"Starter" of the year!

Instead of "Slimmer of the Year" I wonder if they do a prize for "Starter of the year", I'd win hands down! I start a diet approximatly 100 days each year, that must be some kinda record huh!!Already this year I've "Started Again" 4 times, not bad going since its' only February!
Gorgeous sunny day here today :-) Maybe the earthquake yesterday reminded the Sun just where England is on the map for a change!! No rain although a little chilly, but hey, who's complaining!!
Booked the hotel today for our overnight stop on the way down to our holiday destination in June! :-) For those of you thinking I'm booking a stop in Hong Kong, on the way to Sydney, sadly you'd be wrong! I'm talking a travel Inn in Bristol, on the way to Cornwall! Glad its all booked and paid for anyway :-)
Have done TONZ of washing today, so much in fact that I'm now completly out of Fabric Softener so what a shame, no more washing until Saturday when the groceries get delivered! Ho hum! ;-)
Making sausage, mash and onion gravy tonight, as its' everyones favourite ( And before you guys get on my back, yes I have got fat free sausages for me!!) proper good old fashioned comfort food! :-)
Bess had us up at 4.26am playing with the blinds again, not amused in the slightest :-( She does it again and I'll cut her silly paws off!
Put a pic of her on this blog, she looks like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth!!
Played with Ryan on the Xbox for a bit before coming and updating this and now I'll go and make dinner :-)

Ya'll have fun!

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Later.......

Had a fantastic girlie lunch with my friends Carmel :-)
We went to our local pub and had lovely food, following by Baileys coffee...mmmmmmmm!!
Was great to chat away, been feeling a bit like a hermit so was very glad to be out and about!
The fire Brigade came to Ryans' school today and he got to ride the fire engine and hold the hose while they watered the grass :-) How cool is that!! ( If I'd known there were firemen about, Mum would have got the boot today and I would have picked him up!!)
Just Watching Gordon Ramsey - ffwwoooorraaahhhhh!!!!
Think my hormones have taken on a life of their own today!! Whats going on!! Must be the excitement of being in the real live world again!
I'm off to bed to dream about washing Gordons mouth out with soap!! And the rest of him! ( Must be my age!)
:-0

Wend...xxxx

Friends

Hey there!!!
I went to the doctors yesterday and got another note, so I'm due back in work next Tuesday, can't beleive this is going on so long! He advised against more antibiotics as the previous lots did nothing.
Last night played battleships with Ryan (He's addicted!) and helped him with his literacy homework before he went to bed at 8.30pm.
Spent the evening watching TV and playing battleships (Sea Wars) online!
Today I was up bright and early, took Ryan to school ( They have an OFSTED inspection team in today- his school is currently in the top 25% in the Country) and hoovered and mopped when I came back. Made breakfast for Frank and I ( he took the car to the Garage first thing this morning as the brake lights arn't working) and then caught up with emails/facebook and now doing this!
At 1pm my friend Carmel is calling for me and we are going out for lunch :-) Feeling more human again! Really looking forward to a nice girlie lunch :-) Been receiving lots of texts the last few days from concerned friends and work friends which is nice :-) Nice to know I'm missed!
Mum and Dad have Ryan for Tea every Wednesday so Mum picks him up from school and they bring him back around 7.30pm, so I'm childless until this evening!
Off to write a letter now. The Cross stitch pics are what I did for Gails' card.

Will catch up later, have a nice day fellow bloggers!

Wend...xxxx

P.S. I didn't feel the earthquake that struck at 1am this morning!

Yay!!!!

I got a doctors appointment !!! Yay!!! its a 2.10pm so hopefully will get further antibiotics to shift this for good. Can't wait to be rid of it!
Today I have letters to write and hopefully will sew a card for my Cousins Gails' birthday. I can't beleive Gails' baby is due in 7 weeks! Baby no. 5!!!
Have cleaned and done 2 lots of washing so concience is clean! Its' cold here today and windy but lovely and sunny!
:-)
Hope all is well wherever you are!!

Wendy..xxx

Chicken soup, the best medicine!

Hi there!! Missed yesterday! OOPS!
Am still feeling better today :-) However still no Voice!!! Silly croaking/squeeking going on, much to everyones amusement...... except mine!
Need to get another doctors note to cover me from tomorrow, but my appointment is not until Thursday :-( You need a letter from the Pope to get a doctors appointment!!
Unfortunatly my job is handling telephones queries, so an audible voice is pretty essential!Will have to ring the doctors at the crack of dawn tomorrow to see if thay have any emergency appointments.
Ironing pile is still nil ( Yippee!) Finally cleaned out the fish tank (YIK!) and the cat box, full on pet poo day!!!!! Hoovered downstairs and mopped kitchen floor.( Note to self to order some of those vacuum storage bags to tidy the clothes in the loft.They are all in holdalls and suitcases and need to be vac packed)
Yesterday I made a big roast Chicken dinner ( As I do most Sundays, although I vary the meat) and after dinner I stripped the carcass for meat, then boiled the bones,skin etc for stock (Krys do u do this? ) Stored the stock and stripped meat in the fridge until today so I could make Mums' chicken soup. I say Mums', as Mum always made it when we were at home, and my Grandma did too, but its a very basic soup and you can chuck in what you want. Anyway I heated the sieved stock, and put in 1/2 cup of pearl barley and red lentils, salt to taste, after 40 minutes, added 4 carrots, sliced, 2 onions, chopped and 2 leeks, sliced into rings. Simmer for 1 hour and add the stripped chicken meat for the last 10 minutes to warm through :-) Delish!!!!!!!!!!!
Love family recipe's :-) Just like Mama used to make !
Whilst I was picking up the leeks and carrots, I also bought Ryan the game "Battleships" as he has seen me playing this online. After school, all 3 of us played battleships (We took it in turns to help Ryan) which was good fun, although the pegs seemed to keep popping out which sorta defies the object of the game! Will see if I can find an electronic version as the pegs are a little too fiddly for Ryan.
Did some school reading with Ryan, he is also learning "Fire safety in the Home" and had Firemen in school today giving a talk, how jealous am I!
Bought smellies for Mum as its' Mothering Sunday this weekend, also want to pop to Toys r us to get her the game "Boggle" which we LOVE!!! Regularly play that on "Our Fridays" ( I goto Mums every Friday afternoon, we prep dinner together and after dinner spend the evening playing cards, phase10, upwords, boggle and scrabble :-) Its a girl thing!!!)
I must explain that I have Boggle and Mum is Jealous!
Well Its past Midnight, like Cinderella I'm fast turning into a pumpkin, well u know what I mean!! :-)

Love n hugs

Wend....xxxxxx

Feeling like me again!!

Yep actually feel like me again!! Hurrah!! After 3 long weeks I'm finally on the home straight! I still have no voice but feel much better and have loads of energy again! Was out at the shops at 9am!
Got my online grocery shopping delivered ( Thanks Asda :-) ) which was thankfully spot on, Cleared all of my ironing pile (Phew!) and made the boys BLT's before they went off to the swimming baths for an hour. Mum came round to visit so BLT's all round again, had a lovely chat and Mum played on "Lego star wars" on the Xbox 360 when Ryan came home, I peeled veg for dinner and prepped the pork chops.
Made dinner and we settled down to a nights TV (And a nice bottle of White Grenache!) and relaxation.

Bliss :-)

Happy bunny!!

Luv
Wend..xxx

Not good....

Am seriously seriously at the end of my tether with this whole throat/chest infection thing now :-( Am sooo fed up :-( Have tonz to do and no energy to do it, its' taken until 12 noon just to get showered, hair dried and dressed!
Have watched "Waterloo Road" and "Jamie at home" from last night and just have to catch up with "Ashes to Ashes", actually made a start on ironing yesterday Yippee!! Only got 6 items done before putting Ryan to bed but 6 is better than none! Will do more today and try and start to get on top of things.
Diet out of the window, no-one wants to eat lettuce when they're sick!
Am preparing linguine bolognaise with Garlic bread for dinner tonight :-)

Have a lovely weekend
..xxx..

2 Down, 1 to go!!

We have another casualty!! Ryan is off sick too today!! He was up at 6am vomiting and freezing cold :-( Thankfully, since, he's been much better and is seemingly back to his normal self. Trying to get photo's of him is easier said than done as he just wants to mess about with the camera! Nothing done today, shortly the pile of ironing will take over the whole house and will force us out!

Mum to the Rescue!

Well thank goodness I am out of the house!! Felt like I was about to take root! Mum picked me up so I could eat dinner at their house with Ryan and Dad, usually on Wednesdays she has Ryan to herself but has let me in "Just this once" !

Have completed my online shopping at Asda, those of you who have never tried it! DO IT!! Its fantastic! So that will all be delivered on Saturday morning, which leaves a very stress free weekend! (Ryan HATES grocery shopping! )

Filled in some of my Old Journal. Taking shape :-)


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A Week Off to Binge eat???

Hello!!!
Its' Frreeeeezziiinggg!! BBrrrrrrrr!! Playing havoc with my infected chest and airways!
Well I managed to get to day 2! Thats quite an achievement for me! hee hee!
Went to the Doctors yesterday and he signed me off work for a further week, Croaked at him for 2 seconds, he backed away like I was some kind of Leper and gave me new set of antibiotics (Better ones he said!! Notice he didn't offer to refund my last prescription for the previous rubbish ones!) and the sick note. Today I have to take the sick note into work, iron (Because I didn't end up doing any yesterday!), pop out for bread and bath the cat ( Oh Boy!!)
I've also decided to start a journal, like a paper version of this really, bought a beautiful desk journal last year on holiday and started to complete it with details of what we did on holiday, enclosing cuttings etc, needless to say, only got to day 4 and poor thing was abandoned!
Will start again and see how far I get! Quite enjoy doing this, however when I'm back at work with no time to myself, thats when the test will come!
Diet went right out of the window yesterday;with my appointment at the doctors, and having to goto the Strand to get travel brochures of London for Ryan ( For a school Project) we got back after 5.30pm, offfered to goto the chippy for 3 lots of sausage and chips! Carried on binging for the rest of the evening then.
Had severe talk with myself and am back on diet with renewed vigour!
Still have 0 energy, just want to sit on the sofa eating rubbish watching the 3rd series of Lost!! Should be sewing!!

Will check in again later, and report what I haven't done :-)


Wend..xxxx

Day 1 - Starter!

Hey there!!! OK I'm completly new to this, have only ever read 1 "Blog" before so have no idea really what I'm doing!!
I'm not very interesting, but hey, this may make me go and do those things I SHOULD be doing rather than watching TV instead!
I am currently off work sick, Have raging tonsilitis, which is like swallowing shards of glass and have been totally wiped out for the last 10 days, Ryan is constantly making fun of my non-existant voice by calling me Darth Vader!! Keep reminding him that Darth Vader will refuse to help with homework/cook dinner/make school lunch, if cheekiness continues!
Actually feeing much better in myself today, Hoovered the whole house, bleached/mopped kitchen floor, bathroom floor and bleached front step. All before 9.30am!
(Minor miracle!)
Still need to iron, write a letter, clean out fish tank (Bleurgh!) and polish everywhere!
Firstly will need to figure out how to get pictures on here and what exactly I'm supposed to do!

Today was weigh in day :-(

Because of not moving at all for 10 days solid, and living on take aways last week, have gained 3 lb :-( so all in all have lost 22lb since 01-01-08. Back on track since Saturday so should be able to report a better result next Tuesday.
Apart from picking Ryan up from school at 3.10pm/going to the doctors at 5pm, cooking the dinner and helping Ryan with his "LONDON" project for school, have no plans.

Hope this works!!!

Wend..xx