What a difference!

What a difference!

I've been going to Forever Healthy in Riverview for the last few weeks & I can't explain it, but I'm getting really good results. They start with the basic stuff; which includes milk & milk products, and it seems to work. 

I've had issues with milk in the past & it's seriously all clear now. I am feeling better & also drinking lots of milk. I couldn't believe it! Ik know that I would certainly recommend it to anyone who has any type of issues with health.

Allison & I have also started eating & distributing healthy chocolate. Although I haven't noticed a huge difference, I am noticing that I am less hungry and I'm hoping to start seeing results shortly. We are doing a presentation on July 23rd at the press club & we are hoping to bring this to as many people as we can. Allison & I really do think that this is a great product & can change people's lives. My mother-in-law has seen some success with the chocolate so far. She has started to cut down on some of her medication & she is no longer seeing a need to take her Fybro medication.

I think that's awesome! Although I don't have any of those issues, I am looking more for the preventive side of the chocolate.

Check out our website for more info!! www.ieatchocolate.ca

Work side of life is going good. Summer vacations have started & I have the privilege of working nights instead of day shifts if the night manager is missing. As a manager, it makes great sense, but it certainly puts a damper on family life, especially since I'm working all weekends in the month of July.

We are also having a yard sale next weekend! Can't wait. Kinda like making money & I'm hoping to maybe try to draw new business - chocolate business. 

Other then that, there's not a whole lot else going on. 

'til next time!

Another day, Another dime

Life has been pretty interesting lately. As you know, March 1st, I started a new position at work. I am now a Operations Manager & I am more then halfway done my 3mth term. For the month of March, there was a transition month were my team members where going to change around. I also ended up changing rotation from a 4 on - 4 off rotation to a Monday to Friday rotation.

That last about 2 weeks & we are now back to a 4 on  - 4 off rotation. I think that this works much better when it comes to training & developing the teams. Each Ops Manager has 2 EMDss (Emergency Medical Dispatcher Shift Supervisor) which take over the shift when the manager is at the center. I'm hoping that I can continue to impress & possibly have the position become permanent.

On another note, Olivia is growing like you wouldn't believe. She's played soccer (SoccerTots) and loved it, but she decided that she wanted to take a break. So we put her in swimming. Last week was her first day in the swimming pool under instruction. It was fun as I went in with her & she seemed to love it. Have her follow instructions is another thing, but really, at 28mths, are there really instructions to be followed???

I have also started selling the same products that I was selling before. I haven't really done any "advertising", but I think I came up with an idea that I could canvas the area & possibly come up with some sales...

Well, that's all I've got for now as I've got to head out & pick up Allison from work.

'til next time!

New Job!

Well, starting on March 1st, I'll be starting a new position at work. I'll be an Ops Manager. Basically, I'll be supervisor full-time for the next 3mths. It's a term position and I'm hoping that it will pan out into something more permanent, but who knows!

Not a whole lot else going on... I've pretty much finished the basement drywall. I have it even tapped & plaster on the walls, but I'm not the one who did it! I'm not that talented! Olivia is starting a new daycare next week. She's going to love it I think! We've been introducing her slowly this week & so far so good! She is really growing up quickly!

Also, I've decided to start my business again. I'll be selling knick knacks starting just with catalogs at work & maybe I'll be starting a website again. I do have to come up with another name as Allison said, it doesn't really fit my business...

Well I've got to do some more fixup's around the house...

'til next time!

Just wanted to say HI

I know that I haven't been around a lot and I just thought I'd drop by & say HI!

I'm actively renovating my basement & its taking a little longer then expected to complete. That is why I'm not as active on my blog as I would like to be.
So, I thought Id drop this quick message to let everyone know that I'm still around!

'til next time!

New Developments

Well, I can't believe that it's been this long since I last posted. Oh well, no time like the present to put something together!

The only major things that have changed in the last little while is that we now have new windows on the house. It took a while, but they are here! They are really nice too! The great part is that the windows in the living room are actually working windows compared to what we had before. We have had to make some minor curtain re-arragements, but hey, for working windows, it's a minor deal!

Arrow windows is the company that sold us the windows & unfortunetly, it didn't go quite as smoothly as I would have liked it to be. We noticed, after the fact of course that some of the screens where made too small for the window opening. Some other minor things is that the pencil markings (for mesurements) where all left on the windows & the cranks wheren't sealed properly.

The other thing that we noticed is that they didn't even advertise that they where doing the renovations on the windows. No signage or anything. I guess that's what you get!

We sort of have worked things out... he's going to give us $50 off for the screens, but he didn't seem to think that the remainder of the issues where important enough to mention...

That's ok! I've accepted the $50.

On another note, I celebrated my 30th B-day last month (Sept 19) and I was pleasantly surprised by Allison's gift to me. It was a $100 gift certificate for a Tattoo at Krystal Blade. I can't wait! I have to find a design that I want. I have a general idea, but I have yet to finalize my idea.

Although that was the highlight of my b-day, the disappointment was when we went out for supper that night at East Side Mario's. Long story short, we waited almost 90mins for our supper and on top of that, it was cold. Olivia was starting to get cranky so, we basically asked that our meals be boxed up & we left. The worst thing is that the manager only gave a 15% discount for the whole thing. She didn't even offer to pay for my meal since it was my b-day. My meal was $16 and the total discount was only $6.08.

On Oct 4th, we are having our Fire Prevention day at the Fire Hall in Dieppe. It should be lots of fun! It's too bad that it's the same day that Stephen Harper is in town. I would have loved to have gone & heard him talk about the upcoming elections. 

I've been following the local conservative on his website & on this twitter account. He seems to be the guy to vote for.

Well, that seems to be about it for now!

'til next time!

Supervisor

Can't believe that summer is already over! It's Sept 2nd & I have no idea where the summer went. It truly just flew by!

Not a whole lot has been happening over the summer... Olivia is growing both her mind & in height. She has new words every day & new experiences every day! We decided to start her full time at daycare. It's going to work better for us that way because we won't have to rely on our parents... We don't want to limit their lives!

Other then that, work is going pretty good. I have been asked to be a supervisor at work... I'm really happy about that considering I almost didn't make it through the training....

Other then that, I have become co-author on the NBBlogRoll website - I'm hoping that we can provide more exposure to NB Bloggers on the web.

Well, that's about all I've got for now. I'll try not to wait so long for the next post.

'til next time!

What's next?

What a day... Angele & I went for our ride-along in St-John on July 16th & It was fun! It was too quiet, but it was fun! I can't wait to go down there again for another ride-along... I hope that next time it's going to be busier. On my ride-along, we did get 9 calls done, but the downside was that we only got 3 911's and the rest where transfers. I know that it's part of the job, but still, if I want to try to figure what I want to do, paramedic & firefighting, then I want to see more....

Anyways, other then that, everything is going pretty good! Work is really busy and looks like there's going to be tons of overtime for a while... Which is good because we are actually in the process of buying windows for our house. I can't wait! It's going to be great to be able to open all of the windows in the house - right now, there are a few of them that are sealed shut... really sux in the summer time!

Olivia, Allison and I are heading to Halifax on the weekend for a CBC Kids show. It's going to be awesome I can't wait! Olivia is so interactive right now and growing so fast it's almost hard to keep up! Olivia is no longer sleeping in a crib anymore. She's been sleeping in a double bed that we had set on the ground when she was sick and on top of that, she no longer has a soother. Allison had told her that she only had 4 soothers left (cause she was just breaking them apart) and in 2 days, she went through 3 of them. So Allison gave her the last one and basically told her that when she eats to breaks through this one, that's it - no more soothers. So what does Olivia do? She takes the soother and puts it in the trash... She went to bed without it & has since... She's truly remarkable in how quick she learns things! The best of all, she now says "I love you!"

Talk about melting your heart!

'til next time!