Friday.. Where the hell have you been all my life?!

In the spirit of it being Friday and taking a lead from Krysten at Why Girls Are Weird and her "10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week", I think I'll follow suit and play that game.

Ten Things that Made Me Happy This Week:

1. Going to see Unbroken with my Mom and Jeff Tuesday night;
2. Having sore muscles.  It means I'm doing something right and not plateau-ing all the time.
3. To have a full fridge of food.  Some people aren't blessed to have a full fridge or food on the table.
4. Baxter's 7th Birthday yesterday.
5. I love having 5 months of the year where my two boys, Charlie and Baxter, are the same age (born 7 months apart from each other, yet still sharing the same blood (they both have the same momma and dad). 
6. Planning a little overnight getaway to Niagara Falls/Buffalo in March to celebrate the upcoming wedding of a friend.
7. Seeing the schedule for the 2015 Yoga Conference and happy that the lovely and inspiring Seane Corn will be there this year (she was in South American last year for an Off the Mat endeavour but will be back again this year). Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! :)
8. My evening with Jeff last night. *smiles*
9. Knowing that I get to have dinner with my friend Tara tomorrow night after day 1 of 2 of the restricted/unrestricted gun course her hubby and I are taking together (Jeff and Tara are both licensed).
10. TGIF mother*ckers!!

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I just got back from the gym and my legs are sooooooore! I was off on Monday and therefore didn't make it to the gym.  Tuesday I wasn't able to get to my usual BP class so I did legs and abs on my own.  Wednesday and Thursday I did BP.  So there goes to the legs.  And today I did a spin class with Leanne, figuring that I'd spin my legs out a bit and loosen them up.  Uhmmm no.  Not at all.  So I'm betting on waddling tomorrow.

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Work continues to be busy as shit.  Which, I suppose, is good in theory and sure the days fly by but sometimes I just have so much to do and don't know where to begin. 

 

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Baxter's 7th (!!!) birthday was yesterday and so after work, we went to Global and got the boy a stuffed polar bear (which, might I add, lasted all of 5 minutes tops before he decided to bust it open and get the squeaker out.  LOL.  We got him some yummy treats, bully sticks to chew on and puppy ice cream for both him and Charles.  The second we got home, they were on us because of the yummy bag we had in hand and they stared up at the counter until they had their dinner and THEN I gave them their yummies. 

 

Charlie is still limping a little bit.  I feel like a bad pet parent but I just don't feel he's in pain nor do I feel like spending at least $200 alone for an xray that will only show breaks and shadows that indicate arthritis.  I don't believe it's a luxating patella because he puts weight on his leg, and he's not in any pain.  Not once had he cried out or whimpered and he can also bend his leg, something that luxating patella's won't allow.  Plus, with luxating patellas, they're most often detected earlier on, they don't usually just develop just like that.  So for now, I've been trying to keep him quiet, alternating with confining him (which of course he hates) and he's now getting glucosamine twice daily, which can't hurt him and is good for his joints.  The thing that's sad though is that he just doesn't know how to slow down; he still thinks he's a young lad but he's getting up there.  Depressing but that's reality, right?  So we'll see how things progress with him......

 Isn't this pretty?  I can't recall the artist but I believe I saw this on The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Facebook page and I loved it.

Pretty much.... lol

 Enjoy your weekend folks! xo

Well hello there kids, it’s HUMP day!

And this week, for me (us), that means 4 more sleeps until my mom and step-dad get back from their 4-week trip to England aka we get to go home (!!!!!) and everything will resume to normalcy again:

• To sit on our couches.. (such simple things, right?
• To have things like our Henckel (sp?) knife-block (my mom has shitty knives at her place, although I know I could have brought them with us, that probably would have resulted in some missing or having a mishap myself transporting them, being the ever so graceful gal that I am lol)
• Our OWN bed and pillows (Jeff hates my mom’s pillows, they’re like hospital pillows)
• The dogs are going to sleep for 2 months from winding down from the excitement and literally just not settling down much because of the other two dogs and the constant shadows that I have following me from room to room (I’m never alone, which is comforting that I’m so loved but Jesus Christ, I can’t even go to the bathroom without FOUR of them in there with me seeing what’s going on LOL)..
• It’ll be nice to have our closet back (instead of having schlepped over a ton of clothes for 4 weeks, work clothes mainly was the concern)
• Our shower (where the hot water tank NEVER runs out)…
• No crazy, hyper-sensitive aunt that will freak out when the internet goes down or the router freezes (she literally goes into major panic mode when the internet goes down - had an incident about this very same matter 2 weeks in that resulted in her freaking out, her being rude and then when I tell her to calm down and stop over-reacting, she cries..... Ugh it's just a mess... Not to mention her inability to help out my mother with the dogs while she's away but she has the nerve to ask my mom if she thinks my step-dad would look after her dogs next May while her and my mom go away to Barbados for two weeks.  I'm sorry but lady, you can't even, sorry scratch that, can't be bothered to look after the dogs while my mom's away.. It's such a long story and I'm not going beyond what I just wrote because it just infuriates me to no end.  She's so selfish and unappreciative of everything in life.
• Moving along, it'll be nice to have our toaster oven back, where I can cook multiple things at once without just the oven that I've been working with at mom's. 
• I won't have to make dog food every few days.. Not a big deal but I've got to plan it out so there's enough food and I'm not, say, out of food in the morning before work.
• I'll get to walk back and forth to the train every morning again.. While it's been nice to drive from my mom's, the morning walk kind of wakes me up and gets me going at a godforsaken hour.

Sure, it’s nice to be at my mom’s, at the house, more space and all that good stuff, but it’s not “home” anymore.  Home is where Jeff and I are. 

Jeff took the day off tomorrow to hang with his buddy Chris that he's recently reconnected with.  Friday he's taking the two nieces to this DigiTour concert thing for YouTube people (Yeah I'm old, this doesn't interest me in the least), so I'll probably meet him after work for some grub, leave him, bus it back home to feed the dogs and what not and then meet him at the highway on his way back so he has some company there and back after the concert.  Saturday will be cleaning/packing day and schlepping shit home day.  And well, Sunday, we pick up my parents around 5'ish and then we're free!!

Anywho, that's enough for now.  I've been writing this off and on for a few hours and it's time to put an end to the babble.

Charlie is SNORNING like you wouldn't believe in this picture

Tripod Stand

Firefly or Titibahasana

Bakasana or crow/crane pose

Sweaty mess after Combat class

Deep denial that Summar is long gone...

Yep.. denial over here, a river that runs in Egypt, right?  Man are the mornings ever chilly and it gets real cool at night.  Even the daylight seems to be dwindling much, much quicker this year than it normally does. Maybe it's just my imagination, but who knows.  I'm in denial about Fall because that means that Winter is on the horizon and our winters typically can go anywhere from October to May....Which if you're me, isn't cool because I'm cold on the warmest of days, but put me in Winter makes me a frigid, frigid person.  Like, can't warm up my hands, my feet or my nose... And perpetually wearing a sweater.  Oh and did I mention that at work, on my floor, there tends to be pockets of warm and cool air and I reside in a cold pocket, where we constantly play games with the thermostat.... I guess it doesn't help matters my desk lines a the windows that line the entire building.  Gorgeous view, but at a cost.  I won't complain about the view whatsoever, but damn I wish I was warm-blooded and not a god damn lizard. LOL

So what's up?  It's Tuesday.  We're off to a Leafs game this evening courtesy of Jeff's workplace giving him free tickets.  We also surpassed the two week mark looking after my mom's dogs/house sitting, which means as of today, only 12 days left.  I think, as much as my mom is having a good time away with my step-dad, she'll be happy to be back home, away from family drama and bullshit over there.  For the amount of shit that my mom does and goes out of her way to do, they've been treated pretty sub-par by family they're staying with over there.  It's really too bad.  My mom has been Facetime'ing me from England, though, I showed her how to do it on her IPod, so she called nearly every day or every other day.  So far yet so close, you know?  And it's nice that she's able to see the dogs too while she's away. 

I found the below image on Pinterest... God I love that site but I try and stay away, you can lose HOURS upon HOURS surfing that site... And I just don't know how people literally get tens of thousands of pins.. Don't you have to be on Pinterest 24/7 for them to accumulate that much?!!  Anyways, I think it's a cool website nevertheless.  I wish it was around when I was planning our wedding, although I compiled my very own scrap book of ideas whilst planning so that's besides the point.. But it would have been cool and I think at some level a bit overwhelming with just the sheer number of ideas .....

 

Apparently it takes more than a day to write out a blog. Yesterday escaped me and here we are and it's Wednesday now.  Oh well.  C'est la vie. 

 

I'm training a new admin at work and it's been SWAMPED, in addition to the normal crazy work load.  Couple all that and my boss was away for a week because her MIL passed away from COPD, the same disease that my MIL has.  Oh did I mention she still smokes?  I suppose that's her business but it's just a shame.. I guess when some people get a diagnosis that is effectively a death sentence down the road, they figure what's the point?  Not my life, my choice, but she definitely knows all of our stances on the matter.  Hell, Jeff, his brother and I all quit smoking nearly two years ago and it hasn't been easy but we've stuck to our guns.  Life is way, way too short.

 

Me and my cuddliest hehe



Mr. Jones, one of my mom's dogs

 And the rest are a few pet clients that I had visits with last Sunday.  Enjoy!

These two were adorable!

FRIENDLIEST Siamese on the planet.  These two are precious

 



Life lately...

This week, Jeff and I are house/dog sitting at my mom's while she's in Cuba until next Monday.  Nothing too eventful going on in my life this week other than an entourage of Bichons, but thats okay because I don't mind - they're cute :)

New polish

LMAO

Baxter blowing me kisses

 

Daddy getting some kisses

Brotherly love :)

The one who looks like he has no spine is Charlie.  My sucky pants :)