Am Still Here

Yep. Am still here. Haven't dropped off the face of the earth! But I AM having a bit of a run of bad luck.




I finally got my blinker fixed after the 'hitting of the roo' (I'm a one-eyed Crows fan, do you know how much it pains me to say that?!). It turns out that the blinker wasn't the only thing broken though. When Scott went to put the blinker in the mount/housing (whatever it's called) that the headlight sits in was all smashed and the front spoiler was a bit wobbly as well. So he fixed all that up for me as well as putting the new blinker in. He ALSO washed 'the little girl' (that's my pet name for my car) for me and I gave hime some money to fill her up for me, then on the way back to my place she conked out!! She only had about 4km's to go but she just couldn't make it. So the doctor - er, I mean MECHANIC came to look at her and it turns out she has a broken timing chain............ About $1000 to fix! OMG!!! Where the hell is that going to come from?!?!

This is the little girl with her big bandaid on after the 'hitting of the roo' *cringe*

This is the little girl being taken away to the doctor - I mean mechanic

Then to add to my financial woes....... My freezer has been off for I don't know how long and all of the top shelf defrosted, so now I have to go and get extra ingredients that weren't budgeted for to do a massive cook-up to re-freeze everything so it doesn't get wasted. Jeez! What next?!?! I'm scared to ask myself!

On the positive side though, I've lost the 3kg I put on in the 2 weeks prior to moving in, Scott is really trying to be nice and his efforts haven't gone un-noticed (don't know if it will be enough though......... too little, too late), I've managed to get rid of the disgusting smell in the house and it certainly looks a bloody site cleaner now than it was a week ago!

I've also started my new walking challenge with walkingwithattitude.com I'm doing the Bust Your Butt Skyscraper Challenge. I used to do some form of exercise EVERY day, but when I started on the ferry, that went out the window. I was still recording daily steps but not actually doing any walking. So this new challenge is not a step challenge, it's a minute challenge - you only record your minutes of exercise, ANY exercise. So hopefully that will be the "kick up the butt" (geddit?!?! LOL) I need to start exercising on a regular basis again.

I also bought myself the new Michelle Bridges book 'Crunch Time'. How are you going with that Sarah? This afternoon I will be home from work at a civilised hour (5pm), so I'm going to sit down and do all the written exercises. On the 22nd February it will be 12 months since I quit smoking, so I'm going to make that my start date losing the 20kg I have put on since then.

I've still got a real lot to do, unpacking-wise. I want to set up the gym room next, I have quite a bit of equipment - the goal is to actually start USING it.

Well, I have gone on quite a bit hey? Didn't mean to chew your collective ear off! *chuckle*

Next time will post some pics of my beautiful beach!

Seeya