THE ART OF DOING NOTHING

I have perfected the art of doing nothing, zip, nada! Today I practiced this perfection to a “T”.

Today for me, has been a total waste of time. I threw away a perfectly good day, when at my age, one can’t afford to throw days away!

I got up this morning at 8am still feeling very tired, and had a hard time opening my eyes, but felt guilty being a lay-about!

I made a nice breakfast through half-closed eyes and in a miserable, grouchy mood, feeling like the day looked outside…miserable, dull and raining again.

After finding out Tom didn’t want to do anything, I inwardly cheered and promptly went back to bed and slept for another few hours.

Now, when I do that…I tend to wake up, sort of groggy and twice as lazy, so I’m sitting here at almost dinner time, in my nightgown and robe and slippers.

What the heck, I woke up miserable, may as well go to bed miserable and hopefully through the night, my brain and mood will change and I’ll wake up with a smile and hopefully a whole lot more energy.

But HEY!! Now the sun is shining, it’s beautiful out, and even my mood is lifting! I think I’ll go make a diet pudding for our dessert for supper. I think I’m sugar deprived!

Diet is going well, 10 whole pound off now, and going strong, but soooooo far to go!!

Well, back to doing nothing! Other than making dinner, my work today is complete!

We all need these days now and then, don’t you agree?

 

 

THE VANCOUVER RAIN CONTINUES

 So, what else is new? More rain, but it’s Vancouver, and it’s Spring, so what can we expect!

It’s also TAX time, so off we went by bus into Vancouver, which is the easiest way to travel to where we where going,  heading  of with our heads braced against the rain at 9:30 am . Why is it every time we have business down town, it pours? After that, we went to the passport office to renew Tom’s passport…..never know when our next trip may be!

If anyone has ever been to the passport office, they know it’s quite a procedure! You go to one office where they do this, then off to another office in the same building to do something else, then you return to the first office you began with!

I just don’t understand these government offices and why they just can’t get it together! But, after much trudging and waiting, success was to be had, and now Tom just has to wait two weeks until it arrives! It’s so sad to not be able to use his old one again, as he had some pretty neat stamps of places we had been to on our trips.

 

One of the neat things going down town in the rain, is the beautiful umbrella’s you

see everywhere. All different colors and designs and some that have seen the wind and been turned inside out a few times, but still doing it’s job in a lopsided way. Some people even use beach umbrella’s! Where we went today, was travelled mostly underground, so I ended up carrying the one I brought.

We stopped to eat and proud to say stuck to our diets! I’m still bouncing back and forth between 9 and 10 pounds off. Remember that delicious corn beef and cabbage I was salivating for yesterday while it cooked in the slow cooker? It backfired on me, and after 2-3 bites, got stuck in my throat and I spent the next three hours upchucking which seemed one heck of a whole lot more then I ate!!! So, my diet yesterday really consisted of an egg, and 12 almonds, and the scales didn’t move!!

A note to Survivor fans, it’s NOT on tonight! I don’t know what’s it being pre-empted for, but I’m disappointed! I wait all week for that show!! Dang it!!

So, it’s back to reading. Just finished a good book called “Soul catcher” Good Book!!!!

Now starting one called “The Good Thief” which is good so far!

So, that’s another day….didn’t say boring day….in the life of Tom and Linda. Everyday around here is an adventure and always fun!

JUST ANOTHER RAINY DAY

Well, the excitement over St. Patrick’s Day Celebration is over and today, returned to a normal day in our house. However, I got on the scales this morning and I’ve lost 9 pounds in two weeks on the South Beach Diet. So, that brought a lift to an otherwise rainy and cold day here.

Yesterday at Dublin Crossing, I met a wonderful, YOUNG man while I was plastering shamrocks on everyone’s cheeks. He told me he had Irish citizenship and I thought how wonderful to meet someone from Ireland, so of course had to tell him that my mother was born in Ireland. He told me he wasn’t born in Ireland, but because his one parent was born in Ireland, he was able to have citizenship papers as well, and SO WAS I!! Now, how neat would that be!! Duel citizenship!

So, if anyone else is interested, he has information how to apply on his blog which is:

http://canirishteacher.blogspot.com/

Wafting through the air, is the delicious smell of corned beef and cabbage, cooking away all day in the slow cooker. It smells sooooo yummy!! I can feel myself salivating with drool running down my chin! Another 1/2 hour and we should be sitting at the table, feasting, but still watching our diet. No potato’s allowed, just beef and cabbage! Of course we reward ourselves and by following our diet and ending with dessert. Jell-O and diet Cool-Whip!

We went out this afternoon in the rain, when Tom went for a haircut, and I went to shop for cabbage. Then we had a coffee and our allowed snack of 12 almonds!

Lunch was two romaine lettuce leaves, slathered with garlic hummus. Tom enjoyed it, I know I won’t be making that again!!

We have to see the accountant for our taxes tomorrow, so my afternoon was spent gathering the needed papers! I felt like I was back at work!

So, the blog is short today, however, I did make the effort!

I hope wherever your day is, it’s full of sunshine, either weather-wise, or otherwise!

ST. PATRICK’S DAY 2009

   Ahhh, it was a grand St. Patrick’s Day, and we did out best to celebrate and raise a toast to St. Patrick and to all you great Irish folks out there and to all you Irish wannabe’s……it was much fun! We met some great people today out there drinking a green beers and Irish whiskeys and I’m just going to show you some of the day spent at Dublin Crossing, as mentioned with blog site it earlier blogs.

We arrived there at 11:30 this morning and just got in before the line-up began. What a great place to spend St. Paddy’s day!

From the upstairs where we sat, looking down at the bar.

There’s O’Tommy,’O’Billy, O’Dougie, O’Dianne, and O’Linda

The next table to ours that we had some laughs with! Hey Girls, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Dianne and Linda with wibbly wobbles on our head!

Now there’s a pair of Irish for you!!

Another new friend, Rick, that we met, who was wonderful to tell me how to get my Irish Citizenship!

The Pipers played some Irish tunes.

I think by this point, Tom was having a hard time getting his arm up far enough for a drink!!

 

  

 

   

     

        

 

 

People waiting to get in when we left at 3pm

It was a Great Day, made special by the fun spirit of the day, by all those involved in these pictures! To those new friends we made, if you would like larger pictures of yourself, email me at irish5@hotmail.com and tell me which ones are your pictures (I took so many and collected so many email addresses, I forget which one belongs to who!!), so describe the picture and I’ll mail it to you. Thanks for the fun and making St. Patrick's Day special. Enjoy the blog while you are here and don’t forget to sign the guest book at the top of the blog!