Sunday is Blog-Day

Last Friday evening, as I was rocking out at the island radio station, a crisis was developing on the mainland. Our good friends, Rick and Colette have a chocolate lab named Casey, who we treated as our own. She drank beer with the boys and hung out gossiping with the girls. In her quest to catch a bunny, she somehow slipped a few disks in her back and was paralyzed. She had to be put down:( The next day she was buried out beside the garage, with her favourite toys, her garage bowl and a full beer, for the trip to puppy-dog heaven. It effected all of us, as she was truly one of a kind. Three days later, the Harper's made a trip to Ottawa, and brought home a 10 week old black lab named Abby. She is so sweet and no doubt, will be a treat to watch grow up.

Even though it was a short work week, it seemed to go on forever. It did end on a superb note, my boys (The Boston Bruins) are now the Eastern Conference Champions. Wednesday night they meet the Vancouver Canucks for the Stanley Cup Finals. No doubt, if you are not a hockey fan, you are wondering what the big deal is. I have waited MANY years to see the Bruins in the finals ... 40 years, in fact. The next two weeks should be exciting! Regardless of the outcome, I am looking forward to some first class hockey!

Tomorrow is swimming day, and despite the fact that I do not start work till noon, I will be up at 5 and ready to head out the door at 6. The exercise regime is getting a bit easier and the results are beginning to show. My clothes are much looser and people are noticing the change. So do I ! It feels great to get so much physical work done around the house that I was unable to accomplish before. Today I managed to do 4 hours of gardening, followed up by a vigorous sanding session with our teak outdoor patio table. 2 hours of sanding, then the clean up. The staining was the easiest part...boy does it look great now!

Next weekend - Project-Boat-In-The-Water!

I have ignored you Ms Blog

But I have been a busy girl. Work, exercise, gardening, yard work. Those are all my excuses.

I opted for purchasing a pool membership and have swam 3 times since last Monday. So this means that every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, I give * YOU * permission to kick my a@@ if I neglect participating in the early morning swim! It starts at 630AM, so I have to be up by at least 5am. Yes, you read that correctly. FIVE AM! What doesn't kill me will make me stronger!

This year I have decided to clean out an old flower garden and use it for a vegetable garden. This makes two gardens. Twice the weeding, but twice the harvest. Once again, I am forcing myself to do more work. It is my intent that the more I do, the stronger I will become. Thus, the more I will be able to do. I like that convoluted theory.

So now that there is potential for twice the harvest, and still only two of us living here, I have decided to donate at least 50% of the bounty to the food bank. It only makes sense to give away what you cant use. At least in my head it does.

Now that we have surpassed yesterdays rapture, I figure we need to work ourselves into a frenzy to get all the Spring Yard Work done this weekend. Possible? It may be, the dock is now IN the lake. So the next step is getting the boat out of storage and into the water for the season.

Ahhhh summer ... how we have missed you:)

Here we go, here we go...here we go again

This week is flying by quickly. After totally wiping myself out on yard work, my paying job was a definite welcome yesterday.

My big news of the week is that our Soundgarden tickets arrived yesterday AND I have a paying sponser for my weekly radio show on CJAI FM! It has been over 30 years since I penned an advertisement. Maybe I better look up what I can and cant say:)

My biggest decision this week is if I pay for a day long writers workshop on Amherst Island on May 28th or if I buy a new membership for the pool. My excerise routine is beginning to get boring, so I thought I better change it up a bit so as not to have an excuse to quit.

Thoughts anyone?

2.5 years since I posted a blog...

It is so unfortunate that facebook and twitter have taken over my desire to blog. My first blog posts back in the early 90's were some of my best...how sad I never took the time to save them.

Life changes as do the subject of our posts. Back in the day, I was angry young woman and always questioning why my life appeared to be jinxed. Over years of hardships, I have developed a tougher skin and reverted back to a kinder gentler person. One that would make my Mother proud.

Recently I have managed to get hooked on Twitter. This is bad bad bad. The last three months have been spent on self-improvement...walking, eating properly and trying to reduce my 'screen-time'. So far I have lost 20+lbs, walk over 2KM a day and spend my evenings being productive in the household chore department. Twitter is now my enemy.

From what I have read on Twitter, I was doing all the 'right things', years ago. I was 'LinkedIn' before the website was developed. Back then, I was told that revealing your soul in a public venue was frowned upon. So I stopped. But eventually came back to it in many fashions. Mostly on public forums, as well as this blog I commenced a few years back. I had this baby jam packed full of pictures, but managed to delete many of them over time. Many were removed because people complained that I was posting things that I shouldnt have.

So now I have my big girl pants on, and learned that I have a choice. Despite what others think, I plan on revealing whatever I please. So beware :) The Cat is Back!

*meow*