So after another very hectic week last week, I am now back in the office.

I was out at the remediation site last week doing my air monitoring. I’m not sure if I wrote before, but on the days I have to be out there, I have to get to the office for 6 am to calibrate all the equipment and get to the site and set it up before work starts for the day at 7. They typically work to about 6 pm so by the time I take down my equipment, transfer/save data, and get it back to the office it is 6:30. Add ontop of that my driving and I’m gone from home from about 5:20 to 7:10. It also means setting my alarm for 4:30 so that I am awake enough to drive the 50+ kms to the office. I ended up working 59.5 hours last week and fell asleep on the couch at 7:45 on Friday night. I’m such a party animal.

Sure enough, 5:30 Saturday morning rolls around and I’m wide awake. I stayed in bed until 6:30 and then got up for a run. It was my first run in a few weeks, but I was able to make it 9 kms with little problem, so that was refreshing. I feel so completely out of shape these days.

Saturday we headed down to Toronto to help A’s mum move into a condo that she bought. And that took all of the day. On Sunday we went to Ikea with his mum to buy her a house warming present and ran into of all people… my dad and Nora. That was strange. But it was a pleasant surprise. Nora is getting an ikea kitchen in her Toronto Condo and had to pick out the handles for the cabinets. They ended up getting a fabulous deal – 75% off so they ended up saving them selves a couple hundred.

This week is pretty boring at work. I’m working on the most boring report ever and it is kind of hard to keep interested in it. It is the Liner monitoring program of the Keele Valley Landfill. Sounds like it could be kind of interesting, but a) I have next to no interest in landfills and b) annual monitoring reports are as dry as bread crumbs and with less flavour. (I have no clue where I got that analogy from, it just came to me, but I like it).

Today is 4 months exactly to the wedding. I spent some time at lunch starting to make address labels for the invitations which I hope to get out before the end of the month. I stepped on the scale this morning and it was pretty depressing. Since finishing my half ironman last summer I’ve gained around 15 pounds. I’ll need to lose at least 10 to comfortably fit into my wedding dress. It is just so hard to eat well when you are in the field all day long. It doesn’t help that my laptop has been broken since January so I can’t track my food on weight watchers in the evening. My laptop is fixed now though, UPS tried to deliver it yesterday and they try three times before leaving it at the drop off centre. I was originally supposed to be working at home this afternoon (I had a couple of jobs that would have taken half of the day in Woodstock and Brantford and rather than drive all the way back to the office I was just going to go home and work – it got cancelled last night at 9:30) so I would have been home to accept the delivery. I will just call UPS tonight though and ask them to take it back to the shipping centre which isn’t too far out of my regular drive to and from work so I should have it back tomorrow. Food wise today is going well, I just have to keep with it this time!!!