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2009年7月 Where its all at Well Im moving. To be honest I find windows live a bit clunky at times and well, I just get a better feeling with blogspot. so im moving everything over to:http://www.aprilicious.com/ 2009年1月 Well, its a new year, and it promises to be a good one So here i am just watching the tele, watching all the hype around Obama's inaugeration. I cant help but feel excited, like this year is going to be different somehow. Somehow better, more positive. Ok, well its truely been ages since I posted anything on here, and to be honest, Im not really sure if Im going to continue with the whole windows live space thing. One thing that attracts me to windows live, well, its the capacity, the space they give you. Its hard to knock back 25gb, even if all the software i have downloaded kinda sucks. I mean, what where they thinking with Windows Live Messenger 2009, and what happened to sharing folders, which where almost the only reason to use msn versus Gtalk or something else. And windows live photo gallery thing, its got a lot to learn from Picasa, which totally rocks in comparison. I mean, how do i know what photos i have already uploaded to my live gallery and which i havent? Kinda dumb really, but Picasa only gives you 1gb for free so its kinda useless. Anyway, enough ranting, back to watching the tele... lol 2007年5月 Long time no update.This all happened a while ago (about 5 months ago), but I got very slack and forgot to post an update. So here is a brief run down of what was a great little summer break. It seems like a tradition, but we always seem to find ourselves down rosebud way every new years eve. There is something to be said about spending some time with friends at this time of year, especially if they have a nice little spot right on the beach. I only took a few photos, but it gave Lachlan a chance to try out his new radio controlled boat he got from my parents at Christmas.
The next week Andy, Lachlan and myself booked a nice little cabin down in Phillip Island, it was great, I love Phillip island and it was made better by the fact that we had some of our friends come down and share the cabin (the staff never found out) While we where near the beach, the beach wasn't really usable when the tide went out, although Lachlan and Crystal had a great time splashing in the mud. Lachlan and I also caught our very first fish (ok, we had to go to a fish farm) but I maintain it was still a whole lot of fun.
2006年12月 Way too many christmas partiesOK I admit I love a good party as much as the next person, but this year the work Christmas party scene just started to get that little bit too much, well as far as my head was concerned. I mean three Christmas parties was and is just about as much as I can handle in the one month, especially if you attend them the way i did :-) What do they say about having too much of a good thing? But i don't see the point of attending a party and not having a good time, and that, when surrounded by IT professionals you don't really know means a little (or a lot) of social lubrication. The first two where not too bad, just the usual finger food and stuff. But the last one, held by the "social club" in flagstaff gardens kinda did it for me. I guess it all went south when I was hit in the face with a ball from the lads who decided to orient their cricket match and bat directly into the crowd not 10 metres away. It just got more and more intoxicated from then on and ended sleazily in a local bar.
2006年11月 Lachlan's 8th BirthdayWell, it was that time of year again, Lachlan turned another year older and we had a little celebration. I actually still cant believe that he has turned 8 years old already. Time really does fly when your having “fun” I guess, and lots happened this last year for all of us. Lachlan wanted a Simpons theme party this year. Not the easiest to cater for as far as I am concerned, but he has thought of more curly ones and at least we where able to find Simpsons themed party plates and accessories. It was fun watching Lachlan and his friends have a good time, and in the spirit of sharing, they even all ended up with one of Lachlan’s bionicles. The kids then played the traditional pin the lamb chop on the Homer as well as the time old eat the hanging donut off the clothes line game… which was very funny. 2006年10月 Just Goin GoodWell, the last couple of weeks have been pretty good. I've started my weight watchers and lost 4.9kg in the first two weeks. This of course means that I am no longer drinking alcohol like a pirate, which fortunately hasn’t been that hard to do since I no longer work for the finance department. Those people where possibly the biggest group of alcoholics I've ever worked for, and based on how badly I was treated, I guess "the demon drink" was just one way nice folk coped with some (not all) of the most unpleasant, vindictive and clueless managers to walk the face of the earth. We also caught up with some friends over the last few weeks and attempted a couple of bike rides, which in the end didn’t really work out as well as I'd hoped in the exercise department. However, the little ones had a great time, just not that much of it riding our bikes. My new project manager at work William was kind enough to give Lachlan a BMX which had apparently had been left by an old flat mate and he no longer wanted. He even brought it round to my place, how nice is that. We are now in the process of trying to teach Lachlan how to ride without training wheels, he is getting there, but its just going to take a lot of practice and patience. Work has been good also. Im finally working somewhere where Im not treated like a dumb blonde and am utilising my software development skills at more or less the correct level. I havent really got into it yet, still kinda just absorbing and bug fixing at present but I will unleash the inner geekette soon me thinks. I just hope I dont scare anyone. :-) 2006年10月 So let the diet beginWell, I have got to the stage now with my weight that I no longer feel that my plain Jane try to eat the right foods and do a little exercise approach seem to be working. So on Wednesday night I decided to attend my very first ever weight watchers meeting and started my first serious effort in a long while.
My goal is reasonably ambitious, but I want to try as hard as humanly possible to reach my goal weight as calculated by the weight watchers formulae. And no, I’m not brave enough to publish my weight online at this stage, so I will be using a percentage scale, currently being at 100% of my starting weight.
This isn’t going to be easy, basically I’m going to have to loose up to 34% of my body weight to reach this goal, if it is at all even possible. But I’d be happy to get any results at this stage, and unless I try, I don’t think its going to just happen.
It’s been three days now, and I have already survived one test of will power. We had a work function last night and I managed to only have a small portion of nibbles and beer, but it was hard, free food and a wide range of European beers on tap, ah, the food of the corporate banker, how did I survive and how will I survive the next “software release” party. |
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