It’s been a busy time.
Despite my best intentions I have not posted a proper blog for a couple
of weeks. Usually I use my Monday TOPS
meeting discussion as my Monday blog topic but having had one Monday off, then our
usual “last Monday of the month is exercise Monday” and this week Executive
elections, I haven’t had to prepare a meeting either.
It was a blessing in disguise really because the rest of my
life swung completely out of control over the last two weeks. Anyone having anything to do with the tax
process knows that the first three months of the year are crazed, but
thankfully that’s finally over. I got
all the employee tax papers out (on time despite my non-cooperative printer …
grrrrr). The rest has gone to the tax
accountant so it’s his baby now.
I had a pipe spring a leak in my ceiling downstairs and did
not even realize it for a couple of days.
Thankfully the leak dripped into the washing machine, which I always
leave open so it doesn’t get the icky smell.
I went downstairs to throw in a load of laundry and the machine was full
of water and it was creeping over the top of the machine and onto the
floor. It could have been so much worse
but I had to get that fixed and then cleaned up. There is a life lesson in everything though. My exercise equipment is downstairs, so had
I been exercising regularly I would have noticed the leak sooner, no doubt
saving myself a bundle on the next water bill (I’m scared to open THAT envelope
when it arrives in the mailbox). I
would have had a better weigh-in this week and be further ahead on my virtual
trip.
Living in southern Ontario we also got blasted by winter
these last two weeks. Not as badly as
some of our neighbors to the south, but enough so that shovelling snow was a
daily event.
Kind of makes me wish I had a Guardian Angel that shovelled snow. Hmmm ... maybe not! LOL
But, weather like that really
lets you see what kind of neighbours you have.
By personal choice I do not own a snow blower. I find them just a little bit intimidating and I honestly do not
mind shovelling snow, except when it’s the wet, heavy stuff that the street plow
deposits at the end of the driveway.
Both of my neighbours do own snow blowers. The neighbour to the right is a nice fellow and helped a lot with
the really heavy stuff, offered with the rest, but I declined. My choice – but he’s a nice man. Now my neighbour to the left stopped at his
property line and offered to do the rest of my sidewalk for $50, but I declined. My choice – but he’s an a**! However, Karma is a bitch and when it snowed
again two days later I went out with my trusty shovel and I noticed he was
shovelling too. Well, turns out his snow
blower wouldn’t start. I admit it –
like Karma I too can be a bitch – I giggled to myself, just a little.
What does all this have to do with today’s random
thought? Not a lot (I was venting) but
I do have a meeting to prepare for next Monday’s TOPS group (yes, I was
nominated and elected as leader again, sigh). While trying to find some information online I stumbled across www.googlygooeys.com. It’s a blog
posted by a very talented couple that use amusing comic characters to
illustrate their topics. The topics
range far and wide, but they do have some very clever posts to do with food,
exercise and dieting. This one is
called the “Five Stages of Dieting” and considering my struggles to not stray
from the path I thought it would be fun to share.
After all “many a truth is spoken in jest”.
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