Bits of my week

 I feel like all Canadians know when the American Thanksgiving is, but not so much the other way around. I was on a flight back home to Newfoundland for a Thanksgiving break, spending 8 days with my family. On the flight to head home there was a couple of men from the states. The older gentleman sitting next to me asked me where I was from, and why I was heading out east. You betcha I questioned him just as much as he did, me. That’s when I found out he was from North Dakota with a few of his friends, getting ready to go hunting moose in Newfoundland. Fun fact: The Bush Family have been to Newfoundland/Labrador to go fishing and hunting. After we landed in St. John’s I told him Happy Thanksgiving, not necessarily forgetting he was from the states, especially with his accent — he had a confused look on his flight. It’s Thanksgiving in Canada? He asked. Yup, I said with a grin and explained to him that the Canadian thanksgiving happens on the same weekend as Columbus Day in the States. Fun little fact there, for the American readers of spiffykerms ;)

I feel like I’m all sorts of messed up with my posting schedule. I usually like to have blog posts up as early as 6:00am, but lately I’ve been pumping them out during the later part of the evenings. Bare with me as I get back on schedule :)

I went to CrossFit two nights in a row, after taking a three+ week break from it. Why do I do that to myself? All day today I’ve been pushing doors with my body instead of using my arms.


Alfie turns 4 years old today! We’re going to celebrate by taking him for an extra long walk in the park and get him some treats!
I’m surprised at how high functioning I am after 5hrs of sleep last night. I normally require and get double that. Lol. We saw a movie last night. Of course it was the late one, because we’re always busy and head out the door moments after getting home from work. I went to CrossFit last night, making it two days in a row. After a 3 week break, my body is definitely feeling it.

It’s laundry day. I have 3 loads in the wash right now and I forgot to put soap in the first washer with one of those silly tide pods. It’s an apartment style washer so i can’t open it when it’s running. So I had to race back upstairs, get liquid detergent and pour some in after it started. Of course, it’s the more “important” load that needed to be done tonight, for something going on tomorrow. If it’s not clean, I’ll just run it again ($$$) with even more soap. Lol.

I mailed off my friends birthday gift during my lunch break. Her birthday is on Sunday. I hope it gets to her on time!

I also mailed off a dancing Halloween card to my nephews in Newfoundland. Thinking it will definitely get there on time. Unless Canada Post is slow. Which is usually is.

I need to get on the ball and send Leanne the photos of the giveaway prizes I took yesterday morning. We’re doing a collab giveaway on both of our blogs. I don’t want to give anything away yet. But stay tuned!

Oh! Oh. Don’t forget to enter into the Annabelle Cosmetics 24 twistup lipstick crayons giveaway! It’s open to everyone in the USA & Canada until October 29. :)

In the next few days I’ll be compiling a fun little post of some of my Newfoundland vacation highlights for you guys.Here’s a sneak peek. Fun right??nephews and i jumping

What exciting things happened to you today?

How many times a week do you get exercise?

When is the last time you took a vacation?

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Win all 24 TwistUps by Annabelle Cosmetics

You’ve seen a lot of new lip colours on me these past 21 days.Annabelle-TwistUps

Have you had enough of me taking selfies on instagram for over three weeks? There’s a reason behind it, I promise.fav-annabelle-lips

I’ve got three more swatches left to do for Annabelle Cosmetics with the #24Day challenge, which is sadly coming to an end. It was a fun little project to be part of and I even ended up meeting two other bloggers from the challenge, when I was at the BlissDom blogging conference earlier in the month.

Anjali, Michelle and I, all wearing the shade Monroe.Monroe by Annabelle Cosmetics

I even mentioned some of my favourite colours from the first ten days of swatching. But, I can’t take part in all the swatch fest fun and not include you guys. Annabelle Cosmetics is offering up the chance for my readers to win a full set of all 24 shades of the Twistup Retractable Lipsticks. This giveaway is open to Canadian and US residents only.

For three more days all 24 Annabelle TwistUp lipstick crayons are on sale for $7.25 CAD each. Shipping to Canada is free over $25, and $50 for USA.

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OOTWW + a little break

The past few months I have been treating my blog like a second full time job. It’s incredible how much time I spent at the computer in the run of a day. I work at my job from 9:30-5:30, come home and immediately pop on the computer from 6:00-10:30, and somewhere in between because I get all A.D.D. working from home, I make supper. I’m not complaining, in fact – I love what I’ve been doing on my blog lately and I don’t want to stop.

But I am flying home to Newfoundland for Thanksgiving. And I want to spend as much time with my family as possible so I’m going to just take the week off. Leanne will be guest posting on my blog next Wednesday, so be sure to check back on my site then. :)

My trip home is bitter sweet, because the Boyfriend and our pup aren’t joining us this time. Both of those two will be on the same flight as me for Christmas, so they’ll see “home” soon enough.

Have a great Canadian Thanksgiving everyone! Gobble gobble gobble, til you wobble!

 I left for BlissDom on Thursday after work, so you’re extra lucky this week and get to see two sets of my ‘outfits of the work week’. Horrah!

Last week’s outfits. My fav was definitely Thursday.ootww-

This week’s outfits. Loving what I’m wearing today. Got the suede boots out!ootww

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