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Trying to get motivated again

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Do you remember the posts I was writing in the Autumn about how I was losing weight quickly? How it was because of a new migraine medication that I was taking? Well … something strange started happening with my body in November and early December and I started gaining the weight that I’d lost back again.

I’m at a loss as to what to do. I’d love to lose the weight again. It was so nice! Maybe I should start reading lipozene review or something? Actually I do have an elliptical machine and I’ve been thinking of pulling it out and starting to use it again. I’ve been really tired lately so finding the energy to do this might be difficult but I’ve got to try.

I’ll keep you posted as to how the weight lose goes.

A sad day for Toronto Police

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There was a funeral for a Toronto police officer this afternoon. Last week officer Ryan Russell was killed when he tried to stop a snow plow that a homeless man had stolen.

The man who had stolen the snow plow literally ran into the police officer and then turned around and drove into him again. Terrible. It was a sad and senseless death of a good man.

The funeral this afternoon on the other hand was amazing. I saw some of it on the news and they said that over 14,000 officers from all over North America attended the funeral! The streets were a sea of uniformed officers. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I’m sure the family was quite proud of the turn out and I’ll bet that the funeral expenses have been taken care of by the police department or the city as well.

RIP Ryan Russell

My dog is a massive ham

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My dog is such a ham. She’s fairly obedient but she’s also very playful. Now that it’s been snowing outside she’s enjoying going outside and playing in the snow. It must be nice to have a fur coat! It’s been cold here so I don’t go out for long with her, but we go out often … she doesn’t show any signs of being too cold though.

I wish I had one of those tiny hand held camcorders because as I said my dog is a total ham. I know I could film her daily. For example, when we go outside in the snow she does this face plow thing with her behind up in the air as she pushes her face through the snow. It’s kind of funny. I know it makes others laugh when they see her.

She also likes to find some clean snow to roll around in. I guess this is her version of doggy snow angels?

Inside the house she’s just as much of a ham as inside. When she wants to play with a toy- ie have us slide her bone across the floor at her (dog hockey) she starts jumping up and down in place as if she’s on a trampoline. It’s so cute. I’m pretty sure that if I managed to get it on tape and posted it on Youtube it would be a popular video because I haven’t seen very many dogs that jump like she does.

Do you have a dog that’s a real ham? She can be a bit of a pain as she demands attention, but I have to say she enriches my life.

I’d love to take advantage of some of the computer sales

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I’ve been saying for about 6 months that I’d like to get a new laptop. There’s nothing wrong with the laptop that I’m using (to write this post), but it’s a little old and it sure would be nice to have a newer faster model.

I was just browsing around and I saw that the Acer Aspire are on sale for a great price. I know it’s a netbook, but as a spare computer to tote around it would be great.

Do you ever think of getting an extra computer for the house? I practically live on the computer. I swear I’m attached to a computer keyboard about 12 hours a day and we only have two working computers in the house so having one or two more wouldn’t be overkill. Really.

Canada goes for the Gold this Wednesday

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Good news – did you watch the World Junior Hockey Championship games earlier this evening? Canada and the US were playing and the US was defending it’s title.

Well .. unfortunately for the USA, they lost the game and now, the Canadians are going to play Russia on Wednesday night for the gold. I’m sure all three teams will walk away with hockey trophies.

If you can’t tell – I’m Canadian … so I’m rooting for our team to win the gold but of course I’m happy even if they only win the silver.

Go CANADA!!!!!

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