Highs and Lows; Ups and Downs

Well it is a long overdue entry and for that I apologize. The last 3 weeks have been crazy both for my weight loss and for my life.

My weight bounced up during Stampede (oops...damn Bon Jovi making me go to the grounds to tempt me) but has since come back down. It has been a bit of a struggle because with the summer heat my desire to work out has diminished. The saving grace though has been roller skating. I have been going pretty much three times a week since the start of July and have been loving it. I am getting better each time I go. My balance has come leaps and bounds since the first time I tried for my birthday. I also can do more laps with less break time. I fully plan to continue with skating. I am even planning on buying skates when I come back from my holidays. In terms of my weight for the next couple of weeks I'm just hoping to stay the same as I'm about to go on holidays. I figure because I will be visiting my family I should be ok in terms of food choices so as long as I can keep somewhat active I should be good to go and should have good news for you when I return.

In terms of life I have had some pretty busy weeks. I got to experience something I never thought possible and something that I will remember forever. I got to be up close and personal with a couple of bears.


These pictures were taken at a place called Discovery Wildlife Park. I love bears so I was so excited, although I will admit it is pretty scary to be that close to bears, even if you do know that they have been trained to act in movies and be around people. The whole day at the park was wonderful. You are much closer to the animals then you are at the zoo so it was a very neat place to go and play with my camera. This is definitely one of the highlights of my staycation summer.

Another fun part to the last couple weeks was a visit down to Lethbridge. I always love going down to visit and hang out, getting to spend time with old friends and of course my adopted niece...hehehe. It is hard to believe she turned two though. It seems like just yesterday that we found out Artemis was on her way. I think the best part about visiting right now is just seeing how a two year old explores the world. There is something fascinating about how they play, explore and live in the world. It makes for a fun weekend.

In spite of the good I have had my share of bad days in the last few weeks. Between the ever wonderful joys of work and teenage girls that are ignorant and rude there have been days where I have just wanted to toss my hands in the air and quit. The good news is though that I have great friends to vent to and to remind me of what really matters. But really I have become very good and shrugging the negative off and leaving it in the past where it belongs. Not always an easy task but I recommended everyone learns how to accomplish this. It really does make it easier to be happy and keep focusing on moving forward rather than living in the past.

Anyway on that note I need to say good-bye for now. I have to get ready to go see Backstreet Boys. I'm super excited, I have loved them for years and this is the first time I'm actually going to see them in concert :-) I will try to write again while I'm on holidays but it will likely be after I get back from BC.

Bon Jovi Kicked Butt Tonight

I went to the Bon Jovi concert tonight and I just had to share how amazing it was. I have seen a lot of concerts in my time and he is by far one of my very favourite performers. This was the third time I was seeing him in concert and each time has been amazing. I was a little worried tonight's wouldn't be as good as the last time when i saw him in Frankfurt Germany because that was an amazing concert and it had the added advantage that I was all excited to be in Europe :-) But I think this concert blew that one out of the water. The audience was excited and in to it (Stampede concerts are always amazing for that part) and it had the atmosphere of a great big party. It's crazy to see that many people screaming and singing. It must be such a thrill to have full audiences not only screaming for you but being able to sing your songs without any help. I think the thing I love the most about his concerts though is not only how much fun the audience always has but the fact that Bon Jovi seems to have so much fun. Oh the life of a rock star...it would certainly be an ego boost. LOL

Anyway enough babbling. If you haven't gone to the grounds yet I totally recommend the deep fried snickers bar...totally bad for you but oh so yummy. Here's hoping today doesn't effect my weigh in too badly on Saturday :-)

What a Week

So as if my brain wasn't spinning enough last week, I had yet another thing to add to the mess. While at the dentist getting my root canal finished off, he broke the drill bit in the tooth. I know have a new piece of metal in one of the canals in the tooth sealed in by the filling. I spent the better part of the week stressing over what I should do because there is nothing they can really do about the file. Well ultimately I could go for surgery and have them remove it from the bottom but then I would also lose a good chunk of the root so not really worth it unless things go wrong. I could also have the tooth pulled but not much point in that if I can avoid it as well. All that said it wasn't so much the fact that I now have metal in my mouth because I don't think it should cause a problem, where my brain has been spinning is if I should still crown the stupid tooth. It's a lot of money to put into a tooth that may reject the file and abscess again. (I'm also not really happy about thinking that my tooth may abscess again because that was the worst weekend of my life when it went last time). Anyway after talking to everyone I have come to the decision that since my crown isn't scheduled until September there is no sense in worrying until then. I'm hoping that if things are going to go wrong they will go wrong in the next two months so that I can fix it before spending a small fortune on my tooth. However if nothing happens in the next two months I'm going to bet on the odds that everything should be ok for years to come. LOL. Oh how I love dentists and dentistry...can you tell.

Aside from teeth drama, last week was a great week. I got my summer pass for roller skating, so went a few times. I got some more falls out of the way, but learned that I can at least get myself up without help now. I getting stronger and faster, now it is time to work on my stamina and balance. I also completed another 5k on my treadmill and 1 min faster than last time :-) The best part is that all the hard work (well if you can call skating hard work) showed on the scale when I weighed in on Saturday which will help me try to repeat the process again this week. I'm determined to break my not losing weight in the summer curse. I know I can do it and I will do it, one lap around the roller rink at a time. hehehe