Meet Rosy!!

I’ve become a Foster Home for BARK ottawa where animals that would be euthanized due to lack of shelter space are placed until they find a permanent home.

Meet Rosy, she is a 6yr old Boxer mix.

She is medium size and a little pleasantly plump! She presently lives
in a house with no other animals but has been taking full advantage of the off leash dog park around the corner (where she is well behaved with other dogs but is still trying to understand what this play thing is all about).

She also very much enjoys the buzz of her downtown neighbourhood. She likes accompanying her foster parents everywhere and is even happy just even relaxing on a crowded patio and watching the world go by, even children swirling around do not seem to phase her very much.

She likes nothing more than to be around her family and likes attention. If you want to make her happy, just play with her and give her some affection and you’ll be her new best friend.

Although we are not quite sure of her full background we know that she can walk off leash, give paw, sit, stay, and she even learned to let “humans” walk through doors before her. But she has yet to learn these commands in English, so her new family may want to learn the words “donne la patte” / “assie” / “reste” et “coucher”

Rosy is looking for a calm family, she likes to have a seat and a breather during long walks and although she is a good little sprinter, she could not be considered as an active running partner. She needs a spot, with a loving family, a blanket and a food bowl and she’ll be the best companion ever.

For more information about Rosy and if you would like to provide her a permanent home, please contact me at spoonsie22@gmail.com or get in touch with B.A.R.K ottawa.

 

Get your bikes out! CN CHEO Cycle!

Hi gang,

As some of you know, @Madyricottone and I are on our next adventure with the CN Cycle for Cheo event on May 2nd and we invite you to take part. It will be a great day; the goal is to have a team of 25 or more riders!

You don’t need a fancy bike for this event, even if you have a mountain bike, commuter bike etc, you’ll be fine!

CN Cycle for CHEO is a fundraiser for the CHEO Foundation, Ronald McDonald House and Candlelighters. Participants collect pledges and cycle, in-line skate or walk to help kids with cancer and win great prizes.

CN Cycle for CHEO takes place on Sunday, May 2nd at the Canadian War Museum and LeBreton Flats.

The team challenge is the Accenture 70km cycle sub-event
if you don’t think you can complete that distance, you can still sign up, be part of the team and try one of the shorter distances (2km, 5km, 10km, 35km).

Please join Mady and I and become part of the team by following these registration steps:

1. Click: https://www.cgiottawa.com/ERDS/Register.aspx?evt=9 and register as an Adult
2. Click on Team icon on left hand bar
3. Click on Join a team
4. Select “Two Loose Wheels”
5. Join the team
6. Come out on May 2nd and pedal a fun morning!

Hope you join us! CHEO is really close to my heart and I see no better reason to get on a bike and pedal! If you know other riders that would be interested in joining the team, please send this message along.

 

Dear Brent

Dear Brent: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49055808862&ref=ts

I don’t know why, but I miss you today…

It’s been just over a year since you were taken from us, at a much too early age.  It’s been hard on me since that phonecall, but like all things in life,  time heals everything.  As much as it took me a while to accept that you’ve left.  That the phone was never going to ring again with you on the other end trying to pitch one of your crazy plans…

I look back on our friendship and the ups and downs.  The support you gave me in the early days that we met,  the support that I gave you in the end… The ups and downs in between..  Carnival Court in Vegas, Boston Pizza in Orleans, from travels through trials, you were there, you were a friend, a great friend.

As much as thinking of you still makes hurts and makes me angry, if I sit back and remember the stoopidness of our 10 year friendship, it brings a smile back to my face.

I hope you can see that I am doing alright,  in fact, I am doing great.  It’s been a year since you’ve been gone and I wish you were still around to see what has progressed.  Hope that you were still with me, rebuilding your own life.

I wish I could go back to February of last year…  that last night we sat together,  that last talk we had.  I want to take it all back.

I hope you finally found peace…  You deserve it…

I miss you and I love you!

RIP  Brent, Aug 1979 Feb 2009

 

Did you hear? Spoonsie Quits Bacon!

VISIT: www.trispoonsie.wordpress.com

Did I scare you with the headline?  Thought so!  Don’t worry, I am not quitting bacon for good and I will still post up yummy bacon-licious recipe’s over time on the other part of the blog but let’s just say that my current lifestyle is not very compatible with the delicious goodness that is bacon.

For the past few months, I have been eating to support my training, lose weight and well, missing all the good stuff.  I have been eating for nutritional value and was averaging what people would call a balanced “looking and tasting” meal once a week.  I have decided to dedicate this new section of my blog to healthy cooking be it either full meals, or just appetizers you can serve to friends without going pigs in a blanket route and healthy eat-out alternatives in ottawa.  Let’s face it, for anyone trying to eat healthy, eating out has serious challenges~

Stay tune, I think this might just be a neat little foodie adventure, be patient as I put it all together, won’t be tonight though since I am hoping to head out on an evening run shortly!!

 

The music of my life

So I am going 2 for 1 today,  Haven’t posted much in a while.  Today is one of those where I just felt like giving you a two for one

Music has always been such a huge part of my life. If you know me at all, you come over, we chill, chat and music is always in the background.  I associate many events, success and even setbacks to songs. This one, speaks to all three.

This one by Dave Matthews just keeps coming back and seems to have been my anthem for the last year if not more!  According to most around me, to this day I live a blessed life, yet I still go looking and pushing for more.

I have what many want but to me, its never quite enough and yet, like the song says,  I know that if I were king, if I had it all, I’d fuck it up. Listen to the song, maybe it will speak to you as it sums me up!

If I had it all

Sometimes I can’t move my feet it seems

As if I’m stuck in the ground somehow like a tree
As if I can’t even breathe
Oh, and my screams come whispering out

As if nobody can even see me
Like a ghost, sometimes I can’t see myself
Sometimes, then again, oh

If I were a king
If I had everything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant-sized, on top of it all
Then tell me what in the world would I sing for
If I had it all

Sometimes I feel lost
As I pull you out like strings of memories
Wish I could weave them into you
Then I could figure the whole damn puzzle out
Then again, oh

And if I were a king
If I had eveything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant-sized, on top of it all
Then tell me what in the world would I go on for
If I had it all

I could take anything
If I had no greed to bring
Only the poison that’s tainting the clean
Oh, then nothing

Remembering times much younger than me now
When my breath was light
When the world raised me up kind

And here mother comforts child
Every moment was waking up
But now I’ve grown tired… out

If I had it all, you know
I’d fuck it up

If I were a king
If I had eveything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant-sized, on top of it all
Then tell me what in the world would I sing for…

If I were a king
If I had everything, piece by piece
If I had you if i could give you your dreams
If I were giant-sized, on top of it all
Then tell me what in the world would I go on for
If I had it all
If I had it all

If I had it all

 

10 things for 10yrs!

How do you sum up 10+ years to an old friend?

I recently reconnected with one of my best friends from my high school days. Trying to recap on what had happened since we both left town in the mid 90’s was an interesting exercise. The girls we were then are very different but still at the root of the women we are today. We ended up closing the recap emails with a 10 things you should know about me today. It was fun and silly and I figured for those that don’t know me well and want an insight, here it is:

1 – I have ridiculously small feet for my height; it may explain my un-coordination and the fact that I have broken 6-7 bones in the last decade and no I did not pull off a double break of the arms while walking again.

2 – Took a greyhound bus and moved across the country not knowing a soul with $500 in my pocket, turned out to be the best 4 yrs of my life.

3 – Met over 20 world Presidents/Prime Ministers, countless Ambassadors, High Dignitaries and public figures only to be shocked and near fainting when I met and hugged Paul Gross of Due South.

4 – Got married in Vegas, became a divorce statistic 3 yrs later.

5 – I still get incredible pleasure jumping through puddles on a rainy day and yes I am still waiting to be kissed in the rain

6 – I took up triathlon, this means that I spend more time at the gym then in bars and there is a lingering chlorine smell following me around.

7 – Sometimes I am completely amazed by where I have landed with my job, but I worry that I am missing out on life in favor of a career.

8 – I drained my fish again this year, Molson the 5th. I have decided that I should not have pet fish anymore.

9 – I accidently set myself on fire, stop-drop-roll lessons from high school paid off

10 – I still can’t walk in heels, no matter how hard I try.

 

Swim ~ Bike ~ Run ~ Rinse ~ Repeat

So if you have spent any time around me during the last few months, you will know what this title refers too.  See most people when they decide to make a change, the goal usually starts by being a couch to 5km.  Without really setting a goal, other than just getting my old body back, I quickly realized that not only was I back in shape to do a triathlon this spring, but good enough shape to get perhaps a PR on race day!

So now, my life seems to consist of swimming, biking and running and this book has become pretty much my bible.  

Most training and literature out there is geared towards the male triathlete.  Reading some of it, I was thinking it made no sense so I decided to go find something geared for women and it has proven useful!

I now have someone to push me with my runs, a SPIN coach whom I like to call the devil and a swim partner who will hopefully help me learn to love that leg of the race.

Now that being said, still the majority of my good friends seem to think I have a screw lose for enjoying putting my body through this, but they are all seriously awesome by encouraging me and putting up with my antics.

Since getting back on the wagon, over 76lbs went flying out the window and I was even selected as a winner, posted on the MSN homepage on new years as one of 6 weight loss winners!  Uber proud of this (slide 3/4): Weight Loss Winners – 1 – MSN Health & Fitness – Weight Loss Slide Show

So now… other than working on increasing pace in the next few months, I also have to work on recovery, no matter how much I want to go in for that training… the old adage ” more is better”  is not necessarily what will bring me to my PR time!

Anyway, stay tune!

 

A warm and fuzzy note

Dear new basement tennant,

Welcome to the house, I am impressed that a couple of 18yrs old managed to get a place in this area. I wish I could have pulled this off back then!

I am sure you noticed that we live in a nice house, but still an old house… Which brings me to the subject:

I don’t really care that I’ve had to apologize to my dinner guests for hearing you scream during your sexcapades. In fact we had a good chuckle at the fact that no session seems to last more than 5 minutes…

But, you should know that I am up at 5am in the morning and I don’t really care to listen to reruns of the office till 1am or hear you say “shut up” “omg” “and like” over and over. Sweetie your voice is like nails on a chalkboard even with earplugs in.

Don’t worry, I’m cool and I can put up with that shit till around 11pm… After that well, I am tired of cursing your name in the morning.

Thx

The chick upstairs

 

Weekend to end Breast Cancer 2010 (June 5-6)

Hi Ladies!!

I am already looking forward to the next weekend to end breast cancer walk and as humbling as an experience as it was last year, I am wanting to do it again.

As you all know there is a fundraising goal of $2000 per participant and it requires 2 days of walking.

In order to make the prep for the event easier on everyone, I am thinking about putting together a team to walk.

We can train together and pull off a few fundraisers in order to meet our goal…

I hope you would like to join me for this event.. Gathering interest right now and will be hosting a launch party/registration for all those interested, which will be held in late September.

It’s a worthwhile cause, an awesome event to be part of and I am looking forward to it!!!

Hope you join me!  Leave a comment or message me on FB for more details.

For more info visit  http://ot10.endcancer.ca/site/PageServer?pagename=10_aboutevent

xoxox

Isabelle

 

A day dangling off trees

Short and simple….

If you live in Ottawa, go spend a day at www.aventurelafleche.ca/en/.  It’s a kick ass aerial park.  I went today and I had a blast!!!

This to keep in mind if you decide to go:

1. Being tired and hungover is probably not a good idea
2. Bring water, lots of it
3. eat something before you go.

Now having ignored my own advice, I still had a blast.  Planning another trip in the fall… buzz me if you want to join