This is more of a blessing for you, not me!
Blessing #7 - Good Water
I have lived my whole life, up until now, with good water from City Services. But our lovely house in Williams Lake is outside of city limits and therefore, runs off of our well! Sadly enough, our well has hard water. Now you may not think that this is that big of a deal but it affects everything.
We have to pour vinegar in our dishwasher to rinse our dishes, or they get water spots on them. If I decide to wash my dishes, I have to dry them right away, or I get water spots. This glorious water also makes my sink spotty and I have to wipe everything with SOS pads.
This also is pretty icky water to drink, mostly because I'm a bit of a water snob, but we have to drink water from the cooler.
We also have the joy of having a septic system, was not a happy camper this week and we had to get it all cleaned out, ew, or it would back up all over our yard and house. YIPPEE!!
Now for a blessing for me, whining time is over :D
Blessing #8 - Success!
As some of you may have read, I have been on Weight Watchers again for a couple of weeks and hippeee hooraaaah it is working. I have lost 8 pounds already! I even had to buy a belt yesterday because my pants were getting too big. YAAAAAAAY! I still have 15 I would like to lose, but I am on my way. I have been pretty lazy on the workout train as well, so if I actually step it up and don't sneaky snack I think I can do it!
The thing I love about Weight Watchers is that it is so doable, and I can eat what I want when I want. I also can eat everywhere, and don't have to buy any food and only pay $20 a month which is most definitely affordable.
My hubs is also doing Weight Watchers, mostly when I'm around so it makes it easier for me to stay on track. He has lost weight too, his little belly is shrinking. YIPPEEE! Which is making it more exciting for him, he doesn't even exercise....silly easy shrinking men. If only it was so easy for everyone!
2 Weeks and I'm back in Surrey! YAAAAAAAAY! I'm quite excited, I'm actually looking forward to rain, how weird is that! I'm also looking forward to warm temperatures!! It has gotten a lot better this week, it is only -6! It is so nice, I can now start my car in a thin sweater, as opposed to having to layer up!
Well, I feel like I have rambled on quite a bit, so I shall pack it in and enjoy my day off but I will leave you with my two favorite weight loss encouragement quotes!
Love food. Love life much more!
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!
Chat soon!!
-Elya
Thursday 26 January 2012
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Blankets, Slippers and Fire
Blessing #6 - HEAT
This week I have become very thankful for heat everywhere, like never before. Being a city girl living through winters of rain this -30 plus wind chill business is a bit of a shock for me. So I am thankful for being able to warm up when I need to. Not necessarily in my car, no matter how long I warm it up for it never seems to be warm enough when I hop in *sigh*
I am also extremely thankful for our wood burning fireplace. I never really cared about them before, but now I LOVE it!! The other night Justin and I roasted marshmallows over the fire in our living room. Which was awesome because there was NO way I was going out to our fire pit at that temperature!
Don't get me wrong, there are some awesome times that go hand in hand with cold weather! We got a group of people and went sledding down a bit hill in town. I felt like I was 8 again, It was fabulous!! Except, my poor little leg muscles did not like walking up the hill again, especially when it is cold. I also got to experience the joy of frozen nostrils, it is awful, you breathe and the moisture in your nostrils makes them stick together.
We also got to put plastic on our windows because our master bedroom windows were only one pane and were frozen, so our bedroom was quite chilly. So we got out the hair dryer and melted the ice and then put up the plastic. Except on one window I was a bit of an eager beaver and put the hair dryer a tad too close to the window....we need to get another one. BIG crack, woops!
This week I have become very thankful for heat everywhere, like never before. Being a city girl living through winters of rain this -30 plus wind chill business is a bit of a shock for me. So I am thankful for being able to warm up when I need to. Not necessarily in my car, no matter how long I warm it up for it never seems to be warm enough when I hop in *sigh*
I am also extremely thankful for our wood burning fireplace. I never really cared about them before, but now I LOVE it!! The other night Justin and I roasted marshmallows over the fire in our living room. Which was awesome because there was NO way I was going out to our fire pit at that temperature!
Don't get me wrong, there are some awesome times that go hand in hand with cold weather! We got a group of people and went sledding down a bit hill in town. I felt like I was 8 again, It was fabulous!! Except, my poor little leg muscles did not like walking up the hill again, especially when it is cold. I also got to experience the joy of frozen nostrils, it is awful, you breathe and the moisture in your nostrils makes them stick together.
We also got to put plastic on our windows because our master bedroom windows were only one pane and were frozen, so our bedroom was quite chilly. So we got out the hair dryer and melted the ice and then put up the plastic. Except on one window I was a bit of an eager beaver and put the hair dryer a tad too close to the window....we need to get another one. BIG crack, woops!
The window :)
Needless to say, I am quite looking forward to visiting Surrey again even if it is -9 there! I am coming down February 11-13 using our newly acquired buddy passes. YIPPEE!!
Here is a video to show you some more fun you can have in the cold! We boiled water and threw it outside!
Friday 13 January 2012
It's that time again...
Blessing #5 Health
Okay, so this is the classic January post, but here it goes. I am going to try and lose weight :) I have been blessed with good health, don't really have any ailments or anything horrid I have to deal with daily. My husband is also relatively healthy, other then having mild epilepsy :) I want to keep this happening, and know that I won't be young forever and need to get in good habits now, while I have a decent metabolism! I have done Weight Watchers before and lost 50 pounds, I since have put 10-15 pounds back on...*sigh* but I know it works, so back I go!
Basically, the purpose of this post is ACCOUNTABILITY!!! I figure if everyone who reads my blog knows that I am exercising and eating well then I have more face to save if I fail! :)
Thankfully my husband is stinking awesome and is going to exercise and do Weight Watchers with me. Although it will be a little harder for him since he works shift work. It is hard to come home and workout after a 12 hour day with a 1 hour commute each way, so he will most likely workout when he is on nights...although I'm not too hopeful; but at least we can workout when he is off!
Anyways, enough of my rambling!! Off I go, the hubby is home from work! YIPPEE!! And off for 4 days, another YIPPEE!!
Chat soon!
Love you all,
Elya
Okay, so this is the classic January post, but here it goes. I am going to try and lose weight :) I have been blessed with good health, don't really have any ailments or anything horrid I have to deal with daily. My husband is also relatively healthy, other then having mild epilepsy :) I want to keep this happening, and know that I won't be young forever and need to get in good habits now, while I have a decent metabolism! I have done Weight Watchers before and lost 50 pounds, I since have put 10-15 pounds back on...*sigh* but I know it works, so back I go!
Basically, the purpose of this post is ACCOUNTABILITY!!! I figure if everyone who reads my blog knows that I am exercising and eating well then I have more face to save if I fail! :)
Thankfully my husband is stinking awesome and is going to exercise and do Weight Watchers with me. Although it will be a little harder for him since he works shift work. It is hard to come home and workout after a 12 hour day with a 1 hour commute each way, so he will most likely workout when he is on nights...although I'm not too hopeful; but at least we can workout when he is off!
Anyways, enough of my rambling!! Off I go, the hubby is home from work! YIPPEE!! And off for 4 days, another YIPPEE!!
Chat soon!
Love you all,
Elya
Thursday 12 January 2012
Our Home!
Blessing #4 Our House.
As per many requests I have finally cleaned my house well enough to take photos :) hehe! Therefore, please note, my house does not normally look like this, try not to admire my cleaning skills too much! So here is the tour...
Welcome to 1409 Gun-a-noot Trail, Williams Lake :) Justin told me I needed to take a picture of his pride and glory, the garage, so I did.
As per many requests I have finally cleaned my house well enough to take photos :) hehe! Therefore, please note, my house does not normally look like this, try not to admire my cleaning skills too much! So here is the tour...
This is part 1 of our living room, our lovely television...thank you Orivolo family, and Lexy's kennel.
Living Room part 2. This room was hideous before. Blue dirty carpet, wallpaper, and yellow molding and ceiling *gag*. Thankfully we were able to update it pretty quickly.
The dining room. Thank you Ikea for our whole dining room...I miss you!
Our Kitchen, part 1, and my adorable little ewok :) We just painted the kitchen and repainted all of our cupboards. Sadly we bought a house from smokers and everything is stained yellow, so everything has to be repainted!
The kitchen part 2! I'm so happy with how it turned out! I am looking forward to Justin finishing our other bar stool so we can have two!
Our main bathroom. We are planning on working our way down the hallway and re-doing all the rooms. It is a pretty nice bathroom, it would be even nicer if we loved gold finishings :)
Spare bedroom #1/Elya's old bedroom transported :) This room is also sporting the fabulous wallpaper that is all over our house. It is also sporting vacuum lines, I at least should have rubbed the carpet so I could fool you all!
The Office/Workout room. It is quite messy, I took a picture of the clean side :) It will be turned into a nursery when that time comes. Don't get too excited, it will be an office for a bit.
Our bedroom :) Its fairly brown, it will be glorious once it has some colour on the walls! It also has a walk in closet :D Thank you God.
Our Ensuite. It is nice and blue, this is probably the next room for reno's we have the new vanity, toilet and storage. Wahoo!
Our backyard, well most of it. It also wraps around both sides of the house, we have quite a bit of room. Enough room for summer visitors *wink wink*
We also have a downstairs with just as much room, but not as much nice. So when you visit, hehe, or it is pretty you can see it! :)
Well, off to live another day!
-E
The Office/Workout room. It is quite messy, I took a picture of the clean side :) It will be turned into a nursery when that time comes. Don't get too excited, it will be an office for a bit.
Our bedroom :) Its fairly brown, it will be glorious once it has some colour on the walls! It also has a walk in closet :D Thank you God.
Our Ensuite. It is nice and blue, this is probably the next room for reno's we have the new vanity, toilet and storage. Wahoo!
Our backyard, well most of it. It also wraps around both sides of the house, we have quite a bit of room. Enough room for summer visitors *wink wink*We also have a downstairs with just as much room, but not as much nice. So when you visit, hehe, or it is pretty you can see it! :)
Well, off to live another day!
-E
A Year of Firsts
Why hello the two people who will probably be reading this :) Welcome to my new blog, what to expect with this puppy I am not too sure, but you can bet it will be entertaining and keep you up to date on my not so crazy life up in "Billy's Puddle" as it is so lovingly called.
This year is a year of many firsts for me, my first year of being married, owning a home, living 6 hours away from the life I knew, writing a blog, traveling across the ocean and many more things I am sure. I am excited for this year though, last year brought lots of changes for me and my life and I have loved every one of them, except the whole being 6 hours away part. So I have decided that I am going to have a blog where I count my blessings, to keep me grounded.
This brings me to Blessing #1: The Big Move.
I was very skeptical about moving to a dinky little town after growing up in Surrey, but I LOVE it! It is so relaxing up here and everything is so laid back, the shopping may not be so great...if the Walmart Supercentre doesn't have it you are out of luck...but I quite enjoy everything else. When you rent a movie at our ONE movie store, you scan your stinking thumbprint!!! I almost died when I first rented a movie, that is something Surrey is lacking! :) I don't think I would move back to Surrey, which is quite sad, but I love it here...I just wish there was less time in between Surrey and Williams Lake
Blessing #2: Cheap Travel
So, we had a marvelous blessing come through for our family this week and I am super stoked, I must share! So my Mom's coworker's mom works for Pacific Coastal Airlines, which is a small airline that flies from Vancouver to little northern towns like mine, and she got us Buddy Passes! YIPPEE!! For anyone who has zero clue what that means, let me explain. I tell her when I want to fly home(to Surrey :)) and she gets me on a plane as her "buddy" and I just pay taxes, which is like $30. THANK YOU JESUS!! So this not only saves mass amounts of money, it also saves mass amounts of time as the drive is like 6 hours!
Blessing #3: Being able to do Missions
Can I get a hip hip hooray for missions?! HIP HIP HOORAY!! Justin and I have been talking, ever since we have been talking, about going on a mission trip to Kenya. He went there for 3 months in 2009 and I have always wanted to go, I feel like God has placed a special love for African people in my heart. God has blessed us with great jobs and it looks like we will be going for a month in November! YAY!! It is really just in the beginning stages, but Justin booked it off work, and got the time off approved, so step 1 is completed! Yippee!!
Well, it is my day off work today, and I could probably blab about my life on here all day, but you would probably slip into a boredom coma, I would be crazy hungry, and my house would still need to be cleaned. So off I go, chat soon my lovelies!!
-E
This year is a year of many firsts for me, my first year of being married, owning a home, living 6 hours away from the life I knew, writing a blog, traveling across the ocean and many more things I am sure. I am excited for this year though, last year brought lots of changes for me and my life and I have loved every one of them, except the whole being 6 hours away part. So I have decided that I am going to have a blog where I count my blessings, to keep me grounded.
This brings me to Blessing #1: The Big Move.
I was very skeptical about moving to a dinky little town after growing up in Surrey, but I LOVE it! It is so relaxing up here and everything is so laid back, the shopping may not be so great...if the Walmart Supercentre doesn't have it you are out of luck...but I quite enjoy everything else. When you rent a movie at our ONE movie store, you scan your stinking thumbprint!!! I almost died when I first rented a movie, that is something Surrey is lacking! :) I don't think I would move back to Surrey, which is quite sad, but I love it here...I just wish there was less time in between Surrey and Williams Lake
Blessing #2: Cheap Travel
So, we had a marvelous blessing come through for our family this week and I am super stoked, I must share! So my Mom's coworker's mom works for Pacific Coastal Airlines, which is a small airline that flies from Vancouver to little northern towns like mine, and she got us Buddy Passes! YIPPEE!! For anyone who has zero clue what that means, let me explain. I tell her when I want to fly home(to Surrey :)) and she gets me on a plane as her "buddy" and I just pay taxes, which is like $30. THANK YOU JESUS!! So this not only saves mass amounts of money, it also saves mass amounts of time as the drive is like 6 hours!
Blessing #3: Being able to do Missions
Can I get a hip hip hooray for missions?! HIP HIP HOORAY!! Justin and I have been talking, ever since we have been talking, about going on a mission trip to Kenya. He went there for 3 months in 2009 and I have always wanted to go, I feel like God has placed a special love for African people in my heart. God has blessed us with great jobs and it looks like we will be going for a month in November! YAY!! It is really just in the beginning stages, but Justin booked it off work, and got the time off approved, so step 1 is completed! Yippee!!
Well, it is my day off work today, and I could probably blab about my life on here all day, but you would probably slip into a boredom coma, I would be crazy hungry, and my house would still need to be cleaned. So off I go, chat soon my lovelies!!
-E
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