Last night was spent at Ariane and Crash’s place eating vast quantities of seafood and drinking bubbly. The kids were supposed to go to bed but that didn’t quite work out so we set them up with DVDs and told them to leave us alone…and it worked! They were really good, Tom took himself off to bed about 11:00pm, David fell asleep on the lounge at 10 to 12:00 but Caitlin saw the new year in with us before falling asleep. At about 1:45am we dragged the kids out to the car and made it home at 2:30am. I was … Continue reading Happy New Year!

With apologies to Clement C. Moore ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the boat Not a person was stirring, not even a ‘coat The stockings were hung by the engine with care In hopes that St Nicholas soon … Continue reading A Firefly Christmas

Weeee heeee! It’s December! I can wear my Christmas t-shirts, I can turn on the lights we strung up all over the garden last weekend, I can get out all my tacky Christmas stuff and I can go Christmas shopping with the kids at lunchtime on a Saturday in December….Oh my, yesterday was an epic effort 😮 We made jewelry for the grandmas, finished the kids’, and nearly all of my, present shopping and bought a new tree. We were at the shops from midday till 5:30pm – we were all very tired little vegemites. Today I spent fine tuning … Continue reading ‘Tis the season 😀

Gain of 0.4kg this week. Time to stop fooling myself that I can get away with ‘sort of’ following the program, ’cause that just leads to ‘sort of’ losing weight and – newsflash boys and girls – that don’t get you nowhere! Back to points it is. This week I commit to tracking everything – points, water, food groups, exercise and mood. I know I can do this, I was doing it very successfully for several months. I need to remind myself that it’s about my health, my enjoyment of life, and about being around to enjoy life for a … Continue reading Going nowhere fast 😛

…again 😛 Week 23 saw a loss of 0.5kg and this week (week 24) I managed a 0.9kg loss which has me passing my 15kg mini-goal for the 3rd time. Somehow it’s just not as exciting as the first time LOL. My very wonderful hubby has ordered me a laptop and I’ve told him he can hold it hostage till I hit my 20kg mini-goal, 4.4kg to go 🙂 I went to a fancy dress karaoke party on Saturday night, the theme was Rock! so this seemed the appropriate costume choice. Hubby went with a Spinal Tap look. And much … Continue reading Back in the teens…