Alpine Village Family October 31st, 2008
I have 11 sessions left with my personal trainer. If I could just get a refund I’d be happy - I reallly don’t want to continue. But, since that’s not an option, I might as well just use up my sessions. The problem is, I tend to build muscle fast and last time I ended up having my thighs get big and I really don’t want that to happen again. I’m thinking maybe I’ll just ask her to jog/run with me. I’ve always wanted to get the stamina to do a 5k run… hmmm… yah maybe I’ll try that 
Alpine Village Family October 27th, 2008
Many of us love to wear jerseys of our favourite sports guys or wear logos of our favourite brands. In fact, those promotional items are big business. I’ve never thought anything of it before a motivational speaker explained it in terms like this:
When you wear a jersey with someone else’s name on it, or someone else’s number, you’re saying to the world “I don’t want to be me. This guy is way better than I am”. No! Wear your own number. Be proud of who YOU are.
I loved that and it really made me think. Not that I’m giving up my Leafs jersey mind you… but it did make me think
Alpine Village Family September 2nd, 2008
I have a fantasy of having lots of money and one of those great, high limit credit cards. I’d shop for so much stuff that it would be like excercise LOL!! I’d like to get a lot of new furniture - mostly some storage units - so my new house would be all organized . Then I’d get toys and cool/fun stuff for the kids. And lastly, I’d buy lots of clothes and shoes for me - just because I love them 
Alpine Village Family September 2nd, 2008
Well, let’s get out the diet pills and see if I can lose the weight I gained over the last week and a half 
. Yes, it’s true, it looks like (according to my very accurate scale) I’ve gained 3 or 4 pounds! I’m not impressed with myself by any means. As such I’ll be watching what I eat for a while - until that weight is off and likely about 10 pounds more!
Alpine Village Family August 30th, 2008
I’ve been pondering getting my belly button pierced. It was pierced way back when, before I had two lovely babies . I really liked having the little bit of “bling” that the body jewelry gave me. I’m just not sure what kind of a message it will send my daughter (and son?). It seems harmless enough but I don’t think I’d want her to get her belly button pierced - and don’t even get me started on how i’d feel if she got her nose or eyebrow done!! Yah, maybe I’ll stay “ring-free” for at least a little while longer
Alpine Village Family August 24th, 2008
I tell ya, the people in the marketing department at Proactive must have a HUGE budget to play with! I mean really, now many celebrities have you seen “coming clean” lately about their acne problem? (or at least they SAY they had a problem ). Of course they all say the same thing - that Proactiv acne cream is the only reason their skin is so perfectly beautiful now. Help or hype?? Who knows??
Alpine Village Family August 20th, 2008
To me it’s a silly question, or at least it was. If your kids get a check for their birthday, do you let them cash it and then spend it or do you deposit it into their respective checking accounts and not let them touch it?
To clarify, i’m not talking about big sums of money here - just maybe $50 or $75 dollars from an Aunt or Nana and Papa for example. To me, they should be able to spend it unless there was an instruction from the gift giver that the meoney is for saving. Otherwise the gift they gave… well, it seems to the kids that they didn’t even GET a gift 
Alpine Village Family August 11th, 2008
I think sometimes she needs to have a blood pressure monitor permanently attached to her arm. It seems that no matter what happens to her she is pretty sure it’s the end of the world. She won’t say it but she’ll imply it - very odd. It tmakes me feel bad but the truth is that I dread phoning her because she’ll tell me every negative thing about my life too. I hang up needing a drink or a trip to a therapist… sigh…
Alpine Village Family August 10th, 2008
I think I’m going to go for the blue furniture that I found on sale at The Brick. The only thing holding me back is whether or not I’m crazy to go with a trendy colour of furniture. Will I come to hate that blue in a year or two? I don’t think so but what if I do? Is it on sale enough to make the decision okay if I want to buy new in a couple years? Hmm… I think I’ll go visit it again tomorrow and see if I still love it.
Alpine Village Family August 10th, 2008
I had to send in my laptop and it had me scanning my memory to try to remember whether I had anything stored on their that might be embarassing to have someone else see. No, not anything terribly scandalous LOL. Just maybe photos where I’m not looking my best or even a journal that might still be around somehow - even though I delelted it. I just wonder if they have time to snoop through to look for embarassing stuff… hmmm…
