Blobbing instead of Blogging

I'm so slack (and I still haven't got any apostrophes). I am so busy at work plus my thyroid has been playing up and I am so fatigued when I get home that I just blob instead of blog. I have been reading but haven't been commenting although I did rectify that this morning and think Ive managed to get round most of you to let you know I'm still alive! My new job means that my weeks just fly by but I am pretty exhausted at the end of the day but had also been feeling incredibly tired - not just lack of sleep tired but also that my whole body was fatigued. Anyway when I went to the doctors last week to see how my thyroid results were it turns out that its a bit out of whack so hes upped my medication so hopefully in the next week or so that will kick in and Ill have some more oomph. Haven't been to the gym at all - struggling to drag myself out of bed at 5.30am for work never mind 4.50am to go to the gym. However the good news is that I am very focused on eating - decided to change my plan around and cut out my mid morning snack and my afternoon snack where possible. Also turned my back on alcohol - for 2 weeks now. Feeling the benefits of that and my weight is steadily dropping - still about the same as my sidebar - had to get rid of the effects of the Melbourne weekend! We had a fantastic weekend - got down there on Thursday afternoon - met up with Ruthie who flew in from Brisbane then we went to our apartment - Quest on William - would highly recommend it - very central - two bedroom, two bathroom exec apartment - cost $610 for the 3 nights so worked out at $200 each, add on $75 for our flights so a cheap weekend break. We went down to Southbank that night - had a nice meal by the river then made a donation at the casino and had a listen to the pianist in the Atrium Bar. Friday was lots of shopping and lunch at a lovely little restaurant called Le Cabinet (I think) which was upstairs with a deck looking down on Swanston Street. Then met up with a former workmate at the Old Mint bar then headed to Lygon Street for tea - was yummy but cant remember the name of the restaurant. Saturday morning we had breakfast with another ex work colleague then hit the QV markets. Then it was time to pick up our bags and head back to the airport. Fabulous weekend - lots of laughs, wine, food, shopping and good friends - what else could you ask for?

This was the view from our apartment The lovely Shaz Beautiful Ruthie The lovely Shaz presented both the Beautiful Ruthie and I with some freshwater pearls - aren't they gorgeous (went so well with my black satin PJs)

Last weekend Josh (7) our grandson came to stay. We have set activities that are expected to happen when he comes to stay - amazing how kids create their own traditions! When he comes to Granny's we always bake something and do some painting. We stopped on the way here and bought a papier mache mask at Crazy Clarks so below you can see Picasso at work wearing Bloss Tshirt.

Man at work!

Proudly posing by the finished exhibit Modelling the end result - yes its a bit big - that's his chin you can see poking through!

When in Melbourne I bought another remote and steering wheel for the Wii - so here we have Bloss and Josh playing Mario Karts - Bloss despite trying his damnedest hasn't been able to beat Josh!

This is another game where you ride a cow up a track knocking down scarecrows and jumping over hurdles. You have to move the remote in upwards, downwards and sideways directions - but as you can see they move themselves too. Sooo funny to watch.

Big news coming up shortly about our next trip - thought we had decided and visited my travel agent the other night for some further info then put together an itinerary and emailed it to him yesterday for a quote. Then he flicks me an email telling me about a special which came out yesterday with some AMAZING fares - so we think we might do something different altogether. I'm off now to do some research as if we are going to do the latter option we have to book and pay in less then 2 weeks so need to have some kind of a plan cobbled together so we get the dates right. Watch this space! Love Z xx