Easter :)

Well it has certainly been a jam packed weekend back in my hometown. I believe I left off Friday morning before I went to bed. I didn't get much sleep, about 8am-1pm, then I jumped up and went to my grandparents house with my brother, sisters, and dad. It was fun, lots of catching up and a big spaghetti dinner with meatballs, yum! After that I went back to my mom's, did some homework and got ready for a night on the town!

Around 9ish that night I headed to a childhood friend's house with some other friends from highschool to start our night off. We drank, caught up, and snacked. We headed downtown (to one of a few) bar to see a local band play. It was good fun, saw lots of people whom I have not seen in ages! I took lots of pictures and will post a few when I get back home.

Funny story, I got my younger brother to pick myself, and a few friends up after the bar to drive us all home. And on the way to one of my friends houses we get pulled over. GAH! Poor kid, his first interaction with the police (he's 17), but luckily they were just doing random spot checks.

So, Saturday I woke up with a slight headache, I'm knocking this one up to dehydration though! Went out for an early lunch with siblings, dad and grandparents. It was delicious, a little too greasy, but still a good morning almost* hungover breakfast. I had ww toast with over-easy eggs and a had a few homefries.

After lunch I went to my friend Bec's with the intentions of going for a run, well it took us about an hour but her, her sister and I all got 6km under our belt. It felt awesome to get out there, and work off the liquid calories. We all went back to their house and helped decorate cupcakes! Yum, we may have also snacked on a few...soo good. You'll have to bug her for the recipe!

Saturday night, I went back to Bec's after dinner and homework for another little pre-drink then we hit up the other bar in town for a bit for a little bit of dancing and catching up. Good times, then of course we went to Subway. Renfrew tradition apparently, I then walked my pretty sobre butt home and went right to bed.

So my Easter day was delightful! Spent it at my mom's with the fam! We all woke up and had little baskets waiting for us, so cute! Little chocolate and a little candy. We then had a big ham, potatoe, veggie, and homemade bread dinner! WOW I love homecooking! Especially when I didn't cook it. And dessert was two of my favs!!! Cheesecake and carrot cake, woa! I definitely had a small sliver of each.

Other then that being home has been alright, I love catching up, but I can't wait to get back to my home and my bed, plus as hard as I try I don't seem to get enough homework done here :S yikes! Essay due Wednesday, will finish researching tomorrow and write all Tuesday night. I'm heading back home tomorrow night, so will update everyone with pictures Tues or Wed.

hope everyone had a fun and safe weekend!

Finally at the Rents

Hey!
Well, I can't remember at all where I left you last really....I have been sooo busy.
So some good news, at work I start full-time in two weeks (exactly the time I'll be done school) and got a raise, so at least I will be an employed university graduate. Some relief there.

Otherwise, Wednesday was spent researching for the afternoon then I work 1500-2300hrs, and then my roommate and I had some friends over that night. We hit up a local bar and I had wayyyy too many rum and pineapple juices....fun night, the boy picked me up and I can't quite remember all the details between the pick up, food, and bed. All I know is I snacked on munchies, mainly chips and salsa, yum! And a big poutine after. But all is well. Thursday I woke up at 1300, re-hydrated and hammered out some research, packed, and worked 1700-0100hrs. After work I whipped home, fed the cat, grabbed my stuff, my sister and hit the road. It is now 0705hrs and I am finally home sweet home and ready to pass out for a quick nap before the Easter festivities.
Foodage these past few days included a few fruit smoothies, granola bars, dark chocolate m&ms, chippies and salsa, ww pasta and tomatoe sauce (x 2), oatmeal (duh), oranges and grapefruit and baby carrots!

I'm off to shower and nap before heading to the g-parents for visit and dinner, then hitting up a bar with some close friends! Finally!!!!

pictures soon to come of my adventures in the ottawa valley!

Jam Packed Days

Hello,,,,
Well, sorry I have blogged since Saturday! OOPPS! I totally forgot to keep blogging.

Well Sunday morning I would have gotten off work at 7am, I then totally crashed until 2pm. Then I got up, and went to Ball Hockey! I love ball hockey, we won :) and I scored a goal :) It was a sweet game, a big 2-0 win!!! Although I was tripped and cut my knee up, the bruise just keeps getting more and more blue, yuk. After ball hockey, I came home, showered, made a fruit and juice smoothie and drove to the boy's house. Upon arrival his lovely mother had dinner waiting, what a lovely surprise! I was a chicken and veggie stir fry, it was sooo yum! Then I got down to business at about 6pm. I set myself all up at his desk and started working away. I got soooo much work done! I was so proud. That night myself, the boy, and two of our friends from work all went to the 10:20 show and saw the new Fast and the Furious. It was pretty decent, had a much better plot than all the other ones! At the theatre I got popcorn, I LOVE theatre popcorn. Looking back now, I really didn't seem to eat much that day! Wow, I know I snacked on an orange somewhere in there, but I guess working all night really messes with my schedule in all sorts of ways, appetite being a major one.

Monday, was a dreadful day weather wise, snow, rain, yuk! But I woke up around 11am, got my essay all finished up, and then my roommate and I traded and edited each others. So that took a while, and at 4pm I handed in both papers! Wow, was that ever a load off of my shoulders, one 15pager and one 12pager, jeesh. For the rest of Monday, I had a wicked headache, thus I watched 7 pounds with Will Smith, and just lounged! It felt great. I had a snack of 3 dill pickles, a popsicle and green tea.


Around 11pm I perked up a bit (i know I have the weirdest sleeping habits) and the boy and I went to a friends. We ended up watching Role Models at our friends. What a hilarious movie, not a real brainy movie, just dumb fun. Then home to bed we were around 5am.

Now onto today, my knees are killing me! Wow, ball hockey must have done a number. I don't even know what the part of my knee that hurts is called. It's just in the back of my knee, bending, moving, walking, ouch! So much for my planned run today. The rain/snow mess had let up and it was about -1 so I thought i would head out for a run before work, but nope I could barely walk. I did some yoga (about 30 mins) to try and stretch it out, but did not help at all. Oh well, today after I woke up I had to go to work at the mall.

We had a staff meeting/training day. The meeting was boring, didn't discuss anything too important, but they did feed us pizza and wings, exactly what I needed (not). Then we did scenario training. We discussed what we would/should do if there were a bomb threat/flood/hurricane/gunman/earthquake/etc. Our main focus was on fires, as that is the most likely to occurs, so we spent about an hour running around the mall (mostly the underground part where there are no customers) pulling fire alarms and finding the location via computer and reseting them. So that lasted about 5 hrs. I then stocked up on febreeze and face moisturizer from the grocery store and came home.

I made my sister some food, because she lives in residence and has a meal plan, but she is out of money. So I brought her a hamburder, some pancakes, and about 2-3 servings of pasta. She only has to survive until Thursday, when we head to our home town for easter.

So I just finished snacking on some yogurt and an orange....side note i really want to try greek yogurt everyone talks about....now I am going to relax and watch some tv, maybe pack or get a little research done for my next paper...who knows!

I now know never to go so long without blogging, as it's always a heffer of a post when I return! I'm hoping my knee is better because I work tomorrow! Tomorrow will consist of upper and ab yoga and then work. Thursday I am hopefully going to a spin class rather than a run, and then i'm praying my knee is better for the weekend so I can run and Bec can kick my butt back into running shape!

I will blog tomorrow! hopefully! and will be back on track with food blogging pictures and ideas and hopefully my eating habits will be back on track.

Midnights Midnights

Hey,
Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend! Mine has been going smoothly. I worked last night 11-7 and not a thing went wrong! Perfect. While at work (sorry no pics) I snacked on some pineapple and fibre cereal. Then crashed this morning from 8-1230. Then I got up and made a big brunch for myself, my sister and our two friends. Consisted of pancakes (flour, soy milk, 1 egg, oil, and baking powder), bacon and sausage. It was so nice and filling, I even brought some to the boy.

I spent the afternoon at the boy's house. He dabbled on his computer all day, while I stared at my laptop at a loss for words, (so unusual of me). I eventually got just over 700 words written and a solid outline for my paper which hopefully I will get to about 2000 words tonight, and then implement quotes tomorrow and edit Monday. I find if I stick to a plan, and take breaks often I will get things done. I'm a fast worker when I'm in a groove but my attention span is not long.

While at the boys I snacked on an orange, and that's where I had my breakfast (a pancake, 2 sausages, and 2 pieces of bacon) with him.

Also, I watched Marley and Me as one of my breaks. WOW. I definitely cried...but I'm a suck for sappy movies, usually the only time you'll catch me crying. Reccomend this movie, but just so you know you're in for a sappy one.

So, now I am back at work 11-7, thus far it has been an extremely busy evening! WOW! The grocery store in the mall had a huge fire alam, 8 fire trucks, a commander all showed up and I was like uhhhh....crap! The grocery store has been having an alarm malfunction, and it just happened to go off again tonight, rats. At least it made the first 2 hrs of my shift fly by. Then when I came back to the office, I witness the police arrest 2 ppl at the bar that is also attatched to the mall! Talk about a busy start! The bar is having some party tonight (drink the pub dry) so I imagine it is only going to get busier with time.

Oh well, my plan is to finish my duties and hopefully get some more essay written. I'm sooo tired, but that's ok, I only have 5.5 hrs left to go :S....haha maybe my essay will keep me awake.

Anyways, off to do some real work now.
Hope everyone has a wicked end to their weekend and will try to post a brief one tomorrow!
night!

It's Friday.... :|

Well it is Friday. Normally I would be ecstatic because it is the beginning of the weekend, but not today. It seems I don't get a break this week.

Today I slept in, it was lovely, I had about 8 full hours of sleep, and I feel wonderful. But, I hope that is enough to get me through this busy weekend.

Plan for today is finish summarizing my research, and get everything organized, then write out a plan for my essay. I have to take my sister to pick her friends up at the train station tonight around 7:30, and then she wants us all to go out for dinner...I'm not sure if I feel like going out tonight, or would just rather cook for them. We shall see. Then I start work at 11pm until 7am, where hopefully I can get a few paragraphs of my essay written (fingers crossed). Then Saturday, I hopefully will sleep until 2pm, and then Niagara Falls with the sister, the boy, and friends. Just for a little walk around, then back to my house where I'll cook them dinner and then hopefully get a little more work done on my essay before heading back to work 11pm -7am, where I'm praying I get more written. Then Sunday I'll sleep till 2ish I hope, ball hockey at 4, then dinner with the sis and friends and work on my essay all night, and it is due Monday, April 6th at 4:30pm.

I CAN DO IT!!!! that statement is going through my head constantly to keep me grounded and semi-focused.

Although, I am quite excited to see my sister's friends, I grew up with them as well they are just a year and a little younger, should be a fun weekend.

well, I think it's about time I stop procrastonating and get back to the research, and make some food, haven't eaten yet, totally forgot too. I'm hoping the rain disappears and it turns into a bright day! ha!

Will be back again later,
Thanks for reading.

Oh My Thursday!

Hey everyone,

So I left off last night when I went to the boys to get some work done. Well gladly I was pretty productive there. I worked solidly from 6pm until 12am. He made me pasta for dinner around 5:30, which was yummy. Then I got straight to business. At 12ish we headed to a friends and watched Religulous. Don't want to offend those out there who are religious or not, so am keep my opinions to myself, but it was an interesting take of a movie.

So I got home around 530am last night (or should I say morning) and passed right out and woke up today around 2.

So I hope you all had a lovely Thursday, it was gorgeous here! About +17! Unfortunately I did not get to enjoy the lovely weather. I woke up today, and where did I go?!?! The LIBRARY! As if it wasn't obvious that the library is now where I spend my life. So I packed a lunch and got the boy to drop me off before he went home, so nice of him. Upon arrival I snacked on a granola bar and a pb and honey sandwich on ww. YUM!

Then I homeworked for a good 4 hrs before heading to my sisters (who lives on campus) for a little break where her and I snacked on some kielbasa, cheese, and crackers. Then around 8 I walked home and parked my butt on the couch and got back down to work. And the couch is where I remained until my roomie talked me into going to McDonalds with her, now, it has been a forever and some more since I have eaten McDonalds, so I caved. We walked about a km and a bit to the nearest one and ate it, but on the walk home and now I am paying for it, oh my, my tummy is mad.

This is why I rarely eat junk, it just does not make you feel good, more lathargic than energized. Oh well now that I am home I will remain on the couch doing homework for another hour or so, that's about all that I have left in me, where I plan to crash, as I have an early morning ahead of me.

I was sad today though, I usually play pick-up ice hockey with some guys from work, but today it was cancelled. I feel a little deprived of it. Oh well I will just have to try and fit something fun in tomorrow, as I find it very difficult to exercise while on midnights, plus it's crunch time for my two essays due Monday. So it looks like the bike to and from work might be all I'll get Saturday and Sunday.

Anyways, I just need to keep positive and productive and my essays will eventually be done and then I can breath, for a bit anyways. So back to homeworking I go.

See you all tomorrow!!!!!

ps. I didn't take pictures, one because I ate pretty boring today, and I didn't want everyone in the library staring at the girl who takes pictures of her food!

Horray For April

April showers bring May flowers...right? Well I sure hope so, with all this rain we've been getting here, May better be glorious. So, as you can tell when I woke up today and looked outside it was pouring rain! Terrible. So I trudged to school all dreary and groggy. Although when I got to school I remembered yay, two things, last class in university ever, and it was party day! Everyone brought yummy snacks!

In class before snack time, I had breakfast, same as yesterday, yogurt with bran cereal. Then at about 1230 it was snack time, I had some melon, pineapple, a vegan chocolate cupcake, and some peanut butter rice crispy squares which I must get the recipe for because they were AMAZING! yum yum. The cookies I made last night turned out alright, taste different than non-vegan ones, but still tasty, and most people said they enjoyed them. I only had time to make one recipe, so I did the pb and choco chips one.

So after class I booked it home in hopes of napping, but I got to reading blogs and saw how active everyone was being, and I new I posted yesterday that I was doing a spin class today, but the school was soo depressing I came home and went for a run. I had taken March off from running, and figured I would start April out right! So I did 5km in 30minutes and walked 600m for a cool down. Wow my shins and hips are killing me, so I did Polly's yoga for runners. Lovely stretch out, and I feel much better. Although the pain in my hips is pretty sever and is worrying me a little, chiropractor visit is definitely needed while I am home for Easter, just to check things out.

Side Note: I have very flat feet, about as flat as they come, and where highly structured orthotics. My knees and ankles turn in, making me pretty severely knock-kneed, as well as I have trouble with my back locking up, and my neck no longer curves (its straight, normal people's curves) causing a lot of pressure on nerves. But, I have been wearing my new orthotics since February, and although they took a while to get used to, I thought my feet had been broken in, but I have been having pretty bad hip pain, not only during physical activities such as ball hockey and running, but while wearing them at work. So, since I am heading home for Easter in about 10 days ish I am going to make an appt. with my chiro to see whats up or if there are some stretches I should be doing.

Anyways, other then hip pain, I am sooo happy I started running again, and am aiming to run 5km at least twice a week. Doesn't seem often but on top of my busy schedule it's all I am going to aim for now, start with small goals right!

The rest of my day consists of eating a ripe granny smith apple and reading my school's weekly paper, then showering up and heading to the boy's house for dinner and a long night of homework (i need a change of scenery or I'm never going to get through my research).












All the school work I have left is:
4P89 essay due April 6th (on page 10 of 10/12, only editing left)
4P51 essay due April 6th (have outline done, reading research, 0/15)
4P89 essay due April 15th (outline done, need more research, 0/10)
2P21 exam April 18th, have not started studying....

Have a good night everyone!!!!!!!!!!!