And She's Off!

Well i'm off the couch, yaaayyy!!! lol
In the two days i spent on the couch, i wasn't awake for more than an hour at a time. And talk about sweat!
Although i made some shitty food choices. I just wanted to eat something fast and easy. I didn't care that it might not have been overly healthy. I wasn't well enough to spent time preparing balanced blah blah yadda yadda...you know the drill lol..eh.
But i paid for those choices today!
I'm still not 100% well [still sweaty & overly tired], but i absolutely HAD to go grocery shopping as i hadn't for 2 weeks and, as old mother Hubbard would say, our cupboard was B.A.R.E Bare!!
We had no meat or veg and We had to give the kids healthy stuff for lunch [heaven forbid!] like cheese shapes, fruit and carrot sticks, because we didn't have the usual lunch box crap like potato crisps and muesli bars. The poor kids didn't know what hit them. Isn't that pathetically sad? I'm making a joke out of it, but i do realise that it is a sad realisation.

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I have decided to make up a weekly dinner menu. I think it will save on the weekly grocery bill. And there won't be any of those last minute bad meal choices. Well, not as many anyway. I like to encourage my 'homies' to try new things [even though that makes them nervous! lol] so i'll make one night a 'Surprise' night. Could be anything from beer batter fish'n'chips to roast lamb and veg with all the trimmings.Or something a little more exotic, and that's what they worry about! Eh, keep 'em guessing lol

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Does anyone have a link to a free, really simple image editing program. And i do mean "simple"!

Crop, light and focus is good and i don't have it but i neeeeed it!

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Now on to our new segment, Where are they nooooowwwwww?
Ever wonder what happened to Elliott from E.T? We know what happened to his 'little sister' in the movie, Drew Barrymore. And we know what happened to E.T [He went home, got married and had kids, right?lol]

But Elliott?

Elliot is still around, but i wouldn't have picked him anywhere as our cute little 'Elliot'!

Fake Gaining

I weighed in today with a gain of 1.2 kilos [2.6lbs] but i don't count that as a true figure. Sure, i ate like a pig at that book launch, but everything else has been good.

I'm not very well today and i've spent the whole day on the couch watching movies. I've been drinking water like it's going to run out and i'm figuring most of that gain, if not all, into that.

Now i'm going back to the couch.....blah...

The Awesome Evangelist

You guys all seem impressed by the newspaper add. John loved it. He didn't find it for a while so i had to "guide" him to it be asking him to look in the pet section that was above it. He said he felt all "Warm'n'fuzzy" after that. It's these things that keep our relationships interesting.I dare you to do something similar for your spouse and add it to your blog to show us. Double dare :oÞ

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Tonight was my "besty", Glenda Rouxel's book launch. It's been a long time coming, and i'm really proud of her! :o))
When we formatted our computer, i lost my picture editing program and i can't remember the name of it so i can't get it again. Until i find something equally simple, i can't edit photos so don't mind the extra space lol

Glenda and me :o)

Signing books - I think the turn out was a bit bigger than she thought it would be!

The cake that a friend bought. Seemed such a shame to cut it!
There was waaaay too much delicious food at this launch! It was like everyone who was an awesome cook got together and cooked every sinister recipe they had! And unfortunately i made an absolute pig of myself! I can feel all that sugar evenly distributing itself around my hips, stomach, chins and ass lol
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Go buy the book people, It's great! And besides, i'm a character in the book. But Glenda was kind enough to make me tall and thin [Thanks darl lol]
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And what were my darling children doing at this book launch?
Eh, go figure lol

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How's this pic? I love it! I found it over at this amusing blog. And amusement is good!
The burgers i spoke about in the last post were really yummy! I'm glad i wrote about them on the blog so i can know how to make them again! Mmmmmmm

Does anyone watch that show, "You are what you eat"? I found the book and i have to say that it's become my food bible! Dr Gillian is much more than just a natural foods person. The book is actually entertaining, educational and best of all, simple. I've fixed so many little ailments in my body just with foods, it's awesome!

And it's pretty. I know, who cares about the colours of the pages? Me, coz i like looking at stuff lol

Well, i broke down and had a drink or two or...you know. Then i went to AA the next day and i felt really stupid! Some of the people in the group have tragic stories, and as i sat there listening, i just felt like a big, fat princess! I felt like i'd acted like a spoilt brat, stomping my feet coz i wanted a drink, just coz! :o/ Then when it was my turn to speak, i told them that. Then i felt the tears well up and i said, "Now i'm going to cry, so don't look at me!" And i felt even more stupid coz i was now crying in front of these relative strangers, 95% of which were men. And even MORE stupid because i just told them all to stop looking at me!! These people, some with tragic stories who were living on the edge every day and here i was, i couldn't even make it 3 weeks!

Then the other woman there [yea there's only two of us] comforted me and told me that it's not an overnight process. And that i was at the meeting the next day and that's the main thing [Don't tell me that, that'll make it ok for me to drink in my head] And a guy told me that he went to AA for 8 months before finally committing 100% to give up forever [Oh geez don't tell me that either, for the same reason!] And i was grateful that they didn't treat me like a freak, but i feel different now, like some of the hope is lost. I need to get over that. Maybe it's just because i still feel a bit stupid about crying in a room full of strange men.

Geez i really feel stupid about that! lol

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On an lighter ending note, John and i have been together for 10 years this month [Not married, just together] So i put the below add in the paper, because he was working night shift and i knew he'd be reading the paper on his breaks :o)

It Was Then That I Realised....

I weighed in with a loss of 1.1 kilo [2.4lbs] today, Yaaayy! So apparently i did ok this week huh?
I invited a few girlfriends over on the weekend to check out the Wii sports, but we done more talking than anything else! One woman carried on a whole conversation while completing a baseball game! What's with that? lol

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My family likes hamburgers, and there's nothing wrong with hamburgers if they are cooked at home, sensibly. So, ever looking for ways to get vitamins into my tribe, i bought a burger press. It's a Tupperware mould that you make, press and store hamburger patties in.

I used the lean mince and blended [so no-one sees it] some baby spinach and onion with some liquid vegetable stock. Then i added flax and sesame seeds, vegetable powder, eggs, salt & pepper, Parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs. Then made the patties. John had a look at the mixture afterwards and decided it looked too "Green", [even though it didn't, he was just guessing] Well tomorrow night he's having burgers, weather he likes it or not! lol
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For us Australian inhabitants, i called channel TENs programmer to ask if we are going to see the next US Biggest Loser this year [coz i'm impatient!], and she didn't know. But after i got off the phone i decided that wasn't good enough, so i'll call again and ask to speak to someone who DOES know when i get the time.

And now for our new segment...

Where are they now?
So nobody thinks Grown-up Damien is hot except me. Well alrighty then, i can live with that :oÞ

Seen as we are watching the complete series of series of The Wonder Years [*Pauses to think on that*......] I thought we'd look at Kevin And Winnie, the feel good couple of last century.
Cute little Kevvy..

.. And cuter Freddy today with an even cuter son, Oliver Aaawwww
And Winnie? Well...I dunno what happened. But the years seem to have been a bit rough on her :o/

TTYS :o)

No Gravy Thanks.

I took the kids out for lunch and at this particular place, i order a plate of seasonal roast veges with gravy and a skinny decaf iced coffee [nice healthy winter choice huh?]
Rose took this photo in celebration as this is the very first time I've eaten this gravy dish without getting some on my ample bossom. That is really saying something y'know! That's why you only see me in black t-shirts, coz i can't keep them clean! lol

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I've been pretty good. I haven't had any booze, I've exercised every day and my eating is mostly good. Go me!

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I don't have anyone's e-mail address anymore as we lost them all when we formatted the computer, Doh!
For anyone that has my home e-mail address [and still wants it], it's changed. The first bit is the same, but behind the @ is southernphone.com.au :o)

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On a totally irrelevant subject...

I was doing a post on my dream log and needed a pic of a creepy kid. I used the one below of Damien in The Omen [1976]. Do you guys remember how scary that film was? I haven't been able to be close to a rottweiler dog ever because of that movie! lol
Damien was a cute kid, And as i do with all child stars, i wondered what he looks like now
And here he is today, pictured with the bike he rode around on in the movie. This was taken at a movie convention.

I must say, He is really hot!! But would you want to befriend him? I mean..he'll always be Damien before anything else. As soon as something goes wrong, you'd look suspiciously at him lol

But he IS veeeery hot all the same, Gggrrooowwl!!

I think i'm going to do a "Where Are They Now?" segment regularly on my blog :o)

About Stinkin Time!

I lost half a kilo [1.1 lb] this week, yippeeeeee!!
I didn't do any exercise other than the Wii Sport and two walks at the beginning of the week, but my eating has been mostly good. Now that i'm feeling better i'll do some intentional exercise [As well as the Wii]
It's still snowing here. Last night i was driving home from a neighbouring town and i had to stop. I was the only idiot out there driving and i couldn't see a darn thing! Here's me earlier in the day, just for you Lora lol