MONDAY 1st MARCH

Can't believe how quick the weeks are going by. In this month there's J's 19th Birthday, Neil is 51 this month, we are off to Brighton and Devon for 2 weeks and my mums birthday is the 1st of April.
Going to get weighed this morning, I am expecting a 1 or 2 lbs weight loss (though knowing my luck I will have gained again!!!! I haven't according to my scales but, well, we shall see.

Neil is starting Slim Fast todayand is going to do this till we go away I think? We are going to go for a walk this morning round the lake (have not done this for ages). Is very tempting to have late breakfast out!!!!!!

Whoo hoo I lost 2 lbs..........YIPPEEEEE.....am SO motivated to have a good week this week starting NOW. Am making a carrot and coriander soup for lunch and a mixed grill for tea this evening for us all. Which includes syn free sausages that are so yummy and VERY LOW FAT. The butchers over the road from the slimming club does very well on a Monday morning!!!!!

 Wed 3rd March 2010

Have been very good on diet plan since Monday. Bit dodgey tonight cos Neil had some of those Slim Fast bars in, I had already allowed myself one at 5 syns and did have another half of one very late at night but thankfully it still meant I was within my allowance. Whoooo hooo.
I did eat far too much for tea, I had made a shepherds pie and had this with cauliflower - but had a LARGE helping - so much so that I was MEGA bloated afterwards - totally stuffed. There is no need to be eating this much food. I must start to eat less. I don't need to be eating so much that I can hardly move. Stupid or what?
Work was fine today. J took his girlfriend to see my mum and dad for the first time today which was nice (they had their college lessons cancelled).
My sister has been working in Ethel Austins for the last 3 or 4 years and it was the last day in work today - the company has gone into liquidation, she is now looking for a new job (her and millions of others unfortunately). She has always worked since she left school so should not have too much trouble getting another job really - it depends on what is out there.
J has not managed to get a uni place for this September - no places available till the following Sept (he had deferred but was hoping to go this year now instead). Still, he has got a place at the college helping his current Literature tutor for a whole term starting in September, and is aiming to do a term at a primary then junior school too - whilst looking for some sort of job to fit around all of this for one year of course! Getting a job should be a little bit easier now he has passed his driving test, it means he can look further afield like Chester, Liverpool etc. I know he will try his very best to get a job, he is very good at putting himself forward - so wish him luck!

The sun has been out a little bit which is lovely. Can't wait for us all to get back to our daily walks aound the lake (Neil and the kids and me).

Someone got me some red hair dye for Christmas (in the Secret Santa at work) and well, I have done my hair red in the past and did like it, but would I like it now some years later (and few wrinkles more?). Thought I'd try some of the dye out and see what colour it went? Not so easy as it is now 11.30pm, so I need to see it in the daylight.
It might look odd in the daylight? Looks like someone's dripped red paint on me! Actually in the kitchen light it looks coppery. Haha, did not have the nerve to dye the whole lot! Wonder how long this dye will stay in my hair?

 Thursday 4th March 2010

Ok day I guess, work as per usual. I am so glad I have a holiday coming up, Could do with a week off to blitz the house (tidy and clean). I have most energy in the mornings but I will insist on pressing the snooze button on the alarm and then getting up too late (ie just after 7am - which is too late really for stuff other than getting ready and eating breakfast). Ah well, is last day in work tomorrow (yeah the weekend), no plans for the weekend as such other than I have to go for my diabetic eye check in the Opticians on Saturday morning.
I get weighed in work in the morning so will hop on and off the scales very quickly!! Actually I shall be cross if I have not lost any weight as I believe I have been rather good on the eating plan this lat week and I have been dancing. Dieting or watching what you eat is such a chore. It requires such effort. What can I eat? What should I avoid. No emotional eating (this is very difficult not to do) and what about those time you just gotta have junk food - nothing else wil do???????
I stared and stared at the chocolates in the supermarket last night, all those Easter eggs on display. DROOL. I longingly looked at all the cream cakes, think I was looking at them for far too long. BUT I didn't give in and get any. DId I feel better about that?? Well, I suppose so..................
But when you want a treat you want a treat. Trouble is it leasd to more treats and overeating and well, which is whay I am 2 stones (28 lbs) overweight and not happy about it. Mind you got my denim skirt on without having to lie down to zip it up last night for dancing. Also wore my new Edward Cullen (AKA Robert Pattison Twilight Film) T-Shirt which of course non of the ladies in dance class have a clue who he is. Ah well!!!! It's now 20 minutes past 10 pm and I am fairly tired so am coming to bed to read the latest Jabet Evanovich book (Plum Spooky). R has recently gotten into her books and already read about 8 of them, She reads SO SO much and gets very cross when she has nothing to read, she will re-read stuff though when that is all there is to read. J is working his way through several books (he is a great reader too). Night night

Oh yeah - Janey and Lindsay, if you're out there, I do so miss reading your blogs and how you are doing day to day. XCathy

 Friday 5th March 2010

J picked me up from work today (he is now fully insured on Neils car - cost a flipping fortune!) but he really loves driving and is very comfy doing it. He took his girlfriend to Liverpool in the car today cos she had an interview at the University, then on the way home he came to the hospital to pick me up. I am quite relaxed in the car with him, he said he did his first bout of driving on the motorway and it was fine (yikes!). I think he will be a great driver, very careful. It's quite cool being picked up from work by your son!!!
My sister and I do love her an all that - but I try not to go in the car with her, and she has been driving since she was 17 (and is now 40something)........makes me SO nervous if I have to go in the car with her. I am not very good at travelling in the car with people, there are very few people I feel safe in the car with. Neil is a great driver and I have no worries there. And I felt ok coming home in the car with J tonight, but I suppose as a parent you will never feel quite relaxed when your child is out in their car (even when they are MUCH much older). I am so pleased for him, I am glad he has taken so well to driving and is not nervous of driving distances. I don't think I'd be too fussed on him driving down to Devon on his own when we go away (will be difficult cos he won't have a car!) but if he did have a car I would worry, though I know he would love to drive there himself he has said so.
I love the fact that he is getting some indepenance and is not afraid to get out there and do stuff.

 SATURDAY 6TH MARCH 2010

THROWING OUT THE JUNK (all that stuff that gets moved from place to place that we never use, the stuff that accumulates (, old bits of tat that NO ONE really wants but never throws away.) ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. I am going to have a chuck everything out day!!!!

Suppose I had better get on with it then.............

Managed to get a lot of cleaning done and even had a bit of a sort out of the attic and threw away at least one bin bag of stuff.
R has been so rude and horrid lately, answering back and wanting her own way all the time (is driving me nuts). Where has my cuddly cute little girl gone, she's now all mood swings and grumpiness and tantrums. Stupid hormones.
It's 2am (yes 2am) and I am too stressed to sleep, well not stressed exactly, just 'wound up'. Yes I can have a lie in in the morning but not too late as then the days has gone. No plans as such other than a walk at some point. Hopefully all of us if we can get miss grumpy pants moving.
It almost drives you to stress eating (1 packet of crisps, 5 mini chocolate donuts and a chunk of cheese). Bloody hell. I did make a yummy stir fry for tea (curly kale, syn free sausage, tomatos, onion, carrot, celery and orange pepper) it was so nice.
Am mega bloated, stressed, aching, fed up, cheesed off, did I say fed up? Maybe tomorrow will be a nice day??????

 Sunday 7th March

It looks quite nice out and we are getting ready to go out for a walk round the Lake. J does not want to go and I don't suppose R will want to go now either.
The picture (I did) that was in my room is now in R's room and I added more jewels to it!
It's above a table lamp so it quite sparkly. Think I will add more jewels at some point!

We went for a really nice walk , we went on what is called 'The CInder Path' from West Kirby to Hoylake, we went all the way, it was lovely and sunny though a little cold
R walking along the cinder path that runs alongside the railway line. It's where all the trains used to dump the cinders from the engines.
The station at Hoylake.
The train!
R at the end of our walk!
A doll I found in the attic, she is totally silver and has jeweled eyes. I have a box of dolls in the attic cos I love collecting them, unusual ones or older ones. I would keep collecting them but don't have anywhere to keep them really which is a shame. Well, when we win the lottery and have a BIG house!!!!!!!!