tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56662179679195338072024-03-05T08:56:55.117-06:00With An Angel On My Shoulderter@waaomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281816721565523092noreply@blogger.comBlogger334125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666217967919533807.post-6820144669221745342014-01-01T22:07:00.000-06:002014-01-01T22:07:49.219-06:00Word of the Year 2014<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">sim·pli·fy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">verb</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(used</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">with</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">object),</span></span>
sim·pli·fied, sim·pli·fy·ing.
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">make</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">less</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">complex</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">or</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">complicated;</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">make</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">plainer</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">or</span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">easier:</span></span><br />
to simplify a <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/simplify?s=t" target="_blank">Dictionary.com</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I have chosen Simplify to be my Word Of The Year for 2014.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">While my WOTY for 2013 helped me get started on DOing a lot of simplifying, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I'm hoping this word will help me take it to another level. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">This image below may help explain what I look for in simplifying my life: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Here's to a more Simple (and wonderful) year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Do YOU have a Word of a Year? What is it? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Share your link in the comments below! </span></span></div>
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Past Words of the Year:</div>
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<a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2013/01/word-of-year-2013.html" target="_blank">2013: Do</a></div>
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<a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2012/01/word-of-year-2012.html" target="_blank">2012: Emerge</a></div>
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<a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2011/01/word-of-year-2011.html" target="_blank">2011: Courage</a></div>
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<a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2010/01/word-of-year-2010.html" target="_blank">2010: Thrive</a></div>
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<a href="http://withanangelonmyshoulder.blogspot.ca/2009/01/word-of-year.html" target="_blank">2009: Survive </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/waaoms/word-of-the-year/" target="_blank">My Word of the Year Board on Pinterest </a></div>
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Have you noticed I haven't been here
much this year??? It's because I've been living up to my <a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2013/01/word-of-year-2013.html" target="_blank">2013 Word of The Year. </a></div>
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As you may recall, I chose the word DO
for my 2013 Word Of The Year. And wow, did that word ever play a role
in my life every day. Not only did it encourage me to DO things, it
also became a bit of a mantra and also a virtual butt-kicker from all
my friends. “Ter, just DO it”, they would encourage me.</div>
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So, what did I DO this year?? Here are
a few things (in no specific order) :</div>
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<li>I removed certain toxic
people from my life. </li>
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<li>I started a new job. </li>
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<li>I finally got a tattoo in memory of my
daughter and her daddy. </li>
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<li>I joined a gym and hired a personal
trainer. I fought against Fibromalygia and started healing my body.
(and went down several jean sizes!) Still have a long way to go, but
I'm well on my way. </li>
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<li>Drove on a highway in the dark in
winter (3 things I hate to do). Technically, I did this the last
week of December last year but it still counts. :) ) </li>
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<li>I found it easier to decide about
getting rid of a few possessions that I had been on the fence
about... Just DO it helped. </li>
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<li>I 'celebrated' my birthday even though
it was my most difficult one to date. This year I became older than
my husband. He passed away two days before his 38<sup>th</sup>
birthday. This year, I turned 38. I went out for a few drinks and
dinner with some friends and had a wonderful time.
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There's a lot more I'm sure, but that
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ter@waaomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281816721565523092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666217967919533807.post-68882450543498950702013-06-09T19:17:00.001-05:002013-06-09T19:17:44.262-05:00Weight Loss Journey: Toning Up <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I've been a bad blogger lately, both reading and writing blogs. Life has gotten in the way. I'm back to work full time plus I'm still going to the gym and doing my craft business, Plus everything else.<br />
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I thought you might like an update on my weight loss journey (is anyone still reading this blog?) I'm not yet comfortable with sharing full body in-my-underwear pics yet, but here is a time line photo of my arms, which I've gotten several comments about over the last couple months. The first photo is a crop of <a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2011/06/my-weight-loss-journey-goals.html" target="_blank">THIS PHOTO</a> from 2011 when I was goofing off. I took a picture in March because I wanted to see if there was a difference, and then I took another photo today. As you can see my arms are toning up a bit.<br />
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My weight loss is moving very slowly. The number on the scale hasn't changed much at all, in fact, it went up again, but my body itself is starting to show some very slight changes.<br />
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I also did my measurements the other day and here's what I discovered:<br />
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2008 vs June 2013</span></b></u><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Bust - down 2.75</span><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Waist - down 1 or 3.8 <span style="font-size: x-small;">(depending
where it was measured in 2008, my trainer measured my waist in 2 spots)</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Hips - down 3.25</span><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Thighs - down 4.5</span><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Arms - up 0.5</span> <br />
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The trainer forgot to do my abs but when I checked on my own it was down about -10 but that doesn't seem right to me...<br />
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Anyway, that's where I am in the progress. Some days I feel like it's going way too slowly and that there isn't any progress, but people are commenting a lot on my arms, as I mentioned, and my clothes are fitting better, and in fact, a pair of jeans that were too tight last year are now too big for me, so I guess things are happening. They say you're always the last to notice, so I hope that I will see it soon. Taking pictures like this helps, though I'm still at the stage of wondering if I'm just imagining what I see.<br />
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The gym itself is going well. I'm enjoying it. I know that my work out is quite modified because of my fibromyalgia but I am not letting it stop me. Nosireebob. I am going to <a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2013/01/word-of-year-2013.html" target="_blank">DO</a> this. <br />
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ter@waaomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281816721565523092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666217967919533807.post-16591421129954120572013-05-01T13:25:00.000-05:002013-05-01T13:25:29.444-05:00Weigh-In: May 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7 lbs down since <a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2013/02/do-continue-weight-loss-journey.html" target="_blank">my last post</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Well, it doesn't seem like a lot, but ...<br />
Today I measured myself and I have definitely lost several inches since 2008 at almost my heaviest.<br />
My clothes are looser<br />
I have baby muscles coming in.<br />
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I'm trying not to get down about the numbers.<br />
It didn't pile on in a day, so it's going to take time to come off.<br />
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I'm going to the gym and seeing my trainer 3 times a week.<br />
I try to do as much activity as I can the rest of the week.<br />
I'm enjoying it for the most part. <br />
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I need to work on my eating.<br />
I feel like I am eating all day long, but the numbers are saying I'm not eating enough.<br />
I mostly eat healthy, though like everyone else, I do have my weaknesses!<br />
I'm in better control of those now though.<br />
A few years ago, you wouldn't have seen me without a can of coke near by. <br />
Now I have it less than once a week.<br />
Yes, that's right, some weeks I don't have any at all!<br />
I drink water all the time now.<br />
I don't really miss the coke.<br />
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My fibromyalgia is ever present<br />
but I'm tolerating it more.<br />
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And if winter ever ends...<br />
(yes, it's snowing today!)<br />
we'll be able to go for longer walks<br />
and spend more time outside.<br />
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Yes, I just need to be positive that this is gonna happen.<br />
This is it.<br />
I will win this battle!<br />
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(now to convince myself of that)<br />
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My trainer loves to make me do squats.</div>
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My poor neglected blog... I shall have to come up with things to say. </div>
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Is anyone even still reading this blog?</div>
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I finally got myself a netflix account so I could watch the rest of it.</div>
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I just spent this past weekend watching the entire first two seasons.</div>
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I don't have the channel it's on to watch it when it airs </div>
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so now I'm impatiently waiting for the next season to appear on netflix.</div>
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I don't even like zombies!</div>
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Do you watch The Walking Dead?? What do you think of the show??</div>
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Just don't tell me anything about season 3 yet!</div>
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I did my first spinning class yesterday. Whoa. </div>
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ter@waaomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281816721565523092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666217967919533807.post-12186255799683390312013-02-04T12:52:00.000-06:002013-02-11T23:55:18.221-06:00DO: Continue Weight Loss JourneyYou may recall that my <a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2013/01/word-of-year-2013.html" target="_blank">Word of the Year is DO</a>. One of the things I need to DO this year is to continue my weight loss journey.
Since I'm now working full time, I decided I can finally afford a gym membership. In addition to that, I decided to sign up for a personal trainer to get me started towards my goal of losing weight and reducing pain due to Fibromyalgia. Below is a "personal prescription plan" that the trainer created for me. It's kind of hard to see from the scan I made. So far, I have only signed up for the first phase (18 sessions), but if it goes well, I just may sign up for the rest of it.
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I'm looking forward to this and I hope that it works. Your moral support and encouragement is much needed! I'll post updates every so often. Here's where I'm at since my last update...<br />
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I've gained 4 more pounds since <a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2012/03/weigh-in-march-2012.html" target="_blank">I last posted in March last year</a>.<br />
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The fact I was beginning to gain weight again depressed me so I stopped posting about it. I actually gained a bit more than the 4 pounds mentioned but I've since gone back down a bit. Hopefully, with this new gym program and continuing to work with the trainer as well as my naturopath doctor, I will continue to lose weight and reduce pain. Wish me luck.<br />
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See more posts about my weight loss journey <a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/search/label/weight_loss" target="_blank">HERE</a>. <br />
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... so I joined a gym... tell you about it next week!</div>
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<span class="dnindex"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">1.</span></span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"><sup> </sup>to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">perform</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">(an</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default;">act,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">duty,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">role,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">etc.</span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">)</span></span></span> </span><span class="ital-inline"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span> </span></span> </div>
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There were many definitions but I've only posted the top 5 on <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/do?s=t" target="_blank">Dictionary.com </a></div>
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<a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2012/01/word-of-year-2012.html" target="_blank">2012 - EMERGE </a></div>
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<a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2011/01/word-of-year-2011.html" target="_blank">2011 - COURAGE</a></div>
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I took a spontaneous trip to end the year 2012, so this report is a bit late.<br />
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I'm afraid that<a href="http://waaoms.blogspot.ca/2012/01/word-of-year-2012.html" target="_blank"> EMERGE</a> did not work for me as other Words of the Year have. I found Emerge to be too much of an end result and it didn't quite motivate me in the way my past words did.<br />
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I'm slightly disappointed, but still determined to continue with the Word of the Year. Let's hope for a better 2013.<br />
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ter@waaomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281816721565523092noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666217967919533807.post-46243746738869342122012-12-26T16:56:00.002-06:002012-12-26T16:57:12.751-06:00IkeaIkea finally opened in Winnipeg about 4 years after they announced it was coming. It opened just a few days before my birthday, so for my birthday celebration, my friend and I went to check it out. I had never been to any Ikea before, but I had been drooling over products for a long time. I meant to take many photos but I spent most of time just looking around, nearly hysterically giddy so I really only took these two photos...<br />
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I've been anxiously waiting for IKEA to open so I could get these shelves.</div>
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On a day like today, we must remember to look for the "helpers"<br />
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Too many young lives lost.
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ter@waaomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281816721565523092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666217967919533807.post-88013219604431987332012-12-11T10:49:00.001-06:002012-12-11T10:49:58.872-06:00Playing Catch Up: Wave of LightThe second Sunday of December is the Compassionate Friends World Wide Wave of Light in memory of children (of all ages) gone too soon. Every year, I light a candle in memory of my little girl and her daddy. This year, I placed the candle in front of a little ornament my friend gave me recently.<br />
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Here he is in the pile of toys. <br />
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In November, I did two craft sales. See the photos of my displays below. Both sales went well. I'm looking forward to doing it again next year. <br />
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ter@waaomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16281816721565523092noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666217967919533807.post-43135526395842748802012-12-11T00:04:00.000-06:002012-12-11T01:10:43.617-06:00Playing Catch Up: New JobI realized it's been a while since I wrote a post. I thought I'd do a little bit of catching up. I think I'll do a few posts. I wonder if there's anyone still reading my blog. <br />
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Since I wrote last, I started a new job. A full time job after 2 years of working only 5 hours a week. It was quite a struggle financially, so I'm glad to have a new job. However, it's been quite a challenge. I am now working evenings, which I have not done in many years. I was hired to work with a deaf-blind woman who may have other undiagnosed conditions. Undiagnosed because her parents won't consent to find out. Staff think she may have autism and may also be bipolar. She's also very aggressive. It's been fun. But I need a job, so I'll stick with it for now. As you can see from the above photo, my pup misses me a lot when I'm gone and insists on cuddles when I get home. That's the highlight of my day! <br />
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