Pain, Exercise and School Updates

Posted on March 16, 09 Filed under mind, body & spirit 4 Comments

Feels like ages since I last posted, but it’s only been 5 days. I guess my days have been dragging or something.

I did stocktake on Saturday. It was okay, but I don’t think I’d do it again. It was pretty simple work, very monotonous (just scanning items on racks). The worst thing is that my body was absolutely buggered by the end of it – standing up and walking around for 6 hours without a break to sit down took its toll. Yesterday (Sunday) I could barely walk, and couldn’t even get up out of my seat without assistance – thank god it was a Sunday and Michael was home to help me out. I’ve tried to keep moving but it is very painful. I’m still sore today, and had to get my dad to take me around to the post office to post my bestie’s birthday present. The post office is less than a 10 minute walk from our house, so that’s saying something about the pain I’m in. This is just showing me that I need to get moving more often.

I did go for three 30+ minute walks last week – on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with my mum and our family friend. We’re trying to make it a habit, although it’s difficult for my mum, with shift work, but I at least go with our friend and the dog, and get a half hour in.

As for weight loss, nothing’s happening yet. I hit a low when I put on weight over the last few days, but I haven’t been eating well (despite exercising quite a bit). It’s slowly coming back off, but yeah it was kind of disappointing. Just have to regain my enthusiasm that I had in January.

I put in an expression of interest for school last Wednesday, but am still awaiting someone to contact me to confirm. I hate waiting for people, especially since I’m doing or have done everything I can and then it’s just up to someone else. Freakin’ hell it’s frustrating.

Anyway, totally babbling now. I shall post again in a day or two.

Weight Loss Progress #2

Posted on February 28, 09 Filed under mind, body & spirit 6 Comments

I’ve lost nothing, but I look a little smaller – maybe I’ve toned up a little?? This month was a bad month, due to my birthday, seeing friends I haven’t seen in months and eating out a lot, and emotional eating due to the loss of my kitty. Next month, I will be back on the horse. I promise!

Oh, BTW, I’m 21.

Posted on February 21, 09 Filed under mind, body & spirit, rave 2 Comments

In all the mess with Layla, I completely forgot to post about my birthday, which was a week ago now. I’m a total dork.

So, I’m now 21 years old. Un-freakin’-believable. It’s kind of weird, because when I was 20 I thought that sounded kind of old, but 21 sounds hip and young. Then next year I’ll be 22, and I’ll feel old again. Mneh.

I had a party. Yup yup. It was awesome. We had three ‘shifts’ of guests planned out:

Shift #1 – My grandparents, and family on my mum’s side, for lunch.
Shift #2 – Pub crawl with my friends and younger cousins on my dad’s bus.
Shift #3 – Everyone else.

Shift #1 went fine – we had a great lunch of basically salads and cold meats (it’s Summer here, remember), and I got some nice gifts (I’ll list gifts at the end, it’s easier). Unfortunately it was during First Shift that I got the call from the vet about Layla, and the best option being to put her to sleep, but I managed to kind of put that to the back of my mind so I could focus on having fun and then deal with that part of life the next day.
Anyway, nothing really eventful happened during First Shift – it was nice, but no party-party yet

People started arriving for Second Shift at about 2pm, and I told my Dad that we’d probably head on our pub crawl at about 3:15pm, just to give people a chance to get to our place. Turned out that the bus battery was flat, and Dad had to call the RACT. Anyway, we ended up getting on the bus for a One-Pub-Pub-Crawl at about 3:45-4ish, which was still fun, to jump on the bus and go for a cruise around, stop in for a drink or two, then head back home.

Shift #3 people were already there, considering the pub crawl started late, and I managed to down a few more drinks whilst mingling with people, eating some food (there was so much food!) and that kind of thing. It wasn’t a huge dancefest or anything – some good beats in the background, and just a get-together, really. I didn’t want anything OTT, so it was just nice to be with family and friends. Plus it was great to see Zandra and Paul, who arrived just in time from Melbourne

We wound up at about 2am – I finished drinking earlier than that because I was starting to feel sick (and I know my limits!) and didn’t want to puke on my birthday, so I had water and a coffee.

Ok, so y’all wanna know what I got, right? Well here goes:
- $370 cash total (woah! a lot of it is already gone )
- $100 JeansWest voucher (I’ll use that to buy clothes when I’ve lost more weight)
- Two $50 Kmart vouchers (already gone, see last post)
- Pink LG KS360 from Michael
- Flowers delivered, from Michael for Valentine’s Day
- Emily the Strange t-shirt
- Emily the Strange bag
- Jason Mraz’s Album
- Two tickets to see Kate Miller-Heidke at a local club.
- Four necklaces, from various people
- A jewellery stand from my Nan
- 21st guest book from my Auntie Vicki
- Wii Fit from my mum and dad (which I’m pretty sure I’ve already mentioned)
- A Spell Kit from my sister and her boyfriend
- A Spell ‘spray’ (essential oil blend) from my sister and her boyfriend
- A bottle of Midori, again from my sister and her boyfriend
- Maxwell Williams Cherry Blossom platter, salad bowl and salad servers from our close family friends Brian and Jan

I think that’s it? I suck if I can’t remember the rest, and I hate leaving things out.

I’ll leave you with some photos – the rest are in a set on Flickr.

Pagans in the Pub

Posted on February 10, 09 Filed under Uncategorized Comments Off

EDIT: I saved this as a draft but never published it – duh Terri!

Well, not really a pub, but a restaurant that serves alcohol That’s a little long for a title, though.

So I attended the 2nd North-West Pagans in the Pub moot last night, and it was fab. Despite the amount of people who show up (we had about 10 last night), we manage to have a laugh and have a great time. I had a small BBQ Chicken pizza for dinner, and a chocolate mousse for dessert – uh-may-zing (and for $13 for both, who can complain!). Kel also made chocolate fudge and brought some for everyone, and that was fabulous too.

I’m still in a bit of an ‘out-of-it’ state right now, due to the tragedy of the bushfires. Luckily, the death toll didn’t go up overnight – for the first time in the last three nights – but it’s still standing at 181, which is a LOT of people. I can’t believe it.

So as it’s getting late and I’m completely exhausted, I’d best be getting to bed – it’s really something for me to be going to bed before 1am!