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Three Corners– June

Posted on June 30, 2008

Cir­cle in a Square. Sounds sim­ple enough and it was the theme I chose for June’s Three Cor­ners Project. When­ever I drive Wal to work we drive by South­ern Ceme­tery.

I always admire the wrought iron fence and that is where I got my inspi­ra­tion. I thought it was a really chal­leng­ing theme. Hooooo boy was I right. It was freck­ing hard ya’ll!! I looked for cir­cles in squares every­where. I got so fed up look­ing for cir­cles in squares that I posted in our flickr group that maybe we should expand it to just cir­cles. A bit dejected Wal and I went for a walk yes­ter­day to South­ern Ceme­tery so I could pho­to­graph my fence. I was a bit sad that I would only have one pho­to­graph that would fol­low the orig­i­nal theme.

Well folks a ceme­tery is a gold mine when it comes to cir­cles in squares!! I’m pleased with how it turned out and hope you do to. Don’t for­get to go over and check our Corey and Jenty’s pics– they did a fan­tas­tic job as usual. I love how dif­fer­ent our pho­tographs are and how our approach to the themes are dic­tated by where we live.

A Strawberry Story: The good. The bad. The nibbled.

Posted on June 29, 2008

My straw­ber­ries are really com­ing along. Squidge and I water them together and talk about how they’re grow­ing and how they’ll soon turn red and juicy. Squidge is a bit of a strawberry-aholic. The girl will eat her­self sick if I let her. I find this pretty funny as my mother will also eat her­self sick on straw­ber­ries so I think she gets this from my Mom.

The other day we found one that was almost ready for pick­ing. Oooh it was excit­ing think­ing we would be nib­bling on a straw­berry we grew our­selves– nom nom!

Yes­ter­day we went out­side to check on our straw­ber­ries and we found this. NIBBLED and not by us!! We think the squir­rels got to it. I’m a bit bummed out at this turn of events. BAH! I won’t let those Squir­rels win *shak­ing my fist in the air*.

Any sug­ges­tions would be greatly appre­ci­ated. I’m also grow­ing these bad boys and I’m keen on actu­ally eat­ing these. damn you SQUIRRELS!!

This after­noon after a quick inter­net search I’ll be going to the gar­den cen­ter to find some anti-squirrel devices.

Also THANK YOU so much for the love on my last post. I don’t know if I’m just hor­monal but I got a tad bit weepy read­ing the com­ments. I’ve stuck to track­ing every­thing I eat and that has been an eye opener. Snack and nib­ble hoooo boy do did I do that a lot. I’m hop­ing the key is just being aware what I put in my gob! I’m also try­ing to eat more pro­tein and cut down on my carbs, not sur­pris­ing I’m a big carb junkie! I will keep you all posted on how that goes. I’m also off to a local ceme­tery a bit later to take some pho­tographs for this months Three Cor­ners project.

Squidge’s straw­berry addiction.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

40 & Fat

Posted on June 27, 2008

*deep breath*

I don’t want to be that ?up there ? (don’t make me type it again). If I don’t make some major changes now I will be and that scares the liv­ing day­lights out of me. My inac­tac­tiv­ity is shock­ing, even to me and I MUST make some changes. I’ve only man­aged to go for a walk once this week. The rest of the week? Well lets just say me and my chair, we’re good bud­dies. Can any­one tell me how they find the moti­va­tion because I’m at a loss. I’m either the lazi­est per­son in the entire world or there is some­thing else. The psych major in me thinks there must be some­thing pre­vent­ing me. I know what I need to do. I know how I need to do it and still I don’t.

In order to get myself to stick to some­thing I’m going to keep a food jour­nal and count my calo­ries. I’m first going to count what I nor­mally eat. I keep telling myself (and Wal) that we eat healthy– no fried foods, no going out to din­ner and we eat our 5 fruit and veg a day (usu­ally more). Where I must be going wrong is on por­tion size, I must snack/graze more than I real­ize, I need to drink more water and I don’t exer­cise enough.  I’m also going to con­tinue my aqua aer­o­bics class 2 days a week. I’m hop­ing to work my way up to kick­box­ing. I don’t think I can do that now but hope­fully by Jan­u­ary I’ll be fit enough to attempt it.

I’m sorry for those that come here look­ing for the cute­ness which is Squidge and have found me wal­low­ing in self pity. This blog is about all things Squidge but if maman ain’t happy, ain’t nooooo­body happy.

And because I need bul­let points or else I wont have it orga­nized in my head.

*keep food jour­nal
*drink more water
*go for daily walks (30 minutes)

I’ve signed up for an on-line site called Spark Peo­ple.  I found them when I did a search for calo­rie coun­ters.  So far I’m happy with it– it allows you to set up a meal plan, count calo­ries, track water intake and exer­cise.  The best part is that it’s free and as you know I likes me some free stuff!

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