Scale Whore - here I go again!

I didn’t get to the gym today because…

Trish — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:03:31 +0000

My grandmother reads both of my blogs (hi Grandma!). She doesn’t comment here but via email and she has been anticipating my going back to the gym. She also knows how lazy I can be and how I also like to blame my laziness on others including my dogs.

I got this in an email today:

“I’ll be watching next Wednesday to see if Elvis ate the alarm clock. HaHa”

I was at Walmart in a long cash line up when I read the email and laughed out loud (enough that those in front of me turned around to see what I was laughing at). My grandma…she knows me well.

I came home tonight to a notice that we are having our ‘annual’ inspection – I have been here since Mar 1/08 and I’ve never been inspected. Maybe if they see my awful water stained (a/c unit leaked last year and subcontract did not fix it right at all), they will tear up the parquet and install a nice laminate floor? Nah, probably not until I move out. I wonder though…what they’re looking for.

1.5 more days until I go visit my brother and father and have a nice long weekend :)

Woof! Woof!

Trish — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:40:48 +0000

Woof Woof!

My gym bag came today

Trish — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:41:25 +0000

I’m typing this in my iPhone, how cool (not cool?) is that? My computer is currently crunching two episodes of True Blood for a coworker and is running slow and hot so I moved to the iPhone.

I wasn’t planning on making a post, but remembered the free WordPress app and so here I am!

So my gym bag came today and it is as big as I hoped it would be. I was going take a photo but work is quite busy and I forgot…mayhap tomorrow.

So, with gym bag in hand, there are no other excuses I can make without really feeling like a loser. So Monday – I think the gym is open, I will head to the gym. I do every thing on Monday’s if’n you don’t know that by now :)

So the plan? Monday to Friday 30-45min workouts. I will start slow, not gung-ho like I’m used to because there is no kidding myself, I am seriously out of shape and all I will achieve by over exerting myself is having myself quit.

So with that, I bid you goodnight as my phone’s battery is getting pretty low and I don’t want to lose this post.

Redesign May Be Coming

Trish — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:45:47 +0000

It’s been awhile so I think we’re do for a little makeover. So if you see some wonkiness or a design that maybe last 30 seconds or so…it is not you or your computer but me and mine :) Related posts:TLC Addict Fat Auction LogoYes.com DIY Logo Design Related posts:

Home Sweet Home (soon!)

Trish — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:33:24 +0000

My facebook page for my future home/condo is getting pretty busy as we get close to the first set of occupants moving in in September. This morning there was a link to some wonderful, space saving modern furniture that is great for homes with minimal space like say…a 648sqf condo like I bought.

One item I really liked was an coffee table (acrylic with stainless steel legs) that very easily extended and became a true height dining table. That is something I would buy as I don’t really want to create a dining room in my small area (17ft x 10ft), especially when I will have a breakfast bar/island and I don’t eat at a dining table.

It is great fun looking at all the PDI (pre delivery inspection) photos that area appearing and neat to see the different styles people have regarding floor/kitchen cupboard options and their bathroom floor tile/surround choices. I still have 6 months to wait now though…makes me jealous of those moving in in two weeks time.

In other news, no paw print gym bag today :( Hopefully tomorrow – I really want to get a routine in order and actually started today with trying to get up earlier than norm (7am) to get used to it.

IKEA, a good way in getting some walking in!

Trish — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:34:58 +0000

Last Friday on our way home from the 3 day US payroll primer I attended my coworker and I went to IKEA. I wasn’t looking for anything but she had noted she hadn’t been to IKEA in a couple of years and since it was only 430pm we went.

Her taste and mine are years apart. She is very conservative and likes plain and simple whereas I like different and sometimes in-your-face items/colours…like say my bright yellow smart that says ‘helllllllllllllllloooooooooooooo’ as soon as you see it, you cannot miss me coming for miles.

She and I would point out likes to one another (very rarely agreeing) and after we spent an hour and a half just walking around we checked out. For a Friday night the place was pretty busy and they only had 2 human lines open and the other were all self check outs. I love self checkouts especially the ones like IKEA that use a gun like the Symbol LS2208 I don’t know what it is but I smile every time I hear the beep that I was successful in scanning a UPC code. Come to think of it that is why I liked cashiering at SDM.

Sometimes the simple things make me happy.

Woof Woof!

Trish — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:40:21 +0000

I am awaiting this gym bag to show up. I would hope it should be by the end of the week since I bought it on ebay on the 17th. Yes, it has dog prints on it and I would have preferred it didn’t but it was the biggest bag I could find (22″L x 10″W x 11″H and shoulder straps can be from 11″-17″ long when adjusted manually). If it comes this week guess where I will be going on Monday? The gym! I will be attempting morning workouts and will get ready for work at the gym so as not to confuse the pups by going to and fro in the mornings.

So…I stopped taking my happy pills. I decided they weren’t required any more and stopped cold turkey which wasn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done. I had about 3 days of awful headaches, nausea and light headedness, it was awful. Because it didn’t start for a couple of days after I stopped cold turkey I didn’t associate these side affects until a day later when I realized I was going through happy pill withdrawal.

But now I’m good and still happy sans the pills, lol.

Last week I attended a 3 day seminar on US payroll as we now have one employee that works from New Jersey. OMG, the rules and regulations are horrendous and the course was just on the federal part of payroll. I enjoyed the primer and we (coworker and I) are glad we went as we learned that we were missing a few things.

I brought along my Mac Air to the course in order that my coworker could check email and she was lamenting not looking into looking ore into netbooks when she was looking for a laptop. She had bought an Acer and was awaiting delivery last week of it but she loved the lightness of the Air and how small it was. Of course a netbook is smaller but I’m pretty sure it cannot weigh less than my baby.

Speaking of weighing less, I’m not sure if I am or not. I haven’t been on the scale since my last weigh in two weeks ago. I will weigh in this Monday though, gym or not. Got to be accountable.

An Update of Sorts

Trish — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:33:25 +0000

Sorry for the quiet here. Just kind of doing my thing and right now my thing is not lots of internet when I am home. I am getting through some of my purging to do list and this week was my desk. Friday had me bring into work a big Bowrings bag of paper to be shredded. Slowly but surely I should not have any paper as I move from paper to e-docs but right now there are a few stubborn credit card companies out there that don’t do this.

In a couple of weeks I am going to see my father and brother. My father should know within the next month or two whether we have to start our disability appeals. I am hoping not, that this time we win.

As for the weight front, I was excited to see 209.6lbs on the scale on Wednesday and then it went away :| The gym needs to make an appearance in my life. Soon. Soon.

Weigh In Day

Trish — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:14:54 +0000

I have lost 1.4lbs since Jul 26th! On my own, with no help from Nutrisystem and even with a few not so good food choices.

I am a happy girl.

Some things I’ve been thinking about on a daily basis:

Stopping the happy pills
morning gym routine M-F
cutting my hair (not weight related, but still being considered :)
big gym bag required!

Lots of work to today, so I have to cut this short – but I did want to post my weigh in :)

Dog Park Daze

Trish — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:38:28 +0000

I spent three hours at the dog park today, the weather was absolutely beautiful. I think one of my favourite summer days this year. The boys played with all their friends which seemed to all be there today. I did feel like a door knob today as I forgot their poop bags and I had to borrow 5 (yes my boys poop a lot at the dog park for some reason, it is like a poop magnet!). Here are some photos (taken and tweaked on my iPhone 4 ♥) from the dog park (click for larger photos).

Elvis & Lucy

Xena & the boys

Hawkeye