I typed this last Friday at work but have been so flat out that I haven't had time to finish it until now....
Well here I am, back again. It has been quite a while since my last entry and I apologise for being so slack but it has been quite full on around here.
Not just the usual Christmas stuff but also due to the fact that I have gone back to work full time. It is just a temporary contract – I finish on Jan 18, but it is 8.30am-4.30pm but including travel time I am gone from the house from 8am-5pm. The reason I am doing it, the money is great. I get paid nearly $24 an hour and my first pay was for only 3 days (started at the end of the pay week) and I cleared $470 after tax. It has been a real big help with Christmas and bills and stuff. It has been quite exhausting! I take my hats of to ladies like you Karen and Lyn who do it all day, every day. My house has gone to rack and ruin, the girls have been right out of schedule. Last night was the first night in a long time that they were both in bed by 8pm. Lately Caitlyn has been down at 9 and Bethany even had a 10pm bedtime on Christmas eve, but that was due to getting everything ready for the next day.
So now it is time for things to settle down and go back to normal and for my stress levels to decrease.
The last time I made an entry here I was getting things ready for Caitlyn’s 1st birthday party. That went well and she was well and truly spoiled. Got some great pics, which I will put at the end of this epic post.
Moving on to Bethany, she received the academic award for her class at the awards ceremony on the second last day of school. She is now reading at a good year 2 level. She goes into year 1 next year but is being put in a year1/year2 split class so they can develop her reading skills with the year 2’s but still do normal year 1 work. So proud!
Onto me. Well, I have tried but it has been hard. I lost 2.3kg in Paulene’s last challenge bringing me down to 85.5kg but have not been for a proper walk for the last month and a half at least, eating has well and truly been shite and in the last 2 and a half weeks have put on a good 2.5kg, but on the good side, that is also including my Christmas eating of the last 2 days too. I am still out of the 90’s and am still 10kg down from my highest weight at the end of June of 97kg so that is still something to be proud of for this year.
Speaking of the year, it is fast coming to a close. I am going to give my site a real overhaul in the next few days, bright and ready for the start of a new year. My stats from the side will be wiped clean, ready for some real weight to shift. My goals will be refreshed. My start weight will be the 87kg I weighed myself at today, my first weighin will be next Friday 4th January 2008. So from today I have 14.2kg to lose to get to my lowest ever weight, and 20kg to lose to get to my goal weight. I would like to be at my goal weight, or at least 69.9kg by my 10th wedding anniversary, September 26th, next year. That is 39 weeks from today to lose between 17.1kg and 20kg. Big ask but I’m up for the challenge. Wish me luck.
Not just the usual Christmas stuff but also due to the fact that I have gone back to work full time. It is just a temporary contract – I finish on Jan 18, but it is 8.30am-4.30pm but including travel time I am gone from the house from 8am-5pm. The reason I am doing it, the money is great. I get paid nearly $24 an hour and my first pay was for only 3 days (started at the end of the pay week) and I cleared $470 after tax. It has been a real big help with Christmas and bills and stuff. It has been quite exhausting! I take my hats of to ladies like you Karen and Lyn who do it all day, every day. My house has gone to rack and ruin, the girls have been right out of schedule. Last night was the first night in a long time that they were both in bed by 8pm. Lately Caitlyn has been down at 9 and Bethany even had a 10pm bedtime on Christmas eve, but that was due to getting everything ready for the next day.
So now it is time for things to settle down and go back to normal and for my stress levels to decrease.
The last time I made an entry here I was getting things ready for Caitlyn’s 1st birthday party. That went well and she was well and truly spoiled. Got some great pics, which I will put at the end of this epic post.
Moving on to Bethany, she received the academic award for her class at the awards ceremony on the second last day of school. She is now reading at a good year 2 level. She goes into year 1 next year but is being put in a year1/year2 split class so they can develop her reading skills with the year 2’s but still do normal year 1 work. So proud!
Onto me. Well, I have tried but it has been hard. I lost 2.3kg in Paulene’s last challenge bringing me down to 85.5kg but have not been for a proper walk for the last month and a half at least, eating has well and truly been shite and in the last 2 and a half weeks have put on a good 2.5kg, but on the good side, that is also including my Christmas eating of the last 2 days too. I am still out of the 90’s and am still 10kg down from my highest weight at the end of June of 97kg so that is still something to be proud of for this year.
Speaking of the year, it is fast coming to a close. I am going to give my site a real overhaul in the next few days, bright and ready for the start of a new year. My stats from the side will be wiped clean, ready for some real weight to shift. My goals will be refreshed. My start weight will be the 87kg I weighed myself at today, my first weighin will be next Friday 4th January 2008. So from today I have 14.2kg to lose to get to my lowest ever weight, and 20kg to lose to get to my goal weight. I would like to be at my goal weight, or at least 69.9kg by my 10th wedding anniversary, September 26th, next year. That is 39 weeks from today to lose between 17.1kg and 20kg. Big ask but I’m up for the challenge. Wish me luck.
.... back to now, well since then things have got even more caotic and my weight has crept up almost another kilo. So my goal for the rest of this week (a whole 2 days) nothing drastic, just get on track. Track my eating, try and find some time to do a walk today and tomorrow (even though it is going to be 38degrees today and 40degrees tomorrow) and drink water. That should give me a good start for next week to shift some of this latest excess.
So now pic time
Caitlyn the day after her first birthday (heaps of pics taken but no really nice ones unless you include the ones where she helped herself to her cake before it was time) and her birthday cake (yes, it is supposed to be a Care Bear).
Bethany in her first ever tap dancing costume (this one was my favourite out of all of her costumes this year)
My beautiful Christmas Angels posing for a pic to go in everyones cards this year.I hope everyone had a Happy and Safe Christmas and New Year. It is a New Year, every mistake from last year gone, forgotten and onto better things.
This is THE year!
