Well I walked the further today – 2.406 km. No snow, no hail, no rain, no dogs to slow me down. Well I did bring Sandy – and I walked the farthest today. I am now in the B.C. Ind. Park. So Michelle you’d better get going or I will pass you closer to Vancouver than you to me. Staying home today, lots of ironing, vacuuming and paying of bills. Got your pictures back, will send them along somehow. Glad you had time with Dad and Al. Not much more – so will talk to you later
Archive for January, 2006
Feel like a postman
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006Walking
Friday, January 27th, 2006Well I walked a bit farther today – 1.455 km. I am now at recreation place on Hwy 16 west. I sure would love to get out of town pretty soon but I am not walking every day. It will come, once the good weather comes back and the roads are all dry. I did do a lot of walking at the centre today, but did not count my steps. We did figure out that, the gym, if you do 22 rounds you will have covered 1 mile. I was impressed with 10 so I have a long way to go. Today for lunch I had spaghetti/meat sauce/apple betty (no sugar) and whip cream. NO COOKIES Tonight I am working at the hospital so I will have a muffin. I am starting to watch what I eat but not very diligently. It will come. I still love my new runners. While I took Sandy for a walk, she was just covered with dirt on her belly and just before we came into the house, she went and rolled in snow to get the dirt off. Isn’t that something. She was wet but not dirty. She must have known to do that!!!! I was impressed. So that’s it for me today – looking forward to more sunshine so that I can walk further. Want to get out of town.
Progress
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Well I made it to the next tax season and now the reasons to walk get a lot simpler so we’ve got that and I still have my water once in a while but I could improve that. My biggest issue right now is that I’m eating too much some meals are too big and we’re just not really trying to avoid the chocolate anymore.
I haven’t seen what’s around the office I’m going to be working at this year but I’m really hoping there’s not a lot of places to go for lunches because I’m notorious for not making lunches so I usually just go and buy something.
Last tax year it was Pizza from the guys next door and the year before that it was the Arby’s, so I’m thankful to not have those distractions around this year and I’m hoping that this year I’m not presented with these options. We’ll see what happens.
I’m going to work on the food consumption levels and add some more water back into my daily consumptions. We might have to invest in a water cooler, I’ll add that to our list of stuff to buy while I’m working this tax season.
These shoes are made for walka
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006Well today, I didn’t walk very far but I did walk . I am now at the bottom of Peden Hill. I would love to be out of town but that may take awhile. I have been good the past few days – no crackers with butter, no junk food, no inbetween meals and even went to bed feeling a bit hungry. Went out for supper at Lenny’s (Denny’s) and had nachos – ate about 1/3. they were good but too much and very filling. There is no way I can eat anything else tonight. I find that when I worry about money, I tend to look for food. Also when I worry about a) the centre b) auxiliary, I tend to want to eat. So I have to take my chill pill and when I tell myself , take the d… chill pill, it seems to relax me and I relax. I have been working with my plastic canvas crafts, and after supper, I do a bit, and then when I am tired, I go downstairs, have some pop, watch a bit of t.v. and then go to bed. I would like to lose a bit a weight before I go to Kelowna – so I am walking and watching what I eat. It’s all in the Chill Pills. Well thats about all for tonight. For those that are wondering what a Chill Pill is. My husband told me to relax one day, as I was a real nervous wreck and he said take a Chill Pill. They are no real chill pill but only in my mind, telling me to relax. Beleive it or not, it is working for me.
I Fixed It
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Well I spent at least an hour or two futzing around with new templates than playing with this one and finally got it working as it should. I even got the Image Headlines plugin working again. Phew.
Walka Vote
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Well todays walka was to our local voting station, not that far away but still a good walka. Now if I hadn’t had chips and cookies to eat today it would have definitely been a good day.
p.s. I messed around with the theme today and broke it so there’s a temporary one set up until I can get things working properly again.
Walking
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Hi – well I did it today – I walked 2.505 km and I have reached Highway 16 at Domano from my house. It’s not very far but at least I am on my way to Vancouver. So Michelle start Walking and see where we will meet. I made a small excel spreadsheet to keep track of km and where/how far I walked. Until we have something else. – Had my water, no junk food (so far) and working on making plastic canvas decorations. Thanks for the pep talk
In a funk
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Well I haven’t written in blogga for a long time – nothing to say but then again haven’t been doing too much lately. Last week I did Square dancing and that was a lot of fun. I had to stop a bit as my asthma was giving me trouble. There was a couple there, they are both in their 80’s, he smokes, and he was better than me. I realized then that having an asthma attack was my excuse but the real culprit was my weight. I have put on weight eating junk food and can’t seem to stop. I tried W.W. and was on it for 3 days – I have to stop using W.W. I fail all the time. I was walking the dogs so faithfully and now I take both dogs out for 1/2 block, come back and do other stuff. Sandy is also putting on weight. The weather has been that bad, it’s just me – I’m in a funk (that’s the only word I can think of) You can tell me to smarten up, but it won’t work. Maybe the Senior Centre is occupying my mind too much?? maybe I have too much to do at home ???? – I have to get with the program. Michelle is doing so good – and I am lagging behind. I haven’t eaten any Easter chocolat eggs (as you know they are out) and don’t really care for Mars bars anymore but I have found chocolat hearts (yummy for my tummy) I am just like a kid, wanting bad food. I don’t eat them openly either, I hide them in my drawer and go and get one at a time. One good thing, is that I have to go up and down the stairs to get them. I Buy a small amount hoping it will last a few days – nope – I eat them all. I may need some vitamins to cope with the necessity of chocolate. I have taken up knitting again, but don’t knit too much in the day, too busy, at night I can’t see – I’m in a funk. So now that I have written all of this, I am taking my dogs for a walk. STEP ONE. I will keep track of miles for our Miles Blogga. So Michelle if you are keeping track – can we start today? Thanks Michelle for kicking me in the butt – and thanks blogga as I made the first step.
Translink Kicking My Butt Again!!!
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006Before I get started on todays walka story I just want to give both me and Mom crap for not posting, it’s been seven days since that last post, so it’s time we got our you know what back together and start posting regularly again, good or bad.
Second point I wanted to mention was that over Christmas we decided that we were going to try and set something up within Walka to keep track of our distance walked. We were then going to put this onto a map and see how long it took for me to go to PG and Mom to come to Vancouver, and where we would meet in the middle. I’ve spent a little time looking at options but can’t really find a whole lot so Mom start keeping a total somewhere and hopefully I can find something in the next little while. Linz if you’ve got any ideas let me know.
OK onto today’s walka, which has been brought to you today by Translink. (I’m finishing this post a couple days after I started it so I’ll make some more posts about the walking days since then)
I decided to take the bus to my HRB CSM conference today and according to the descriptions I got from people and looking at maps it didn’t look like it would be that far to just take the Skytrain and then walk a block or so to the Hotel. Well I was definitely mislead in that department. Once again Translink has helped kick me in the butt with regards to walking. I got off the Skytrain where I was supposed to and my first inkling of trouble came when I couldn’t see the hotel anywhere nearby. I spent some time looking around while still on the platform and finally found what could have been where I needed to go but it seemed awfully far away. I figured I should at least head down the escalator and once at the bottom I asked someone where Lougheed Highway was from where I was so that I was at least heading in the right direction.
It was at that point I realized that yes the hotel that looked far away was indeed far away but also exactly where I needed to be in about 15 minutes. Now I’m still fairly new to the walking so I was hoping I could make it (I did) and after I silently whined to myself for a bit I set off. Once I got to the first set of lights I was really discouraged, it was getting tough. Did I mention that is was all uphill, the whole frickin way. Well I did eventually make it and there was a lot of mental encouragement going on inside my brain and a few whining while catching my breath breaks, it was a good thing I didn’t have any cash on me or I would have surely taken a cab. Oh and I did make it on time, a little sore and a lot winded, but I made it.
PS. Going back to the Skytrain at the end of the day was a heck of a lot easier. It was then that I realized the nice dress shoes I was wearing for the conference had given me a blister on the bottom of my foot. So once again I must thank Translink and ask for forgiveness for all the nasty words I said while walking that hill!!!
Holy Walka
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006I had myself an epiphany moment today (big word, woohoo). I realized that walking can actually be enjoyable when not worrying about a sore back or trying to rush home because I don’t want to be out there because my back is gonna get sore. I think I actually enjoyed my walk home from work today (I’m not totally sure as I’m not used to these feelings associated with walking)