Have you ever...

Have you ever....

Slapped someone across the face, movie style "How dare you!"

Paid for the person behind you in the drive thru

Poured a drink over someone

Sent flowers to someone just because...

Got in the car and just drove, having no idea where you are going

Pick something out of the garbage (1) to reuse (2) to Eat!!!!

Gone alone to the movies, a restaurant, a concert, a sporting event, a bar

Flown first class

Eaten caviar or frogs legs

Literally played with fire

Peed your pants as an adult

Got buried up to your neck in the sand

Skinny dipped

Not gone on Facebook for an entire day

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It's Tuesday

Do it yourself Tuesday. This is what I have done 

Changed a fan and blower on my electric fireplace.

Changed the element in my stove. Not because I wanted to get home to cook dinner as the buddy in Home Depot suggested:p

Fixed the ceiling vent and repaired the duct work

Caulked 

Wallpapered

I use to wait to have someone else do these jobs. I don't like waiting or asking someone to do it. I post these cuz anyone can do them. I love that my kids see me do them on my own, at times easily and other times frustrated or requiring several attempts but at least I try.

P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L

Today Daphne and I did a women's self defence course at Stronger You. It was free.

It was awesome! First we stuck red and yellow stickers on each other. She had the yellow, which indicated all the body parts we could use to defend ourselves. Daphne stuck red stickers on me showing where a person could be struck, having an impact on the offender.

We were then separated.  My portion of the course covered so much more than I thought. I walked into the four hour course thinking, four hours is long, how much are we going to be beating on some guy dressed up in protective gear?  Well the four hours flew by with only a five minute break in the middle! We did practice self defence moves from striking to how to escape when someone has you pinned down by sitting on you,  but in addition, we talked about a woman's role in society, the law concerning consent, types of violence, a variety of situations, intuition, awareness, our voice and so much more.  Ironically this all related to my Victimology certificate program I am currently enrolled in at Algonquin, in particular my Women and Violence course.

Their message and the information, was conveyed by stories, asking us questions that made you think and group/partner activities.  I also enjoyed practicing the self defence moves on the pads held by the instructors.  Learned I am pretty powerful if made mad or threatened.

I left the course feeling more confident and assured that I could defend myself.

Oh and the red dots that Daph stuck on me, most ended up on my name tag except for the one on my forehead! Spent the whole class with it there! 

Hahaha!

Terms heard that you will have to take the course to understand:

It's on like Donkey Kong

Pull the lawn mower

Act like the cat in a bag

NO is a sentence

Assertiveness is learned

Be twitchy 

I fight like a girl!

Thank you Janet, Denise, Geoff, Bill and the other instructors!

Amazing

My precious blue eggs

Please hold on working on some posts. 

Remembering to take time to say Thank you

I am thankful for:

A great ? Rd trip with my sisters and our kids

To see Dad healthy again

The introduction of the people I love 

The warm weather 

My job

My new courses

Not knowing what the future holds

Future travel

Lavender

Weed poppers

I am better because of you

Dear Mrs Smith

I am writing you to thank you for making me a better teacher...I think?  You were my grade six teacher at Georges Vanier.  I was an awkward 11/12 year old girl who was the definition of introvert.  I had a close group of friends and a did pretty good academically.  You might want to take credit for the academics but your methods weren't what I needed.  You'd pick me out to answer questions when my hand wasn't raised. To some this probably wouldn't really phase them

but to me it made me anxious and stressed. You yelled a lot and used intimidation to keep control of the class. No you didn't yell necessarily at me.  And the desk that you threw wasn't at me but I am sure Kevin hasn't forgotten it.  

I shared the same name as your son. You'd think that would give us a unique bond...? But I guess me being one of the none Catholics in the class didn't help my case. Still not an excuse to ignore me when I saw you by the canal and I waved a huge HELLO. Come on we both there to see the Pope float by in his bullet proof boat. Your behaviour not so Catholic like:(. Or even better is when my friend, on my behalf, asked what would happen if one was not baptized? "You won't go to Heaven." So as a grade six student you left me to believe I was going to Hell.  That's fine now, I have you to thank for completely turning me off religion.

I believe I missed more days at school that year than I had ever and I spent many mornings begging not to go to school, oh and headaches to boot.

Your techniques of us beating a pillow with a bat and yelling out what made us angry...were interesting?! By the way I made all mine up and would have never yelled that it was you, the only black cloud in my life at that time.

Again I thank you for making me a better teacher.  Yes I admit I can be a firm teacher and I do not "connect" with all of my students.  the ones that I don't immediately, I make a conscious effort to take time and speak one on one and find a special connection.  I do this because I don't want to be the teacher the student remembers as a "mean" "angry" teacher that everyone feared getting.

As an adult I saw you at Farm Boy.  I did not say hi. I didn't say anything.  I became that scared pre teen fighting an anxiety attack.

In the end I did learn a lot from you.  

Karma

Sincerely 

Ms Smith

They don't even smell!

I LOVE THESE SOCKS!!!

My kids got me a pair for Christmas and since then I have bought 3 other pairs!  They are Under Armour and I get them at Play It Again Sports.

They have cushioning on the bottom and they come up to my knees.  I don't even wear them for sports. They have kept me warm all winter long!

Update:

So last week I ran and completed this:

I also did some serious hill running on the treadmill:) and I row row rowed my boat!  Since Monday I haven't trained because I am fighting something and I was wiped out Monday (needed an after work nap:( but I am planning to do my 20k run this Sunday, weather permitting:p not feeling it quite so much these days (the training) but that's how I roll. I know I will "feel" it again and get back into it. Gonna break out the bikes this weekend too. So that will be some fun training!

Now I am gonna go find some old sports equipment to trade in so I can get another pair of socks!!!! There are just so many colours!!!