And That’s….the Truth

Well it’s that time of year again. The time of year when it starts to get cold out and I lose my motivation to go outside to get any exercise. So I guess it’s time once again for me to resurrect my home gym. I will need to dig out my Life Fitness treadmill and all my weights and once again get cracking. During the summer I have a tendency to exercise outside a lot but in the winter it’s just too darn cold for that. So I normally have a small home gym set up instead. Now all I have to do is dig out the equipment and I can get started back on my exercise routine.

No, not me. These days I worry about wrinkle cream and hair dye, not baby powder and baby wipes. But, my neighbor who is a year older than me seems to think that she may be pregnant. If she is, I am happy for her. But man…. am I ever glad it isn’t me. She isn’t really upset about all this as she does have a three year old at home, so she still has quite a young family. I would be devastated. My baby is nine and I couldn’t imagine having another one at this point in my life. But, if she is pregnant I know this baby would get all the love and attention that it would need.

I’m really starting to think that I’m NEVER going to get back any page rank on any of the blogs I own. A couple of years ago Google took away all my page ranks on all my blogs and to this day they have never given them back. I try to increase my traffic, do regular posts and not do as much paid blogging as I did, but nothing seems to work. I know I shouldn’t really care about Google and their page rank. But I do. Oh well, I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully (maybe) some day Google will be nice to me again.

For the past few weeks I have been once again working every Saturday and Sunday. Well… I am NOT working tomorrow. My husband was supposed to have a first aid course this weekend so I asked for the weekend off. Well as it turned out, his course was postponed but I already had Saturday off, so I’m keeping it. I have so many plans of what I want to get accomplished on this day. I really need to find some cheap insurance online, help my youngest son with a pretty big social studies project and help my husband put in a new window in my son’s room. Doesn’t really sound like I’m taking the day off now does it?? But at least all this can be done with me staying put at home.

Well the flue season has officially started in our house. This morning my youngest son (he’s 9) woke up with a stomach ache and a slight fever. So I kept him home from school. With these things you just can’t be too careful, so it was better he stay home for one day then lose a ton of others. When I went to the cupboard to get him some Tylenol I was quite surprised to find we were completely out. So, I went down to the drug store and stocked up on more cold and flue medication. Thank heavens I didn’t have to purchase any diet pills as well, or I would have ran out of money. But we now have some medication and hopefully he will be back to his ambitious little self in no time.

The children are driving me crazy! Especially my youngest son. All he talks about (and he talks a lot) is Halloween and what kind of costume he is going to wear. We’ve already explained to him that we will not be purchasing him a costume this year, but will make him a home made one. We have already told him that we won’t be doing any of this until it gets a little closer to Halloween. But has this ended all the discussions?? Nope. He’s just as excited about Halloween as if it was tomorrow. Man, I don’t know if I will be able to put up with a couple more weeks of this.

Last week I went to the doctors and was informed that I had a very fast weight loss over the last few months. I went from 110 lbs to 88 lbs in just a few short months and this has my doctor extremely concerned. Due to the rapid weight loss as well as the low weight, my blood pressure is so low it’s almost non-existent. And this has my doctor concerned. He informed me that if I don’t start gaining weight fast, he may have to admit me to hospital to build me up. And because of this, I have started really piling the food to me. I want to gain at least a couple of those pounds back so he will back off and not send me to the hospital. It is quite a scary situation, but I am determined.

Well now that we have Thanksgiving out of the way, the next big holiday for us here in Canada is Christmas day. So I really do think that it’s about time I get off my rump roast and start preparing for this blessed event. One decision that I need to make is whether I will go with artificial christmas trees or real ones. Last year was the first year in 15 that my husband and I had a real tree. It was nice, but I really have to wonder if it was worth the hassle or even the mess. So I’m thinking this year we may just go with an artificial one. Who knows though. As the time gets closer I may in fact change my mind again.

Here in Canada we are having our Thanksgiving weekend. So…. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my fellow Canadians a happy Thanksgiving. I hope your weekend is filled with family, fun and loads of Turkey!