We sweltered.....

On Christmas Day and Boxing Day.......phewwwwwww it was hot!! Boxing Day in the city apparently recorded nearly 45 degree's and was the hottest Boxing Day on record in the world. Luckily we are 2 hours out of the city, live on a bush block with lots of trees and lawn around the house so thou it didn't reach nearly 45 it was in the 40's...... I was soooooo bloated from the amount of water I drank over the 2 days.....and from all the rubbish I managed to consume too....yep I am guilty of being a "piggy". Ahhhhh well, it was Christmas !!

Christmas Day began early when I awoke early and couldn't go back to sleep. Woke up hubby, got up, opened our pressies, had a coffee and headed up the hill to Collie to play Santa to #2 son and 4 grandies.... Ohhhhh the excitement....it was gorgeous watching their little faces. Left them with their mummy and daddy after a couple of hours with the mess and a swing set to erect ..... hehehe The troubled son and his little family were due to arrive for lunch....so on arrival home it was prepare for that. By then it was really heating up.....so was glad I had decided on seafood and salad......was yummo even if the prawns weren't as tasty as I was hoping they would be. Pity I didn't stop at the meal instead of all day (and the next as well) dipping my hand into the nibblies. Anyways son was well behaved, and in a reasonable mood so the meal was pleasant..... Excitement plus from the little grandies.....Jaydene is nearly one but just loved ripping into the pressies with a huge grin on her little face. Pop and I gave Skye a little lunch bag with water bottle and lunchbox which we had filled with some treats....as she starts kindy next year. Don't think that bag has left her sight since.

#3 son Paul took his family down south to spend with

his partners family......so they still have yet to come around to see what Santa has left here. Coming here this weekend as today Luke, Pauls son from a previous realationship arrives....so all of them will be together.

Missed my daughter something shocking on the day.....althou we did speak a couple of times on the phone. She sent me a lovely maxi dress...beautiful blue colour but the style has left me wondering whether it suited me or not. Hubby is not sure, so rang the store that Kylee bought it from and they said they have another dress, same colour but slightly different style so am going into the Bunbury store over here and see if they have the same....

Anyways...those 2 days flew by and it has been back to work for me the past 2 days....thankfully it hasn't been as hot. I have gotten myself back on track after being a little Christmas piggy....got up on the Thursday morning, removed all the nibblies and treats out of sight.....struggled into a pair of shorts, put on the walking shoes and walked for an hour before I went to work. Too scared to hop on the scales, clothes tell me I gained......BUT I will get back to my goal. No ww weigh in till sometime in January but I have received an invitation to a formal wedding of a close friends son on the 1st March.....so my goal is to be back at goal by then. I don't own a formal outfit so I want to be able to go and buy one and look and feel stunning.

I got home from work yesterday and found sitting on my doorstep this lovely parcel from my good friend Carol. Carol is a competition whizz....always entering them and winning too. This package she won and decided I could have it as I need pampering after all the hard work I do up in my "tin shed" on the market garden ...... THANKS HEAPS BUDDY

Where does time go.....

Another week has flown by.....so quickly too....where does the time go!!

Work has been so busy, but we were lucky this week I guess....we had a machinery break-down and had 2 half days off while they did repairs. Now we are playing catch up trying to get the orders made up and working twice as hard...and longer days.



During the week I went up the hill to bring troublesome son (Shawn) down. Since he had his accident we have had his vechile down here getting it repaired, new windscreen in, new tyres and just making it roadworthy again. Within minutes of him and his little family getting in the car...he started. Heck knows what I said to set him off, it doesn't take much at all believe me.....but boy he turned from normal to physcotic raving idiot in seconds....abusing me for no reason. I just didn't argue or try to placate him.....just pulled over and literally threw him out the car!! Speaking to Hannah (his partner) as I turned the car around and took them back home apparently he has been like this for a few weeks now...doesn't need any drugs or drink to set him off anymore, could be just something he hears on the radio or tv. Soooooo sad. What kind of parent does that make me, everytime I had spoken to him, he has been great, I didn't notice any difference in him, actually thought he was doing great, he always sounded so happy on the phone ...I must have been burying my head in the sand !! Anyways I dropped Hannah off and headed for home.....he stopped me as I went to drive past him as he trudged up the highway....he apologised profusely and asked me very politely to take him to my house to get his 4x4. Not one more word of abuse was uttered...he was normal again. He really wanted that vechile back and I think had realised if I drove past I wouldn't have returned.

He called in on Saturday too...and spent 3 or 4 hours here....and said he was trying to get his "moods" under control. He needs to do more than that, he needs help big time....and only him and HIM alone can do that, but he won't listen, you can not give him any advise, he doesn't WANT to listen, doesn't think his problem is as big as we tell him it is.... BUT he really does need to do something soon, he informed me and hubby that he and Hannah are to be parents again....their 3rd child. Heck, he can hardly look after himself.....I really despair, I really do, what is going to become of him !!!



On Saturday night we had our work chrissy party.....the boss took all the fulltime workers out to dinner at a real classy resturaunt....all food and drinks paid for....

mmmmmm I blew it and spoilt a super-dooper on track week and drank wayyyy too much red wine.....

Had last weigh in for the year tonight and it told on the scales......would you believe for the 4th week running I stayed the same!!!!!!

Bring on the New Year, methinks I gonna havta pull me socks up and get rid of this holiday excess....carried it around way too long now!!!

Merry Christmas to one and all just in case I don't post before then.....take care, be safe.

They say things happen.....

..... in three's !! yeahhhhh ..... well I wish someone told my family that !! Since October when I went to Melbourne it has been one thing after another....now to top it all off Caitlin, (the 5 year old big sister of Ashlee, the one that got burnt) went into hospital last night and had emergency surgery on a twisted appendix !! Anyways.....all went well although because the appendix was so twisted they couldn't do keyhole surgery and she now has a 2cm scar. She came home this afternoon and is recovering. We knew something was wrong with her as on Sunday Tanya bought out Luke (the big brother who was on a access visit) out to say hullo to us and Caity couldn't come.....she wasn't feeling the best in the tummy.....now we know why.

Went into ww last night to weigh in, just made the meeting as I worked late and the result....AGAIN, I stayed the same.....guess it's better than a gain. Next week is the last meeting till the New Year so I'll try and make that weigh in and next year I think I will have to revise my points and my menu and see if I can get this weight to shift downwards again.....

Here I am....

I'm Back !!!!! Darn computer died and I had to rush it off to the pc doctor and get it fixed!! In the meantime I sat at home and read books, listened to music or cooked.....while I waited for the phone call to say "it's ready" Got the phone call late yesterday and got hubby to pick it up for me today. A new power supply and yayyyyy it works!!

I didn't go to weigh in on Monday night, firstly I worked late and was so tired when I got home all I wanted to do was shower, eat and go to bed.....so thats what I did!! Am feeling a bit fragile at the moment and didn't want to hear what I already knew....I hadn't lost anything. I weighed in on my scales, and they are nearly spot on with ww and I had stayed the same.....so guess thats better than gaining ehhhh??

Well caught up on the blog...better get to and have a read and see what all you guys are up to......

Got to move.....

My little cuties, Zoe and Jessica, with my chickens

Had an alright week, food was good except one day when I did my usual thing...emotionally ate, this time when I found out my son Simon's partner had a car accident with all 4 kids in it. Their 4x4 is a mess, but luckily Tracey had all the kids strapped in properly so other than a bruise on Zoe's cheek....all were okay. Thankfully their vechile is a 4x4 as they were told if it had been a car it would have been a write off. But I have to move my butt more....excersise has been down to what it usually is. I had had 2 of Simon's kids, my grandaughters Jessica and Zoe sleep over for the weekend..so no walks then . I know when I don't keep the excersise up....I don't lose. Weighed in tonight...and stayed the same.....but ohhhhh well I will keep at it, still going to weigh in at the ww meetings every week till I get back to goal, however long it takes....

Happy Birthday Skye...

Skye turned 4 yesterday, ohhh my little grandies are growing up so quickly. Didn't get to give her a cuddle as they live 45 minutes away....but did get to say hullo on the phone. She didn't say too much...was too interested in going to day-care and having cake.....mmm priorities ehhh??

Went back for ....

Another weigh in tonight......and yayyyyyy I lost 1.7 !! I worked real hard this week, counted points, watched portion sizes and drank heaps of water...yep I happy. Another good week this week and I will be nearly back to within my goal range......2.1 to go and I'll be a 60's girl again.

Another reason to jump for joy....is little Ashlee is home...she went back to Princess Margaret hospital this afternoon for a Drs visit and SHOULD be cleared as all infections have cleared up and burns are healing nicely...luckily so far with no scaring.....

Donna tagged me.....

So here goes....

4 Dishes I like to cook.....

Annette Syms Satay Chicken

Italian Beef Casserole

Bacon, eggs and baked beans

Seafood

4 Qualities I like in people.....

Honesty

Reliability

Laughter

Love

4 Places I have been.....

Onslow

Darwin

Melbourne

Bundaberg

4 Things in my bedroom.......

Water Bed

Lamp

Radio alarm clock

My latest book near my bed

4 Dirty words I use......

Farkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!

Shit !!!!!!

Bugger !!!!

Bitch and on the odd occassion a lot worse!!

I now tag.....Chris, Lyn, Julie

Went back....

Well its onwards and downwards for me......

I went to the ww meeting last night and weighed in and it was as I expected.....I had gained big time. But I feel great now....I made a committment to myself that I would keep on going to the meetings and weighing in in front of my leader until I got down to goal again.... I need the accountability.

Sooooo weight now is 73.8

Have 2 weeks to get down to 70.0 which is the top end of my goal weight (allowed 2 kilo's over goal) so here goes...lets see what I can do. If I do it great....if not I'll be paying for the November weigh in....BUT I will keep on going weekly till I get to goal AGAIN!!!!!

Going back.....

....... To weight watchers tomorrow night. Have had enough of trying to lose this holiday weight on my own....I can't do it!! I go well for a few days, then fall in a hole, thinking "just one won't hurt" or " I walked this morning, I can have one" !!

So back to it for me, I need those scales, I need to be accountable to them. Not gonna be pretty tomorrow night, I know that.....my clothes tell me that, the ones that still fit that is.....

Why is it ????

Just when I get myself into gear and get on track something comes along and upsets the apple cart.....

Hubby is in having eye surgery right now....knew it was going happen as its been planned for a while BUT why am I now all upset?? Think hearing the news last night that little Ashlee wasn't allowed home yesterday as planned has really upset me....a few little blisters have formed and they a little concerned....

Now Jen...take some big breaths, stop the emotional eating, stop stressing and lets get into right frame of mind YET AGAIN....

Can't get it together

This pic was taken while I was on holidays by Berrie after she took me on a tour of the gorgeous Barwon Park Mansion near Winchelsea, built by Thomas and Elizabeth Austin.

Been at home now for 4 days....the first two days I had it together, but these last two have well and truly lost the plot. Have mum up staying and with me at work she has been home here by herself, so what does she do....cook sweets!! I froze a fair bit of them, but of course couldn't get out of the taste test! My trip away was fantastic but ohhhh not real good for the figure......heck knows how much I have gained, because gain I know I have, my clothes are telling me so. I am not game to get on the scales and I am not going to either till the 26th of November when I have my ww monthly weigh in. So heck knows how I am going to go.....it doesn't look too good at the moment...I can tell ya that!!!!

A few things happened while I was away to get the old "emotional eating" habit going. One was the usual .... my son!! Not only did he have an accident in his vechile and nearly "wipe" it out, but he also argued with his boss and walked out on his job...so another job lost due to his moods. Sometimes I really despair about him...but I live in hope that one day he will turn his life around, all he has to do is stop smoking/using that "evil weed"

The other thing that happened was one of my grandaughters ( 3 year old Ashlee)got flown by flying doctor to Princess Margaret hospital urgently as she spilt a cup of 2 minute boiling hot noodles over herself. She was severely burnt, thought for awhile she did have some 3rd degree burns and require skin grafts, but luckily all is well, no grafts and she will be home next week.

Mum goes home tomorrow and it will be back to me and hubby and the usual routine so wish me luck everyone and hopefully I can get myself under control and get back on track.

I'm back.........

I am back....flew back in last night....

I had a BLAST of a time at the "At Homers" weekend in the heart of Melbourne....it was a weekend I will remember for a lifetime. We talked, laughed and sang the whole weekend...

I am so glad I went, I know I have made some lifetime friends.

After the weekend I was able to catch up with Maria, Janet and Susan. Thanks Maria, it was great to catch up again, and Janet and Susan...you two are fantastic, glad to have met you both, wonderful company even if I couldn't get a word in edgeways!!!

I also went down to Geelong the following weekend where I was able to spend more time with Berrie and her lovely family.

I spent the rest of my time with my darling daughter and partner Stephen. Had lots of meals out, shopped till we dropped and caught up with some friends and new additions to families.

Came home happy, tired and with some excess kilo's......

Leaving .....

.....on a jet plane late this afternoon...heading off to Melbourne for the "At Homers" get together, also of course to visit my daughter and catch up with some great friends. The "At Homers" get together is a groups of girls, all ages, from all over Australia, who have all particaped on the weight watchers At Home forum online, and we decided to get together for a meet up in Melbourne. We are all in different stages of our weight loss journeys, and each and everyone of us has supported each other through the kilo's we have each lost. It is going to be an awesome weekend. Catch you on my return....

Getting closer

Today is Shawn, my problem childs, 25th birthday. he travelled down yesterday and spent half the day with us so we could celebrate with him. He is loving his job, he works extremely long hours so it keeps him busy at least, and he gets on well with his workmates. His moods seem to be improving, well at least they are around us....but he still has a long way to go. Here's hoping he can keep this job....and maybe his self esteem and self worth might come back to him and his moodiness and agitation disappear.

Only have tomorrow to get throu then on Wednesday I fly to Melbourne. Going to be spending time with my daughter, catching up with some of the At Homers that I have met online......wooohooooo ... thats gonna be a full on weekend, soooooooo can't wait. Most of us are booked into a hotel in Melbourne!! Also going to catch up with some old friends, meet some new friends....

Weight Watchers weigh in tonight.....slowly going down, haven't made it back to goal yet....but getting there.....

Congratulations Rach

Congratulations to Rach, Mike and Jake on the birth of Jasmin.....who is a real little cutie...such a placid little girl.

I went up and visited Rach today and had a lovely cuddle of bub.....don't you just love the smell of babies?? And Jake is such a cute big brother, he is so proud of her.

Rach was a member of my ww meeting...and is going back to her meeting asap...she did so well maintaining her weight while pregnant, proud of ya Rach!!

Had coffee today with .....

......my blogger friend Catherine.....and what a delightful meeting it was too. The time just flew by and Catherine and her hubby soon had to hit the road and travel on. We talked and talked and I felt so comfortable with them....I just didn't want her to go. It was hard to say byeeeeeee but we know it's not goodbye, its just see ya later as we will meet again.
Thank you Catherine and Don for travelling down and taking the time to meet with me....I am so glad we finally met.

Not weighing myself..

It is my weigh in night...but decided I am not going to hop on any scales till next week when it is my monthly ww weigh in. Am then weighing in a few weeks early as next week I fly to Melbourne and won't be back till the end of the month. This week I just don't want to know what damage I have done, know it can't be pretty!! What with midnight snacks, and early morning cooking "feasts" And yesterday my sister and her hubby came up for an overnight visit, we had a lot to catch up on and that we did so over quite a few "drinkies"

Today us West Australians said a very sad goodbye to our West Coast Eagle ... "Mainy". Chris Mainwaring with his mighty big cheeky grin and his larrikan ways was a legend...going to miss you on our tv. A heap of memories we will treasure.

This weekend I have a good blogger friend flying into West Australia for a holiday.... really looking forward to meeting up CJ..

Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

What was I doing at 4.30am this morning......you'd never guess?



I had an absolute "shit" of a night, went to bed about 9ish, read awhile, then went to sleep but woke up at 1.30am........

I got up, after tossing and turning and no sign of sleep and made a cuppa, and thought mmmmm might have a bikkie too. Two cuppa's later and a pack of bikkies later I thought darn it better go back to bed and get away from those darn bikkies!! Back at the bedroom hubby is still sound asleep....so crawled in and curled up but again tossed and turned and wriggled and squirmed, in the end sighed and gave up!! No sleep for me!! Got back up....make another cuppa and thought mmmmmm need to do something soooooooooooo 4.30 am there were HOT SCONES sitting on my kitchen bench....minus 2 which I ate.....!!!

5.30am I went walking....

7.05am drove off for a days work at the "funny farm" !!

What a week...

phewwwwwwwwwwwww what a week......



Monday....went to work, squashed finger in rollers on carrot grading table, ended up having surgery to make sure there was no tendon damage. Darn sore !!

Tuesday....ouchies finger!! Went to weigh in coz I couldn't weigh in Monday night.....mmmmm wasn't a good weigh in! Heard from Shawn that he had started another job with a furniture removalist.....hope he can stay focused, motivated and off the dreaded "weed" and keep the job.

Wednesday......stayed at home and mooched around waiting for Kylee. She flew in for interview.....waiting to pick her up from train station tonight. Sat up and chatted, poor girl has a huge decision to make about future..if the posistion is offered.

Thursday....Busy, busy , busy !! Heard the tragic news of Katrina. devasting !! Just hoping the tumours aren't going to be passed onto little Allie (Katrina's little girl) as Katrina's mum also passed away with the same thing at 42 when Katrina was 8.

Lots of shopping, catching up with friends of Kylee's.

Saw the Dr today...had thyroid and HRT medications reviewed. Dr gave me a telling off telling me, he said I was getting too skinny!! Sheeeeeeez that got to me!! Too skinny, yeaaaaa when I had put on weight!!! But anyways I did measure myself ..... and lo and behold I have lost centimetres around bust and waist!! Then it was onto shopping and catching up with friends.

Friday...Went to the surgeon, finger is healing well. Then onto Katrina's funeral with Kylee. A very simple and moving service for a well loved mother, daughter, stepdaughter, sister and friend. Shawn was unable to go due to just starting a new job. The news was a shock to him but he coped with the news a lot better than I though he would. Took Kylee out to her best friends place...they getting togerther with some other friends for a girl nights in....mmmmmm sounds like a headache to me!!

Saturday......Up and about early. Had hair done, got rid of all the grey by having it cut and coloured. Home and had Shawn and Hannah and girls around to catch up Kylee. Kylee last saw them when Jaydene was born 8 months ago...she was Hannah's birthing partner.

Sunday.....Another full on day. Took Kylee up to Collie to say hullo and goodbye to Simon and Tracey, they flew in Saturday night from their holiday in Queensland. Took a drive around the overflowing Wellington dam...then home to pack bags, have lunch and catch our breathes before heading off to the airport, and goodbye Kylee. But just for a few weeks...then Jen fly's to Melbourne.

Monday.....phewwwwwwwww day of rest for me. Slept in, went for walk, had a late breakfast. THEN heard the devasting news that a West Coast Eagle legend Chris Mainwaring had passed away.
Its weigh in night too......at least thats good news....I lost 1.6 and now 68.5 !! Slowly getting back to where I should be.