Tag Archives: Stress

365 Days of Self Portraits: Days 100-106

In an effort to gain self confidence and deal with body image issues still remaining after my weight loss, I decided to take part in a 365 project focusing on self portraits.  My hopes are that after a year of taking a photo of myself ever day, that I will stop hating photos of myself, stop picking apart the things …

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Parents Incoming!!

Oh my god I can’t believe I’m finally saying this, but my parents will be here NEXT WEEK!!   We’ve been counting this down for months and it’s almost here.   Mom and Dad hugs, Canadian goodies, all my favorite people together again in one room!! I’m excited! I’m freaking out! I know most other expat women I know go through odd …

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Relax, Have a Puppy!

At the moment I am off work for a few weeks.  It sucks, and I feel like a total arsehole but I guess I need to accept my limitations. Going back to a 40 hour week after 9 years of being a housewife, ok… might have been able to manage if it wasn’t something too busy or stressful. Going back …

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Phantom Stress

I’m stressing!! I don’t know what I’m stressing about but man am I stressing! For the past few nights I’ve slept like crap, having weird dreams and unable to sleep for more than an hour or so at a time. Twice I’ve woken up with a weird burny chest pain but I haven’t been eating anything that would cause it, …

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Walking My Ass Off

June is here and I have officially started my diet. So far so good, I’ve been getting up at 5:30-6am and going walking, and have even been doing my aerobics video. Well only twice so far but I’ve only been dieting for two days. I lasted 20 minutes with the video yesterday before I was red faced and panting to …

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