Get on with it girl
Mood: Happy
Listening to: Classic hits radio
Friday, 12.58 daytime
Here I am sitting in the middle of a bombsite, 3 clotheshorses full of washing waiting to be folded and a basket full of wet stuff to hang up. Can't see the table for letters, magazines, bags, books and general clutter, you have to pick your way across the lounge floor because it hasn't had anything tidied since the weekend, and what am I doing? Blogging. There is no hope for me I'm afraid.
Went to the gym yesterday and today, first time for almost two weeks. Erica got the tapemeasure out and glory be I'd lost an inch off my arms, and one off my waist (I have a waist???? Yeah, right) and also a couple of kilos. Wahooooo!!!! Never mind that the time I've been away from exercising I've also been pigging out on chocolate and chips.... I think I have a slow metabolism that has a built in time delay, meaning that the loss recorded this week is actually the results of my slog about a month ago, and the gluttonous sins committed over the last fortnight will come home to roost in about 3 weeks time. Grr. Never mind, I'm sort of back on track. Couldn't walk (as in go for a long walk) while my feet were bad last week so it's good to be doing something again. Even started on the rowing machine!! Will probably be a bit slack next week though because I'm working M/T/W/Th so no gym in the morning. Not enough hours in the day to do it after work. At least when I'm at work I don't graze all through the day like I do at home!
Going away tomorrow, girls weekend. This has been planned for ages but we're going down like flies - originally 6 of us, then Norma pulled out because she's broke after Roly (her 12 yr old) got not one, but two tickets for not wearing his bicycle helmet - most kids would learn after the first one but Roly seems to think he's above all that. At $120 a pop it soon adds up. Then Kaye decided she'd better stay home as they only have a couple of weeks to go before they move to Australia, fair enough, but nobody told me and as I'm the one organising bookings and putting my credit card on the line it would have been polite.... Jo told me last night. Now Jo has gone down with the stomach bug her kids had earlier in the week so I hope she makes a speedy recovery. I am going to go regardless, don't care if I go on my own!!!
We are going over to Masterton to a swanky hotel that has everything on site from squash courts to sauna to spa pool, indoor heated swimming pool, golf range - not that we'll be golfing - restaurant and bottle store.... Depending on how brave/busy/drunk we get, there could be a chance of . . . you'd better sit down before I say this . . . . a couple of us getting a tattoo!!!!!!! And then, of course there's shopping - with money or eyes, it doesn't matter, its just nice to potter around the sorts of shops you don't go into when the husband or kids are around - craft shops, antique shops, book shops...
I think I've got the nits well beaten. Only Duncs got them and I couldn't find a single one this morning after repeating the shampoo routine last night with new stuff then using the little nit comb thing. I has a quiet word with the teacher to let her know and her response was funny - "thank goodness it was Duncan" which surprised me till she continued, "because I know that you will get straight on to it and deal with it properly"! I guess that's a sort of compliment? Lol. Will have another lather up on Sunday just to make sure.
OK, can't ignore the mess any longer, thank goodness Brent didn't come home for lunch today or he would have muttered. Also I have been distracted with a new cellphone which I am learning to drive - the user manual is about a zillion pages long! I tuttied with it so long last night that the battery went flat, and that was only sorting out phone book and ring tones. Wait till I get into games! Unfortunately I have to have a new number so that is something else for me to do, learn it and let everybody know. Greg is going to inherit my old phone, sort of, the number anyway; I'm getting a free upgrade to a newer whizz bang one (FREE!! WOW!!) which I will get changed from a plan to pre-pay then he can be responsible for earning enough to keep it loaded.
Yeah, yeah, I'm folding. And tidying. And making a cup of tea.
Crikey, its assembly this afternoon, that means going to school at 2.30 instead of 3pm, I'd better get cracking.
Have a good weekend!
Jaybee
