One Eleven with the crew!

Tonight Alyssa came back into town and she texted me saying her and Lise were going to go to One eleven for dinner. I thought at first that Alyssa was texting the wrong person because it was only like a week ago that she had left. But she really did text me to go have dinner with her and lise. Nancy came eventually too as well as Jesse. 

Jesse and I have never gone there before so it was interesting first off to see their prices, and this restaurant is not cheap. It is however, worth the money. Jesse got this Yorkshire philly, I just got their burger and sweet potato fries. Lise got salt n' pepper wings and some clam chowder. Alyssa got their chicken special and Nancy got the same as Jesse. It was all very good, very flavourful and most importantly very filling. They also gave very good portions, they gave you a lot of food but not so much that you cannot finish it. 

Lastly, for dessert Jesse and I shared a toffee pudding and the other girls shared this 7 layer chocolate cake, that was ok just not sweet enough. 

But it was fun to have seen Alyssa and laugh about things at work, let her know whats going on, etc. I just really enjoyed my time tonight and I am grateful to be in Red Deer to go out with friends and enjoy myself like I do. 

Mom came to visit!

Over the past week, last week my mom came into town to come visit me. It kind of was an inconvenient time though since I caught the works viral cold. It was horrible, you coughed non-stop, had a fever that could hardly be controlled and just felt miserable. The monday I even called in sick even though I really hate to do that, and I was planning on cleaning up my house before my mom came but that monday I could hardly move from my bed. But that night she came at about 10 o'clock at night on the greyhound so we made her some food.

The next day she helped me clean my house a bit since I was so miserably sick. We then ordered pizza from Dino's here in red deer since they do not have on in lethbridge. We had the chef's special, which pretty much had everything on it and we had the donair pizza (so good, it had real lettuce and tzaziki on it). That day we just pretty much chilled at home. 

The next day I attempted to go to work but ended up going home early. I was coughing too hard and even with medicine I could not contain my fever. 

The following day though I felt much better and mom and I went to Cora's for breakfast, since no one would go to Cora's with her since apparently it is too expensive..which it is not...but it is hard to get a place unless you go super early in the morning. When we went I got a fruit bowl to share some hot water and lemon and lastly a chocolate brioche french toast. Mom got this massive nutella banana filled crepe. It was literally the size of my arm. After that we went shopping at Walmart, I bought some long johns so the walk from my car to the hospital will be more enjoyable during the winter, a winter jacket, a warm sweater (so that I won't take Jesse's as much anymore) and some hobo gloves. After that we went to get our hair done at first choice haircutters our girl's name was Caitlin and let me tell you...she was good..but she was slow. Normally I have a window for how long I allow people to touch me, including Jesse and she worked on my hair for about 45 minutes, normally I only like when people work on my hair for about 20 minutes then I am good. But she took forever, she did a great job and its as short as I wanted it to be but it took forever. 

Then over the next few days after that we just sat at home and watched Gilmore girls since that is one of the shows that my mom loved and I loved as a child to watch. 

Then the last day we went to the Red Deer Museum and we checked it out and what its all about. It is a really nice museum just kind of confusing to know where it is. 

It was just great having my mom come to visit me, she is such a special lady in my life and I enjoyed spoiling her while she was here and although our visit wasn't all butterflies because of my illness. I enjoyed every moment of it and I realize I take my mother for granted more than I realize. I truly am grateful to have the lady for my mother, to have been raised by such an excellent example of a hard working, respectful and inspiring woman. I am the luckiest daughter to have such a great mother. 

That was our visit!

Mom comes to town: Day 1

So my mom came down for Remembrance day because I was feeling homesick. Anyways on our first day it wasn't very eventful because I am very sick at the moment. I caught this viral bug that I guess is going around Red Deer so pretty much the first thing that we did was go to the doctor. The next thing was she helped us clean our house a little bit since that was the plan to do all weekend, but due to getting sick with this nasty bug I just pretty much laid in bed and slept for 2 days straight. 

And following that night we ordered pizza from Dino's we got the Chef's special and the donair pizza. Oddly enough though the donair pizza actually tasted like one. But it is so great to have my mom, I am grateful that I do not live too far from her so she can come and visit me every-so-often. I am so grateful for that. 

My yoga class!

So it has been awhile since I even did since Yoga Class but I can still tell you about it anyways. 

So this yoga class was a free class that I went to with Lise and Danielle. They just opened the day before and was having a demo class. The class that we went to was yin yoga by candlelight, the studio was dimly lit and had little candles all around the room.

It was the only class that I was able to focus fully on what I was doing instead of wondering what someone else beside me was doing. It was very relaxing and made my body feel wonderful for a good 5 days after that!