking are of business...

George taking care of business…

my job was to watch out the window and make sure there was something warm to drink when George was done…  he usually complained about it, but he loved playing with the snow blower and would often do other driveways and walkways for fun…

thankfully my ride arrived and I could stop with the shovelling… and luckily for me, my son-in-law stopped by later in the day and got rid of all the rest of the snow which made me very happy when I got home that night…

excellent exercise…

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