I'll Be Back

Think of me tomorrow as I crawl out of

my warm bed, leaving my bed mate Henry

sleeping on my pillow, at 4:30am

we are off to NSW until Friday night

my babies are all at grandmas

the kitties are going to be home alone

except when someone comes to feed, water and do

the kitty litter lol

we will be home 11pm Friday night

I have the camera packed

so I will be back sometime on Saturday with

my thoughts on the little town that is to become

our home.....

ciao

xxx

Weekly Weigh in time

and I will confess I wasn't feeling all that good

about standing on the dreaded scales

you see I have had a bit of a naughty week

Friday I ate Hungry Jacks

23 points worth of HJ

then to compensate I did a 1hr Kimax class

so my HJ feast cost me

12 points because of Kimax, but I did have

a few drinkies on Friday night, oh and Thursday night

I didn't go to Zumba on Saturday
but we did walk approx 4 kms looking at the flood

I didn't do Balance on Sunday

I went out for dinner last night and ate

2 little salads and a bowl of the

most yummiest hot chips

and washed it all down with 3 rum and cokes......

so what did the scales say tonight

-1.3kgs

now to make it through our trip to NSW

with no gym, nights out

and no gym....

I am taking my sneakers and I will be going for

long walks on the beach.

I am determined

not to gain weight this week

and I am ony 1.7kgs away from my 5% goal...

Go Me :)

Up to Date

With my Stitch a long blocks

and yesterday morning there was an attmept to

make the great escape

sadly for Henry that is as far as he got.



Flood Waters

After all the rain we have had this week the gorge has come into flood

it is a very impressive sight

I have never seen the flood gates at royal park shut, and I have lived

here for 24 of my 32+7 years

Kings bridge, we drive over this bridge every day its the way into

our suburb



We have news

dh got the job

we fly to NSW next week

for a look see

planning on moving there

in May

I am happy and sad

does that make sense???

A non creative day

I did think about,

I even walked into my sewing room

then quickly walked back out.

I went to a Kimax class at the gym today

O.M.G it was awesome

me, a punching bag and as the instructor said

think of someone you don't like and smash it

lordy I smashed it lol

and she taught us the perfect move to break someones leg

if we ever need to,

 apparently the only mark I would have

would be a small bruise on my shin.

Not that I am ever likely to need to do that lol but I

guess its good to be prepared

Had a rushed afternoon, girlies came home I played a quick

game of phone tag with a removalist

dropped  the girlies to mums at 4pm for violin

raced back home to meet the removalist

who decided that he wanted to discuss Henrycat

I had to grab my phone and keys and just open the

front door at 5:25pm and made it very obvious

it was time to go.

He assures me now I have selected the to be store furniture/shed

that we will travel in only 1 container yay me lol. That has to lower the

cost, well I hope it does lol

We have our favourite movers rolling in for a quote on Friday

Lets hope its a huge improvement on the last one lol

I am off up the coast tomorrow to pick up dh, I have a pump class

Friday, Zumba on Saturday, Pump on Sunday followed by Balance

where tonight I learnt to do the hindu squat and 'the bird'

very tricky indeed

then we have my sister and her family for the night on Sunday

we are all off to dinner sunday night and they fly back to Sydney on Monday

and as far as we know we are still going to NSW on

Wednesday.......for a look see ooooh time away from the

girlies, but no gym for 3 days, I'll miss Balance, Kimax, Pump

Although we are still waiting for a definate yes, dh has

spoken to his referees who have been contacted, and its looking very

very very much like he has a new job.....

Fingers crossed we get word tomorrow or Friday.

Right now I am about to head to bed, I have a bit of a head

cold and a yucky cough, and I am surprisingly rather weary

tonight.

Today

Is my mummy and my sisters birthday

so to celebrate I made mum a double choc cheesecake

which sounds nice and yummy but was too sweet for her to eat

and the funny thing is I don't like cheesecake so everyone

was shocked when I made it lol

at least dad loved it and still has half to eat lol

now the weather here has been rather cruddy to say the least

windy, oh so windy little bit of drizzle

not really cold, but a great inside and sew kind of day

and look what I managed to get done

My garden, I just need to sew the blocks together,

add a border, quilt and bind it....YAY

and I need to confess I didn't make my bed today

and this is why

what a life Henrycat lives

at least he has stopped sleeping on dh's pillow lol

dh is apparenty allergic to cats and Henry knows this

so spends 6 weeks sleeping on his pillow while he is away

then moves back to my side, my pillow or beside me

just before he comes back from sea lol lol lol

and Harry sleeps in his basket on the floor

Harry is a good cat.

More cruddy weather predicted for tomorrow so who knows what I will

get done in my sewing room



Fee is having a giveaway

Go look here

follow Fee's rules

and you could win

2 charm packs and 1 metre of rose fabric

noice :)

What the Slave has achieved today

Firstly one has to intently watch the mop on

the off chance one could actually catch

said mop

the once one's slave begins the sewing room

cleanup/cleanout

one has to sit in the wrong place

One also has to make changing the sheets on the slaves bed

as difficult as possible, by resting in the middle so the slave

has to wait until one has rested sufficiently after mop watching

to enter the sewing room to supervise,

of course one has to get up before the slave gets the camera.

and this is what the slave managed to get done

before

after

ones slave has also been for her weekly weigh in

she doesn't want to discuss it, but one will

ones slave gained 500g but has lost 6cms off her body

slave here lol, apparently you need to weigh in at the same time each week

last week I weighed in at a morning meeting

today I weighed in at a night meeting

but I know all is good as I can wear size 14 jeans yay me lol

and all up I have lost 3.2kgs in 3 weeks and 11.5cms

so my ww leader Dianne said not to stress so I am not.



Out of control

Is the current state of my sewing room

so

after I have done the housework and dusted

I am going in

to sort, purge and make decisions

I need to downsize, whether we move or not

so today is the day

you never know I might just find some goodies

looking for new homes

so keep checking back as I can feel

a giveaway or 2 happening



Progress

I managed to get

My Garden blocks  ALL stitched

YAY

and now look like this

and I traced ALL the blocks for

Tis the Season and here are March's blocks

and we started to tackle the garden, then got distracted by an

offer of coffee lol.

On tonights agenda is to get my 1st block of 

 In my Garden,

 traced, flosses wound onto cards

needleturn pieces ready to stitch.

so happy I got some stitching done over the weekend

heres to a productive week between gym classes, WW weigh in,

a trip up the coast to collect dh, the girlies hectic lives, Grandmas birthday

and a visit from my sister and her family. Not to mention the

usual housework, washing and ironing to be,oh and its linen change day on Tuesday

blah

I am tired just thinking about it all lol



Its the Weekend

Yippee

So what are our plans for this weekend

Miss E is off to a birthday party this afternoon and

is staying the night

it will be so quiet without her, we have discovered that if you remove

one girlie for a night the silence is bliss, no arguing, no yelling at siblings,

no she said or she did or muuuuuuum lol

just peace, after we drop her off we need to visit the supermarket and then we

will visit Grandma and Grandpa for a little while

I am supposed to be going to the gym for Zumba this afternoon

but have woken up with the beginings of a head cold

so instead of gymimg it, I am going to just relax

and chill out and eat good food

I also plan on tracing out the 1st 3 blocks for the

Tis The Season stitch along, but I must complete my

1 lone missing block from In my garden before I

can start stitching them

I started to sew the borders on the other In my Garden blocks, on Wednesday

I have 3 more to border

then I can sew the bottom 2 rows together

but really need to get the last block done.

Tomorrow I am doing Balance at 10:30

then I plan on coming home and getting into the garden

need to tidy it up before dh arrives home on Tuesday

Miss E comes home after lunch tomorrow.

So that is our weekend plans, nothing terribly exciting happening

just a relaxing pottering kind of weekend.

They say

Confession is good for the soul

so I guess I should confess

dh applied for a harbour Masters job

dh got an intervew for said harbour masters job

someone from NSW flew to Melbourne today to actually meet him face to face

and now we wait  for a yay or a nay.

If he gets it, and we are very confident he will

we will be moving (again)

this time to NSW, to the Sapphire Coast

a little town halfway betwen Melbourne and Sydney

its 475 kms to Sydney

3 hours to Canberra

BUT

and there is always a BUT lol

there is no relocation package for us this time

which means, we have to pay

and I just got a quote in from our favourite removalist company

and all I can say is

OUCH OUCH OUCH

who would have thought that moving from Tassie to NSW

could be so mind blowingly expensive

we could pay nearly 8 months worth of

mortgage payments

so please keep your fingers crossed for us

that we win lotto sometime in the next 3 weeks

** I spoke to dh about the lack of a relocation package
and he said that it is not common for them to be offered
WA gave us one due to the extremely remote location and
to make it more appealing , our move to WA and home again
would have paid our mortgage for 3 1/2years**

Houston, we have a problem

and I need some advice from wise ones

who have hopefuly dealt with our issue

before us.

Miss S has a 'best friend' Miss G

now Miss S is very popular with her friends

Miss G isn't Miss S is her ONLY friend

whenever Miss S asks someone else to be her partner

for something at school

Miss G becomes so nasty which is what happened today

at school

Now us mothers have always let them sort it out themselves

but tonight while I was doing my class at the gym,

Miss G turned on my baby girl, she was so mean to her

Miss I is now refusing to go to the gym at night

because Miss G is there.

My baby girl doesn't have a mean bone in her body

and for me to collect her and have her burst into tears

as soon as she saw me because of Miss G, has made my

blood boil.

My advice to the girlies was to ignore her at school

and when she asked Miss S to go for a play to say no thanks

and if she asked her to be her partner for anything to say

no thanks XXXX is my partner today.

Have I told them the wrong thing??

There is no point talking to her mother because her reply is

always oh thats just Miss G......

but its hard as her mum and I are such good friends, we do

WW together, we go to the gym together

we have afternoon drinkies, we go on trips etc etc

so HELP WISE ONEs please.

what did you do, because I am ready to

slap that child into next year.

So excited

first up though is my stitching

In my garden

in random order

all together minus the 1 I haven't stitched.....YET

and I have some stem stitch to do on 1 and a heart

to stitch on the house.....

and my neglected bear paws...

and why am I so excited...

I lost 1.5kgs this week :) :) :)

ony 19 to go lol



I have been stitching

away on Lynette Andersons

In my Garden button club thingie

I am pleased to report I only have 1 left to stitch

then I have to sew each blocks little borders on

then sew them all together....

But I am getting there.

photos of the 8 completed to come TODAY

My bear paws are still lacking 4, and are hanging

on my design wall neglected so I have to get back into them

I picked up Miss I's new quilt a couple of weeks ago

that is sitting on my chest of drawers far away from

Henry cat's free flowing fur waiting for the binding to be sewn on

I haven't started my new Anni Downs BOM

that wil happen AFTER I stitch my last In the garden stitchery

nor have I started Berries and Buebirds,

Block 9 of Down in the Garden is on its way to me in the post

Sooooo much to do so little time

and its my first weigh in today

considering I have been soooo very good in the food department

and I have done 2 zumba classes, 1 pump and 1 balance class

I am hoping for a good number.

and I have balance tonight, which is great cause

at the moment I need some Yoga, Tai Chi and balance

things are getting stressful...........

hopefully this Friday will bring some answers........

Roll on Friday :)



Remember

This post

well there has been a slight change of plans,

plans which changed at great expense I might add

so no fabric for me :(

well the amended plans are set in stone and if it changes

again there will be BIG trouble

My lil trip has been set back a week so I now have

another 15 days to wait

and patience is not a strong point of mine

before I am now sitting in one of these

and you know the rest, nothing else other than the dates have changed except I no longer have

to suffer with a Jetstar flight.......

Men, you can't live with and you can't legally shoot them either.



I am balanced

which was far more successful than Zumba

minimal co-ordination needed lol

So I hoped on the scales at the gym

to find I had apparently gained 1.5kgs

bad, bad, bad

but it seems the scales at the gym may need

new batteries

because according to the wii board on Thursday I have lost 1.2kgs

but after a quick weight check today I have gained 100g....

so I loaded the kids in the car and we went and burnt my 100g off

with a 2km walk through the Gorge and back along the zig zag track

which today took a whole
45 minutes.......

I am sure we  will all sleep like logs tonight :)

I am off to do a Pump class tomorrow afternoon

 Balance on Wednesday evening

Zumba on Friday morning

& Saturday afternoon

and Sundays plan is pump followed by balance.

Downward dog here I come lol

my girlfriend assures me my 100g gain is muscle

I hope she is right



Its Official

I have just come home from the gym where I did

my first zumba class

it was great, loads of fun and lots of giggling

and lots of sweat

but

its official

when it comes to getting both arms and legs

moving

I seem to lose all co-ordination

oh well off to do it again next week

I'll have to report in tomorrow afternoon about

the Balance class

its a mix of tai chi, Pilate's and yoga

it lengthens your muscles apparently

so

here's to longer muscles and an increase in height lol

Where in the World.....

In 13 days I will be sitting in one of these

so I can sit in one of these

all the way to ?????

then 2 days later

I will sitting in one of these

so I can sit in one of these

all the way home.

and its a girlies free trip

thanks to Grandma and Grandpa who will be

girlie, kitty, puppy and house sitting.

Bring it on!



Zig Zag

Not the stitch lol,

yesterday I walked the zig zag track

which runs along the Cataract Gorge

it was steep, very very steep and got my heart racing

big time,

then I walked back along the normal persons path

to the car.

I started at 1 followed path 9, to 8, then 7 to 5

4 and back along 2

In total I walked 2 kms, and hated the first 900 m

with a passion.

Now I know why I didn't see anyone walking ahead of me,

I just saw them walking towards me.

Oh well I feel great for it except my calves hurt and plan on tackling it again

tomorrow morning.

Today I am off to the police station......

with Miss I and her class as her

teacher is married to a policeman

we are walking into town having recess and then

we will walk to the police station and YAY

we are catching a bus back.

My husband said he hoped they let me back out lol

and he roared laughing at my text yesterday which said

'just walked the zig zag track, I want to die'

but he stopped laughing when I told him he was doing

it twice a week with me when he gets back.....

we will see who is laughing then.

I'll have 2 more weeks of the track

under my belt before he does one.......

I am thinking I will get the last laugh after his

1st time lol lol



I took the plunge

and joined weight watchers tonight

apparently I need to lose 20.5 kgs

and I am determined to do it

hopefully by the time I turn

32+8 in June

so I am putting it out there, so I have no excuse

when I was asked what my goal weight was I said

'Skinny' lol

wish me luck I have a terrible bbq shape and m&m addiction

8 bbq shapes means 3 points

25g of m&m's means 3 points

I think the m&m's will win

wish me luck I am going to need it

Desperately

trying to find an online stockist of

Grandmothers Flower Garden

designed by Rosalie Quinlan

so I can finish my

Down in the Garden Quilt!

I don't need alot and would prefer fats 1/8s to fat 1/4's

if I can't find any I can't finish it....

feeling very very frustrated!

on a happier note,

the heaters are wired in

new sensor light is installed and working

and the girlies are at school

YIPPEE

and I have decided that I can't start my

Tis the Season SAL until

I have completed the stitcheries

for

Lynette Andersons

In My Garden....

I only have 5 to do and they are small so

I should get them finished in no time.

I hope

and

I am off for a little break with the man of the house

in a couple of weeks

but more on that AFTER

it happens!

Ummm

Can anyone tell me what Eden, NSW is like

all I know is by car 3 hrs to Canberra

5-6 hrs to Sydney or Melbourne

help....

Google is telling me very very little

its been a DIY kind of day

with a little spot of sewing of the bear paws thrown in

Last winter we got a whopper of a power bill

$1700 for 3 months

our heat pump which was on 24/7 cost us $330 for those

3 months, the culprits of the outrageous amount were the

panel heaters on the landing downstairs and in the girlies

room.

Tomorrow we have our electrican coming to wire the panel heaters in

and to replace our sensor light out the front before daylight savings ends

So this afternoon my handy Daddy came and hung the heaters

the landing heater, and I still  have to move the quilt hangers up higher so the girlies

Little Bluebirds quilt can go back up, but I will do that after the

sparkie has worked his magic

the bunkers heater

then I got the ladder out as 2 lights in the kitchen had blown

and replaced the bulbs

and I put the cover back on the bathroom light which falls off

every 3 months or so, and always in the early hours of the

morning which scares the life out of me lol

not an easy feet as I have to stand on the 2nd highest rung of the ladder

to reach as we have 9 ft ceilings, my heart races everytime I have to do it.

and I put together an outdoor heater

so we can continure to use our deck for Friday afternoon drinks with

some of the mums from school lol

because it is getting very chilly here and I am wondering if we are in

for an early winter....and a cold one



Tis the Season

Today I found my fabrics

I am using

a mix of Rural Jardin and some other Moda goodness

and I took a trip to Calico Crossroads I had to pick up

my kit for the new Homespun BOM

and of course no post is complete without a photo

of Henrycat, as I emptied the bag of fabric

he climbed in

He has a bag fetish

shopping bags, paper bags, gardening bags

suitcases, handbags, plastic bags

if it is empty its his....


I also cleaned spotlight out of Olfa 45mm cutting blades
they were on sale, down to $7.93 each so I bought 4 today

I got 4 on Sunday too

at that price they were worth stocking up on.