The Final Countdown - Bring on the Wine!

See that big smile - that's because the challenge is over and I've lost 5.4kgs.  I've gone for 12 weeks (84 days) without a drop of alcohol passing my lips and on every one of those 84 days I've drunk at least 2 litres of water. But it's been well worth it - I feel fantastic although the car tyre isn't quite down to a bike tyre yet so I'm going to savour one or two glasses of wine tonight then hop back on the wagon and see if I can get it down to a bike tyre before we leave for Europe - that's 10 weeks away.

A couple of comparison photos - the one on the left was taken just before I left Scotland at the end of our trip last year.  The one on the right was taken last Thursday night before we left to go and see Wendy Matthews in concert.  The difference - very close to 10 per cent and 7.8 kgs.

We spent Saturday in the garden - I did a ton of pruning to all the shrubs, weeded the garden beds at the front - Bloss did the same at the back - and then manhandled and spread 18 bales of hay for mulch.  Here's my handiwork.

As I said above we went to see Wendy Matthews on Thursday - I was a bit disappointed - she has a wonderful voice but her choice of songs just didn't do it for me.  The first set was all Billie Holliday stuff and as someone behind me commented at the end of it - 'that was like watching paint dry'.  It was serious jazz - and I'm not a real fan.  The second half was a bit better but still all very slow and dirge like - I just wanted to crank up the pace a bit. 

Jimmy Barnes and Shannon Noll are coming to town in June so we've booked tickets for that concert - should be a good one.

The bathroom and toilet are almost finished - our poor builder has been working night day and weekends to get it done.  He and his family leave to go on 2 weeks holiday tomorrow and he had about 5 jobs to finish before he went.  He's been absolutely brilliant and his standard of workmanship is outstanding.  The painter was in to quote on Saturday so hopefully he can do his bit later this week.  I'm delighted with how it's all coming together and very happy with our choice of tiles.  No photos yet but will definitely show you once it's all finished.

Hope you have a great week possums
Love Zxx

Ladies Lunch

Hello possums - another good week back on the healthy bus -see my table below.  I've managed to up my Wii activity to 30 minutes each morning so feeling good about that.  I had had a sizeable loss this morning but we'll wait and see what tomorrow morning brings - I find that Sundays are often lower than the rest of the week because I get up later and seem to be lighter when I sleep longer.  Solution - sleep constantly!!
Woo hoo!! another 500g off this week - just over 5kgs for the challenge and still one week to go.

Day	Water	WW Pts	Wii Fit/ Walk	Wine
1	2 ltrs	20	30m	None
2	2 ltrs	18	30m+20m	None
3	2 ltrs	22	30m	None
4	2 ltrs	20.5	30m	None
5	2 ltrs	16.5	30m	None
6	2 ltrs	16.5	34m	None
7	2 ltrs	16	0m+40m	None
Totals	14 ltrs	129.5/126	4hr 4min	None

Another flat chat week at work - gee it sure makes them go fast.  The builder started on the bathroom on Tuesday so there was lots of dust that night but he says that's the worst of it past and my cleaning fairy was here on  Friday morning so everything sparkly again.  Tony our builder is in and out most days - doing little bits here and there and reckons he'll start tiling on Tuesday - stay tuned for before and after photos.

Clive had told me at Easter that a friends husband was suffering pancreatic cancer and had only about 6 weeks left.  This couple were good friends to my ex and I but were one of the casualties of our breakup - they found it really difficult to be on both sides and so I just backed out of the picture and figured he probably needed their friendship more than I did at that stage and in fact they introduced him to his new wife.  We've always kept in touch but just not very frequently.  Anyway I phoned on Thursday to see how things were - to be told that he had passed away the day before - Ev sounded not too bad and the funeral is next Friday at their home so I'm planning to attend that.  But another wake up call when you lose people not very much older than you ( he would have been 65 I think and not long retired) - yes -  must live every day like it's your last!

Yesterday was our monthly ladies lunch - a group of us - many from work but a few other ring ins have started to meet once a month for lunch - changing the restaurant each time.  There's about 13 of us in the email distribution list but the idea is you go when you can and no big deal if you can't make it.  So 7 of us there yesterday and the usual talk fest - great fun.  A couple of pics below.

Heather and I

Shaz(my holiday buddy) and Michelle

I've been doing a bit of research on some of the Wii fitness programmes and from what I'd read figured this would be good for a change.  So bought it yesterday and plan on starting one of their 30 day challenges next week once I finish the Biggest Loser challenge on Monday next week.

Ok must away and get tea organised - Grant Tiff and the boys are coming.  Will add an update in the morning of  my weightloss then post this.

Have a wonderful week good people

Love Z xx