how fast does a week go by?

Oh my the last week has been a blur, my head is just starting to come out through the fuzz and I can’t believe we are almost half way through this week already. Phew!!!!!!!

The week that was:

Wednesday: Popped out to the local Kmart to buy a Hydro Spa I saw advertised and thought it would be great for hubby for his birthday (he loves his baths and this turns your bath into a spa bath), then of course the Birthday girl opened her presents and as always was very spoilt.

Thursday: Weigh-in day and I lost 500g. Did my grocery shopping and wrapped hubby’s presents for Friday, not a very exciting day.

Friday: Hubby’s birthday, sent him off to work without any presents and told him he had to wait until he got home for work (and then told him he had to wait until after dinner).

Saturday: Had one car in the garage for a WOF, and while that was being done hubby and I drove into town to buy me my Mothers Day Present (a cool pink Razr cellphone) – trouble is I can’t bring it out until this Sunday after my MIL has gone back home as at Xmas when my last cellphone died she gave me one of hers (as she had brought two over with the intention of giving me one) but it wouldn’t of been my choice, so once she has left I will be pulling the new phone out. Rest of the day was pretty uneventful.

Sunday: Mothers Day – I got an awesome multi coloured scarf I saw in Just Jeans – the drawback of working in the centre of town and having to pop out somewhere at lunch time. Transferred the last 8 months of photo’s onto my laptop to sort through and print out, haven’t looked through yet, and not really looking forward to seeing the early ones of myself from back then. And Jordyn had her birthday party in the afternoon, which was held at a scrapbooking place in Wellington, she had eight little friends and they did scrap canvas’s. It was awesome, this is Jordyn’s:


Monday: Hubby was off over the Wairarapa for work for the night (team building thing). I went off to work, had yummy sushi for lunch, kids finished school early at 1pm for a paid teachers union meeting, Connor’s class had swimming in the afternoon so they still went and I had to go back at 3pm for him. I then had a hair appointment for a cut and colour, boy that felt better. Easy dinner and then we watched a British documentary called ‘the truth about size zero’, where a British celebrity who was a British size 8 was going on a strict regime to become an American size 0 (British size 4) in 4 weeks. She made it but her BMI had dropped to 17.6, seriously underweight. We then watched ‘the Life of David Gale’, I had seen this before but thought MIL might enjoy it, good story line. Oh and I got another compliment from a lady at work today.

Tuesday: Another uneventful day, hubby was back home, watched the finale of Survivor and had a cruisy night.

Wednesday: The world is almost back to normal. Phew. Now if only we could get the internet connection (browsing) to work properly…it is shocking, and that’s when it works, which in the evenings isn’t very often at all, hubby spent 55 minutes on hold with Slingshot last night and then at 10pm got cut off as there helpline closed for the night. He was not a happy man and I was fuming, he was actually going to tell them to cancel our account and move off to somewhere else, the downside, having to change my email address everywhere again, I just hate that.
Just making dinner at the moment, usual Wednesday night feast, Sweet Thai Chilli, Rice, Kumara and Carrots with Yorkshire Puddings, YUM, YUM, YUM. Having been feeling really picky lately with food and I hate it but feel a little out of control. Tonight I had a couple of WW chocolate Chip cookies, then some beef jerky and although I wasn’t hungry I then went looking for something else….found a “mad about chocolate crème egg” which I proceeded to take to the computer, sat down, started to rip the foil off and then thought “what am I doing?”, Chocolate is a downfall and if I did it today it will lead to more tomorrow and the next day until I was back into my old habits of having half a dozen chocolate freddo’s after school. So I put it back in the fridge and went and got a small bag of popcorn, it was light and buttery and now all I can taste is a thick layer of butter all over my lips, that was only worth 1 point so not too bad, I was very proud of myself for putting it back but a little concerned to why I am suddenly feeling so peckish, TOM due next week but I haven’t been through this for ages.

Tomorrow night we are off to the Lonestar Restaurant for dinner, as the MIL is leaving on Sunday and this will be the first meal we have have out in the six months since she has been here, and we haven't had any takeaways.

Well better get this published, I have hopefully learnt a lesson here about leaving an update for so long, I am sure I have forgotten so much.

my big baby is 9 today

I have made it into work today but not sure how much of a productive day it will be, I am shattered.

Saturday we had Connor’s sleepover birthday party. We took him and two friends out to Laser Tag & Go Karting, after that we headed off to see Spiderman 3 (yes, I did succumb to a little popcorn, I just can’t help myself with that stuff), we had the boys sit in the row in front of us and because of the new theatre it was like we were there by ourselves, we couldn’t even see their little heads in front or hear a word they said. The movie itself, well not really my cup of tea and hubby hated it, said it was the biggest pile of c**p he had seen in ages but the 9 year olds seemed to enjoy it and that is the main thing.
After the movies we went through Burger King drive through and got them some dinner and then home to our own dinner and they spent the evening watching telly, and sometime close to midnight they finally went off to sleep.
Sunday morning then started at around 7.30am when they all woke up and couldn’t have been noisier if they tried. They came downstairs had some ice-cream cake for breakfast and played on the x-box until it was time to take them home. The morning seemed to take sooooo long to get through, especially after I decided to go out shopping once I had dropped them all off at home to get a few things (some PJj’s for me mainly) and had a cruisy afternoon out wandering (well I wasn’t in any hurry to get back home).
And so last night was spent get the last few presents all ready for today, he has unwrapped most of his presents except the main one which he will get tonight (I have to go home and wrap it after work). His birthday dinner he has chosen Burger King again, which is good as that leaves no temptation for us (usually we have a family birthday dinner). I brought a small chocolate cake for him tonight, just big enough for the two kids to a piece each tonight and some for school tomorrow (considering we have to do it all over again on Wednesday).

Also on Saturday we had a school gala, which thankfully the weather stayed fine for, great opportunity to spend lots of money…they have an auction and as it was we won three things so I now owe the school over $300…but we did get some good bargains.

• A WOF, with oil change, valued at $145 for $115.00, and great timing as hubby’s car is overdue for his warrant.


• Lonestar Resturant voucher valued at $150.00 for $110.00, also great timing as we want to take the MIL out for dinner next week before she heads off back home and we had mentioned Lonestar as a possibility.


• A facial, massage & ritual treatment including blow wave valued at $188.00 for $100.00, and with Mothers Day just around the corner I am looking forward to that one.

I also received another compliment at the gala by my sons teacher from last year, commenting on how well I was looking and had done so far and to keep it up.

We have had Mince wraps both days over the weekend, as it was easy with the chilli already made and took minutes to prepare. Tonight the plan is for Chicken wraps.

P.S. – This time 9 years ago I was in a bit of pain, and still had 6 hours to go.

a compliment

Today at school, picking the kids up on of the mothers commented on my weight loss and said it looked as though I have lost quite a bit...this is the first time I have really spoken to this mother since school breaking up for Xmas. Last week at work on of the guys also commented on e wasting away, and then added 'you have lost weight haven't you', and the week before on the the ladies at work said how good I was looking, it just so happened after speaking to her I popped into Farmers to find some Jeans for mufti fridays and OMG I walked away with a size 14, I was so rapt, and they were hipsters and I felt so trendy and good.

Dinner tonight was Sweet Chilli Chicken, Rice, Roast Kumara and Carrot, Yorkshire Puddings and Maggi Potato Mash.

Still feeling like shite, trying to suggest to hubby that a Lemsip would be good and what a clever idea it was of his to make it for me.

Just watching 'Hannibal Rising', it is first story of how and why Hannibal Lecter became the way he is/was, not too sure if this is really my cup of tea though.

Saw a really awesome scarf in Just Jeans the other day so I am dropping subtle little hints about the scarf and Mothers Day.