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Thanksgiving.
11-24-2011
It’s Thanksgiving.
I miss my family.
All day, I tried to think of things I was thankful for. I made a huge list inside my head and every time I got sidetracked feeling sorry for myself being so far away from my family on Thanksgiving, I went back to my list. I didn’t even know I could think of so many things that I was grateful for. It really helped me get through the day. Josh was really good to me too. At first I got all emotional and upset at him because I thought he forgot about Thanksgiving but he went behind my back trying to plan all these big surprises for me. Then I felt pretty awful for just assuming he was ignoring me or being forgetful about Thanksgiving. I guess we’re all human sometimes, aren’t we?
1 CommentExhaustion.
11-22-2011
I was spoiled last week not having to do physical work at my supermarket dairy job. Hanging out at the school I will be working at next year was not as physical though perhaps it was more mentally challenging.
This week I am suffering for it. Even after only one week off my body is having trouble keeping up. Only a few days into the week and I feel like I could sleep for another week straight. I’m going to bed early so I can at least sleep for as many hours straight as I can.
When I start my new job, I’m going to make sure that I stay active. I want to save up and buy myself a bicycle so that I can keep up my love for cycling and spinning. The town also has a gym that has spin classes that I plan to look into. Some of the teachers also play team sports like volleyball. That would be fun, too.
For now, the only thing I want to think about is sleep. I bet I fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.
How do you stay active?
How many hours do you sleep each night?
The Candy Exchange!
11-19-2011
Around Halloween, Snark, one of the message boards I frequent decided to do a candy exchange. We have a variety of different members coming from all different parts of the world so we thought it would be interesting to pair up members with those in other countries so that we could all sample some candy from around the world! I jumped at the opportunity to participate because I thought it would be fun to send someone candy from New Zealand and also due to the obvious fact that I love candy.
I was a bit of a special case since I just left America and might have been missing some of my favourite candy this Halloween so they actually paired me up with Angela in Ohio! Angela and I have been online buddies for years now so this made me really happy and we both tried to figure out what the other person might be excited about receiving.
Angela hit the nail on the head. The only thing I told her I’d love to have was some butterfingers but the rest was up to her. Josh threw in a request for some of his tabasco smoked chipotle sauce, too (when I came back to NZ, there had to be room in the suitcase for this sauce – that’s how important it was). She sent a bottle of it and Josh was very grateful. Hershey’s chocolate is SO expensive over here because of course it’s imported from Hershey, Pennsylvania. I saw some Hershey Kisses in the store the other day all bundled up for Christmas and they were ridiculously expensive. I couldn’t believe it. It was awesome to have these Hershey bars. I am making them last and really enjoying them.
As good as I’ve been (I’ve just reached 60 pounds lost so I’m obviously not sitting here eating chocolate bars every day) I still indulge every once in a while especially with all these new things around me here in a new country. I must admit that I am a bit addicted to white chocolate lately. Whittakers chocolate is what New Zealand is known for but when I can’t afford that (which is most of the time because who can justify spending loads of money on chocolate when you’re on a budget) I buy this Cadbury Dream bar.
My other favourite candy is pineapple lumps. It is a soft chewy pineapple flavoured middle covered in chocolate. It’s amazing. If you put them in the freezer they are even more amazing to eat. I try to do that so I don’t eat them as fast. Pineapple lumps don’t last very long around here.
What is your favourite candy?
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