{"id":2512,"date":"2009-08-19T08:11:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T06:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T06:15:38","slug":"random-summer-2009-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2512","title":{"rendered":"Random Summer 2009 Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another hiatus from my blog.\u00a0 Sometimes I find it hard to find things to write about because I\u2019ve pretty much already told everyone I know what I\u2019ve been up to via Twitter and Facebook.\u00a0\u00a0 It makes the blog seem a little pointless at times.\u00a0\u00a0 It sucks in a way, I miss writing here regularly.<\/p>\n

This summer has been pretty meh weather-wise but has been great in pretty much every other way.\u00a0\u00a0 My best friend Penny has been house-sitting in town for the past 5-6 weeks, which means she is an hour closer than her usual stomping grounds in Roosendaal<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 So we\u2019ve been trying to see each other as often as possible, getting together for girlie afternoons, movies, BBQ\u2019s, and all that fun stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s made the summer so much more fun, I hope they go there every summer!<\/p>\n

Last night five of us girls got together and went out to Bennie Beer<\/a> (not beer as in the drink, it\u2019s Dutch for \u2018bear\u2019) for dinner, which was really yummy.\u00a0\u00a0 We also pondered how they manage to keep the place clean with so many stuffed bears everywhere.\u00a0 They have to get seriously dusty.\u00a0\u00a0 The food is good though so we overlooked it.\u00a0 They are a chain of restaurants that specialize in ribs, but I had a steak instead, which was good but definitely on the rare side of medium.\u00a0 A little more rare than I usually like it.<\/p>\n

After dinner we went bowling at a new place called Atoll Rotterdam<\/a>, it was the most posh bowling ally I\u2019ve ever been to, if it\u2019s even possible!\u00a0 I really like it there though, the atmosphere was great and the girls and I had a really great time.\u00a0\u00a0 I did find their whole system sort of weird though.\u00a0 When you go in you get a card and everything is charged to that, and you are also obligated to order a drink.\u00a0 How bizarre!\u00a0 Like, if you want to go bowling you MUST buy a drink or you aren\u2019t allowed to bowl.\u00a0\u00a0 Odd.\u00a0\u00a0 I did really badly on the first game, my score was pretty much half of everyone else\u2019s.\u00a0 Then I got better and actually won the 3rd one!<\/p>\n

errr\u2026 I did break my ass in the process though.\u00a0\u00a0 It was like \u201cOoooh, this is fun!\u201d and a little while later \u201cOMG MY ASS HURTS!\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, I mean we all should have known better than to think I could do something with heavy balls and physical activity without pulling some muscle or another\u2026 but, my ass?!\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 It hurts to sit.<\/p>\n

It also hurts to stand, lay down, bend over\u2026<\/p>\n

Oh well, at least my ass held out until the very end of the evening before giving out on me.\u00a0 So I got to enjoy myself for most of it!\u00a0 I\u2019ll live.\u00a0 Although I\u2019m not sure how the heating pad is going to jive with the 30 degree weather we are expecting today!<\/p>\n

In other news, Project Fatass<\/a> lives on!\u00a0 I decided when I began that I wasn\u2019t going to blog about it until I was well on my way with it this time.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written too many times during the 0-20 pounds lost period, who wants to keep hearing about that.\u00a0 Each time I started and gave up and I figured if I was going to suck at it again this time, I wasn\u2019t going to share it.<\/p>\n

\"25lbs\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember this guy<\/a>?\u00a0 Well, this is roughly how much I am down to date.\u00a0 That is my 25 pound fish and I am down 24.5 lbs as of this week.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why I always compare my weight loss to fish, but it works.\u00a0 Look how heavy it looks for him to hold it, that\u2019s how much less weight I\u2019m carrying around.<\/p>\n

Plus, it\u2019s easier than finding photos of 25 sticks of butter.<\/p>\n

I hope to one day lose a whale\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n

Since early June, I have been following the Weight Watchers<\/a> system here in NL.\u00a0 It all started out when my mother (who has lost somewhere between 80-100 lbs over the last number of years) told me that she has been using WW to lose the last bit of weight she was trying to get off, and how much she loved it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really feel ready for it when she first brought it up to me, I listened but felt quite \u2018meh\u2019 about the whole thing.\u00a0\u00a0 Then, after months of avoiding it, I got on the scale.\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s just say, what I saw shocked me into submission and I let her teach me the ways of the Weight Watchers.<\/p>\n

I found it difficult trying to follow the Canadian system when I eat mostly Dutch products, so after speaking with a friend here in NL who uses their system and her kindly giving me her login info for the website, I decided to sign up myself.\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t go to meetings but I am using the online program to track what I eat, my weight, and exercise.\u00a0\u00a0 I thought it might get annoying as it\u2019s all in Dutch but I\u2019m not really bothered.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty easy to use and since it has most Dutch food products in the list, it makes it a lot easier to keep track of what I am eating.<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m not going to make any grand speeches about how this is going to be the time I finally get all this weight off, but I really like this system and am doing my best to try to see it through to the end.\u00a0 Not sure if I will write about it a lot but we\u2019ll see.\u00a0 I will update about the milestones though, at least.<\/p>\n

Hubby is also trying to watch what he eats as he\u2019s been getting a little pot belly over the last year or so.\u00a0\u00a0 He\u2019s always been a total beanpole but I guess the mid 30\u2019s are catching up with him and his metabolism is changing or something.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, there are a few other things I plan to write about in a bit, like Pixel\u2019s first plucking and our camping adventures but I\u2019d like to give them updates of their own.\u00a0\u00a0 So I\u2019ll write about that later.<\/p>\n

All in all though, it\u2019s been a good summer so far.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve been spending time with friends, having fun, enjoying the sunshine when it\u2019s here and also enjoying when it\u2019s not.\u00a0\u00a0 I am happy, hubby is happy and our families are all healthy and happy.\u00a0 What more could you ask for out of a summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another hiatus from my blog.\u00a0 Sometimes I find it hard to find things to write about because I\u2019ve pretty much already told everyone I know what I\u2019ve been up to via Twitter and Facebook.\u00a0\u00a0 It makes the blog seem a little pointless at times.\u00a0\u00a0 It sucks in a way, I miss writing here regularly. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,152,19],"tags":[346,35,173,93,185,877,347],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","category-entertainment","category-weightloss","tag-bowling","tag-friends","tag-penny","tag-sickness","tag-summer","tag-weightloss","tag-weight-watchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}