Currently it is pouring rain outside. It’s raining so hard it’s LOUD on the second floor. I thought I had the water running in the bathtub for some reason and was trying to find the source of the sound, but it’s just the rain on the roof. It’s also 10C (51F) right now. Some of you might think this is whatever, but I tell you it’s ODD for Montreal at this time of year. VERY odd. Heck, two weeks ago it was 19C (66F) and my niece had her first ever pic-nic and it was NOVEMBER.

Generally? We have our first snowfall this weekend. See 2005. (That was Jinx’s first snow, too!) Ok, well, um 2006 the snow came December 3rd. So, um, forget that. I forgot that we had to move all our belongings out of storage and into my in-laws’ house at the end of November that year and we were thankful that there had been no snow. Hmm, that doesn’t really help the point of my ramble here…  Um, and it seems the first snow wasn’t until December 1st last year. Geez. I should just scrap this post and give up already.

Ok,  then. Erm… hi! How’s it going? *whistles innocently and changes the subject*

Shawn is currently watching Star Wars Clone Wars, or whatever it’s called. We rented it today at Blockbuster. Every time they say “General Kenobi” I think they are saying Canoli. HAHAHAH! I was confused at first, but now it’s just amusing me.

I make my own fun.

We also watched Hellboy II earlier today, too. Bought that one though since it was out and I was certain we had the first one on CVC already. Apparently no. OR it’s run away with my DVDs of Fantasia and Godspell, because I KNOW I had those ones and yet can’t find them anymore. Grr.

I really, seriously have this desperate urge to put up my Christmas decorations, but it’s only November 15th after all and that’s way too early. And I haven’t been to the stores yet to see what’s NEW out there this year (mental note: we NEED to buy a tree stand since ours had to be put to rest last year) and get MORE stuff. I also need to get all my Christmas cards so I can start writing them up and sending them out. I saw some great ones at Hallmark a few weeks ago, but they were pricey and I don’t know what to do. I think those’ll be for my super special friends. (Are you one? Who knows.. it’ll all depend on what you give me in return. Muahahah!) It’s been unusually warm and rainy this month and yet I am feeling festive and I haven’t yet been in a mall or see holiday ads on TV. It’s just naturally me. I’m going to have to find all my Christmas CDs and get them back on my iPod soon. Heh.

And it’s surprising I have been feeling festive at all what with all the misery and melancholy in and around me. But it’s there a slight spark of holiday spirit.

There might be hope yet.

Oh, and you might not have noticed, (mainly due to my serious lack in posting and all the misery) that I have NOT been posting about how deathly ill I am and how I have been in the ER and fighting with my GI. That happens every year at this time (and I mean that, unlike the attempted and failed point about first snows in November). Well for the first time in my entire life, and I mean this, I am NOT SICK. I have had no stomach problems other than a gastric flu or food poisoning in almost a year! I can eat things now that I haven’t been able to eat almost since the day I was born. It’s incredible and I keep meaning to post about this, but I just don’t have the time and energy to focus on it.  Last November, my mother and I went to a BodyTalk appointment and I was skeptical and not convinced it would do anything but I went for my Mum and she was desperate to try and help with anything to finally help me feel better. So I went. I didn’t think anything about it at the time, but then by March I was noticing that I hadn’t been sick – really sick – since I had gone. Sure I normally start to get better around January/February anyhow, but I was noticing how I could eat and not lose the food right after more and more often. I checked out the BodyTalk webpage to try and learn more, I did know the woman we had gone to see was fantastic just as a human being. She’s naturally calming and comforting and friendly. We were to go back in the early new year but schedules were difficult to sync up. So we both went back in June and I felt great, we went back in July and then I noticed I was able to eat things – like corn! – for the first time in years and NOT. GET. VIOLENTLY. ILL! I have since been another 2 times, with a third coming next month. I don’t know what is working with this, but something is and I have to say I feel less and less disconnected when I go. Things are a little clearer. It’s a form of psychotherapy at the same time, just talking with this woman is a big help. And as long as I seem to be seeing results (positive ones) I will keep  going.

Anyhow this is a really big thing for me, not being so ill I can’t keep anything down, or being in so much pain I can’t stand up. I can’t think of the last time I felt like this at this time of the year. After my disastrous last GI appointment in April where the doctor was so rude and mean that I almost wrote to complain, I knew I wasn’t going back.  I just need to find a family doctor (HA!) that will be able to renew my acid reflux pills, because I still have some problems with that.

Other that that, I did rejoin Curves back in September, went 4 times and then missed three weeks. oops. However I went DOWN in body fat percentage which surprised the woman at the gym. She said that was a good sign. So when I went for my weight/measurement on November 10, and was asked, since it had only been 20 days since the last time did I want to go through with it, I said yes. I said I wasn’t expecting anything, but I wanted to keep track properly.

To my wonderful surprise – I went down in body fat AGAIN (from 37.6% to 37.4% and now 37.1% – which doesn’t seem like much, but apparently is) AND I lost inches – a lot – 5 in total in 20 days. I lost 1.25 inches on my waist (huh!), half an inch on my arms and bust (I think it was bust, paper is upstairs right now) and I lost over an INCH on my thighs! I was measured THREE times in each place because the woman was afraid she made a mistake and she kept giving me these suspicious looks. I told her to stop because she was making me feel like I cheated somehow. Haha! But you can suck in your stomach, but you can’t suck in your arms or thighs. So, no cheating for me! Just results. Good results.

Now if only I could get there three times a week like I had planned and not just twice like I have been doing. I would see way better results. My weight hasn’t changed, but I am not worried about that. I have pretty much been the same weight since I gained this stupid weight 6 years ago – EXCEPT when I get really sick in the fall and lose 20 pounds. No such (bad) luck this year, this year I am doing it healthily and happily.

Well, I guess that’s it. Um, I think. There’s probably more but heck this is long. You probably won’t even read the entire thing. Wonder if this makes up for my lack of posting this month… a little? Maybe? Perhaps read it in chunks on differnet days so it looks like I am posting more often?

Oh, and apparently it’s JABBA the hut and not Java. Oops.

Though I think Java the Hut would go great with General Canoli, don’t you?