Heart Day

This is the second link up with the Click Chicks Photo Challenge, and since it's Valentine's Day, the theme is hearts of course.

 

The more experience I have in life, the more this day is just another day to me.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not the equivalent of a Valentine's Day scrooge, I just don't buy into all the commercialism.  I'm more than happy with sitting down at our kitchen table enjoying a great meal and dessert with my wonderful husband.  I'm sure he'll get me a card, he's thoughtful like that.  I on the other hand most often completely forget about making a card for him, I'm not thoughtful, and I'm slightly forgetful! 

 

What are your plans for this day of love?  Do you think Valentine's Day is for the romantics or just an elaborate scheme by the card companies?

My New Pants

I finally found some pants that fit me.  They're a little snug, but I'm incredibly happy that my body can fit into a size two!  Say what!?  I've got a long way to go until the waist isn't tight, but at least they're not saggy in the bum.  I was tired of looking like one of those young guys with the crotch of their pants around their knees.  Yup, I'm this excited about pants, don't judge me and my enthusiasm!  I mean, it really is the little things that get me excited.

Happiness

• the hours of daylight being longer each day.  It's amazing what a little bit more sunlight can do to a persons mood!
• Justin's and my Valentine's date.  This will be the third year of our stay at home tradition:  he makes supper and I make dessert.  I've got a couple healthy, yummy looking recipes I'm ready to try out on Thursday.
• spaghetti squash.  I'm really loving this vegetable lately.  And sugar snap peas too, love the crunch!
• jeans.  Since deciding to become healthier, a couple pairs of my jeans are the only pants I own that fit properly.  Shhh... I might have worn a pair to work today, don't tell my boss!
• the empty room in our house.  After spending last weekend cleaning, and junking out, we now have what will be another guest room, but is empty space at the moment.  Lowie's enjoying being able to lounge on the window sill in there, so one guest is already enjoying his stay!

This Is Life

1 - Our date night started out wonderfully, and we had a great meal at Tony Roma's.  Oh, and my wine was amazing!
2 - This Is 40 was a little different for our tastes.  I put Justin in charge of picking the next movie we go see, and hope to have better luck!
3 - We all did a bit of relaxing this weekend, after our cleaning and junking out spree on Saturday.

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Hello Friday

 

Dear Friday night, I am ready for you and the two days that follow.  Dear husband, add an extra splash of cologne after your shower since it's date night.  Dear wine, please be kind to me as I have not had anything to drink in over two weeks.  Dear This Is 40, please be the hilarious movie I'm hoping that you'll be.  Dear movie theater, please be the perfect temperature, and don't tempt me with your buttery popcorn.

Chasing The Sun

My one little word for 2013 is capture, so my goal this year is to write more and take more photos of our every day life.  When I saw The Click Chicks Photo Challenge on Ivy's blog, I knew it would be the motivation I needed to take more photos.  So this is my self-portrait taken last night, on a sun chasing adventure!

Since you're here, you might as well get to know me a bit better.  Hi, my name is Julie and I'm a

• country music lover
• waffle eater (with butter and icing sugar)
• beer drinker
• aqua fit enthusiast
• sushi-aholic
• fur mama to a handsome tuxedo cat named Lowie and
• old lady to my husband Justin

Now I'm off to go check out what others have captured.

Favourite Photo Of Us

in Mexico.  With my boss being in Mexico this week, and another co-worker just getting back from there - I'm ready to sit by the pool, sipping a bahama mama!  It also doesn't help that I'm looking forward to summer more this year than any before, so bring on the sunshine!

Changes Coming Soon

After a little bit of thought last night, Justin and I decided to tackle a few things around our house this month.  This weekend will be spent cleaning and junking out, and next weekend (a long weekend) will be when we do our big jobs.  Some of the decor we have going on just isn't doing it for us anymore, so we need to fix that.  We started coming up with some ideas and painting seems to be inevitable, which was on my radar anyways.  And then a few projects, involving a song lyric canvas inspired by Jennifer Johner, a segmented photo from our wedding, and some curtains.  We have a five-hundred dollar budget, and I think we can accomplish lots within that guideline.  We'll get to the other things eventually, like painting a wall in our bedroom, refinishing some dressers, and re-tiling our fireplace.  Right now we're going to focus on just a few things to see how that goes, we've sadly learned our lesson on takling too much at once.

 

Source

Speaking of Jennifer Johner, I'm in complete envy of her decor style.  I've been wanting to incorporate some charcoal greys, but haven't been able to figure out a colour palette that would work with the basic painters beige that we have throughout our house.  Then I was reminded of the colour palette of her old house.  Seriously, Justin and I are both in love with it.  I can't wait to see the difference in our house after two weeks.

A Weekend Of Change

1 - Friday night and Saturday were hard on me.  It's hard to break old habits, and I'm struggling to shift my focus from food to activities.  Something caught my eye out the kitchen window, and I saw a beautiful sunset.  It changed my attitude, and made me realize the bigger picture again.

2 - Seeing our fruit bowl actually being used and full of fruit makes me so happy!

 

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Friday's Night Moves

For me, Friday nights can either be the best part of my week or the worst, but either way it always revolves around food.  On those good nights, Justin and I go out to eat, have a couple drinks, and enjoy ourselves.  However, since I had a bad day at work from the moment I arrived, and Justin was going out with friends, I knew tonight was shaping up to be the bad version.  Before deciding I needed to lose some extra pounds, I would have placed an order for sixty dollars worth of sushi, brought it home and eaten it all.  Tonight, that wasn't a road I was going down, but I was at a loss as to how to turn this night and my bad mood around.  Feeling sorry for myself on my drive home, I decided to grab a couple oranges for a treat since I've been craving them all week.  While at the store, I decided to make salsa and enjoy it on cucumber "chips."  Immediately I started feeling better about my night; I had a plan, and I was ready.  It really is about taking this whole diet thing (and life in general, for that matter) one day at a time!