Well, I have just had a lovely weekend full of outreach singing and conversations with family, and am about ready to retire for the night, only to get up on Monday morning and have to go to work. What a pain! I'm so not ready for Monday to be here - there is still too much to do! More unpacking, Christmas baking, I STILL haven't put my tree up...I could use at LEAST another day off! Too bad no one else can do my job...I guess I'll have to head into work...
I'm very excited for our Christmas holiday :) Flying up to the Okanagan and getting to spend time with family is always a big treat for us, and this year, we get to go up for almost a week, which NEVER happens because Jer and I usually have to come back for work on the 26, but this year we both took a little more time off, and it's going to be so nice to have a relaxed Christmas.
I don't really have a lot to write about tonight, so I'll switch off, but I am trying to find a little time to do a yearly recap for all of you who read this...and for those of you who don't, well, you're probably not missing much - at least, not until I find a project to blog about!
Sweet Dreams!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Are You Kidding Me??
Rain, rain, GO AWAY! And bring the snow back, please - it was much more peaceful than this never-ending downpour we seem to get every winter! And every time we have bad weather, the bad drivers seem to crawl out of the woodwork and onto our roads. It's actually quite ridiculous, the amount of time it takes to get anywhere on a normal day vs. a terrible weather day. Time spent in traffic actually increases by an average of 30 minutes. 30!! That's an episode of Big Bang Theory!!
So, I mentioned before that at my job, I'm the scheduler. Well, lately I've been training to do payroll as well. It's a simple process, and the system is the same, just a different application. So today, I have my second training session, only with a different trainer. She's...well...she's not exactly fast with today's technology. And she's a bit condescending, which, if I hadn't adopted my blissful state of apathy at work, would probably drive me insane. So this morning, instead of letting me sit in front of the computer and learn as I go, she proceeded to take over and have me write notes. Like a child. In school. Lady, the only way I am EVER going to learn anything is by doing it. I've been that way my entire life. "Don't know how to do it, April" "No, but give me ten minutes, and I will figure it out." Done. So then, after she's done all the stuff herself, she asks me to do what she just did. Umm, can you say ENORMOUS WASTE OF TIME??? Cause I can! I just typed it! Grrr...
Tomorrow, I may actually get to "use the controls." Goody for me! *rolls eyes* at this rate, I might be ready for payroll in a month. Which is really too bad, since my first payroll shift actually happens next week....
Looking forward to singing this week :) Christmas carols make me happy, and SINGING them makes me even happier. Our outreach this year is sure to bring lots of smiles to lots of faces.
Ok, my Star Trek TNG is on, so I'm going to sign off now - three days of blogging in a row! Maybe this isn't so hard after all! Hopefully, I'll soon find something inspiring/interesting to write about. I need a project. Any ideas, anyone??
So, I mentioned before that at my job, I'm the scheduler. Well, lately I've been training to do payroll as well. It's a simple process, and the system is the same, just a different application. So today, I have my second training session, only with a different trainer. She's...well...she's not exactly fast with today's technology. And she's a bit condescending, which, if I hadn't adopted my blissful state of apathy at work, would probably drive me insane. So this morning, instead of letting me sit in front of the computer and learn as I go, she proceeded to take over and have me write notes. Like a child. In school. Lady, the only way I am EVER going to learn anything is by doing it. I've been that way my entire life. "Don't know how to do it, April" "No, but give me ten minutes, and I will figure it out." Done. So then, after she's done all the stuff herself, she asks me to do what she just did. Umm, can you say ENORMOUS WASTE OF TIME??? Cause I can! I just typed it! Grrr...
Tomorrow, I may actually get to "use the controls." Goody for me! *rolls eyes* at this rate, I might be ready for payroll in a month. Which is really too bad, since my first payroll shift actually happens next week....
Looking forward to singing this week :) Christmas carols make me happy, and SINGING them makes me even happier. Our outreach this year is sure to bring lots of smiles to lots of faces.
Ok, my Star Trek TNG is on, so I'm going to sign off now - three days of blogging in a row! Maybe this isn't so hard after all! Hopefully, I'll soon find something inspiring/interesting to write about. I need a project. Any ideas, anyone??
Monday, November 29, 2010
Rainy Days and Mondays
WOW! Two days in a row - that's gotta be some kind of a record! lol...needless to say, I think I'm beginning to find my niche in the blogging world...maybe...we'll see how long this lasts.
So, I work in a grocery store. And no, it's not my dream job, but for a job that really only helps to pay the bills, it's not half bad. I'm the Schedule Administrator - yup, that's my official title. I schedule for approximately 120 employees in the store, ranging from Deli to Produce to Front End. And each day, I do approximately 20 or so changes to the schedules. Someone calls in sick, or needs a day off on short notice, or for whatever reason, they can't make their shift - it's my job not only to find coverage for their shift, but also to inform the "coveree" that they have a new shift. It can get pretty frantic at times, and on occasion, I'm calling people up to 30 minutes before a shift is due to begin. And what is the thanks I get? Well, not a lot. It's a pretty thankless job, actually. Even though I'm working 4-5 days a week, there's always something that falls through the minute cracks in my system, and I end up having to invent new procedures every 3-4 weeks, just to please everyone. It's kind of getting on my nerves, but I suppose that is because the holiday season is upon us. This Friday is my deadline for the schedule for the week of Christmas, and I have barely started pouring over the amount of shifts we'll need to combat the holiday crowds. Oy.
So now, while I'm home, I'm just going to revel in the fact that soon, I'll be on Christmas holidays, being with family and soaking up some good Christmas cheer - and some snow, too!! But there's always tomorrow, and then I'm back at work...oh goodie...Marissa, are you back from vacation yet? There is a huge void in my Pricesmart soul with you gone :(
So, I work in a grocery store. And no, it's not my dream job, but for a job that really only helps to pay the bills, it's not half bad. I'm the Schedule Administrator - yup, that's my official title. I schedule for approximately 120 employees in the store, ranging from Deli to Produce to Front End. And each day, I do approximately 20 or so changes to the schedules. Someone calls in sick, or needs a day off on short notice, or for whatever reason, they can't make their shift - it's my job not only to find coverage for their shift, but also to inform the "coveree" that they have a new shift. It can get pretty frantic at times, and on occasion, I'm calling people up to 30 minutes before a shift is due to begin. And what is the thanks I get? Well, not a lot. It's a pretty thankless job, actually. Even though I'm working 4-5 days a week, there's always something that falls through the minute cracks in my system, and I end up having to invent new procedures every 3-4 weeks, just to please everyone. It's kind of getting on my nerves, but I suppose that is because the holiday season is upon us. This Friday is my deadline for the schedule for the week of Christmas, and I have barely started pouring over the amount of shifts we'll need to combat the holiday crowds. Oy.
So now, while I'm home, I'm just going to revel in the fact that soon, I'll be on Christmas holidays, being with family and soaking up some good Christmas cheer - and some snow, too!! But there's always tomorrow, and then I'm back at work...oh goodie...Marissa, are you back from vacation yet? There is a huge void in my Pricesmart soul with you gone :(
Blogging is HARD!!
Ok, so, any kind of updating on line is kind of, well, not my thing. With technology run a muck these days, it's hard to really get into anything new or fad-like, since the chances of it becoming updated or disappearing all-together are quite good. However, with some new-found free time on my hands, because hubby is away on a project, I find myself drawn to the computer to type. Who knows what will come out - stay tuned to find out! I'm determined to find a project, so if anyone has any suggestions, that would be extremely helpful :) For the moment, I will just say, that I am still here, and I am looking forward to the therapy that typing brings. Oh, and I'm also back on Twitter - I promise, no bathroom posts ;)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Saga Continues...
Well, I've already missed a day of blogging, and I just started!! I would like to clarify that this is just an example of how bad I am at keeping up with things online, NOT that I am bad at keeping up with my goals.
Remember how I wrote last blog that I was trying not to cheat and eat before I go to bed? Yeah, I totally lost that battle. My chocolate easter bunny was calling to me from the fridge. I just had a little nibble, but it haunted me for the rest of the night, so last night I was completely successful in not eating after 9:00pm. It's harder than you think for someone like me who stays up until 11:30pm!!
Today I plugged in my Wii and turned on the Fitness Coach my dear husband bought for me. And let me just say, that the computer-generated fitness coach is a BITCH! Oh, she's so peppy and SO freakin' encouraging, I just wanted to hit MUTE but couldn't, because I was moving too fast to keep up with the cardio she was putting me through! I will be glad for a bigger living room, that's for sure!! And, even though it is my day off today, I've been avoiding snacks particularly well! I think it's because we have our Disneyland trip soon, and I hate looking fat in pictures, so that is definitely one motivator. Another is, one of my best friends from high school is getting married in June - that is DEFINITELY a reason to lose weight, considering that all my old school friends will be there! So, I'm kicking it into high gear folks! Just wait - this time next year, I'll be a size 8 and looking fantastic!
Or so I hope. Now I'll go and drink 2 glasses of water in one sitting, and pine over the dessert crepes that are in the fridge as a "treat" after dinner tonight. Stupid food!
Remember how I wrote last blog that I was trying not to cheat and eat before I go to bed? Yeah, I totally lost that battle. My chocolate easter bunny was calling to me from the fridge. I just had a little nibble, but it haunted me for the rest of the night, so last night I was completely successful in not eating after 9:00pm. It's harder than you think for someone like me who stays up until 11:30pm!!
Today I plugged in my Wii and turned on the Fitness Coach my dear husband bought for me. And let me just say, that the computer-generated fitness coach is a BITCH! Oh, she's so peppy and SO freakin' encouraging, I just wanted to hit MUTE but couldn't, because I was moving too fast to keep up with the cardio she was putting me through! I will be glad for a bigger living room, that's for sure!! And, even though it is my day off today, I've been avoiding snacks particularly well! I think it's because we have our Disneyland trip soon, and I hate looking fat in pictures, so that is definitely one motivator. Another is, one of my best friends from high school is getting married in June - that is DEFINITELY a reason to lose weight, considering that all my old school friends will be there! So, I'm kicking it into high gear folks! Just wait - this time next year, I'll be a size 8 and looking fantastic!
Or so I hope. Now I'll go and drink 2 glasses of water in one sitting, and pine over the dessert crepes that are in the fridge as a "treat" after dinner tonight. Stupid food!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Weight Loss is sooooo epic
Well, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and blog about my weight loss. I could write work, or my daily life, or any other such thing, but I think it will help me the most to write about the trials and tribulations of getting back into size 8 pants, which was what I was coming out of high school. Plus, it sounds less boring to me, although, my life is pretty fantastic as far as lives go :)
I have been struggling with my weight ever since I moved to Vancouver to begin my post-secondary schooling. It was a big step for me - growing up, we had regimens, though not strict ones, of meals and things we were and were not allowed to eat. This, as I have come to realize, was actually excellent parenting skills on my mom's part. Dad, well, if he made our lunches for school, sometimes he would sneak in a quaker granola bar or fruit roll-up. Gotta love him for it! So when I moved, and had freedom, and could basically do whatever I wanted, including eating at MIDNIGHT if I was up and still studying and hungry, I started the weight gain. It also doesn't help when you attend a school with A) an excellent cafeteria and B) Food kiosks in every single building, PLUS vending machines on every floor! As music students, we were constantly looking for the next pick-me-up snack to get us through that last class of the day. And thus, my eating progressed from there. We lived so close to so many food options - Safeway, Nandos, Subway, Tim Horton's McDonald's, Starbucks...you name it, I probably walked to it several times a week. AND, being a music student, didn't really get a lot of exercise except for walking to and from the bus stop each day. There was NO P.E., and most of my friends didn't play a lot of sports.
And thus, it has progressed from there. I now weigh...well, let's not get into specifics, but it's not a weight I'm excited about. And it is very, very hard to lose unless you're 100% determined to basically change your entire lifestyle. Which, I am. Determined, that is.
So, while I have been working hard these past couple of weeks to really try and shed some pounds, I will consider today as being Day 1 on my weight loss schedule. I will try to blog each day, but I'm pretty hopeless at these things, so it may just dwindle down to 1 or 2 times a week. I hope not - I hope I can keep this blog up, just like I hope to keep my weight loss on track :)
All right, so today I did pretty good. Eggs and Yoptimal yogurt for breakfast, with a fruit/veggie Sunripe juice box. Then I went to work. And it is EXTREMELY hard to lose weight when you work in a grocery store with;
-A live bakery and deli - basically they make a lot of their items fresh and ready to eat
-And of course, rows and rows of groceries. The Easter section is particularly tempting for me right now, as I have inherited my mom's love for chocolate. Not good. I'm trying to combat this by NOT going downstairs to buy my lunch, but instead, keeping the fridge in the lunch room stocked with bags of salad, dressing, and homemade sandwiches. I drink a LOT of water during the day, and oh yes - have a stash of licorice in my office when I get a case of the nibbles.
For dinner, we ate chicken cordon bleu with lots of veggies and rice. After dinner was, of course, dessert (chocolate, what else!) and tea. So, that should be the end of my eating for the day, but right now is the extremely hard part. I am always up after Jer - he gets up earlier than I do every morning, so he goes to bed earlier, but since I am up, and doing mindless things like watching tv, or sitting in front of the computer, I always get huge urges to eat. I am currently resisting this by chewing gum, so we'll see how long this lasts!
You'll notice that I have talked about diet, but not exercise. That's because exercise is a pain in the butt for me. I will continue to whine and complain about this some other time, but for now, I'm hoping to ease some of my poundage with just diet. HA! I'm totally kidding myself if I think that will happen!
I have been struggling with my weight ever since I moved to Vancouver to begin my post-secondary schooling. It was a big step for me - growing up, we had regimens, though not strict ones, of meals and things we were and were not allowed to eat. This, as I have come to realize, was actually excellent parenting skills on my mom's part. Dad, well, if he made our lunches for school, sometimes he would sneak in a quaker granola bar or fruit roll-up. Gotta love him for it! So when I moved, and had freedom, and could basically do whatever I wanted, including eating at MIDNIGHT if I was up and still studying and hungry, I started the weight gain. It also doesn't help when you attend a school with A) an excellent cafeteria and B) Food kiosks in every single building, PLUS vending machines on every floor! As music students, we were constantly looking for the next pick-me-up snack to get us through that last class of the day. And thus, my eating progressed from there. We lived so close to so many food options - Safeway, Nandos, Subway, Tim Horton's McDonald's, Starbucks...you name it, I probably walked to it several times a week. AND, being a music student, didn't really get a lot of exercise except for walking to and from the bus stop each day. There was NO P.E., and most of my friends didn't play a lot of sports.
And thus, it has progressed from there. I now weigh...well, let's not get into specifics, but it's not a weight I'm excited about. And it is very, very hard to lose unless you're 100% determined to basically change your entire lifestyle. Which, I am. Determined, that is.
So, while I have been working hard these past couple of weeks to really try and shed some pounds, I will consider today as being Day 1 on my weight loss schedule. I will try to blog each day, but I'm pretty hopeless at these things, so it may just dwindle down to 1 or 2 times a week. I hope not - I hope I can keep this blog up, just like I hope to keep my weight loss on track :)
All right, so today I did pretty good. Eggs and Yoptimal yogurt for breakfast, with a fruit/veggie Sunripe juice box. Then I went to work. And it is EXTREMELY hard to lose weight when you work in a grocery store with;
-A live bakery and deli - basically they make a lot of their items fresh and ready to eat
-And of course, rows and rows of groceries. The Easter section is particularly tempting for me right now, as I have inherited my mom's love for chocolate. Not good. I'm trying to combat this by NOT going downstairs to buy my lunch, but instead, keeping the fridge in the lunch room stocked with bags of salad, dressing, and homemade sandwiches. I drink a LOT of water during the day, and oh yes - have a stash of licorice in my office when I get a case of the nibbles.
For dinner, we ate chicken cordon bleu with lots of veggies and rice. After dinner was, of course, dessert (chocolate, what else!) and tea. So, that should be the end of my eating for the day, but right now is the extremely hard part. I am always up after Jer - he gets up earlier than I do every morning, so he goes to bed earlier, but since I am up, and doing mindless things like watching tv, or sitting in front of the computer, I always get huge urges to eat. I am currently resisting this by chewing gum, so we'll see how long this lasts!
You'll notice that I have talked about diet, but not exercise. That's because exercise is a pain in the butt for me. I will continue to whine and complain about this some other time, but for now, I'm hoping to ease some of my poundage with just diet. HA! I'm totally kidding myself if I think that will happen!
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