Reminiscing and Moving forward

As I sit here typing, I am almost doing cartwheels (internally) as I count down the hours until I begin 3 months long service leave. The Man is coming home for good today (although he has to do one more last trip to pack up) and it is the beginning of the school holidays. The Girl is having a birthday party sleepover tomorrow night and I am so close to having lost 15kgs all it is going to take is a decent crap to jump that hurdle (sorry for those that may have been offended by that last remark but you know me). So the song in my head at the moment is "I'm on the top of the world looking, down on creation...." you know the rest. I even recorded it on the Florists voice mail for a larf.

I have been keeping a lot of emails from my friends to maybe write something someday. I had a bit of spare time (are you kidding, it's very boring here at work, I had oodles of time) to read through a few of them and it was really touching to read some of the good wishes that were sent our way after the fire. I don't want to harp on about it but it just shows how far we've come in almost 2 years. It has been quite a strengthening time for me and I'm all the better for it. I know in life I need big challenges to keep me ticking, that one done, the next is my health and it looks like I'm on the right track with that one too.

What a larf, I went swimming for the first time in umpteen years (proper swimming, not sitting in the pool with the florist under an umbrella with a bevvie in the backyard) and boy was that hard. Great workout though. I challenged the fella who was doing laps for a race, he was much much much much more fitter than I but he had a sense of humour.

Looking forward to having time off with all of us home and having more energy to help out with a few projects that we have planned (chookhouse, fencing, ROCK PICKING - YUK, stable or something for the proposed horse, and we should be getting our pergola soon so that should be up before christmas, then we have somewhere to sit outside, then pavers and the list goes on (and on and on and on).

Just wanna say I'm really happy at the moment and looking forward to recharging after a challenging period of time.

Stay tuned...........

Hippo Birdie Tori !

My baby is nine today and the poor bugger has a loose tooth (I mean hanging by a thread kinda loose tooth. You know, the ones we hang onto because it is just toooooo painful to pull it out but painful that it is there, obstructing every thing that passes within 50 feet of it). She had a little win on the radio station today. She won a Wendy's shake (the surge of sugar will surely rot the remaining thread!!!).

We did the Roxby thing last weekend, sorry if we didn't see ya. Was just a sneaky trip up to catch up with the Man but it turned out that he spent most of it at work. Never mind, he should be home for good soon.

Moi, well I have lost 13.3kgs so far and I thought with the episode at the pub on Friday night (although, the Florist would have called me a wuss as I piked about 12.30, not used to it any more) and the fact that I didn't diligently exercise that I would have freaked on the scales this morning but voila, I managed to lose 1kg from the week before WOO HOO. This is my last week with Robyn from Health Crusaders and it has been well worth the money. If all goes well, I should be at my target in 6 months (well my birthday is in May so I should be able to get there by then if I keep up the good work !)

Only 4 more days of work, I am taking 3 months long service leave and I guess will be busy helping the Man do things. We are going to build a chook house, stable for the horse when the time comes, I guess I've heard him SOOOOOO many times say "come and pick rocks" so I guess that will be on the agenda, but he will also have to spend time sharing the domestic duties as well.

I love this photo !

It was never clear from the start (because the camera focussed on the shower instead of them). But I still love it !

A Milestone !

Okay, this is getting pretty personal, but as you are all friends, I choose to share.

I HAVE LOST 10 KILOGRAMS

Short but sweet blog.

About face !

You may think I'm mad, but it is with great thought that I decided to not pursue the job of Personal Assistant.
I had a phone interview with the Recruitment Consultant and she sounded very excited. In other words, the interview went extremely well. She then told me on the following day that the Business involved would like to interview me next week (tomorrow in fact), all going well at this stage. But then I had time to assess the situation and after some soul searching, I couldn't come up with more positives for going than staying put. Here are a few...

• 30 hours a week - 9am till 3.30pm (school hours)
• Long Service leave - 3 months off from October this year till January next year and the opportunity to do it again next year.
• It's a pretty cruisy job and I can definitely make it more challenging
• and most of all, the time I wouldn't be at the NEW job I can spend taking Tori to swimming, take me to piano lessons and/or singing lessons, go to the gym once a week, go to Heart Grooves classes once a week (very low impact aerobics for defective heart geriatrics)

So there are the most important things, pretty easy decision really, I mean who wants to get home from work at 6.30 each night and have to do all the domestic stuff when I get home around 4-4.30 now and can do it at a leisurely pace. Decision made.

Ciao

Health Crusaders

I have lost 9.2 kgs in about 9 weeks and it is all due to me calling this lady, Robyn Harris. Before you say, "Oh here we go, another diet" let me tell you one thing. You will either reject this information, not require this information, or take this information on board. Yes it does cost money, (personally, it has been well worth it, and no, I am not getting a kickback from this, it is just good information that we all should know about).
Here is the link to her website www.healthcrusaders.com.au
Enough said.

I had my phone interview on Wednesday (thanks to all of you for your wishes of good luck), and am feeling confident about it. I could have another interview next Wednesday so I need to buy some interview clothes as the clothes I do have are getting baggy and look silly. Baby steps and I will deal with each step as it comes along.

Stay tuned...

Boy am I excited !

Rewind... Monday 14th August 2006 - "I might put in for this job in the paper. Personal Assistant - client unknown as yet, suspect it is the Stehr Group, oh well, will call the recruitment agency and ask a few questions"

Tuesday 15th August 2006... "Shall I put my resume in, or not. Gotta throw my hat in the ring.
2pm submits resume and covering letter online.
5pm phonecall from the recruitment agency to thank me for putting my resume in (she asked me to submit it on Monday after we briefly spoke - "I want to see your resume").

Interview Wednesday 9.30am TOMORROW - woo this is all going quite fast and I am not even sure what I am doing yet ?

Stay tuned..........