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!!”

Today felt busy for some reason. I’m not sure why. I did have a doctor’s appointment early this afternoon, but other than that I had nothing else that absolutely had to get done. By the time we got home it was already almost supper time! Then I played twister with the kids and after supper we went on a “Pokemon Go”walk. This is pretty crazy! It’s probably one of the only times that they were the ones who wanted to go! There were no eye rolls or sighs – it wasn’t even my idea!! So weird! It’s pretty slow walking through. When everyone has their phone out and are mainly focused on the phone, not where or how fast their walking. Still, I almost reached 10,000 steps by the end of the day!  

I guess I need to call my pharmacy back tomorrow. I just got 3 months worth of refills for my prescriptions from my doc. However, when I was taking the bottles out to get ready for bed I noticed each bottle only has 10 pills in it and they all say “no refills” on them. What a pain! Now I need to figure out who messed up, either the pharmacy or my doc. I made sure I’d have enough for when I’m away next week (yay ‼️yay‼️ yay‼️). I don’t want to be in another country running out of meds…that’d sure suck! I can’t bring my medicinal marijuana with me, because, even though I have a prescription for it here, it isn’t allowed and I could get in big trouble. This makes me really nervous because I use it every night before bed, it helps me fall asleep tremendously!! Really!! It’s like night and day difference in ability to fall asleep!! I also often use the lower THC ones during the day for pain! Well, I can’t be doing that down there!! I’m hoping that I feel okay and that I am somehow able to sleep! Jocelyn,another Beachbody coach from Edmonton that I know, said that you basically go from 6-8am until 11:00 at night (or even later…). So, I’m hoping it makes me tired enough to fall asleep at night. Also, it worries me a bit, because if I really overdo it, I end up with bad pain. And, as we just covered, my main pain killer won’t even be there with me. I just have to make sure that I take a nap or rest if I need it. I have to listen to and respect what my body can and can’t do. And right now it’s telling me, or rather, screaming at me to go to bed!! So…I’m off‼️

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

Well, my kids and I just got started with the new, big craze…dare to guess?? It’s all that people are talking about (according to my kids anyway and I have heard a lot about it over the radio, as well!) POKEMON GO‼️ Talk about a big, or rather, a huge comeback! Yes you can still watch the shows on Netflix (I have a six year old son…and a hubby who’s a bit of a “gamer”!) and some people still buy the cards to play the game. However, this brand new and innovative game has put Pokemon back on the map…literally!!! You don’t need to be a big time gamer to see that. Yes, people are looking for Pokemon while driving (stupid) or walking into traffic, jumping fences into strangers back yards and wandering into poles, trees, lakes and the street. But guys, I’m no “gamer” myself and this generally isn’t a blog that reviews products or apps.  But, this game is fun!! And what an original idea. Also, you have to get your butt off of the couch (I, myself, was lucky enough to witness my oldest push herself up and out of her “butt grooves” on the couch in order to go for a walk with her siblings…so, this game is truly miraculous in my eyes!! Every other tactic to move her has failed, but this game got her moving and it did so right from the get go!!!!) And, you actually have to move!! You have no choice!! The app uses GPS, not a pedometer type tracker. So you can’t shake your phone up and down in an attempt at fake walking…nope! It won’t work!! My kids caught an egg on mine. In order for said egg to hatch into a brand new baby Pokemon, I must walk, with the app open, for 2km!! Yep, this game will get people off of their arses!! The main gist of the game is that you are trying to hunt down and collect as many Pokemons as you can. You can also go to the gymnasiums to “fight” other people’s Pokemons. I’m assuming this is how you get money for the game. I’m not big into fighting, I’ll probably just be one of those crazy people who tries to collect as many Pokemons as possible!! Of course there’s ways to spend real money too, like getting the “pro” app, in app purchases, etc. etc. My kids want me to get as many Pokemons (is that even the plural of Pokemon, or does it just stay the same???) as I can when I’m in Nashville next week!!  I can’t believe it’s only one week away!! Holy cow! I’m getting super excited!! I’ve been told that Summit is tons of fun, but that it’s also exhausting, it’s just go go go from activity to activity. So, I’m not sure I’ll have much spare time to be Pokemon hunting, but you never know!! For tonight though, I’m done with Pokemon hunting, as well as writing. I’m beat!! Have a great night all!! 😴😴😴 And if you’re out hunting, it’s time to put the phone down and go to bed!!💤💤💤

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

Why do I let things bother me so much. I’m over-sensitive it seems. (Which is why I bought the book that I did the other day, “The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A F🌟uck.”) I have what the camp-director said “We thought we’d make it more fair this year!”running through my head.  I still don’t quite understand how picking 2 of the girls to come back for the entire summer to be LITs, while letting the other kids try it for only one camp, is fair. I guess she just has a very different definition of “fair” than me. She also asked those two girls not to tell any of the other girls that they get to go back for all of the camps. I, personally, think that asking kids to lie or, at the very least, mislead their friends is wrong. Of course my daughter figured it out when they both came in all smiling and happy and then the leaders were with them sharing a group hug. She leaned over to her other friend and said, “I bet they get to come back for the whole summer!” And, of course, she was correct. They called my daughter and the other two “the three musketeers” all week. The one girl is my daughter’s best friend, from school, not just camp. As if they weren’t going to talk to each other about it!!  Give me a break! So now my daughter gets to be an LIT for a whole two nights…She’s being very accepting and mature about the whole thing. She’s excited to at least get a small chance to try LITing. But, if they truly cared about being fair, they probably could have given each kid two camps if the other two were part of the rotation and not given the privilege of going all summer. However,I’m not going to say anything. And, for the record, I’m certainly not in any way, shape or form trying to say those two girls aren’t capable or anything like that. They’re very sweet girls and I’m certain that they’ll do a fine job. I’m just not happy with the unfairness of the whole thing. It’s been bugging me and I wanted to vent about it. Hopefully no one who reads this will overreact or take it to heart. It is just one of those, get it off my chest by writing about it, things. I should probably be careful about what I say. I truly don’t intend to hurt or point anyone out. I just don’t like being told something is one thing, when it is actually something very different. I don’t want to upset my daughter (she’d likely be super mad at me if she knew I was writing about any of this) or anyone else. I just needed to vent and then I’ll release it and move forward from here. Most important to me is that my daughter is happy. They’re going to have a whole bunch of girls next year who will want more than one camp to LIT at, because they’ll then be “experienced”. I don’t know what they’re setting themselves up for…I guess we’ll just wait and see. I’m finding the whole thing utterly frustrating!! Sigh…okay. Moving on now!

I can’t believe that I leave for Nashville one week from tomorrow!! Crazy! I’m starting to get really excited!! It’s going to be a whole new experience! I’m not sure even sure what to expect with a conference/workshop thing of this size. There are supposed to be around 25,000 coaches attending. I know that the Saturday morning we shut down Broadway street in Nashville and have a mass group workout for ALL of the attendees! It’s going to be crazy! I wonder if it’ll be on the news. Or at least local, Nashville, news. I’m hoping that the workshops help a lot with the business aspect of Beachbody. I’ve gotten no-where with regards to building my coaching business. I’m supposed to be selling challenge packs and running accountability groups. But, so far I’ve done squat!! You’re supposed to build your network with like-minded people that you meet me n Facebook groups, etc. The problem is that most of the groups I’m on are with people who hav TN, like me. This is what they suggested I do, but some of these people are bed-ridden or practically so. They’re living in excruciating pain and just scraping by health-wise. So, it just feels wrong to try to sell them workout programs. When you can barely function or get out of bed, you can’t even imagine having the energy to workout. And, I know this from personal experience!! I’ve been in that dark, hopeless, all you know and see is pain, place. If someone had told me to try exercising I would have wanted to punch them in the face!! Even if I now know that exercise truly does help, most of these people aren’t there yet. I’m not going to push them either. If someone approaches me for more information then that’s different. But, no one is asking me, “what are you doing?” Supposedly, onc I’ve “friended” people, they will see my posts about my day-to-day life using Beachbody and it will pique their interests and then they will ask me. Yah – nope!! Not happening to me…AT ALL!!!  So, I probably should start visiting different groups, so all of my “friends” aren’t suffering from TN.  So, anyway, my point was that I really hope that there is a workshop on building your network. Some of the top coaches have like over 10,000 friends. I’m not even close to that!! I hi how maybe is part of the problem…hopefully they talk about it!!

I just saw the time. I gotta run or I’ll just keep rambling on forever!!!😴😴

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

My hubby and I drove around garage-saling this afternoon. We didn’t really have a lot of money for us. I just enjoy garage sales and my hubby enjoys driving his new car with the top down. So, we both were happy. We actually found a little carry-on style suitcasethat will work perfectly for him when he goes out of town for just a night or two for work. We do have a small suitcase, but It’s a bit too big for using as a carry-on. He does get away with it a lot of he time, but the one we bought at the garage sale will just work better!! After garage-saling (okay, that’s not an actual word and it looks weird, but it’s the 3rd time I’ve written it, so I think you know what I’m trying to say) we popped by my good friends house and had a drink with them out on the patio. It was quite nice. The sky was blue, no rain (finally) it was hot out, but not too, I’m about to cook, hot. I haven’t seen them in a while. If I don’t make a point of going out and seeing people, I turn into a recluse. I can very easily curl up somewhere with a good book and be quite happy! I think that getting sick has made me learn to be okay being by myself, or just seeing my family, but rarely anyone else. 

I have to get my butt into bed a bit earlier than normally, I just feel beat for some reason. I think being out in rhe sunshine tired me out, if not, I can’t explain why I’m so so sleepy, I just know that I am! So goodnight for now😴😴😴

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