aaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!

Hey there! i'm still here. i've been sooooo busy with the house, the baby and work. i haven't scrapped in forever because everything has been pulled apart for MONTHS while we wait week by week for the planning permission to do renovations. we FINALLY got permission yesterday (yaaaayyyyy) but NOW we have to wait for a building permit! geesh...

so, here i am. nothing big to report. but life is great :-))

I'm still here...

I haven't been posting because i'm waiting for my great news to be finalized before i announce it. Well anyway, i'm buying a house. Well, i'm buying a house back. i sold it to my sister about 5 years ago because she had a child and i didn't think that i was going to have any kids and i thought that she would want the security. Anyhow, i now have a 2 year old and she lives in Canada, so i'm buying my house back! i only i didn't live in the house for about 6 months and have been living here since (paying rent) so it feels great to have my home back.

the details should be finalized in the next 2 weeks or so. Apparently we would have signed by now, but our lawyer went on vacation a week ago. Of course we are not important to be notified about her 2 week vacation. but, whatever... my mom and i are planning renovations and we're so excited about them so we haven't really been focused on the when and where of the final sale.

Soooooo, that's my great news :-))

Day 1 of Wk 2

okay, so in honour of the beginning of week 2 I picked up my pedal bike from the store.

The ride home took me TWO HOURS (it should have taken one) but I stopped and visited my uncle at his welding shop and smelled the roses and sat off once to read a magazine :-)) Last time I checked, it's the amount to time that you spend in active mode that counts, and that didn't change just because i took my own sweet time! And trust me, my heart was sure getting a workout as I went 1/2 mile an hour across the causeway LOL

That was fun. Tomorrow i'm going to work on setting foot into the gym that I joined last week...

My boogey is still overseas and i'm ready for her to come back. The other pedal bike already has a child carrier, so she's my copilot, not an excuse to drive everywhere.

Day 7!

ok, so i'm on day 7 of my "diet". not really a diet, more of a no-longer-eating-anything-you-want phase of my life. i'm heading into the clean eating realm: whole grains, veggies, fruit for snacks. i'm doing this gradually, i just started with cutting out the junk food this past week and eating less carbs with my meals. but i eat carbs as a snack, like crackets and cheese. but when i eat carbs for lunch, it makes the rest of my day drag.

this morning feels like a turning point. i woke up feeling "lighter". i'm not going to get onto the scale to avoid disappointment, but i do feel a change. i've joined the gym also, so now i just have to go...

i bought a new pedal bike yesterday too! now i just have to pick it up from the store ;-)

"scrap for a cure LO Challenge" part 2

and, this is my very latest layout. i've definitely gone full circle and see a LOT of black cardstock in my future. this layout makes me very happy to stare at :-))

"scrap for a cure LO Challenge" part 1

here is my first layout

confession...

i'm so bored... i have a confession to make: my mom took my daughter to canada for TWO WEEKS to visit my sister (who has a 6 year old son). they left on monday.

on the one hand, i was soooo excited to have some ALONE time. time to just veg out after work. but we MISS HER so much!! i knew that we would miss her, but i'm soooo NOT getting anything done. i'm just laying around and it's not enjoyable at all. i don't even thinking about scrapping until late in the evening AFTER she would be asleep anyway.

on the other hand, it's friday and tomorrow will be the first day in a LOOOOONG time that i'm able to do whatever. but what will i do?

{sigh}

i know a lot of moms say that they just couldn't (wouldn't) go without their child for as long as that, but i'm tired and my mom and daughter are very close, and maybe i needed this time to really "get" that the exhaustion that goes along with parenting is worth it...

i'm bored.

still no update on my secret news. blaaahhhhh