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So what’s new in LG’s world…
Our annual Super Bowl party went well – we actually didn’t have 50 pounds of leftover food that we had to throw out, the game wasn’t very exciting, but I did end up winning some money. If either team scored 10 more points I would have won over $400.
I think we’re in about our 6th week of the indoor golf league. It’s good to get out of the basement once in a while.
William’s 50th birthday is coming up soon and I’m torn about what to do… a couple friends over? A few friends over or just have a big old bash? I have to figure this out in the next week!
We’re now in the home stretch for our upcoming vacation. I’m really looking forward to it to say the least. However, it takes me about 60 hours of ‘extra’ work over a two week period to ‘be gone’ – so needless to say, I’ve been working a lot lately – but as William reminds me, ‘it’ll all be worth it’.
Indeed!
I hope it’s one of those vacation where the days are long, leisurely and completely stress free. I’m not worrying about wearing a different dress every night for dinner. I’m not bringing a ton of jewelry, 6 purses or 5 pairs of shoes as I have in the past. Nope. Two bikinis, shorts, t-shirts, tank tops and a few items that could pass as ‘casual’ and one ‘formal’ item.
All good.
Well better get to it!
Life’s good.
This week in review
Kind of a weird week.
Last week-end I felt super productive and accomplished… taking care of a lot of little things like preparing my HST, compiling all our 2015 house bills, getting the dining room table set up and more.
This week I felt like I was drowning in work… one thing would come in, then another, then another… (Especially from one client) I’d think ‘okay, I’m almost done for the day’ then an odd request or six would appear in my inbox. I think I had a total of 5 meetings (one not working out due to a poor internet connect), and one I skipped because it can wait.
Frustrating to say the least. Annoying.
So now I’m having to work a bit today, but hopefully not tomorrow. Next week is already looking busy with the end of the month quickly approaching.
I’ve got to find a better balance!
Good things
- Played in the indoor golf league – couldn’t hit my driver further than 160 (UGH!), but I played okay otherwise.
- Got together with some girls for Rachie-Roo’s birthday – pretty fun
- Had a relaxing couch night last night.
- Tonight we’re having a couple of friends over for a nice steak dinner and likely some pinball and hot tub.
- Tomorrow is all about football. We invited a couple of couples over, but neither are able to make it… all good.
Here’s the dining room table and chairs from the TN house…
Life is good.
Back from PEI – mostly pics
Wow – what a great trip!
Here’s the scoop… we drove about 10 hours (horrendous Toronto morning traffic) and arrived at our hotel just outside old Quebec City. I have always wanted to go there and I wasn’t disappointed! It really did feel like a European city. I could believe how busy it was on a Wednesday night.
Who couldn’t resist this alley beckoning a thirsty tourist? Certainly not us!
William protecting the city. 
Chateau Frontenac.
Gorgeous night.
Beers and cheers.
Friends met us in Charlottetown PEI on Thursday night and I had one of the best dinners ever! Awesome night…
This was our resort – the Links of Crowbush – on the central north shore of PEI. We had a fabulous suite that overlooked the grounds, the course and the ocean… ours was on the second floor, the last room on the far right… awesome!
The view from our room.
Of course the golf and scenery was fabulous!
Drive in! (terrible pic of me)
I may have been slightly intoxicated…
I’m going to post more about our vacation later… life is good!
Crunch Time
My one ‘boss’ says something like, ‘if you want to see how productive you can be; book a vacation’. True dat.
It also goes with the idea of, ‘do all your working hours of the day have the same level of productivity?’ Hells no.
Preparing for a getaway makes me need a vacation even more!
- Arranging for garbage pick up and mail.
- Water plants
- Have someone water the garden
- Move flowers to my moms for her easy access to care for
- Have someone check on the pond
- 1.3 million work stuffs
- Dog stuff to MomG’s!
- Pack (prolly should do that!)
- Do I bother cleaning my nasty golf clubs? I should at least clean out my golf bag
- To the bank! Again!
- I need another golf shirt (dang, none fit since my recent weight gain!) arg!
The list at this point appears infinite – and I will be working for 2 clients while away – rats! (But at least they’re all set up until Saturday morning – yay!)
Better get to it! It’ll all be more than worth the effort – adventure! New things!
I better golf well…
Life’s good.
Lucky LG
I am one lucky girl, with a hard working husband.
It’s been a darned good year for us – lots of adventure, lots of travel and lots more upcoming fun.
We are now Browns season ticket holders (bought before Manziel was drafted… that had nothing to do with our decision). So that means a few Cleveland trips this year (the first being the home opener against the Saints. Woo hoo.
Very soon we’re travelling to PEI on a golf trip. I haven’t been to that area of Canada since I was about 7 or 8 (With my parents and one brother – it was a convention), we stayed at St. Andrew’s By the Sea in New Brunswick and ventured into Nova Scotia. I’ve never been to PEI and Billy has never been to that area at all. We’re going to stay the first night in Old Quebec City – it’s like North America’s only true European city – looks pretty cool. Oh, and we’re driving. Expected travel time is 20 hours – yikes!
I think the drive time would be significantly reduced if we could cut through Maine.
But that would require roads… which there aren’t any of.
Oh well, the point of driving is to see the area (plus it costs less to fly to Hawaii than to PEI, and they don’t have a lot of car rentals available).
I know the Canada US border is messed up in areas (like one tiny blip in BC – seen at 3.51 in this funny video discussing the US – Canada border), but it would make more sense to me that everything south of the St. Lawrence be US, and everything north, Canada. But whatevs. Not important.
PEI is known for being a) small b) the home of Anne of Green Gables (required reading for any girl under the age of 11 in Canada) c) a culinary/seafood tourism d) having red beaches and e) good golf.
In early August I’m also venturing to Pennsylvannia for a business planning retreat for my ‘main contract’. So let’s review my past and upcoming adventures…
Within about a year… I have (or will) have stayed in…. Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quebec, PEI, Tennessee, Florida, California, Hawaii and Nevada. I have also visited, New York, New Brunswick, Kentucky, Georgia and Utah.
Cool! Lucky LG.
Life’s good.
Well, I’m logged in as I have one of my clients in my WordPress account… so I thought I’d write something quick. Speaking of quick… life is quick! And good. I can’t believe May is over – In May I traveled down to Florida, stopping in Tennessee and I was back in Tennessee a couple of weeks ago golfing with girlfriends and a quick trip to Nashville – fun! Our annual golf tournament went well – good times. What else… lots of fun stuff coming up… girls trip to Port Stanley, William and I to Port Stanley for the holiday week-end and PEI to golf in mid-July. Toss in golf, friends, chilling with the dogs and hanging by the pool… life is pretty darned good. Busy at work – I dare not say I’m over the ‘work hump’ – I tried that before and it was a fail. Life is good. I’ll be back – promise.
Back
Last week we came home from a fabulous golf trip to Mesquite, Nevada. It was awesome!
Everything was great – our room, the weather, the golf courses and spending time with William.
We’re so lucky that we like to do so many of the same things… not just golf, we sought out and played pinball for hours, hung out in the room (he watched Sports Centre and I read), we caught a great country band a little casino, played some slots, ate at a couple of fabulous restaurants and chilled at a sports bar.
Although I ended up working online just about everyday for an hour or two – it was relaxing and exactly what we wanted.
Mesquite was an awesome destination for golf. We liked it because most of the golf courses were very close and absolutely amazing (there were a couple in St. George, Utah – and the drive there was gorgeous), the town was small and after only one day William didn’t even need navigation to find our way around. There were a couple small casinos which were fun ways to people watch and hang out.
It was a great time and although I want time to move slowly (so much good stuff going on and coming up) I’m already looking forward to our next adventure.
I hope to post pics, but I can’t jam up this computer with pics and am too lazy to transfer twice…
Life’s good. 🙂
Adventure! Travel! Intrigue and a rant
I wasn’t going to post anything today, but I’m logged in, so I thought what the hay…
We’ve booked a trip – yay! In mid April we’re flying into Vegas and heading to northern Nevada, ‘Mesquite’ to be exact for a week long golfing adventure! We have tee times already booked at 4 courses in the Mesquite area and 2 in the St. George, Utah area. St. George was originally our destination, but it appears the courses are a little nice in the Mesquite area, the hotel newer (and less expensive), plus there are a few (cough, low rent) casinos and a country music bar with live performances. Right up my alley (oh, there’s a bowling alley too, but that’s not on the list of things to do). Woo hoo!
One day we’re going to check out Zion National Park – yay! Utah is one of my mom’s favourite places in the world, so she’s excited for us (and has been dropping hints for years that we should go there…)
The golf looks amazing and I really think William will like it better than Arizona..
(I found these images on Google, please don’t sue me for using them, thanks!)
Um yeah…. pretty nice! It’s going to be great!
So the rant part…. it’s still freaking cold. Yesterday I went to the gym and it was -2F with a wind chill of -23*F. It’s been like this for weeks now, however, it’s supposed to reach the freezing mark this week-end and it’ll be a welcomed relief! Today’s gym adventure was a balmy 11*F and my car was actually warm by the time I reached the gym.
The thing is… average high for this time of year should be right around the freezing mark. It hasn’t even been close in weeks! That’s like us having weeks of 50* weather in July – when it should be 80*ish. Boo!
Also annoying is everyone complaining about the weather and the snow – oh and the snow! More to come tonight! We have 4 foot drifts in the space I walk to my mom’s every morning with the dogs. I’m annoying myself just by writing about it. I hate myself! Haha!
SuperBowl party this week-end and it’s going to be super! I think we’ll have around 15 peeps over – crazy!
Life is good – cheers!
The traditional post
Because ’tis the season, and I’m logged in.
First – lately.
It was a great Christmas. One of the first that I wasn’t freaking out about how much I was spending or the size of our credit card balance. That’s when my little income really comes in handy. Whew!
We’re having a few peeps over for New Year’s Eve. Most of our regulars have other parties to attend, so there’ll just be a few of us – it should be nice.
GD – Yesterday I somehow managed to simultaneously drop our dining room table on my toe, while stubbing it. One in a million chance doc. Yikes. My toenail is not long for this world. Thank goodness it’s not during golf season, or I’d be in a serious pout.
2013 – It was a great year. One for the books. Lots of adventure and travelling. A lot of great times with friends and plenty of god health. Yip. I didn’t read 50 book (more like 35ish), I didn’t get into awesome physical shape (but I was looking pretty good for a while anyway) – but I did more than double by small income – so it was a good balance.
2014 – Here’s some hopes and goals.
– Adventure, fun, travelling, outings, innings and all around good times. Billy and I are looking into a little golf getaway in March – that’s a great start. I think I have a car to drive back from Florida in April or May. I want to attend more local events with friends and spend less time on the couch (although I read quite a bit) – I want to get out more.
– Golf – I want to get to a 10 handicap – last season I floated from a 13 to a 16. I hope to play more and practice before every round. I hope to take at least 3 lessons at the beginning of the season. I hope to improve my game to increase the amount of fun I have while playing and able to be competitive with my husband.
– Football – Is it weird that I feel like the Browns are so bad because of me? If I was a better person, would they win more? I need to get less caught up in the Browns, it’s bad for my overall morale.
– Finances and ‘stuff’ – I want to steamline our spending and have less stuff. When stuff comes in, stuff goes out. I’d rather spend money on adventure and fun times than stuff. I’m generally pretty good at that, but I could be better.
– Work – I hope to work smarter and learn more to better serve my clients. I’ve become a lot better working with images this last year, and this year I hope to bring my clients more connections and money. I have a roadmap, I just have to follow it.
– Husband – I hope to have lots of great times with him. He is my favourite person in the world. Last year was pretty awesome and I hope to continue this in 2014.
– Health – Good God this holiday season has been bad for me. No self control or will power, my injured toe is sure not to help me get off to a good start. I simply need to eat a bit better (planning!) and move more.
I wish everyone all the best in 2014!
A few spare minutes
There are so many things I should be doing online right now… but honestly I can’t think of a single one. No clue! I mean yeah, I have a big long list of projects to work on, but usually this time of morning I’m doing a bunch of little things – sending out emails, checking on stuff, etc… so I’m either done, or forgetting somethings! Oh well.
‘Tis the long week-end. The unofficial end of summer – boo!
Last night I golfed with Kiks (we don’t normally golf on Thursdays, but we missed golfing on Tuesday, and on Monday we played a little par 3 course). We both played pretty well, but it was HOT and HUMID. We walked for the first 9 holes, then Kiks declared ‘shenanigans’ and was carted on the back. Good call. I was melting.
The funny things is, I kept thinking (whilst melting), ‘I’m not used to this heat yet!’ Meanwhile it’s the end of August! We’ve had such a weird summer. Super rainy and cool July, (except for a few scorchers) and a mild August, until this week!
This week-end we’ll be golfing in the ‘Club Championship’ at our course. There’s not a lot of participation this year – I literally think there’s only 12 women golfing total, but it should be pretty fun.
I hope to clear my plate a little bit today and tomorrow morning (we tee of after 1:30) and enjoy this week-end.
Life’s good.
LG 