I'm trying to change my profile picture so that its a bit clearer. I wish I knew what I was doing! LOL 

Short post - point form

• Very busy today
• No time for images
• Came to work early
• Have to leave early
• Mother coming to babysit DS
• Haven't cleaned the house
• Have to curl my hair
• AND make myself beautiful (takes a while)
• Have to cook dinner for mother and mother's partner
• Leaving work at 4pm
• Have to pick up DS
• Need to start packing
• DH at home today doing "Jack"
• Starting to panic
• Gig tonight
• 1 hour's drive away
• Not getting paid
• Not happy Jan
• That is all til tomorrow
• Have a good weekend everyone
• Bri

Word cloud

I love this, get your own by going here. It's called a word cloud and you can even make it into a t-shirt.

Bri

Groceries

I went to the shops this morning. As usual I was feeling hungry. Story of my life lately. I didn't have anything in mind to buy, just went for a look really, figured pretty much that i'd come back with lollies of some kind (even though the wrath of Kellee was hanging over my head).

This is what I bought:


99% fat free cup-a-soups
grapes
Snakatas in individual packets (1.5 points each)
Lebanese bread
salad
97% fat free ham and turkey
blueberries

Where the hell is the junk I went to buy? I walked out of the shop without buying a single bad thing. Who am I and what have I done with the bad eater?

The funny thing is that this was completely by accident.

Maybe, just maybe I am changing for the better.

I have decided to give myself the week off walking, because i'm still sick and I need to get rid of this cold. Having a show on Friday night isn't going to help me either, late nights are the pits. Plus I didn't get my Nanna Nap yesterday afterall.

But ... (yes I know you shouldn't start a sentence with but, but..... ) as of Monday - I will be back on the treadmill and going full noise until I get those pesky scales to show me a number that is equal to or (even better) less than - 74.9.

I PROMISE YOU ALL (AND MYSELF). There - that means I have to stick to it now that i've promised.

Have a great day everyone,
Bri

Woo Hoo !!!!!

Ok - so i'm in the midst of my Nanna Nap and the phone rings, but I can't really complain cos it's the home loan broker saying that we have full approval on our home loan.

Woo Hoo !!!!! How do I feel you ask?

Nanna Nap

I've come home to have a Nanna Nap. If I don't hurry up and get to sleep, it will be time to pick DS up. I have been awake since 2am this morning, coughing, then DS woke up at 4.30am. I'm so tired. Hope this makes me feel better!

Bri

Sick and tired of being sick and tired

I'm so sick and tired of being so sick and tired. The heat doesn't help. I didn't get on the treadmill this morning, I really struggled to get out of bed. DS and I both have really bad coughs and runny noses. I hope it doesn't last too much longer. DH is nearly better but it seems like we think we're getting better and then it comes back again. I guess it doesn't help that DH and I both had a late night last week.

I took DS to daycare this morning and told the lady the he has two weeks left with her. I got all upset and cried (i'm such a wimp). He really likes it there with her and I think he'll miss it. She kept saying how much she would miss him, which only made me cry more. She is sick aswell so she wants me to pick DS up early today, it won't hurt either of us to get home early and relax a bit, maybe we can all have an early night. I have so much to do at home and I also have to think about packing soon, I think we have four weeks til we have to move and that's not long really, time just goes so fast - it will be here before we know it.

Bri

It's all good

I didn't have a hangover today, probably helped by the midnight kebab I hoovered up my nose!

Uh oh, but I was sooo hungry and we didn't eat dinner. I didn't drink too much, although DH would probably disagree with that! I am pretty sure I was snoring (which I only do when i've been drinking too much or have a cold and I had both!!) Hee hee. Ended up doing 16,080 steps so I was pretty happy with that. Although today I would be lucky to have done 5,000 as i've been a big fat lounge lizard! Watched The Wedding Date (again - I love that movie) and Steel Magnolias.

I did go and do the groceries this morning but we didn't go for a walk because it was way too hot.
I reckon it was at least 35 degrees today. There's supposed to be a storm coming but no sign of it yet. Let's hope it gets here soon to cool everything down.

Bri

Hot

I swear someone has turned the sun up today, how hot is it. I thought we were over the worst of it, but no, not yet. I was going to curl my hair today (I have a girls thing on this afternoon) but I don't think i'll bother, it wouldn't stay in long in this heat!

A friend of mine is coming up from Sydney this afternoon and DH has given me a leave pass for tonight. Fair enough, I gave him one last night.

He said it was just a few drinks after work and he promised not to drink too much, he got home at 12.30am - tractor faced drunk. What is it with men that they have to write themselves off when they go out with the boys, is it a macho "let's drink as much as we can and all keep up with each other" thing? I just don't get it. Also didn't help that he didn't eat all day yesterday (only because he's a lazy arse - i'm sure if I was here and had made something for him he would have eaten it!!).

Enough complaining about him, or i'll be here all day, and you lot will all get bored and go away.

The scales were finally kind to me 77 kg neat this morning and that's the LAST time i'll see that number on the scales. Even though i'm going out drinking this afternoon i'll try and be a bit good and i'll make healthy eating choices (no Maccas or KFC or 3am kebabs!!), plus hopefully i'll be walking and dancing heaps so i'll work off what i'm going to drink anyway. I'm going to wear my pedometer and see how many steps I do, that's if I don't accidentally flush it down the loo or something! haha

I'm sure I won't be posting tomorrow as I will either be hungover, or i'll be taking my friend on a nice walk around the lake.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Bri

Friday again ...

Geez don't Friday's come around fast? I guess Mondays do too though. I got on the treadmill this morning, thought I had better cos if I keep leaving it then i'm scared I will have to struggle again. It was really hard. I'm still sick and I really didn't feel like doing it, but I had an early night last night and I was awake anyway.

It took me 45 mins to walk what I usually do in 30 so I obviously didn't push myself, but i'm telling you now, I was sweating so much when I had finished it wasn't funny.

Our office is moving at the end of next week. The new office (brand spanking new!!) is being finished this week and I went out and had a look at it yesterday. It's hard to imagine what it will look like when it's finished cos it's just a shell at the moment. There were men there with nail guns and it was very noisy!!

I also went to the daycare centre which is out there to see what I thought about moving DS there. It's a 5 minute walk from our new office. I think it will be much better for DS, even though I am sad to move him cos he's happy where he is, but after a couple of weeks I think he'll be okay. It will save me an hour a day in travelling time so that has to be a good thing. Also I won't have to rush out the office door at 5pm on the dot to pick him up and (most importantly) if something happens and I need to go and get him - he's only a minute away, whereas where he is now it would be at least 40 minutes by the time I got there. Plus if I move him we'll be more organised in the mornings cos I won't have to leave home until 8am - so we get an extra 30 minutes to get ready.

Anyway, i've booked him in, and he starts on the 6th of March. I'm kind of sad cos I think he'll be upset for a little while, but it will be better for all of us in the long run.

Anyway, best do some work I guess. I have to start packing in the office, as well as packing at home. Geez, i'll have Popeye arms soon! LMAO

Bri

Canning practice

I'm canning band practice tonight, I need to get over this head cold. The upside is that I get to watch my favourite TV show in the entire universe! yay











Slept in today and I didn't get on the treadmill. I had to take my car to the smash repairers to get a quote. They say it will take a week to fix. Dammit, I can't be without a car for that long. There are no buses from my house to day care and then to work. A taxi would cost $100 a day at least. They have courtesy cars but they cost $15 a day and I think I have to pay for that. I guess it will be better than not having a car.

Or maybe I should just take a week off work! Hmmm now there's a thought. I could do with a holiday.

Have a great day everyone.

Bri

Finally some good news

Update: We got conditional approval today for our home loan. At least the pressure is off a bit now. We should know for sure by the end of the week.

Now I can start thinking about getting rid of stuff we don't need and packing things we aren't using.

Bri

I should have known ...

So I guess I should have known, with DH and DS sick last week, that it would come to me next. Let's hope it doesn't hang around too long.

No treadmill for this little black duck this morning.

Bri

Walking and walking and walking

So, even though I didn't get on the treadmill this morning (wait, wait, before you all yell at me, hear me out). I went shopping for an hour and a half this morning. I walked PAST all the muffin shops, I walked PAST Kernels (popcorn!! yummo), I did have a skinny cappuccino, but hey a girl has to have some pleasures.

I also did my "normal" walks to the mail box, the bank and also the Kodak shop cos I had to organise DH's Valentine's present.

Then when I got home, DH, DS and I went for a walk to the supermarket (5 kms) and home again. We got bread, milk and DS's cheese sticks. My feet are absolutely killing me and here is my step count for today .... (drum roll please .....)

19,456

Go me. What a bloody legend. Surely, surely, surely some day soon the scales will have to reward me for all of my good work this past week.

In the last 7 days I have walked 73 kms and in the last 8 days I have walked 110,693 steps (averaging 13,837 per day). I am really really really happy with this and i'm hoping the scales will show me some kind of reward very very soon. Wish me luck! (my feet are absolutely killing me!! LOL).

Bri

I wish I could move the photos to underneath the post I just wrote, does anyone know how to do this? Or i'm just stuck with where they are now? I wish I knew more about technology IYKWIM.....

Action shot! LOL 

I'm thinking our dresses aren't the same colour, but maybe it's just the light? 

We took a heap of publicity shots last night, not sure that i'm happy with any of mine!

The dress is gorgeous but I really felt like a fat frump last night. 

Suspicious Minds

I can't wear my pedometer when i'm singing with the band. I was really unsure of how many steps to allocate for last night's 'performance'. I was on my feet for 8 hours. We left home at 5pm and got home after 1am - it's a bit of a dilemma and I was in two (Suspicious!!) minds about how many steps to allocate myself.

I ended up taking the lowest step/exercise conversion count, which I think was for lawn bowls or something (67 steps per minute) and calculating 4 hours worth of that (even though I was there for eight hours). That gave me 16,080 steps for the night, plus the 7137 I had already done during the day at home. Giving a grand total of 23,217 for the day.

I'm aching all over today, especially my feet (of course!!) and I feel like i've run a marathon. I kind of feel guilty for taking that many steps, but the only time I sat down for the whole 8 hours we were there was when I went to the loo!! The rest of the time I was walking around or dancing on the stage (well you know not DANCING a la showgirl type of stuff - but doing the left right shuffle and a few little steps back and forwards to the beat!!).

Needless to say, yesterday's step count has seen me thrash through the other competitors on the Walking with Attitude standing boards and i'm higher on the ladders than i've ever been before (yes screen shots were taken!!).

I have to go shopping today to buy a 21st present for one of the girls at work, so there will be more steps counted today. Crikey, if I keep this up I really might even lose some weight soon!

We're in for another hot day, so the air conditioned comfort of the shopping centre will be well appreciated.

Have a great day everyone!

Bri

We call him "EP" for obvious reasons! 

The whole band. 

So tired ... TGIF ...

Boy am I tired. Again I was up last night with DS, again I missed the alarm, but I had an hour and a half sleep in today, which was briliant. DH and DS are both sick with a bad headcolds and stuffed up noses (poor blossums). Of course DH has the "man flu" and we all know that the "man flu" is terminal, right girls? LMAO.

I got up at 6.30am. No, before you ask, I didn't wuss out and skip the treadmill, and let me tell you I walked further than I ever have before. I was supposed to increase my distance today by 1 unit, but I increased by 2 units. Yes folks, you read correctly, TWO UNITS!! It was so hard and I just didn't feel like doing it and when I finally finished a great song came on, so I just kept going. So unlike me!! Maybe i've been taken over by some alien exercising fiend!!

Now I can't go backwards with my distance, so next Tuesday i'll have to increase again (fitting in with every second day). Today's walk means i'm doing 150% of my starting distance and by the end of the week after next I will have doubled my distance, but still walking in nearly the same amount of time. Yay me.

My eating still isn't perfect but i'm getting there and I still think that getting into an exercise routine is more important than my eating right now. It has, after all, been a very very stressful week and there is no end in sight yet to the damn stress.

To all of you Sydney bloggers who are meeting up tomorrow with Linda and Michelle - I am so jealous, I wish I could be there with you all. Just know that i'll be with you in spirit (so yes everyone check the bottom of your wine glasses, I just could be swimming around in there! haha). Have a brilliant time, I can't wait to see the photos and hear all about it.

Hope everyone has a brilliant weekend.

Ciao for now,

Bri

Missed the alarm

Missed the alarm this morning and DH didn't wake me up. I was up with DS last night for about an hour and a half. Poor little possum has a bad cold and he can't breathe through his nose, hence with the dummy in he isn't able to breath at all and he wants the dummy but. .....well you know! Anyway, I was really tired and DH says he tried to wake me (must not have tried all that hard as when I eventually woke up he was right there beside me, not up doing his chores like he's supposed to be doing).

Still the point (and yes it's a positive point today) is that instead of wussing out and saying "oh well, I don't have time to get on the treadmill" ... I got on anyway and even though this made me 1 hour late in dropping off DS at daycare, I did it, and i'm soooo proud of myself.

Trouble is that I promised Michelle that I would get on the treadmill every day this week, so I have to, cos I don't want to let her down and this trick has worked. Well for this week at least, not sure if it will work two weeks in a row but if I keep this up hopefully i'll do it all on my own.

My eating still isn't perfect but i'm getting there. At least I haven't had anything fried this week!

Have a great day everybody,

As an aside, I don't care how big a Shitney * fan you are, you surely couldn't defend what she's done today ?????? (* quote gives all credit to Natural Jules for the laughter about the nickname).

Bri

Save the whales.

Please everyone, we need to help save the Whales. I would really appreciate it if you could visit this link to Greenpeace and sign the petition. I don't usually go around asking for people to jump on any bandwagon, but this is really important. Also a good idea, as far as i'm concerned, to boycott anything made by Sealord - this is all explained on the website. Please take a look, it will only take a minute of your time.
thanks, Bri

A few good days

I have been sticking to my exercise "rules" for this week and i'm feeling really good. Even after last night's (most of a) bottle of wine I jumped out of bed at 5am and was keen to get started on the treadmill. I increased the distance today and even though I really wanted that final number to show on the little screen a lot sooner than it did, I continued on and I felt so good when I had finished.

I'm still sweating like an absolute pig by the time I am finished but that also makes me feel good because I know i've had a good workout. The scales are also being kind to me and i'm hoping that by next week i'll be showing a smallish loss and i'll be able to finally change my stats.

My eating hasn't been quite as out of control as it was last week but i'm still having a few things I shouldn't be (there are Jaffa Cakes in the fridge at work).

Hopefully by next week i'll be back on track and my weight will start it's downhill descent!!

Listening to my iPod this morning made me realise what strange and differing tastes I have in music. Today I heard Leonardo's Bride, Clare Bowditch, Elvis, Robbie Williams (of course), Joss Stone, Kanye West and the Arctic Monkeys!! Go figure.

Have a great day everyone.

Bri

A big shock

I just got a big shock - I was reading through some of my early posts, you know from back when I started this blog - and I came across this one -

• Tuesday, June 21, 2005
• Uh oh
  We went on a chocolate run after lunch. No it doesn't involve exercise! hahaOh well, i'll start again tomorrow I guess. I really want to lose that 0.6 this week and I need to be at 75kg by the end of July (don't we Michelle??). I went out last night and filled the cupboards and freezer with healthy groceries for us, and WW meals for me to bring to work, i'm just off the rails today for some reason. I can't stop eating.TTOTM is nearly over so I can't use that as an excuse. Maybe its the cold weather??Hope everyone is having a better day than me!!On a brighter note I did buy a 1.5 l bottle of water to drink. What's that, have I opened it yet . . . . . no . . . . . D'oh!!

OK so that's 7 1/2 months ago and i'm still in exactly the same place that I was back then.

STILL wanting to get to (and past) 75kg

STILL struggling with my eating

STILL struggling with lack of sleep

STILL struggling with exercise and

STILL struggling with getting into a routine

If I had pulled my finger out back then (7 1/2 months ago) I would have been well past 75 kg by now and well into the 60's (as Michelle is). Why can't I do this? I want to, I need to, I have to goddamit - what's stopping me? Laziness? Lack of belief in myself? Am I scared of losing weight? I know that I want to lose the weight. I am always really happy with myself when I see a loss on the scales, not that i've seen one for a while.

I think i'll worry about the exercise for a while and not so much about the food. If I make healthy choices but don't worry about portion sizes too much or tracking and force myself to get into some sort of exercise routine maybe that will help. Exercise is the key for me. For some people it's learning to like vegetables. No problems there for me. For some people it's fruit, took me a while but i'm okay with this now. For me, it's exercise that is the key and if I can get myself into the habit of exercising every day I think i'll be okay.

I'm going to try this for two weeks and see how I go.

• EVERY DAY
• Treadmill first thing in the morning - increase distance every second day.
• Weekdays walk to the mail box and walk to the bank - time myself and try and go faster every day.
• Weekends AT LEAST one of the days I have to either walk around the Lake, go to the shops and walk around (good for rainy days) or do an exercise DVD on ONE day of the weekend only.

Edit: I checked my WW passport last night, i've actually been hovering around the mid to late 70's since MAY last year. Now i'm really disgusted with myself. I though I had probably lost at least 4 or 5 kilos since then. I could have done so much better. Now is the time to pull my finger out and take some action.... keep watching this space .....

Bri

Robbie links

Come on girls, do we really need to see him naked? OK for those of you who do (the "bits" are blurred anyway!!).

and more here.

You can find more by Googling him yourself! Oh, that sounds saucy!!

Bri

I can't come on here anymore and complain about how the bank hasn't returned my calls and how i'm getting cranky about the broker. I'm sure you've heard enough. I'm going to stop blogging (my eating has turned to shite anyway) and i'll come back next week, when (hopefully) everything is over and this can turn back into a happy positive blog.

My apologies for how boring and single-tracked i've become lately.

Bri

Take your mind off it

Today I figure I need something to take my mind off the fact that I STILL haven't had any phone calls from the bank or the broker. Even though I have left messages and the bank even said (at 3pm yesterday afternoon) "we'll ring you in TEN minutes".

I'm over it. DH and I are thinking about canning the whole business. Anyway here are some pictures that I thought we could look at while we're waiting.....

I've been getting on the treadmill of a morning, yay me. Listening to Robbie!! I've nearly returned to the time/length/intensity that I was doing before Christmas so i'm very proud of myself for that. Think we need another picture?

My eating hasn't been 100% good, i've made a pact with Kellee that once I hear about the house, i'll be very very good and work my butt off until I get under that pesky 75 kilo mark that seems to be the stone around my neck at the moment (and really has been for some months now). I know it's just psychological but I need to get past it and then I know i'll be able to kick some serious butt in this whole weight loss thing. I think it would help with other stuff in my life too. Another picture I hear you scream? ... hehe

OK, Robbie is saying "shush now and don't worry about the loan" so i'll do that! Just for him! Yummo.

Oh what the heck, let's have one more. I actually found a nude one of him on the Google image search, but I left it right where it was thank you very much. If anyone want's the web address let me know!! LMAO.

Oh how I wish my husband looked this hot! But then I bet he wishes that I looked like .. hmm ... I wonder who he DOES wish I looked like. I'll have to ask him.

In the meantime, i'll just stick to looking at Robbie (and maybe doing a little bit of work!!). Have a great day everyone.

Bri