Chilled

I’m sitting here eating my home made pumpkin and sweet potato soup. I have to rub it in, it’s my first time ever making soup and it is delish.
Thank god there were left overs so I could have it for lunch today. Last night I had my sister and her boyfriend over for dinner. They work in the mines and go back today so I thought I would make them dinner before they go back. My sister is a sweet heart and spoils me although I am the eldest ha ha. So she deserved a nice meal.
It all went well, and the food was enjoyed by all.

Had a pretty quiet weekend which was very nice for a change. I need to re charge for Melbourne. Watch the footy Saturday night and my team won YAY! Very excited go the Saints!

I wasn’t going to tell anyone this but hey I have a big mouth lol. I have actually started WW again, not officially but I’m counting points again. I just need to get back into a routine and plan our meals, this way it’s so much healthier and easier. I have already planned all this weeks meals and it feels great. I feel great and have only been doing it for 1 week.

We are going to go for a little walk tonight and play some tennis. YAY! to tennis.


Check out our picture in our bedroom don’t you just love it: It matches our room perfect.

Melbourne Here I Come

27 days until I am in Melbourne, my home away from home. Every time I go back I curse my mother for making us move to Perth.
Perth isn’t that bad but I feel so at home in Melbourne. Anyway I am very much looking forward to it. There are two reasons I am going
It’s my uncle’s 50th he always comes over to “our” events and plus he is my favourite uncle. The second reason is to see a very close friend
That I haven’t seen since January I miss her and can’t wait to catch up and see everything that she has been up to since we last saw each other.
And perhaps there may be a third reason…. Shopping!

August was crazy every single weekend we have been going out, something has been on and September seems to be shaping up the same. This weekend
We are having our housewarming party, very excited about this. Although I just haven’t had time to tidy the house Joel and I both work full time and work over an hour away from our house. So today tomorrow I am
Hoping to leave work a little early so I get prepared.

On the work front it has been thrown out there that I may be losing my job, as our department may be closing or moving on to somewhere else who might not want me. At first I was really worried but I weighed it all up and I’m due a nice little payout since I was due for long service leave next year in April so will be fine and all things happen for a reason, and maybe it’s time to go into something else.

On a small other note, that may be too much information. I have gone off the pill :)

Busy Bee

The last couple of weeks have been crazy.

Where to start. My boss was asked to resign, he did and now I am acting CEO. It is our busiest time of year and I’m still required to do all my work plus do all the CEO work.
I have been starting at 7.30 everyday and some days I don’t get home till 10pm. I hoping this week isn’t that bad and I can relax a little. Sometimes it’s good to come in early cos I
Can get all my work done while no one is ringing the phones etc. But staying till 10 well that just plan sucks.

Joel’s work ball was this weekend and was a great night; I have some pictures at the bottom. I ended up getting mighty drunk ha ha, haven’t been drunk in a long time.
I had to work on Sunday morning so that wasn’t too great but once I got into it, I ended up feeling ok. Went home had a nap, felt great afterwards. Joel and I decided to go to dinner
Which was really lovely, all in all had a pretty good weekend.

Here are some pics:

weekend

Had a good weekend, went for a walk Saturday morning which was nice.
It is so great to see the area especially since we are so new to it, its great finding places. We found a tennis court which was great,
Every time we go down south we always go to play tennis so I said to Joel now we have found one so close we will have to get ourselves some cheap 2nd hand tennis rackets. So now I’m on the hunt for tennis rackets ha ha.

We then headed to this engagement party, it was so far away. But it was good catching up with people we haven’t seem since the wedding. It was so cold though.

Yesterday we just chilled out. Put my roast chicken in the slow cooker and watched DVD’s all day which was nice to do, haven’t done that in so long. The chicken turned out amazing, and Joel was very appreciative he loved it. I found the recipe from a forum I use, and I will defintley be using again. Here it is if anyone else would like to give it a try so easy and so yum.

- 1 medium sized free range corn fed chicken
- 1 Lemon
- Rosemary
- 6 cloves garlic
- Butter
- Salt & Pepper

Wash and dry chicken inside and out. Pat dry with paper towel. Season the whole chicken with salt & pepper and rub in a bit. Cut small cubes of butter and push about 4 cubes underneath the breast skin on each side. Inside the chicken put more cubes of butter, 4 smashed cloves of garlic, 2 sprigs rosemary & half the lemon (cut in half again). (I did this the night before and covered in foil).
In the bottom of the slow cooker put 2 cloves garlic and a few small cubes butter. Put the chicken on top in the slow cooker. Break up 1 sprig rosemary over top top of the chicken and push into skin a bit. Squeeze the other half lemon over the top.
Cook on high for 4 hours, basting the chicken twice towards the end. Take out and cover with foil for 10 mins before carving!

I put carrots behind the legs and wings. Also I put it on low for 8 hours.

Here is a pic of Joel and I from the engagement party:

Tease

Because i am becoming a little housewifey i have been baking heaps.
Here is a pic of a yummy cake i made a while ago.

Realising the obvious

This week has been a horror of a week and I am glad it is finally Friday. A lot of thing happened this week out of my control but I felt myself spiralling out of control
in every shape and form. After a relaxing and calming night I have decide to take a new direction in life.
I realise I can’t control everything even though I would love too cos I am a control freak. But from now just
To sit back and relax and just take what comes, and try to sort it out if it’s out of my control there’s no point
Using all my energy trying to change it when I can’t. I know this is pretty obvious for most, but I have only just come to the realisation I can’t control everything, much to Joel’s delight lol. So this is a more positive me I guess, hence the change of title for my blog.

Next Wednesday I am starting a 10 week course in MYOB and Payroll and at the end of it I will receive a Certificate 3, so I’m pretty stoked about that. It just makes me look more hireable when I’m looking for a new job.

This weekend is pretty jammed packed, tonight dinner and cocktails with my bestie and her sister. Tomorrow we have an engagement party, it’s so far away though and I’m not really that excited about it and plus I have to drive, boo no drinking and Sunday will be cleaning the house and I am making a yummy roast chicken for dinner.

So after realising the obvious, here’s to better times.

x

All at once

At the moment Joel and I are struggling a bit just trying to get used to the life of having a mortgage, and all the bills that come in at once. I mean really what did I except? For it too be all rosey and easy as pie!

Let me just clarify Joel and I are happy together, we just have to adjust and it’s taking its toll a little bit. We have never lived out of home before, until now. It just feels like we get on top of everything and then a mountain of other shit comes up. It’s not only bills my car has been playing up recently, we only my car atm as Joel’s car has been sitting in his parent’s drive way for about a year still waiting to be fixed or Joel deciding if it’s worth getting fixed. Arggghhh it just all has to happen at once doesn’t it?

SO anyway on the weight loss front I have lost 1.2kg’s so far, it’s a slow process but I prefer to do it a little bit slower I feel more in control if that makes sense, and If I do have a bad day I don’t have to beat my self up and still in the end I get the same result.
What a whiney/sad post, sorry guys just not feeling the greatest atm

a long time coming.....

Hello Strangers…

It has been a long time. Someone out there asked me to blog so I thought I would.

We finally moved into our new house 2 weeks ago so we have been busy trying to set everything up, it’s so funny I thought
I had everything but as we started unpacking and setting up everything I realised there was so much that I had forgotten about, like we didn’t organise an aerial ha ha so now we are sitting watching a crackling TV screen, oh the joys of being a first homeowner lol.

I was just going through photo bucket and found this photo of me from maybe about 3 years ago oh my go I wish I was looking like that now. Maybe I have just accidentally found my new inspirational photo? I’m really starting to get annoyed about my weight and I’m upset I have let myself get this far but I did it to myself so I should be able to get my head around it but I just can’t and I can’t get motivated. But after seeing that pic I have found some form of encouragement I think.
Here is the picture:



I really just have to start getting back on track.

So here are some pictures of new housey: they are so big sorry if you double click you can see the whole pic.

if the shoe fits wear it

The joys of having a mortgage I know I shouldn’t complain about it, we should be thankful we were able to get a house. But with these interest rises it really is straining us; the main reason is because we are still at construction so the interest rate was high to begin with. Hopefully it shouldn’t be too long now until we are in our house.

I have started packing up all the stuff at my parent’s house, just from my mum’s wardrobe alone it was 6 boxes packed full. I really had to clear some stuff out mainly jewellery, shoes and odd bits and pieces I just couldn’t be stuffed putting on eBay so I went to the markets on Sunday and sold most of the stuff which is good, and walked away with $208 so not bad it all went to savings boo hoo. I would of loved for it to go to my Alannah Hill fund. I miss shopping so much I tried to shop my self out overseas and it did last a couple of weeks of really not in the mood to shop. But now I have been back for 3 weeks and I feel the need to spend. So there had been these shoes I thought we quite cute in Target before I even went away, walked passed today they were $1.86 for a pair of sexy gold heels only pair left my size. So I snapped them up ha ha I get rid of shoes and then add more to the collection hey why not I’m going to have to look pretty in my house because we will be spending most of our time there I predict. Not sure where all my shoes and clothes are going to go in the new house, I would love a room just for all my stuff but it’s only 3bedrooms. One is ours and one is a spare and the other well we are saving that room for something special. All Joel’s musical equipment is going in the garage at them moment we only have one car so it works out well he gets half the garage it was meant to go in the 3rd bedroom but he suggested he would like the garage I had no objections.

I’m really over my job at the moment I have been here 6 years this April and next year I get long service I’m hanging out for that and then I am leaving I deserve so much more than this job. Also we are hoping to start a family soon, and I’m hoping it will all tie in nicely with long service etc. One thing is stopping me and that is Joel wants to work overseas/interstate(Melbourne) So if I do get pregnant I will either stay here on my own with my family as support or go with him and only have a few people I know there. We really haven’t decided what to do yet Joel is waiting for the financial year to be up and then he will make his decision.

start of a new era

At some stage Joel and I want to start a family, but I just can’t even think about that until I loose some weight. Even though I hated the food in the US, I still had to eat and most things of course weren’t that great options, I put on about 5kg’s even with all the walking we did. So now I’m starting to think ok what can I do to get myself at where I want to be physically and mentally. Not just a weight thing I want to be fit too. We are pretty strapped for cash atm so joining gyms etc are out of the question so by the end of the week I hope to have a plan of attack to get fit and live a healthy lifestyle. I know I can do it I just have to put my mind too and not loose focus.

My mini goal is to loose 5kg by April. So weekly weigh ins it is at home starting Monday.

More photos

Here is a link to some of my professional photos. So very happy with them :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76668173@N00/sets/72157604048887241/

New York New York

Here is a little run down of the trip. I have so many photos i'm still going through them. i will post a link once i have uploaded all of them.
New York: Was amazing so beautiful and it was everything i wanted it to be. It wasn't that cold actually, but towards the end of trip it got a little bit too cold. We saw all the normal tourist sites. We actually managed to get tickets to the letterman show and it was the taping where Matthew Mcconaughey was a guest so i was pretty pleased with that :) While we were there the NY giants won the super bowel so that was crazy watching the parade, i have never seen anything like it. Did most of my shopping in NY and got some really nice stuff.

LA: We were only here for 2 days and 1 was spent at disneyland i just adored it so much and then on how really half day that we were there we just had a look a Hollywood Blvd, Melrose and Rodeo.

Las Vegas: What a crazy place it was so different to anything i have ever seen before loved it but. We saw LOVE and that was amazing. Went to all of the casinos
the wynn is amazing i told joel next time we go i want to stay there it is just a gorgeous place. went to the pussycat doll lounge lots of sleazy people but we couldnt miss out on seeing it.

On a whole it was a great trip i did get a bit home sick towards the end, but i think it was more cos you kind of get sick of living out of a suitcase. One thing i didn't really like was the rubbish everywhere, and i just couldn't get used to the food it just tasted strange to me not bad it was just different.

Wedding

Here are a few photos from our wedding day on Sunday. Can't wait for the professional ones. I can't believe how smooth the day went and there were no hiccups whats so ever.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7666817...7601620940940/

Just a very short post, off to New York tomorrow so excited :)

Will post more when i get more about the day/honeymoon etc.

xxx

Bridal shower

I had my bridal shower yesterday it was a lot of fun Some dramas with tragedy and the things that were coming out of her mouth but hey it's her problem not mine. We had a cellar/laundry tea as we have everything for the kitchen he he. We got so much wine and lots of mops and brooms, cleaning products stuff that would cost quite a lot to out lay so we were very spoilt even though i have a feeling Joel will be doing most of the cleaning and ill be drinking the wine So here are some pictures of the tables, we had cupcakes and little sandwiches and some dips and stuff but we didn't get any pictures of the food http://www.flickr.com/photos/76668173@N00/sets/72157603703864043/