Day 74

Dance was a flop last night! I had put a good 4 hours into choreography and no one showed up for the tween of hip hop class. There were 6 kids there for the Tinies class, but 10 minutes in 5 of them gave up and didnt wanna do it anymore. I dont know what else to do. I put posters up all around town reminding people about it but no one shows. Oh well.

Jesse from the health centre has asked me to start an aerobics dance class starting July 5. I accepted of course but what a challenge! I am going to have to memorise a while good 40 mins of sweaty choreography so I am scared :S

Eeek

So I called the Residence office at Laurentien and they told me I have a sliiiiimmm chance of getting a room on campus, so I've gone to my wonderful best friend ever Lynnie and we are trying to arrange a way so I can bunk with her and Sarah and the ex-boyfriend to be. Three amazing friends in one appartment? What can go wrong? (hopefully nothing)

Day 73

Hi.

I'm just about to go home and get ready for dance now. I have a cite jazz lesson planned for the little ones, then for the 10 year olds we are dancing to Somebody to Love remix by Justin Bieber (their fave artist) and Usher. Thennn for hip hop I'm teaching a dance I've had choreographed for 3 weeks now... the first lesson nobody showed up, then last week's was cancelled. I wish I had more time to work on the Justin Bieber song because my procrastinating self left it to last night then of course I got called in to work. So here I am multitasking while I babysit. I'm tired because Aus got a call at 1:30 last night and when I woke up I had a huuuge craving for salty popcorn. A whole bag and a week's worth of sodium later I went into bed and got up at 7am. Oh, Wendy's home. Gotta go now! Love Ya

Day 71

bonjour!

Today was the second day ofour p90x exercise program and let me tell you: this is no joke! Yesterday was an hour of chest and back and some of the stuff was so hard I couldn't do a single rep, so I had to modify it girly style, but Austin did well. Today we did an hour of plyometrics, which is a lot of jumping, like hopping lunges and frog leaps. My abs are finally starting to come out of hiding after 2 months of running and not-so-self-disciplined exercising. I found a new path to run that goes along the water. It is so beautiful and peaceful. The only problem is there are a lot of pot holes and bumps in the road so you constantly have to be aware of the road or you could twist your ankle. Siren came for a walk with me. She usually gives up after 5 minutes but she followed me the whole 30 minutes.

So we just finished the plyometrics and of course, Austin got a call riiight afterwards. I was laughing at him because he was so sweaty I had to help him get his shirt off because it was stuck to him. There is this drink called shakeology that you drink to replace one meal a day and Austin was saying it is jam packed with great nutrients for you and doctors rave about it. We wanted to get it but the only thing is it's $120 for a one month supply. I thought it would be great for when we go to the island so we don't get stuck mowing on junk fast food on the trip there and back, and for me when I go to mom and dad's.

this is the website for it:http://teambeachbody.com/web/shakeology?gclid=COfejYD-vqICFQ_yDAod2Sso6A&extcmp=13286783173&ef_id=1908:3:s_2574dac50769969401e7f9261285a96d_3746538643:TCaXrwqoEGMAAEeHJsgAAAO8:20100627001335

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far. It is a beautiful blue sky here but only 10 degrees.

HUGS!!

Day 58

hi

Today was like Christmas! I got 3 parcels in the mail! One was Austin's camping set:

The other was my new P90X workout program:

And the other package with my CUTTLEBUG embosser

Babysitting went well today. the kids were all good. Tammy is the name of the 5 year old I am now watching because her mom, Wendy's sister, couldn't find a daycare for her in Timmins. Today she tried working out with me and after 5 minutes of abs she looked at her tummy, and looked up at me sadly and said, "It's not working" I guess she is like everyone else on earth, wanting instant results lol. She has a bit of a tummy but it was so cute yet so sad seeing her so upset that all her 5 minutes of hard work didn't pay off.

Here are some funny pics of what Aus and I do in our spare time:

crafting

lazy sirenglued to my computer
... this is what Albany will do to you.

also, here is the parade video for Aboriginal Day. And thats Austin driving the ambulance.

HUGS

oh and ps. I GOT ACCEPTED TO LAURENTIAN!! F*** YEA!!!

Day 57

Hiya.

I've been soo busy lately! I worked all weekend and a full time worker quit on the weekend so I will probably get called in a lot this week. Ugh. I'm babysitting Wendy's niece for the next week as well as Talia. Her mom can't find a daycare for her in Timmins so I am watching her here.

Yesterday I had an interesting experience at the Northern store. I had gone go get groceries and I needed some mouthwash. It's kept behind the counter so people don't steal it, so I asked the cashier for the big bottle and she grabbed it and asks, "Are you going to drink it?" Yea! Then I'm going to chase it with hairspray! OMG NO! I am going to fight gingivitis and bad breath! God! And I would rather have a pina colada anyways! Good God!

I had also bought a new blender, since Austin broke ours when he was blending gravy. This one was $70 and on sale for $53 so I thought that was a score! But when I got to the cash and my total bill was $160 (I had also gotten some groveries and a beaters to prevent another broken blender) my gut was telling me something was off...but I ignored it. I was charged full price, of course. So I haveto find time to walk back and fix it. Ugh.

Yesterday was Aboriginal day and there was a parade here, a barbeque and there was a drumming group here. I missed out on the drumming group but I recorded the parade and I will post it later.

Today is my weigh in :s I weighed myself at the hospital and I was 154 so I don't know what's going on! I'm working out more than ever, and hour a day, and the scale won't budge! Hopefully it's because I'm gaining muscle mass but I still have a good mass of fat to lose! SoI'm going to get my measurements done and my body fat percentage taken. In Guelph I was 30% body fat and my goal is 20%. Wish me luck! Obviously I need it.

Have a good week everyone! HUGS

Day 55

After being so bloated since Austin's birthday I have vowed to never eat cake or junk in general until Matt & Mandy's wedding! I struggle to lose weight because I have 7 days of a health kick, then I get confident and figure its okay to take a day off eating good, then I do the same for the next day, and the next, and the next, until I feel so guilty and down on myself that I am motivated to eat good and exercise for another 7 days, and rinse and repeat. So it's like 2 steps forward and one step back. Ughhh. I also think I get frustrated because the results aren't instant. And the only results I've seen in a month and a half are 3 lbs lost, then 1 lb gained. I am much better at eating well, but once I get a chocolate bar in the mail (ahem...mom) then I go nuts and fall completely off the healthy wagon for the following few days. That's my story and I'm stikin' to it.

Austin is making fish for dinner, and I ate a salad today for lunch, just like my dad does every flipping day. Oh speaking of that, Dad, I need some Kraft balsamic vinaigrette. Thx.

I had a wonderful conversation with mom on the phone last night. We talked for an hour and a half! It's not like we were discussing important stuff, just girl chatter. But it was so refreshing and relieving to gab about random stuff. My mom is so wonderful and I am so blessed to have such a strong, supportive, and remarkable person as my mommy. (ps sorry for the cheezy tangent)

Starting Monday I will be watching Talia along with her 5 year old cousin, so I will be making double! CHA CHING hehehehehehonhonhon.

Well... that's all for now! I'm working tomorrow night at the hospital so I may not post until Sunday. HUGS!!!

Day 54

Austin had a relatively quiet birthday. We just stayed home and ate steaks and black forest cake all to ourselves. He had to work by himself that evening so we ate at the base. Here are some pics.

Not very photogenic with the cake...

Here is a video of one of the girls from my Tweens dance class and I doing our dance we made up. It was a lot of fun!

Today I went in for my weigh-in and it has been postponed until Tuesday so I gave in to my urge to binge!! I had one and a half sandwiched, a bowl of rice crispies, 2 nutrigrain bars, stir fry, spaghetti, an orange, half a freezie and 2 handfulls of Ritz crackers. Needless to say I feel insanely bloated. Its a good thing yoga pants are forgiving.

I'm glad tomorrow is Friday! Hopefully I get a couple of shifts at the hospital this weekend. I haven't been called in since the weekend, which is unusual...