This will be the shortest post in the 1 year, and 7 months. I am sooooooo tired! We have to get up super early. I need sleep RIGHT NOW‼️‼️ So, on that note, I now say (I had a great day, by he way!) goodnight , seriously, that short. I’ll leave you with a photo of all of my new hats!! I’ve always been a hat person! Check them out. I’ll try to write more tomorrow, but I can’t make any promises, as these have all been loooooong days! Night night💤💤

PS. My live PIYO class with Chalene Johnson (not sure if I wrote that wrong) was AMAZING!

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

This was a good day in Nashville! Very long though. I’m beat! So, I’m sorry to say, this will end up being a short post tonight! We got up super early (well, okay, it wasn’t super early, it just felt that way after being up for 48 hours the day before) and went and registered for Summit (which is the name of the conference thingy I’m here for). Then we walked (hit 10,000 steps today) to Broadway street and went in a bunch of cool little shops. Every second store seemed to be a western, mainly cowboy boots & hats, store. I bouht a new cowboy hat. I found one that was really affordable and on sale. Trust me, these things get expensive. The nice thing about getting one at a specialized store is that there are sizes, so I was able to get one that actually fits me! I have a big head (have to hold all these brains in!!) so I tend to have a difficult time finding hats that fit, but I really love hats, I always have! I found some souvenir-type things for my oldest and we went to Target and I got a new dress and some other clothes. The target here is so awesome, way way better than the craptacular ones that opened, for a short time, in Canada. We had a great lunch at Margheritaville (I may have spelled that wrong!!) Late in the afternoon we came back to the hotel and had a quick swim in the outdoor pool (it is SO damn hot and humid here!!). Finally, we went out for a “team supper” with a couple other ladies at the Hard Rock Cafe. After supper we went to a bar (with an amazing rooftop bar) and met up with some more of the Beachbody coaches. It’s now 1:15 and I am so exhausted!! So, now that I gave you the play-by-play of my day, I’m going to hit he hay! That rhymed!! Night all😴

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

We made it, finally!! We’re in Nashville – woohoo!! It’s probably going to seem like I’m doing 2 posts in one day, but the other one that I posted this afternoon was actually written last night, I just wasn’t connected to wifi when I wrote it. We had a very loooong day!! But after a few mess ups and a couple delays and a lecture from a flight attendant, we’ve finally made it! We arrived around 5:00 (Nashville time). So, I still have not slept! I’m about to do just that, but I wanted to be sure that I had written something, however short.  Does that sentence even make sense? I am so damn tired that the letters are blurring. Shanice is sleeping in the bed beside me. I’m feeling rather jealous about that. She has a soft, quiet snore which kind of makes me think of my hubby. Except, of course, his snore isn’t exactly what I’d call soft or quiet. It’s funny to see what can switch or flip from being annoying to becomes comforting. I’m so tired that I don’t really know what I’m saying. I kind of feel like I’m all over the place, you know? So, even though this is super short, I’m going to head to bed now. Kennedy (I haven’t met her yet, if the name is unfamiliar) is landing at about 10:30 tonight. So, we set an alarm to be a little more alert when she arrives. The rate I’m going, I’m not even going to get any time to sleep before she arrives! That is unless I actually stop writing sleepy gibberish and just go to bed. Goodnight Nashville😴😴

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

It’s about 3:00am and I’m in the air. We’re on our way to Nashville as we speak. I’m super tired, but I can’t sleep. It’s so frustrating! I think it’s partly because I’m excited that we’re on our way and partly because I just can’t get comfortable. We can’t figure out how to lean the seats back and my back is aching! We just watched a movie. I can’t even remember what it’s called. It had Reese Witherspoon in it. It was funny. It won’t make my top ten list or anything, but it was very entertaining and definitely helped pass the time. They don’t have screens in the seats anymore. Now you have to download the app and watch your movie or tv show on your own device. There was a surprising number of shows to choose from. I was actually quite surprised. Shanice and I each had an ear-bud in, since she doesn’t have her iPad with her. It made me glad that I brought mine. I’m so tired right now. My eyes are burning…I guess that’s why they call late flights “the red-eye”! I’m writing this in my notes and once I have wifi I’ll copy and paste it into the WordPress app. It won’t save on the app without wifi. I could get wifi on the plane, but you have to pay for it. I figured that I didn’t need it that badly. I just hate the turbulence. It freaks me out and makes it difficult to concentrate on writing. I like to use the movies or tv to distract me, but I remembered that I have to write this, as this is technically my Monday nights that post. Since I don’t have wifi it won’t be posted until Tuesday. However, it’s still counting as my Monday post. Don’t want to miss a day! I can’t believe that I’m going to be in Nashville later on today (two more flights after this one, the one I’m currently on goes to Toronto, then we go to New York and from there we head to Nashville!) I know that I’m currently on my way, but i have that surreal feeling where it feels like it’s not really happening, when it actually is. I don’t think I’m making a lot of sense right now. Probably because I’m so exhausted. Also, I had to take my night time prescriptions which make me pretty fuzzy and drowsy. Generally I tak them and go to sleep. So taking them and staying up is weird. I have to go to the bathroom, but I don’t really want to get up and walk back to he bathroom. Also, Shanice is beside me asleep (or trying to sleep) with her head leaning forward onto her arms on her little table and I don’t want to bother her. So, on that note, I think that I’m going to try to sleep for the last hour of this flight. So, goodnight all! 💤💤

Well, I can finally post this from last night. We’re in New York waiting for our last flight. So, I’m off for now! Until tonight ‼️

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

I spent the day packing. I’m a very slow packer. It is pretty much all I did today – like all day and I’m still not finished. I’m close though. I still need to pack the majority of my bathroom things. That’s pretty much all, other than a couple things that I still have to use tonight or tomorrow morning. My flight isn’t until late tomorrow night, so I still have plenty of time left to get the last few things together. I tend to over-pack. I always think that I will have a good plan in place and be all organized and have outfits planned etc., but it never happens. Then it takes me forever to pack, because I’m trying things on and sorting through laundry and pretty much going through stuff as I pack. That’s likely the explanation for why I’m so slow. And, like I said yesterday, I’m always worried that I’m going to forget something important. But it’s not like I’m going to be stranded in the middle of nowhere without resources or anything around. I can easily run to Walmart or Target if I forget something. I really don’t want my suitcase to be stuffed, because it makes it awfully difficult to bring home things that you buy while away! I never mean to buy too much, but you see a sale or get a good deal on something and suddenly your suitcase is over-stuffed and exceeds the weight that it’s supposed to be! That has happened to me on more than one occasion. When my family (as in my mom, dad, sister and I) went to Hawaii years ago (when I was pregnant with my oldest) we ended up buying a duffel bag there to hold all of the extra things that we’d bought!! It’s hard to pack, when you don’t really know what you’re going to need. I know it’s supposed to be smoking hot, I know that I need workout clothes, and I was told to bring a couple dresses, because they’re good at keeping you nice and cool. There are so many choices and I don’t want to miss something and end up wishing I had brought it. I think I let it stress me and I worry too much! I’m pretty sure that I’ll be good with what I’ve packed. Isn’t this a boring post tonight! I’m sure not many people care about what I did or did not pack! Or how I feel about packing. Jocelyn is already in Nashville! She left last night!! This gives her a couple more days to do whatever. We only, really, have Tuesday to do whatever (once we get there). Wednesday is pretty open too, other than the planned dinner. Oh, and we have to sign in to Summit that day, but we can do this whenever we choose! Thursday, Friday and Saturday are going to be the busy day. So any lounging by the pool likely has to be done on Tuesday and Wednesday. We really should have stayed until Monday. Saturday night will be the latest night we have! It’s the closing ceremonies and the celebration night. I don’t know how late it goes, but we have to be at the airport in Nashville at about 3:00am!! So, we’re either leaving the celebration a bit early Saturday night, or we’re going to get hardly any sleep!!  Oh my goodness, I can’t believe it’s tomorrow night! I feel giddy with excitement!! Yay yay yay!!!

I’m heading to bed, because it’s after 12:00am, as usual and I’m tired. I hope I can sleep. I’m just so so super-d-duper excited!!! I need to calm myself and go to bed!! Because tomorrow night 🎼”I’m leaving on a jet plane” ✈️‼️‼️

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

Today was a nice, quiet, do nothing day. I finished up my laundry for my trip. I had a nice, quiet break late this afternoon. I had the rare luxury of having the house empty for a few hours. My youngest daughter is still at camp, my older daughter was babysitting and my hubby took the little man to a football game. I know I could have used hat time to finish packing or to do something useful around the house, but instead (other than laundry)I did nothing. I lied quietly on the bed for a while. I drew for a bit. That’s about all though. I needed some quiet time. It kind of felt a bit like the quiet before the storm, if you know what I mean. I know that I’m going to have a great week and it will probably be a lot of fun. However, it will definitely include a string of long, full and busy days! I decided that the best thing for today would be to relax. I will try to finish up with packing tomorrow. I can do last any last minute packing on Monday. As well, I have to get some American cash on Monday (the way the dollar is right now…sheesh! On Friday we were at $.76!!) and I have to get my prescriptions. I intended on having this already completed, but my dr made an error on a few of my prescriptions; she said I had enough to last three months and then when I went to the pharmacy they only gave me 10 pills per prescription, she apparently made an error on her computer, so the pharmacy is contacting her and I’m short on 4 prescriptions…yay! I think that is all that I have to do, although there are always last minute things that creep up when you’re going away. Even if there aren’t, I always have that nagging sense that I forgot something. 

What the heck is going on with this program?? I just lost an entire paragraph somehow!! I did the normal update thing that you have to do to save it and it’s just gone. Damn it! That’s mighty frustrating! Thankfully I was just rambling on about packing and lost luggage and my hubby never getting his stuff back when they lost his luggage earlier this year. Sheesh! I don’t even remember what I said. That’s what happens when I just write on the fly, it’s not planned out at all, so it’s hard to just rewrite it. This happened to me just a while ago too! Argh! How frustrating! Well, on this aggravated note, I’m going to turn in for the night! (What in the world was that?? “Turn in???” I think that this is the first time that I have ever said that…”I’m going to turn in for the night!!” Ha Ha, that doesn’t sound like me at all! I have no idea why I just said that. Weird!!) 

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

Today was full and busy! I feel pretty sleepy. Doesn’t help that it’s almost 12:30am and I’m just writing this now! Well what else is new?? Today Shanice and I went for pedicures together, so that we have pretty toes for Nashville. I got a pretty purples-pink colour with a pretty flower design on the big toe…

I’m so sure you were all just dying to see my toes…well, you have no choice now!!  The pampering was really nice. I don’t really do stuff like that for myself very often!! It was also nice to see her,I think that we’ve amped up each other’s excitement level for Monday and Nashville baby!! I’m counting down the days. I know it’s not going to be a relaxing holiday, nope, it’s going to be go go go! However, it will be a lot of fun while being busy! And you it will be in a different country with a bunch of really nice people. I’m looking forward to the classes and seeing what the courses will be like. There is supposed to be a great lineup of speakers and activities. Our first day we don’t not get to the hotel until 3:30. We’re probably going to be a big mix of excitement and exhaustion, because our flight leaves Monday night or rather super early Tuesday at 12:40am! Yup, the red-eye (Ug!!) We fly to Toronto, then New York, then Nashville!! By the time we do all the flight changes,running through the airports while transferring flights and all of the things that go with travelling, we finally get to Nashville. We’re playing that first day by ear…depending upon how tired we are. We may just lay back beside the pool and rest and do nothing. Wednesday is also pretty open. We get to register anytime during the day, then we will go out for dinner with Jocelyn and another girl for dinner. Thursday I think there are courses/workshops or whatever you want to call them in the morning. Then we have our live PIYO workout at 2:00, I’m bothe excited and nervous about this. I’ve been doing the PIYO so that it’s familiar, but I’m nervous about doing it in public (not my living room). Then we go back to the hotel, shower, and get ready for dinner with our upline, elite coaches. That’s as far as I’ve planned out so far…I may be boring you, but I find it all very exciting. Of course I do…it’d be weird if I wasn’t excited!! Well, it’s likely all you’re going to be hearing or, rather, reading about it a lot over the next while…of cours that’s what I’ll be writing about when we’re there!! So suck it up and come along for the ride!!

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

I wrote this post last Friday, the 15th, but for some reason it’s still in drafts – and not published, so I’m publishing it today!!
I had a really nice visit with two of my oldest friends today. We went to Spruce Grove (where we grew up and one of us still lives) and went for a 5K walk through the partica – park (a park that has been there since we were kids). We talked and laughed and reminisced about the “good old days” – lol. From there we got some sandwiches at a coffee shop and went to my friend’s house for lunch. Then we all piled into her car and we drove out to her cabin. I haven’t been out there yet, even though we always talk about just the three of us staying out there together. Hopefully we actually follow through one of these times. We always have these ideas and talks about the things that we should do together, but we tend to suck at actually following through. Whether it’s for a sleepover, another walk or just coffee, hopefully we don’t let too much time pass prior to seeing each other again. It’s sad how often we’ve been going between visits. I know we’re all busy with our families and whatnot, but we need to prioritize our time together more. I think it was especially nice for the one of us who’s been struggling with depression recently. It’s too easy to become isolated and alone, which doesn’t help at all! So hopefully reconnecting today helped her a bit. I sure miss these ladies. I’m so blessed to have them, as best friends. 

Once I got home, I had an hour nap and then had to leave to pick up my middle daughter from camp. I was kind of worried about what was going to happen about the whole LIT thing. I was probably more worried than her – lol. Last year she tried to act like she was “cool” about the whole situation, but it had to be hard when her best friend became an LIT and she didn’t. This summer to make things “fair” they’re giving different girls a chance by only having them out for one week, so that more of them can see what it’s like to be an LIT. The only thing is, her best friend and another girl get to go to ALL of the camps and all the others get to go for only one camp. This seems like a bit of a contradiction to the whole “we thought it’d be fair” thing, but my daughter is happy that she gets to do it, even if it’s just for one camp, so I won’t say anything to anyone about it. It’s not necessary. She’ll have fun, she’s happy and that’s all that is important to me. So, I guess we just see how it plays out and hope that their alternating people idea works for them. 

I didn’t fall asleep last night until around 3:30am and I had to wake up at 7:30am and I had a long, busy day. I’m so so tired and ready for bed. So night night for now!!

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

I can’t believe that I leave for Nashville in only 3 days! I know I probably keep saying that, but it’s just so close now! I’m really looking forward to a break from the norm. The first couple days we plan on just chilling by the pool Ana I am so damn excited! To just read a book or close my eyes and relax without hearing my little man going, “Mom! Mom!” every two seconds. Also, my girls seem to just pick at each other over anything and everything! It’s so damn frustrating! I know my sister and I weren’t always all love and rainbows, but I swear we did not argue as much as my two do! They never seem to stop, it just gets so maddening!! Even if it rains the entire trip, I don’t even care! I’m SO SO looking forward to the “me time!” Yes, we’re going to be busy. Yes, there are some very long days coming up, but it doesn’t even matter. I’m over the moon excited!! My little man isn’t…at all! When my daughter & I stayed away for only two nights, he hugged me tightly and asked me to promise that I’d never go away from him again! Poor little man, he is most definitely a Mama’s boy. He knows I’m going away, but he isn’t very happy about it!! I’m sure it won’t take long for me to miss them. But, I know he’s safe and sound and my absence will quickly be forgotten about, once I’m back for a couple days! Tomorrow Shanice (my Nashville travelling buddy) and I are getting pedicures. So we’ll have good looking feet when we’re there. She’s a very sweet girl. She’s a lot younger than me, but we still get along and have fun when we’re together. She is engaged and has two little kids. So at least I’ll be staying with someone who also is looking olongapo forward to some down time, away from familial responsibilities! We actually have enough in common and I enjoy her company. My hubby thinks she’s a bit naive. It may be a little true, but she’s young and she just needs some more life experience, which I’m certain she will. I’m still naive about a lot of things. My hubby says that I’m “too trusting”. However, I don’t believe that trusting others is a bad trait. Unless I end up getting hurt. My desire is to first assume the best in people. If through behaviour, they prove otherwise, then I guess I may end up getting hurt! Still, I’m going to continue giving people the benefit of the doubt, until I have a reason not to do so. 

It’s super late and I’m super sleepy! So until tomorrow my friends…night all😴😴😴💤💤💤

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”

Bla!!! My tummy hurts!! It’s all cramped up and gassy! Yuck! I don’t know why…I think that I ate okay…hmmm…how bizarre! It is ridiculously late, so don’t be surprised if this turns into one of my shortest posts!  My hubby’s coming home tomorrow!! Yay! We may go see the new Star Trek movie with friends on Friday. Well, if I can convince my hubby. We’ve gone to movies with them before and they prefer to sit right up in the back. My hubby and I always sit as close to the middle as possible, not too high, not tight in front…just right!! Unless we go together, sit where we all prefer to sit, then go out for drinks or something afterwards. I guess we’ll see what we end up deciding to do. We do have to drive our beautiful daughter back out to camp for her long two day stint as an LIT…sigh! (Deep breath in – Deep breath out –  Aaand – I choose to release this problem to the universe. I know I said I just needed to vent and get it off my chest. I’ve been getting a bit better at trying to get over things without carrying that darn bagage that occurs when you can’t let go of things. This is something that I believe is wrong, but I can’t change it and dwelling on it or worrying about it only makes things worse! If Carol or Danette ask me about it I’ll be honest, but until then “poof!!” it’s out of my mind. And so am I, I’m out of my mind tired!! So goodnight all! Sorry do short. I just had a full day today, so I started writing this WAY too late!!

💤😴💤😴💤😴💤😴💤😴💤😴💤😴💤

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!”