Craaaaazy

Happy Halloween!

Jill Kills!!

  

    YES I am finally back to exercising

    BUT

  for my birthday LAST JUNE!!!... I asked for this DVD along with another Jillian Michaels DVD.  

  So finally - on Friday I put it in and I did the first workout - Level 1.

  I was PATHETIC.  

  Each routine is made up of 3 lots of 6 minute routines totalling a 20 minute workout.

3 minutes cardio

2 minutes strength

1 minute abs

Rinse and repeat

The first 6 minutes... not so great

The second 6 minutes ... well if I am honest... I probably reasonably did 4-ish

The third 6 minutes ... does lying on the floor whimpering count????

Oh yes... and over the weekend NADA - I could not MOOOOVE - well we did all work outside on Saturday tidying the yard and putting everything away for winter but no exercise routine to speak of.

So today... finally... my thighs are ALMOST mobile so I will be doing level 1, workout 1 again - and hopefully I can improve - if only slightly.

I think my 30 day shred might take a tad longer - but at least I have my exercise MOJO back on!

friday fun

this pretty much sums up my week...

Busy Busy Busy Busy

Hoping to catch up finally over the weekend, and post properly but for now

it's off to SFO airport to pick up Mike and Johnno

- the next lot of visitors from New Zealand !!

45 lessons on life

and most of them I agree with !!!

1.       Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
 2.       When in doubt, just take the next small step.
 3.       Life is too short to waste time hating anyone...
 4.       Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.  Your friends and parents will.  Stay in touch.
 5.       Pay off your credit cards every month.
 6.       You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
 7.       Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
 8.       It's OK to get angry with God.  He can take it.
 9.       Save for retirement starting with your first pay check.
 10.     When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
 11.     Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
 12.     It's OK to let your children see you cry.
 13.     Don't compare your life to others.  You have no idea what their journey is all about.
 14.     If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
 15.     Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
 16.     Take a deep breath.  It calms the mind.
 17.     Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
 18.     Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
 19.     It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
 20.     When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
 21.     Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.  Don't save it for a special occasion,  Today is special.
 22.     Over prepare, then go with the flow.
 23.     Be eccentric now.  Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
 24.     The most important sex organ is the brain.
 25.     No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
 26.     Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
 27.     Always choose life.
 28..     Forgive everyone and everything.
 29.     What other people think of you is none of your business.
 30.     Time heals almost everything.  Give it time.
 31.     However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
 32.     Don't take yourself so seriously.  No one else does.
 33.     Believe in miracles.
 34.     God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
 35.     Don't audit life.  Show up and make the most it now.
 36.     Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
 37.     Your children get only one childhood.
 38.     All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
 39.     Get outside every day.  Miracles are waiting everywhere.
 40.     If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
 41.     Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
 42.     The best is yet to come.
 43.     No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
 44.     Yield.
 45.     Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Dear Blog

I have been remiss!    But in fairness I have been busy.   I have also been away.

I am hoping this week to be back to normal - although I see a lot of appointments scheduled for the week culminating in a crop this Friday night.

If nothing else - I hope to get some photos posted - cos a picture paints a thousand words... right???

Crops, Dresses and Crapped Out Knees!

not necessary in that order!!    But to catch everyone up.

The dress!!

I realise I never came back with the results of the dress for the wedding in Italy I am going to.     A quick reminder of the two (although I got the one on the left in a celery green)

They finally arrived - and both of them looked fantastic on. 

 I, of course was drawn to the green one *quelle surprise* ......NOT *lol*...  However - although it looks nice and light and floaty it is VERY heavy to wear.   The 'overtop' is not a light stretchy material as it appears in the photo but actually all beaded (glass beads at that!!) and is REALLY weighty.    If the part of Italy we are going to is anything like the rest of Italy that I have been to - and is hot and humid - I would absolutely in it.   

As I said they both looked lovely on.    I got my daughter Hannah to cast her eye over and give me an honest critical assessment of them both as well.     I said to her - ok I got off the plane and I am bloated and the bloat did not go down.. and now I have eaten a big wedding banquet and I am stuffed - then I stuck out my stomach as far as I could.

Hmm!!! 

In the green dress when I did that it looked like I had swallowed 2 turkeys!!
But in the blue dress - I could have been 200 months pregnant and you still could not tell!!

SO THE BLUE DRESS WON... although bugger it did not come in green!!      Oh and the shoes I picked out - fit beautifully and look lovely - however now will probably not be able to wear them because of my knee BAH!

My knee

It is getting better.. slowly.   However last Friday's ART session on my knee was so painful I actually wound up crying.   I don't think I have EVER cried when I have been there - even when my back was at its worst.   The bruise that came up almost immediately was rather large - and you should see it now - it is huge.   However I suffered through it all, iced it when I got home and put up with it.... well sort of put up with it - I will admit to having a bloody good bawl when I got home because it was so painful.   My knee was really really swollen, and part of my calf and shin on Friday and Saturday but that seems to have gone down now.    It is feeling today like I can walk normally - but I am not overstressing it - I don't want to go backwards!

I am meant to go 3 times this week for ART - however if the bruising is still this bad tomorrow - then I am cancelling that appointment.   Not even counting the diggy fingers into the area that needs working that is tender - I just could not bear anyone pushing on the bruise!!

Monthly Crop

Had our Meetup monthly crop on Friday night.   What a hoot!  We have a core group that comes now along with the odd one or two newbies and we have such a lot of laughs.      I am not sure we are getting that much scrapping done - but we certainly have a good time.

Maybe its the wine that helps things along    We even have a bit culture... last Friday - we gathered around Mike's PC and all watched Susan Boyle off Britains Got Talent - SHE IS!!... plus we have good nibbles and converstion.    We were having a good laugh last Friday about Stickles.   We have decided that it really is CRACK for scrappers.

On today's menu - I am going to the mall!  BAH... it is a beautiful day here - meant to be 82... I should be outside... however our local BIG mall has cut their Sunday hours... sign of the times methinks!

I need to go and suffer through the salespeople at the cosmetics counters because I need some new makeup - mainly something foundation-ish.   Oh well... could be fun.. maybe I will get a makeover!

Oh yes... and did i mention earlier in the week I got my hair permed???

Happy Easter!

  

now I have to be good ... cos I am slowly inching down!   It has been a flat week - but I managed to lose half a pound over the retreat weekend.    Need to watch those easter eggies this weekend so I don't inch back up!

Céad Míle Fáilte

ummmm there are no words for this....