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Thanks Giving and other holidays

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So … it seems my American friends are celebrating Thanks Giving today. I’d love to be eating turkey for dinner tonight. Yum. I’m sure most of my US friends are relaxing right now with full bellies. LOL

Speaking of relaxing, I’m sure my brother is looking forward to relaxing soon. He and his wife were in China for a vacation for the last week and a half and their on their way home right now. I’m sure they’re looking forward to getting a good sleep after their long flight.

We received sporadic emails from them while they were in China and it sounds like they had a great time. They saw the Great Wall of China, took a cruise on the Yangtze, visited Yellow Mountain and several large cities. Oh and they experimented and ate several different foods … I’m just glad they sound healthy and didn’t have to use the Blue Cross Blue Shield health savings account that I think my brother got before they went away! I’m certainly looking forward to hearing more about their trip and seeing some of the pictures they took.

Have you ever been to China? I’d love to go there for a holiday some time, but I’m not sure I’d be able much of the food. My brother wrote that they had fish at least twice a day pretty much every day and with my allergies I think I’d be in trouble!





Black Friday Shopping

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I was talking with a couple of my friends earlier today and we might go on a shopping trip this Friday.

Yep, we might drive into the U.S. for Black Friday. I’m in Toronto and it would only take about two hours or so to drive to Buffalo for a shopping trip.

I still don’t know if we’ll go or not, but if we do we might even leave on Thursday night so that we can be ready to shop bright and early Friday morning.

I’ve never gone shopping on Black Friday. I imagine it’s pretty crazy! If anyone has any tips for me as to how to survive Black Friday shopping sprees I’d love to hear them!

Craving Chocolate

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Do you ever get food cravings? I don’t know what’s up with my body, but for most of this past month I’ve been craving chocolate like crazy!

Don’t worry .. I haven’t been giving in to the cravings .. well, ok, just after Halloween when we still had some Halloween candies around, yes, I did indulge in some chocolate, but I knew if I kept giving in I’d soon need something like hydroxycut to get rid of the extra weight I’d gain from eating all those empty calories! LOL Plus, when you eat sweet stuff you seem to crave more sweet stuff – at least I do anyway!

I think my hormones are out of whack this month. Maybe it’s because I quit smoking in October?

Anyway … did you see last nights episode of Bones? After what they found in that big chocolate bar I think I’m off chocolate for a while. Maybe the show cured my cravings.

I can’t believe it’s almost December!

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I can’t believe how fast the year has gone by. Christmas is what, less than 6 weeks away?

As usual, we haven’t started doing any of our Christmas shopping. In fact, I don’t think we’ll be doing much Christmas shopping this year. Chris came home from work last Friday with news that he’s going to be laid off for another two weeks at the end of December so we won’t be spending much money this year!

We do have a couple of friends and relatives with young kids and babies. I think we’ll concentrate on getting baby christmas presents and then see how we stand financially as to whether we can afford to get gifts for anyone else. Hey if we can’t we can’t … I know our friends and relatives will understand. We certainly don’t expect any gifts and won’t be upset if we don’t get anything.

All we really want for the holidays is for our friends and relatives (and ourselves) to be happy and healthy.

Do you read the whole post or just skim?

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Ever since I mentioned that I’ve been steadily losing weight I’ve been getting comments on my blog posts, or via my contact form about various methods of losing weight.

I think it’s kind of funny because I’m losing weight by accident. It’s all because of a medication that I’m taking for my migraines. It’s cause me to have a decreased appetite and well, frankly – food just doesn’t taste all that good anymore.

Anyway … the suggestions I’m getting on my blog posts and on my contact form range from suggestions to take diet pills or to try hgh sprays or simple to just eat less. It’s kind of funny because it’s clear that people aren’t reading my full post. They must just read the title and or part of the first paragraph and decide on what their comment will be from there. I suspect most of these people are probably using automatic commenting software to find posts and that’s why this is happening to my weight loss posts.

If you’re also a blogger do you find that you get comments that only deal with part of your posts topic? Do you get a lot of spammy comments?

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