21 Thursday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, camera, full moon, headphones, jiggle, moon, photos, treadmill, widow
this morning, rather than spend fifteen minutes on the treadmill, I had a lovely time taking photos of the moon…
although I used my tripod, next time I will use my headphones to take the photos so that the camera doesn’t jiggle…
still learning what this camera can do;-)…
25 Friday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, birthdays, celebrate, circles, instead, moment, quiet, struggles, treadmill, widow
spent a few quiet moments this morning… first time in over a week that I haven’t been downstairs and walking on the treadmill…
instead, I spent some time quietly thinking of recent and upcoming birthdays… many in my circles have had or will be having birthdays soon…
lots of struggles as we age, and we try to support one another the best way we can…
a reminder for me to make the most of every day and be sure to take time to be in the moment…
03 Thursday Jan 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, delicious, flowers, garage, groove, moments, smell, treadmill, walking, widow
been back in the groove of walking on the treadmill every morning… kind of fell off the wagon over the holidays, lol… happy to get back on track…
before I left the house I sat and enjoyed the flowers that I picked up on Monday… a lovely treat to have the moment to focus on the beauty…
when I got into the garage it still smelled delicious… just like barbecued steak… yum… pretty nice after three days… didn’t smell when I got home… will check it out tomorrow, lol…
07 Friday Dec 2018
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A1C, alarm, big girl pants, crazy, daughter, diabetes, doctor, focussed, health, quality of life, sleep, treadmill, treat, widow
crazy morning…
I usually set my alarm for 6:30 but always wake up before it goes off… I’ve been having trouble sleeping for the last week or so due to a sore neck so didn’t put on my alarm as it was my day off…
woke up to a call from my daughter at 7:51… unfortunately I had an 8 am doctor’s appointment;-(…
flew out of the house wondering what my blood pressure reading would be, lol…
was only a few minutes late as the office is close to home…
my blood pressure was great which was amazing but my A1C was not so great… still in the safe zone but it has been creeping up over the last year…
early on following my diabetes diagnosis I did not consume any sugar and was so strict with my diet that my life was overly focussed on food… the good news about that was how low I was able to bring down my A1C without meds… the bad news was that the strict eating was causing problems with my quality of life… since then the doctor and I agreed to relax my eating to find a happy medium…
today we decided that I need to find something between crazy strict and what I’ve been doing recently…
so, not so many treats… and I also think I need to be sure to spend a bit more time on the treadmill every day…
31 Tuesday Oct 2017
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big girl pants, cape, halloween, photos, place, pumpkins, sky, treadmill, widow, witch’s hat
no time to walk on the treadmill this morning as I had to get the pumpkins in place on the steps and bring up a couple of inside pumpkins from the basement…
it was still dark, but sort of looked the same as they did this evening…
got a nice shot of the front of the house as I was leaving… the orange looks great with the purple and gray…
at the end of the street I stopped and got a picture of the stunning sky… happy that I was in a place where I could stop and take the picture…
often when I see one of these beauties there is nowhere to pull over and the shot doesn’t get taken…
I took my cape and hat to the office and on a break did a little walk about… a colleague got this picture which is just how I looked as I handed out treats tonight;-)…
had over thirty kids and almost ran out of goodies… excellent outcome…
happy halloween…
29 Tuesday Aug 2017
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berries, big girl pants, exploding, flowers, garden, hot, laugh, memories, morning glories, pergola, plants, purple, table, treadmill, water, widow
had to skip walking on the treadmill this morning so I could water the plants in the garden…
it has been amazingly hot over the last few days… I don’t like to water in the evening, so was happy to take the time early to get the job done…
the morning glories are exploding everywhere… the ones that are trying to come up through the table make me laugh…
for years we have had Virginia creeper growing along the north side of the garage and it never had berries… it has grown over the pergola into the south side and since that has happened it started to produce the berries…
this morning I got a few nice shots of some of them…
too bad we can’t eat them, lol…
22 Sunday Jan 2017
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now that I’m working again on Fridays I am back to Friday yoga…
it is harder than what we were doing before I left… at that time we cycled through 3 types – restorative, slow flow and yin… they were simpler and more basic, which is really more my speed…
the Friday class is now a follow up from the Tuesday one which I don’t attend… feels like I am always in catch-up mode… also haven’t done yoga since last March…
still trying to decide if I will continue on or whether I might look for something else to do…
currently I am walking on the treadmill for 10 to 15 minutes every weekday and trying to get to aquasize on Tuesday evenings…
maybe I will start to lift weights one night during the week or spend time during a lunch hour on the treadmill at the office…
snow coming down and melting as it hits the pavement…
25 Tuesday Oct 2016
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aquasize, big girl pants, boost, leftovers, lunch, sky, treadmill, under the weather, widow
feeling a bit under the weather and had a very hard time getting out of bed this morning…
so slow that there wasn’t time to walk on the treadmill… that is a rare occurrence…
as I turned onto the road at the end of the street I saw this beautiful sky… luckily there was no one behind me so I could stop and get a photo…
did give me a bit of a boost…
then I had lunch with a dear friend… lovely treat…
picked up and taken to aquasize by another friend and afterwards had a bit of leftover dinner from last night’s meeting…
now watching a bit of tv and thinking of a short nap and a hot tub…
04 Wednesday May 2016
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big girl pants, census, fish and chips, George, ice, knee, SkipTheDishes, sore, treadmill, widow
slept fairly well last night considering how sore my knee was… woke up yesterday morning and it had a bit of a twinge… went to yoga and might have twisted it…
last night I iced it for a while and did wonder if I’d be able to walk on it this morning…
as I rolled out of bed carefully I was reminded of how difficult it was to maneuver after my surgery… and how much I missed George being there to look after me…
the knee was fairly sore but as long as I was on it, it was pretty good… decided I could do a bit on the treadmill but I walked rather slowly…
mainly sore when I stand up after sitting for a while… makes me limp a bit when I start moving, lol…
plan to take it easy for the next few days and get it back into shape…
so tonight I treated myself to fish and chips… been craving them for a couple of weeks…
sure do love SkiptheDishes… it was delicious and I have half left over for tomorrow’s dinner…
happily discovered that I had the short form census so got that completed in about five minutes…
15 Monday Feb 2016
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started my day with a great breakfast… even had a rose on my tray…
the sun was hiding behind some haze for most of the day…
had a relaxed morning and then went downstairs to do some time on the treadmill…
haven’t been walking as much lately so was happy that I got moving, lol…
for a while now I’ve been wanting to rearrange the furniture in the basement, so today while I was down there I had an extra workout and did a little furniture moving…
that treadmill is kind of heavy… luckily the sectional wasn’t joined together although it does have fasteners to connect the pieces, so it wasn’t overly heavy… next time the kids are over I will get them to help me link the pieces… more comfortable when everything is attached…
kind of pleased with how it came out… missed George as I was working away, but I also got to do it exactly the way I wanted it, lol…
finished the lobster from last night in a huge salad for lunch…
really tasty with the lemon dressing from last night…
been glued to the tv as all the Grammy shows have been on… great fun to see who’s there and what the colours being worn are…
