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Getting ready for the holiday, house guests and a family wedding! Ahhh!

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In just 14 days my niece will be married. I’m sure she’ll be both happy and relieved once the big day comes as she’s only had a couple of months to plan this wedding.

You see she was going to get married in June, but her fiance joined the Canadian Forces and well … that caused them to need to get married sooner – so that she can join him when he’s in training in another province.

Along with preparing for the Christmas holidays, a dinner at my in-laws, house guests for Christmas and then house guests for the wedding … I still need to find the perfect wedding gift for my niece.

She’s registered at one of our large department stores, but I’m still trying to decide whether to get her something that she still needs from her wedding registry, try to find a unique gifts for her or just give her money so that she and her new husband can purchase whatever they really need or something that they wanted on their registry list that they didn’t receive.

The other reason why I’m considering giving them money as a wedding gift is because they’ll be moving across the country to another province shortly after their wed .. perhaps the less things they have to move the better, right? They they can use the money, as I said above, to get what they need when they settle into their new home.

What would you do? Especially considering the holidays, house guests and a Christmas dinner with the in-laws out of town as well as getting ready for this wedding. LOL





My dog is a nut!

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My dog is a nut … I’m sure that any other Labrador Retriever owners out there feel the same about their precious pet.

I’m biased, but I think she’s really smart .. smart enough to purposely ignore us when we tell her something, yet completely understand if there’s a food treat involved. LOL Midnight even knows how to lie! When she was a puppy she’d fake pee, crouching down on the ground in a pee making position so that we’d think she went .. yet she didn’t realize she was on snow and that we’d see that there was nothing beneath her. I’m sure she just did that for a trip outside.

Last week, when I was upstairs having a shower our Lab came up for a visit. She’s only recently been permitted to come upstairs so it’s a big deal for her. I guess I didn’t close the bathroom door fully (hey it was just me and her in the house) so she pushed the door open and the next thing I knew there as a dog head pushing the shower curtains aside to see what I was up to in there.

After a moment or two of watching the “rain” come down on me, she decided to jump into the tub! Yeah, I had a dog in the shower with me. It was a little weird, but I didn’t mind all that much.

Since she was in the shower I thought about giving her a bath, after all, I was dressed for it! However, she stayed near the end of the bathtub, away from the shower water. Did I tell you that while she loves swimming and water in general, she doesn’t seem to like rain? So we nixed the doggy bath idea.

It took me a few minutes to get her out of the bath/shower once I was done. I think she’s a little nervous to jump over the side of the tub. Once she did jump out she slipped on the tile flooring a bit, since her feet were wet. Just that alone might be enough to discourage her from visiting me in the shower again as she got a little scared when she slipped and once she’s scared of something she avoids it. Luckily she hasn’t encountered much that’s scared her.

Do you have a silly dog? Has your dog ever jumped into the shower or bath with you? If so, what did you do?

I wish we had a dishwasher

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OMG the dishes are piling up. I haven’t been feeling well all weekend (ok since Thursday really) and as a result the kitchen is a mess and dirty dishes are covering one side of the counter and filling up one of our double sinks.

The rest of the house isn’t too bad. My husband and I did a really big clean up on Monday, but for me, it’s been a downhill ride since then. LOL

One thing I hate is a messy kitchen and the sight of dirty dishes. I wish we had a dishwasher. Of course our kitchen is really tiny … I have no idea where we’d put one, but still, it would be nice to have one. I think we’d only have to run it once a week or so, but in the meantime the dirty dishes could be hidden away. Hey … isn’t that what dish washers are for?

Working out almost daily and it’s paying off

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Well, I posted about trying to lose a few pounds last week and so far so good.

I started working out almost daily (sore muscles slowed me down, and Crohn’s slowed me down this weekend) and I think it’s starting to help.

Along with taking my dog on long brisk walks, I stated using my Wii again. I’ve been using Gold’s Cardio Workout and Wii Fit Plus. The shape boxing in the Cardio work out really gets me moving and I can feel my heart rate going up. Looks like I won’t even have to think about trying a weight loss supplement. Actually I probably wouldn’t anyway as I don’t think that would go well with my delicate digestive system (thanks to the Crohn’s disease) anyway.

Anyone else trying to lose a few pounds before Christmas or in my case my niece’s wedding at the end of the month? How’s it going?

Trying to lose a few pounds before the end of the month

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Ahhh! My nieces wedding is coming up soon! It’s on the 30th of December – just 24 days from now!

I’m not ready!

I’ve been working out every day over the last week and a half, but it hasn’t helped much yet. I want to lose about 10 lb before the wedding. I need to lose weight fast so that I’ll look great by the time her wedding day arrives.

My meals are low calorie (low fat, low sugar) and I’ve been taking long walks with the dog each day. In addition to this I’ve been using Wii fit Plus, Gold’s Cardio workout and AE Sports Active on my Wii for at least an hour a day. All of which get my heart rate up and get me sweating.

I’m pretty sure that if I keep this up I’ll lose the 10 lb that I want to lose, but so far I really haven’t seen much in the way of results … well if you don’t count sore muscles! The work outs are definitely doing something to my body because my arms, ribs and thighs hurt!

What do you do when you need to lose 5 to 10 lb in a month?

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