Nik and Steph's Wedding

So I was at Wolfe Island, Ontario this past weekend for Nik and Steph's wedding.  It was a blast.  I was Nik's bet man and I hope I did well.  I liked my speech for this wedding better then at Lance's wedding back in Oct '10.  I have known Steph for about 5 years and Nik for about 4 years and well you could say that I introduced them back in '08(?).  We went geocaching a bunch and when I got really into school they went out for the Binthair Challenge.

100 DAYS ARE UP!!

Well the 100 days are up but I wasn't able to keep up for the last week or so.. I have decided to continue until I catch up .. so the means everyday I add another 100..

On the geocaching front, I am at day...58 (well I still need to find one for today!!)

I had one close day.. I DNF'ed on 4 downtown!! but finally found one.. This goes to show.. don't look for caches downtown if you need to find one!

The only problem I foresee in the Easter weekend, I'm going to NB with Jaelle's family. I am taking an overnight bus on Thursday morning to meet them in MTL and then off to NB that day.

So I need to find a cache Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Sunday and Monday I'll find in MTL as it will be easier since I'll be on my own. But Thursday, Friday, Saturday might be a little more challenging.. But after that weekend I will only have about a month left!

Lots of stuff

Well I started my caching streak on Feb 14th and I'm still going.. so I'm in my longest streak 12 days!!! before that was in Halifax for 10 days.. and end that with the longest cache-to-cache on one day 954 km.. A great way to end a streak!!

I don't know how long I will go, I'm going for the 100 days cache but if I get this job extended then I might as well go for 365 (but I could end on Feb 29th because next year is a leap year..maybe that will be my goal!).

As for the job, things are going great.. I am alone at nights (or after 8-9 pm..) so I hope nothing goes wrong.. like two nights ago, a patient wasn't agreeing so I had to turn on the machine and remeasure it and it still didn't agree!! I didn't know what to do so I just left it.. but I was there for an extra 2 hrs..

And yesterday, man am I silly.. I left the machine on!! I had to take the bus back to the centre to turn it off.. an extra bus fare and 2 hrs of my night gone! As I've said before, you usually learn from your mistakes!!

And I'm on the downhill path from my pushups!! my app says 46 days left.. I was thinking maybe doing another 100 challenge after that.. sit-ups? 150 pushups? 5 km walks?

Speaking of walks, I did 8 kms down Yonge st on Tuesday. I should have worn my hiking shoes not winter boots.. and not picked up some groceries!! Anyway.. I picked up a cache and say a few neat places to eat! I am planning on doing the same walk on Monday.. this time with my hiking shoes! (I hope there isn't too much snow!)

New Job

So the new job is great. I have been training for the passed two days and it has been nice to see how it's done. By Feb 22nd I have to be able to do this on my own (I'm replacing a woman who is on leave for 6-months and the other woman is going home for 2-weeks). So I have to take lots of notes and hope for the best!!

Last night I was watching Phil and there was a case where the dose wasn't agreeing so he had to do some additional tests, not too hard but I hope to be able to pick up on some of this stuff quick so I can do my own troubleshooting before calling people!!

I'll post more of a description when I get more comfortable with my place in the process!

As for my push-ups, I have 62 days left and I have 75 left for today, things are on track!!

I will start another challenge maybe next Monday, 100-days of caching. I am waiting until I have a TTC pass so I don't only go after the close ones first, so I can save those for a storm day. Also I can explore the city at the same time.

If anyone has great places to go and see let me know!

Quarter done!!

So I have a day countdown on my dashboard and it says I have 73 days left!!

I have had a couple hard days, and I'll be honest.. I didn't do the full 100 BUT I did catch up to it. So I am doing good now!

Another nice thing is that last week I went to Toronto for a job interview.

It was at Sunnybrook at the Odette cancer centre. The position is a Physics Associate job. This job would be doing QA (quality assurance) for the radiation linac and the patient treatment plan. This is a great position for me just starting out in a Medical Physics career.

Well Great new.. I got the job, they called on Friday to tell me I got the job. It is super exciting for me. I don't know when I start, they want me ASAP. I told them that I could start on Monday, which she was very happy about, but she told me that it HR wouldn't be able to turn around that fast.. So I'm still in Ottawa getting everything packed, looking for a place to stay and looking for a drive to Toronto.. Not really knowing when I should be there for. (I'm think Wednesday or Thursday would be a reasonable starting date!

Well all for now!

Day 9

So I don't need to update every day.. but I am doing the push-ups everyday!!

I'm doing 4 sets of 25 now.. it's quicker to do that then 10 sets of 10!!

Oh Ross this is for you:

Her name is Buddy and will be 9 on Jan 24th.

I have taken her caching a couple times but she isn't a real bushwacker like Chuck or Sam!

Day...6 (I lost count for a sec there..)

Good thing I have a count down app on my desktop!! 94 days to go!!

So the push-ups are easy to do.. but the steps are harder.. (the other way then I would have thought..)

I have been on Wii Fit Plus and Gold Gym's Cardio almost everyday so maybe I'll just do an hour of that a day..

Also I got my blog to post of FB so that should work now!

Any thoughts?

100 day challenge!!

So it's my birthday and I'm going to start a 100 day challenge..

10,000 steps and 100 pushups... I wonder if I can really do it!

Mom and Dad gave me a pedometer so I will have use of that.. and also Jaelle's Wii.

The 100 pushups might be easy or hard.. I'm not really sure!!