Happenings

To quote every other blogger today, my brain is full and I can't write anything big...so here's fluff.

School is meh. It's boring, learning common sense is draining and I really do not like going. I have 3 weeks left and I can't wait. I need a change from some of my prof's. 

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Do you ever feel like you are always on the go? Of course you do. I'm cutting back on my hours at work because with school, working out and work  and every little thing in between. I haven't been mentally healthy the past few weeks. 

I'm trying to find time each day to do something that brings me joy. Like reading or watching my favourite show. I need "me" time which is healthy and good!

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I joined the YMCA two weeks a go and love it. So so so much. Mostly I'm doing body pump classes and a few barre classes (couldn't walk for 2 days, that's how good it was) I even woke up at 5:35am to get on time to the 6:30am body pump class. 

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Alex is moving again. But so much closer! Come december 1st we will live in the same city! No more long distance relationship for us. yay. 

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Yesterday my next half marathon clinic started. I misses it because I literally could not see out of my eye (something was in there)  but I can't wait to see new faces and all my friends that I haven't seen in 3 weeks! 

Monday Thoughts

• It's the middle of May and it's feels like the middle of October in Toronto. Yesterday it was a high of 9, with flurries in some areas of Ontario and Environment Canada issued a frost warning. Mother nature is cruel. Cruel I tell you. 

• Yesterday was my brother Ryan and Danielle (my Sister in Law's) 1st wedding anniversary. That year went very fast!

• Turns out Alex and I have the same dating anniversary as Ryan and D. How crazy is that?!

• I joined weight watchers again last night. My goal is to lose 14-17 pounds. So far it is going well. I just had lunch and completely starving. The old me would say "go eat more" but I know I've had enough. I'll just continue to eat my baby carrots. 

Tidbits...not Timbits

-My birthday was AMAZING! Re-cap to come soon!

-I hate when it snows near my birthday and nothing grinds my gears more than it snowing after my birthday! Spring hurry!

-I need spring to come because I can't stand treadmill running anymore. I went to the gym after class today to run 6.4km and 2k in was completely bored. I couldn't finish which made me so upset.

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Monday Bullets

It's monday morning so that alone should excuse the fact that I'm writing a random post.

• Half-marathon training is painful going great. I ran 14k on Saturday and was up until 2am with knee pain. Not fun. But? Worth it. 
• I really want to run the Disney World Half Marathon next February. It better be held during my reading week! It would be so cool to travel to run a race. 
• I started reading Gone Girl on Friday. So so so good! 

• I have Tuesdays and Fridays off school this semester and let me tell you. That is uh-mazing! 
• I'm taking Alex to hot yoga tomorrow, lets see how this "professional golfer" stands up to the heat

Wednesday Randoms

• As my other university friends are getting into day 3 of classes, I'm still enjoying the last few days of my 5 week Christmas break. And? I'm not bored at all. Sleeping till 9am, slowly getting out of head and running have become my new daily routine and I will miss it. Not looking forward to essays at.all!

• I started tracking my food intake right after New Years, and have lost 2 pounds. Thanks MyFitnessPal! 

• Half marathon training is going great. I wont tell you about my embarrassing bathroom emergency that happened on Saturday. Felt like an 80 year old person! 

• Friday is special. It's Alex and mine 6 month (dating) anniversary. We're getting dressed up, having dinner at Wayne Gretzky's restaurant and seeing a comedy show tomorrow. 

Friday Randoms

Hope everyone is having a great day and looking forward to the long weekend. It's been a crazy week here, I had two mid-terms this week. I won't apologize for not blogging much because I don't want blogging to all I do and run my life.

• First off, my heart is heavy today as one of my bloggy friends Jenn is at the hospital visiting her very sick gramma. Jenn wrote a great post explaining just how sick she is with stage 4 lung cancer. For all those prayer warriors out there, please include Jenn's Gramma in your prayers tonight. And pray for Jenn and her family as they need comfort.

• I'm on reading week! So looking forward to having a week off. My plans? Sleep and homework. Sleep to get rid out the dark bags under my eyes. And yes, I should do some homework, get those assignments out of the way.

• Things for my brothers wedding is coming a long nicely. Right now, Danielle's sisters and I are planning the Jack and Jill which is on March 24th. I've never been to one but from what Danielle tells me, it's a big party with prizes. I am beyond excited for this wedding!

• Wanna knows what sucks? Getting a bleeding nose during my run this morning. Nothing like standing in the middle of the sidewalk gushing blood. Thank goodness I had a Kleenex in my back pocket! #closeone!

Friday Randoms

How about some randoms from Sarah's head to start your morning? Grab a cup of coffee and sit back :)

• This time next week I'll be on reading week! Thank goodness for a week off. I plan to start my many assignments that are due in march and I'm going to placement on the wednesday!

• I am getting so excited for my brother's wedding in may! Our invitation came on wednesday and most of my family has gotten theirs too.

• My mom and I are having a bridal shower for Danielle on March 10th. The theme is spring and our colours are pink and coral. We are so excited!

• I'm running another 5k race on sunday. I want to finish in under 28 minutes. That is do-able for me but I'm getting nervous because the weather is supposed to be really cold with 1-3cm of snow!

• Can I tell you how much I love thursday evenings? Getting home by 5pm and watching grey's anatomy at 9pm is something I look forward to every week. A good change from rushing to work and watch grey's the next day.

• I went to Starbucks after my first class yesterday to study and grab a Vanilla Rooibus Latte, and I  didn't get those new valentines day cups! Talk about a sad Sarah.

• My mom got facebook over the weekend. Yes, the women who at least once a week bashes it saying people should talk face to face or facebook is stupid. 5 days in and she already hates it. And if she's anything like my dad on facebook then I won't be accepting her anytime soon. The man comments on everything!

• Wish me luck on my race! Please pray to the snow gods that it doesn't snow or be cold!

I'm sure you're dying to know.

I've seen this cute little post around the blog world lately from Katie and Rachel.

Guilty pleasure?

Starbucks Skinny Peppermint Mocha. Only 100 calories or 2 points on Weight Watchers!

MMM :) 

Recent splurge?

Even though the I have go into Eaton Center go get home, I stay away from it becasuse a) I'll spend all my money and  b) christmas is a'coming. I did spend almost $50 at Trade Secrets when I treated myself to OPI Muffets :) And we all agree how pretty they are. 

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In bulk, I buy?

Nutella. Enough said. 

My go-to flower?

I love peonies. I've already decided that those are my flowers for my wedding. You know, to my guy I haven't met..yet :) 

                                                                                                   

Comfort food?
Pizza, pizza and oh ya...pizza.  

For breakfast?

Smoothies.  Banana, some sort of berries, OJ and source yog. Sometimes I'll do a piece of toast. 

For dinner? 

Pasta and salads :)

Love/hate relationship with?
School work. I love school, love knowing that I'm working towards a great degree but sometimes? I want to be lazy. December 5th can't come fast enough!

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Can't stop watching?
To be honest. I don't have time to sit around watching mind-less tv right this second. I do watch my favourites though. You know, HIMYM, Teen Mom/16 & Preggy, Glee, The office, Grey's. 



Dreaming about?
December 5th at 3pm when I'll begin my 5 weeks off :) Oh and Christmas Specials

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My favourite one!

Crushing on?

I love him. 

Every girl should have?

Pretty Nail polish. A great night sleep. 

My style in five words?
Preppy.Girly. Sophisticated.




I love wearing?

Right now? My roots sweats and an old camp shirt. hot eh?!

This is what I want to wear to my Brother's reception dinner in May. To bad the only stores are in Europe and Florida. Guess I'll be making a road trip to sunny Florida :)

Dream job?

A grade 1 teacher. 

I dream about the day that I'll have 20, 7 year olds calling me Ms. Hannon. 

Blogging PSA

Now that I've been blogging for 10 months (say wha?) I have a few things to get off my chest about blogging.

~ If you follow a blog, then the least you good do every once and a while is comment! For example: There are some people that follow me and yet have never commented! Never. Why have me show up in your reader yet never comment? *I totally feel like I'm going to lose followers now*

If you are reading this and haven't said hi lately? Well what are you waiting for?



~ Expanding from that, I know commenting and reading AND writing on your own blog is a lot sometimes, but for me, the blogs that I follow, I 90% of the time comment on. I guess I think its nice to do.



~ Can we stop with the comment verification, please. You know, the word which really aren't words that you have to type in just get your comment published? That. It's kinda annoying to be honest.



~ When someone comments on my blog, I always email them back commenting on their comment. Makes sense? So when people say "you look fab" or "aww your cat is so cute", I write back saying "thanks!" Or something a little personal. Always.
So when I comment on your blog regularly and you never respond? Makes me think you a)you don't read them so I feel like I wasted my time and b) Makes me think you *might* have a snobby bone in your body. There I said it.
I say might because there are bloggers I follow that get 100 comments a day, for realz, so ya, I understand that you can't respond to every single one. But maybe just once an a while?




*I apologize if I have upset anyone from what I have wrote. These are my thoughts and its my blog. Thank you reading, as always. *

Friday Randoms

Many things to catch y'all up on.

~I'm going to a wedding tomorrow! The sweetest couple from church are getting hitched and I was invited :)

can't wait to see you all the gift I gave them.

~School is going good. I've hit mid-terms so if I'm not around it's because my face is in a book. Different from facebook.

~I finally made friends! I had one friend named Joanne who I met back in august for orientation and we manged to get classes together. She made friends in her friday class with a few other sweet girls and we all started talking on day after class. I was going to go home right after class but I stayed and had lunch with them and that my friends is how I finally made friends!

~I switched from meetings to doing on-line weight watchers a few weeks back. I used to go every saturday morning at 10:30, now that I'm in school  I can't afford to miss 2.5 hours of my saturday morning for weight watchers. I need that time for homework. So I still follow the program and my "offical" weigh- in is saturdays. It's working!

~Not very news worthy but yesterday I hit over 1000 views to this blog!

~ My brother's wedding is 7 months away and I have decied I want to look smoking hot nice! I'll share my new numbers soon.

~ Heck, I'll share now.

Right now I am 147.8, down 11 pounds since I started ww, many moons ago.
I want to be at 135 by Ryan's wedding! okay, so there are my numbers!

I'm ready to change!

~I want to run another 5km soon. Just need to find on in my area.

Well, I'm off to study!

have a wonderful day, friends!

Currently...

I'm linking up with Jenn today for Currently.

current book(s):

Cowboys are my weakness. Short stories by various authors.

current playlist:

Anything by Lady A and Starfield

 

current color:

Kaola Bear-y by OPI

 

current drink:

Just got my starbucks coffee and water

 

current food:

My daily smoothie with toast

 

current favorite show:

Friday Night Lights of course.

 

current wishlist:

I wish it will thunder storm today!

 

current needs:

More time to watch friday night lights!

 

current triumphs:

back into the 140's finally!

 

current bane(s) of my existence:

My brother eating my grandpa's 90th birthday cake for today. We all are stopping by after dinner to have cake with my g-pa/g-ma and the cake is has a piece missing!

 

current celebrity crush:Just like Jenn, I love Jim from the office.

 

current #1 blessing:

My family

 

current indulgence:

The cake that I will save my points for

 

current outfit:

Oh my lovely lifeguard shirt!

 

current excitement:

Excited for my parents to go away this week! House to my self :)

 

current mood:

Happy!

 

Monday randoms

I've missed being random with you guys! 

~For those prayer warriors out there, I have request. Friday night after I got home from work, my mom told me that my Grandpa (her dad) was in emergency because he might have had a stroke. He came in from being outside shortly after dinner friday night and told my grandma, "I think I had a stroke." Apparently he was watering some flowers and half an hour woke up on the ground. At press time, he's home and resting. Pray for both him and my grandma who is looking after him. 

~Me+diets+vacations=not a good mix. While I was away I went to weight watchers and gained 4.3 flippin pounds the first week and thankfully lost 1.4 the next. Well? Saturday I weighed in and lost 3.4 and my 5%!!!!! Total weight loss....8.4! Only 11 pounds away from goal! 

~I was going to wait till later this week for a surprise post but since I'm on a roll I'll tell ya. The weight loss might be from the 30 day Shred (with Jillian Michaels) that I'm doing. Wednesday is my half way point so except some measurements. (oh gosh, hold me) 

~My brothers wedding date got changed. Nothing big happened. Instead of the 26th of May it'll be the 12th. They wanted it to started at 3pm (its cheaper) instead of 5pm (the original time on the 26th.) Almost 11 months away! Can't wait :) 

~Since the date has changed my family from Alberta can come! If it was on the 26th they couldn't because my cousin Eric is graduating high school on the 25th. They have my uncles family from all over stay over the weekend to celebrate and stuff and there was no way they could make it. But now? They can! When I told my aunt, she started crying. I'll leave the story for another post. It's a goodie! 

~I'm excited to start lifeguarding outside soon! I don't work indoors during the summer (hello? tan!) and close to the end of the month I'll be switching over to outdoor pools! I'm ready for a change, just something new. 

~That being said, I'll miss the other guard that I've worked with for the past year (thats twice a week for 4 hours) and also we've worked together since 2008! Nicole has become such a good friend of mine and I'll miss talking to her all night! I hope we can get together a few times to catch up :) 

happy monday! 

Thursday Randoms

I've missed being random with blogger. So here we go!

On saturday, it was ladies class at church. Karen and I had big roles. She taught the lesson and I lead singing. I don't think I have the best voice but I was honoured that I was asked. I don't know how good i was, my throat was KILLING me.

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Having no tv has it's blessings. Since I'm not camped out on the couch, I have more time to be with God. Over the past few days I've really spent more time in prayer and reading. I know God loves it! :)

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I got a spray tan last wednesday. Now? It's all gone. Yup, $45 dollars down the drain. It shouldn't matter that I was in the water last thursday  for 10 minutes and friday for 30 minutes teaching. I showered each time and put lotion on. And let's not talk about how thursday I woke up and had huge white marks on my neck. It was nasty! I went back and the guy put some tanning lotion on it. Did it work? Just guess. I was excited because I didn't want to use a tanning bed a) I wanted something fast and b) we all know the risks. I'e tried the lotions but I always get streaks. Does anyone use a good kind?

I'm very sad.

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My aunt and uncle always have cats. When I was here a few years a go, I swear there were at least 7. Oh boy was I in heaven! Those kittens? Loved me. This time there are only two. One who hates people and then this little kitten who is the cutest thing eva! Since I pay attention to here, she always wakes up from her nap when I come outside so I can pet here. I love cats!

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In alberta, it's two hours behind toronto time. So when I'm going to bed here at 12 (which is somewhat normal for me) it's really 2am! My body finally told me last night to jump into bed once 10 came around.

well thats enough randoms.

happy thursday!

Send more soup!

I'm sick. 

Very sick. 

Not oh-my-head-hurts kinda of sick. 

I have a throat virus infection.

Sounds lovely doesn't it!? 

I went to the walk-in clinic monday night because my throat was killing me! I got off work too :) I told the doctor that I think I might have strep throat.  I know you have to be in contact with someone who had strep... and I did!

Last wednesday Karen's sister, also named Sarah, ya it gets confusing called her mom while she was at work and was dog sick! Sarah went to the walk-in and came out with strep. Friday (when karen and i saw the lion king) karen called me around noon and said she wasn't feeling good but was still able to come, not that she had a choice! I kid..kinda. Saturday morning karen went to the walk-in and again came out with strep. To say my parents were worried I would get it strep too. I saw karen at church that day and as usual we sat together. At this time she wasn't contagious so she came to church. Bad idea.

Monday I woke up and couldn't talk or swallow! I went to school to volunteer and felt fine but once I got home and stopped talking my throat started hurting...bad... again! Around 3 pm I called my mom and said I didnt feel well. She called my work and said I wouldn't be in. Next stop: the walk-in.

So I walked in and said that I think I might have it. He looked in my throat and said "no, you don't." Harsh much?!  He said I had a viral infection as I said above. He also said if I got worse then come back. I stopped him there and said "listen, I'm going away on friday (yes I fibbed) are you sure it won't turn into strep?! He said it might. In the end I took the prescription and told him I would fill it if I needed too. 

Today? I needed to fill it. 

I woke up at 6am which isn't my normal time, stumbled into the living room where my dad was sitting reading the paper and cried. Cried because my head was killing me. My dads response? "Are you faking?" um NO! He explained that I'm good at acting and wasn't sure. Good one. 

So now I have my meds. Taking advil, eating lots of soup and resting. I admit I did go shopping but only because I needed stuff for my trip sunday. I only lasted 2 hours before I needed a tea from starbucks. 

I hope I can kick this virus before sunday. I can't be sick when I'm away!

I just can't. 

happy wednesday!

  

Monday Ramblings

A lot has happened over the past few days. So much that they can't all a separate post each.
Where to start off? Oh I know.

Saturday I weigh in at weight watchers and lost 2 whole pounds! Total loss is...7.4
I still have a ways to go to get to my goal weight, I'll keep tracking and working out.

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Saturday night was a special one. We (the fam) were invited up to Peterborough to meet my future sis-in
loves family.  Danielle comes from a huge family (her dad is one of 10 kids and each of the kids has 3 or 4 children of their own, she has 37 first cousins just on her dads side!) We got there around 7 and her mom/dad, 2 sisters were there. (Her brother was away at university, so we didn't meet him) It was nice just meeting her immediate family members before the billion others came.

We got to know more about the wedding plans, like who's in the wedding party. Danielle has asked me, her two sisters (who will share maid of honour roles), her cousin. Ryan has picked his BFF Jesse to be his best man, D's brother, and two friends from college.

It was a good evening as I said. D has two sisters, Andrea who is 26 and Shannon who is 20. They both were incredibly sweet to me. Easy to talk too, very fun and outgoing. I'm so excited to see the whole family again. I feel like we will become good friends :)

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With the wedding, I may or may not have already started looking at dresses! I've found two that I like. We (D, her sisters and I) agreed that we would have the same colour but different dresses. I've never liked the idea of having the same dress style. Hello, we all are different!

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I'm going to uni next year! I accepted to Ryerson for Child and Youth Care starting in fall 2011. I'm happy that I decided to go there.

That's about it. Exciting stuff is happening around here! Can't wait to share more.

happy monday.

What I'm loving wednesday!

You might wonder what I'm loving today.

Well let me show you!

• I'm loving the weather! Notice the sarcasm? Ya well it's there. I completely understand snow in the beginning of march. Maybe into the second week. But come one winter throw us a bone! There's what 8 days left of march and it's still snowing? Please go away!  p.s I loved getting splashed by slush while on my way back from the library. Loved it a lot! 

• I'm loving the reno's! So I know that I should't be complaining, but it's now day 3 and I'm beginning to grow bored of it all. I mean I love it when the kitchen people have to be so darn polite and knock on the door at 715am, even though we've told them to just come on in and do their thang. But nooo they would rather knock. Which doesn't sound bad but hey i'm sleeping you don't have to knock! Oh and don't get me started on cooking food. A camper burner isn't as fun as it sounds. 

• I love the fact the my brother order something in the mail but wouldn't tell ANYONE what is inside. My mom and I seriously think it's a ring. My bros gf bday (you like all those acronyms) is on march 31 so um ya I think I'll have a sister-in-law to be soon :) how exciting!

• I'm loving my twitter account. Again NOT! I don't know but recently, I don't really like it. I try and start up a convo with some of my other blog "friends" but it dies down really quickly. Ya so what if I'm new to the blog world, I know you chat all day with others. Okay enough about that. 

• I love that their was a problem at work last night so I texted by boss and called him for help. Did he ever get back to me? Nope. Ask me how impressed I was. Please, ask away. 

I apologize for venting. Ugh. 

Happy Wednesday!  

Friday Ramblings

Warning: This post is full of ramblings, nothing really important. Consider yourself warned.

Ohhh the weather outside is...frightful. We got snow, not a lot, on mondayish and now it's rainy and cold. I swear this time last year I was wearing a sweater and sunglasses. I'm so over winter. Ready for spring and flip flops and sunny weather. Oh man I can't wait.
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I probably won't be able to blog this weekend or even monday/tuesday. I'm doing driving school from 9-2:30 sat-Tuesday. I don't know anybody else that is doing it those days, will ya included me in your prayers? I know I'll make friends but its always nice to know someone.
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I'm so proud of myself this week. I'm trying to lose weight (with weight watchers.) Sunday I said that I would exercise EVERYDAY this week. Along with tracking.
Monday: 1500m lane swim
Tuesday: 1 1/2 hours at gym, doing cardio
Wednesday: 1500m swim again
Thursday: 2 hours at gym, burned 600 calories!
Today: 1500m swim again.
But...when I weighed in today, only lost .2!!!!! Its in the right direction but I seriously thought it would be more!
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I'm thinking about dedicating one day a week on the blog for my weight loss? Thoughts? It might give me an extra push to go longer on the treadmill. Or maybe an excuse to blog!
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Talking about blogging. I think I might get in touch with a fellow blogger who does awesome blog designs. When I "view" my blog it doesn't really do anything for me. It's just "meh" but I wanted "wow".
Anyways just a thought.

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Pray for Japan please! and BC, Hawaii, New Zealand etc.
Natural disasters suck!

That is all.
Enjoy your weekend :)
Hope your having better weather than us.