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19 Februar
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well sunday has come round again and its busy busy busy. Only one more day till we go on holiday and i have spent the whole day washing and ironing clothes that everyone wants to take. I have never worked out why that every time we go away on holiday i work myself into a frazzle cleaning the house from top to bottom and changing the bedding on everones bed and just generally making myself exhausted. Maybe its so i can convince myself i really need this holiday (i do) or that i deserve it (i do i do) or is just nana's influence you dont leave the house till its all clean and tidy. Even jasper the dog has been groomed so thoroughly you would think he had been entered in a dog show.
All i know it is really nice to arrive back from holiday and know it is going to be spotless and i dont have to start cleaning.
Ah well it's 4.30 and i am exhausted and i havent even cooked sunday lunch yet - life would be so much easier if we didnt have to eat - we would be richer our kitchens would be cleaner and smell nicer and i always say if astronaughts can have a food pill why cant we, and keep this messy really food stuff for special occasions like birthdays.
Ah well im beginning to sound like i have been sniffing the furniture polish again so i will carry on with the cleaning. | 16 Februar
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goodness its thursday already where does the week go - mind you i did spend one day with my head down the toilet so that one passed in a haze.
Finally i start to feel better - i still feel as weak as a kitten but i am getting there at last. I did manage to get (by car) to town today so thats a start, a bit of fresh air wil do you good (as nana would say) but i was very glad to get back i can tell you.
The new house is a bit of a war zone at the moment - there has been 4 strapping blokes (well i lied, it was paul, dave, james and poor old patto - but you can dream cant you) trying to lift the steel gerders up to support the new extension but the fork lift kept breaking down and all was not going to plan. What started off as a few hours work stretched late into the evening and was still not done so work had to resume this morning. That was not the only problem - to get the steel into the house to start with, was not an easy task and they had to knock out a few bricks of the back wall out, then a few more, then the blasted wall came crashing down. So the house was left open to the elements (and anyone else who fancied helping themselves) all night. Still an early start and the steel is now up in place and james is rebuilding the back of the house. For a little while it looked like open plan gone mad, and not just a little bit drafty.
Anyway, i still cant eat anymore than a bit of toast and the occasional poached egg, so i thought i would venture into boots whilst in town and see if i have suffered this stomach bug in vain. Well blow me down with a feather.
The scales said 9 st 1lb that is incredible but when it printed off the little bastard of a machine said 9st 2 lb. I was incredibly disappointed as i thought that would mean without any clothes i would be 9 st my goal at last. But now i dont know if i can convince myself my clothes weigh 2lb.
I had some new jeans arrive yesterday (oh sorry if you read this paul i mean shiv gave me some jeans) and they were a size 10 and fit wonderfuly. But i am afraid that it will only be a temporary thing until i start eating again so i will keep them in the bag and just visit them for a little while and see if they still fit by next week so i can take them back.
i really really would like a printout that said in black and white (well technicolour would be even better) 9 st but with the holiday coming up next week i think i will be disappointed a while longer but it has renewed my enthusiasm which was wading a little - not enough to give up but waning all the same.
So thank you stomach bug for making me throw up some of my body weight with all my food the other day and it was all in a good cause. dont know why they havent started selling a container of bug germs over the counter as a diet product - maybe i could start it and make a fortune. | | 15 Februar
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well it is a new week - and saturday didnt start well, i went shopping with lynne and tiffany - and we ended up some how in mcdonalds. We had the bacon big mac that has had me drooling for weeks - and guess what - it was disgusting - do you think that there are no calories in food that you dont enjoy..
Saturday evening i ordered a different indian meal for a change - and you guessed it - it was disgusting - so please please please tell me that there are no calories in food you dont enjoy.
Sunday was james eighteenth birthday and i think he was pleased with the cherished number plates that we gave him. It wasnt easy to find somewhere that would cook on a sunday but finally we managed to find somewhere in st brides that would. So we had a great meal and a great night but in the middle of the night i got up and was sick, and i got up again to be sick again, and again, and again. I stayed in bed all the next day and finally stopped being sick by the evening, but now i feel like i have been run over by a bus, and i still cant eat.
So looking on the bright side i must have lost a bit of weight and as long as i get better by the time i go on holiday it will be all ok.
But for the meantime i feel like death warmed up and probably look worse. |
09 Februar
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Well its thursday now and i have been painting for two days - i think i managed to get some on the walls and the ceiling - the rest unfortunately was on me. What happened i used to be a good painter, i was so neat and tidy i didnt even need to change as i never got any on myself. Well - times change.
The reason i was painting at all was because my painter and decorator has vanished into the sunset - again. See you friday turned into see you tuesday turned into im not sure when i will see you. Do you think the fact that i sewed pink flowers all over his overalls or the fact that i wrote in fabric paint, kiss my arse on the back (obviously on the back lol) had anything to do with it?? Well anyway time is going on, so i thought i had better get my hands dirty, and my jeans, and my jumper and my hair and every other blasted piece of me.
I hate doing ceiling and this one needed three coats, (Well it is winter - sorry think i must have been breathing in the fumes) so i got it on my hair, and all over my face and there seemed to be lumpy bits in the paint, so i had to keep picking them off the walls and wiping my hands on my jeans. Unfortunately the dog wont leave my side when i am working so he kept lying in the paint that had dripped on the floor, and there was much paint. Then because i couldnt find a belt for my jeans they kept slipping down, and i had to keep yanking them up and getting paint on my back, then because my jeans were slipping down they kept dragging my knickers down with them (is this a little too much information) so i had to keep fishing them back up with my hands covered with paint, so by the time i was finished it was easier to say what wasnt covered in paint than to say what was covered in paint.
It took half an hour in the shower to remove all the paint from all my nooks and crannies and at 46 (47 next month) there are a lot of them lol
Well hopefully i will be able to grovel enough to get my decorator back - maybe if i had used blue flowers on his overalls it would have been more macho and maybe i should have written kiss my lovely arse (i could lie) he wouldnt have taken offence.
No doubt when he sees what i have done to his new fluffy all singing all dancing paint roller - he will take another strop and disappear again into the sunset. Maybe he will stay long enough to sand my floors before he goes, i cant think what state i will get in if i have to do them. |
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07 Februar
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well it is tuesday and nothing very exciting is happening. The weather is still cold and it isnt much better in malta and as that as where i will be jetting off to in less than 2 weeks i am a bit disappointed. I was supposed to start painting in our other house today as our decorator has let us down (no change there) so after i had walked the dog, i put some old painting clothes on and started to prepare the room. James emptied all the tools out, and i swept it all out ready to start. Then my daughter was sent home ill from school. Ah never mind tomorrow is another day. Tomorrow the new front door will be fitted and its beginning to take shape over there now. The heating is on and its lovely and warm over there.
My diet is boring me and i think i amstuck at 9 stone 4 lb and i had better accept it, or cut a limb off to lose just a few more pounds.
Last night i listened to my niece talking on the radio about the lack of help there is available in wales for rape victims. She was so brave to go on the radio and talk about her experience and my eyes filled as i listened to her voice shake with emotions. I take my hat off to her and all the others that took part and i hope that it makes a difference. Good on you shiv you are one in a million and i hope you are proud of yourself - i am. |
05 Februar
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well i usually spend Saturday having a wander around the shops in town with my sister, and have lunch somewhere but this week my other sister (who spends every other weekend with her boyfriend) said her boyfriend was busy and was it a cheek if she asked if she could come with us. So i told yes she did have a cheek as we were second choice and she had to pay for the coffee.
Still it was nice to catch up as we havent seen her for a while, until it came to lunch time and we said we were just going to have a sandwich and stick to our diet, and what does she do, walks straight up to the counter and spots jam and coconut cake and custard and decided we should all indulge - well we fought long and hard (for 5 whole seconds) and then gave in - and had the cake and the sandwiches so there goes another day when we were trying to be good.
So she is banned from coming out with us again as she is a bad influence - she always was a bit of a rebel.
And sadly, i am coming to the conclusion that 9 st 4 is the best i will ever get to as i cannot seem to get past that - and 8 stone something is becoming a bit of a dream. So near and yet soooooooo far. Only a stomach bug can do it for me now - i suppose i could always eat something out of andrea's fridge that ought to do it -- oooh bitchy. |
The picture is my sister if you were wondering
03 Februar
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well my diet is going really well but i dont seem to be losing weight but my clothes feel looser - and i can do my belt up on notch three instead of one, so i must be doing something right - and nooooooooo its not a stretchy belt.
but dont know what i am doing registering online with the mcdonalds site for extra offers - not a good move. |
31 Januar
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i have just come back from the opticians and picked up my new glasses, so see no spelling mistakes, i can see what ive typed lol
well i just sat down to read my emails, and guess what, there was an advert saying the bacon cheeseburger is back at mcdonalds and only 99p. god i didnt used to swoon at a mcdonalds advert until i went on a diet. How far do i have to walk jasper to work off a bacon cheeseburger - does anyone know?? |
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well i was freezing when i got back from walking the dog - so i thought an exercise tape would be the ideal way to get warm and shift some calories. Well i tried the hip hop video but everytime they add a new bit i forget the last bit so i give up. I decided to find some suitable music on my ipod and have a mad dance, so thats what i did. Thankfully my bedroom is at the back of the house and not overlooked or i might have been committed. Still anything that burns a few calories is ok by me. I wish it wasnt so cold out and i could walk the dog more - ah well spring must be on its ways soon. Check the weather every day for malta and so far it is up to 60 max - still pleasantly warm compared to the brass monkey weather we are experiencing and seeing as i will have bought my tan before i go im not too worried about the sun. |
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it is 21 days tomorrow that i go to malta so i am trying very hard with my diet and also i thought i might (anything helps) if i had a bit of colour to start me off, as it isnt going to be hot but it does have an indoor pool. So i booked a course of sunbed lessons and yeah yeah i know they are bad for you, but so is a pasty body especially a fat one so tough.
Sarah persuaded me to go to the ones in cornelly as they are hotter so off we went. I paid for 9 minutes and then the girl says oh we have just had new tubes fitted so they are a bit hotter than normal. Well she could have told me that before i paid so i got no choice. Well 9 minutes later (9 hot minutes later) i am glowing with heat but only have a faint tan line so am not to worried. I go home and shower and cool down and am no longer flushed.
By evening i am cold and shivery and feeling sorry for myself as if think i am coming down with flu. So i get ready for bed and curl up on the settee in my playboy fleece. Paul asks why my face is red and i say its cos im not well as i havent been red all afternoon. I decide to have an early night as i just cant get warm.
In the morning paul is up early and when he calls me i dont wake up so he pulls the quilt off me and then he falls about laughing. He says "youve been on the sunbed havent you you look like a bloody tomato. I leap out of bed and i am burnt to a crisp, god i plaster my face with cold cream and cover it up with loads of foundation cream but it still glows through.
So be warned yes sunbeds aree dangerous, yes i am old enough to know better and yes mum if you are looking down i bloody know you always told me about the sun so yes you were right.
Ah well four days later and i am all cooled down and now red has turnedd to brown and i am just thinking what about tomorrow for the sunbeds - but just 6 minutes this time lol |
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well i am getting more than a little fed up with struggling to read cooking instructions and labels, and that is with my glasses on. So off i went to have my eyes tested. And of course yes i needed stronger glasses so the next question is to choose. There are a few alternatives 1. stick with the frames i already have and like and pay nothing or 2 have the medium priced ones but have a change and then there is 3 go for the rimless ones and pay a blasted fortune. So no contest really you have to go for the rimless ones dont you. Then i got a lecture on how careful you have to be with rimless ones and dont wear them on your head or they will break - i explained i didnt find my eyesight was much improved when i wore them on my head and anyway i usually spent hours looking for them when i did that. She, of course looked at me as if i was absolutely insane - god dont these people have a sense of humour or is she just right i am insane.
So lets hope when they arrive they suit me for £170.00 (could have done something a lot more exciting with the money) and two i dont break them within the first week. |
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well relief or what - i plucked up the courage to weigh in boots even though i have had several meals out and succumbed last night to a glass of vodka (pauls measure - dont know why he bothers it makes me fall asleep) and so i was so afraid i would have put on weight and i would lose heart totally. Well result i still weigh 9 st 4 lb and without my clothes i am probably 9 st 3 lb - so close and yet so far.
My goal is to weigh 8 st ..... anything - just so long as it starts with 8 st. I feel much better within myself, not so bloated and can even keep my jeans on till i go to bed - ahhhh but thats another story lol |
30 Januar
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Well my diet was going so well and then we went for a meal on friday, i had curry and rice and only a few chips but i felt so full i felt awful. Then i woke up next morning feeling as if i had just eaten and Sarah my sons girlfriend says she wants to treat me to breakfast so that propably finished my diet off even though i skipped lunch. Also saturday night is indian night in this house and its the law so i had indian so i dont think there is a lot of point in me rushing to weigh tomorrow.
So lets hope this week is a better temptation free week |
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