Another one bites the dust!

I like that song, but besides that I've lost another kilo!!!! I am so proud of myself. I feel happier today than yesterday, maybe that's why I was so down - knowing that I had to go to weight-watchers and thinking that I'd put more weight on because I missed the last weigh-in. But I've lost weight, I am really happy! I am another kilo closer to attaining my goal weight.

On another matter, I picked up a parcel from the post office this morning. It's my watches I bought around 4 weeks ago from bidz.com. I honestly didn't think I would receive anything, but I did. I'm not totally happy with them. I bought two. They are both supposed to be ladies watches, but one is a gigantic black watch with cubic zirconias around the watch face and a giant question mark on the face - when I get Picasa working I'll take a picture and post it on here. Anyway it's huge and really heavy, but it's nice and worth the US3.00. The other one was a pack called Adrina mood watches, comes with interchangable face and bands and a coin purse. The coin purse is nice - pink, of course. The watch is really tiny and the bands really small - they don't even fit around my wrists and my wrists are not even that large. So off to ebay with that one. I was going to give it to my niece for Xmas, but her wrists are larger than mine. I'll be interested to see how much I can get on ebay for it.

WOW!

What a surprise! My phone rang tonight at 9pm and it displayed "private number". I thought it was a company I owe $59.00 to so I answered it all defensive ready to tell them off for ringing at such a late hour. So I say HELLO! and a foreign sounding person is saying hello - hello on the other end - considering I just had an encounter with this company the other day and the lady didn't speak much English I assumed it was the same person - I started to think that if it's them I'm just going to hang up after I said something, but the voice on the other end just kept saying hello and started speaking in a foreign language which seemed vaguely familiar? I thought "is it my mother?" But no, the voice sounded distant and unlike my mother - for those that don't know, my parents moved to Tassie - but the voice was distant like from another country and then it dawned on me, it was my grand-mother! I haven't spoken to her in at least 6 years. She lives in Hungary and it surprised me that she would ring me on my mobile. It was a pleasant and uplifing surprise especially since her and I are not that close.

I've been thinking about her lately, she is 80 this year, and she is doing really well for her age, but unfortunately we don't live for ever and I was thinking the other day how I would love to take Baba over to Hungary and introduce him to his Hungarian relations and how I would love to go back and re-acquaint myself with some of my cousins and aunties and uncles. I was thinking maybe when he is a little bit older, but I just hope it's not too late for my grand-mother. Is around 7 or 8 too young for a child to travel such a long distance? Will they be able to remember such a big adventure? I thought we could go and do a mini European tour and go to Germany - I've never been there, Austria - my favourite country in the whole world, England - never been there, and maybe some other eastern european countries, such as Poland and I would love to go to Russia. I guess will see how mature he is for his age.

Baba and I are going to our first Brisbane Bullets basketball game on Sunday night. I hope he enjoys it!

:-(

I'm feeling a bit down. It's unexplainable, I shouldn't be - life is pretty good. I have an excellent job, starting uni in a week - accounting - and work is paying for 75% of it. All my bills are up to date. My phone crapped itself, but it's no reason to be down in the dumps. I'm sure it's hormonal, but I'll get over that!

Was supposed to go to this traffic light party with a friend, but can't afford it and I have my son this weekend, maybe I'll do something getting out and meeeting people type next weekend.

I have my weight-watchers on sat - I've lost another 1/2kg. Slowly but surely, could be a bit down because of the lack of sugar and fat food, but I guess I'll get over that!

Anyway, we are going to the soccer club tonight - to spend more money that I don't have. Oh well, you only live once, might as well live life to the fullest.

Oprah

I was just watching Oprah. Does anyone else notice that she talks about herself more than she talks about the person she is interviewing? She also talks over them when they start to talk. This really irritates me, she really irritates me.

The only reason I made the point to stay and watch her show tonight was because Orlando Bloom was on :-) He is such a honey!!!!! Check out his website - one of many. It's a slow opener but it's worth the wait -if you're a fan.

Fun Fact 1
'Orlando' is a 3-syllable boy's name of Germanic origin, which means 'One who is famous throughout the land'.

Fun Fact 2
Orlando is a Dragon according to the Chinese birth calendar. Dragons are highly attractive and magnetic. Learn more about the dragon here. (The Chinese year ends on the first new moon of the following year, so he IS a Dragon, not a Snake.)

Fun Fact 3
Using The Learning Channel's Beauty Grid that mathematically detects beauty in the human face, Orlando's beauty is proved scientifically!

Fun Fact 4
Orlando's birthstone is the garnet, a symbol of constancy. The garnet will inspire all hearts towards Orlando and keep them faithful.?Learn more about Orlando's astrology signs, numerology, and the meaning of his name.

Fun Fact 5
Orlando's favorite color yellow is said to be the color of optimistic and idealistic people. People who prefer yellow are probably active as well.

Check out the site to get more info!

Slowly but surely

I started weight watchers around 4 weeks ago. The weight has been coming off slowly. To date I've lost 2.8kgs. I'm happy with that, because I have not been exercising a lot, which is why it's been coming off so slowly. During the week I decided to go back to the gym. I joined back up and went for my fitness assessment today. I am determined to go at least 3 times a week and supplement this with other activities such as squash, tennis, swimming, walking, bike-riding, golf and bushwalking. I've decided to join the bushwalking club and a girl from work and I are going to go and learn how to play golf - starting on 23rd Nov 2005. I'm also starting to play hockey in the new year and interested in starting up indoor soccer. My goal is to get as active as possible and that way I figure losing the weight won't be such an effort.

Cross your fingers for me. My son is happy to go to the childminding centre while I do my exercises. I've had to explain to him why mummy needs to go but he is really understanding and in the long run it will benefit him as well because I will be able to play with him for longer periods without getting puffed. I am also getting him active - he is starting swimming in two weeks and starting tennis lessons in the new year. He also wants to learn how to play golf but he has to wait until he is at least 6 before he can learn. He was a bit dissapointed, but I told him he only has to wait another 18 months.

Check out the weight-watchers site - I've linked the title to it!

Hooray!

I got my letter of offer yesterday. I was happy. I finally get to study what I think I want to do! That's accounting. I always wanted to be an accountant, but somewhere along the line I got side-tracked. I am now working in a job which will benefit from my accounting knowledge and I will also be able to use it advance up the ladder. I hope! I'm also excited because they will pay 75% of all my expenses and give me time off for study and exams. Check out the USQ website!

I hope I can keep the motivation going this time. I've worked out that doing it externally and studying 2 subjects per term, with 3 terms in each year - I should be able to knock it over in around 4 years - 5 the most. That still leaves me plenty of time to work on my finances and to purchase a house by the time I'm 40.
I've decided to put off saving until after christmas. There is no point this close to xmas - I have so many lay-by's it's not funny. But after xmas I will open a managed fund account and start putting away $150.00 per fortnight and another $50.00 into my online account. I would also like to go on holidays around xmas time, but I don't think that will happen, unless my mum pays for it - but I don't see that happening either. I get a whole week off at xmas time and I want to take another week off when the little one starts school at the end of Jan. This will have to be negotiated with the boss. I have to find out when school starts and what are the hours. It's private so they are a bit different to state schools. I hope they start around 8am that way I would only have to pay for after school care and not before. That would be nice.

Hi

Oh my goodness, it's been such a long time! The sad part is nothing interesting has happened in that time. Oh, I forgot - I got a new job, moved house and Paul's gone. Besides that nothing - how boring is life. I've also started a new blog, so I guess this one is going, I may come back and update it every now and then, if something good happens to me.

I suppose life is good, I'm still around, I have a good job and I'm slowly losing the tons.

We'll see what else happens.