Diary of a Real Girl

Woo…what a whirlwind week!!! I honestly CANNOT believe how fast it has flown by!!!

The husband and I head off on vacation for a week tomorrow and I have been SO busy finishing up last minute “to do” items and dealing with some other stuff that the end of the week just snuck up on me!!

Work has been flying too because I am the busiest I have ever been! I am covering for two people plus I have some of my own work to do…this is the kind of pace that I LOVE!!! In fact, this is the first breather I have taken in a while!!!

So first thing tomorrow morning (yes, FIRST thing!! We leave at 7 am!) we are flying to Vancouver, my friend is meeting us at the rental car place and dropping off my bridesmaids dress before her hair appointment (this will be my first time trying on my dress with it’s new alterations! All of it was done over the phone!). We are then packing up whatever we get for a rental (we are keeping our fingers crossed for a charger…it’s all Chrysler vehicles…so whatever is “Full Sized” in their minds!) and driving 4 hours to Kelowna!

Seems a little round-about hey??? I don’t even KNOW if I mentioned on here all the kerfluffle we went through for this trip – it was supposed to be 4 days in Vancouver then 2 days at Harrison Hot Springs. Now it’s 3.5 days in Kelowna, 2.5 days in Vancouver and 2.5 days in Harrison – PHEW!!! Thank goodness for unlimited kms on the rental!!

Anyhoo, so we have our days in Kelowna in which I plan on eating as much fresh fruit (CHERRIES!!!!!!!!!!!) that I can get my hands on and we have the husband’s Granparents 60th Wedding Anniversary (on our 6th Anniversary), then we pack up again and drive to Vancouver where we will (FINALLY) celebrate our anniversary (YAY!) and then meet up with the WONDERFUL CAT (SUPER YAY!!!!!!!!) for the next 2 days!!! She is going to take us to the aquarium and just all around wonderfullness…I also want to go to Holt Renfrew (the only shopping I really want to do besides picking up my anniversary present!) – and NO! I don’t plan on making any “purchases” like I did in TO…I will be good!!! On Thursday night we will have to say bye to Cat (for now!) and make our way out to Harrison first thing on Friday morning for a spa day! Then we have rehearsal dinner and Saturday is the wedding!!!!

GAH!!!!!!! I haven’t really STARTED my stuff to MC!!! Well, I started a little…but the wedding party is being slightly resistent to my requests for information!!! Whew…I have a feeling I know what I will be doing in my spare time this week!!!

I have found it REALLY hard not to get into “vacation mind” this week…we are frantically trying to use up anything that might spoil this week…and other than that, we have just been SO busy that there have been 3 nights that we haven’t eaten until almost 9pm!!! Top it off with the fact that we have to be up at 4:30 tomorrow morning – I am ONE STRESSED CHICK!!!

And Stress for me = eating way too much!!! Anyway…I am keeping a conscious mind about this BEFORE I go on vacation – oddly I don’t seem to gain weight on vacation (at least not much)…I find that I am only usually eating 2 meals a day…and though I do have a few treats…I am eating when I am HUNGRY as opposed to this odd schedule I seem to be on when I am at work…

Another interesting tidbit, 3 years ago we went to Kelowna and it was when I came back from that trip that I started Weight Watchers…

Some people I haven’t seen since then, so even though I am up a bit – I am still down to them…there are also a few people that I saw this time last summer at my lowest…sadly, I was very concerned of what they might think of me…well, it’s too late to change that now…HOWEVER, I can keep that in mind for the NEXT time I might see them, and hopefully I can be back the way they remember me from LAST year, or even better…because I did feel a LOT better then…and I would love to feel good about myself again!!

Wow, this whole post was just all over the place, hey??? I apologize for that!!! I am not sure if I will really have any internet access this week, so I MAY not be posting (not really a huge change seeing as I haven’t been posting much lately at all)!! I will catch up with all of you FOR SURE when I get back!!

Hope you all have a great week!!!!