Demara's Life: demarablog.com

2010-01-07T17:22:00.000-08:00

I'm back writing over at my MAIN blog, now that it is working correctly!!!

See you there,

Demara

http://www.demarablog.com

2010-01-06T20:12:00.000-08:00

This was Mt. Baker on our way back home from Deas Park today. I think it looks like whipped cream on the landscape... can you tell I'm craving something sweet?

A Geocaching friend of mine was nice enough to drive Panda and I out for geocaching supplies and join us for a walk in the park with her pit bull, Milly.

We had a great time chatting and catching up on Adult Girl Time with our dogs.

Plus, the weather was nice, and the sky finally blue, we took advantage of it and soaked it in.

Now, I'm off to see if there are more jobs out there....

still applying.

2010-01-06T03:08:00.000-08:00

I was lying in the bed. Laid there for an hour listening to the wind burn some calories lifting gravity with it's mighty arms.

Plus, Jeff came to bed. Something that hasn't happened for a while. I mean not at the time when I'm trying to sleep. But when I'm sleeping I snore too loudly for him to sleep so he apparently doesn't bother coming to bed because of it. I don't know. All I know is that I think I actually prefer sleeping alone. It's a lot easier for me to sleep that way, now, for some odd reason.

So I'm up. It's around 3 am and really rather early. I am actually tired too. All the animals are sleeping... although I think I woke Panda up, because I hear her darth vadering under the office door. Perhaps I'll let her in, to sleep on her blanket, that's under my very large desk. I made her her own spot there, for when I'm working, so she can be with me. and so that I don't have to hear darth vader while I'm trying to work, wink wink nudge nudge.

Panda and I got a walk in today. It was about 30 minutes long. It was good although I wore the wrong shoes! I wore hiking boots, and it was more like running shoes weather. It was really nice out. pfff

Ok so I think I'll try to get some work done for a client's website now, so I can tick that off my list for tomorrow.

Oh and I am STILL looking for work. I would prefer to work with design of some sort... like painting or staging.... LOVE love love love that type of stuff... Love watching it anyway on HGTV. hehe

Are you praying, hoping I get a job?

2010-01-04T01:08:00.000-08:00

here's another geocacher friend of ours doing the flooded trail cache...

this is where we were at 8pm, in the dark, Saturday night...

http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/730fd824-96ff-49b3-a3fb-0565e97b5b3c.jpg

2010-01-03T23:30:00.001-08:00

Today, we took advantage of the beautiful weather we were having and went for about a 7K walk while out geocaching. In the picture, above, Panda and I took a break, so she could catch her breath, after about 4K.

While on that break we took, this was our view overlooking the water.

Yesterday, we found geocached/walked in search of hidden game pieces in the outdoors, for 5hrs. It was pouring rain! In the picture above we are soaking wet, on our way to another trail and cache. Panda only went out on this one, since the trail was very wet, and parts of it flooded. I had to carry her through some of it :(

The next one was on a secluded part of a mountain. We arrived to GZ around 1 am. It was very dark. Very wet. And VERY muddy!

My feet were still soaking wet and cold from the flooded trail we had waded through prior for other caches....

I was ready to go home by the time my boots looked like this, seen above!

Today, I feel skinnier.

I still LOVE the outdoors.

Still don't like water though.

But love getting dirty once and a while :)

Exercise is my friend.

and love how she makes me feel!!

In total:

2 days

8 FTFs

1 DNF

1 Wherigo

wet boots

wet jackets

muddy clothes

tired dog

and still applying for a job...

any job... now.

Whatever God gives me.

still nothing...

and I wait.

now time to do my volunteer work for self-edit.com...

adding content to a client's website.

love it.

I applied for a similiar job.

hope and pray I get it.

it would start in Feb!!

Please pray for THAT.

THX!!

2010-01-01T12:28:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

I can't believe it's 2010...

I can't imagine ever saying its the year 2030....strange.

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all pictures were taken with my phone. sorry for the quality.

We welcomed the new year but by none other then geocaching of course!! There were still 2 FTF's that had not been found yet. So what did we do? Went out in search of these hidden containers around 1030pm. We met up with a few other cachers and with our flashlights and GPS we found GZ and soon discovered the caches. They were both really neat! The second one was so far out that we're sure it wasn't on everyone's radars. It was about 30mins from our home in a town called Deroche, along the dyke road, pitch black out surrounded by trees, and the howling coyotes we ventured out in search for the treasure. Amboguy, who use to be a Paramedic in Austrailia, joined us since he too was alone for New Years! And good thing he did because our GPS accuracy was way off. He found GZ in no time. Our GPS had me down in a tiny fort made by fallen trees in mounds of snow! I dislike snow very much :( Anyhow, we made the grab, gathered our prizes and were on our way. If you're curious to know, I picked a nice green carabiner keychain for my prize, and have it clipped to my fanny pack.
Just before I threw out these envelopes from Christmas I noticed the writing. One is my little brother Andrew's who's now 21, so not so little anymore. I have not seen him for a couple years and miss him dearly. And the other is my Grandma's writing. I noticed it's really shaky now. Like it took her so much effort and strength to write. Her handwriting 'use to be' similar to mine. Now she has cancer and is very sick. And I could tell from her writing! :'( why do we have to grow old? why does time have to slip through our fingers?Last night, to keep me busy I unpacked some boxes and organized our entertainment center. This is the before shot.
and after. As you can see it's not completely finished but it's a lot better than it was.
Before that, I did some prep for our caching containers store, cutting logs and stuffing viles. These are our newest product. On these viles objects such as plastic/rubber animals, coinage like pennies, or blades of grass can be glued as camo. Making these containers difficult to be found, once found that is. I'm sure of it :)

Here is me cutting up the log books for these viles.

Here is the tape gun I use for the store. I hate taping up packages with it. I'm not sure its the tape, the operator or the gun but the tape often rips while pulling strips out to cut off and place on packages!! I've had visions of chucking this gun across the room :)
Here is the stir fry I made the last night. 1/2lb lean hamburger with 2cups of frozen veggies with lots of spices and a sweet chilli sauce. It was so good. I ate almost all of it in one sitting except for 2 tbsps. So now I know exactly how much I eat...
Panda has not been eating her dried food. It seems like she's lost her appetite. Or she just doesn't eat when everyone else does or on command. And since I don't believe in starving...I've been feeding her treats. I bought her some lamb lungs that she picked out while at Pet Smart the other day. I used Christmas money, Thanks Gramma! And I tried crumbling them on top her dried food. But she just ate all the treats out. It use to encourage her to eat her dried food. But now she's figured it out it seems. I made her some oatmeal, mixed with plain yogurt and a treat. She gobbled that up the first day. I made the same thing again, mixed with the dry food, and she only ate half. I didn't think that was enough for her, so later in the day I gave her the other half. She wouldn't touch it. To see if she was hungry though I took a 1/4 of some canned dog food I got last month as a treat, because I don't like what's in the food, but she came with it and loves it. It however made her excretions very soft. And I didn't like that, so I made sure to only give her a tiny tiny bit mixed with 1/2C the holistic dry food. and the picture above is what she did with that. As you can see, she pretty much just ate all the wet food out. Grr... So I know she'll eat the wet food. She'll eat plain yogurt. And treats. I hope I can find some dried food she'll like!! Maybe one that's moist and soft? I just need more spending money so we can experiment with dif. kinds...

Here are all the girls together!

I ended up taking Panda on a short walk yesterday even though it was pouring. I had planned to give her a bath right after and did but didn't anticipate the geocaching later that night...She joined us for the first one, where there was lots of mud and leaves, but for the second one in the snow, we left her in the van. but surprisingly she still looks clean and smells great too :)
She makes for a great companion. I just wish she would eat, what I give her to eat!! So today, we are going to a New Year's Celebration with Jeff's side of the family. I wonder what that's going to be like? and the weather? well it's VERY windy!!! and rainy!!! The cats are already freaking out, but Panda well she just wants to sleep on me, snuggling in my neck.

Her loss of appetite could be because she will be going in heat this year. or rather is expected to. I'm a little scared, because I don't know WHEN that's going to be, and I'm not prepared at all. Haven't got her diapers yet...And how does that work? Do you still take her outside to do her business with diapers on? Anyone know?

2009-12-31T12:00:00.000-08:00

At 100% humidity, today is still crappy.

This was Panda yesterday.

We were both sad the weather was so ugly, because we missed our walk.

But we still had fun skating on the hardwood, playing fetch, and attacking the cats!

hehe

2009-12-30T18:18:00.000-08:00

Well today it was ugly out.

Thought it was earlier than 11 when I woke up because it was still dark out.

Heard rain on the skylight or so I thought.

When I took Panda out to go to the bathroom, we were surprised to see slush!

We therefore did not go on a walk today, like I hoped.

Can't wait to get the treadmill working... I KNOW I have said this numerous times, but now not only for me but for Panda as well to exercise on, when the weather is crappy.

Later the slush turned into rain, so I'm glad it's almost washed away :P

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Today, I have been applying for work STILL. Even put out an ad, it was free so why not right?

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Yesterday, I was happy. Today, not so much! Feel very lonely... Just wish I had more girlfriends I guess. Or at least one close one like I had before they moved away and had kids....

If you pray, please pray for this... pray for me... and for purpose in my life!

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I love Panda and love how she gets me out of the house... when the weather's nice at least...I just need a support group. and a VERY part-time job.

Preferably a job that is fun, creative, and one where I can meet others. Other girls. Girls I can chat with over coffee or tea. Girls I have things in common with!!

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Where are all the girls?

Married ladies?

in their 30's??

Do they have Free time?

Time alone.

Are they working?

Parenting?

I'd love to meet other ladies who have no kids but small dogs....

and go walking!!

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Do you have a small dog?

Do you live in Abbotsford BC?

Want some company on your walks???

If so, let me know. THX!!

You can email me via my Blogger profile page or comment here.

I'd love to introduce Panda, my dog, to other dogs her size... so she can have doggie play times and/or visits :)

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Well, I'm going to find something to do tonight, while the Mr. is out playing Poker with his buddies....

I'll probably watch TV while cutting up logs for our Geocaching Store... It's my job that pays our bills.

This part-time job I need to get, will pay for my Dog's vet visits and will be my spending money basically.

I also Volunteer doing data-entry, soooooo this job I hope to get will be VERY part-time! Only 9 hours a week!!!

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Anywho... going to go have some Supper and get to work now... watching HGTV, my fav. channel.

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Laters,

Demara

2009-12-29T16:51:00.000-08:00

Here are pictures from today's exercise.

It was gorgeous out!

Panda met two other dogs and saw numerous birds at this place!

I think it's her favourite place to walk...

She's shy of others.

We saw a large bird on the water fishing and loved it.

We got home and had lunch

Then rested.

We had a great workout today.

I suppose this really could of and should have been posted on my weightloss blog... haha so I will repost it there too :)

2009-12-29T11:03:00.000-08:00

from my other blog on weightloss: [right now, Panda is snuggling with me. Her head is on my shoulder and her butt resting on the keyboard drawer.

Panda, my new dog, a Christmas present has been keeping me going on walks.

Besides that I have been eating lots of chocolate. On sale from Christmas and oh so delish.

I've also been cooking at home, which has always done well for my waist and budget.]

Don't really have a budget. Still applying for a part-time job.

I want to work as a vet assistant, in Data Entry, or at a gym.

So far, in the last two months, I've heard back from one job. They said, they'll contact me again in the new year.

Maybe they all will.

We'll see.

2009-12-29T00:29:00.000-08:00

Been busy with Christmas Dinners, a geocaching event, taking my dog for walks, volunteering for self-edit.com, filling orders for cachingcontainers.com, applying for part-time work, cooking, and tweeting.

And since a power outage wrecked havoc on the server my demarablog.com url is on, I am updating this blog right now... while I wait for the other url to get back up again.

on a walk

Christmas Present from Mom with perfume and lavender bath stuff

baby- my second cousin

Auntie Trista holding Baby-my first cousin

My Auntie Monica and Uncle Dave

My Cousins- Brendon, Kyle, Davie (HOST (him, his wife and two daughters) for Christmas)

geocaching event at a bar and grill

I got the monetary steak salad and LOVED it.

60 people showed up to the event

stir-fry I made for Supper last night.

I LOVE Asian food.