(Almost a) New Season, time for new me

So I have changed the name of my old health blog, as it was a dismal failure trying to achieve 10 things, shocking I know! And well it's time for an health attitude adjustment.  I know I've talked about it and did a few thing sporadically but now is the time to get really into action, here's why:

1. The warmer season is about to start, time to shed the winter woolies and bare skin - arrrrr currently winter has produced far to man woddly & saggy bits to allow any skin to show.

2. My mother has challenge me to a 5 week "strip the fat" so that we can get a head start and get back into some loved clothing. I sadly had to go get a larger pair of jean as my previous "goal"pair were too wear, I could squeeze into them but trust me I could do much else in them!

3. The Man is constantly on my back about how I am throwing away all the hard work I did 2 years ago, he is right but I still want to hear it and it would be nice for him to stop reminding me of my laziness

4. My school is having a 20 year reunion next year but I am also catching up with my group friends in 6 weeks for a pre-reunion and it would be great to be at my best, as I feel when you feel good about yourself, it reflects in who you are - generally I'm more cheery.

5. I will be 35 this year and being healthy and fit makes me feel 25!

I have set myself some simple challenges I hope to increase week after week and am doing this with my diet buddy too. This week is: no more then 1 glass of wine per night and OMG it's going to hurt me, no more then 2 cups of coffee a day. Not to hard but enough to be considered a challenge.

My diet buddy is aiming to only have 2 caffeinated drinks per day - this I would fail as I love my tea and Coke zero and doesn't Hot Chocolate have some caffeine in it too?

Now I started on great high's, woke up at 5.50am and headed for a 5km walk, ate a wonderfully healthy breakfast and lunch. But then dinner arrived and my parents are about to leave for home (they have been on holidays for the last month) and so we al headed out for dinner to the local leagues club. I assumed that the roast dinner would be the best option (over Creamy mornay fish, crumbed chicken with sour cream and some orange looking  sauce, fish and chips etc.) but instead went for the nightly special of "Surf & Turf" and so I found myself eating a monster Rump steak drizzled (more like drowned) in garlic butter with veg and hot chips.

Oh well that was yesterday, no looking back. I got up again at 5.50am and headed for my 5km walk, no eating out tonight so I hope to do better food wise today. Have not checked in weight wise as it is TTOM today and my scales are never correct and flutuate so much in the days before and after, so WI will be Monday next week.

This is what my CK diary looked like:

I'll be trying to update this blog to keep me motivated and on track via emails, so sadly if anyone does read this your going to hear more of my ever boring sweaty SAHM talk now too!

Testing the email-to-blog

This is my third go, where are my blog post's going?

Also I am updating and re-starting my exercise blog, but I'm not sure if I should have 2 blogs, but who wants to read about my everyday boring life with m everyday sweaty life? To join the boring to boring or not?

Update via blogger (not email) - it seem to only half work, only the first line appeared, strange and also to this account only, so I have decide to merge my health blog with this my main blog.

Handbag photo's

Last week I decided to buy a cheap little camera that I intend to keep in my handbag. I was considering a better mobile with a good camera feature in it (as there are some nice camera phones out there at the moment) but in the end I opted for a 2nd camera.

So without anymore chit chat, here is what I take when I have a camera in my handbag...

Testing the quality of Handbag camera - Piment and Little Man


On the "National Maritime Museum" Grade 1 excursion

Gorgeous sailing boat on Sydney Harbour

A view from beneath our city's famous bridge


Playgroup parachute fun


The latest fad for Big Little Man "Bakugan" (taken by Little Man)


Where do bat's sleep in Australia? In gum trees!



Playgroup fun after school.

Oh I have grand news! Soccer season ends this saturday - about bloody time!

Disheartened

Everything is getting me down lately.
* I'm having trouble losing weight I once already lost, thus meaning I gained weight when I should have known better.
* I start to get back into things and go and twist my knee and it's is driving me nuts not being able to do all the things I want.
* I have a cold that seems to never leave me 100% and come's back to haunt me on a weekly basis.
* The boys have coughs that have been around for the last 3 weeks.
* The boys don't take anything serious and I'm getting tired of going this sporting event to the next to watch my kids just do nothing, Little Man got told to stop eating his toe nails and Big Little Man had to do 20 push-ups for talking in Kung Fu yesterday, oh I just hang my head in shame, where did I go wrong to become such a hopeless parent?

The sport thing is driving me up the wall the most, we spend so much time and money on them and they just don't put any real effort. I told The Man yesterday that we could be on a holiday in Fiji right now, soaking up the sun if we saved the money we forked out on kids extra curricular activities. Do kids really need to do them? Isn't school enough?

Seriously, I feel like I could take them bike riding for and 1 hour every other day and see them having more exercise then a soccer match. I can do pilates and yoga (stretching) and teach them like the do at Kung Fu. So far after a month of class they have not learnt any self defense or discipline. I can kick a soccer ball around a field with them and miss the parent politics and the boys would actually get to have a "go" (praise the lord!)

I quit!

Pokemon Invasion

Yesterday was big Little Man's 7th Birthday and as he is currently obsessed with all things Pokemon and 99% of his gift's revolved around this theme.

I'm happy he LOVES them but I'm being tortured reading the Pokedex and using the net to find ways to catch better ones... someone save me!

Happy Birthday Big Little man!!

Photo Post: Winter blooms

Some pretty flowers from my shocking unkept garden







And Deaf Dog after having a bath

My health kick is hopeless when I keep baking...

New family portrait

The Man and I wanted to put a family portrait in the games room, but I have never like those professional studio jobs, this is what we came up with...



It was his idea to mount pictures on to a skateboard deck as he was collecting others and liked the look of boards on the wall after seeing it on Rob and Big (although he had about 60 boards on his wall). I designed the photo's of us in the pop art style.

We like it, other comments are positive too, what do you think?

Big Little Man Bestie Update

The poor fellow has found himself in the hospital for the 3rd time, I feel sorry for him now. His mother and I blame the hospital and feel that they missed something (maybe a med) at the time of the surgery as he has infection after infection and can not seem to get over having his tonsils out.

Kung Fu Panda = Kung Fu classes

Kids! I wonder how many other parents have had to find Martial arts classes so their kids could "ha-ya!"

We have enrolled both boys at Kung Fu Academy, so far they both love it and it is the cutest thing to see Little Man kicking and punching.

Sadly the venue is freezing, it is literally like a fridge in the dojo but this may be only my point of view as I just sit there and I have a general hate of the cold. In saying this I bet the dojo in summer is an oven, I shall have to wait and see.

I opened my mouth again

Yet again I couldn't keep my opinion to myself and I spoke up at a soccer match and respectively got my head bitten off. I knew I was going to get my head bitten off and was rather okay with it but then at the end of the game the assistant coach, (which proved to me that my thoughts that the coach has no balls) told the entire team off, yes the kids and then the parents about how we should not interfere with the game on the sidelines, that "coach" offers his time (his oh so precious time) to train the kids and should not be taken for granted by those people who don't come to training.

Now I was the only one who interfered so why tell off everyone? Everyone else are good little lemmings and sit back and bow down to all that coach say's, why not just reprimand me again? Fear that the masses will revolt?

Now the issue was that one little girl was on the sidelines for well over the first half, so I screamed out, "Let her play", they ignored me 3 times, so I just ignored them and told the little lady to go on the field and have fun. So by the end of the game we are all told that if you don't turn up to training to expect not to play the first half of a game - PLEASE! These are 6 year old kids, how can they get themselves to training? why punish them if their parents can't get them to training, this is not the Socceroo's! This poor little lady's parents are divorced, she is all over the place in any given week, her dad is getting re-married and he mother works late but let's not take this into consideration that she missed 1 (yes- ONE) training session and just crucify her and her mother at the match - pathetic!

I was not surprised to find out the following week that her parents have pulled her from the side, I have horrible guilt about her & her mother being blamed for some strange rule (and I have now discovered that no such rule exists) because it was my fault for bringing the subject forward that they favor certain players over others. Would I do it again? Yes absolutely but I would have defended them at the end of the game and then pulled my own son out.

We haven't pulled Big Little Man out even though he has begged to leave the team (that shows how much fun he has) as I want him to learn commitment, he made the decision to do this (we never made him, he asked to play soccer) and now must finish it, although The Man and I are very lax and if he is feeling tired and wants to miss a game here and there, no stress!


Take care "Little Soccer Lady" you were a great player!

The Man's PC HDD Meltdown

Absolutely loving my new iMac (gloating a bit) when The Man spits the dummy because his PC will not turn over at all, a few weird click click sounds from the system tells us that something is amiss. Called the PC brother and he advised that the click clicks are the sound of death to his HDD.

The Man is not happy - you only realise how much you lose once it's gone, so true is that saying!


Makes me so happy I have my own system as he never backs anything up!

It's been a while...

sorry to my very few blogger readers, but I have just been either so tired or busy that poor boringsahm fell to the wayside.

Let's a have a recap:

I bought my new iMac! It was an ebay purchase in the end and so cost me about the 1/3 of a new one. It's not the flash Intel 2 Core Duo, but has heaps of HD space and 1 gig Ram which I can upgrade up to 4 gig if I want too!


Took about 4 days to have it completely set up the way that I wanted, thank goodness I had my old Mac side by side with it as it was all the little things (like fonts) that I had forgotten to backup. The kids now have the old Mac, and their old PC was wiped cleaned and passed onto a cousin.

Yum Cha conversations with my 4yr old son

Asian waitress: You want Octopus?
Dad: Yes thank you.
6yr old: Ohh look at the suckers.
4yr old: I don't like the suckers on the legs.
6yr old: Octopus don't have legs, they have tentacles!
4yr: {pondering silence} mum, eat my testicles.
mum: ROFL

"Bestie" Update

Thank you for the comments. So sad that this sort of left out for selfish reasons has to even occur, but some strange karma had occured and poor Bestie ended up with a horrible infection, likely caused from over tiredness and germs directly related to visitors!

He had to go back into hospital for 2 nights but is getting better now. His mum had to ban all visitors until he is 100%. We visited him in hospital and only stay a short while, whilst the team was there all day.

Haven't actually had to deal with the team yet as constant rain has seen games and training cancelled for the last 2 weeks...and you know, I don't mind at all!

I really need to get back into things

The stomach is starting to hang over and if that isn't a sign that I need to get into action, I don't know what is.

I really should imput here more, but this is meant to be a record for myself of what I'm doing to remain fit and healthy and look at the last post 2 weeks ago!

Well I did walk today, seems I am only walking/exercising the days The Boys go to school, Thursday's and Friday's.

Today I walked 11.4km with the dog. Happy with that.

Yesterday I walked with my friend around Parramatta park, will have to work out the km for that.

Last week I donated blood and did walk, not sure of km on that either, will work out.

And I can't recall if I walked last Thursday...hmm, will look into that too.

Let me get back to you...

Feeling left out

I don't like the feeling of being left out of things, it's horrible
and makes me think that I must be disliked or plain unwanted, but this
situation is not just me, it's something I'm feeling for my son, let
me explain.

(I just need to put this here to clear it off my mind so sorry no
light hearted chit chat today)

Big Little Man's bestie had to go to hospital to get his tonsils
removed, we visited him after the procedure, gave him a little gift as
good friends do and then went our way home. I received a call from
the soccer teams manager to ask what "bestie" liked, as the team would
all like to pitch in and get him a little something, nice idea I
thought.

I got home and told The Man and he said that it would have been nice
to be asked first as this procedure was not an emergency and we all
knew weeks in advance that he would be going into hospital, I just put
it down to the fact that the manager always just went over everyones
heads and made herself look good.

Anyway, I called "bestie" mum to see if she would like a visit today,
she said "bestie would love that and come by". She then tells me that
the ENTIRE soccer team came over yesterday and visited and gave him a
Socceroo's jersey as a gift...this is the left out bit.

Are we not part of the team? Is it because we all visited him already?
What about allowing my boys to sign the TEAM card?

Who ever thought that Under 7 soccer would be so political and
deceiving, we have always felt that they never liked us from day one.
Yes The Man is not the most social person but the coach has always
looked down on Big Little Man's skills and only let him play for 5-10
min a game.

What to do though? Oh well.

Craft Tagging

Scooter in his very Mr Productive persona has created his very own Craft Meme, in which I have been tagged. Unlike the running game of tag, why can't there be a safe spot where you can go and hide from being tagged, although this is a good one! I highly recommend that all my readers head over to Scooters and read his meme answers, he's rather crafty! :)

Craft Meme - pass it along to anyone you know who has ever crafted, attempted to craft, or been the victim of a drive by crafting.

Do you knit?
Yes

Do you sew?
No designer pieces but I can sew on a button, repair a tear and own a sewing machine.

Don't look it up. Don't. Look. It. Up. If you're reading this on someone Else's blog, do this part mentally before continuing on. Define the following terms, and when you're done, put the answers at the very bottom of this meme: tatting, flocking, kerf and selvedge - make up a definition if you don't know. At this location (with a link) add a crafting term you think is uncommon, but which you know, to the list for others to define.See end of post

What's your favorite craft store?
Any Asian run knick knack store as they have the best bit's and pieces for rock bottom dirt cheap prices. I also love many an online craft store, ebay ranks quite high.

Do you have a crafting hobby that is not knitting or sewing (what)?
Beading, Baking, Kid craft(the kind that amuse playgroupers and cover my fridge) & Digital scrapbooking

Have you ever latch hooked anything? Is it still on display somewhere?
Yes. A floor rug of geometric design and ultra bright colours that is at my bedside so my toes curl up in it as I wake for my day.

Doll crafting. Why do they do it?
Too mimic themselves in porcelain, without wrinkles, stretch marks, permanent smiles and bright eyes.

What was your favorite craft hobby as a child?
Building sandcastles, I was going to be one of those people on Manly beach making building sized sand sculptors for all to admire and then to run and leap on.


Do you admit to crafting, or do you call it something else (like DIY)?
Absolutely! I prefer to give each craft it's appropriate title, ie I DigiScrap and I Wire Bead jewellery etc...

List everything you've tried from a crafting perspective:
Digital scrapbooking. Knitting. Beading. Crochet. Quilting. Sewing. Baking. Painting & Drawing. Paper Mache. Home Brew. Stencilling. Leather work. Sand Sculptures. Clay Modeling. Model Planes. Model Trains. Soap making. Candle Making. Weaving. Cooper embossing (Dad still has it!). Kite Building. Paper planes. If it can be made cheaper then it costs to buy, I've tried it!

Ever been injured while crafting?
Yes - Needles pricks on finger tips.

Has anything you've crafted been displayed at a state fair, regional fair, county fair, 4-H meeting, or similar event?
At school art fair - it was a A lead pencil drawn 12 metre mural under the banner "For every beginning there is an end" (I wonder where that is now...)

Have you ever worn anything you bought at a crafting fair? (or anything someone bought you at a crafting fair)?
Yes - Beaded jewellery.

What's the most interesting thing you've ever crafted?
Not that interesting, but highly loved my knitted Baa Baa Black Sheep

Have you ever sold your crafts?
No.

Have you given your crafts to others?
Yes, beaded jewellery to family and friends. Printed Digital scraps to my mother. Oh the copper embossed artwork for my dad when I was 9yr old.

If you could instantly gain a crafting ability what would it be?
The ability to lead light. I have always dreamed of being able to do this but financially I've just never got around to it.

And what would you make?
Amazing designer pieces like this that bring out the beauty of light through colour

For whom?
Me, anyone.

Do you have a relative who has crafted something that's considered a family (or personal) treasure?
Not something passed down from generation to generation but my grandmother had embroided and appliqued a skirt with little girls on it. It's beautiful and I wanted to pass it onto my daughter, but I didn't have one, so I shall cherish it until maybe I have a grand daughter. I really should take a photo of it.

Before you look, how many pictures do you suspect are listed by Google related to the craft of sock monkeys?
What the hell is a sock monkey? I will have to look it up, maybe 60? Is it like a sock puppet?

Explain your personal, presumably ad hoc, opinion about people who virtually craft in virtual
worlds (like World of Warcraft)? Is it crafting?
No. Unless it's hands on and you end up with something you can show off and say "hey, check it out, look what I MADE" then it's not craft.

You're trapped in Bill Murray's Groundhog Day. What crafting skill would you refuse to learn despite having infinite time to learn it?
Decoupage - glue and I are not friends.

I completely under you dislike to scraping Scooter, I hated it too till I started. It is obviously still not publicly accepted as it always comes up as a spelling error on spell checks and if a word makes it pass those spell checkers then it has to be a REAL thing, IMHO. I think I have more of a passion for Adobe Photoshop - but is that a craft?

Definitions:
tatting - that sound that you make when your craft is not working out the way you want. "tat tat"

flocking - When you get a craft idea after seeing a flock of birds

kerf - a smaller then normal hanKERFchief

selvedge - the end of ones sleeves.

wigjig - A device used to make wigs.

Micheal Buble ROCKS

Last night we went to see Micheal Buble in concert at The Sydney Entertainment center, I love this guy, his voice and singing is like fine red wine and dark chocolate, ohh yeah and his concert absolutley rocked!

What an entertainer, you could not wipe the smile off my face for the entire show, he made us laugh, big belly laughs too and get up and dance. A few years back we wanted to see him at the Sydney Opera House and gawked at the ticket prices and then regretted ever since, when he annouced this new tour we bought tickets the moment they were available. He sang all his classics and new peices from the new album, he sounds better live then his albums and that just prooves how great I think he is, he just oozes natural talent.

I have to praise his band also, nothing bet's a screaming trumpet. I was in the best mood all night and am still having after effects, let's just say the Man enjoyed the after effects!

The support act was this amazing group who use there voices to mimic the sounds of instruments and it was such a unique and beautiful sound. The were called Naturally 7, here is a clip from you tube:

I like and will have to grab the album.

But this man, I have all of his music. He is touring OZ at the moment and if you can grab a ticket, GO! He is worth every dollar and you are gaureenteed a great evening. If I could go again I would and when he is back, I'll go again!

This man gives me fever...

2 days in a row

I went for another walk yesterday, shorter as I had to squeeze it inbtween tasks, but I did and that the main thing!

4.2 km for 35 min

It's time to stop procrastinating

Yes, that is exactly what I have been doing since the last post, procrastinating and doing a wonderful job of it too!

But now I feel I really have to take things seriously or I will slip into my very bad habits and the weight that I gain will be permanent. At the end of next month it will also be the anniversary of losing my weight, so in general I try to be the same weight that I was in 2006, last year I did and I hope this year I can also.

I need to shift 4.6kilo's but a nice even 5 would be good as there is always an amount of bounce back.

I feel I need a goal, something to aim for. I lost weight not only because I wanted to but because my SIL and I made a joke to be "better looking then the bride" at an upcoming family wedding. She lost 15 kilo's and looked great but couldn't make it to the wedding, I shocked myself by loving exercise and good food and lost 20 kilo's.

Last year I was still rebounding off my initial loses and lost another 5 kilo's even though there was no goal to aim for. But this year I think I need something to strive for. I have tried to aim at being fitter or be a certain BF% but as it is so hard to calculate either I just fail. I mean I feel fit now even though I'm a heavier.

So what do I aim for?

Whilst thinking of that I decided to go and exercise, I FINALLY had a morning to myself and so after dropping the kids off to school and a decent breakfast, I hit the footpath and moved...and it felt great!

390cals burnt
9.3km's @ ave 6.5km/h (thanks to the navman)
1h 20m
1km of jogging @ 10.2km/h

Lot's of big hills to climb on the route I took, fingers are a bit club like at the moment but overall I'm happy.

Snooze

I love the snooze button on my alarm clock, I just wish I didn't have to use it so much. How nice mornings would be if I could just wake up naturally, at say 10am!

Check out my skilful nephew:

I couldn't help myself

I bought myself a:

it's pink and I love it!

(The Boys have one each, The Man has a PSP so it was only fair, I swear!)

Big Little Man spotted me the cash as I don't have any, I will pay him back. How sad it is to borrow funds from your children. The iMac will have to wait...again

I have been tagged!

I've been tagged! Arr, I don't 7 friends to tag back, how sad am I!

RULES:


1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog


2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.


3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog .


7 random facts about me:

1. I enjoy eating Vegemite, banana & grilled cheese crossiants.
2. I love to bake, I think in my past life I was a pastry chef.
3. I am the worlds worst diet buddy, please feel sorry for my buddy!
4. I am currently reading 4 books at the same time.
5. I too was a big big girl, lost 25 kilo's but have put back 5 and it has been a complete nightmare to get rid of them again.
6. I want my iMac now!
7. The Nintendo Wii is so much fun and what a cool name, Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I'm tagging: Rainbow, Bli-ss, Carlton, Scooter

And if you read this, your tagged too as I don't have any other true blog friends!

Over illness

I'm onto day 13 of dealing with sick males and I'm reallIy ready to crack, I'm ready to make an appointment with the doctor just so I can sit and have 20 minutes conversation with a healthy person. Enough snot, puke, strange smells, dirty laundry, groaning, moaning, night waking, coughing, and the endless need for me to do everything!

And the worst of it all is that when I get sick, they all tell me "I'm fine and to battle on" hmpf!

Next Blog>>

Decided to go blog surfing again tonight, you know, just happily click on "Next blog>>" until I stumble on an interesting blog. I think I will make this a monthly event as I love it so much. I just wish blogger would offer a translate button as I bump into so many wonderful blogs in other languages, some I can decipher and so can go to a translate site, but so many I have no idea what language they are. I guess that is just the dumb in me.

This in my "Next Blog>> of the night": Me and my Narrowboat, 'Cosmos'

Hmm, enough Next Blog>> I think, after an hour of it, it just reminds me how boring my life is.

Note to self: Pretty beaded bracelet, must bead-lift.

Happy Mothers Day!

It's a very typical mother's day here for me, The Man is working nightshift, so no fancy breakfast or dinner and Big Little Man is sick with some mysterious illness that has him moaning and groaning all day long. But I must say that the little demons were little angels and remembered and gave me the little gifts they they made/bought at school, I feel loved and that is the main thing!

I was a bit of a hero on Friday, the old Burmese lady from next door locked herself out and I used my high skills in break and enter and managed to get her back in her home after about 30 minutes. Thankfully my tiny hand was able to fit through a crack in the door where a chain went from one side to the other, I was able to undo the screws. My wrist is completely bruised from the position it was in, but hey, you do what you have too to rescue a neighbour. I was rewarded with boxes of Jatz crackers and loads "oh thankyou", lovely feeling.

Facebook

In the past I was never into the "My Space" and "Facebook" although I did join them I always found it very hard to keep up with as The Man would not like it and so like this blog had to be a secret (I believe he has heaps of self confidence issues, he thinks I shall find the man of my dreams on one of those site but he is the man of my dreams - getting that through to him even after 11 years is hard work). But for some strange turn of events The Man wanted to find his old school friends and so joined Facebook and so that allowed me to do so again but this time with freedom.

I never got it before, didn't see it's purpose, still don't really but this time it seems fun and friends are chatting which I like. Who would have guessed hey?

Focus on the true players

Sadly in my son's soccer side he is considered one of the lesser player's, now you all most likely know how I have described his
athletic attributes and so it's no surprise he is not the prized
player of his team, but what is sad is that unlike another team sport
he has been in that was meant "for fun" and "just for kids" they are all about winning and so he and 2 other kids are left on the bench most of the game.

The coach say's that they start on the bench so that they can learn via watching their team mates but as far as I was aware the only way to really learn anything is to get in there and do it. The Man thinks it's a joke as the entire team of 6 year olds all can't play, as 6
year olds do, that they out there to be with their friends, to have
fun, get some physical activity and just feel part of a team.

I'm currently the team photographer and webpage host. I just snap away
at whom ever has the ball and any good moments but because it's always the "strong" players on the field longer then the "learners", 90% of
the photo's are of them, so at tomorrow's game I'm going to highlight the true players of the team even if they are on the field for 10min.
I have a quick shutter and can assure at least 30 quality shot's of
the best 3 players of the team, those kids who really want to be there
even though they know they aren't the best.

Update: I couldn't make it to the match as Little Man is down and out with a horrible cough but The Man took Big Little Man. He called and said one "strong" player was late so they had to put a "learner" player on first up, but as soon as that "strong" player arrived they pulled the other player off the field, The Man said he looked heart broken. Why can't they just let them play!

Autumn School Holidays

Pokemon Invasion


Spinning plates on stick - some circus fun!


Krispy Kreme Chef in the making?


Playdoh - all in my carpet.


Indoor Mountain climbing




10 Pin bowling "What a strike!"


And lots and lots of wine for me!

Nintendo DS = Nintendo "Demon's Silenced"

Another Blog

I wasn't going to and I doubt I have the time, but I have created another blog to simple track my "10 x 10 to better Health" goal.

It really isn't worth reading but more for myself to talk specifically about dieting, exercise and the boring stuff. I know I'm boring here too but it's about all the other boring stuff in my very boring life so let's not complicate it to much.

And as I can't help myself I shall be creating a blinking to point to it as soon as I can muster my butt to do something other then browse the net!

Good news, school goes back tomorrow and the sun has been shining all weekend. (For those not trapped in Sydney,Australia, it has been nothing but rain for the last 3 weeks and for the entire 2 weeks of Autumn holidays - it has been a long long fortnight!) We did manage to get out and about once though and I shall post some photo's soon!

10 x 10 to better health

Yeah yeah, once again I am aiming to get back into my healthy self and hopefully shift these 5 kilo's that have haunted me since returning from Christmas in QLD. I know I will succeed this time as I have a buddy who I can chat, whine and share general experiences with. This worked for me last time and I think it will again.

So what is 10 x 10? As I am so essentially lazy and can find an excuse for everything, I am just going to start by concentrating on 10 things and then see if I can build on that, so this is this weeks 10x10:
1 Aerobic Ex x 10 minutes
2 Aerobic Ex x 10 minutes
3 Aerobic Ex x 10 minutes
4 Push-ups x 10
5 Sit-ups x 10
6 Lunges x 10
7 Squates x 10
8 2 lt of h2o (200ml glasses x 10)
9 Knit 10 rows of my current knit project
10 Book - read 10 pages of my current novel

We are also going to punish ourselves if we diet sin, we are kind so 2 sin's are allowable, then as follows:
Sins-
3 = 10 more sit-ups
4 = 20 more sit-ups
5 = 30 more sit-ups
6 = 40 more sit-ups
7 = 50 more sit-ups
8 = 60 more sit-ups
9 = 70 more sit-ups
10 = 100 more sit-ups
Over 10 sin's = "10 x 10" x 2 plus addition sin sit-ups (ouch!)

I have put this here so I don't forget. I see that I shall have some hot ab's by the end of this but also will need a trip to the confessional!

Blinkies

I have added another Blinkie, I forgot to mention that the U7 Hurricanes one is Big Little Man's soccer side, (if you haven't already guessed) and the reason it is there is because I created the web site!

I'm so proud of myself, thanks to Scrappity of course for teaching me, but I think I've done very well for a basic website.

She is also the one that tought me how to make Blinkies, which are rather easy and fun to do, I'm sure they can get super technical as I've seen a few that fade in a very fancy animations, but I'm happy with the few I've created. I went a little nuts with the Jenson one and thinking I may need a Keanu one too, it will mostly be made once I get a chance to see Street Kings. ANYWAY...And so I have made and added one for Little Man's & I playgroup, it's my last year with them and I'm feeling rather sentimental about them as I have made some great friendships over the 7 years I have been there and I know I will really miss them when Little Man goes off to school next year.

Branded v Generic Products

In my recent effort to earn funds for my new computer, I have been part taking in some market research focus groups (and it's not low level porn) and the last 2 have been about supermarkets improving their packaging to entice purchases to their generic products or what we call here, "home brand" - the brand with the same name as the store.

Even before becoming a single income family, we happily used generic products, I never really felt that they had huge differences in quality, yes some things do, but in general, the quality is closely equal. Even wikipedia tends to agrees with me "Generic brand products are often of equal quality as a branded product, however, the quality may change suddenly in either direction with no change in the packaging if the supplier for the product changes." And so I thought that the general population was like me, some products are great branded, like chocolate, but in general the staples, like flour, block butter etc was just as good in the generic products, but now after these focus groups, I feel I'm sort of alone.

The feeling I got was that people prefer branded products and only use generic for non food items, like foil, paper bags etc, so it made me feel a little cheap or very money conscious, not just a budgeter but a miser...well who cares, because look what I make with generic products:


And there is never even a crumb left, so it can't be all that bad...or I wonder how great it would be with branded products?

3 things I loved about yesterday

At the time I didn't have too much love flowing through me so I never posted my loves of the day, but Lissy Jo made me see that having the loves after the hates makes it all cancel out.

1. Hearing my favourite song on the radio at just the right moment (like after telling the kids to stop fighting for the umpteenth time)
2. Drifting to sleep with the deep breaths of The Man beside me (when he works night shift I never sleep as well)
3. Coming home after a day at a friends, there really is no place like home!

3 things I hate about today

1. Picking up dog poo after heavy rain
2. Burning my tongue after the first spoon of a delicious bowl of soup (thus meaning the rest of the bowl tastes like nothing)
3. Stepping in #1 because I was whining and not concentrating.

Share with me bloggers, what were your top 3 "hate" things of today or if your one of those always positive people, share your top "loves" of the day.

Next Blog>>

Every once in a while I go blog surfing, just happily click on "Next blog>>" until I stumble on an interesting blog. It's great to know that so many people out in the world enjoy sharing their thoughts, dreams, idea's and photo's.

This in my "Next Blog>> of the night": Faces in Places

Shadow Lugia

Oh the wonderful innocence of children or the easy manipulation! 

 

Big Little Man is currently obsessed with Pokemon (he has moved on from Bionicles & Transformers although is slightly obsessed with them when the mood suits him) and although I wish to be the parent that gives him what he desires, I simply can only afford the little $1 packets, but when the need be and he has too, yes as in "I HAVE to HAVE it YESTERDAY MUM, Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" and so I thank the Internet and the printer and some plastic contact.

 

So this $25US card (yes, 1 card cost $25US), I click, copy, print (all with watermark still attached) and bingo, one very pleased son!

 

I also made my very own Pokemon card, must scan it and show you all, it's called "Noisikoto" Pokemon of disastrous noise! Strangely it looks like Big Little Man, sadly he doesn't like that card!

 

No let's hope the Pokemon police don't come after me...

 

Diet tips by BoringSAHM - #1

You can not lose weight eating vegemite, banana and grilled cheese
croissant's especially when the cheese is Camembert and I don't think
the croissant is the best choice of bread either.

But is sure does taste good!

The $50/Lemon Meringue Bet

So The Man offers me a way to make $50 and to get me back into my exercise, We have made a bet to see who can lose 3 kilo's first, if I win I get $50 to go toward my iMac savings, if he wins: Lemon Meringue pies to the equivalent of $50. Now that could be quite a few Lemon Meringues so I better win, I need the cash and I really do need to lose 3 kilo's! The bet started on Monday and on Tuesday I was already 1.4 kg down but this morning I bounced back with a 600g gain, what is that all about?

Yeah Yeah I know, don't weight in daily!

On other things, my ebay selling is going quite well but today I discovered that I made a very stupid error and sent the wrong bank details to a winner, I just want to sent the item and admit my error and assume the loss, but The Man said that the winner has an obligation to pay. As I see it they did pay, I gave them the wrong details so clearly this is not their fault. I did check with the bank though and the wrong account doesn't exist so the winner's payment should bounce back. I told them I would sent the item anyway and if they could do the right thing and send me my payment (minus any fee's) when the money is back in their account. That's fair, isn't it? Let's hope they do the right thing and send me part of my payment, I would if that happened to me.

Oh well, stupid me, must have been super brain dead that day (you know, more then usual!)

I wish I were Deaf Dog

The sound of my forever nagging, forever whining, forever arguing and crying kids is driving me mad.

eBay to iMac

So I have decided that I really do need that new computer and have my eye on the new iMac which goes for a little over 2K as I refuse to get anything now with less then 2gig RAM (it is an absolute must to be able to run Photoshop CS3, iTunes, internet and MSN messenger at the same time without loss of speed!)

So the means I feel I need to take is to sell everything I own that I no longer use and need on ebay, I can't work, I mean if I could I would but I can't, I'm obviously the boringSAHM and boringWM just doesn't look right. One more year though and I should be able to join the workforce again or turn into The Man's full-time sex slave.

I have also signed myself up for market research focus groups, which pay cash in the hand to sit and chat about products for 2hrs. The Man thinks it's low level porn and how they get SAHM mum's into whoring...I hope his joking!

Lucky Big Little Man

Even with all the demon's possessing him, he managed to get a visit from the tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny this morning!

Unlucky for me, the bunny decided to visit at 6am!

No Lindt Gold Bunny this Easter

But do not fear, I am not fretting for I didn't want the Lindt milk bunny or the Lindt 75% bunny or the Lindt white bunny, what I wanted was a Lindt chilli Bunny but I doubt it would highly popular to the mass market so I'm very happy to settle for a few blocks of my favourite Lindt Chilli....yummmmmmmm

Happy Easter everyone!

What I like is "mille-feuille"!

Which I can also make, but I'm not sharing with anyone other then The
Man - there all mine I tell you!

I don't even like Lemon Meringue

I doubt anyone recalls but I make a really nice Lemon Meringue, it was
a fluke and I was just being nice to The Man as this is his favourite
dessert, but it seems the word has got out and the
parent-laws-of-The-Man want them too.

I'm nice (of course) so I made them one. What a mistake, I've been
asked weekly now as they are a family of 6 only because the bastard
BIL and his family live there, I don't like them, why should I be
feeding them? They are the rudest, most ungrateful, selfish and I
simply can not tolerate them.

Long and short of it is , I refused, to busy, no eggs, no lemons, but
The Man said make 1 more, one for the road so to say and make it taste
horrible - how do you do that? omit the lemon juice?

So I have a packed day and the only time to make meringue pie is
before I drop Big Man to school...not a nice way thing to wake up to
in the morning, ohhhhh :(

I need $2000

Other then making porn what else can I do? I need a new Mac, I need more RAM, I need money! I'm a boring SAHM and this is completely unachievable. Maybe I can deliver pamphlets, stuff envelopes (do people do that these days or just machines?), walk dogs, whoops I barely walk my own!.

I can't even sell anything on ebay, I've run out of sellable items. Poo, what to do!

Oh well can't make money, I'll just go make a Jensen Ackles blinkie!

GRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr

Nick off Spammers, get out of my blog!

Now how does one delete comments?

Update on the Demons: 11hour sleep made no difference, they woke, they saw each other, they started all over again...I tell you they are possessed!

The Demons strike again

'Twas the night before tomorrow, when all through the house, not a
creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The children were nestled all
snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their
heads.....

Yeah bull shit, not in this house!

But it was sort of quiet for a while, The Man went off to work the
night shift, the kids had bathed, eaten and I being the best mum in
the world allowed them a few more minutes play on the Wii, then all
hell broke loose.

Demon's I tell you! 2 of them, shaped just like my son's, screaming,
no wailing in high ear piercing sounds, fist's flying, feet kicking,
biting, twisting, pulling OMG what the?? I thought I'd give them a
chance and not whip out the wooden spoon immediately (I don't hit
them, just wave it around with lot's of "do you want this?"), and see
if they could deal with IT on their own...who am I kidding.

Thank goodness for the off switch and door's on their rooms!

Where are you Dean Winchester, come save me!

Yeah yeah, maybe just another excuse to have a picture of Jensen in my
blog, but truthfully, the Wii turned the Mii's of my family into
Dii's...honest!

Testing the from email to blog

I just can't get onto blogger these days, my net quality I'm lucky I
can even open email, but I have been able to today, so I'm going to
test if I can blog directly like this.

I'm not sure if images can be uploaded this way, but has to be better
then weeks without blogging.

I have been reluctant to blog as I love opening my blog and seeing
Jenson (so yummy).

I also have been trying to organise myself to include a bit of
everything so that nothing misses out, a bit of exercise, good
cooking, reading, writing and scrapping. Has not really worked yet as
a few things took longer then I anticipated so one has been ditch for
others. I exercised over the last 2 days and it felt great, I hate
sweat but it's good to feel it as I know I'm working my body back to
health.

Here's to more blogging and more exercise!

No pillow = Sleep

I'm finding that if I sleep without a pillow I'm falling asleep quicker, sleeping more soundly, better refreshed in the morning and best of all no lower back pain. For a while now I have been waking with the most horrible stiff and lower back pain, I just thought it was because I sleep curled up or because I've gained 4 kilo's but maybe not, maybe it my dodgy pillow. So do I get a new one or just continue to sleep with out one? Do people need pillows?

I'm home alone today, it's WONDERFUL! I'm going to go and clean the garden a bit, wash the dog then go for a long bike ride. It's a gorgeous day out to with no clouds and a light breeze, 30 degrees, so slightly warm but then I can go for a swim when I get back!

On another tangent altogether, I decided that I don't have son's or boys I have demons. They are little possessed humans, like something from Supernatural, if only Jensen Ackles would come and rescue me, then I'd me ForeversmilingSAHM!

Morning

Oh my I really have to start going to bed before midnight, this lack of sleep is catching up with me and I'm a walking zombie for the first half of the day and then I have loads of energy I can't settle myself.

Have been in a better mood and believe it has something to do with exercise (and sleep) when I do a bit of both I feel so much more human. I'm really into my digital scrapping and although it sucks up almost every spare minute, I just don't mind. I have added a little blinkie, (which I made myself!) to link to my scrap blog. I love photoshop, it is the most amazing program and so much to learn and do on it.

Big Little Man indoor soccer team has some how made it to the GRAND FINAL, there was a little poor sportsmanship last night from over stressed 6 year old, where poor Big Little Man coped the ball in his face because they scored, but all it all I am so proud him. If you may recall 2 years ago when he started Little Athletics, his drive and skills were non-existant, he also gave up and threw tantrums at the drop of a hat. Nothing has changed, nor have I, I refuse to give up on him and know he can achieve if he just get in there and try, and so here we are and into the grand final. We are playing the best team so chances are low of winning, but you never know....

I need my blog.

I have decided that I really need to blog more as I am just not feeling myself these days and really need to just lay down my thoughts no matter how trivial just so they are are out on my mind.

The Man is finally ready to share the cable net but we just need to work out how to use the router. My wonderful easy peasy Mac finds the net no issues, but his PC refuses to co-operate and so I continue to battle with the crap Unwired service I am connected too. The Man has been very kind though and allow me to use his computer when ever he is not, but thre is no private function there (like here in Safari) and I would have to delete history as I want this blog to be private from him. I always feel I have to expalin that it's not like I want to keep secrets from him, as nothing on here is that personal, but its a bit of me that is just me. He reads my hand journal and so I always have to be a little diplomatic, so to speak.

I've been feeling really down lately, I'm just not motivated to do anything, exercise, read, write, ride, walk, nothing. Everything frustrates me, I mean everything usual did but now it's to the point I just sit back and let it all run over me. I feel like nothing, an unimportant blimp in society. If I disappeared tomorrow I'm sure no one would notice, I think deep down that I know that is not the truth but it's just the feelings I feel these days. I put this in my hand journal and The Man read it and started on me, saying I'm pathetic and not a teen and just move on and get a grip...so I need this quiet place of my own.

I enjoy to scrap though,I think as it is all me, deigned by me, and my feeling in it, but it can suck so much of my time that I do nothing else and then I get in trouble like a child and need to be reprimanded.

So I plan to blog more, to release what ever it is that is holding me back at the moment and to find the smile that used to be on my face daily.

So I apologise in advance to my minimal readers, your going to be reading a whole lot of boring SAHM stuff! Turn your RSS off now!