Blogtober – Day 2 – Autumn Bucket List

Autumn is my favourite season. Today’s post are some of the things that are on my Autumn bucket list. What’s on yours?

Ummm… participate in Blogtober. DUH.
Make a bucket list. (META.) Cool. I can already tick off 2 things.
Marathon a new TV show. What are you watching these days?
KNIT! I want to do a set with coordinating hat, cowl, fingerless gloves, and boot toppers.
Make a batch of mulled cider. I love the taste of the steam and the spice!
Make an Autumn wreath. Or two. This house has so many doors.
Stock up on Autumn candles! Bath and Body Works must be having a sale soon, right?
Have the last bonfire of the season and roast some marshmallows!
Read some books. Autumn Sunday afternoons are the best for reading.
Make caramel apples. The kids are finally too old for trick-or-treating so we’ll have caramel apples instead of candy this year.
Autumn cleaning! There’s nothing like getting the house spruced up before winter.
Cook a kick-ass Thanksgiving dinner. If you don’t gain 5 lb from Thanksgiving dinner, you’re doing it wrong.
Carve a pumpkin. Should I do a real one and toast the seeds or do a craft foam one that will last forever?
Bake coffee cakes. Sour cream and spice coffee cakes. Recipe coming soon now here!
Go on a day trip to the mountains. We might as well take advantage of being so close to the Rockies, no?
Go for a walk on a rainy (or snowy?) day. Lets be real. This IS Alberta. It’ll probably be snow.
Hold my 25th annual Halloween viewing of The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is the most sacred of traditions, and held every year since I saw it in the theatre on Halloween night 1993.

Keto: 1 Month In

I like keto. For the most part, it doesn’t feel like a diet because I really like most of what I’m eating. It’s stuff I would be eating even if I weren’t “dieting.” Admittedly, I miss potato chips and donuts and pasta. Heck, I can’t even live up to my name right now. But it’s not an unmanageable missing. Every now and then I’ll steal a french fry or 3 from my hubby. I’ve had 2 cheat meals when it just plain could not be helped. And I have a scheduled “off” week to look forward to next week because we’re going on vacation. I definitely feel like I’m seeing results, though. Even though I don’t have a scale, my clothes and my measuring tape are telling me I’m making progress.Continue reading “Keto: 1 Month In”

Blogtober – Day 1 – An Intro

Who am I? (An intro to my intro)

If you haven’t read my “About Me” page, and who could blame you, I rarely read them on other peoples’ blogs, I’ll try to make this intro as brief and painless as possible.

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This is me. I was born and raised in Vancouver but now live in (well, near) Calgary. Boy, do I miss Vancouver. Or, at least, parts of it. The stupidly liberal government and mindset I can do without. But Calgary is almost exclusively either sunny or snowy and my heart yearns for the rain. My perfect day would be bundling up in my raincoat and boots, with a nice, hot cup of tea in my hands, and strolling through the woods in Stanley Park. Listening to the raindrops drip on the ferns, the smell of salt air dancing through the cedar trees, catching glimpses of the cloud-ringed mountains on the north shore.

Maybe I’d go cross-country skiing up at Cypress Bowl in the morning, grab a late lunch at the market at Granville Island, and then go for a kayak around False Creek. Or maybe I’d just take the kids down to Garry Point for an afternoon of kite flying and PaJo’s fish and chips.

What I wouldn’t be doing is spending the end of September worrying about how to afford a new set of snow tires that will spend the next 8 months on my car. When my mom sends me pics of her blooming crocuses in February, that will be my reminder that there’s only 3 months left until it might be safe to put my plants in the ground. (Never plant before the Victoria Day long weekend, you know!)Continue reading “Blogtober – Day 1 – An Intro”

1 Sept 2017 – Hey, I’m Keto-ing.

So this is me. I’m doing keto. I’ve tried to blog a number of times about my relationship with my weight but it’s just never come together. The gist of it is this: I don’t hate my body. I never have. I’ve never been able to identify with those people who hate their body or even just have that one “trouble spot” they’d like to change.

Maybe it’s because, even when I was a healthy weight, my body did not work properly and no amount of weight loss now will change that. Maybe living with a disability since birth gives me a different perspective than most on loving your body regardless of its limitations.

One thing is for certain: “Loving your body is the first step to weight loss” is a load of garbage. The journey of going from hating your body to loving your body is the first step to weight loss, and a step I’ve never needed to take. That makes weight loss that much harder because I simply don’t have that driving force urging me onward.Continue reading “1 Sept 2017 – Hey, I’m Keto-ing.”