stress is good for something....

because I'm down 3 lbs this week. I'm not sure I should be happy about it, as its likely because I haven't been eating as much as I should be. Normally when life throws me curve balls, I overeat, this time around, not so much.

We've had a bit of a run of bad luck in our house over the past week. I'm not going to get into it here, however moneywise things are going to be really tight for the next little bit. I'm worried, however, I'm trying to keep positive that things will work themselves out. Since I had my "bad luck comes in threes" I went a bought a lotto ticket just in case some higher power wanted to make my good thing a lotto win!

Had some good news about one of the cars though. G's car was only 250.00 to fix, which was much better than expected. Mine went to the dealership and they told me that I needed a new fuel pump and quoted me 1050.00! OUCH! So because I couldn't afford that, I paid the diagnositic, and got it towed it to our mechanic in Lake Fletcher. He called yesterday -- 100.00 in parts and labor later, he replaced our fuel filter and all was well -- over a grand my ass!!

Needless to say there will be a call to O'Regans to tell them of their shoddy diagnostics.

Its been a busy week, however I'm off to bed. I've been sick with a cold for a week now -- getting really tired of all the sneezing and nose blowing I've got happening, so its time for another early night.

It could be worse...

Thats what I just keep telling myself. On Monday afternoon, I dropped G's car off to him in Dartmouth. As I was driving across the bridge the check engine light started blinking at me and then the car started having trouble accelerating, and was doing a lot of jolting when I stopped and was idelling at the lights. GREAT! So we called our mechanic and planned to drop the car off this evening to him to look at tomorrow. Meanwhile - G has been driving my car to Dartmouth everyday, and I've been carpooling out to the airport.

I get a phone call from G tonight asking me to get our neighbors to drive me down to meet him...at the corner of Bayside and Lacewood. Apparently while crusin down Bayside my car just stopped working....Double Great! So CAA towed us back to the apartment and we put some gas in it (it was empty almost) however it still won't start. So to the dealer it goes tomorrow. Sucks more that it has to go to the dealer, unfortunately the mechanic is in Lake Fletcher, and I can't really get a tow there....sooo... This also means that G has to now find a way to work tomorrow, or take the bus. Which is doable, just a pain in the ass because we live in Clayton Park and he works on the other side of the harbour...blargh!

yep -- this sucks big time. I do realize that these things happen, particularly when we drive 9 and 11 year old cars...however at the same time! F'in wonderful. Top this off with the fact that I've been a hormonal wreck for the past 2 weeks (and have NO idea why) and I'm a bit of an emotional basket case this evening.

Weightloss has been frustrating as well. I've been eating fairly well, hitting up the gym..but the scale keeps going up. I really...I'm losing motivation quickly. Blah.

Ok so...yeah, apparently its been a bad day. I'm off to bed before anything else goes wrong!

But, I will leave you with good things before I go :)

Went to PEI this weekend and got to spend a ton of time with our friends K & S from Montreal. I flew them and their daughter (our "niece") home so that K could get ordained as a minister in his childhood church. At the same time, our niece got baptised. So I leave you with a picture of G and I and her cuteness from the service, isn't she gorgous! (I on the other hand.....well, anyways..)




oh ok.....shes cute, so heres one more :)