Day 2 of ...

My new diet.

I haven't had much to say this week, for anyone wondering where I've been since Wednesday. Not much new, and if there was, I haven't had much time to say it in - Thursday was Meet the Teacher night at my school, and I had tutoring last night. So I guess some stuff new, but in that sense it's just been routine busy-ness that I didn't want to bore anyone with. Plus I started a diet yesterday, which means surliness, to anyone who's ever been there lol.

I'm trying the Nutrisystem diet - VERY yummy foods and it's all about portion control. So far I'm enjoying it; I'm just trying to get the timing down right to not eat things too close together and then go hours without food. But I'm doing that, plus went to the gym today ... I'm not going to fail this time. I WON'T! Too many people to prove wrong, including and most especially myself.

And in that sense, I wish any of my fellow dieters luck, and think it might be fun if anyone's interested to maybe get a support group going; it's not easy and I think communication, accountability and people to share successes and divide setbacks with are all key. So to that end I invite you if you want to email me or post comments and I can come check out your blog if you have one, and we can support each other on our weight loss journeys. Post away! :D

Nutrisystem

So I'm trying it.

My food was delivered today but I wasn't here and didn't drag my butt out fast enough to the outlet to pick it up tonight.

But Friday it's going to happen. I'm not putting this out there to impress anyone or to make any claims that I will absolutely without fail 100% succeed at this - anyone who knows me knows I'm the queen of week-long, failed diets.

But I'm hoping the fact my very generous grandma is springing for this program, and that it's now public knowledge, helps inspire me to stick with it.

Wish me luck.

Health and 90210

So feeling better again - but it is late so tonight's not going to be a long one. And that's fine too as there isn't a whole lot new on my little end of the world. We're still waiting on a certain important phonecall ... work's going basically smoothly, meet the teacher night is Thursday and that should be awright ... the weekend was OK except for being ill ... I HATE the new Facebook ... lol ... still going to ballroom dancing, still watching wrestling, glad my mom will be home from Montreal this weekend ... miss her ... but after what I just spent my last hour doing I keep meaning to ask, and share -

Anyone checked out the new 90210 yet? Anyone checked out more than the pilot? I'm enjoying it. I know from the POV of a 'drama expert' that it's hardly high art - I've seen better TV, movies, theatre, whatever. But it's a great 'guilty pleasure' kind of program, and they do a very good job of keeping enough interest around the veteran characters (Kelly and Brenda, the tie-in with the original cast of Erin Silver Kelly's half-sister), without overwhelming the new cast with them. They're giving us old fans our dose of the originals, while introducing us in a swift and interesting manner to the new cast. It's a really interesting format and they've got me so far anyway. What do you guys think?

Otherwise thinking lots of my family and friends - both my parents have been out of town, and I've talked to my mom every day but I still usually see her once or twice a week so that's been weird. And working, and then being sick over a weekend, isn't conducive to seeing a whole lot of people either. We have two friends whose oldest children just started kindergarten in the last week or so and I've been doing a lot of thinking about them ... we did go see a couple of my friends from high school this weekend but they have a new baby and I was sick so I didn't want to stick around too long. And it was my best friend's birthday two days ago - I hope she had a great one! :D

Anyways guys I'm about to collapse from tiredness and have an early morning, but the point is that I want any of my friends who read here to know that just because it's been a busy start to my year and then I got ill, that I am still thinking lots about you and doing my best to at least stay in cybertouch. And now that I'm healthy again, and gotten into a routine ... you can expect to hear much more from me (I'll leave that to you whether that's a promise or a threat lol). And meanwhile, if anyone's looking for an easy and healthy, guilt-free way to hang out with me, I have a "Y" membership which allows me to bring a friend 5x a year (ie between now and December). So if anyone wants to join me ... let me know! :D

Bleeeecccchhhh!

So please forgive my lack of blogging this weekend - I'm sick and hermitlike and not doing a whole lot of anything I must admit. :P Hoping to feel better by tomorrow, as I'm that awful kind of sick that isn't bad enough to take a day and just heal, but is icky enough that work will be a slog tomorrow even if it all goes smoothly. And all things considered then, I'd rather go in and get everyone started on their new units now that our review work is done, etc.

But I hope everyone else is having a great weekend, is feeling well, and hasn't caught this Godforsaken headcold that seems to be going around my hometown. Be well everyone and I promise a longer, and/or more interesting blog will be up here shortly.

:D

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Theatre News

Currently blogging for your reading pleasure is the director of the one-act play "Echo" for Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre's January One-Act Play Weekend.

Dates and times etc. to be announced at this site at a later date - or they can be found at KWLT's website http://www.kwlt.org.

Script can be found here.

Hope everyone can check out the show and support my new endeavour! :D

An email I sent

To http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/

To whom it may concern,

I am not an American woman, but a Canadian citizen. Fifteen years ago, we experienced our first female Prime Minister, a Conservative named Kim Campbell. As much as I was not exactly strongly politically astute at 11 years old, I did have the sense even then that, as much as I was proud as a girl of having a woman as Prime Minister, it didn't just matter that she was female, but competent. Sadly, she wasn't, and she set the movement of women in politics back years - we have not since had a female party leader come any further than third place in our elections.

I disapprove of Sarah Palin as a candidate - her anti-choice, pro-gun, anti-sex education, pro-corporation, anti-contraception, pro-corruption political makeup are personally rancid to me as a centre-leftist, and a longtime Clinton supporter, insofar as I have 'favourites' in American politics. However, I also disapprove of the fact that as the most public and famous woman in the country right now, she will somehow be perceived as standing for myself, or my American counterparts, as women. I simply hope the American public realizes that one can be the good things Mrs. Palin is - a supportive and loving mom, an eager grandmother-to-be, and an educated and (by all accounts) intelligent woman - without taking the lamentable negatives she represents as a politician.

It disappoints me that someone in her position, as the mother of a pregnant teenager and a disabled infant, a very educated and, by all accounts, intelligent woman, and a woman who shares the same Christian faith as I do, can stand for the things she stands for. What is best for women, to empower them and enable them to have better chances than their mothers and grandmothers, includes the ability to make informed decisions about one's sex life, having as many options as possible at their disposal to deal with the repercussions of those decisions (especially in the case where those decisions weren't their own, for example in the case of rape, abortions for which Mrs. Palin also opposes), and social programs accessible for themselves and their families ensuring their health and employability. Mrs. Palin does not represent any of these things.

As a woman, if I were able to vote in the United States of America in 2008, Barack Obama would have my vote. I hope that others like myself recognize that and agree. And for anyone who believes the Republican pandering that this woman is somehow a stand-in for Hillary Clinton, who was unfortunately denied the chance to be the Democratic nominee this time around - please do not lose sight of the fact that all she and Mrs. Clinton have in common is their gender, which does not matter at the end of the day. If you want to see a glass ceiling broken, while still having someone in the White House who represents positive change and looks after the American people, vote Obama in November. Yes we can!

Thank you,
Sarah Daigen
Kitchener Ontario