The Things I Do...

The things I do in the middle of the night. I mean seriously! I decided that I should give this a go. I know Monnie and her New Hubby Rob have had tremendous success using Lite n Easy. One of the girls at work has done well on it. Another has just started and is thrilled with just how easy it all actually is and how nice the food is.

It will take me a little while to figure out how to get my meals in order if I'm going to go back to a healthy lifestyle. These guys will deliver on Tuesday. I was sitting here reading the latest Womens Health and Fitness. Ran up to the Living Room. Grabbed my laptop logged on and selected a few meals and away we go.

Quite seriously now. With meals that look like this Chicken Prawn Pad Thai. Who could resist? This is food porn. (I wonder if it actually looks like this? I wonder if there's as many prawns?)

Everyone knows I am chronically lazy. If I can get my food sorted we are off to a good start. Its always been my major hurdle. I've gone for the 1500cal program which was suggested for someone over 96kg with a low activity level. That gives me room to go up one if I need more and room to go down one when I get to a lower point if I continue. At the moment I have it on an on call basis so it's a once off delivery. I can always order more next week if I want to keep it going. It costs no more and no less to do it this way.

I'm actually really nervous about what I've just done. I have chocolate and ice cream in this house. Don't be expecting anything from me until Wednesday. I fully don't expect a thing to change until then with anything. This is just to help me get restarted.

Now I am sitting here at 2 in the morning freaking out because I was listening to my iPod (through my funky sounddock) and blogging and reading and and and....... And the power has gone off. Happy my laptop has it's own power capabilities but not so happy that the modem and router don't.

Still freaking out! Geez I would be so bad living on my own. I have already been on the phone to the other half saying "Hi How are you? Call the Police if we get disconnected or something" And I have a snoring Rottweiler beside me. Seriously people. My parents are at the other end of the house. That's way too far away in an emergency. LMAO

Ok Back to the topic at hand. I think Wednesday morning is going to bring photos, measurements and weight stats. And we are going to see progress from here! $130 is pretty good value when you think of all the shopping, wasted food and preparation I just dodged. Maybe I should buy for Mum and Dad too. Although I don't think I have $390 to spend on food per week. I wonder if they do a family pack.

I hope you are all well. I am going to grab a dressing gown and go out in the rain and double check it's not just me tripping the power to the house (With laptop still shining I have no idea if the street lights are on outside and the one opposite this window was broken the other day) For this I will wake my trusty Rottweiler ("Stormy get up boofhead") .

If I disappear I love ya's all. (Not that anyone will know cause I can't save or publish this post)

xoxoxoxoxox

2:20am And I return. It's a good thing cause it's not just out house. It's a bad thing cause I was really planning on going to sleep before this happened and now my mind is wracked with all sorts of stupid things.

Storm came with me to check what was going on. Good dog. Now she's sound asleep again and doesn't care. The sky is an eeiry red above the houses. Eeiry. And for a quiet estate there sure is a hell of alot of traffic going to and fro at this time of morning.

I wonder if this is my penalty for not partaking in earth hour (I blame simmo for getting married during earth hour :p) Or perhaps residual from the Storms last week (Although our power stayed on through the whole thing and it really isn't raining heavily outside)

I wonder how much I can babble? I seem to be really darn good at it. I can sit here and type crap for hours. Keeping myself amused. Would love to call the power company but I don't know who they are or what their number is. You can't really have a better time for the power to go out than 2am really.

The power goes out here very rarely. We get the occassional flicker where you have to reset the clocks but anything beyond a couple of seconds is a definite rare occurence. I could probably count the times on my fingers and we have lived here for near on 20 years. Oh crap! It is 20 years in August.

Should we throw the house a party? Is it sad that I remember dates when we moved into the house and I was 7 years old? I'm actually sitting in my original room at the moment. The one I shared with my brother until I was probably about 10 or so. We had bunk beds against the window and I had the top although it was always a fight. I remember being in here one christmas and waking up as Mum and Dad were trying to stealthily place new bikes in our room (Ok I must have been older than 10) Then they changed their minds and I stayed quiet in the dark.

Since then I moved out of this room and into the spare room which is now for guests only. It always contained antique furniture and is my Mum's pride and joy. Sad enough to say it's covered in plastic sheets when no one is using it. But that's a dust protector thing I think not a freaky plastic couch type thing.

Then there's my room. Which is the absolute smallest of them all. (Yay for me dumbarse I chose it) I can only fit a single bed in there. Furniture can only go one way. It used to be the study and I remember sitting up until this time of night quite frequently on the commodore 64 playing cops n robbers which was my favourite game.

We've pulled everything out at the moment to paint. Mum is in the process of deciding if it needs another coat or if one will do and then I'll go back in there. I'd like to check out some sliding doors for my wardrobe too because the current ones I have are annoying! There's no realy room to open them. In the meantime I'm in Josh's old room which is now full of boxes and other such stuff that should be in storage.

I don't think it's going to be long before this house is ready for the marketplace. The time is soon coming where I will say goodbye to my life here in Melbourne and move on permanently to my new life in Sydney. It's freaky I probably wont be here for my house's 20th birthday anyway.

I have had a freakout a couple of times in the last few days about turning 30. I was the girl who wanted to be married with 3 kids and live in my own home with a few investment properties by the time I turned 21. Life doesn't always seem to work the way you think you have it planned. I believe we all end up where we are meant to be though. Thank The LORD I never actually married my first fiance. I wouldn't have met Jason otherwise.

Anyway I have rambled enough now. The power doesn't seem to be coming back on anytime soon and I have suitably discussed enought topics with my fingers that I can get some sleep. (This can be the problem when you sleep half the day) Thanks. If you made it this far, I hope you don't require counselling.

(BTW The power never came back until late this morning)