Wednesday, December 22, 2010

#5. Speak a foreign Language

Feliz Navidad y Prospero Ano Nuevo!!!


T y yo va a viajar a México durante las vacaciones, así que han decidido aprender español. Tengo que aprender a decir 'otra copa por favor "o" que me señale en la dirección de mi habitación.

Estamos cansados de palear la nieve, la circulación por carreteras heladas, y viendo la red del tiempo como si fuera televisión prime time.

Así de T & I, esperamos que sus vacaciones son maravillosas y que el año nuevo trae nada más que cosas buenas.

Nos vemos en 2011!

T and I will be traveling to Mexico over the holidays so I have chosen to learn Spanish. I need to learn how to say 'another drink please' or 'point me in the direction of my room'.


We are tired of shovelling snow, driving on icy roads, and watching the weather network like its prime time TV.


So from T & I, we hope your holidays are wonderful and that the New Year brings nothing but good things.


See you in 2011!

Friday, December 10, 2010

#33. Perfect your AM Stretch

People – it is important to stretch, especially as you age. I’m learning the hard way EVERY time.

I never used to stretch, not even before a run, not after a run, and especially not when I got up in the morning.

The morning routine goes like this: Alarm goes off – hit snooze. Alarm goes off again, wake up T and roll out of bed into the bathroom, where I turn on Much Music or Much More Music (TV on counter) and proceed to perform a one woman dance/rap show to wake the hell up – all to T’s amusement. T has stated on several occasions “honey you are not, nor will ever be a white rapper’. Constructive criticism is a hard pill to swallow before my morning mocha.

Anyway, nowhere in there is stretching. And then this week it happened.

This song came on:



I thought multiple body rolls were appropriate. Body rolls learned in my Zumba class performed in a supervised fitness centre where certified fitness professionals are on standby. I rolled to one side; all is well, rolled to the other and felt both a crack and a sharp pain in my neck. Knowing T was watching I turned off the TV and exited the bathroom – no need to give him ammo. I proceeded outside to shovel the driveway shaking off the neck pains, you know because I’m young, they’ll pass.

I get in the car to drive to work, turn my head to the right – excellent, turn my head to the left, excruciating pain while I feel something pull in my upper back. My mind automatically goes to those icy-hot or A535 commercials showing flaming back muscles that I never understood, and I contemplate being late for work to pick some up, but decide to suffer through. My actual thought process went ‘I do have time, but then I couldn’t get my mocha, hmmmmm, and if I applied it while at work I’d smell like an old person, so....., no, suck it up and suffer’.


So here I am suffering – 2 days later. Anyone approaches my desk from the left and the chair swivels -no turning of the actual head. But if T asks, the story is I slept on it weird.

Do your stretches people.






*I chose this pic for the muscles :)