A Reflection on 2014 and what 2015 has in store....

You know what's funny and ironic?  You spend much of your teenage years (well I know I did) wishing you were just a few years older, more grown up, "cooler"... Yeah well the years FLY by when you're older.  I found that once I was in the real world working a full time job after completing 2 college degrees back to back, the time just began to slip through my fingers and I think most people feel it.  I know it certainly doesn't help that us North Americans seem to live that go-go-go life and it fucking sucks pardon my French.  It is what it is, I guess, such is life....

Moving right along... today is December 31st, the last day of 2014. The year has been full of news and events, highs and lows and much to be learned and employed for a new year, a happy and healthy one.

I finished up my last work out of the year. We were allowed to leave work at noon so I did just that. Sweat, shower and change then haul ass to the train for an early ride home. I managed to use 75% of my Lululmelon gift card. I bought expensive ass laser cut wunder under crop pant (been eyeing then for awhile now but thought $102 was a bit much) and a top that was on sale but has a  laser cut-out on the back side of the calf and a tiny bit of mesh. I love te mesh pair they made a year or so ago but for the use I put my workout gear through, I didn't want to risk it and put a hole through them while just putting them on. So sexy but impractical for me when I sweat my ass off every day. Perhaps if I was going to the gym to get a bit of a glow as opposed to an actual good workout in. The top I purchased what grey and had the same laser-cut on the back of the tank. I'm happy with what I got :)

Came home, ran some errands, did the last trip to the grocery store since everything is closed tomorrow. Our friend  Bruce is over and I'm making dinner so other than that, a dog visit to my pal, Toby's later, I think it'll be a relatively chill night. You know you're old when.. Lol 

My sweet love Baxter 

Little Toby... My little insulin patient this evening.

I'm off work until Tuesday but work my petsitting job Friday night too Sunday night.

I'll be back somewhere in the middle of then.

Happy New Years and be safe!! 

Xoxo

NYE and 2014

New Years Eve was pretty uneventful.  We were told to leave at Noon and I had already planned to go to the gym so I did that, then came back an hour later, got changed and left.  Everyone was already gone at that point but I wanted to get some sweat time in.  I got before 3 pm, which was super sweet.  We decided not to go downtown because it was too damn cold.  It was -17 without the wind chill and we weren't about to stand around and freeze our asses off.  So we stayed home and watched the boob tube and were in bed by 12:30 pm.  Such old farts we are.  LOL

I typically don't make New Years Resolutions because people usually don't keep them and I don't have resolutions to make per se, goals maybe yes but resolutions, no.  I think this year is going to be a good one, full of change, good things and happy times.  I look forward to the things to come this year, our vacation to Barbados in September and I look forward to more personal growth and expanding my relationships and friendships with people.

Here's some snapshots of pics from NYE and New Years Day.  The dog pictures with 6 of them in it are from my mom's house on New Years Day.  We went for a late lunch at my mom's house and afterwards, Jeff and Bruce went to a Raptors game.  I stayed back with the dogs and we had our neighbours' dogs, Lily and Stella too. 



The boys resting up for a crazy (!!) New Years Eve



Little man Baxter

Blurry but whatevs!

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Stella, Dina's rescue Bichon

Left to Right: Baxter, Quincey, Stella, Lily, Delilah and Baxter



Charlie, Lily and Delilah

Christmas 2013 and Week Off..

I literally cannot believe it's been SIX days SINCE Christmas 2013 already.  Today is my first day back to work in over a week.  Everyone booked the day today except three of us in my office branch.  I didn't mind because the day before a statutory holiday, we normally get told we can go home early and such is the case this year, as my boss's boss told me this morning we could leave at Noon.  Perfect.  I was going to go to the gym to lift for Noon for an hour, so instead I'll just come back and change before heading home.  I have to pick up my winter jacket at the tailor's because I had to get the zipper replaced.  Sometime between Christmas and the next couple of days, my jacket must have snagged on something and ripped two teeth out, along with the zipper and I had to get it replaced.  It was either that or spending at least $200-$300 on a new jacket, when I loved mine still and it was in perfect condition.  Thankfully it was able to be fixed because I was hoping to at the very least get another winter, if not two left of this jacket. 

This evening, New Years Eve, I think it's a bit overrated.  We were going to come back downtown (coincidentally, right beside my office tower) for a celebration at Nathan Phillip's Square but frankly it's too flippin cold.  And we don't feel like getting caught up in a crowd and huddling for warmth until midnight just to see the clock ring in.  I can do that from my living room couch.  I suggested we bundle up and take the kids for a midnight stroll OR alternatively, we go snowshoeing at midnight.  Should be alright though, I'm not big into drinking so it's pretty insignificant for me, well both of us really.

Christmas was a blur but it was a good one nevertheless.  We did Christmas between Jeff and I a bit early this year.  I bought him an IDPA membership for 2014 and a Citizen Eco-Drive watch that he'd been eye-balling for a long time.  He bought me a Citizen Eco-Drive watch as well (it's gorgeous btw, see pic!), a gift certificate to Lululemon, in which I bought a pair of the lined casual pants in a deep plum colour, identical to my black pair but these puppies were lined.  He also got me lifting gloves, a day planner and a calendar, and two recipe books from my fave restaurant, Fresh.  Jeff spoils me rotten.  And we can never wait until Christmas to spoil eachother. LOL.  OH well, no one can dictate when we can and can't celebrate on our own together.  It's just nice and intimate just the two of us with the boys.  The boys opened their prezzies and got new collars and two stuffies, which as I type this, are destroyed a whole five days later lol.  This year I received sweaters, more sweaters (hey, just what I need since I'm always cold), jewelry, gift cards, pyjama's, an e-reader (!!), which I'm surprisingly liking a lot.  I've been reading a lot lately so it's perfect.

Christmas morning, we went to my mom's house, had breakfast and opened presents with her.  We left our dogs with her and my step-dad so we didn't have to worry about them up north.  We headed up north later on in the afternoon and stayed until Friday late in the afternoon, to which we then made our way back homebound.  Picked up the kids later on that evening, reaffirmed that they missed us and love us still.  Saturday we did some errands and Sunday, Jeff took a buddy to a hockey game.  Here are some pictures of the last week or so.... :)

Our funny faces compilation lol

 

Below are up North pictures.... 

Being all cute in Wally-mart lol

 



My in-laws' house up north

And since I forgot to add it above, here's the watch. :)

All in all, a great week off was had and another Christmas has come and gone and a new year is upon us.  Have a safe and happy new years everyone!  All my best wishes for 2014.  xox