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I’m so happy for my friend

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I just found out that a very good friend of mine is expecting a baby. I’m so excited for her and her husband.

She was so excited when she called me that I thought she was going to end up passing out while on the phone. LOL

They’ve been trying for a baby for so long. It’s like their dream has come true.

Sometime this weekend we’re going to get together and I think we’re going to go shopping. She’s so excited she wants to go out and look at things for the babies room and find the best prenatal vitamins so she’ll have a healthy and hopefully trouble free pregnancy.

I’m a little jealous as I’ve been hoping to get pregnant forever and I’m starting to believe that it’s just not going to happen for me. I guess I’ll just have to be the best “aunt”.





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!

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?

What a snore!

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My husband has one of the worst snores that I’ve ever heard. I think only my dad could beat it.

Lucky for me I haven’t had to endure his snore very often over the last few years because my husband was diagnosed with sleep apnea and now he wears a bipap mask. He says he sleeps better now and so do I without that awful snoring.

Unfortunately, over the last few months I’ve noticed that my husband is snoring a little more often again. I don’t think his mask is fitting as well as it used to so it makes this weird hissing Darth Vader kind of sound. He’s also been doing this weird thing with his lips – it sounds like he’s puckering up and blowing bubbles. So even though he’s sleeping ok, my sleep has gone downhill because I can’t stand the snores and other weird mask sounds.

I suggested that my husband contact the company that set him up with his bipap machine for another mask fitting. Maybe it’s changed shape? I’m sure that will help.

I’ve also been wondering if the renewed snoring might be allergy related. Both my husband and I are allergic to dust mites and my husband complains of a stuffy nose quite often lately. Maybe I should look into getting some allergy bedding? It might help.

Do you have a husband (or wife) who snores really bad? How do you survive?

Now I remember why I hate going to the family doctor

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I had a physical at my doctors office a couple of weeks ago. My first in a few years! My main doctor is off on medical leave – I’m not sure what’s wrong with her, so I saw her replacement for the first time when I went in for my physical. Not the ideal time to meet a new doctor in my opinion. LOL

Everything seemed to go well with my physical and I liked the new replacement doctor. My husband also saw her as well and liked her too.

Then, last week I got a call. I guess my Cholesterol is off. So I have to go back to see the doctor soon and find out if I need to start treatment for high cholesterol or perhaps low cholesterol. Mine is probably a little high – it has been occasionally in the past, but I mentioned low cholesterol because that’s my husbands problem. His low or good Cholesterol levels are too low and that can be as bad as having high cholesterol too.

I’m being a bad patient though. Before I left the doctors office she armed with with a few requisitions for tests I need to get done before I see her again ie mammogram, pelvic ultrasound (I have endo) and a thyroid ultrasound and I haven’t even booked those appointments yet! ARgh … I’d better get to work on those.

When you go to see your family doctor do you end up with a bunch of follow up tests that you have to do too? I hate it, but I have a tumor in my thyroid and I’m supposed to have an ultrasound and biopsy every 6 months and like I said, I hadn’t had a real physical with my regular doctor for a few years (probably because she saw me so often she didn’t think I need it, duh) so the other tests are important add ons.

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