Weekend in Noosa

We had a lovely weekend in Noosa - but I'll deal with the weightier issues first then tell you more. (And forgot to take a photo of the'beach babe' before we went so this is a crop from one of the ones taken at the party)

I'm moving again - not very fast but nonetheless I'm moving - a loss this week of 500g. I had really hoped I'd make my 5kg loss goal this week but it wasn't to be. In review this wasn't one of my best weeks although there probably wasn't a real lot I could have done differently. We ate out most of the weekend - in fact make that all weekend, so I made pretty sensible choices but you can't really control or always guess accurately what the points count will be. Also spending approximately 12 hours sitting on your posterior in a car over the space of three days means your step count doesn't exactly increase at a great rate of knots! But on the up side - despite really REALLY wanting a little chardy....... I resisted. My stubborn pride comes in handy sometimes - the only reason I didn't have one was because I've told all and sundry (including you guys) that I wouldn't have any alcohol until Easter and it would kill me to have to own up that I hadn't managed that.

Reviewing the week :

Alcohol - none
Points - pretty well spot on - kept a bit under at the beginning of the week so any upswings on the weekend should be OK.
Walk - managed four days this week
Water - 2 litres plus every day
Steps - 46,000 for the week - a miserly average of about 6,600 steps a day
Tracking - had to do a bit of retrospective stuff when I got home Sunday but it still looks OK

Went to the beauticians on Thursday night - had all the usual waxing plus the oxygen facial - think it might have made a bit of a difference to the fine lines round my eyes and mouth but I'm afraid no miracles! I had my spray tan done - this was hilarious! I've been having these done fairly regularly for the last couple of years, but the last two for some reason haven't worked. So this time the owner of the salon decided she would do it personally to see what the story was. The following might be too much information ....if so skip a few lines! Anyway the tanning process is not designed for you to feel elegant. There you stand with only a G string, arms in the air, then holding up the' girls' so there's not a white bit underneath, adopting a Mr Universe pose so the insides of your legs get coated.... while the beautician coats you with tanning lotion using a spray gun. She was so determined the process was going to succeed this time that she absolutely drenched me so then there was overspray and I had black/brown rivers running down my boobs so she dabbed them with a tissue which immediately left white patches so she then resprayed - she's stressing to the max and I'm just laughing my head off. Anyway as you can see from the picture at the top - it worked this time - I definitely had the skin tones of a south sea maiden! So to answer your question Maria - this is not a procedure for the faint hearted! but if you have a good relationship with your beautician - it certainly makes you look and feel good! I guess once I made the decision to do the 'brazilian' thing - all other indignities have paled in comparison!

We had a fabulous weekend in Noosa. We managed to get away from work early and got down there around 7.30pm. We checked into our resort -which was really nice - then walked down to Gympie Terrace in search of tea and found a nice Thai restaurant. After having breakfast overlooking the river (photo taken just after breakfast) we spent Saturday driving around up and down the Sunshine coast. We're trying to decide where we'd like to retire to. It keeps changing but this week we're thinking Caloundra might be nice. We want to be near water, lots of nice restaurants, close to Brisbane for sport, theatre, entertainment etc. so Caloundra might fit the bill nicely. But next week might be different.

The party was great fun - lots of 60's music - although I did most of my going out in the 70's but I've always been into 60's music too. Met some lovely new people and caught up with someone I hadn't seen for around 35 years - absolutely magic!

The week ahead looks busy again - going out for dinner with friends tonight to celebrate Bloss's birthday which is tomorrow. The friend (sister of the birthday girl) that I met up with after 35 years and her husband are probably arriving on Wednesday night to stay overnight - they're from Melbourne, but are heading north of us to spend a couple of days with his brother then going to stop off with us on the way back to Noosa. Hopefully my new washing machine will arrive mid week - I've got piles of washing to do! - the other one was going to cost $500 to fix so just bought a new one and will get the $200 cash back which will make it the same cost.

OK possums that it's from me on this beautiful Monday morning. Hope you've all had a good week and let's all make this one a good one too.

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.... unless there are three other people. " ~ Orson Welles