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Thinking of taking up yoga

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I’ve been under so much stress lately that I’m thinking of taking up yoga or some form of meditation. I didn’t think of it myself if I’m going to be perfectly truthful, it was actually suggested to me by someone I was talking to last week. At this point I think I’ll try just about anything. I’m very stressed – during the day and even at night – it’s even affecting my sleep. So, if I can manage to bring some peace into my life through meditation I’m all for it.

Now to equip myself with the necessary supplies … yoga mat bags, yoga gear, yoga DVD … what else? Maybe I should check around and see if there’s some kind of yoga class nearby? A cheap one. I don’t have a lot of money and I don’t expect that to change in the near future. Actually that’s part of my stress, I think my fiances are going to drastically change for the worse in the next month or two so anything free is good.

Any suggestions?

Time to haul out the the Wii and do a little Cardio Boxing

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I was upstairs in one of our spare bedrooms earlier today and I came across my balance board for my Wii. A flush of guilt came over me when I discovered the board because I haven’t used it in oh … two years!

I’ve used the Wii game more recently than the Wii board, but not all that often. I love doing things like cardio boxing. Now that the weather is beginning to get cooler and I’ll be cooped up in the house more I probably should start using the Wii more often again. I wish I could find something my husband would like on the Wii … hmmm maybe the wii guitar since he is after all a musician. LOL

Do you Wii? If you do, do you use it as a game or as a form of fitness? As you can see I use it more for fitness than game although I find it fun either way.

Working very hard in the garden

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I’m so tired. I’ve been working something like 6 days straight in my backyard between preparing for the new fence to go in on one side of the yard and now working on the after effects of the fence in. In other words … getting torn up by roses for 6 days straight.

At least I’ve been getting a lot of exercise! There’s no way I’ll need to look for anything like the best muscle building supplement because working in the garden, lifting trellises and pushing gigantic rose branches out of my way is definitely getting my muscles in shape.

I still have a few days worth of work to do. I had to replace earth from where I had to dig a trench in my garden bed for part of the fence, and now I’m in the process of putting in some new trellises, adding in some manure to the current garden bed earth and then I’ve got to secure the roses to the trellises and plant some annuals.

Yep still lots of work to do. No wonder I’m exhausted. The garden will be very nice by the time I’m done though!

Almost 7 months since I quit smoking!

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Wow, it’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 7 months since my husband and I both quit smoking cigarettes! Yep, June 12th will be 7 months.

I have to admit that during that first month or two I sometimes wondered if I’d ever make it this far. It was really hard to quit because I was so addicted to smoking. It was awful. I quit by using a medication called Zyban for three weeks – it made the cigarettes that I was smoking beginning to seem like hot air, by the second week on the medication I just stopped smoking …. but some people suggested I try ecigarettes. I really wasn’t sure about trying the ecigarettes because they still had nicotine in them and it was still a product that you’re bringing to your mouth regularly … I felt it was better to totally break the habit.

Anyway .. to each his own. Smoking is a nasty habit and it’s terribly addictive. I know – I smoked for over 25 years – I guess closer to 27 years to tell the truth and it took that long to quit! So I guess however anyone can do it the more power to them.

Have you managed to quit smoking? If so – how did you do it?

I’ll be treating myself to a shopping spree soon

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I think I’m going to have to treat myself to either a shopping spree in the mall or an online shopping spree soon.

Why? Well … I’ve been losing weight over the last month thanks to a medication that I’ve been taking for my migraines AND I also just quit smoking on Tuesday (so far so good).

So … not only do I need new clothes because I’m starting to swim in what I have, but I now have a little bit of extra money to spend on new clothes. Perfect! Oh and I found some dereon jeans online that I think will look great on me too … hmmm maybe I should just order them now?

Actually I may hold off my shopping for a couple of weeks (even though I do need clothes). I’m still losing weight so there’s no point in buying new clothes that might end up being too big in a month or two. I really don’t need to lose much more weight … I hope it slows down soon!

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