Friday!

And not only is it Friday, but it is a Friday off! I actually worked almost every day this week... crazy. I have so much to get done before C. gets home though!

We went swimming at the Sportsplex on Wednesday and went down the water slide, which was awesome fun. We may even get a membership. I love swimming... basically I am a fish. I also am potentially volunteering the 2nd with C.`s grandma at Camp Day at Tim Hortons, which will be sweet. Once I go back to Btown though, I volunteer all the time, so I am not really worried about that one.

I am worried about that losing 20lbs though. At the pool, I really noticed just how gross I am getting. I wish I had willpower :( Last time I lost weight I went crazy calorie counting and stuff, and it worked... but I was just so, so obsessed with food all the time that I don`t really want to go back there. I wish I could just be active & busy enough that I wouldn`t think about food so much, but it is so hard with C. at work all day every day. We are going rock climbing tomorrow I think though... maybe I can convince him to go swimming again tonight. I meant to go for a run today, but now that the threat of a 5km race is gone, I can`t seem to make myself :( I wish the threat of bikini season would be enough. If I could lose 2lbs a week, I would be down 10 by July, which would be alright for bikini time.

To do today:
- laundry. All of it.
- finish unpacking & setting up
- clean the kitchen, living room & bedroom
- maybe watch a Disney movie
- do SOMETHING active

Accomplishments!

Lots of things have been done!

- I ran in a 5km race :) And I almost, ALMOST ran the whole thing, I walked from like, one power pole to the next one right at the end when I couldn`t see the finish line and almost got overwhelmed. But I don`t want to cross that one off until I do it for real for real! I did the 5km in a little over 36 minutes - I want to adjust my goal and do 5km in under 30 mins soon.

- Today I bought a season of Full House! Yay! Season 4, but I have seen so many of them so many times I will be able to jump right in. I loveeee Full House. And now when C. is playing his stupid video games I will be able to actually have something to do. Man I hate video games. He is so addicted it is terrible. It was fun when we were both playing Pokémon on Game Boy hahah but now he has unfortunately moved back to xbox :(

- Hopefully after today I will be finished going through all my stuff and throwing out what I don`t need and organizing. I have until 4 to get it done, or at least a real good start on it.

- I`m also halfway through Beauty & the Beast, which I might finish right after this post.

- We TRIED to go to Pirate`s Cove yesterday, but apparently at some swimming pools you aren`t allowed to swim after 4:00? Ridiculous. So we had to go to a different pool, which was still fun, but was not on my list. However we did go to the Public Gardens, so now I am 2/3 on the walks in parks front.

- I think I want to start working on the losing weight one. It is getting quite ridiculous, I am now 15lbs higher than I was in high school and it is only going up. So today I think I might also make a running schedule and an meal schedule, and I am giving C. my debit & credit cards so I can`t buy food at work anymore - that is what is really killing me. Plus, the lack of routine that happens when school ends is killing us - our apartment is a MESS. So some scheduling and routine will be good for me. I also want to start working on some more of the reading ones - I need to get on that; there are a lot of books I still have left to read to reach all those goals! Tonight at work I shouldn`t have very many kids, so I will probably bring a book. I started a new one the other night but I am not really a big fan. Maybe C. will take me to the Mount lib and I can get some good ones.

So proud!

Today I ran 4km in a row! No stopping! No walking! Which is fantastic because the 5km race is Sunday and today is Tuesday haha. But for the first time I actually feel like I can do this... which may be half the battle. I think I had such a good run instead of the incredibly crappy ones I had been having before because I stopped forcing it this past week. I didn`t run at all, but did other things like paddle boating and walking a bunch with L. and A., and yesterday C. spoiled me with some surprise Lululemon gear and made me want to run again. Plus, again since I haven`t been forcing it or really even thinking about it, I started making better food choices. Also I ate an hour or two before running this morning instead of a half hour and not even a cramp. So yay for me!

I also bought and read Shutter Island, making my buy a new book 1/3 and reading a new book 1/30. I can`t actually believe I am only at one, I love to read, but I guess I have been rereading the Laura books and I`ve been embarrassingly addicted to Game Boy hahah, which has never happened before in my life. Weird. I am working on Lolita now though.

I am making pork loin for supper tonight! I have never made it before, and it will put me at 4/5 for brand new dishes. I will have to think of something new and awesome for tomorrow night and then I will be done that whole one! I would love to make ribs; maybe when C. and I go to the grocery store tonight I will convince him to get some.

I also might watch another Disney movie this afternoon... but first I have a ton of cleaning to do. Oh the joy of it all!

slacker.

I have been majorly slacking, I am afraid. On pretty much every front. This week is just not a good one for me for some reason! Although I got hired at the front desk of Goodlife as well as the nursery, so I guess I can cross off my fake 102. Get a job haha. And I invented my own tuna casserole but I had made tuna casserole before so I don`t think that I will count it as one brand new dish. I`ve also been slacking on the Farmville front... I just don`t know what is wrong with me! Good thing I have another two and a half years or so to finish. I did go for a walk with L. at a park though! So I am 1/3 there. And I am going to watch Lady and the Tramp I think while I bake C. some cookies. I have a lot to do before 3:30 - we are going to Btown after C. gets off work for a weekend of paddle boating and beaching and fun :) Also I will be volunteering tonight I believe, and will be 1/10 there.

To do before 3:

- clean the kitchen

- put away laundry

- bake cookies

- clean the living room

- pack tote of stuff to leave in Btown

- watch Lady and the Tramp

- do the 4km loop

Also I think I am going to change number 61. from beat Harvest Moon to just beating any game for Gameboy, cause I no longer really enjoy that one but I am enjoying a different one!

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I finished Pocahontas this morning. And I mastered peanuts yayay. Pocahontas was so sad, I forgot that it didn`t have a happy ending. No wonder I didn`t like it when I was little. I didn`t even really like it so much this time until the second half. I was a weird child, I didn`t really like movies, especially Disney movies, because they were always so sad and I was afraid I would cry. I did like Atlantis and 101 Dalmations, the real people one, but that was about it. That is part of the reason I wanted to re-watch them all - I have been liking them more and I am now able to notice subtle things that I didn`t pick up on when I was little. I`m not sure which I will watch next... maybe The Sword in the Stone or The Aristocats. I thought about Mulan but I think I`ve had enough young-girls-save-their-people for right now.

I`m going for a run soon, but it is super cold out, boo. I am going to do the 4km loop again, but backwards, and hopefully this time I will be able to go farther. It looks like it is going to rain. Then I have to go finish packing and move all my stuff to C.`s - it is my official move-in day! Although I am pretty sure he just wants to hang out with Ch. and not celebrate. Which makes me a little sad. Actually I think I might just go pack my stuff up now so that I don`t have to do it with him there because I am not the happiest of campers. I can go for a run when he is at the gym with his boyfriend haha.

Titles are not one of my strengths.

Never have been. I always title my essays things like `Roch Voisine`. Very straightforward and to the point. However, I am not a blog-planner-outer and so never know what to straightforwardly title my blogs as I am never sure what in particular I will be rambling on about.

Another thing that isn`t a strength of mine? Running, apparently. Today and yesterday`s runs KILLED me. I maybe ran 2km each time. I should be easily doing 3 by this week. I almost did 3 last week. I don`t really understand. Tomorrow is a day off, but Monday I better be kicking some running butt. I mapped out a 3km, 4km and 5km loop; I did the 4km one today but could only run about half of it. It was super duper windy though; not that I am making an excuse cause that`s not how I roll, but it was really hard to run into the wind - the resistance is crazy! But I will keep practicing and hoping that by some miracle I will get to 5km in two weeks.

I have`t really done much else - I mastered rice, that`s about it haha. Almost done peanuts though ;) I also might finish Pocahontas today, and I will more than likely finish Little Town on the Prairie.

Anyways, I am starving and sweaty - protein shake & shower time!

Adios

I have successfully mastered cotton!

I ran 3km in a row .

I am going to make sex in a pan as soon as I am done this post, which I have never made before.

Tidal bore rafting is tentatively booked for June 13th.

I am halfway through Pocahontas.

I have started Little Town on the Prairie.

I made it to World 8 in Mario (although it was because I found an alternate ending thing that catapulted me there, but still. Still counts!)

And I even had a job interview this morning and started spring cleaning yesterday - even though they are not on my list, becoming employed and giving this grimy apartment a good scrub down before I officially move in are two things I would like very much to happen. So even though I have slacked on the updating of the blog the past few days, it is not as if I have been sitting around doing nothing and ignoring my list. So don`t worry ;)

It turns out that I actually enjoy running and am starting to see why people do it daily. I ended up having to walk home from my interview because I forgot my bus pass had expired April 30th, and it was a half hour walk uphill, but I still wanted to run. So weird. So I went for a baby 2km one. But every little bit helps! Tomorrow I`m planning on a longer one. But I am actually SO PROUD of myself for seriously starting to run - I used to halfway attempt it and give up saying it was too hard. Thank goodness for friends like K. who push me and make me sign up for things like 5km races, and for my pride that won`t let me fail miserably at it. C. said he will be waiting for me at the finish line, which I actually can`t wait for :)

Anyways, it is gluten-free sex in a pan time. Awww yeah.

Here`s my list for today:

- make sex in a pan

- clean spare room & bedroom

- read some more Little House

- play some Harvest Moon instead of sulking while C. plays Zelda heheh

- maybe earn some rice if I have time (cleaning should take me awhile, it is pretty grim in those rooms)