Weigh in

Lost 2.1kgs bringing me down to 98.3kgs (total 12kgs).

I am very very happy with that and feel I have really put in the extra effort especially with my exercise but I'm not making a song and dance about it because I did that 2 weeks ago and then went slack and went back up over 100kg...............so *whispers* yay!

I went to the Cossie Club on my way home last night and got my Beat Girl tickets for 23rd December (YAY!) can't wait.

I also popped into Countdown to get some crackers and dips for my fairy god mother's (Helena and Jo) who are coming over tomorrow night to help me prepare for the ball (work Xmas party) on Saturday night.

Got home and my little one was still away at 9pm so I jumped into bed with him for 5 minutes to help him settle and woke up 2 hours later...........hahaha

Gyming today as well which will be good because next to no one goes on a Wednesday (love that!) so I can crank up my MP3 player and sing off key and nobody will laugh (its really not a good look....LOL).

What a busy time of year

After a nice peaceful Saturday, Sunday was the complete opposite.

Dropped Reece off at my sisters house for the Xmas party and headed into The Warehouse (2.5 hours later) and then over to Westfields (2 hours later) and got 75% of my presents for Xmas and birthdays but just couldn't quite get the remainder. The ones I have left are for those people that just have everything and for the life of me I couldn't work out what to get them........so a great start, 1 more shopping trip to go and I reckon I will crack it.
I did manage to get myself an eyeliner and a matching necklace and earrings for the work 'do' on Saturday night.

Managed a quick Subway at 3pm once I realised I hadn't eaten all day (busy, busy, busy).

Picked up Reece, home we went where I then cooked 4 Xmas cakes, cooked dinner, bathed and feed the boys and then did 2 hours of ironing.................*phew - wipes brow*, god I love being busy :)

I went and had a lovely lunch at Mitre 10 Mega with Karen and Rachel and managed to have something different (smoked chicken pasta) and last night I managed to feed everyone and watched Extreme Makeover - Home Edition and then crashed at 9.45pm (very early for me).

I have been a pretty good girl with my eating and exercise and will try and up my water a bit more next week which I am happy with.

I plan to go and get some tickets for the Beat Girls (I just love em') from the Upper Hutt Cossie Club (remember the Cossie Club CM.....hehehe) tonight on my way home from weigh in for 23rd December.................can't wait!

A quiet Saturday

After spending all morning outside colouring in, riding bikes, playing soccer and eating lunch, I have finally gotten Adam to sleep while Reece watches the 'Cars' DVD..........rrrrrrrrr nice.

I took a couple of photo's of the deck this morning (see above) to show you all the finished product. Next job for Andrew is the sandpit for the kids, rather than them digging holes in the lawn.........LOL.

I'm all armed and ready to do my Christmas shopping tomorrow, just transferred far too much money into my visa and am taking a few westfields and farmers vouchers with me that I have had for quite some time.

Reece has a Christmas party that my sister is taking him to, so I will drop him off on the way and Adam is going to stay home with his Dad and Supervise the contruction of the sandpit.

I rang the 'pregnancy councillors' during the week as they were looking for donations, so I have dismantled the cot and sorted out all the stuff (sheets, blankets, duvet's etc) that go with it and my kind hearted little Reece sorted out his toys and gave me a bag to give to the kids.
I love a good clean out!

I love shopping

Grocery shopping that is..........

Yep, I reckon it is the one time that I get to myself and I am doing what I like.....weird ay?
I went shopping last night at 9.30pm after hubby and Dad got back from Twilight golf (I'm such a golf widow but I love it) and didn't get home until just after 11pm.
I have a fortnights worth of shopping and even stocked up on my food I bring to work as I was getting really slack and going to the canteen for a sandwich which wasn't good.

I'm popping into Westfields after work to pick up my contacts from OPSM and I am also going to pay my mothers car rego as she lives in Oz and we have her car (to use if we want) for when she comes back (cheaper than hiring a car) plus buy my 7 birthday cards and Xmas cards.

I have plans of to do the Xmas shopping on Sunday with no kids and no hubby, can't wait:)

I have been a good girl today and been drinking my water and had my cereal for breaky and vitaweat crackers with lite cream cheese and salsa for lunch. Hubby is out for dinner tonight so I intend to have my favourite Seafood Rissotto for dinner and the kids can have their favourite (noodles or nuggets?).

Our work here only allows 'trademe' website (its an auction website) for the Managers (not little ole me) and today it got switched off from our Australian network and you should have heard the uproar.......LOL
After several managers got on the phone to Aussie, it soon got switched back on again, goes to show you who is actually doing the work in this company!!!

Weigh in

GAIN of 900g...........piss, piss, piss!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only did I gain last weeks loss (600g) I put on an extra 300g *sigh* bringing me back OVER the 100kg mark (100.4kgs).
My own fault as I had one terrible day (pie and cream donut) and a handful of hot chips yesterday - stupid!!!

Righto, I'm over that bit of bad news - onto something more positive.
I went swimming yesterday......YAY! We have a 30 metre outdoor heated pool around the corner from work that opened on Monday so off I went yesterday and after 6 pathetic laps (180m) I was buggered so I took my sorry backside home............hahaha

Deck is finally finished (I'll take a photo tonight) and we are hoping to get our first BBQ for the season in very soon.

Got paid today so I am going to go and get ALL of my Xmas presents (and I also have 7 birthday's in December) so that will be out of the way and then worry about Xmas dinner food closer to Xmas.
We are having a big family dinner at my sister's and I have Lamb, salad and dessert to supply. I have the lamb and dessert (ambrosia) sorted but I want to do something special and different for the salad and haven't worked that one out yet.

On another positive note, my sister gave me a couple of tops and they actually fit!!!! They are a size 18 which I haven't fitted into for YEARS so I am really happy about that. The gym must be doing something because I seem to be wearing clothes better (if you know what I mean).

Saturday

I have had a lovely morning with Helena shopping and managed to buy a lovely top for my work Xmas party, this is one of those tops that you would never have picked yourself but when it was handed to me I thought I would give it a try and LOVED it. Now I just have to work out how to put on coloured make-up (which Helena is also going to show me). I have always just worn brown blush and brown eyeshadow with brown (sometimes pink) lipstick and that's it, I have got foundation and stuff but really aren't any good at putting it on so my style consultant (Helena) is going to come over one night and give me some pointers..............LOL.

I got home and finally pulled my soaking wet clothes off the line from 2 days ago and put them back through the washing machine and then into the dryer and what do you know? Its stopped raining and is now sunny...............typical!

My eating has been average the last couple of days so I really need to be more careful and organised when choosing what I am going to have. I have a bit of time on my hands now so I might actually THINK about dinner and get something going rather than a last minute throw together.

Haven't really got any other plans for the rest of the weekend (yay!) so I am going to go and ring a girlfriend that I never get enough time to talk to while my youngest is in bed asleep and my oldest wants to jump on here (computer).

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Weigh in......

First of all a BIG THANKS to all who sent me advise on applying my eye cream/moisturiser.
Linda (UK) you have really enlightened me as I was putting the eye cream on with gusto rather than lightly patting it on.......DOH!

Righto Weigh In...............

I lost 600 grams putting me into double digits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *squeals in delight*
I am now 99.5kgs with a total loss of 10.8kgs.

I had such a good night after that (as you can imagine), I went to visit Karen and got another great cuddle with little Rachel who is just the best baby and went to sleep as soon as I got hold of her, even with my LOUD talking and laughing! (people who have met me and now sitting there nodding their heads...LOL).
While I was there a package arrived from Kate which had a lovely homemade card and lovely gift.......your so clever Kate.

I then went home to a yummy home cooked meal of crumbed chicken and vege's.

Jo came over to drop off my Avon and stop for a coffee. My poor mate is so sick with the flu but still got out to do her drop offs..............your a machine Jo!

I then got into bed about 10.30pm with a massive grin on my fact - I love it when things are going right (gotta be those gym sessions).

Face cream, make up etc

I am 36 years old and haven't ever worn daily moisturiser or foundation or any other sort of cream and now I don't have my classes to hide a multible of sins I have invested in an 'under-eye bag remover cream' called Eye Tuck which does work but costs something like $60.00 plus I heard that 'Totall Effects Olay' moisturising cream was brilliant and at $32.00 a pop I went and got some of that as well (with sunblock I might add....LOL)............here lies my dilemma - What do I put on first??? the eye cream or the moisturiser??? STOP LAUGHING!!!!
I stood in front of the bathroom mirror this morning very perplexed and read and re-read the instructions on both and they didn't give me the answer. I ended up putting on the moisturiser on first but have no idea if this is correct or not.
I also have the ole foot palm cream stuff out as summer is coming (not that you would know by today's weather) and I get horrific cracks on my heels plus with my contacts, I use to spend about 5 minutes in the bathroom and now it is more like 20 minutes and when I come out I don't look any different.......hahahahaha!!!!!

I had a really awesome session at the gym on Friday and worked my little (or big) butt off and as the treadmill had someone on it with someone else waiting, I worked on my weights and boy did my arms feel sore the next day (love that!)

I didn't do much on the weekend, it was nice and quite really which was a big change.

Went out to lunch with a friend yesterday and had a really yummy roast vegetable salad and then went and spoilt it by eating a chocolate brownie........god I can be DUMB sometimes.

Weigh in tonight and then I am going to pop in and see Rachel (oh and Karen and Steph of course) for a coffee and I am also hoping to catch up with Jo since I haven't seen her since her return from the land of OZ.

Pedometer

After reading Anne's journal today I decided to get my pedometer from my desk at work and blow the dust off it and actually put it on........shock horror!!!
I checked it at 10.30am and I had clocked up 1784 steps which I thought was pretty good considering I had only put it on about 8.30am, I then checked it again just before lunch (noon) and it said 83 steps.........gggggrrrrrrrr! Note to self: Put it somewhere where you CAN'T knock it.

Haven't been up to much, busy at work (November is the worse month of the year) which makes the time fly by.

I am going to the gym after work and then going home to a WW meal as Andrew and the boys are sorted for dinner so I am going to have a lazy meal night.

No big plans for the weekend apart from a Chinese Takeaway meal out on Saturday night with some friends.

Food is great (I'm on Fire!)
Exercise is moderate (must work on this some more)

Weigh in

Lost 600grams bringing me down to 100.1kgs (total loss 10.2kgs) so I am over the moon to hit my first 10kgs and am SO going to be under 100kgs next week.

Went to Karen's on my way home from weigh in to see how she, Steph and little Rachel were getting on and luckily just as I turned up Rachel woke up so I was able to have a really good cuddle. She is adorable and so tiny and such a happy, contented little girl and Karen is doing well and is just a natural with her. Steph is the proud Dad and was cooking dinner (what a good boy!), so a happy little household.

Here is the water feature I was talking about yesterday, the other garden (with the statue) is the one me and the boys did...........minimal and low maintenance, just the way we like it....hehe.





Not much else to say really, happy household and happy kids at the moment which makes life much easier.

Gardening Girl

Now for the lovely ladies who know me out there, you will know I HATE gardening with a passion and Andrew is much the same. In our previous places we have always had VERY LOW maintenance gardens and we decided to do the same thing at this house.
We bought a water feature months ago and have been trying to decide what to do with it, Andrew came up with an idea on the weekend and away he went. He worked like a little trouper most of the day Saturday and came up with a simple but lovely garden. I did take a photo but blogger won't let me upload it at the moment (watch this space!).

Hubby also had his final of golf for the Club Champions and had to play 36 holes on Sunday (an all dayer) so the boys, Dad and I decided to surprise him and built another garden across from his one in the same theme but use a statue we already had (I will also upload a photo when I can) and because Dad's hernia operation stopped him from helping me (he is doing really well by the way) and the boys preferred to watch, I got the job which took me quite a few hours.

Apart from that our weekend was a bit boring really.

I have weigh in tonight which I'm not looking forward to - not because I have been bad because I have been really excellent with my food (not so good with my exercise) but I am due for TOM and feel all bloated and yuk today (typical!!) so we will have to see how things go.

I had such a busy week last week that I didn't get any time for myself, so this week I plan to get back to the gym and walking as much as possible. My local outdoor pool opens in 10 days so I am really looking forward to that as I love swimming.

What a beautiful name................LOL

Congrats to Karen and Steph on the birth of their baby girl .......Rachel Judith.

Not much happening at the moment, I have been brilliant with my food and water (intend to get under 100kgs this week) and Reece is settling down in school which helps my state of mind.

Really looking forward to the weekend and a bit of relaxation as I seem to have been running here and there all blinkin week and even the bottle and a half of wine last night didn't get me unwound.......hahaha!!!

I am going to try and attach some photo's of my boys. I did give it a go yesterday but blogger wouldn't let me upload them.............here goes:

Weigh in

Well all I can say is I'M A FREAK!!!
I just don't get it, I had one of the worse weeks and still managed to lose weight.....????

I lost 700grams........now weigh 100.7kgs (total loss of 9.6kgs)

I'm guessing that I am holding onto that weight and it will show up next week but I'm going to hope to work my butt off so that doesn't happen.

Trick or Treat ...... ???
Trick or treat isn't a fun experience when your husband works for Cadbury's Confectionary and the whole neighbourhood knows about it!!!!!! We must have had 30 kids turn up during the evening and most of them were older (13+ year olds) without a costume........little buggers!!! When we opened the door, most of them said "can we have some chocolate" rather than Trick or Treat. I was really angry at the little buggers so didn't answer the door which meant Andrew did it all night and both the boys got dressed up (Adam as batman and Reece as a Ninja turtle) so they could scare the kids when Dad opened the door (same sense of humour as their father.....LOL). I had a massive bowl of chocolates and lollies for the occasion but Andrew ended up having to get more stuff out of his car. We decided that as of next year if they are not dressed up then they don't get anything. We even had 2 or 3 kids come back 2 or 3 times and try to tell us they were different kids. Thank god that is over for another year!

My Dad's birthday today - he is 67 years old. Kids and I were out there at 7.30am to give him his birthday cards and presents before they went to school which Dad loved but did mention that he was going back to bed when we left ........hahaha.

Funny (NOT!) Reece at school story.
I think the Mum's out there will enjoy this one.
I went to pick Reece up from his 2nd day at school and was waiting just outside his classroom (there were about 50 other parents waiting for their kids as well) and all of a sudden Reece wanders out into the middle of the playground and starts playing. I went over and asked him to go back into his class as school wasn't finished yet and he said "nah, don't want to" and proceeded to carry on playing - by this time all the parents were looking at him wondering what he was doing - I then TOLD him (quietly of course) to go back to class and he just ignored me and moved further away. I was sooooooooooooo embarrassed it wasn't funny and then his teacher came out and asked him to go back to class to which he looked at her and rolled his eyes and said "Nah" and she asked about 3 more times with no response and eventually went over and grabbed him by the arm and walked him back to class and sat him down as they were still having mat time.
When I was game enough to look up, ALL the parents were having a little giggle and I could just hear them saying "little shit" "what a naughty little boy" etc. The teacher came over to see me as she could see I was totally mortified and said "Don't worry about it, he isn't use to the routine yet but this is the 3rd time today I have had to do that" she was having a giggle and really wasn't fazed at all (god love her) but I wasn't feeling like 'Mother of the Year' at that moment and TALKED to him all the way home about listening to his teacher as well as me blah blah blah...............little darling!!!