heard a rumor that sex burns heaps of calories!

so go to bed with john....

Hello to you all from New York City!!

It's been freakin hot here - from Saturday when we arrived until Tuesday the city was under an extreme heat warning with temperatures way up in the 30's and for me coming from winter, that's damn hot!

I absolutely love this city and am so happy to be here. The sightseeing has been great, went to Coney Island, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Jewish History Museum, Strawberry Fields, Times Square ... the list goes on.

You guys would all be so proud of me ...... I've walked so much that the soles of my feet actually feel bruised! Diet has been pretty good all things considered. No vegetables to be seen in anything I've eaten so I've been having fruit salads in the mornings.

We fly out to Las Vegas on Saturday and the challenge will be to keep exercising while I'm there.

Sorry I haven't had time to read all about what you've been up to. Hope all is well with everyone!

HEHEHEHEHE AMy the MAROONS WON

qld kicks arse!
(i am too big for my shirt tat says that, but jem looks cute as)

Good news - the Statue handed in her notice yesterday. Two more weeks of putting up with that and it's all over. Mind you - our Manager hasn't replaced the last two people in our department yet, so we will be rather short-staffed for a little while.

I have the weekend off and have the usual round of domestics to do. I am also starting work on my new book next week, and that's exciting.

Julia it's great to hear from you. Sounds like you're having an awesome time.

All is well here in terms of my weight loss. I don't know how I will go with weigh-in on Tuesday, but at this stage I am confident of not gaining any weight - and that has to be a good thing!

Hope you all have a great weekend.


Ani

I just learnt that my old primary school is celebrating 50 yr anniversay and they are having a past and present reunion. In Spetember. Think thats incentive enough to lose some weight???? lol. Hmm 3 mths how much can I lose?

Maybe that's why I'm gaining weight... I left my boy in Melbourne!

kel i think you must be right there lmao

becuase this morning im 269.9 .. woohoo bye bye 270.. i know only just but it works for me lol .. im really happy

Ani im glad the statue is leaving.. did she get a permanant postition standing in some one garden??? or on a grave?? lol

Vonni those sound like fabulous incentives to me to loose weight .. you just dont know how many hot men might be there lol..

John was an azz on the way home from the airport.. he flew into adelaide nighttime in winter.. in shorts and tshirt.. and yelled at me all the way home to turn the heater on.. I get travel sick if a ride in ma hot car and i had the kids bundled up in vest, long sleeve tshirts, socks ,slippers,jumpers, and dressing gowns, Leah also had a nappy on. they were dressed for cold.. no way was i turning the heat on..
He got himself drunk on the plane and called me every name under the sun on the way home , told me i was selfish and he wanted a divorce becuase he hasn't loved me in years .. lol.. on and on.. more and more .. 40 f*&ing minutes home...

John has had a problem with drinkiong forever.. lol he cant handle alchol and will try to pick fights with blokes for looking at him.. and turns from slimey to nasty in under 10 seconds and then back to slimey again.. fun huh??
So we have a rule that John doesnt drink at home he can drink to his hearts content when he is working away.. but not at home.. me and the kids dont need it..
he tells me off for always being on his back about drinking but i explained to him im like that becuase i have been hurt by his drinking many times.. and i think he understands where im coming from.. he said he wont drink on the plane next time .. so ill keep my fingers crossed .

I think everything is getting a bit much for him really .. my husband has never cryed.. even when his grand dad died.. never in the 14 years ive known him

Last night he was crying his eyes out .. and he just couldn't stop .. we watched titanic and he was balling.. and then all this stuff that was bothereing him just blurted out .. he has been grumpy since he got home.. last night he cryed and today he is happy .. so maybe we should watch titanic more often .. so he can release his feelings.. why do blokes hold in there feelings?? i dont get it.. we women do it alll the time.. men are funny .. they trying to be tough or something?? i dont know.. anyway.. i gotta go .. have a great day girls

woah! there are so many things wrong there amy!!! that is not fair that you look forward to him coming home and the kids do too and he is like that!

yeah i know .. dont worry he is still apologising lol.. its all the drink.. and he has always been bad on it.. we dont have it in the house at all.. Im a complete nondrinker so its very easy for me not to have it around.. I dont nedd drink to be happy i just am happy.. I dont worry about having fun i just do it.. lol
So yeah Johns drinking has to stop .. if hes coming home he has to be 100% dry.. 2 drinks for him is the limit before my azzhole appears.. Cameroj told him last night that he doent like him when he drinks.. and that hes scared of daddy when he drinks .. that was before we watched the movie so i hope he was thinking about that when he was crying.. becuase its not just me he is an azz too .. though he likes to think it is .. I told him too when he comes home for good he has to give up drinking for good or he will loose us for good .. i said we have no future is he cant give up drinking when he is finally home.

I grew up with an alcoholic step father and brother. Not a good way to grow up. Hope John can see there is a prob and gets help. But you can't hope those who won't help themselves. It's HIM that has to do it. G'luck Amy. And we're here if u need a sounding board.

i guess the crying means he knows he has a problem, and the fact that cameron also told him has got to have him thinking but WHY just when he is at home, if he can not handle his grog then he should fix it everywhere why be a scary azz anywhere?? no one can do two different things or should want to be pretending or whateva around family.... doesnt even matter if he doesnt physically hurt you as mentally he is hurting you and the kids, what is your girl going to think when she gets to marrying age?? is she going to marry the same kind of guy coz that is what she thinks is normal??
kinda funny that he cried at titantic though, kinda prooves there is a sweety in there trying to get out, needs your help....
milk his apologiseing for all it is worth!

got your dishwasher yet??

my eating is all over the place, i am not over eating i am just eating the ''wrong'' things

dont you love it ani when the idiot quits! that hardly ever happens, i usually quit first!

gen - your boy is in melb?? you have someone waiting for you?? are you coming back??

see photo <------ can you see kitchen in background? that was on saturday at my kitchen warming party - i am wearing shirt saying "tupperchick" and jemima is wearing shirt saying "tupperbub" benji declined the "tupperhubby" shirt heheheheeh
i will try and upload better kitchen photos in a second and do the facebook link thing that works good

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...7&id=672125417

old kitchen
am working on cleaning kitchen today to take pics of new one
but it is in back ground of these pics
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...d&id=672125417
notice curtains, dishwasher and glass doors - all took ages - the whole thing took ages but those took even longer for different reasons ho hum