Shoo Shoo Baby

Well I haven't had too bad a week on the weight loss front. Still not quite 'in the zone' but certainly making progress towards it. A loss of 1kg this week - which I'm pretty happy with. Especially since my exercise has been crap - seem to be so tired at the moment and I had wine over the weekend. In my favour though I have tracked every day and even with the wine have remained within my points allowance. So just need to crank it up a bit this week.

Have now been back at work for 3 days and finding it really had to get back in the groove but hopefully this week I'll get my A into G! You may remember me posting about my hairdresser a few months back. Well she opted to sell the business as she wasn't able to devote the necessary time to it between looking after her family and embarking on yet another round of chemo. The good news is that she's now just over half way through this round of treatment and has converted a room in her house so that she can look after a few clients in the weeks that she's feeling well. I did like the girl who took over from R (she was trained by her) but she has a young baby and only works one Saturday a month which makes it tricky to keep my hair looking decent. I'm in dire need of a cut and colour since I came back from holiday but can't get in to J till early October. I didn't know that R was going to work from home until yesterday when I bumped into another stylist from the salon and she told me. So I sms'd R today and asked if she'd like another custy - she rang me back and said "Hell yes". Turns out she didn't want to do the wrong thing by the new salon owner although the deal was that she didn't set up within a 2km radius of the salon in the next 12 months. But she lives about 7km from the salon so isn't breaking the agreement but she's such a nice person she didn't want to phone her old clients. Anyway I'm off to see her tomorrow night after work - yippee! And I don't feel bad as I've been with R for the last 8 years so figure she's the one I need to support.

Many of you commented on my shoes in the last post so I decided to do an inventory of my shoes and give you a slide show! I had lots of fun playing with different slide show applications. I originally tried to do this with Photobucket as I loved the way Phil showed her pictures in her last post. But it's just so bloody slow. Then I played with Smilebox - fun and quite good but unless you pay for it you don't get full screen and you get lots of ads. Then of course there was good old Picasa but it was just a tad boring. Then I found Picturetrail which seems fairly idiot proof and quite quick and easy to use. Anyway the most pictures any presentation would take was 40 and since I had pictures of 48 pairs of shoes I had to do two shows. And you know what - that doesn't include my walking/running shoes, a duplicate pair of flatties - same style different colour as a pair already included, a pair of 'granny' sandals, and another pair which were hiding under the bed! So do I qualify as an 'Imelda'? Oh and I'm sorry you Size Niners - I'm usually an 8, or occasionally a 7.5!!!!

Have a great week my lovelies
Love
Z xx

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A photo of the new 'do' - the blondest I have ever been and I love it.

I'm off to have more fun!!

Whisper, whisper.....

Shhhhhh ....don't tell anyone..... I gained 3.2kgs in the five weeks I was away. That is the difference in my weight between the day I left and the day after I came back - BUT as well as that the week before I left was pretty ordinary in my eating habits - farewell drinks and meals out plus it turned out that my old friend TOM decided to pop in and say g'day during the first week of our trip. Don't see the bugger for months then he turns up two in a row!!! Anyway the upshot of all that is that the reality is that I'm almost 5kgs heavier than the lightest I was earlier this year. So.... a bit of work to do. However I'm hopeful that I can drop more than half of that fairly quickly - that is in the next couple of weeks. I'm back on plan since yesterday, tracking, counting points, drinking lots of water and no alcohol so just need to get the exercise cranked up again and I should be right.

Another piece of exciting news - for me anyway - is that while I was away a new gym opened in our little town. I've already been on the phone and got prices and details and it sounds pretty good. Just need to clear up all my holiday bills then I'm planning on joining. In the meantime I'll get back to walking with Zanna again and work up to running a couple of mornings a week.

Beck posted a link to this site Polyvore and said it was a lot of fun - so I had a play and she was right - thanks Beck!

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And now just a few tail end photos from the holiday - as much for my sake as yours!! They're not in order just as I saw them and thought you might like to share. The link to them all is in my last post and I've also put a link on the sidebar under Holiday Photos.



Bugs Bunny on the Hollywood Walk of Fame



A little quant shopping street on Venice Beach. We walked from Santa Monica to Venice beach one day - some incredibly 'different' people to be found at the markets along Venice Beach!


I made it to the red carpet at Universal Studios in Hollywood!!



Having a lunch time beer in Mexico City

Our hotel in Mexico City was superb - the only 5 star privately owned hotel in the city. This was the bathroom - rather swish!

Outside Versace on Rodeo Drive.

Overlooking Los Angeles and Hollywood. The pale grey area you can see just above the top rail, just behind my handbag is the Hollywood Bowl

That's me on the right meandering along Via Rodeo, just off Rodeo Drive.

And one last one - I didn't do much shopping on this trip - too busy seeing things. But I did manage a couple or purchases in Santa Monica. Sears were having their end of summer sale. So I got two pairs of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, a couple of tops and two pairs of shoes. These ones were a real bargain - cost me the princely sum of $US 3.57!!!!

Have a great week everyone

Love Z xx