Some Unconscious Mutterings:

1. Crankiness :: mornings
2. Backpack :: mine did me well on my trip!
3. Clone :: clown
4. High ground :: sheep on the roof
5. Dreams :: nightmares
6. Lovingly :: brushing hair
7. Mistake :: eh, try again
8. Carson :: cresley?
9. Errand :: message
10. Dozen :: eggs

I’m about to put a pot of soup on, so that I can have warm yummy sound for dinner tonight and so I have food in the fridge for the next couple of days when I can’t be bothered cooking for myself. Two more weeks until Rish gets back.

I don’t wanna go to work tomorrow!

(oh and Lemon ‘V’ tastes like a lemon stoli)

So, one of my favourite things in the whole wide world is to have a really hot shower. Just for the sake of the feeling of the hot water. But of course there’s the whole guilt about global warming and water restrictions thing going on there. I’m killing the planet while turning my skin that nice shade of pink… ahh well, makes the day feel that much better…

Especially since I can home early due to stomach pains and that not-quite-vomiting feeling…

So glad I cooked last night - I have a yummy low-fat frittata from the CSIRO cookbook in the fridge waiting for me to chop into it, heat up a slice and nibble on. The sick feeling has mostly gone, hopefully an overdose (for me) of eggs won’t upset things… there’s greek yoghurt in it, so it has to be good for me! :p

mmm…

Last night we had Matt and Hannah over for a steamboat dinner… we’d brought the steamboat down from Newcastle last time we were there, and were itching to give it a try.

I spent an hour after the gym sourcing the ingredients … firstly to make my own stock - I’ve never made stock before, so went off to find a chicken carcass. 85cents! Bargain!

Then what to cook in the steamboat? Scallops, fish balls, baby octopus, callamari, chicken, tofu, and lotsa yummy veges like carrot, baby corn and bok choi. And some sauces for dipping into. The others seemed to like the oyster sauce best, while I stuck with the soy. The sweet chilli wasn’t touched, and the teriaki had a little bit of a look-in.

(There’s some nice picture’s of other people’s steamboats here. I have a few photos from last night, but I still haven’t managed to get the camera to download onto this computer, and if Rish’s laptop is here, I can’t login because he hs fingerscan access. Bah!)

So, we stuffed ourselves. Also some yummy steamed barbeque pork buns, nice wine, and my favourite home coucktail of the moment - shot of vodka, shot of frangelico, juice of a lime (they call it an Angel’s Kiss on the Frangelico website. ). Yums. And then Matt and I proceeded to beat Hannah and Rish in cards. Firstly Canasta (which Rish and I had been taught the night before) and then 500. Sweet :p

Something else great about yesterday - there was a top I bought maybe 6 weeks back, and I liked it in the shop… but then when I got it home and put it back on I realised that it looked disgusting on me, highlighting all the bulges exactly where I didn’t want them to be hightlighted! But I wore it yesterday. My tummy is getting flatter, but I swear my bottom is bigger. Or sticking out more. Or other thigns are getting smaller and it’s just getting more muscly or something. I don’t know. All I know it my body is gradually changing shape, so all the lumps and bumps are where they should be and less of them are the form of wobbly fat and more toned happy muscles. Yay! :) Now to keep this up!

Teresa is holding a new contest over at her personal blog. Those entering have a chance at winning a lovely and uniquely designed dandelion handbag by Rebecca Weis. Teresa is willing to ship this item anywhere, so anyone can participate. I’m a sucker for a new bag (if I ever when I make it to 68kg, I’m going to buy myself a new one!), so I know I’ll enter. She designed the blog theme I’m using :) Isn’t it sweet?

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So, my predictions were wrong. I was a bundle of energy at work today :) May have something to do with the levels of caffiene in my blood, that I started the day with a flu shot, or tha I bought a new rice cooker so am currently making sushi for dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow.

Or I could jsut be having a good day, whatever :p

It was a productive day. Lists and phone calls. Strategies to see more kids this term. Planning insanely ahead in my diary. I have something booked for August 14. But that’s fine :)

Had a good gym session - needed given the extra muffin I ate today during our planning meeting. Amazing how tempting it is to eat when you’re overwhelmed with the feeling of what are we going to do?! But I set my treadmill target to 3km today - just under 21 mins today. Will up it to 3.5km next time. Gotta build up. And the rest of it was good.

Now to keep all this productivity up for teh rest of the week. I’m taking Friday off, short week! yay!

Had a disasterous afternoon shopping with Rish yesterday. Hating everything I tried on, hating sizings, hating that I can’t be a more common bra size, wishing I was just looking for shoes… but it has all motivated me today. So what, I couldn’t fit nicely into the size twelves I was trying on in dresses - I have a few cm to lose, I just need to work harder. Yes, I know a 14A is not the most easy to find bra size. There a two options there - stick with the Bonds bras that fit me well, while woring towards being a 12 again. I can do that.

I know I haven’t been the most motivated the past week or so - 4 days straight of PD is an “excuse” … but a pretty poor one. I didn’t have to eat the snacks and junk sitting on the table. I could have squeezed in an extra gym session if I’d gotten myself out of bed, but throwing in a few late nights, while I should have probably been asleep in my own bed, not that good for an early gym start.

But I went yesterday and pedalled on a bike. Not much of a sweat, given that I was all snotty with this stupid cold, it wasn’t too bad. And today I went back, jogged a little, and will hit the jogging properly again tomorrow. But I did well on the elliptical.

Different motivators? Being able to fit a sexy corset that fits me. Yes, there were some held back tears when I realised that the size 12 Pleasure State corset I was trying on was going to slowly kill me if I stayed in it. But I will get there, and there are a few events to aim for. :) I have a thing for hot lingerie, so want to be able to wear the pieces I want!

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Just got back from the chemist with this huge box of penicillin - 50 capsules. Let’s hop that by the end of that my earache and sore throat are long gone, hey? Given that was the cheap part of the purchase…. because despite not being on any other medications, the antibiotics will “definately stop the contraceptive pill from working” according to the guy at the chemist (yes, there was emphasis on the definately)… so other backup measures need to be in place (or at least within reach) before I let Rish anywhere near me ;) Or myself near a glass of wine, which is probably not a good idea to combine with anitibiotics either. But there’s a wine and cheese night tomorrow,and after that we’re catching up with someone for drinks. :( bah. Just have to be careful, I suppose.

I’m also hungry. I’m seriously going to have to be planned. Taking 4 a day, at least 2 hours after food and 30 mins before… I’m not sure how that will work wiht the insane dinnertimes we have… maybe I can take one before my afternoon tea and one before my dinner rather than one before bed? Maybe this can help with weightloss as I’ll be fearfull to eat and I won’t be able to figure it out. Or they’ll upset my stomach, which has been known to happen.

Okay, sandwhich time then naptime. I thinkk I got more germs than I woulds have liked to while waiting for the doctor. Children are gross little germbags.

I am not a runner.

Well, not naturally, it’s something I’m going to have to teach myself. To work my way up to. That’s why I have a jogging target as one of my goals - to be able to jog at 10.0kph for 20 minutes. Now when I do have little burst of jogging that’s not on a sporting field or court, I go at about 9.0kph… and I thought it was about 3 mins. So, a very long ways to go.

Yesterday morning I got up brought and early and was at the gym just after 6am. It was still very dark, and dark until close to 7am. But it was cool, it was quiet, and I’m going there tomorrow mornging for a weights session with Rish (I think) and again Friday morning for cardio… (not this morning - I have time to go tonight, and I was up too late watching India beat Australia. Ponting is such a sook.)

Ok. I had to start somewhere. So, since the treadmills were nice and free (no line-ups or people on them who I’m sure had been there for longer than the allowed 30 mins) I hoppped on and started at a walking pace, to get myself moving… Then upped to my usual 9.0… and lasted at that speech for 5mins, or two songs on my ipod. Small steps, but at least I’ve taken the first one.

I then spent another hour on other equipment - something, which is like an elliptical trainer, but you can adjust the height your legs have to step up, and then the stepper. Sweaty!

(Let’s just move on from the fact that i then went on to eat too many “Sometimes foods” as the kids would call them while reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar (oh I love that book) in the day)

Today is a new day. A Wednesday, so I know there will be a meeting which will probably have cake involved. I will have a small slice if it’s something I like, but won’t delve into some of the other things I had today. :p

Not long til wordpress 2.5!

(I will be a runner, it will just take time and hard work!)

SO, Last year I got an It’s all about me diet and exercise journal, and used it religiously for about 8 weeks, lost a few kilos, then slowly petered out… to the point where over the past few months I’m heavier than my original starting weight…

So, I bought a new one. Started on Friday, properly did my measurements this morning… and am probably glad I did, given the freak out I had over all my clothes being crap and not fitting properly into a size twelve any more and a cute shirt I bought looking horrible on me after I brought it home and tried it on again. Reducing me of course to tears…

So, of course I lean of Rish to whip me into shape … and we start with some goals. With numbers in them. Numbers like 64, 20 and 10. Oh and 5 and 2. And phrases like “I can” and “I will”.

Tonight should probably be the last round of netball… I doubt we’ll make it to the final next week ;) WE barely scraped in at 4th… so I’m planning on picking up a monday circuit class - provided I get to the gym on time. It starts at 530, so I’ll go to it the weeks I make it there, and other weeks I’ll do something on another night - maybe a pump or step class on a Wednesday.

So, yet again, I’m getting back to it, but this time I will have Rish over my shoulder (I got him a jounral too, in black for boys) so we can be at each other :p

I love it when little old Australia makes it onto the BBC world news broadcast heh. Aww look what’s happening out in the colonies… aren’t we a republic yet? Hold your horses girl, we just got the sorry done, and you’re pushing for a republic? small steps, we’ll get there one day…

Was relieved to see that the seniors in our ranks found the time in our staff meeting to watch the initial address. When we got in this morning there was talk it might not happen. But how can we be pushing early intervention services for places such as the Koori preschool without taking a small part out of our day for something so big?

Meeting days are interesting… and full of food. I think I’m going to get the upgraded gym memebrship this year and get myself along to a class or two as well as my regular stuff. Feel like I need to pushing :)

I’m finally going to do PECS training. So I’ll feel like I know what I’m talking about ;) I’m going to have to take a weekend out to do it, but I think it’s worth it, especially since I’ll be able to do it locally, and the fee is about half of what it usually is (meaning work will foot the bill rather than about half and then me having to pay to stay in Sydney overnight!)… This means I’ll have to decide whether I want to do another workshop I wanted to do, which is the two days after that (M,T).. and I’d have to pay for that one $400… I have a couple of weeks until the close for earlybird rego, and Im told I can have the time, so I’ll see how poor I’m feelig after I renew at the gym and so on. It’s probably worth it… we’ll see. That one’s on speech disorders while PECS is more disability-focussed… but helpful, very very helpful. So yes, more stuff to ocupy my this term!

Have veges in the oven an rosemary on my fingers… making me hungry! :D

Rish is off to the Gold Coast for the week to attend Ninja Camp (at least that’s what phil called it - it’s a martial arts camp and grading/comp week for the weapons arts he does)… well at least he will be once Sydney Airport reopens - poor thing, it’s closed due to the bad weather up there!

So for me that means extr time to myself, missing him (at nights mostly - though I tend to get over it whe I realise how much space I have in bed!), but also it means cooking for myself. I mean, I cook or help cook dinner most nights, but I tend to lack motivation when it’s just me. I’m not one for cooking up a big stir-fry for the week (two nights, yes, but 3 nights plus a couple of lunches? kill me now, please!)… so I usually resort to salads and small pieces of meat.

Yes, I’m doing the same this week!My trolley looked oh-so-dinner-for-one this afternoon as I pushed it around woolies. Maybe it was the extra Weight Watchers microwave meals I added in (for lunchs and for when I really cannot be bothered!). I also had a huge bag of tomatoes, and some chickpeas, to mix it up a little I think I might experiment a bit with the spices in the pantry :)

I’ve also tried to plan my lunche this week - breadrolls, tins of tuna, and extra salad for these… also dried apricots and fruit cups for easy snacking. Otherwise it’s across to the cafe near work and chocolates from the kitchen…

I now need to make a to-do list of things to achieve that I rather do when Rish is away because it means I’m not aking from our time… like

• Dying my hair. I have another purplish colour under the bathroom sink, waiting for me to make a mess with. I had contemplated doing something different, but I may leave that until after my sister’s wedding (Feb 23)
• Waxing eyebrows. It’s just a neatening up his time, so I think I can manage for myself, but I will have to book a proper appointment because the wedding so I can look so hot right now. I don’t think I’ve really mentioned the wedding on here, so I shall have to do some filling in posts (I have one up my sleeve about a dream I had last night, involving chairlifts to the church)
• Any upgrading that I need to do web-wise. And Layout muckings about

I Think that’s it for things I’d rather leave til when Rish is very busy… but I have a one other thing to achieve this week:
Daily gym sessions. I did a big cardio one today, so I’ll fit in my “sunday” weights session tomorrow, after netball, because we have an early game. It’s rediculous that the game times vary from 6pm to 9:20pm…

Okay, some mutterings just hit my in-box. Here goes!

1. President :: Nixon. (huh??)
2. Stare :: Care bear stare!
3. Embrace :: engulf
4. Movie :: home movie
5. Everything :: and anything
6. Profile :: pictues
7. Satire :: The Chaser!
8. Erratic :: deliveries. Like Tait and Johnson in the test this week.
9. Costume :: Cosplay
10. Secretary :: The Secretary. It’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for ;)

I’m going to be singing Avril Langine “Hot” all night (damn is she hot in the film clip *swoons* I love a good corset and riding crop ensemble…) Due to using the word “rediculous” above and seeing the clip at the gym today. Guilty pleasures? Avril!