Amazing Results

Yesterday when I went to see my cousin at "Lush" I bought a seaweed fresh face mask, BB Seaweed it's called. Well I used this product and as you can see for yourself this product produced amazing results! I am so impressed I want to buy the company! 

Who would have thought that some seaweed, cleansing kaolin, antiseptic honey, calming aloe vera and rose absolute could do this to my skin? If only I'd known this a few years back, imagine the possibilities!

Love is a bomb... a bath bomb in this case.

Today was a fun filled day spent with two of my sisters and my beautiful daughter. We started off at the Farmers Market, then off we went to visit our cousin who manages a divine bath and body shop. Naturally we all played with the products and this particular bath bomb caught my eye. Each bath bomb has seven roses in it and it smells wonderful. 

After "playing" in the store, we all went out to a leisurely lunch, my cousin went back to her shop and the rest of us went to the movie "When in Rome."  I enjoyed the movie but does love happen that way in real life EVER?

This is my question of the day!

Olympic Torch

If only I had of known that this torch was going to be at the college and I had a chance to get my photo taken with it, I sure wouldn't have froze my butt of a few weeks back! This here is the president of our college, he carried the torch somewhere near the Walterdale bridge, not across the bridge where I was situated with my camera.

I'm glad to have had this opportunity to have my photo taken with Dr.Wayne Shillington and the torch. This year he will be retiring after 12 years of being in charge of NorQuest. I'm hoping that the next president will be able to do at least half of what Wayne has done for this college, he's done so much and advanced this educational institution in many ways.... plus it's not everyday one gets to have their photo taken with the Winter Olympic torch!

Adorable

I was at the mall today shopping for a swim suit with Cheryl, she's got a class trip to West Edmonton Mall tomorrow with her classmates. We could have looked at 500 swim suits and none would have done what she was looking for, she is after all 14 and going to be swimming with her peers. So no new swimsuit for Cheryl but the trip to the mall wasn't a complete waste of time

 

 I couldn't help myself when I saw this adorable little suit. This is for my granddaughter who will hopefully fit into it come summer. Her expected date of arrival into this world is early May and I'm so excited. I try not to buy things when I'm out and about, today my self restraint was weakened... what can I say? This is my first grandchild which makes this wee purchase totally justifiable!

Not to worry Shayne and Sandy, the makeup is only for contrast, I won't allow her to get into Gramma's makeup until she's at least 2!

Chili

I made chili over this past few days. I spent the time to cook the navy beans adding only what I chose to, this way I ensure that they are low sodium. I also did the same with the kidney beans. Today I added a can of tomatoes with zero sodium, spices, and hamburger from the farm which is extremely low fat. I think that this is the best chili I have ever tasted, it's so wholesome!

It was worth the effort of baking my own beans (not that much of an effort with a crock pot mind you!) and from here on in, this will be the way to go for me when I choose to make a pot of chili.

Sticky Notes

I LOVE sticky notes! The one thing that I've never loved about sticky notes though is that I will stick them on my desk, on my wall, or anywhere I can stick them but when I go to find one of them sometimes I can't seem to locate it. It's almost like I needed a sticky to remind me where my other sticky was...crazy making I tell ya! 

Well Windows 7 has solved my sticky note dilemma, I now have all of my sticky notes on my desktop and I love it! I can keep track of my personal appointments, my assignments, meetings, etc. and I don't have to remember where the sticky is.... ahhh can life get much better?

A Nice Surprise

Today Herb had to come to the city for some parts for his big truck. I like it when his truck breaks down because I get to see him! I know that sure doesn't sound nice, but oh well... whatever works! :-)


We went out to Doan's for a nice dinner and now we're going to relax and watch some TV. I deserve a night off my books, give my brain a rest AND House is on tonight! My one and only show that I watch only this time I'm going to watch it not recorded a week after the fact. A night with my guy and my favorite TV show...  life is good! :-)

Sunday Drive

I went back to part two of my nutrition seminar today and afterward decided to take a Sunday drive to see what I could see. I was on side-roads, mainroads and stopped off at a few places. I took quite a few photos today, so many that I had trouble choosing only one photo tonight. 

I decided on this photo, there's something about this picture of the church which I love. The church is St Georges Ukrainian Catholic Church, the sign says  "A Monument to the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine."

Saturday Night Baking

Tonight I was hoping that Herb was going to make it to the city for a visit, that was our plans. As it turns out he was on his way to the city and got a call for a job. After a quick call to let me know he turned around and headed for work. I was a tad bit disappointed although I understand, after all work is work. 

I was going to dive into reading my textbooks and changed my mind. I record House on PVR and as it turns out this past week it was a repeat which I've seen before so I decided to bake cookies. 

Now I am refraining from having a cookie, if I have one I'll want ten of them so why bother starting, especially after being in a nutrition class for four hours today! So here they are, a shot of my "bored" cookies, next maybe I'll clean the house, or maybe not. I think that the textbooks are going to win out tonight, I think I'll see what I can learn on a cold Saturday night... or maybe I'll start one of my projects or essays. Decisions, decisions... :-) 

Winter in Alberta

Tonight I was out at a meeting, afterward a very good friend and I went out for a tea and salad. I decided since I was out anyways I might just as well pick up my groceries for the week. I like to go late night shopping, hardly anybody is in the store and I don't have to walk a mile to the store in the parking lot. Well tonight when I went into the store it was pretty mild weather wise, I came out of the store about 40 minutes later and here I was back in winter... just like that in the blink of an eye and it's winter once again. Only in Alberta!