The beginning of a grumpy month

So, just for comparison with yesterday's photo - here is how the deck fence looked when we got up this morning...there was a lot of snow over night!

I started another diet today - really keen to lose another 20lbs; so I'll probably be grumpy for the next month or so - I signed up with Bernstein; it's very similar to the HCG diet, but WAY more expensive, but I'm doing it so that I get the external support for the next 20lbs; although, I must admit I'm not impressed with the staff there - we'll see how it goes!

Finally, this evening my Father-in-law and Brother-in-law went home teaching; I love how they take ages to get dressed up against the cold for a 20 meter walk across the street - bless their cotton socks!

It's April 13 and still snowing

Seriously, how many times have I had to say "seriously" about this weather?  We've had a few nice days, and a lot of the snow melted until WHAM...another snowstorm.

But on the bright side, the good thing about looking for work is the need for new clothes!  So I went on a mini shopping spree today and bought a couple of new outfits - maybe tomorrow I'll get the shoes; I'm kind of enjoying this!!  Not great photo's, but trust me, these jackets are very cute :)

I need to get working soon so that I can stop the spending!

Menopause brain is great..

I know I over-use the mountain scene photo's in this blog, but when I drive over the hill and see this view, it seems like it has NEVER looked as good, I think I have hundreds of similar photo's - and either the mountains look better every time, or I just have a bad memory....another advantage of the menopause brain is that this view takes my breath away every time I see it :)

OH MY GOODNESS!!

Significant progress on the temple today...I am so glad I was here to see the next level go on!  It looks pretty majestic for a bunch of steel!

...but the most exciting view is from my room....I wondered if I'd be able to see the temple from our house, and I guess this answers my question....

That has made my day!!

Ummm....running out of photo's already!

Kathryn took the kids home this afternoon; I drove around town with a friend, looking a neighbourhoods she might like to move to - I don't think I'm a good salesperson, but at least I had a little help from some more seasonal mild weather.

Every time the kids come over, there is usually something left behind - these are today's offerings!

I slept most of the day away

I got home from Hawaii just after lunch;  those red-eye flights just knock me out.  Kathryn and the kids were at home, it was so lovely to see them (even though the kids were poorly); but I ended up sleeping most of the afternoon.  I would normally think this would be a waste of a day, but I got an extra day on the beach, so I'm not complaining.

It was nice to see the mountains as we came in to land - I even didn't mind seeing snow again!

So many photo's, so little space

I know when I get back home next week I will be struggling to think of what I can take photo's of for my blog, and yet today I have so much to choose from.

As a side note, I collect vases from all over the world and we keep them on our kitchen cupboards - it's a kind of fun way to remember some of the neat places we've been.  Yesterday, I bought a vase from the Polynesian Cultural Centre - it wasn't cheap (compared to the other vases); but it met the criteria of being made by a local artist; and it certainly typified Hawaii.

Back to today;  I had to check out from the hotel by noon, but as my flight doesn't leave until 10.30pm, I decided to leave my luggage with the front desk - I decided not to pack the vase in my case, I wanted to keep it separate so that it didn't get broken....you can probably see where this is going...long story short, I  slipped when I was leaving my room, the vase went flying....in slow motion and in spite of my diving headlong to catch it, I failed - and this was the end result...

It looks fine, but you will notice the bottom is completely broken off; so I left it for housekeeping - maybe someone will have the patience to fix it :)

Then I went on a helicopter ride around the island - incredible - I took loads of very average photo's that really didn't do the view justice...here is one of Waikiki...

Then, to kill time I had another HUGE dessert from Dukes...you can see the bottled water behind, I drink that because I'm on a diet :)  It was delicious.

.....and then I sat on the beach for a few hours to darken up the tan; and ate a nice healthy yoghurt before going to the spa - then finally caught the red-eye flight back to Canada

What a delightful day!