he is a scaffolder .. i like tech geekery it works well once you have spent 2 weeks swearing at the computer wasting countless hours trying to get webcams to work then finally blowing yest another 50 on another stupid webcam and hoorray it worsk lol..
I am in South australia and Hubby is up on the top point of australia in the Northen territory in a place called Nhulunbuy in est arhemn land.. (aboriginal country). They are building a aluminum/gas plant up there in paradise .. It tropical and beautiful and they have put a refinery right in the middle lol..
He went becuase of the money he is making 3 time more a week then he was making here .. when he was working here i ddint have enough money to pay our bills let alone fix my old car.. but he was up ther one month and i bought a new car .. and payed off all our bills.
We dont know how long the work will last for and he is doing 12 hours a day at present so we can pile as much as possible into our morgage. so when he comes home to work again i will be able to pay our bills and fix things that need fixing. over half his pay i put in the morgage each week .
We were fine until we had our second child .. and she went into the box room .. a tiny room that is 2.7 m by 2.7 m and you could hardy out a bed in it let alone the wardrobe chest of drawers and a toy box. She had to sleep under the window and since she is asthmatic is was no good at all .
So we decided in october 06 we needed to make our house bigger .. Leah got our old big bed room and we built on a new bedroom for us with ensuite and a family room.. this doubled the size of our house and our morgage.. before out house was a small lounge eat in kitchen 2 decent size bedrooms and the box room . now the box room opens into our new family room and behind that is our lovely big bedroom and second bathroom. IT made so much differnce to our lives and i dont regret building but with the interest rate always goping up this year we foung our selves in a bit of bother.. so he has gone away.
For anyone that does know what a scaffolder is they build scaffolds/ working platforms for other worker to work safely at hieghts .. I hate watching him work .. he dangles off tiny things way up high and builds the platform so everyone else is safe.. but he isnt safe .. i however cant even change a light bulb.. lol im a chicken at heights lol
So!! In honor of turning 35, I've gone and bet $25 that I can work out 3 x a week, at StickK dot com. -way- cool site -- you can either send the money (only if you lose) to charity, anti-charity, friend, foe, or 'other.'
I'm supporting Pekinese rescue.
Well, only if I lose. Which is to say, don't work out 3x in any one week -- then that week's $ goes to Peke rescue.
Blech. My week has been not so great. I am in my junior year at a crazy highschool (half my classes are at a university), so basically, I'll be lucky not to die of some stress related illness before I get into (IF I get into) college. I managed to gain five pounds which a friend of mine (who has trouble keeping weight on) marvelled at, but I guess I'm just talented like that. I did fence a fair bit, but I had trouble keeping up with the sabre class (I don't usually, even if I am 30 pounds overweight) and I get the sense I've gotten WAY out of shape since the fencing season ended, not to mention lost some fencing skill during the two week break I took from it. You can totally see muscles in my arms now, though, which is exciting, even if they're not as well defined as they could be. I'm now trying to do damage control and get more active and even if I'm not still fencing, at least run everyday, ideally for an hour. My new motto is "How bad could it possibly be?" because I notice that I make exercise out to be torture when in fact it's generally quite enjoyable. What I need, I think, is a plan. When I was on a plan designed to get me to be able to run for half an hour at a time, I had a great time, and it was exciting to do more every day. But now that I can run for half an hour (fifty minutes once), or should be able to, it doesn't seem like an achievement anymore, and I get disappointed if I can't manage it. Now I'm trying to just go all the distance I can, and not bother much about the time. I'm also going to try to work in some more strength training because I can barely handle ten pushups at a time. But yeah. Thanks for listening.
oh impala i know exactly what you mean. lol a few months back i was obsessing ( im good at obsessing) about the number i was doing on the elliptical.. i was trying everyday to beat the day befores time per ks run ... and in the end i just burnt myself out to a point where i hated the elliptical.. and i love it .. so go figure..
You should enjoy running for running not for the time or ther distance.. i learnt that the hard way .. if you dont have the energy one day you dont have to make up for it the next.. just listen to your body and enjoy the experience .. as far as the small wait gain. i bet you anything it is hormone related.. or maybe even chocolate related.. i have not been able to stay of that junk all week .. lol but luckily i didnt go over my calories too muach and managed a small loss .. one day i did 50 minutes on the elliptical and 40 minutes weights just to burn off the half a bunny i ate on top of my already full cals for the day .. i managed to get it down to a level i was confortable .. but i dont want to have to do that.. i will not lose weight doing that ..
so anyway im glad you are staying active and trying so hard to keep on top of all your schooling.. I dont know about you but after school i used to be starving ..
kate ......:bday 2you:
Happy birthday i hope you have a great Birthday .. you got any thing nice planned?
I have had a a few quiet days .. My sleeping has gone down the toilet and so too has my energy .. lol I am getting only a couple of hours a night .. and at 4 am i thought maybe id just get up and forget about sleeping all together.. to see if that would fix me.. but some time just after i finally fell asleep. Only to be woken at 630 by the kids.... OMG .... Today i cant even open the blinds the lights is hurting my eyes and giving me a headache.. I have a sleep dep hang over ( lol i dont drink) So yes im special i can have a hangover without even drinking.. think that skill will get me to lose weight??? lol The good news is being awake so my my body must be burning more calories.. hahahah.. im still losing weight.. But i did only take saturday off working out so i spose that helps too anyway time for me to go and sweat a little .. cya girls later
Impala! Wow, Sabre! I never got beyond foil -- but man, I had a figure while I did it!! just keep at it -- it'll come off. Remember, we're female -- we can sleep wrong and wake up 5 lb heavier.
Thanks for the B'day greetings, Amy!! Had a nice, quiet day, with some really spectacular prezzies and even more spectacular friends. This came after drunken karaoke Saturday night for roommate's friend's B-day (29th).
I had a schadenfreudean NSV today (schadenfreude -- being glad that someone else's misfortune is not your own).
I wasn't the fattest girl in class.
I think this was the first time in a year or so that this was the case. And I'll probably deny it ever happened, soon. But for today, it's enough.
Shrewkate: I also aspire someday to not be the fattest girl in class, but it may or may not happen, given that none of the people in my classes are actually overweight at all...
Wow, foil? When I first started I was advised to do foil because I'm short, but I just didn't get it at all. When eventually I got the chance to do sabre, I jumped at it. Even now, the prospect of a weapon with such a small guard and such a small area I'm allowed to aim for makes me nervous.
amouse: Congratulations on the weight loss! I'm always really amazed at people who manage to motivate themselves to lose a lot of weight. Good luck continuing!
I have now gained 10 pounds from my lowest weight. But I know I can get the weight back off, and dammit, I will do it. Bad as it sounds, I think I need to stop obsessing about hitting the right number of calories and just aim low, because I don't seem to have a middle setting. It's really 900 calories a day or 5000. I don't do "maintenence".
Which is actually probably something I should deal with, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Doing well with weight loss seems really hit or miss with me- one day I will find it impossible, and I'll spend the whole day grumpy because I can't eat what I want to, and then end up eating a ton anyway, and the next I'll set a goal and stick to it, effortlessly resisting the allure of gravy and pizza (not together, don't worry). It seems also to be linked with how well I'm doing with schoolwork, but I still haven't figured out how to control either.
So, yup, I'll keep trying, and be happy with the fact that even though I gained 10 pounds, I'm only 15 pounds from my ultimate goal!
(Incidentally, shrewkate, Terry Pratchett references= <3. Unless I'm reading way too much into that. In which case, I should probably lay off the discworld habit a bit).
I've also started jogging outside, which is pretty exciting. The first time was pretty bad, because it was a Sunday at about 8, and there were all sorts of skinny people in spandex. I ended up going faster than I could handle just because I felt intimidated by them. But if you go at 5 am on a weekday, nobody, and I mean nobody, is out. On my way back at around 6:15 I saw two people, but they seemed too sleepy to be judgmental. Or maybe I was too sleepy to consider them judgmental.
I can still only run for about 10 minutes at a time outside, which indicates that I'm moving faster than my usual 5 miles an hour on the treadmill, with the possible exception at the very end when I'm too tired to move my legs very far.
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im stuck and going no where.. no where is better then up i spose but oh well lol.. my hubby had been home all week so i havent behaved so i am happy to ahve not gained lol its just gonna take time to start losing again
Bleh. I screwed up big time. I don't think I gained much, but still. I have GOT to get my priorities back in order, because I'm starting to feel like crap all the time. I forgot that that was one of the consequences of gaining weight without muscle. And I'm back to not being able to keep up with my fencing class. Well, first things first- I'm going to get caught up on my homework (which I've also been neglecting- when I get apathetic, I get REALLY apathetic) and then try to be in good enough shape academically I can afford to take an hour every afternoon to jog. Or do pliometrics. Or whatever.
Anyway, I actually came on to whine. I'm hungry. There, mission accomplished.
:bday 2you:
i hope you have a great Birthday .. you got any thing nice planned?