Saturday, May 23, 2009

Exhausted...

Today Josh and I went for our first adventure with our bikes. The weather is finally decent (Today's high-that I've noticed was 22 Celsius. It definitely could have been hotter when we were out) and I felt well enough to go. (Good thing I took some Buckley's before-hand and brought along plenty of water and lozenges) The trails were decent-definitly alot of hills (but maybe we just did it backwards!)
I wore the craziest pants I could have worn! I was wearing linen pants so I wouldn't be too warm. However, crossing the bridge-and only then did my pant leg catch onto my water bottle-scary!!! I hate biking that bridge, It is too smooth and not much traction-Josh said his bike was okay on it, but then again his is more "urban" than mine. And also so high up! But then I rolled my pants up and was good to go! I definitely need to go buy some shorts!
We really had no idea where we were going once we crossed the High Level Bridge. But we found a trail that led us back across another bridge to go home, without back-tracking. While on the last bridge we saw what looked like a little twister over the water, but it wasn't coming from the clouds (kind of like a dust devil, but with water) it was pretty neat watching it for the few seconds it was active once we noticed it.
We went approximately 17.5 km or so. My tracker was resetting every time I stopped for the first little while (even just the time at a cross light!) so we don't have an exact count.

The image above gives you an approximation where we went
(obviously not stating the exact start and finish points)

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

How The Weekend Ended Up...(In regards to my list)

Well I knew that I was not going to get everything done on my list and that did not bother me. I just needed something to follow so I did not slack every day! However, I did about 60% of everything I said I was going to do. So I think that is pretty good!!!

What I did
-Finish re-arranging/cleaning/organizing my studio/home office area-Clean the rest of the bedroom (and while I am cleaning, I should clean the whole apartment) Although I did not completely organize my office, It still counts. Everything is neat and tidy and my desk is CLEAN! You can actually see it! The house looks pretty good!!! I moved the microwave into the dining room which freed up alot of counter space!!! Now I just have to tackle the cupboards!!!
-Get some groceries for my baking and the picnic Did that ever cost alot! All the specialty items for my baking-but it was worth it!!! The cupcakes turned out wonderful!
-Bake some yummy treats from BabyCakesNYC's cookbook Oh my goodness! I am so happy with the way my Carrot Cupcakes turned out!!! I have never used a gluten-free recipe that was that easy to do and did not turn out rock hard and heavy! These were delicious!!! Josh loved them too! I think I am going to make more tonight! Maybe beet and carrot! And try to save some for Mom and Dad when they come over tomorrow!
-Picnic! Hopefully it is nice enough to do it outside, if not it will be at our place It was definitly not nice enough to have a picnic outside, so we had one inside at our place. We had lunch, played board games, I made a delicious veggie chilli (which was a big hit!) and played more board games! It was a really fun day!
-Go look at bikes (maybe buy if I've found "the one") We went to look at bikes and found the ones!!! We both came home with a bike! But on the way home it started to rain so we haven't really taken them for a ride yet. Just from the train to home which is only a few blocks. Hopefully this snow that fell this morning clears up soon!!!
-Not go on the computer much. I will limit myself to one hour a day max. split up into morning/night. This was probably my biggest challenge-But I did it!!! I am actually really proud of myself for not going on the computer so much! I just went on long enough to check out my messages, and put up a quick blog on Sunday about the contest that I won!
-Wake up early (7:00 sounds sufficient) and go to bed at a decent time (no later than midnight) Well, give or take a few hours. The most I slept in was until 10 AM, but we were up until 1 AM on Saturday night.
-Do some photography I did a little bit, I took a few pictures of the semi re-arranged apartment.
-Compile a grocery list for tomorrow I only wrote a list for the baking supplies, but that is all I needed to remember...it still counts!
-Work out every day for 1/2 hour to an hour Nearly 2 hours of house cleaning Friday, Saturday walked to the grocery store and back, Sunday walked to the LRT, then from the LRT to Wal-mart, Biked back from Wal-Mart to the LRT and from the LRT to home, Monday was a lazy day-I think this counts.

What I did not do
-Maybe, hopefully go to Ikea to make a list of stuff I want to get for the apartment. I need to make this place look like a home! Well I knew that this wouldn't happen!
-Check out trails near the river valley and see if you can get to them easily from downtown. This one was as per the weather, which did not co-operate at all this weekend.
-Make more butterflies to send to the Holocaust Museum for their installation. I think I will send 20. If I make more-all the better. (I have 19 to go) I was too busy!
-Start on my quotations journal-I never had any time!
-Come up with designs for my jewelry and come up with an order list I tried, I had no creativitiy to come up with designs
-Work on my supplies shop-take pictures/figure out prices Ha! Yeah right...I knew this would not get done either!

So apparently I cannot take my photos off of facebook, I will post them when I get home! (Why didn't I put them on flickr?) -Stay tuned!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Good Morning!!!

It is a very good morning today!!!
I went to check all my accounts online and I WON "The Aussie Handmade Givaway"!!! I could not believe what I was seeing (Am I still sleeping? Is this a dream?) Well, it is not!!! This means that I get two lovely pairs of handmade sterling silver earrings! From http://www.epheriell.etsy.com/



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Friday, May 15, 2009

The Long Weekend (and apparently long post!)

So it is nearly the long weekend. Woo hoo! (Only 5 more hours for me!) And I do believe that I should be at least a bit more productive than I have been in the last couple weekends. (Which was doing absolutely nothing by the way)
So here is my list of what I want to accomplish (at least do most of it anyway!-because something is always better than nothing!)

Tonight
-Finish re-arranging/cleaning/organizing my studio/home office area
-Clean the rest of the bedroom (and while I am cleaning, I should clean the whole apartment)
-Compile a grocery list for tomorrow

Saturday
-Get some groceries for my baking and the picnic
-Bake some yummy treats from BabyCakesNYC's cookbook
-Picnic! Hopefully it is nice enough to do it outside, if not it will be at our place

Sunday
-Maybe, hopefully go to Ikea to make a list of stuff I want to get for the apartment. I need to make this place look like a home!
-Check out trails near the river valley and see if you can get to them easily from downtown.
-Go look at bikes (maybe buy if I've found "the one")

Monday
-Staying home doing whatever...

Whenever
-Make more butterflies to send to the Holocaust Museum for their installation. I think I will send 20. If I make more-all the better. (I have 19 to go)
-Start on my quotations journal
-Come up with designs for my jewelry and come up with an order list

Also, I will:
-Not go on the computer much. I will limit myself to one hour a day max. split up into morning/night.
-Wake up early (7:00 sounds sufficient) and go to bed at a decent time (no later than midnight)
-Work out every day for 1/2 hour to an hour
-Do some photography
-Work on my supplies shop-take pictures/figure out prices

WHEW! This is going to be a busy weekend!!! Lets see how I do!!!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Stop being such a slacker Tracey! GOSH!!!

So lately I've been slacking in the jewelry making department...I really should get my butt in gear!
Tomorrow I am not doing anything, so I should finish cleaning my office that I just created in part of my bedroom and get to work!