Wednesday, September 21, 2011

arooiin' and wahwahin'

I don't share our lovely doggies often enough...

Caught this on video yesterday afternoon, enjoy!

(Dakotah takes up the last half with lots of vocal happiness)



I can't believe our big boy Dakotah will be 8 years old this Christmas.

And Maika turns 6 this October.

Slow down, time!!!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

On the home front


Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race,
but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
~Gene Perre

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

overhaul

I keep trying to like blogland again but it feels like a giant snore - help!

Facebook has taken over my life.

Seriously.

Anybody want to friend me, send me a message at sparkleberrygirl@gmail.com and we'll take it from there. Trust me, it's much more interesting than here!

Maybe I'm just bored with my blog.

It's been looking the same for ages - blah!

If anyone could recommend a good, fast and cheap coder who would give this page a facelift, please be my guest. I'm inspired but this place brings me down for some reason... it feels worn out, know what I mean?

Time for change :-)

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We're on Week 3 of our new way of eating and it's going great - much easier than I thought it would be. We just cut out most simple carbs (breads, cereals, pasta, etc), processed foods and junk food / desserts / snacks. Filling up on lean proteins, fruits and veggies - and wow, the pounds are melting off, I didn't expect that :-o

No calorie counting, just making smarter choices on what we eat. The best part is not being hungry all the time, no carb crashes or hypoglycemic attacks. Mind you, the detox period lasted a good 5 days and I was sick as a dog from morning 'til night - it was awful. Totally my fault though, I had been stuffing myself good n'proper with terrible junk food for too long, uggh.

When it gets to the point where you feel gross eating what's in your hand or on your plate, it's time to make some changes. I now try to avoid eating things that are made of ingredients I can't even pronounce!

Looking forward to grocery shopping tomorrow :-)

Incidently - shopping has become a bit depressing. There are entire aisles that contain absolutely nothing that I want to put in my body anymore, how terrible is that? Rows and rows of junky processed crappy foods, it's mind blowing. No wonder the industrialised countries are obese.

Anyhoo.

Time for bed.

G'nite.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

on difficult times...


If you're going through hell, keep going. 
 ~Winston Churchill

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Farmer is right...

...Going 6+ days without blogging is unacceptable! 

Just struggling a bit with life right now - see The Chicken Diaries for details.

Please spare a good thought for us?

I've not been around to any of your blogs for ages.

And I have no excuse except blogging blahs.

I feel sooooo bad :-(

My brother got married two days ago!

It was a beautiful and simple ceremony shared in great company,
followed by awesome food and a lovely evening.

I am blessed to have such a wonderful, loving and sane family!

And best of all my sweet husband Vegas (smooch smooch!)

True story from today:

Gotta do the groceries. Of course I pick out the crippled cart, 
which breaks down halfway through shopping 
forcing me to pull the dang heavy thing through the store like a donkey. 
The cashier rings up my groceries and uhhh, don't you know it: 
I forgot I had transferred my wallet to my other purse 
two days ago for the wedding. 
Frickin' brilliant. 
Soooo not in the mood for this...
So yep, I had to drive back home empty-handed, retrieve my wallet 
and go back to the store to get my bags. 

Dumbass.

Days like these should end with a drink
but all I have is hot tea.

It will do :-)