Been AWOL

Sorry my friends Ive been lacking both time and inclination this past couple of weeks - Ive been haphazardly reading but been mostly too slack to comment and just couldn't get round to actually posting myself. Ive given myself a kick in the bum tonight and forced myself to do a quick update. All is well chez Zanna but just so busy between work, home and study. Theres nothing like impending visitors for getting your A into G and catching up on all those jobs you've been putting off. So theres been lots of tidying of cupboards, - linen, under the stairs, wardrobes (my clothes are spread over three wardrobes in three rooms!) So its now only about two and a half weeks till Mum, Linda and Frank arrive (Linda is my sister and Frank my B-in-L)so getting quite excited. No 1 son got a promotion at work - well deserved I think and needless to say I'm bursting with pride. No 2 son just got back from Brazil earlier this week. I haven't seen him yet as hes staying with a mate down the Sunshine Coast but will probably be back up here early next week. Eating has been quite good apart from this need to have a bit of chocolate now and again - strange as its not normally something I crave. Drinking has been good too - settled into quite a nice routine of having a wine or two on Friday and Saturday nights but nothing the rest of the week. However the weight doesn't seem to be going anywhere very fast - I'm down a further .5kg since I last posted - so that's 1.3kgs since I started trying properly. Hardly setting the world on fire and finding that its becoming very hard to shift that middle roll - think its one of the perils of menopause! However I have been going to the gym three mornings a week and really enjoying it. I do circuit with weights on Mondays and Wednesday and Thursday I do cardio - one day interval walking on the tready and then the cross trainer, the other day the bike and the rowing machine. Definitely feel better for doing it and although the weight not moving much - I had lost 2per cent body fat when I was reassessed last week. And now a couple of photos to finish off Hairdo from a couple of week ago - love it when hairdresser does it but cant replicate it to save myself Down the beach last Friday night for Curtis 3rd birthday Josh with his scary monster face

Apologies for the lack of apostrophes - that key doesn't appear to be working - but just been able to get the spell checker to fix most of them. Hope everyone is happy and well and having a good week

Love Z xx

In a Word

Stayed the same this week - after being 300g down on Friday - maybe I should weigh in on Fridays??!!! Nanette (aka Wanna) sent me an email this week asking me to describe her in one word, send her my reply then forward the email to a selection of friends asking them to describe me in one word. Here's what I got Traveller, Wisdom, Vibrant, Classy, Adventurous, Admirable, Superlative, Vivacious, Kind, Groovy, and Gorgeous. Thank you all you've made me feel very special. This was such an interesting exercise as I sent the email to blogger friends I've met and blogger friends I haven't as well as close friends and even a relative. So this week - well I've once again managed three gym visits although not much other exercise. Eating and water drinking has once again been really good. I relented on my no alcohol for the last two nights - Friday night Bloss and I just shared a quiet bottle at home and then last night we decided to go out for tea at a local restaurant so shared another bottle but I've already decided that it for now - back to alcohol free evenings. We're heading off shortly to an work team BBQ - the whole HR team and families are getting together at the park at the marina - so that should be fun then at night No 1son and family are coming down for tea so looking like a fun sort of a day. I've already been a good girl and made my huge bowl of salad for the weeks lunches and I made my little jellies and fruit last weekend and still have enough in the fridge for this week. Going to be a bit of a part timer at work this week - I'm there on Monday, spend Tuesday morning presenting my assignments and supporting the rest of the class as they present theirs then Wednesday and Thursday I'm at our offsite training facility doing the final workshop for my diploma then back to work again on Friday. Fortunately I'm pretty up to date with my workload so should be able to keep things ticking over. Well the kids came down and since it had been such a warm day they headed for the pool

Curtis in a little floaty car we brought back from Penang a couple of years ago

Grant, with Josh and Curtis

He's a cheeky one this one!

Chilling out with Porter (that's what they call Bloss) There's a bit of a story to this but it actually sounds really endearing hearing this two calling Porter to come and see something etc That's the news for this week - off to paint my nails now. Have a great week everyone. Love Z xx