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Monday 19th February 2007 35 days until Daylight Savings ends! YAY
Sunday 17th December 2006 3.14pm Cinemaniac Are you into movies but don't want to turn up and find it's totally unsuitable viewing for the family/children/yourself? Take a look at this resource, from Youth For Christ, where they review movies and rate them for youth groups (as so would be suitable viewing for most). Cinemaniac
Wednesday 25th October 2006 9.56am Meek
I was amazed to day when looking up the meaning of meek for my daughter while she copied out the verse from the Beatitudes that the one meaning that is true was titled obsolete! How sad that the true meaning has gone by the wayside; gentle and kind. Instead; spiritless and docile, were used to describe a Fruit of the Spirit.
Sunday 14th October 2006 8.58pm The last day of school holidays. The girls are way asleep. I've been messing about on the puta between watching 60 minutes and talking with Dave. Went to church this morning. A good message about tests. To not be surprised when testing comes as it's a part of God's trials to see how much we have grown. The pastor gave the example of a school teacher; they don't give tests to see if someone is going to fail, but to see if they pass and if they can handle the next level. God's tests are similar, but in all sorts of areas of our lives-such as character, patience, frustration, wilderness, and self-will to mention a few. It was really interesting. Today was quite warm, 25.c, the girls swam-mad! Too cold for me. Well I'd better get ready for bed so I can be up early for the first day of Term. We have the moderator coming Wednesday too, so I'd better go through "The Pile" of papers which never got to the files...sigh. I guess that may be a trial area for me!
Sunday 24th September 2006 7.49pm I registered the website with the Google Search Engine today, so hopefully I'll get more visitors. Dave has been looking at a blog program so I might use that to manage this, it'll be way better. Today was a beautiful day in Perth - 20.c We went to church this morning, the message was good about being all that we are called to be through Abrahams Promises from God. Then this afternoon we relaxed. Olivia and Dave went for a short ride together, the first for a long time, so of course Olivia's seat needs to be adjusted because she's grown again! Natasha needs a new bike, she's outgrown her old one. I guess we'll get her one for Christmas. I finished the multicoloured blanket the other day, but I decided it was a floor rug for between the girls beds. They wanted to go into the same room again and we've got the playstation and a tv in the other room for the first time. Their desks are in there too (as well as all the toys) so it's the school room and play room too. We're calling it the activity room. They love it. I just hope it stays clean and tidy! On the weight side of things, I'm still 71kg-I did drop down to 70kg but I haven't been eating the right things every day so it crept back up. I've noticed my skin has broken out and my tummy has been sore (endometriosis) so I got to be more vigilant with the dairy - even just casein in the soy cheese sets my nose off. I know my body is healthier without it so I just have to do it. Well Dave is praying with some friends, so I'm going to take the time now that the kids are in bed to update this site. Cya.
Thursday 24th August 2006 9.44pm It's been a very long time since I've been on here. I actually took down the website for a bit to see if it made a difference to our internet bill, it didn't so here I am again! What's been happening with me? Well, not a lot has changed, but things are always happening! Prehistoric Park started on television last week. So I took the opportunity to see what Creationist scientists believe. I went to www.answersingenesis.org to do my research. I found a lot of great information that makes so much more sense than the evolution theory. I have explained to the girls that God created all animals and man on the 6th day. So that MUST have included dinosaurs because the bones are real (we've not been to a museum yet). The earth is only a few thousand years old, not millions. There were no animals before man. Also there could not have been bones because there was no death before The Fall of man. Only after The Fall did death occur and therefore bones (and meat eating). Noah took two of each animal (seven of the "clean") onto his Ark (which was ocean-liner sized) and that some of those had to have been dinosaurs also. The Great Flood caused many animals to die because it changed the face of the Earth. Because of the lack of food and suitable habitats, animals fought for survival which would have be one of the main causes for extinction in so many species (as is the norm, even now. Not new evolved animals appearing!) There is so much more that is on the website, but it's a little above their understanding so as they get older I have a great resource of the Truth. What else has been happening? We had storms a couple of days ago with a lot of wind and a part of our side fence blew down, so we are in the process of getting quotes for that to be fixed. Not a big hassle, but still a little annoying, out of the ordinary I guess. I've been crocheting a lot this winter. I've made four blankets and am in the middle of one now. The first 2 were for the girls. A rainbow checked coloured one for Liv and a pink, red, maroon variegated one for Tash (solid). I made a black, variegated white, grey and black (squares), and red, blue, green and yellow (joins) blanket in June. I wasn't sure who it was for but then I had a friend come over in need and I knew it was for her. I hope she liked it. I have made a light blue, light pink, light lavender, dark pink, dark purple and white striped blanket in July. I still don't know who it's for, it's waiting in the linen closet. Possibly for Mum (who is going into hospital tomorrow for a foot operation.) Which reminds me I shouldn't stay up too late, I'm driving her there. The blanket I'm doing now is really cool. I've finally accumulated enough wool to do this properly. I have a huge bag of about 20 balls of wool (well it's acrylic actually because I don't like wool, it makes me itch) of all different colours - left over from different projects or ones never started. The only thing the same is the they're all 8ply. I chained the width of a single bed and a bit extra as an overhang each side all one colour and went back doing doubles I think (I'm learning what the stitches are called, but I get confused). Then at the end of that row I changed colours, but I look at the clock (there is always one within sight wherever I am) and take note of the minutes- say 12:17pm then wind on my pointer finger and little finger in a figure 8, 17 times then snip off, that is the amount of that colour I use. Then reach into the bag and whichever colour comes out next (unless it's the same as last time) I use. I look at the clock again, and keep going. So far it's looking a little bit like a car crash, you don't really want to look, but you can't turn away. As I keep going, my hope is that having the same colours repeating in a random order will somehow cause some sort of pattern to emerge, if it doesn't, it will be interesting at the very least and warm! I'm planning on making another in similar fashion, next time, but using different tones of the same colour (say all blues or pinks) or maybe a few different colours which match or contrast. (like yellow, orange and green or pink, purple and blue). I enjoy crocheting blankets because it doesn't take any thought and it's relaxing to do in front of the TV or while the girls are reading or doing schoolwork. And I guess I'll get to the stage where we have enough blankets to use and will start giving them to charities. Which is a good thing! On the personal side of things. I've given up dairy as I've discovered I have a milk allergy. I did this in March and have lost 7kg so far in the process. I'm now 71kg. I plan on losing the rest (11kg) by following a low calorie density diet. www.pritikin.com If you haven't heard of pritikin where have you been??? lol, no, seriously, what you know about pritikin maybe be deprivation, hunger and lots of carrot sticks, where in fact. it's healthy eating, exercise and theories that make sense. Eat less that your body uses. Eat until full on low calorie dense foods, at least 5-6 times a day (3 full meals and 2-3 snacks) to trigger that you aren't starving your body and to speed up your metabolism, to burn more fat and get to an optimum weight. Walk at least 30 minutes a day. That's it. What does low calorie density mean? Your stomach can only hold so much, just as a glass bowl only holds so much. Say the glass bowl can hold a pound (about 450gm). Lets fill it with white pasta. The calories of that pasta is about 630 per pound. If your stomach was that bowl and you ate all that pasta, you just consumed 630 calories. Lets lower that, without reducing how much you eat. Take out half of the pasta and put in Chinese cabbage. You have just just dropped the caloric intake to below half of what it was, just by ADDING something! Chinese cabbage is 67 calories per pound. So the idea is to find out what foods have less calorie density and filling up on them. I could put up more information but I think it may breach copyright laws, so check out the website or get the book out of the library (The Pritikin Principle by Robert Pritikin). I can't really think of anything else to write about and I'm getting tired. I need to get to bed to be up early enough to drive Mum to hospital. (side thought-I wonder if many people wake up and feel like I do? It takes me quite a while to get with it in the morning. I like mornings, I am a morning person, I just can't function fully straight away, I need to ease into the day.) Good night to you all. :o)
Saturday 28th January 2006 11.44am Depression has been on the news of late because of Dr Geoff Gallop's shock departure from the role of Premier of WA. For me Depression is a daily thing. I try not to think about it so much, but some days it is all I can do to get through the day. About 6 months ago I began to reduce my medication extremely slowly because of the side effects of memory loss. I've come down below what I need and it's horrible, debilitating and detrimental to my family. So I've decided to go up again to a level that works. I am now having a good week. The sun is shining, it's not hot-yay! The kids aren't arguing, it's the weekend (a super-long one because of Australia Day). Life is good. Praise God. For those who really don't understand how it works, that they think you have to "snap out of it" or "just get on with it", please let me try to explain how it effects me. My days are hard and I "can't be bothered" most of the time. I could sleep all day and all night, eat all the time and do nothing. I have to make myself do everything, it is a constant struggle. Without my medication I live in a fog, or if you use your ears for the metaphor, it's like listening to a radio station that isn't quite tuned in and is receiving another station as well. You aren't quite on either and there is a lot of extra noise. It gets in the way of thinking and doing. It gets frustrating and annoying. It makes everything too hard and so I give up and end up doing nothing. Yesterday I was feeling down because of something that happened earlier in the week. I just couldn't get moving. Then my husband turned on the tv (something I don't do during the day, it's too depressing) there was Oprah dressed in olden day clothes, roughing it in a village set 400 years ago. It was funny to watch her struggle, but it also gave me some oomph. Today to do things it is not that hard, I can do it! So I did all the dishes and cleared the bench, did some washing and now I'm up to date. It is definately a perception thing for me at this stage. If you are without anyone to tell you how different it can be (through councelling or supportive family member or friend). It can be hard to get out of the hole, and if the people around you are negative, which is more often than not, it is near impossible. If you feel like it's all too hard, talk to someone about it. Seek help, go to a doctor or councellor. Read about it www.beyondblue.org
Wednesday 4th January 2006 5.13pm
Just went to the tickerfactory and found this ticker to track my weightloss. :)
Saturday 2nd December 2005 11.35am Here I am-I'm back again. Dave is on holidays for five weeks!!! YAY!!! He has so needed a rest after the Gladular Fever. Yesterday we bought ourselves an early Christmas present. From us to us. A Playstation! We have been playing Gran Tourismo 3, a racing game, for all of yesterday afternoon and all morning (on and off of course!). I had to turn the music off though because it was really dark. Something about dead bodies-yuk. So we need to remember to do that every time we put the disc in. We got another game as well, but that is all about blowing things up, so Dave and I will check that out at a later time to see if it is appropriate for the girls. I doubt it will be. I have been on here again tweaking. I put in a marriage page and put a Christmas look on the front page. Not long now until Christmas! The girls are getting excited. Only 22 days today!!! We have officially finished school and are making Christmas decorations and learning about the Christmas Story. I'm nearly finished shopping, just a few things for my Mum and Dad to go and I'm done. I'm back up to 77kg this week. I bought some dark chocolate and we also have been having biscuits. I haven't exercised much at all. I did one lot of 20min on the exercise bike the other day, that's it. Little wonder that my weight has gone up. I need to get to 74kg to get my next book in the series I'm reading. So only one sugar instead of 1.5 in my coffees. Only 2 biscuits at afternoon tea instead of 3 and no chocolate. Exercise 2 - 3 times this week. Salads for dinner with maybe a soup or two in there. Well I need to go and make my girls some lunch.
Monday 28th November 2005 12.39pm Me Again Hello again its been quite a long time since I've blogged. I've never been one to consistently write down in a journal but I do come back, sometimes not for months, but it happens! Well what have I been doing? Well Dave and I have been pondering the future and what it may hold for us as a family. So I haven't been on here as much. I've also been a bit crafty as you could see by the sewing and crochet pages. Home Ed has been great. We received a very positive report from Eve, our Education Department Moderator. She is leaving work this year so we will have a different person from next year. Natasha is turning 6 in January so is considered compulsory and so will be moderated for the first time. I have no worries about this as both girls are advanced compared to most children their age at schools. I can't wait for the Christmas holidays to start so I can start planning next year!!! It's exciting (no I'm not crazy, really!) We have started to make some Christmas decorations and I de-spidered the tree on the weekend. Shopping is going slowly but I'm getting an idea of what to get for each member of my family. I might send Christmas cards I might not. I didn't the past 2 years. I guess I saved on postage!!! I might just email people. Everyone I talk with is on email anyway! I have been exercising on and off and am currently 76kg. Still 16kg to go, it's slowly going and certainly not coming back, so that's good. Ummm-can't think of anything else. I'm updating the website (finally) and will have a lot of new stuff soon. Well that's enough ramble for now. Life is good. Bye for now...
Monday 3rd October 2005 7.13pm Hello It's been a while since I've been on here. I've lost one kilo so I'm 77kg now. I lost one kilo the first week of exercising (4 times) and the second week (last week) I was really tired so I only exercised 2 times, but I didn't put the kilo back on, so that's good. Olivia and Natasha have both had colds so we didn't get to the Royal Show like we planned. We will do something fun with them (special, fun) this week before the holidays finish. I can't wait for holidays to finish so that the dirt bike rider and the skateboard rider can go away! It's been so noisy around here. Usually there is a lot of traffic, but this constant buzzing of the bike and banging of the kid trying to do a flipping trick are getting on my nerves! I'm also looking forward to starting the program I worked out last week for Olivia. I will do one for Natasha this week. On the craft front I did some mending and sewing yesterday. Fixed a doll, a top and 2 skirts. I made a skirt out of an old pair of jeans and an old dress for Natasha. I finished her dressing gown too, it's a little big, but at least it's warm!!! I'm going to be turning some jeans into a skirt for me next, just have to work out what I want to do...no patterns for me! Must get back to the website soon, haven't updated in quite a while. Cya
Tuesday 20th September 2005 4.13pm This is the Victory! That is the song in my brain. Remember the OLD chorus. Well it is to me. 10-15 years old anyway. This is the victory. I have overcome the world, by faith. Why I am singing it is that I have been exercising nearly every day for a while now...today I did 30 minutes. It was going to be 15, but I pushed on!!! I feel very victorious right now. I'm still 78kg, but I weighed and measured myself with the girls yesterday and we worked out if I lost 0.5 kg per week (healthy to get it off and keep it off) my target date would be 29th May 2006. I'm aiming for 60kg. Girls just came back for Julie's had an afternoon there (that's how I got the exercise done). They were cutting and gluing. Got to go and organise myself for the busy week...tomorrow Gilly and the kids are coming. Thursday we are going to a Quiz Night, Friday I have an eye appointment and we're out for dinner, Saturday is the Grand Final - Go Eagles! Then Sunday church and off to Mum and Dad's to celebrate Dad's 61st birthday.
Monday 12th September 2005 10.16am Sunshine! It's such a beautiful sunny spring day today. I'm very thankful for it. The girls and I have done the usual morning breakfast etc and went on to some school, then they played for a bit and have migrated outside. I'm baking some choc-chip muffins for morning tea. Don't know what it is about fine weather, just makes me want to cook! Yesterday was good. Church was good, on the different side, but I'm sure next week will be back to normal. Dad went and enjoyed himself. The girls love it. Dave and I enjoyed the sun yesterday too, we sat out the back for a bit having a chat. That was nice. He did a bit of gardening to tidy up the yard. I took Billy to the vet yesterday to find out what's up with his ears. The vet couldn't see anything, but saw how he was shaking his head and holding his ears funny. He thought it might be earmites, which are little lite coloured bugs that dogs can pick up anywhere. We got some drops for him. The vet also looked at Billy's knee which bothers him. He thinks it was an old cruceit ligament injury which has turned to arthritis. He wanted to do an x-ray ($280) to be certain then injections ($34 ea) for 4 weeks AND tablets ($$$) then boosters of both every 3 mths for life - sounds like his retirement would be paid up if we did that. We just got the drops which were $30 and are to be used for 2 - 4 weeks. I'll massage Billy's knee and take him on more regular walks. Which is exactly what we did when we got home, went across the road and walked the old walk I used to walk Max, I think I took Billy on it when he was littler. It was fun, but hard! Sand is hard to walk through! So that was my workout yesterday. I'm due to do a workout today. I'm going to do an exercise bike ride. No walking today! Muffins are almost ready and I need to hang some towels.
Saturday 10th September 2005 3.35pm Inspired to exercise! I ran into an old friend today, via email. She has a blog dedicated to losing weight. I read through it and it inspired me to do my exercise for today. I did 10km (exercise bike km's) Then 20 reps of different weights and 20 crunches. Took about 25mins. Then instead of jam biscuits for morning tea I had 2 rivita's with cottage cheese on em. I love cottage cheese, but just don't think of eating it enough! Lunch was a 98% fat free tuna tin with capsicum (i think) which I had on a sandwich with lettuce and tomato. I had a coffee with 3 tim tams for afternoon tea and I had half a musk stick when I gave the kids some. I have baked some rolls for dinner to have as hamburgers. Should be yummy. Might do some chips with them, depends on what the family want. Church tomorrow, can't wait. I had to stay with Natasha last week because of her cold. She is just about better now, just a lingering cough every so often. Olivia is still coughing quite a lot, just the cold coming out. I haven't given Olivia any panadol today, and Natasha had none yesterday. I still haven't had any symptoms, praise God! I just need to keep drinking water because my skin is really dry, which shows I'm dehydrated. Did some gardening earlier. Potted some cuttings I took from Mum's a week or two ago. They are on their last legs, so I hope they survive. Haven't had the chance to do it before this because it's been so windy and rainy. I actually hung some washing outside not under the patio! Mum went to Melbourne yesterday morning. Got an email from Paul to say she arrived and is ok. She is just going to see family. I hope she has fun. The kids are watching a DVD with Dave right now. They went to the video store while I watched a recording of 10.5 the movie that was on last week or so. Mum taped it and said it was good. It was ok, but again another movie where it's all about America and they try to fix the problem by blowing things up. Sounds like Mythbusters! I should go and do something constructive. Maybe bag up some of the toys we took out of the girls rooms the other day. Their rooms are lovely and tidy, but now the rest of the house is messy! Can't wait to bless someone with the excess.
Thursday 8th September 2005 2.12pm Cold In more ways than one. It is cold, windy and raining and the girls have colds. We haven't done any school the past 2 days because they've been feeling too sick. I have taken garlic, echinacea, Vitamin C and zinc - so hopefully nothing will make it through that! Soon the weather will warm up and stay warm, then we can do more outside things. Bought 3 Azalea's today one Ice Pink and 2 brighter pinks, don't know what they are called and I'm not going out there to look! I will take some pictures of them later and post them to show you what they look like. They should be pretty in nice pots or something. I also bought 2 DVD's today, 2 of my favourites, Shawshank Redemption and Color Purple. Both stories where good triumphs, eventually and what goes around comes around. The girls and I worked on their rooms yesterday, cleaning and sorting out toys to give/throw away. There is a heap to go and to reward them we bought two new tos for them. A Skydancer and some more Ello. They love them, haven't stopped playing with them since. I tried to buy some old fashioned pick up sticks, but when I got to the checkout I found out the pack was a part of a three in one pack that had been opened, so I left it. Pity, we enjoy pick up sticks. Oh well, next time. Just dropped Julie off to pick up her car after a service and expecting her here for afternoon tea soon so I'd better go.
Wednesday 7th September 2005 8.19am Exercise Just did 35min on the exercise bike. I am currently 78kg. (yes the weight crept up again, does that when you don't exercise and eat the wrong foods.) I'm looking for Body Fat Calipers to determine what percent of my weight is fat and what is muscle. I can't find them in any of the shops up the road, so maybe I'll have to look in a fitness store or online. While I was exercising I was praying and I told the Holy Spirit I am doing this for Him. He gave me this revelation. As you exercise and eat the right foods you ARE doing it for God, you are prolonging your life and so can make a greater impact on the world for Him. Isn't that great! Yes we may have disease and infirmities from the consequences of our sin, but in God's divine wisdom He may decide to take those things away. This is a miracle. If He doesn't, He may be allowing those things to teach you something in your life. Either way to me it is comforting to know that He cares enough to be in my life.
Tuesday 6th September 2005 Not Bored Anymore! Dave was asking if I'd updated my blog yet. I hadn't because I lost my log in and couldn't get "them" at Blogger to email it to me because we changed providers and silly me forgot to notify them and change it etc. So ANYWAY no I'm not bored anymore, I've created a website! I've also done a lot in the way of craft. Finished Olivia's dressing gown (which is falling apart already and needs to be mended!) started on Natasha's dressing down (purple of course!) started crocheting a spring top in a verigated rainbow cotton. Started a couch cover in Maroon, Dark Green and Cream - crochet. I've been baking a lot of bread and rolls and muffins. I have started a workout schedule and the weight should start moving soon. (I'm eating a Snickers as I type - won't be long now! lol). hmm, what else have we done in the 2 and a half months? We've been cold through winter, but not too cold compared to other places in the world I guess! ;o) Went to a homeschool meet up in a park last week, that was fun to see so many people doing the same thing as us (about 8 families). We started going to Warwick Church of Christ a few weeks back. We have visited there on and off for the past 2 years (homechurch never happened!!!). The girls have gone to kids club and want to go again! All the crabs are still alive! And the dog and cat! The novelty of having my mother-in-law across the road has worn off, but not the convenience. It's great to have her so close. She is really appreciated. I can't think of anything else. I suppose I'll update as I feel the need now that I don't have to log in!
29 June 2005 Today Today I'm kind of
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12:30 PM 6 Sept 2005
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Now we just need to determine boundaries for the girls regarding Nanna's. It's weird that they can just walk over there. But good.
Well I'm off to try and finish these squares (7 left) then join em up!
cya
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D's Mum moved!
Bought new shells for crabbies!
Bought new books for kiddies!
Got books/vids out of library!
Took J shopping twice!
Had people over for B'day!
Doesn't seem like much looking at it like that, but it's been busy living it.
Craft side of things, I'm crocheting L's dressing gown again. I'm doing granny squares in a verigated green/pink and then will be joining it with white, green or pink. Made a blue jumper for L and a pink one for T. Did more of my cross stitch, but took a break again.
Got Reuben Morgan's - World Through Your Eyes CD and some money from D for my b'day.
Mum bought me some nice brown wool to make a jumper for myself, a warm soft purple zipper cardi, a pretty broach, a bottle of nice port, a waffle maker, a embroidery kit, some paints, some choccies, two fridge magnets and a jewellery box. J bought me choccies and gave me some money which I've used to buy an orange and black jumper and an orange/purple/pink/black rugby style (white collar) top and two country style coffee mugs and more to come! Going out with D on the weekend to see a movie or have dinner out somewhere.
Today is a rainy, cold day. I actually got some towels dry! Used the dryer and put them on twice! I feel like I'm SO behind on the house because of being out so much. The girls are getting along really well despite the weather. They're usually at each other's throats by now (2-3 weeks of rain). I HAVE bought them some new DVD's (Hello Kitty and Home on the Range.) so that would have broken some of the monotony (and we HAVE been at Nanna's new house alot).
Well off to do some reading/crochet in between watching a vid with the kids and drying clothes and doing housework! (Life really!)
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01 June 2005
Winter at last
I love winter. My philosophy is you can always get warm, you can't always cool down.
Went to church Sunday before last and T got a cold. Now we all have it. That amongst other things is why we're gonna start homechurching. Should be fun.
D's Mum hasn't moved yet. We've had a huge set back because of an unknown caveat on the house. LONG story short, she should be in within 2 weeks. sigh too much stress!
I went to the Craft Fair with Mum last week. That was fun - SO much to see. It inspired me to pick up my x-stitch again and try and finish it. So I'm off to sit by my window and do just that (with a hot cuppa of course!).
Later all, have a good one.
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24 May 2005
A Poem I wrote this morning.
Live the life,
walk the walk.
Sing the songs
and talk the talk.
Please don't forget
to read the Good Book.
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19 May 2005
Thursday
Good Morning!
How are we today? I'm happy and healthy and just had the yummiest porridge for breaky. It's a slimming magazine (from Slimming April 2005 pg 30) recipe -
Perfect Porridge
1 serving instant porridge (I use Quakers Oats individual sachets) made with 180ml skim milk, topped with 1 tbsp reduced fat creme fraiche (I use "Fruche" vanilla flavour) and 1 tbsp reduced sugar berry jam (I use Weight Watchers Fruits of the Forest)
I have now lost 2kg I'm 75kg!!! yay! I've been doing between 15-30min on the exercise bike this week. I've done it 5 days out of 7. That's the most I've exercised for a while. Quite proud of myself!
Especially as winter is less than a fortnight away.
Today is pretty routine: Take books/videos/cds back to the public library and do some grocery shopping. Also going down to the crab shop for some weenie shells. Just decided to go to the video store too to get some videos/dvds as well.
Time for me to get ready for the girls to do some school.
Toodle-loo!
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17 May 2005
New Crabs!
Monday we went to Merv's Crab Shop in Ozzy Park. If you've never beeen there, go! There are dozens on em all climbing over one another, it's amazing! We got too little crabs, both male as far as we can tell. T got one similar to Bluebell. This one is named Zebby because he's stripey on his body like a zebra - well sort of. I bought myself one too, he's bigger and didn't stop moving around for the first couple of hours we got him home so I called him Ron Stoppable from the Disney's Kim Possible cartoon. He changed shells twice right in front of us. I was amazed at how small the shells where that he fit into and he seemed alot bigger, so I think we need to get some weenie shells for Hermie and Zebby.
This weekend has been great. We've had alot of rain and a storm too. Southern suburbs of Perth had mini tornadoes go through. Ever since El Nino a few years back it seems there's tornadoes here now, we just used to get bad weather. I'm glad we're in the NOR.
I'm employing Supernanny's naughty spot and it actually works. T didn't want to do her school work this morning so I put her on a naughty spot (middle of the room). She had 5mins there (because she's 5). She had to say sorry for not listening to Mummy about doing school. Took her about 7 mins before she said sorry. L had finished her school but didn't want to have morning tea because T wasn't allowed until she'd finished hers. So she ran into her bedroom crying because she loves T more that morning tea!!! She has so much compassion. She didn't want to eat until T was allowed to. And she didn't! They are outside playing in the sandpit now. It's all wet, so it's sticking together nicely to make things out of, they're having a ball. I really should get out there with them too!
Cya lata
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14 May 2005
Saturday
Feeling happy today. Had a great sleep. Started reading "Prayer" by Dick Eastman. What a great book! (No Easy Road).
I did an exercise bike with D yesterday and today. Still 76kg.
Buried Bluebell under a plumbago plant out the front today. She laid "in state" for a few days! I couldn't bear to chuck her in the bin so now she's in a matchbox with a elastic band around it so no animals dig her up.
Hermie seems ok, maybe a bit lonely. She is definately a she we saw her hair on her back as she turned over. We are going to make a trip to Merv Coopers Crazy Crab shop on Monday and get another couple and some wood shavings to keep em warm during winter. Might look at some drift wood and sponge as well.
Off to watch the footy on telly with D. Go the Eagles!
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12 May 2005
Death in the family
Yesterday we lost T's crazy crab - Bluebell. She/He wasn't well for a while. We are only beginner hermit crab keepers, so we are learning. It was sad for T as she is only 5. We will be getting another, maybe more. Also want to change the bottom of the tank as it's getting into Winter they need wood shavings to keep warm and happy.
Apart from that, things are going good. I have lost 1kg in the last few days. so that makes it 16kg to go!
I also finished reading the book "My Story" by Dave Pelzer. What an amazing recount of a life of hell. I recommend it to anyone who likes biographies, reading, gripping stories and human triumph.
It's getting late so I'd better get these girls started on school. They are currently making cubby houses out of mattresses and dressing up as mum's and taking care of their babies (a baby born and a cabbage patch kid!!!) I love it, they are SO CUTE. Their imaginative play is great. L tends to take over and direct. But T is learning to say yes or no depending on whether she wants to or not and L is learning that not everyone is going to do what she wants all the time.
Catch ya lata
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10 May 2005
Lost Crazy Crab
I just had to find Herman L's Crazy Crab (Land Hermit Crab). We have had minor loses before and found them quickly, but I thought he had me then. I found him under the couch, picked him up and HE NIPPED ME!!! Blimey don't take your fear out on me! I put him in the tank...at least I'm not bleeding. Right, enough of the Blog stuff, I need to get back to REAL LIFE for a bit...been online TOO long.
10 May 2005
L & T did well at school this morning. Nothing too hard. Just getting L to plug away at her Math book & T to actually do something. She did so I'm happy. They're watching The Land Before Time today. I don't mind, they're happy & not fighting.
Rissoles & Salad for dinner tonight. I need to do a shopping list & get my head together on which things I liked from the Slimming eating plan. I'm only a little overweight but it's hard to get it moving . I lost .5kg last week then gained it back, but IT MOVED! I need to walk the backyard again, I was doing 7 laps each day last week , but haven't this week. That's the difference, I know I need to expend more energy than I eat.
Watched Supernanny last night. I like the idea of picking 3 snacks for the next day and THAT'S IT. The girls would pick all day if they could. (so would I) so I'll put that into the shopping list. After the vid is finished we'll sit and talk about it. I suppose that can be put down for Society & Environment for school!
Well I'd better go and put on some washing, it's supposed to rain tonight.