OK, so this week of being less than good - gulp - means that I've put on 3lbs. Not that I'm surprised as there has been a distinct chocolatey flavour to the week plus a bit of beefburger and chips and the odd icecream. But am I disheartened? Am I giving up? No not at all - well maybe a bit disheartened but it's my own fault. So onwards and upwards.
I've had to rip back the left side of Mum's cardigan as I made a mistake and the yarn is so fluffy row counting is really difficult. Easier to rip it back and start again. Having said that it was an exercise in patience as the fluffiness kept catching and having to be teased out. So I cast it back on and left it for a bit whilst catching up on the crocheted squares for a bag that I'd forgotten I was doing until I found it yesterday. That'll be coming to work with me today, I think, for lunchtime.
I've bought myself a new cossie - one with a skirt so I don't look quite so beached whale like - and I'm going to start swimming again - ladies night at our local baths on a Wednesday at 9pm. Obviously after the watershed so I don't scare the kiddies too much :o)
It's getting on for 7am so I'd better get ready for work.
Sunday 26 July 2009
Monday 20 July 2009
Dieting on
One day later than the rest of you, I have stood on the scales with trepidation and have lost the half a pound I put on last week. Now that I've finally got rid of the dressings on my leg, I can increase my exercise so hopefully I'll start to lose a bit more ..... so long as I can counter the munchies I will get from the extra exercise.
Friday 17 July 2009
Once again dear friends, and I can't remember the rest of that quote!
OK, the box has been re-boxed as the previous one looked a tad foxed although a tad beared, deered or even elephanted might be nearer the truth.
I have taken out three items and replaced them with three more items from my ever encroaching stash. (Do stashes become sentient as they grow I wonder? Mine always seems to know how to trip the old man up on one of his, you've got too much yarn grumbling days) And I am hoping, all being well and everything crossed, to get it into the post tomorrow morning. Here are my choices .....
At some point tomorrow we've got to go target the ducks and swans again as the bread rolls are getting stale. It's only a matter of time before Alex throws himself into the canal as well as his handful of bread. His favourite trick at the moment is attempting to score direct hits on the seagulls and he is scarily accurate at it. (With bread crumbs I hasten to add)
GREAT NEWS .............. the district nurse has finally signed me off - five months after the abcess that necessitated their regular daily visits to clean it, squeeze it, swab it, swear at it and stick all manner of different dressings over it in the vain attempt to avoid the skin around it being ripped off twice a day. It's all better now except for a small crater which not even I will notice. (That's probably because I haven't been able to see that area for at least 25 years)
I'm off to buy a new swimming cossie
TTFN
I have taken out three items and replaced them with three more items from my ever encroaching stash. (Do stashes become sentient as they grow I wonder? Mine always seems to know how to trip the old man up on one of his, you've got too much yarn grumbling days) And I am hoping, all being well and everything crossed, to get it into the post tomorrow morning. Here are my choices .....
At some point tomorrow we've got to go target the ducks and swans again as the bread rolls are getting stale. It's only a matter of time before Alex throws himself into the canal as well as his handful of bread. His favourite trick at the moment is attempting to score direct hits on the seagulls and he is scarily accurate at it. (With bread crumbs I hasten to add)
GREAT NEWS .............. the district nurse has finally signed me off - five months after the abcess that necessitated their regular daily visits to clean it, squeeze it, swab it, swear at it and stick all manner of different dressings over it in the vain attempt to avoid the skin around it being ripped off twice a day. It's all better now except for a small crater which not even I will notice. (That's probably because I haven't been able to see that area for at least 25 years)
I'm off to buy a new swimming cossie
TTFN
Thursday 16 July 2009
Goody box whoops
A huge apology to Kaye and Judy as I left them out of the box swap. However, all is not completely lost as I have not had time to unpack it and so I am going to tape it up and send it back out on it's merry way, at the weekend.
On the diet front, we went to the Isle of Wight, weekend before last, and I didn't bother dieting to be honest, although I did do a huge amount of walking. The upshot of all this is that I stayed the same weight last week and put on 1/2 lb this week. Still not to worry - head down and keep on going.
We've decided to have another holiday third week in August, but we're not leaving home to do it. After a lot of searching the net for deals and places to go, and grumpy comments from the other half we suddenly realised that we live in a holiday spot here in Kent. So we're going to have a week of visiting attractions within acceptable driving distance of home. So the money that would have been spent on the hotel - just a glorified wardrobe really, will be spent on extra attractions. There's such a lot in this area that I'm having great trouble in reducing the list to a manageable size.
My shawl is coming along - slowly. I was worried that it looked messy and completely unlike the picture of the completed one - but my Mum told me not to worry as blocking it would sort the messiness. I hope she's right :o)
There's so much to do I don't know where to start. My house is a tip, we're running at full stretch at work and we've got Swine Flu there as well. My daughter's schools has three cases of swine flu so far but as it's end of term tomorrow they're not really worried. What really got me though, was that my daughter said all the pregnant girls had been sent home because of the flu !!! The implication was that there was a lot of them and nobody seemed worried about that !!!
Oh well, now I've unloaded everything here I can make a start on something, somewhere, sometime. Or perhaps just knit a few more rows before I do.
Catch you all soon I hope. Good luck on shawls and dieting and everything else you're currently doing.
On the diet front, we went to the Isle of Wight, weekend before last, and I didn't bother dieting to be honest, although I did do a huge amount of walking. The upshot of all this is that I stayed the same weight last week and put on 1/2 lb this week. Still not to worry - head down and keep on going.
We've decided to have another holiday third week in August, but we're not leaving home to do it. After a lot of searching the net for deals and places to go, and grumpy comments from the other half we suddenly realised that we live in a holiday spot here in Kent. So we're going to have a week of visiting attractions within acceptable driving distance of home. So the money that would have been spent on the hotel - just a glorified wardrobe really, will be spent on extra attractions. There's such a lot in this area that I'm having great trouble in reducing the list to a manageable size.
My shawl is coming along - slowly. I was worried that it looked messy and completely unlike the picture of the completed one - but my Mum told me not to worry as blocking it would sort the messiness. I hope she's right :o)
There's so much to do I don't know where to start. My house is a tip, we're running at full stretch at work and we've got Swine Flu there as well. My daughter's schools has three cases of swine flu so far but as it's end of term tomorrow they're not really worried. What really got me though, was that my daughter said all the pregnant girls had been sent home because of the flu !!! The implication was that there was a lot of them and nobody seemed worried about that !!!
Oh well, now I've unloaded everything here I can make a start on something, somewhere, sometime. Or perhaps just knit a few more rows before I do.
Catch you all soon I hope. Good luck on shawls and dieting and everything else you're currently doing.
Monday 6 July 2009
Diet - and me too
Well my diet went slightly out of the window over the weekend as I packed the family into the car on Friday after work, and went to the Isle of Wight. A two and a half hour motorway trip turned out to be the best part of four hours due to several accidents and multiple roadworks along the way.
Is it just me, or does there never seem to be any actual work going on inside those cones? We've come to the conclusion that in actual fact they are being stored on the motorway as there is no room for them anywhere else. That would explain why there always seems to be miles and miles of perfectly good road surface coned off. Either that or some evil sod gets their kicks from watching people get frustrated in traffic jams.
Anyway, back to the diet - or lack of. Although I haven't made any attempts to diet over the weekend, I have done a fair bit of walking and my weigh in this morning revealed that I have stayed the same weight - let's hope it doesn't catch up with me next week.
There's a noisy great Chinook helicopter just gone over my house, sounded like it was going to land in the back garden - mind my pots !!!!
I keep looking at the Tilia shawls and then going back to my Mum's cardi. In my defence I need to get this done for her birthday in September and the 16 row pattern keeps catching me out. But I do have my other shawl (see previous post) on the needles so I think I'll take it to work with me tomorrow and get some rows in during lunch. That's the plan anyway. And there's the other mitten needs doing and the colour through gold embroidery in the hoop, then there's the Or Nue to get started, the beaded bracelets, the embroidered bags ...... I think I may have too many projects ongoing !!! Problem is I want to do everything now ..... and I work full time as well. Still it's a challenge.
Night, night everyone
Is it just me, or does there never seem to be any actual work going on inside those cones? We've come to the conclusion that in actual fact they are being stored on the motorway as there is no room for them anywhere else. That would explain why there always seems to be miles and miles of perfectly good road surface coned off. Either that or some evil sod gets their kicks from watching people get frustrated in traffic jams.
Anyway, back to the diet - or lack of. Although I haven't made any attempts to diet over the weekend, I have done a fair bit of walking and my weigh in this morning revealed that I have stayed the same weight - let's hope it doesn't catch up with me next week.
There's a noisy great Chinook helicopter just gone over my house, sounded like it was going to land in the back garden - mind my pots !!!!
I keep looking at the Tilia shawls and then going back to my Mum's cardi. In my defence I need to get this done for her birthday in September and the 16 row pattern keeps catching me out. But I do have my other shawl (see previous post) on the needles so I think I'll take it to work with me tomorrow and get some rows in during lunch. That's the plan anyway. And there's the other mitten needs doing and the colour through gold embroidery in the hoop, then there's the Or Nue to get started, the beaded bracelets, the embroidered bags ...... I think I may have too many projects ongoing !!! Problem is I want to do everything now ..... and I work full time as well. Still it's a challenge.
Night, night everyone
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