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My back is killing me!

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I can’t believe how much my back is hurting!

I was outside yesterday evening and for about 7 hours today doing work on my garden. My back is feeling it and it’s complaining!

I wish I could go see a chiropractor or get a massage but I don’t have health benefits anymore. hmmm maybe I should look for some really cheap insurance so that I can at least get a massage or some physical therapy when my back is killing me like this.

What do you think?

In the meantime I’m lying on the couch with a heating pad. The heating pad has become my best friend when my back acts up.

Spectacle with Elvis Costello

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Have you ever watched the show “Spectacle with Elvis Costello”? A new season just started last Saturday and my husband and I just getting around to watching the first episode. Yes we taped it.

My husband is a musician so watching a program with musicians improvising and jamming together can be slow going as my husband stops and starts the program or even watches some sections in slow motion so he can see what they’re doing on the guitar. LOL Anything to learn more ! Even though he’s an excellent guitarist in his own right.

He also stops the program to write down musicians names or names of songs that we’ve just heard for the first time so he can try to find it on the internet and perhaps write about the artist on one of his guitar blogs.

I enjoy the show but I’d sure love to watch one from start to finish without stopping and starting every few minutes! LOL

Smaller pores, Clearer skin

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I’ve been on a skin care kick for the last month or so.

I realized that since I’ve been home on medical leave I haven’t been taking care of my skin the way I used to. I’d all but stopped using moisturizers and pretty much any other kind of advanced skin care formulas.

Well .. in the last month I started using Noxema to wash my face with at least once a day. I actually put a warm to hot cloth over my face to open the pores and then apply the Noxema. I do this so it can really help clean my pores out. Then once I rinse it off the Noxema I rinse my face with cold water to close the pores again. Then I apply some moisturizer and I’m done.

I’ve always had large pores. Well not everywhere … just on my nose for some reason. I used to get blackheads .. mostly when I was a teen, but I find that when I clean my face this way my pores get smaller and clearer. No more looking up how to get rid of blackheads for me!

Now that I’ve gotten back to really taking care of my skin properly I can see a huge improvement.

Do you have a special skin care regime that you do once a day or once a week? If so, what is it?

A sign that I’m getting older?

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I hate getting older!

Earlier today I was taking a good look at my face. Why, I don’t know … but either way I was standing close to the mirror and taking a good look at my skin and low and behold I think I found an age spot on my left cheek.

Can you even get age spots on your face? Ahhhhh!

Whatever it is, it’s quite faint … maybe it’s a faded freckle? I have fair skin and I tend to freckle in the summer sun, but that’s mostly on my arms and shoulders. Yeah … maybe it’s a freckle. LOL Well whatever it is, now that I know it’s there I guess I’ll keep an eye on it over the next few weeks and see if it gets bigger or darker and then decide what to do about it.

Don’t you hate getting older? Not that I’m that old, but I guess my body is telling me that I’m starting to age a bit.

A few more pounds to lose before summer

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I was just saying on my other blog now that spring is here I’ll bet that more than a few of you are about to start diets or a new work out routine in order to get in shape for summer.

I am too. I have a few extra pounds on me and I’d love to get rid of them. Soon! Actually I’ve been losing weight all year … it might have helped that I’ve been awfully sick with two colds and pneumonia this year, not that I’d recommend getting sick in order to start losing abdominal fat or anything.

I’m trying to be more active. Good thing the weather here’s been cooperating! We’ve had spring like weather here in Toronto for more than month and my garden is already about two weeks to a month ahead of itself. We actually spent some time this past weekend cleaning leaves out of the garden … I can imagine that I’ll be digging in it and planting in another week or two if this weather keeps up … and of course that all fits into my plan of being more active. I’ll be taking longer walks too!

What are you doing to lose weight … eating healthy? Dieting? Jogging?

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