I'd like to do a lovely year in review type of post but to be honest I'm a bit too lazy and a bit too tired today. I've been dealing with a nasty eye issue that seems to be getting worse with the antibiotic drops. Before the drops it was just sore and teary, now it's swollen, sore, teary and wait for it....there's puss oh yes puss! Apparently that's a good thing as the infection is coming out but I for one think it's disgusting and just had to share it with my lovely readers! My eye was actually sealed shut this morning.......

Gross

Anyway onto the upbeat beautiful life is fuzzy and wonderful part of this post. I've been fortunate enough to spend this year with many amazing friends and of course my wonderful family! I love them all to bits even during the maddening times they've all taught me something. I was fortunate enough to do some soul searching with guidance from an amazing teacher which to be honest really changed my outlook on myself and life in general. I feel like I'm in a much better place than I have been in a very very long time and for that I will be forever thankful!

I've met some amazing new people and have rekindled some old friendships! I've laughed, cried and I'm finally getting my ass in shape with the help of my lovely trainer.

2009 was very good to me and I'm hoping that 2010 will be even better! I can't wait to see what it has in store for me! So I raise a glass to all of my wonderful friends out in cyberpace wherever it is you may be! Cheers and a very happy new year to each and every one of you!

I'm still working on my resolution......

Lame-o it's okay-o! That's going to be the extent of this post as it's been a very busy week much like I'd imagine everyone else has had. Visiting with family and friends, shopping, parties.....I'm just about ready to spend an entire day in bed.

I've stuffed myself silly with dips and pies and of course have been neglecting the gym. I'm apparently going to make up for it this week though as I have that dreaded
2nd session with the trainer. I desperately wanted to cancel it but decided to suck it up instead.

I'm off all week but it doesn't seem there will be much time to rest. I was hoping to get to some of these goals but alas they may have to wait. It seems December 31st is quickly coming upon us and I have yet to make plans. I'm more of a house party type of gal when it comes to New Year's Eve. You can wear your comfies, play silly games and no one has to worry about driving or cabs or spending a lot of money. I'm keeping my options open this year and who knows where I'll end up as I was thinking a change of pace might be good. I haven't even thought about resolutions .... I should really get to those! So what are your plans for the big ole day and what will you resolve to do?

I had a fabulous weekend that included a date (maybe 2?), yummy Indian food, dancing with great friends and crawling in at 5am. It was busy busy busy and I loved the music the DJ's played at the Blow Up! I forgot about this song:



There were no Asian Patrick Swayze sightings but I saw a few of the old cats in suits out and about but the place was jammed so it was hard enough to manoeuver around let alone look for people. We went for food afterwards and a person I had met at the bar happened to be on the street so we invited him along. Apparently I'm on a roll in this department.....it's taken me long enough!! Can that be counted as date #4 for my goal list??? It involves a stranger, food, phone number.....(date #3 happened earlier in the day but more on that on my goal list update I'm definitely interested in #3).

I had a lot of fun however Sunday was a very lazy day, I didn't do much at all other than go out for dinner. I had wanted to check out these cute Fluevog sandals that were on sale but really had no energy to drive all the way down there and try to find parking.

I also tried this new workout the other day with a trainer and this may be TMI but it's seriously hard to sit and/or get out of the sitting position....I'm talking in the car, in a chair.....on the toilet! It's brutal everything hurts! I look ridiculous trying to walk up and down the stairs.....so yeah I signed up for another session at the time of the 1st one which I'm now regretting! Do I cancel, do I suck it up??

It's that time of year....where I stay *gasp* away from malls and stores. I know it's hard to believe but I'm VERY serious about this! I can't stand the crowds nor the incessant looping of horrific Christmas songs. I mean really.....really.....(I'm making one of my WTF faces)people enjoy this???

I don't understand the appeal however I will admit to enjoying a few holiday songs! When these come on the radio my face brightens up, I get a bounce in my step and yes I sing along. While I do love Wham (Wake me up before you go go anyone, anyone?) I'm really not a fan of Mariah at all though I do love this song. Go ahead Judgey McJudgers, I can take it. I like a Mariah Carey song....there I said it!



All I Want For Christmas by Mariah Carey




Last Christmas by Wham



They also play a lot of these song during the season which I enjoy:

Happy Christmas by John Lennon & Yoko




Santa Baby by Madonna




Please Come Home For Christmas by Bon Jovi (or the Eagles I like both)




Hmmmm I guess I like a lot more "Christmas" songs than I thought I did shhhhh don't tell anyone! What are your favourites? Even the Scrooges out there....you must like one or two.

Enjoy the last weekend before the madness begins! I shall find myself out of town whooping it up in the big city!! Our old haunt is having a reunion of sorts so I expect to have a fabulous time.....I'm dying to see if Asian Patrick Swayze will be there!!! Oh how I've missed him so and the various other characters we'd see on a Saturday night!

Maybe it's just me but I'm finding a lot of people annoying/rude lately. Some I know, others are complete strangers but for the love of god people STOP complaining, especially about things you cannot change. Example, LD and I were in line recently at a store buying gifts, there was a family in front of us and a man behind us. As soon as the man got in line he started whining to no one in particular "ugh, they should have more than one register open at this time of year." (please note said store was NOT busy). He continued to sigh loudly, mutter to himself and we thought that surely his head would pop off when the cashier called for a price check. Eventually a 2nd register opened up.......now one would assume the next people in line IE us would be the first to enter that line.....nope....the big whiner made a run for it. Neither of us particularly cared as clearly the whinger was in a much bigger hurry than anyone else in the store. I felt like turning around and telling him to shut the fuck up! Pissing and moaning wasn't going to make his or our waiting in line experience any better and it wasn't going to accomplish a whole hell of a lot.

I've also been to stores with people who are rude to the sales people and it drives me bonkers. I get it everyone is tired, we're over worked, have a million things to do and very few hours in which to get them done. Maybe I've just become overly sensitive to such things but a lot can be said of someones tone and facial expressions and sometimes I find it horrifically embarrassing the way the sales people are being treated. Every now and again I'll point this out to the ill behaved patron and once in a while I'll get a "did I?" but more often than not they defend themselves, tell me I'm wrong.....ad nauseum.

I took a course recently which I won't get into but it had a lot to do with working on ones soul, getting to the nitty gritty of ones beliefs, where they come from and things like gratitude and really living life to the fullest. It did change me ever so slightly and I find I have less tolerance for negativity, I want to surround myself with light and love and positive energy. I just find excessive complaining/rude behaviour extremely draining and I don't care to be around it.

We're all going to have bad days and yes even yours truly uses her horn more than the average person whilst driving but if your pattern is to constantly bitch and complain, make comments about every single thing going on around you "he cut me off" "hurry up, what's taking so long" etc etc it's time to take a breath and just relax. I remember sitting at a light once in a car with a friend while this guy just stood on the corner. He looked as though he was going to cross in front of us (on his green light) but didn't. When our light turned green he decided to walk right in front of our car as if he had the right of way. We both stared for a moment, shrugged and continued our conversation. We even got a giggle out of the situation and such things have happened several times since. I'm not sure what hanging my head out the window screaming "it's not your turn!" or "can't you see the light!" would have accomplished other than raising my blood pressure. Hence why I did not tell the man in line to shut it, it just would have made both of us angry. Maybe I'm just mellowing out in my old age!

Please take note that I'm well aware of the fact that I'm complaining about how I dislike people complaining :) It would be much different if every post was me bitching and moaning incessantly.

Goal List Update

Working On:

#24 Try a new recipe once a week for 16 weeks 14/16

I was convinced that I had found the secret recipe for Anna Olson's amazing lemon squares and I was thrilled!!! Umm yeah dream on sucka these turned out NOTHING like her delightful treats, they were okay but not what I had hoped for ... les sigh...

These two recipes were a flop as well as far as I'm concerned. Chile encrusted Scallops with a Cucumber Cashew salad. I wasn't a fan of either.

Yay finally!! This recipe was lovely, a veggie curry! You know I've never made curry myself and it wasn't bad at all in fact I'm looking forward to making this again. It was super easy and super good! (Hey BB you forgot to mention I say super wayyyy too much) I might even try the President's Choice Naan bread to accompany it next time.

I was due for a good smoothie recipe and I found one yay!!! This one has frozen raspberries, peaches and vanilla yogurt. Seriously, it was so bloody good, I haven't had a smoothie in eons and this one was just delightful.

14. Take vitamins every day for 90 days (10/90)

Ugh! Enough said!!!


#35 Read all of the unread books on my shelf 13/35

I have very minimal room for my books at the moment and I'm trying to read some of the ones that I've been given or borrowed for the hell of it. I will most likely read them and then donate them to the women's shelter sale or wherever and thus will free up space on my bookshelf for the ones I will keep and enjoy. Swimming in the Ocean by Catherine Jenkins was one that I took from a friend, it sounded relatively interesting and I suppose that it was in it's own way. Actually at first I disliked it very much and wondered how I was possibly going to get through the whole book. In the middle I got used to her writing style and started to enjoy the novel a bit more than I had imagined I would. Will I keep it....certainly not. I'll pass it along to the next person perhaps someone that will appreciate it more than I was able to.

Completed:

22. Whiten my teeth at the dentist office

Good thing I know some swanky friends as these suckers cost upwards of $350 for a silly plastic (or whatever it's made of) tray. Mine is going to cost me a few vanilla sprinkle donuts instead so I certainly can't complain. The one thing I like about myself is my teeth.....and now they're going to be even more lovely and white! Yay!!!

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Sidenote: What the fuck is up with this weather?? It's -7 and the winds are reaching 90 km/h brrrrrrr makes me want to curl up and stay in with a nice cup of tea!! Or a fancy drink from starbucks....I'm drooling for an eggnog latte right now! Enjoy the weekend!

So I opened up my email and saw they had added some new seats to an Andrea Bocelli/David Foster concert. I wouldn't snub my nose at these two men so I clicked on the link for the hell of it. To my surprise the 5th row popped up as my choice (man this is getting better and better) the concert Gods have smiled upon me not once but twice in the past week. I quickly called my mother and then burst out laughing when she answered.....never mind I said. Turns out I forgot to look at the price of said tickets......ummm yeah they were over $500 a ticket.....$1034.00 for two. Thankfully I was smart enough to let my eye wander down to that part of the page, sometimes I'm a bit lax with such things and in the excitement of it all press the purchase button and THEN look at the price. That would have been a bit of a surprise!

My time off has been fabulous and I still have a few more days left before I go back yay!!! The salvation army will surely love me as I've been doing a spring cleaning of sorts and have bags and bags of goodies to donate. I haven't gotten to as many goals as I would have liked, figured I would spend my time reading and such but I've been quite lax in that area granted I've run about a thousand errands it seems this week.

I went with the gals this weekend to the King Tut exhibit which was really quite amazing. I was fascinated by his sandals, the jewelry the statues and just everything in the exhibit it was quite surreal to see. We hit up T & T's for some dim sum and grocery shopping woo hoo and then went back to J's for some pre drinking (it's like we're 19 again) and then off to a pub. It was a great night and we slept in till ohhhh the noon hour at which time we woke up to J bringing us super yummy bagels. Thanks doll!!!

LD and I went shopping downtown and I bought these super cute earrings though the picture does not do them justice. They're little skulls make with swarovski crystals and they shine like crazy. Love them!!! I also found some lululemon sweats to replace my old ones yay!! I've been looking for a thicker pair and finally found some pants as well as a comfy hoodie! Good thing as it was time for a new pair, my previous jacket and pants had been VERY well loved and had been fading and looking rather worn. Anyway I had a great weekend stuffing my face, hanging with the girls and of course shopping!!! It looks like I might have to do it all over again next weekend....yay!!!