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Starting a new fitness routine tomorrow

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I think I’m going to start a new fitness routine tomorrow.

As I said in an earlier post I’m stuck inside lately because it’s just been too hot to get outside for any normal kinds of outdoor activity … at least for me it is.

So I’ve been thinking and I’ve come up with a plan. First thing tomorrow morning I’m going to take my dog out for a long walk. It should be cooler outside at that time of day.

Once we get home I’m going to turn on my Wii and do a Gold’s Gym Cardio Boxing routine for about 20 to 30 minutes. Then … if I’m up for it, I’m going to do some stretches and some ab workouts that I discovered online.

Hopefully I can do all that a few times a week. Even if I don’t do it all on the same day as in my ambitious plan that I listed above.

Wish me luck!





I’ve got the wardrobe blues

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I was looking through my bedroom closet and drawers earlier today for something nice to wear and I realized, I haven’t purchased any new clothes in ages.

I’m bored with all the old clothes I have, and to tell the truth, some of my clothes are starting to fade or look a little worn.

I think it’s time to do a little shopping!

The only problem is that we don’t have a lot of spare money right now. I’ll have to keep my eye out for some good sales or maybe start looking for bargains online.

Oh speaking of online shopping … I was just looking at dereon jeans. I love the look of them! They have really nice pocket detailing and I think I’d look good in that kind of style of jeans. Oh and they happen to be on sale right now too – so that works great for me! I just have to find out if they ship to Canada.

So … do any of my readers also have the wardrobe blahs or blues? Are you in need of a little retail therapy too?

It’s too hot for outdoor activities

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It’s been so hot here in Toronto lately that I haven’t been getting outside as much as usual and I think it’s starting to show.

Usually I step up my activity level in the summer, but as I said, it’s really hot here so I’ve been staying inside my house where it’s nice and cool. So I’m not getting outside to garden for hours on end, or taking long walks with my dog, biking or any other activities that I’d normally do.

Of course it’s also BBQ season so we’ve been grilling a lot of food outdoors – everything from delicious steaks to grilled veggies. Oh and drinking cool drinks like iced coffee and iced tea.

If this keeps up I think I’ll be looking for a way to start losing abdominal fat! LOL Lack of activity and tasty foods do absolutely nothing for maintaining a good weight and a trim body.

Other than the heat, one reason that I haven’t been getting outside much to take the dog our for long walks is because my dog, a Labrador Retriever, is black and she seems to just soak up the heat whenever we go outside in the sun. She just can’t do a long walk in this heat.

My husband tries to take her for a long walk each morning – usually at about 7:30 a.m. when it’s cooler. Maybe I’ll take a turn taking her for a long walk later at night. Even if it’s still really warm at night it won’t be too bad because the sun won’t be beating down on us.

If you live in an area that’s very warm right now, how are you managing to stay active and hopefully stay fit in the heat?

Busy Busy Canada Day

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Well Canada Day is almost over.

We had a busy day! As usual we spent a lot of time in the garden. I don’t know why, but whenever there’s a holiday we tend to use it to get things done in our yard.

Today we spent quite a bit of time in the front yard. Weeding the planted front boulevard, trimming a tidying up the plants (roses) in the flower beds in our front yard and so on. Then we moved on to the backyard to dead head some of the rose and other flowers.

At least we didn’t have too much work to do in the backyard. Two weeks ago we spent 8 hours working in the backyard tidying up the flower beds. Lucky for us – it still looks pretty good.

Once we were done tidying up the garden, we opened up two garbage containers in our driveway. The containers were full of something called Alfalfa tea. It’s a home made organic compost. It smells a bit like manure on a farm!

Yuck!

We got two watering containers and repeatedly dipped them into the large garbage containers full of alfalfa tea. We spent about an hour pouring the organic compost on our garden beds and even our lawn.

I think we stunk up the whole neighborhood! To bad we didn’t have some huge hand dryers or fans to blow the smell away! Man it was awful, but it two or three days my plants are going to start growing and showing us that they appreciate their smelly treat.

Once we finished applying the alfalfa tea to our garden and yard we did a light watering. I’ve found that if we water right away after putting the stinky liquid down the smell disperses fairly quickly. I’m sure our neighbors weren’t too happy with us when we started smelling up the area … but hey – we tried to get rid of the smell as fast as we could.

Before going outside to work in the garden I did some prep work on our dinner. I peeled some corn on the cob, cut up some green pepper for the grill, and cleaned some asparagus. I also had some steak marinating in the fridge. I new that if I didn’t get the things we were going to have for dinner ready before I went outside to garden I’d be too tired to do it later.

So needless to say, once we were finally done in the garden (about 8 pm) we quickly got ready to grill our steak and green peppers. I steamed the corn and asparagus in the microwave. It was a great dinner and it hit the spot after working hard outside for hours and hours.

Once we were done dinner we noticed that people were setting off fireworks in the park down the street. So we walked down to the park to watch some of the fireworks. There were at least two big firework shows going on in the city tonight, but since we didn’t finish our work outside early enough we were happy enough to just watch our neighbors with their fireworks.

It was nice!

All in all I’d say we had a good day and we sure got a lot done.

If you’re Canadian did you do anything special for Canada Day? Oh and if you’re one of my American readers , what ere you planning for the fourth of July?

Our house is too hot!

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Our house is so hot!

We have air conditioners, but it’s been cooler outside lately so we’ve had our doors and windows open, but sometimes it seems the house is warmer inside than it is outside.

I guess that’s because in the summer time we have three windows blocked up with air conditioners. Plus … our houses are close together here and it seems that the breeze or wind is always blowing on side of the house that either doesn’t have windows we can open or that doesn’t have windows.

Grrrr!

I think we need to get another ceiling fan or two. That will help. At least we can keep the air moving in the house. I was actually looking at some ceiling fans the other day and I liked this one by Minka Aire.

I think we might install a ceiling fan in the upstairs stairway. Hopefully it will help push the hot air that builds upstairs down and cool it off.

Is your house warm too due to lack of air flow? Do you use ceiling fans? Does it help?

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