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Time to get fit!

March 28, 2008 by Tricia

Once I get over this flu bug I’m going to start working on getting in good shape again. I’ve been so sick thanks to my Crohn’s for the last several months and I’ve gotten out of shape.

Chris and I eat fairly healthy so I think the main thing I need to do is start getting more active. The nicer weather of spring should help with that goal as I’ll be able to take longer walks with our puppy. If I can only get her to stop dawdling and smelling everything we pass I should be able to raise my metabolism with those long walks!

We have an elliptical machine upstairs too. I’m afraid it’s been gathering dust over the winter, but it too will fit into my plan. Perhaps I’ll even get some more fitness equipment. I’m not exactly sure what else I might need or want to get, but once I start working out again I’ll have an idea. certainly a pedometer would be useful so I can measure how far I walk each day.

Have you resolved to get fit too now that Spring is here?





Filed Under: Great Sites, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: Chris, eat, elliptical, fitness, flu, health, healthy, ill, long walks, more active, puppy, shape, sick, Spring, upstairs, walk, walks, weather, winter, work, working

I need some pampering

March 28, 2008 by Tricia

Do you know how long I slept today? I was zonked out until almost 9 pm! This flu sure has me wiped out! Chris is still feeling off too.

I have a feeling that we’ll just be staying home this weekend relaxing and recovering from this darn flu bug.

After this long winter and now this nasty flu I’m more certain than ever that we need a vacation. The closest to having a vacation we’ve come in the past year was our trip to Las Vegas in November, however that wasn’t that relaxing! I think it’s time to check out a Hilton Head rental or a spa resort. We need some pampering even if it’s only for a long weekend!

Do you and your spouse ever just take a weekend for yourselves?

Filed Under: Great Sites, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Travel and Vacation Tagged With: cabin, Chris, flu, get away, holiday, home, Las Vegas, nasty, November, pamper, rent, Rental, sick, spa, trip, vacation, weekend, weekend away, winter, wiped out

Making a tiny bathroom seem larger

March 28, 2008 by Tricia

Since Chris has been home for the last few days with the flu we’ve had some time to talk about our renovation plans. I think we’ve pretty much decided that our upstairs bathroom will be the next room that we tackle.

I hate our bathroom. It’s so tiny! I mean, I have to turn sideways to get to the toilet as I pass the sink and bathtub. There’s only a foot or less worth of space between the two!

We can’t afford to tear out the whole bathroom and make it larger at this time. However, we can paint it a lighter color to make it seem larger, replace the dingy bathroom lighting and possibly get a smaller bathroom vanity.

We already have a very small vanity. It’s only 21 inches deep I believe, but we obviously need something even smaller. I’m thinking of getting a narrow pedestal and a basin sink that sits on top of the stand. Depending upon what we find that might give us 6 to 12 inches more space between the sink and bathtub.

I think I’ll spend sometime brainstorming later today on how I can make our tiny bathroom feel larger. Any ideas?

Filed Under: Decor, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Interior Design Tagged With: appear bigger, basin, basin sink, bathroom, bathroom lighting, bathroom renovation, bathroom vanity, bathtub, Chris, color, Decor, dingy, flu, home, light color, lighting, narrow, pedestal, plan, pretty, reno, renovate, renovation, small bathroom, space, stand, tiny bathroom, toilet, upstairs, upstairs bathroom, vanity

Fed up with our DLP TV

March 22, 2008 by Tricia

Well I think it’s time for us to buy a new TV. We purchased our DLP (Digital Light Processor) television back in 2004 when DLPs were fairly new to the market. In fact, the first TV we got was a lemon. It wouldn’t even turn on and the second one that we got to replace that (same brand) worked for a total of 11 days before it ended up in the repair shop with half it’s parts needing to be replaced!

Unfortunately the store we bought our TV from, at a very high price mind you! It was close to $5000, wouldn’t let us cancel the sale after our disastrous experience with two sets so we replaced the second DLP with another brand (Samsung).

The third DLP tv set was working fairly well up until last August or so when it started making loud humming noises. It’s progressively gotten louder and louder as the months have gone by. Our set is still covered by our protection plan so we’re going to have it repaired, however, I’ve got to say that I’m completely fed up with DLP TV’s and I just want to get a new, less expensive set.

As I’ve mentioned before we’ve slowly been renovating our home. We started on the very first day that we got the house in June of 2001 and we’re still working on it. Well, actually we took a long break and there’s still half finished projects! I’m sick of looking at our half finished living room dining room, so along with getting our TV fixed and or replacing it I think we’d better get to work and finish our outstanding renovation project!

Hopefully the weather will start to get a little nicer over the next month. I don’t like renovating when it’s cold out and you can’t open windows to air out the house. Once the weather’s nice enough to open the door or a few windows for a short while maybe we’ll get to work, get the project done and then I can also get a few new pieces of furniture for the room.

I’ve been dying to redecorate and arrange the furniture in the way that I think it will look best once the rooms are finished. Hey, maybe we’ll get a membership at directbuy. You can get furniture, electronics, home decor and I believe even items like tiles and flooring for manufacture direct prices.

Getting our reno project finished, buying a new TV and maybe some new home furnishings while saving money sounds ideal to me. I guess I’d better start saving my pennies so I can get what I want, huh?

Filed Under: Decor, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Shopping, Television Tagged With: dining room, dining room reno, Directbuy, discount, DLP, DLP TV, frustrated, Lemon, living room, living room reno, loud humming, manufacture prices, membership, new furniture, noisy TV, not happy, reno, renovation, renovation project, replaced TV, save money

Time to get in shape

March 18, 2008 by Tricia

Back in September Chris and I went shopping for some exercise equipment. I had wanted to get in a little better shape before my trip to Las Vegas last November.

I actually bought a lot of stuff. A balance ball, a Pilates DVD, an elliptical machine and some stretchy band type exercise equipment. I honestly can’t remember the proper name for the last stuff. I guess it’s resistance training equipment?

Anyway. My Crohn’s was acting up very badly last fall and while I did get on the elliptical several times I can’t say that it did much good or that I was able to put all that much effort into it. My Crohn’s has actually been quite bad even through the winter so getting into a routine never happened.

Oh and we got a puppy at the end of November too. Heck, even my blogging slowed down because of her arrival!

Now that our puppy is almost 7 months old and is able to entertain herself a little bit I think I can try to get back to using the elliptical again. Of course, spring and nice weather will soon arrive too so I’ll be taking longer walks with our dog too. Getting back to exercising and taking longer walks should help me get back into shape. I hope!

Have you purchased exercise equipment and then for some reason or another ended up not using it as much as you thought you would? I know I’ve done that a few times in the past with health club memberships!

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Crohns Disease, Great Sites, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Recreation, Walking Tagged With: balance ball, better weather, Crohns, elliptical, exercise equipment, fitness, get in shape, health, long walks, lose weight, puppy, resistance exercise, sick

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