Father's Day

Hi everyone.

I am not sure why but I am much more emotional on Father's Day this year than in previous years.  I was reading a lot of nice, touching, poeteic tributes to fathes today on FB.  Then my friend posted this update:

Happy Father's Day to all of the amazing Dad's out there...and EXTRA warm wishes to those for whom this is a tough day. xo

And then I saw the Google logo for today:

And I lost it.  Traci asked why are you crying? I miss my dad, I told her.  I'm sorry she said.  Then Trina gave me a kiss.

The girls made Gerry's favourite type of cake for him.  He appreciated it.  :))

Gerry and I had a great trip to Boston this weekend for the Stanley Cup parade.  Pictures and more details to follow.  It was a trial run for our 2 week trip in July to South Carolina and Kentucky.

Toodles!

Anyone want to join a walking club in Hamilton????

So far it is a club of one. :)  I cannot find another one in Hamilton that meets more than once/week except for the one that walks Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings when I am at church. Not an option.

My friend, A, has inspired me.  I cannot run half marathon run like she did but I CAN walk!  My first goal is to get up to 5kms at once!   Right now my limit is about 1.5-2 kms.  I chose 5 kms because it is a nice round number and because it is approximately how far it is on the Hamilton (accessible I have been told) walking trails to get to the new pedestrian bridge over the highway and to the beach on the other side!  The beach!!  I can bus it home from there.  How about the out-there dream of being able to walk both ways??!!!


A walking club would be great because I could meet more people. I want to walk more, get out, increase my fitness and endurance, meet some new friends and maybe lose some weight too! Tell your friends! Message me or comment if you are interested.  I live a VERY sheltered life right now and that is not pleasing to God.  I am certainly being a light on a hill.  I am hidden right now, being selfish and not getting out and about and sharing God's love.


Matthew 5:14

"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

That is going to change.  I am going to change.


What I have eaten today:
very late Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries and peanut butter bars crumbled into it

Lunch
no lunch on account of the late breakfast

Dinner
sausages, mashed potatoes, veggies

EDIT: that lunch I didn't eat?  I ate it at 9 pm.  I was hungry!  The other half of yesterday's panzarotti. YUM!

PLUS
ONE cup of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate
1 Mudslide

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

Visitor from Toronto!

My aunt came to visit me from Toronto on Tuesday and she treated me to lunch.  We had a good time! She got stuck in BAD traffic on the QEW so we had less time together that we thought we would have.  She dropped me off downtown on her way out of the city and I walked King/Bay to Main/Wellington 1.4 kms.

PS Wasn't that a brutal hockey game on Monday night??!!  I hope Vancouver got all of that out of their system.


What I have eaten today:
Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries and peanut butter bars crumbled into it

Lunch
half of a pepperoni, mushroom and bacon panzarotti

Dinner
1 bowl of Oatmeal Crisp nat 9 pm.  I was full from that panzarotti at lunch!

PLUS
ONE cup of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

Spending time with friends again!!

I have sent emails to some friends and sisters asking if we can get together when it is convenient for them. Like we used to.  :(  Someone asked me not too long ago about how I spend my days.  I was convicted!!  What AM I doing besides some walking by myself and errands and computer time and time with God?  I need to be doing things WITH OTHER PEOPLE!!!

After leaving the chiropractor on Monday, I walked 1.2 kms.

And then I had lunch with a sister from church.  I have started initiating again with regards to lunches and coffees with friends and sisters.  (Although what am I going to have when I used to always have coffee now that I am basically having 1 coffee in the morning?)It feels so good to be out and about again!!  I have had my walker since the end of February but it has taken me this long to get back into the swing of things.  I guess it's a process and I have to give myself some grace.  :)

What I have eaten today:
Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries and peanut butter bars crumbled into it

Lunch
1 toasted turkey BLT at Tim Horton's

Dinner
tuna casserole

PLUS
cups of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate
My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

Great day for a bike ride!

Trina and I went for a bike ride after dinner tonight.  It was much too hot to go before then.  I am a bit frustrated in that I can't measure the whole distance we biked because calculating distance using directions in Google Maps only seems to work only if you stay on roads. We went 1.15 kms, plus about another 300-400 m on the paved trail around the baseball diamonds in the park.  So let's call it 1.5 kms today.  How is that?  :))

I bought an odometer for my bike tonight on eBay.  :)

I am drinking more water these days too!

What I have eaten today:
Breakfast
no breakfast

Lunch
1 BBQ sausage

Dinner
cheese quesadillas

PLUS
2 cups of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

Incredible thunderstorms!

The thunderstorms the other night were amazing!!  HUGE claps of thunder.  Bright longh forks of lightning.

We saw Trina's high school's performance of Grease on Saturday night.  All 4 of us went.  Mom & Bruce and his grand daughter came too.  2 members of the cast are teens in our church.  I am so proud of them!  Many of the cast members are Trina's friends as well.  It was a fabulous show!!

What I have eaten today:

Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries

Lunch
no lunch

Dinner
hamburger!

PLUS
2 cups of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

I did a lot of walking today!!

I had lots of errands to do on Friday so I walked 1.5 kms and then took the bus the rest of the way to the mall.

Then I met Trina downtown and walked another 1.4 kms

2.9 kms in one day!

You know how people like my friend A, who train for and run 10k runs?  I wonder if there are any 5k walks around that I could work towards?

What I have eaten today:
Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries and peanut butter bars crumbled into it.

Lunch
no lunch :(

Dinner
2 pieces pepperoni pizza

PLUS
2 cups of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

Lunch with a friend today!!

I did what is becoming my usual walk after going to the chiropractor today...1.4 kms from Queenston/Woodman to Queenston/Parkdale.

I went for lunch with a new friend today.  K is the fiancée of one of the brothers in the church.  The whole congregation is just thrilled for them.  They make an awesome couple!

I was not able to go to my friend's brother's wake tonight.  :((  I woke up from my afternoon nap with a very bad back and I knew I could not stand the more-than-an-hour-long drive each way.  My back complains very loudly after only a few minutes in a car.  I iced it and it helped some.

What I have eaten today:

Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and peanut bar crumbled into it

Lunch
Yogurt parfait with granola (very similar to my breakfast smoothie) and coffee at McDonald's

Dinner
grilled cheese sandwich

PLUS
2 cups of coffee with flavoured creamer
NO chocolate

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

June is here!

And it is glorious outside!  25 degrees Celsius and breezy.
Midweek tonight!!

What I have eaten today:

Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries and peanut bars crumbled into it.

Lunch
leftovers chicken quesadillas but they were NO WHERE NEAR AS GOOD without salsa. (We finished the salsa the other night)

Dinner
Spaghetti with home made sauce AND garlic bread I am making right now in the bread maker.

Actually it is the 2nd loaf that is mixing right now.  I am making two loaves.  One for us tonight and one for my friend's family whose brother just passed away on Sunday.  I am also bringing spaghetti sauce and spaghetti for them.

PLUS
2 cups of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

Tues May 31 I love IKEA furniture!

It was REALLY hot today!  High of 34C but humidex of 42C!!!  I did go for a walk, though.  Before we reached the high temperature of the day.  When I went out to Subway to get my free breakfast, I walked home 1.2 kms  I was home by 10:30 am and I did not go out until 6 pm when it was STILL stinkin' hot!!!

Fun times tonight with Traci!  We went to her place Tuesday night and assembled her dresser.  We also mapped out her room in terms of furniture by placing masking tape on the floor where each of the pieces of furniture would go.  I should have taken a picture before we left of the empty room with the masking tape on the floor, but I did not think of it.  :(( Here are picture,s though, of the dresser we put together.  They are not difficult to assemble, but they always seem to take longer than I think they will.

Lots of pieces!!!

Still need the drawers and the back.

We got the back on.  But no one can notice that we put it on upside down, right???  :)

Finished product!!  This photo is from the IKEA website.  My photo was awful!

What I have eaten today:
Breakfast
FREE coffee plus a ham and cheese and egg sandwich with added green peppers at Subway! 

Lunch
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries and peanut b

Dinner
PLUS
3 cups of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate 

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-

Toodles!

Sunday May 29

Sunday was a full day.  Trina and I went to church in the morning, which is always awesome!  But Sunday May 29 was a special day.  All the churches across Canada in our fellowship:

TORONTO (1985), VANCOUVER (1990), MONTREAL (1992), CALGARY (1995), OTTAWA (1995), WINNIPEG (1997), HALIFAX (1997), HAMILTON (2001), EDMONTON (2001), NEWMARKET (2005), TRI-CITIES (2005), QUEBEC (2003)

were fasting for what we are calling the Canada 20/20 Vision.  The Vision includes international and regional co-operation, conferences, Canadian School of Missions, Canadian Teachers Training, Hope Youth Corps, planting new churches and a lot more.  So all across Canada, disciples were fasting on the last Sunday of May.  It is going to be an annual event.  I cannot fast from food because of my meds.  I fasted from coffee.  That was a sacrifice!  Silly me forgot to bring water to church to drink in place of the coffee.

On Sunday, we had a family BBQ at Mom & Bruce's place.  Everyone was there, plus my aunt N who is up visiting from NB.  We had a great time.  Gerry left VERY early.  My cousin drove the girls and I home in an amazing thunder and lightning rain storm.  I kept my eyes closed and face covered against the flashing lightning the whole way home from St Catharines to Hamilton.

When we got home from the BBQ, I saw on a Facebook posting from my friend that her brother had died.  He was only 45.  A sad day for sure, but my friend is happy her little brother is no longer suffering.  I want to go to the funeral on Friday.  I am praying to get a ride worked out to be able to go.



What I have eaten today:
Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries

Lunch
peanut butter on toast

Dinner
BBQ hamburger plus potato and pasta salads at a family BBQ
plus 1 birthday cupcake with icing and sprinkles  :)

PLUS
ZERO cups of coffee with flavoured creamer-I was fasting from coffee
some chocolate

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-
3rd set-
Toodles!

Monday May 30

|I went to the chiroprator this am. Then I walked partway home.  1.4 km walk from Queenston/Woodman across the Red Hill Pkwy to Queenston/Parkdale

Monday evening was fun.  My friend, R's birthday is in early June.  Every year I treat her to decadent cake or cheesecake and coffee at Williams Café.  And she does the same for me.  It is perfect that our birthdays are almost exactly 6 months apart.  :)  We both had chocolate explosion cheesecake and coffee.  They brewed a fresh pot of decaf for us so we had our cake before they brought us our coffee.  R and I put our forks down after a couple of bites, because we needed a drink!  The cake was SO rich!  Our coffee soon came but I would have been just as happy with a tall glass of milk!

R and I go out for coffee every week on Mon nights.  Summer time is more difficult because of her son's soccer and her weekend trips to the cottage.  But we try.  Williams, though, is reserved for twice a year.  That keeps it special.  I really enjoy it.

What I have eaten today:

Breakfast
1 smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, 1 egg, bananas and strawberries and crumbled peanut butter bars

Lunch
no lunch because breakfast was quite late

Dinner
whole wheat chicken quesadillas with chicken, cheese and salsa! VERY YUMMY!!!

PLUS
2 cups of coffee with flavoured creamer
some chocolate

My exercise routine. Each set includes:
Leg extensions-10 reps each leg
Bridges-5 reps
Plank or V-sit-15 seconds
Stairs-2 sets each time
1st set-
2nd set-

Toodles!