Baby It's Cold Outside

Brrr what a change in the weather.

I am freezing today and staving off the craving to pig out on something hot and hearty or warm and sweet.
Trying to be good and have only had a couple of mugs of tea, and two (yes two) bowls of salad. Dinner is steak, chips and salad.

Since the beginning of December there as been no more Jarrah coffee (or for that matter, any coffee) and have limited myself to one glass of coke with dinner. I've been drinking water through out the day...blech.
Have also done a whopping 15 mins of exercise today ( I know, I know but at least it's something and I'm starting back at square one).

I was playing around on the computer this morning and made a quick excel file to keep track of exercise. Feel free to download it if you would like it and you customise it to you.

Wish me luck with my battle against the bulge. I am determined to win this time.

It's Saturday

I've been very bad lately and haven't kept up with the promise to myself that I would regularly blog :(
Sorry about that. I guess I think I don't have much of interest to say. Will try and rectify that.

Today's been a good one on the homefront. I managed to accomplish all of what I had on my list which is a bonus. Caught up with email, watched an ep of ER (which I love) and now I'm generally fluffing around filling in time.

It's supposed to be 35C here tomorrow..blech. Will get what I need to do done as early as possible and then ride out the heat I think I so love winter. I am not a summer loving person by any means.

Todays gratitudes are:
My loving DH, kids and family
My wonderful dogs
A comfortable bed
A blissful cool house
Enough energy to get all done on my list :D

New Years Day

Here we are, starting a fresh and bright new year. Full of promise and hope.

I've only made one resolution this year ( I don't do resolutions well) and that is to take note of what I am grateful for, each and every day. To take the time out to stop and reflect. Be thankful.

Me, personally, this is something I have never really done and I'm looking forward to it. Truth be told we can all find at least one thing in a day to be thankful for, right?

I wish you all peace and happiness in 2008 !

Here She Is..... Finally

Sorry...Life got in the way lately. But here is the pic, as promised, albeit late.....my baby in all her finery :)

She's Here !

My baby is finally here. Yay !!!
She's just downright gorgeous. I keep pinching myself, I can't believe it. I have lusted after one of these cars for years. Dreamed the dream and finally it came true.
She's just been baptised with mountain water. She's one of us now LOL
She looks all shiny and new. Sparkles in the sun. She's awesome.

Tomorrow she gets her new outfit, lovely blue stripes which will complete the picture of perfection and complete my dream car down to a T.
Will post a pic of her in her finest tomorrow.

Can you tell I'm as happy as a pig in.......mud? LOL

My New Baby

This is my new baby..BA Falcon MKII XR6.
Isn't she just beautiful. My dream car!!

She's just gorgeous, showroom quality, 17000klm only on the clock. Oh she's magnificent.
I can't wait to pick her up on Friday.....love it !

For Christmas DD18 is paying for blue GT stripes to be put down the sides. That will be done either this Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. I truly can not wait. It's going to look awesome :D

I'm in heaven.....hmmm now where can I go cruising????

WANTED: Inspiration and Motivation

Looking for some inspiration and motivation to revamp/rework/redo my CJ,
I hate to say it but it's something I have been meaning to get around to for months now but somewhere along the way the inspiration and motivation went missing, assuming it was there at all.
Sooooo without further groveling, I'm putting my hand up for a helping hand aka a kick up the butt (but please be gentle).

I even got myself a lovely pink folder, hoping that would get my butt moving...nah didn't work.
I don't even feel inspired to cruise the net for cutesy clipart to pretty it up, most unusual.

I have my old CJ which rarely sees the light of day anymore. Only because the routines in it aren't workable with the rotating 12hr night shifts DH is now on. Wed/Thur/Fri/Sat one week and Thur/Fri/Sat the next.

Oh dear what was that saying about the best laid plans....I have a picture in my head of what I want the new and improved CJ to be in theory but it's the actual practical bit I'm struggling with.

Maybe it's one of those things where I will just have to force myself to do it? Who knows, once I get going I may actually really get in to it. Wishful thinking perhaps but stranger things have happened, right?

Ok, I hereby swear I will attempt to at least work on a simple cover page for the new CJ tonight ! How hard can that be?

Wish me luck, loads of it. :D