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Morning Pages Entry – December 08, 2013

So here it is, Sunday afternoon, and heading into another Christmas season fast soon approaching. The challenge for me is still to stay away from all the junky foods. I feel pretty confident about it this time. If I’m finally going to get into the best shape of my life, then now is the time to do it. That time of year, when all the nasty food and temptations seem to come up. And it seems to be fuelled by feelings of boredom, and just general unhappiness. Those are two of the big things th...

Morning Pages Entry – December 07, 2013

Well, it’s pretty late Saturday, and I did almost forget to do my morning pages, so I guess we’ll have to call these evening pages, but at least I’m getting them done today. We just finished watching Superman Man of Steel movie, with the new stereo system. And I must admit, now I know why all those people say YES, you do need a sub woofer. Holy crap, was it loud and awesome. You could feel the sectional we were sitting on shake during some of the explosions. And there were definitely some...

Morning Pages Entry – December 06, 2013

Well, yesterday wasn’t a great day, but there were a few minor victories. Things that went wrong, included the blue box guys not taking all our recycleables because they were mixed paper and plastic. Then the purolator guy left a package with instructions to pick it up at the depot way across town. I ended up calling them to make a second attempt at delivery to my house, with a note saying it was ok to just leave the package. Then David our number 1 on the squash team sent me an email say...

Morning Pages Entry – December 05, 2013

So, yesterday wasn’t quite as successful as I had planned. I lost my squash ladder challenge to Eric, so I’m still stuck down in 5th place. But, it was a pretty good match none the less. He’s a tricky player, and if I had won the 2nd game, which I should have, given that I had the game winning shot on my racquet (tinned it), things likely would have turned out different. Ah well. I’ll get him next time. I did challenge Mark for this weekend. Not sure if he’ll be able to play, but if not, then...

Morning Pages Entry – December 04, 2013

Time to start taking squash a little bit more seriously. Won in house league for the first time yesterday. Not playing a very challenging match (against Lukas), but still did my best to play well. Also played a bit with Sean (who’s lost almost 40 pounds), and did pretty well against him. Won our little 2 out of 3 at the end, but in general he took most of the games. Did really well with the food thing yesterday. No refined sugar really, except possibly for the pulled pork, that had some sort...

Morning Pages Entry – December 03, 2013

Can’t believe, that I forgot to journal yesterday. Well, didn’t totally forget, I kept remembering to, I just didn’t sit down to do it. It was a bit of a messed up routine yesterday. My computer has been acting up lately, and turns out my one hard drive that has all the multimedia on it as pretty much crashed. It’s the external USB drive. Once I unplug it the computer works great again. Plus, I was wiring in my new Yamaha AVR receiver. [EDITED OUT PERSONAL STUFF] If I don’t get writing soon,...

Morning Pages Entry – December 01, 2013

Man, was I tired last night. I was up early to take Sam to practice, then I couldn’t go back to sleep, so basically, I went the entire day with about 4.5 hours sleep. I did make it to about 10:30 before crashing on in front of the TV, but I felt pretty good the entire day. Not tired at all. I’ve noticed, that I don’t seem to need as much sleep when I eat well. It’s looking eating to much sugar or something puts you into a bit of a coma. Yesterday, we also visited Grandmas for a chinese Christ...

Morning Pages Entry – November 30, 2013

Wow, so it looks like I’m up to 10 days as of today, guess I get some funky new badge Ah well, it’s what makes things fun, to have little goals and achievements. This has been a different bit of a morning, as I drove Sam to swim practice at 5am, then tried to go back to sleep, but couldn’t so I ended up driving her to REV3K at 7:30 as well, which made Karen happy, as she’s still sleeping now. I’ve actually played some GTA5 for an hour before I drove her to REV3K, and got around to writing th...

Morning Pages Entry – November 29, 2013

Well, here with go with day 9. It’s starting to feel a bit more of a routine doing these pages, and it’s hard to say whether that’s a good thing or not. I think, if I can stick to it for 30 days it will become a good habit. At least that’s what they say. I’m pretty happy this morning, even though my squash team lost last night. We could have won, if I hadn’t played Tony, but what can you do. Gotta give the new kids a chance to play I suppose. We should still be in first place anyways. I’m par...

Morning Pages Entry – November 28, 2013

So, here we go on day 7. Whatever will I write about today. Yesterday I bought another PS3 for the basement television. I always get a bit excited when I get new gadgets. Even though this is not really new for me, as we’ve had a PS3 upstairs for a few years now. But with all the Nexflix watching going on around here, it’s nice to be able to do it downstairs as well, given that Karen pretty much hogs the upstairs TV. Plus, now I can play games 24/7 if I so desired. Part of me thinks that’s pre...