Today is a good day.

Why is today a good day, you ask? Well, allow me to show you in a list.

1. Colin Mochrie retweeted my Give to Live post. That's right. Some of you may not know this but this man and Ryan Stiles were my idols when I was young. I would watch countless episodes of Whose Line is it Anyway. Two of the funniest men ever in my opinion. So, look at the screen shot that made my day:

Yes. This happened.

JACKPOT.

So, now I'm practically famous. Did it get me any donations? Nope. Does it mean I can die happy knowing Colin Mochrie read one of my tweets? Yup.

So far I have e-mailed Ellen a hilarious e-mail .. tweeted her twice .. and what have I received? No love from her. Ellen, if Colin Mochrie was a TV show host, you'd quickly be becoming 2nd place. Since he doesn't and since I'll give you the benefit of a doubt and say you're probs busy or something, I'll leave you in the top spot. You better get your act together soon though and acknowledge my existence!


2. Also, as of today I have officially raised more for one cause than I ever have before in my life. I'd say go me but really .. GO MY SPONSORS! Thank you folks so much for taking some time out of your day and some money out of your wallets to help me reach my goal. A giant shout out to Jess for donating! Thanks girly. We've brought my total money raised to $185 or 18.5% of my goal :D Fundraising is actually sort of exciting. Especially when you do it my way -just telekenetically trying to convince others to donate. Also using facebook, twitter, celebrities& blogger.

Thanks, folks!

PS they should round up, not down.

Okay, so that is my quick update for today. Also, in case you were curious about the weather on this island? It sucks. So on that note I'm off to bike 20k in the shitty, cold rain. GO JUNE.

Rain, rain go away.

Please? Just leave us be for a little while. Tonight I did nothing useful with my life at all.

Seriously. I spent the morning at the barns. I rode .. got few cute shots .. headed home. When I got home my neighbor brought over her brand new puppy :D I was in puppy heaven.

How can this sweet little thing not bring you happiness?!

So so so cute!

I was going to go for a bike ride ..except that it is FREEZING out and I can't be bothered. I was at the barns running around all day. That has to count for something, right? I'm pretending it does, regardless of the truth.

So, while at the barn I got a few shots. These 2 are my favorite. Enjoy ... I'm off ti shower (finally!), lay on the couch and rest up for tomorrow. It involves puppy walks ... the beach .. riding .. hiking& circus. Hope the remainder of your weekend is going to be as exciting as mine ;)

Shann& Bracelet! 

Love these two :)

This is Midnight. He has had a month off with no work.

Can you say lucky?! I love this horse!

Recap.

Today I went to the barns. It rained a lot, so I didn't ride my bike. That sucks. I will HAVE to ride tomorrow regardless of the weather. My hip& shoulder don't hurt .. thank whoever for small miracles.

So, now I have some pretty photos :) I have quit 365 on the blog ..but I will keep uploading them to my flickr. I'll post the link at some point! Until then, enjoy these.

A crappy photoshopped photo of a fabulous blue drink :)

A delicious frog cake! 

Yummm :)

Dewey in the crossties. 

Whut up bad horse?

My photographer missed me but got him!

Pullling .. but generally being a good boy.

Rock on, Dewey.

I am not nearly as forward as I look :\ 

I blame the coat.

So, there we go. Some pretty craptacular photos of Dewey, cake& drinks. I hope it was as visually awesome for you as it was for me. I also hope the rain stops soon .. enjoy this evening ladies& gents!

PS -some Petit Prince to brighten your day :)

Long break!

Sorry folks, I got mad at Blogger for first deleting my post then my comments.

Post has been returned .. comments have not. Still slightly upset about that. Oh well.. moving on to bigger& better.

So, I officially signed up for Tour for Kids Atlantic 3-day Cabot Trail bike event :D It's super exciting. It is August 5th, 6th& 7th. I will not know a soul but am hoping that either the boyfriend or a parent will take some photos of my adventure for me :) I'm going to have to fund raise $1,000 by September 31st. I'm nervous ..especially since I can't figure the stupid thing out. My fingers are crossed .. as soon as I figure it out, I will post the link here.

Tonight I fell off a horse. Her name is Lexie and I hit the gravel hard. Even after 14 years of riding, a fall is still humbling! Oh well .. I got back on her and she was fine. She got spooked by a horse out in the field. No big deal, aside from the fact that I think my hip is going to be mighty sore tomorrow. And I caught myself with my already destroyed right arm. Oh, the joys.

So, now I'm over being angry at Blogger and will be back to posting daily! Hope your weather is turning into the summer kind ..it certainly isn't on the island :(

Edit- You have NO idea how much it would be appreciated if someone random& who I didn't have to totally beg in real life to support me ..did this! I figured out the link to my page for TourforKids .. all you have to do is click the button 'Make A Pledge' and go ahead! You can donate however much or little you want! Any amount helps ..I have to get to $1,000. And I suck at this stuff! Who wants to be my first donation?!

So, without further ado -here is my fundraising page :) Simply click here!

PS you guys rock <3

Lots of things!

Today is an exciting day for so many reasons. First off, my blog has exceed 4,000 views ..that means it took less than 1 week to get 1,000 page views. Thank you, people who either find me mildly entertaining or something. I appreciate the follows and the comments :) So, now it's time to discuss the things that are occurring today!

April Fool's Day
Ahh .. I love this day. I don't know why, seeing as I never do anything April Fool-ish or anything. I mostly just cross my fingers& hope that either someone will pull a prank on me or I'll get to witness an amazing prank being pulled on someone else. Or, that someday I will be clever enough& think ahead to pull my very own practical joke on someone! Will this year be the year? No, it won't. Since I will have absolutely no stories of malarkey to tell about, I will appease the readers (you) with this clever card instead (because I love when things are funny AND match my website. Thank you, someecards!):

Contest
Today is officially your last chance to get an entry into my contest in some way, shape or form. You can tweet, blog, comment or facebook it! The prizes are great (if you ask me!) and who doesn't want free stuff?! I can think of no one. Most people will take junk they'll never use under the ruse of 'It was free!'. Let's make this work for my blog .. you have until 11.49PM to get your entry in and I'll be drawing for it tomorrow! On the plus side, if you're sick of seeing me constantly posting about the contest and have no plans of ever entering, at least it will be over soon :)

Exercise
In the last 3 weeks, if you looked up the word slacker in the dictionary, I would have been there. Eating bad food and laying on the couch. I have exercised some .. it just hasn't been nearly as consistent as it was prior to that. It is time for me to get my lazy arse up off my couch and back into my Nike Frees and start running and doing Insanity. I am going to restart Insanity for the full 60 days on Monday and actually hang up the schedule as constant motivation to start .. finish .. and stick to the diet. Why have I fallen off the exercise train after so long? I tore a ligament in the top of my foot / big toe. It hurt for a LONG time and is starting to get better. I cannot wait! The other answer lies beneath this post .. which you'll be reading in about 5 seconds!

Weather
Yes. I am going to blame the weather for this. Cape Breton weather has been sucking majorly. It is constantly cold, windy and either snowing or raining. Yesterday it was gorgeous out and I took Boots for a walk. Today started out promising, the sun was shining .. I heard birds chirping .. I was strongly optimistic. Ahh, optimism. You have foiled me once again. My mom had to go to Halifax today to get the Mini from her appointment with the car doctor, so I looked up the weather for her drive home. 5 - 10cm of snow .. freezing rain .. then rain. I love when we get the full spectrum of precipitation. It brings a smile to my heart and warmth to my limbs. It also makes me wonder why people would ever want to live here? Great place to vacation in summer& autumn. Which is 2 months. The other 10 really make me think this place is unfit for human living.

Photos of the Day
Ahh the joys of trying to take a photo a day for 365 days. I should have tried counting to 365 out loud before committing to such an extremely long project. Especially this whole concept of 'variety' ..I need help. My creative juices are NEVER flowing. This leads to a constant battle between what I can easily take photos of (my dog) versus things that will challenge me / not bore you guys (anything besides my dog). I promise to post later with them ..forgive me?

Music
I will leave you with something though, just not a photo. Some music! YAY you must so excited to get another musical pick from me, right? Well .. I will admit, it rocks. You've probably never even heard of this band before, either. Which makes my pick that much sweeter. Enjoy! And check back in a little bit for my post containing some sweet treats (ones you can't win, sorry folks)!



*April Fools ;)

Drift ice!

Ahh .. the further we get into spring, the more it seems like the world might actually warm up! Today was only slightly bitterly cold. So thumbs up for that. Why is it bitter cold? Because I live in a house surrounded by water 3 sides. The water is currently filled with the miraculous thing known as drift ice! I will include a photo perhaps ..depending on my energy level in the next 2hrs (which, yes, is how long it will take me to photoshop all my photos to include them here& publish them!). I'm hoping I'm energetic enough to at least try, because otherwise I am giving up on having energy!

So, today consisted of NOT writing foodborne ..so now I must tackle it on Wednesday morning instead. Ughh to this stupid midterm. Oh well. Hopefully tonight will have something fun occur, like curling up with the boyfriend to watch Heavy& Intervention perhaps?! My all time favorite way to spend a Monday evening!

For now, I'll content myself with watching Dr. Phil (brat-proofing your child ..my future child is going to be so perfect!) and drinking water. I might even indulge in a chocolate chip cookie! So much for the health train, although after Dr. Phil I am actually going to go do Insanity. It's just the fit test, which is nice but still killer. Hoping restarting exercise will restart my energy levels ..can't survive this drained much longer! Keep your fingers crossed, eh? Until then I'm just going to lay uselessly on the couch and think about exercise. That's close to actually doing it, right?

Okay so now it's 5.20PM. Cookies have been enjoyed, photos have NOT been taken and exercise has been done! Call me almost completely productive ..so close. If I could just get some energy to take photos, life would be so much better! Although currently I'm here in pj pants, an LA Lakers shirt and a big bottle of water that is almost empty! None of this is conducive to going for a photo. So many photos need uploading, photoshopping and posting. Blargh ..this project 365 thing is way harder than I imagined! It's also funny how I'm just leaving this unpublished and randomly updating it with how unproductive I've been. Okay, next section will include photos& also be the last!

Alright, now! Photos for today+ 2 days ago:
Starting with Saturday's photo, which is a photo of gum from work. It looks, oddly, like a photo I took a long time ago when I first got my camera. This is unique for 2 reasons:
1. I have, clearly, not improved at all ahahah
2. I rock at being productive at work!

Most excellent ..now onto yesterday. Yesterday was a photo of the flower my boyfriend got me for Valentine's Day. No, it isn't still alive .. yes, I should probably throw it away. I had, up to this point, yet to take a photo of it though. I figured I'd snap one while it was withering away slowly on top of our water cooler!

Now, onto my photo for today! My intention was to go outside and get a photo that represents spring. That, however, did not occur. Instead, I opted to just take a photo in the bathroom. Luckily for you, it's not of anyone peeing! It's of Benefit makeup ..but it's sort of pretty! I think so, at least :)

Okay, now I'm done for the day. This was perhaps the longest, most procrastinating blog post in all of history! Hope it was worth the time it took me to write it ..enjoy ladies& gentlemen :) Oh, by the way ..I'm leaving you with a post from someecards that I feel is relevant to my life at this moment:

*Taken from here

Monday Happiness!

I have completed my task for today. I GOT A PORTRAIT! I am so happy :) Hopefully once you guys see how good this little lady looks, you'll be more willing to stand in front of my lens. There wasn't much to fix for my model today, just color correction and some small details. I'm sure if I was a better photographer, there would be more problems I would be seeing. As it stands, I really like it as is. I hope Kayla does too (ps thanks girly for playing photo of the day subject!). She was a good sport, despite Matthew insisting she leave so that he could play a song. That was about 40 minutes ago and he's STILL playing incredibly loud music. It's so frustrating .. I miss my house when it's quiet. Photo will be in it's usual place at the very bottom :)

Aside from my photography adventure, not much else happened. I went to school .. I came home. It was nice out and I contemplated an outside run. Why didn't I, you ask? The top of my left foot is still REALLY sore. It's the oddest sensation. Along with sore foot tops (what is that part of my body even called?!), the wind has decided to pick up and the weather network tells me Cape Breton can look forward to 70km/hr winds. I am still holding out for spring, although with a little less enthusiasm at the moment. Hopefully soon both my feet and the weather will improve enough to allow me to go outside for a run. My fingers are crossed. Yours should be too! I can hardly remember what flowers and leaves and green grass looks like .. I have to google nice weather to be reminded it really does exist.

On this crappy weather day, I am planning to go back into Sydney to hang out with the boyfriend. Not entirely sure what we're going to do yet, perhaps a movie? All I know is currently I'm curled up on my upstairs couch watching X-Weighted and thinking how I lack the energy to get up and get showered! Hopefully next commercial break I'll get myself a delicious cup of tea and the caffeine will encourage my body to stop being so tired.
It may also have something to do with the fact that I haven't just stopped and let myself get sick. I've been fighting off a cold for a LONG time now and I think it's slowly winning. I'm sneezing and my nose is running (sadly, not literally. That would be a good photo!). Thank goodness I only have an A&P test this Wednesday and the rest of the time will be for me to relax and try to get better.

There's a road run on March 20th (no idea if I already wrote about this) and so I need to get Matthew to work my shift at the store. Hopefully he is agreeable to this .. I will find out shortly when I ask him, I suppose. It's a 5k& I have just about 2wks to work on this so I'd LOVE to really get my time down low and just pound out the miles. Here's hoping!
The other alternative is that I don't get to run it because I'm in prison awaiting my murder trial for killing my brother. WHY CAN YOU NOT PLAY THE MUSIC LOWER? I am getting noise-induced deafness just being in the same house as you. I have a headache, truly. I need a vacation from this child already.

Oh, also, I am by no means a good cook. I can, however, cook the things I enjoy quite well. Here is a completely made-by-me recipe:

1 half chicken breast
Light zesty seasoning
Chili powder
Toss it all together on the stove to cook. While that's cooking (med-high), onto the next part:

Part skim cheese (just as delicious as the regular kind, trust me)
Light mayo (or honey mustard ..I just can't give up my mayo<3) Whole grain tortilla Put mayo on tortilla .. then the cheese. Hopefully your chicken is almost ready by now& when it is, throw IT on the tortilla wrap and wrap it all up. Simple, quick, delicious! Now, my photo:

Ahhh .. portrait #2 completed! Now, who will be my next one?!
PS hope your Monday is about as excellent as a Monday can be :) Mine has improved drastically because my brother has left the house!

Still stormy Sunday!

Holy mother .. it is WINDY out! At least the snow has stopped though. It was messy getting to work this morning, and I almost didn't make it out without shoveling. Thank goodness, a few back up and gas it attempts got me through. Shoveling is against my minimalist religion (do the minimal amount of work possible) and once again, the minimalist gods pulled me through the snow. Got to work, worked my shift, had lots of stuff to discuss (I even wrote it out on a note. That note is upstairs and not getting discussed tonight. Tomorrow, perhaps?). A long story short would be that I was incredibly bored and ran out of reading material long before my relief showed up! Also, almost all the customers drove me over the edge. I wish I liked more of them. There is one customer who ALWAYS has snot running down his nose and then he rubs it, real gentle like, just to make sure it's still there and soggy I think. After checking out the quality of his outside-nostril snot, he proceeds to ask for a 10 Bar (Bar 10) and a blue cross (Crisscross). He always either has a toonie or loonie, which is fine. What is not so fine? He DEMANDS making snotty-fingered contact with me. It's sooo gross .. I have to try incredibly hard not to vomit and I immediately, while he's still there, go to the sink and sanitize my hands. Sorry, dude. You're sick.

So, now that we've caught up on my most recent crazy customer, next on the plate is Insanity Day 4! It is certainly kicking my ass thus far and my legs and shoulders are DREADING today. Like I said yesterday, has the word recovery in it, so cautiously optimistic. Blog post had to be done before workout was completed though because I'm running seriously behind. I still need to workout, shower, upload photo of the days for yesterday and today (I have both uploaded and ready! Officially caught up ..thank god!!), make myself presentable and drive to Garrets for a date night. All very exciting things, but leaving me feeling exhausted before they are even completed ahaha

Okay, so now, onto my photos of the day. Both were taken in my lightbox (which, in case you haven't noticed, I adore.) and one is the Eiffel Tower and then todays is the long promised voodoo dolls! Although we have 6 of them, 1 is in Garret's Jeep and I think the other 2 are lost in my car somewhere in their little domes. So, for the time being, we're only getting 50% of the family of dolls :( I will update with all of them as their family increases in size ahahah
So, starting with yesterdays shot, the tower:

So, after that we have my beloved voodoo dolls. They are like my children and Squirt feels the jealousy. He was growling at them today. Perhaps he can feel their negative energy?! ;)

And, unless I am feeling incredibly productive after working out, this is probably the last you'll hear of me today! I will report tomorrow what the day involving recovery was like! Enjoy your lazy Sunday folks :)

Stormy Saturday!

Wow the weather sucks. So much so, that I actually got the call at work to shut down early!! So now it's 8.43PM and I'm curled up in my bed in my PJs :) Life is certainly good.

Along with having the day shut down early, I also did Insanity Day 3 today - Cardio. It sucked SO. MUCH. I love this program but I actually have tears when performing it from shear effort. It's insane and crazy. When I watch the people who perform this, my mind is blown. How are they keeping up? I will never know. So for now, let me just say tomorrow has the word 'recovery' in it. I am hoping that means 'easier than the fit test'. I remain cautiously optimistic until I attempt it.

Along with that, my mothers poor little blue car is broken. Poor little thing. So now we're sharing faithful Civic until the Mini is restored to full health! So, for now, I'm at the mercy of my parents and their willingness to drive me places ahaha. So I survived Saturday evening at work without my car, now I just have to get through Sunday, Monday& Tuesday. Ugh, how I dread all those wasted hours of life at that place.

Alrighty, now onto my photos. I have yesterdays. I SWEAR I will get caught up with this project before 11.59PM this evening. I promise. I am holding myself accountable to the people of my blog. Procrastination kills me.

So, this is my dog. We have already met him, in the light box. This time we meet him in the form of 'this is what I look like as a regular scruffy dog. Just walking around.'. I hope you love this photo of him as much as I do <3

Busy days ..

So my grandmother passed away on Tuesday, almost immediately after I submitted my post on that day. Sad days and busy days filled with pity hugs and looks. So thankful the being on display part of that is over. My two baby cousins were so sad it would break anybody's heart.

Phemia passing away led to quite the adventure for Garret and I on Tuesday evening though. Matthew left STU and got the bus to Truro, where Garret and I picked him up. Now, if it were any two other people in the world besides myself and my boyfriend .. this trip would have been smooth sailing. Due to it being us, however, we encountered a massive amount of snow and ice. It started in Baddeck and progressively got worse as we traveled. We went between 50 - 60 the whole way .. it was us in the Civic and transfer trucks. The roads were a mess .. we left at 7.30PM and arrived at the Truro bus stop at 12AM. After that, we turned around and drove home. We arrived home at 6.20AM. So yes, that would be 10 hours and 50 minutes to get to Truro and back. It was, needless to say, painful. It was also, however, a recurring trend in how Garret and I travel. Allow me a quick review of trips in storms:

1. Truro to get Matthew: Snow storm.
2. Halifax for Alicia& Nick's wedding: Rain and wind storm.
3. Halifax for shopping: Rain / sleet / snow storm.
4. Halifax to catch plane for Cuba: Massive snow storm.
5. Halifax with Rob to pick Garret up: Rain and wind storm.

And really, that is just what can think of off the top of my head. We have probably only traveled 3 - 4 times where the weather wasn't absolutely terrible. It would be funny if it wasn't so not funny. It is like God sees us get in vehicle to travel more than 40 minutes and BAM. Storm .. just in case we were planning on enjoying our drive. Thanks, God.

We did survive the drive, and everyone slept peacefully and for a long time. Except me. I slept for 1.5 hours. Since Wednesday morning I have added 5 more hours of sleep to that. Fabulousss.

So then on Wednesday we did a whole lot of nothing .. and then Thursday, A.K.A yesterday, we went to the wake for 2 hours and I could not go back from 7 - 9. Instead, we went out to Don Cherry's where I had a delicious chicken quesadilla and Cherry chips. Yum.

Easily the highlight of yesterday? Baby Grady and baby Finn, Garret's nephews. They are so sweet and so I spent all evening giving kisses to Finn and pretending to steal Grady's toes (a much more humane version of what was done to the children in my family ahahah). We ate some ice cream .. watched some X-Weighted and Last 10 Pounds and then Garret and the kids went to bed, so I went home ahahah.

Now, it's Friday. Tonight I am planning on doing nothing . if I could sleep, that would be wonderful. As it stands, I will probably lay awake and watch Big Bang Theory until early hours in the morning. Then, I will text Margaret and we will go to the gym and break a sweat. After that, I may or may not shower before heading into my favorite place in the entire world: COGANS! YAY. If I smell, perhaps fewer customers will try to engage in prolonged conversations with me. This is a theory definitely worth testing out.

The thing I am looking most forward to in the coming days is, quite obviously, my very first ever attempt at hot yoga (Bikram) on Monday! I was alright at yoga in my P90X days, however .. it has been months since I've even really bothered to stretch so this will be an adventure. Thank goodness for Meghan, who will probably kick my ass but at least we will be able to laugh about the whole thing. I'm just praying I don't pass out or do something else equally awkward.

Long life update #1: Complete.


Quick update to this update: I have officially started Project 365. Welcome to your first installment of photo I've taken+ written words. I present: A flower. Hopefully my creativity will increase or else you folks are getting a lot of flowers and puppies over the next 364 days!