Updates

My blogging seems to have slipped even further down my prioirity list.
Having problems with blogger makes it a chore, its so hard to get in now my browser isn't supported by blogger and I won't be forced to change to 7, not until I absolutely have to, and I won't change to Chrome either.  I hate being told what to do, especially by a computer generated message. Well, thats my gripe over.
Not a lot has happened - had my gall bladder out at the end of November, not quite a painless procedure but I was very surprised how little pain I had and how I was problem free after it, no expected shoulder pain and I can eat almost everything I ate before apart from pastry items and red meat.  It did take a while for my appetite to come back and I have found a lot of food I no longer like anymore.
Crafting, I've been very prolific in the flower department and the rabbits are breeding like mad.  Got orders for two which is good.  Lally Long Legs and Stacey made the front cover of Lets Get Knitting. They had the cover all to themselves and it seems like they are letting the fame go to their heads, the poor snowmen (one who had to share the front cover of Handmade last year) have copped a lot of flack off them.  The bunnies and little petal flower grub dolls are getting excited in the hope that one day they will grace a front cover too.  I've told them not to get their hopes up as I'm thinking of not submitting the designs. 

I had a good amount of orders for the snowmen before christmas and a couple for the dolls so that paid for presents and food,
Christmas came and went, I really still didn't have an appetite so dinner was just a festive ham salad and I actually spent less on food for the christmas period than I would for a normal weekly shop. All the presents were hand crafted and not one complaint, all was gratefully received.  So all in all it was a very frugal christmas. 
My car broke down three times before christmas - I got a new radiator as my chrissy pressie off the sons (it beats the year befores new toilet cistern) and a new alternator belt.
The new alternator belt snapped a couple of weeks ago so I had to bite the bullet and take it in to the local mechanic - $200 later my car is hopefully fixed.
My health is on the up and up, I feel great, the weight is still coming off, a bit too slowly but at least I can see a difference.  I have five big piles of clothes to go to the op-shops, I've dropped 2 dress sizes so far and need to buy new clothes.  But being the tighta*** that I am I will see what the op-shop has in, no point buying new clothes form the stores until I finally get down to my goal weight, unless of course i see something I really like and it is in the sale. 
I'd better get a wiggle on and get outta here, need to dump all this op-shop stuff in town and do a quick trawl of the said op-shops for other stuff.  I decided to take down my old curtains and I need new to me ones, I've changed all the sheers over (unfortunately it also means I have to wash the windows), oh well, its all exercise.

Uhru

Jan