Traceys Blog

Wow, it’s been a while since I posted.  Well a lot has happened in the last month and a half.  First of all, I was laid off from my job on May 15th after working for the company for 4.5 years.  It was tough at first, I was mad and sad all at the same time.  Even though I was looking for a job for the last month or so before getting laid off.  But for some reason it still hit me a bit hard.  I was then forced to find a new job.  When I was looking before that, there was something stopping me from finding one.  I think it was because I felt as though I would leave the company hanging so to speak if I left.  It all worked out great though, I told myself that I would find a job by the end of May and low and behold I had an interview on May 28th and was offered the job on May 29th, started June 1st.  I really enjoy my new job. There are plenty of new opportunities and learning with this new company.

On to another note.  June 2nd was my 6 month marker for quitting smoking!!!!!! YAY ME .  I am very proud of myself.  There is no going back now.  I hit a pretty stressful moment in my life with losing the job and I did not resort to smoking to ease that stress.

The weight thing has come to a halt for a short time, but I will be getting back to Aqua Fit within the month. I will start walking more often as well.  With my new job I have stopped going out for lunch.  My lunch break is an hour so I will start walking on my lunch break. I will try to make it a 1/2 hour walk each day when I can.

I will try an post at least twice a week from now on, but no promises.

Well lastnight was suppose to be my double class night for Aqua fit but it decided to snow yesterday.  I live on the West Coast and we do not get that much snow in the winter.  Well, this last winter was another story.  We broke records here in the lower-mainland that were from the 1960′s.  Yesterday we got about 6-8 inches of snow and the instructor for the aqua fit class could not get the to leisure centre from her house so both classes were canceled.  I was very disappointed about this.  I really enjoy going to the classes.

This morning when I woke up there was about 6 inches of snow on my car from the snow fall overnight.  I drive my niece to school everyday and this morning my car doors were frozen shut and my key holes were frozen as well.  So I had to use some lock deicer on my key holes and poor hot water over my door frames to get into my car.  My nieces school is about a 10 minute drive from my house and it was in the negatives this morning, I think about -6 C so by the time I got her to school her door already froze shut again.  I was like oh great I hope my door is not frozen again or we are both stuck in the car..haha… thank god it wasn’t so I had to get out of my car and go fight with her door to open!! So anyways I hope tonight’s Aqua fit class is not cancelled.

So last night I was at my friends house and we decided to watch a movie.  During the day at work yesterday one of my coworkers mentioned that he watched Quarantined the night before and it scared him a few times.  I haven’t seen a good scary movie in a long time so I thought why not.  We started to watch it at like 10:30 last night and at first I thought ok, this is really slow and was actually starting to fall asleep. Then after like 20 mins or so it got into the movie.  I must say there were some parts where I had to close my eyes a bit because it was scarring the crap out of me. (LOL)  There was one really scary part that came up near the end of the movie that made my friend yell a bit and jump and when he did that I jumped and almost had a heart attack.  So for those of you out there who have not seen this movie and like scary movies, I suggest that you watch it.  You will not be disappointed.  On a scale of 1-5 for scariness I give it a 5!!  Well have a good night.

So it’s been a while since my last post.  Been addicted to playing world of warcraft with some friends.  Still have not smoked it’s been 5 weeks.  I’m really proud of myself for that.  I have been looking into the aqua fit program at the local lesisure centre.  The schedule does not seem to bad, i think I can fit it into my day.  It is only 3 times a week which I think is good for me right now.  I am going to start bringing my own lunch to work and some healthy snacks.  I have said a lot but I think I am ready to start now.  I am not happy with my weight at all so why not do something about it right.  Besides that everything is going pretty good work and life wise.  Still need to get out of debt but who doesn’t.  Anyway will post again soon.

Today is day 28 of not smoking.  Yay me.  January 2nd will be one month woo hoo.  My Christmas was pretty good this year.  The 24th was spent with some really close friends and the 25th I spent with my family.  It was a pretty small Christmas this year as all of my family was up north in Prince George.  My youngest nephew was in Texas for the holidays.  But all was good.  Very relaxing.  We had lots of snow this year.  My yard had about 2.5 feet or maybe more in it but it started to rain so now it’s melting but there is still quite a bit.  I love the snow  it does not bother me to have it, it just bothers me to see people who can’t drive in normal weather try to drive in the snow.  Just stay off the roads if you feel you are scared to drive or have not really experienced snow driving.  But I guess everyone has to learn sometime.

Well yesterday was my 30th birthday and the 3 week marker of being a non smoker!!!! Yay me.  So now my new goal in the new year is to lose some weight and get healthier.  I am going to start some aqua fit classes in January.  I was suppose to start them along time ago but never did, this time I will.  It is not as expensive as a gym membership and I think I will enjoy this much better than going to the gym.  I may start going to the gym at a later date, but my first step is going to be the aqua fit classes.  I can’t believe that there is only 2 more days till Christmas and 1.5 weeks before 2009.  This year seems like it has gone by really fast.  Any ways will update later.