Been to Brisvegas

Busy weekend for us - we left straight after work on Friday and drove to Maryborough which is about half way between us and Brisbane.  We got there about 7pm and checked into our motel and then had a couple of drinks then went to a local pub for tea.  Saturday morning we were up and on the road by 7am and got to Chermside - which has a huge Westfield shopping centre by about 10.30am.  I managed to do a fair bit of damage to my debit card - see below, then met up with my friend Ruthie (who I hadn't seen since our Melbourne weekend back in March) for lunch.  Then we headed to our apartment we had booked - close to the friends we were catching up with and near the city centre.

We went out for dinner to Embers Steakhouse - and had an absolutely delicious meal. Then this morning we caught up with the same friends for breakfast then started the big drive home - 6 hours later and home sweet home again.

On the weight loss front - managed to lose 500g this week so happy with that - just plugging along.  I tried to be reasonably good this weekend and think I managed to make reasonably good choices  - Swiss chicken and salad with no chips on Friday night and left most of the cheese, bacon and egg roll for breakfast and picked all the fat off the bacon, Moroccan chicken and salad with a yoghurt dressing for lunch, and eye fillet with green peppercorn sauce served on the side - salad and baked potato. Then I weakened and had dessert - Frangelico Affogato - ice cream with espresso coffee and frangelico liqueur - delectable!!!!.  Breakfast this morning was the Lifestyle breakfast at the Coffee Club then an Anzac biscuit and Skinnycino at Sexie Coffee and of course a few wines to wash all this down!

So now to the pictures.....

 I still had to get my birthday present from Bloss - didn't know what I wanted - but finally decided I 'd like some really good sunglasses - can't manage to get a decent picture - but for my birthday and Christmas combined- I've got these beautiful sunglasses - hopefully you can see that I've got an magnificent pair of Prada's

Then I went into Wombat and spotted this gorgeous dress - I didn't have too may summer dresses in my wardrobe

And this one was from Wombat too - got both for about $150 after reductions

This little number was from Harris Scarfe - bit of a reduction happening - was about $40

A little Millers number for $19.95

A snip this one - thought it was $39 reduced from $99.95 but when I got to the till - it was $10!!!!!!

Bloss and I at dinner

The group of us having dinner - the guy with glasses at the end of the table is my step son - Bloss's eldest son - an absolutely top guy.

All right - that's you all up to date - have a top week everybody.

Love Z xx

Time for a change again

Well you know me and my hair - I get fed up looking at myself and need a change - so while I'm still keeping it a bit longer I got it shaped in at the back and also decided that I was 'over' the chocolate foils so got a few more blonde/copper ones. I've still got a smattering of the chocolate here and there but not nearly so much. It's taken soooo long to get my side bits to grow but at last they're getting there.

Can't remember if I told you this or not - but I was having trouble getting the sides to grow - just kept going all brittle and breaking. Part of this is a legacy from being hypothyroid but when I was in Melbourne on the girls weekend back in March, Shaz (who's a health professional) gave me a lecture about taking vitamins and recommended Centrum. So I came home and started taking one each day (specially formulated supposedly for the over 50s.)  Anyway a few months later my hairdresser and I were commenting on the fact that my hair was in much better condition and it was at last growing rather than breaking off. We then started to wonder what I'd done differently - I couldn't think of anything - still using the same products, hair dryer etc etc and the only thing we can put it down to is the regular taking of Centrum. So there you go.

Another good week on the weightloss front - managed to drop another 400g. It's not particularly fast but I can live with it especially as I'm letting up on the weekend and having a few wines but have cut them out on 'school nights'.

As I said in my last post, last weekend was Curtis' 4th birthday so we went there for tea on Sunday night so have included a couple of pics of my 'boys' as well as a couple of the new 'do'.

Bloss and I are heading down to Brisbane next weekend - a friend and his new wife are in Brisbane at the moment - they normally live in Taiwan. So we're going to catch up with them for dinner and also catch up with Bloss's eldest son. We'll leave straight after work and have decided we'll head down as far as Maryborough and I've booked us into a motel there, then Saturday morning we'll get up early (we do every other day of the week anyway) and drive on to Brissie and I've got us a studio apartment for Saturday night out at Milton which is a lovely part of the city close to lots of lovely restaurants and also close to where our friends are staying too. I'm hoping to get in a bit of Christmas shopping on the Saturday afternoon and maybe visit the Riverside Markets on Sunday morning then we'll drive home - it usually takes us about 7 hours including coffee and lunch stops.

So that it from me - have a great week possums
Love Z xx

Josh eating the birthday cake

Curtis - he's a cheeky little monkey this one!

Front view of the new 'do'

Side and back view

Not much happening

Like the title says it's been a pretty quiet week. We went out for dinner with our friends last Saturday night - but a few wines, and good choices from the menu so that was OK - and points counted. Sunday was a quiet day at home - made up one of my huge containers of salad to last the week, then at night Grant, Tiff and the boys came down and we had a BBQ tea.

Workwise it's been a pretty busy week - but I dont' mind that - makes the days go faster. Another nice little loss on Wednesday of 400g - just plugging away. Still incredibly slack on the exercise front but I'm sure I'll get my act together one of these days!

Last night we had Bloss's team's Christmas function - tea at the local Yacht Club, then a few drinks down at the Marina, followed by a cruise round our lovely harbour. It's incredibly pretty at night and it's a few years since I'd last been on one so really enjoyed it - especially as it was an absolutely beautiful night - with a bit of lightening happening away in the distance just to add a bit of interest.

Today is Curtis' 4th birthday but Grant and Tiff are off to a wedding so we're all catching up tomorrow night - they had a birthday tea for him last night at their place but of course we couldn't go with the cruise being on.

And I think that's all my news - told you there wasn't much happening. Have a great week everyone.

Love Z xx

Back to Earth - for the second time

Well I had already shared all my words of wisdom then I somehow managed to post my photos over my text and it all disappeared - and dammit there was no back button!


So now I've got to try and recreate what I said.  It was something along the lines that I was back in the groove at work and going with the flow.


I've been continuing to track faithfully and am pleased to report a nice little loss of 800g this week - so I just  need to keep on keeping on.


I had been eschewing alcohol for the past few weeks but that all came to a crashing end on the weekend.


First of all my friend Shaz and I decided to go to Rockhampton on Saturday and check out the extensions to the shopping centre there - brilliant - we now have shops like Wombat and Witchery.  Major excitement for us country bumpkins.  Anyway managed to get a few 'snips' - I'm not too obsessed on being bang up to date on fashion - end of season special do me just fine.  So got a couple of tops and a skirt - $250 to $50, $70 to $29 and $60 to $19.  Can't complain about that.


Then on the way home I got a text from Elle, another friend who has just had a relationship split and moved out and bought her own place.  She was in need of a bit of company.  Shaz had to go into work to attend to a patient - so I dropped her off, bought a bottle of wine and headed to Elle's new place.  A couple of bottles of wine later and one or two cointreaus later and I was history!  I stayed the night there then headed home in the morning.  Straight to bed and didn't surface till early afternoon.  I thought you were supposed to get smarter as you got older!!!


However I did record all the points!!


All right possums - another weekend beckons - catching up with friends now based in Brisbane that we haven't seen for quite a few years.  They're coming to us for a couple of drinks tomorrow night then we'll head to the pub for tea.  


Keep on keepin on everybody and Carpe Diem ( Seize the day) 
Love Z xx

I'm Shitty

Built you all a beautiful post then added some pictures and somehow lost all the words!!!!!!! I'll be back once I've had my hissy fit!
Zxx