Valentine's Weekend~

I always look forward to Valentine's day with Cole and this one proved to be awesome once again. After being in a relationship for close to 6 years with a guy who didn't have a considerate or romantic bone in his body I so appreciate Cole.

On Thursday night before he left for work he brought out part of my gift which were 4 pairs of fuzzy socks. I was wearing the beige one's when I took this pic.

I ended up calling in sick to work so I missed that on my desk he had these roses and the chocolates above.On Friday evening Cole made me supper-Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo with Garlic Bread. Then we exchanged gifts. He gave me a pair of pajama's, some mini eggs and these earrings below. They are from my favorite place What on Earth. It is handmade silver jewellery. So pretty, he usually will get me all silver but he decided to get a pair with stones this time-I'm good with that-haha. He likes to get me a piece of jewellery for almost all occasions and I like it too :)

The woman at work said wait a few years-haha-we'll see I guess. I got him a Vancouver Olympics Tshirt, the sports pack for the Wii with the bat, racket, etc and a jar with chocolates in it that I unwrapped because he hates doing it-Hershey kisses and those Reese hearts. We mostly hung around here for the rest of the weekend. A friend had once again cancelled plans as per my last post so Cole & I ordered in Swiss Chalet and watched some shows we had downloaded on Sat.

Yesterday morning we went for a super early walk and stopped to have coffee & a bagel-it was super cold outside but at least I took advantage of the clear sidewalk again before the snow. Cole had to sleep during the day so I scrapbooked :

Cole had a potluck at work so I made him some cinnamon rolls to bring. This is the second pan I made the first one was for him and they are almost gone. Too yummy~

Today its really snowing hard outside so I decided to come home and prep some of my food for the week. Its not so challenging to eat good if the food is bagged.

Tomorrow I'm doing the dread I mean treadmill and I'm looking forward to weigh in on Thursday~

Finally a loss~

Well my weigh in was last night and I lost 2.2 pds. I am so happy. Yesterday the weather was so perfect. I walked for a total of 3 hours.

I came home from work, put on so comfy clothes, a big floppy purse and set out. I walked for like two hours-I did stop into a store to get Cole's valentines present but mostly walked. It felt so good. Later I walked for an hour to my meeting. I am so loving having a clear sidewalk for a change. I knew I would miss outdoor walking but I really didn't know that it would be to this extent.

I decided to finally stay to a meeting and they had a substitute leader there so I still don't really know if I will like the meetings on Thursdays or not. Oh swells~

Today I woke up @ 2am with bad p pains and a little nausea so I called in sick to work. It is a huge bummer because Cole is there now and when I called to tell him he said ah that sucks I did up your desk for valentines day-he is so romantic I so wish I had felt good today-would have been nice to have my roses & chocolates at work-haha.

Yesterday I did two things to try and get me out of my comfort zone with regards to my last post. One being only really eating while sitting and therefore sometimes going too late between meals, snacks and another is dressing down in public.

Years ago when I was of an healthy weight I used to love wearing comfy clothing and just going places, seeing where the day took me sort of thing but I haven't done that in forever. Its one of those things you don't even really remember missing until you do it again.

You see if there is ever any chance I'm going to run into a store I will have jeans or dress pants on, be showered ( well I'm not really giving this one up, haha), maybe have on jewellery, you know the deal. I guess I once I gained my weight I didn't really want people to mistake me for a slobby fat person.

So yesterday I put on my yoga pants, a big comfy sweatshirt, my sneakers and a big floppy purse and I set out where the day took me. I mostly walked but I did stop into the bank and a couple of stores and you know what? It felt amazing. I think I will be making a habit of this. And on the way home I had a snack while walking-look at me I'm growing as a person-hopefully shrinking my waist too.

The time is flying.

Wow-hard to believe the weekend is gone already and I've got two shifts punched. Amazing how fast the time seems to be going.

I started thinking about that today and how quickly my wedding will be approaching. It is 13 months away. Walking home from work with the temperature being above -5 for the first time in a while got me in the mood for exercise.

I've been having a great week so far-this being the 2nd day-haha-and I've really stuck to a good food plan. Been eating lots of fresh veggies and fruit. I'm so grateful that the fruit we bought this week is especially delicious-so much easier-I just hate it when we buy a box of clementines only to have them taste yucky.

This coming weekend we are being offered some overtime and I was going to do it til I realized that Friday is the only real night Cole & I will get to celebrate Valentine's day and that is really important to us.

So many of my co-workers or ppl I know say they don't really do anything special for their spouse or vice versa. I can honestly say that Cole & I constantly show each other appreciation on a daily basis not just Valentine's day. Many ppl say oh just wait til you get married or have kids but I don't think either one of us would let the other get away with it. Whether its Cole scribbling me a little love note or me baking him his favorite treat we do these things often and we don't take them for granted.

Maybe it helps that we were friends first but I encourage anyone to do these things and to really see how fulfilling it can be to give.

Here are some pics of something Cole did for me last year. He made a trail for me to follow to the bathroom.

Hershey Kisses cause he really knows his woman.He had candles set up everywhere and a super hot bubble bath, just the way I like it.