Went down the gym this morning, left the Pixie at home with Daddy and went down to kick my own butt. I'm starting to know quite a few people there now. I love people watching when I am there. It's really great, plus the gym is quite likely to be playing Miley Cyrus or Shannon Noel and for me personally, well, it's not my favourite. I tried to take an MP3 player in but it wouldn't pick up JJJ, only the local radio station which plays, yep, you guessed it, Miley Cyrus and Shannon Noel. Occasionally they will put on this early 90's double dvd set which includes such classics as Cherry Pie by Warrant and I Think We're Alone Now by Tiffany. Of course I'm always delighted to be greeted by these old friends. I did ask if they would pop it on for me today but Bevchick said she had been there for almost 12 hours yesterday and heard it numerous times and that she wouldn't put it on but she would shove it up my arse if I liked. Since the Princess of Darkness wasn't around to help me out I decided I would put up with what they had on. It wasn't long after that I was rewarded, a young man came in wearing leopard print shorts - very hot. It really made my day, just like the first time I saw the man who looks like Colonel Sanders of KFC fame. Yep, there he was right there on the kayak machine. Ah yes it's the gym for people like me. I like to wear my old Kevin Nash wrestling shirt down there just to fit in. I also managed to find quite a beauty in Best and Less the other day, a dodgy purple shirt that says "Margate Sands Finest". Oh they joy I had when I found that shirt, since I lived in Margate for 13 years. I just have to get my Michael Jackson style fingerless gloves for when I do weights now and I should be looking a real treat.

Speaking of Best and Less, I was downtown today trying to find some other crafty stuff when as I walked past I spotted some lovely blue DT's in the window that have "Bad Boy" written on the butt. They were 3 bucks, I had to get LHT a pair. They will go quite nicely with the mankini supplied by SWHF recently. (Yes another good day) LHT has gone back today to start work tomorrow and has been struck down with the dreaded vomit everything you put in your belly back up virus. If only he had been sick before he left I could have given him those little budgie smugglers and I bet he woulda felt a whole lot better!

Okay, okay, I'm sorry

I'm sorry it has been so long. Life has been crazy for us lately since LHT has been working for Rio Tinto. Since he is away for five nights and home for three it has been difficult to get into a routine. I think we are finally getting there. I decided on December 10 I had to do something about my weight. So I joined the local YMCA and have been going M-F ever since. I have not weighed myself yet to know if I have lost any weight but I think it will show more in measurements for the first time rather than in kilos. I have a few more weeks until my first weigh in and measure. I signed up for personal training once a week which I have a love hate relationship with. Not my trainer though, the Princess of Darkness is fabulous!! I love her to bits and I love that she will push me to my limit. I have not as yet vomited but I certainly have felt like it!! I am quite proud of how I am going, I can see my fitness improving as the days go by. I was so excited when I finally managed to do 1000m in five minutes on the rower, especially as it was the same day I finally managed to do 1km on the cross trainer! I knew it would be a good day for my friends who were getting married. Yesterday I did 5.3km in 5 minutes on the kayak, I felt like superwoman.

It was the Lusty Librarian and the Snakeman got married. It was a lovely little ceremony on the beach with just 7 people, including the celebrant. Afterwards we went out to a New Orleans style restaurant which has made me crave creole ever since. (I am making jumbalaya tomorrow night - mmmm.)

The pixie is going along nicely, being very advanced and all. She is saying lots of new stuff including cheese, fish, here she is, cool and oh wow. It is very very cute to see her. Her auntie gave her a set of 5 boardbooks for christmas and she loves them to death and she always says, "cool", which she pronounces tulle, when she is looking at them. She is of course being extra cheesy these days, not very keen on posing for photos these days, it's way more fun to run away from Mummy. Speaking of running, TenB said to me one day, "you know one day they walk and the next they run." So true my friend so true, she runs all over the place and I really have to try to keep up. She is definitely a bit part of my motivation when I get tired when I am working out, I try to remember that if I don't do it, she'll get away from me. How about that Mum who left her baby unattended in the car today and the car got stolen! How sick would you feel coming out of the store and realising that your precious baby was gone. I can only imagine the anguish she felt during the time her baby was gone. I bought a wrist restaint for the Pixie the other day, she doesn't mind it if I put my bit on first. She thinks it's okay cos I have one on my wrist too. You know people say it's like having a dog on a leash, I agree, but in this case, I am the dog. She drags me around on the dam thing and then I just end up carrying her anyway. I think I'll just use the pram forever! She was sick on monday so I gave her an iceblock to keep up her fluids - you would have thought I had given her gold and jewels the happiness she displayed. If only she was always going to be that easy to please.

Not so yummy.

Last night FM and G-Dog came over for dinner, which was delicious by the way, we had spicy chorizo and pumpkin couscous. Very good. Since FM is about to have a milestone birthday we were looking at cupcakes online and becoming inspired decided to have a go at making some marzipan flowers since I had some left over from the Pixie's birthday. It is not as easy as you might think to make flowers from marzipan but we did end up with a quite impressive bowl of fruit and veg. We were making icing to help stick the bits together and I was complaning that the icing sugar was taking a lot of water and hard to stir and FM agreed whole heartedly until she looked over and saw I had a fairly smooth paste and she had lumps. It was as I told her to add some more lemon juice that I saw what the bag in front of me said... corn flour. MMM I had dusted the tupperware mat with it too thinking it was icing sugar and the marzipan was covered in it. We were laughing so hard. FM went outside to tell the boys who were sitting holding hands (okay not really) by the fire but I said later she shouldn't have because we could have tricked them into eating it.

My baby is sick today, she has had a temperature and has been vomiting. LHT took her out to the park this morning where she vomited all over herself in the back of the car but would not relinquish her regular saturday morning pizza that her father buys her from the bakery. Despite the fact that she was covered in vomit she still insisted that he take her for a walk to look at the ducks before vomiting into his hand. Lucky daddy. I am so glad that wasn't me, I am not terribly good with vomit. Yes I know being a nurse you'd think I'd be okay by now but I'm not. LHT loves to tease me about how watching Fat Bastard drink a stool sample in Austin Powers made me throw up once.

Her being sick all day and wanting to either sleep or lay in my arms has given me a chance to watch the Dr Who dvd's I got out. I am totally in love with the current Doctor - David Tennant. I am dropping lots of hints about him buying me the whole series for christmas (67 days away). He is on night duty on christmas day so the Pixie and I will have to play with the Barbie Quad bike by ourselves! I will also have to eat all the ham. (That is almost his worst nightmare, it would only be worse if I ate all the prawns as well so luckily for him I don't eat seafood.)

Ah the Serenity

LHT is up away at his new job which is totally kickass and even if it's not the benefits are. He has put his name down to do an emergency services training course so he will learn to abseil and do rescues and advanced CPR and stuff. They have medical cover benefits for our whole family and we can use a counsellling service anytime we like. LHT told me even the Pixie can use the counsellor but I am really hoping she doesn't need one just yet. They will pay for him to go to uni and do a degree if he wants to and assist him to advance in any way they can. He is stoked and so am I. They will pay for us to move if we want to and they have all kinds of social clubs not just for the workers but for the Mums and kids too. I am pretty excited and it would be a fabulous adventure but I don't want to leave at the same time. I have heaps of great friends now and I would hate to leave them but leaving also means making even more great friends. Ah imagine the space you'll have to hold my funeral in. (Weird how the word funeral has fun in it isn't it.) He does get paid monthly though so we are really going to have to learn how to budget!!
LHT and I had to break open the KTM tin so we could survive the next couple of weeks. He had saved $337.35 cents in total which is great because the change is coming in very handy.

HHML and I have been saying, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeh, yeh, yeh, ye, ye," to each other a lot over the last couple of weeks being the bogans that we are. Well now the Pixie is also going around the house, phone to her ear saying, "Yeah, yes, yeah." Like mother, like daughter eh! Poor LHT - no wonder he wants to work away. HHML's son told his grandmother that he was enjoying the peace and quiet the other day when he spent the day with her because when he is at my house HHML and I are so loud he needs panadol. How hilarious is that? Poor boy has been overshadowed by not just one but two loud women and two squealing little girls!

Congratulations

Congratulations to Friendless and Vegie Pi on their engagement. Friendless proposed to VP on her birthday on sunday. They had recently been on holiday to Cairns and had visited Kuranda and been to the opal shop there. She tried on the ring and really liked it. When they got home he called the shop and asked if they remembered them coming in and luckily for him they did. He had the ring sent down to him in time to ask her for her birthday. They celebrated with a bottle of NiQuil and some cold and flu tablets since they are both really sick at the moment. Luckily for him he was not a tight ass when he bought the ring, and opal is VP's birthstone so he has really outdone himself. I love weddings! I can't wait.

My Gorgeous sister

I just told LHT I want to burn the image of my 40 year old gorgeous lovely sister on my eyelids so it motivates me to lose weight so I don't look 10 years older than her rather than 10 years younger. She is stunning isn't she?

HALLELUJAH

Thank God!! He's in!! He's really truly in at Rio Tinto - no more waiting around for them to call him and no more waiting for my husband to have a job! It's really great, great money and heaps of benefits, including removalists if we decided to move and some sort of medical benefits fund. Hooray! We have waited 10 weeks for this call and to finally get it is a HUGE relief and now our lives can get back to a new kind of normal. It will be weird for LHT to be away for four days at a time but I am sure I can live with no water on the bathroom floor, no wet towels on the bed and no dirty motorbike gear around the house for at least half my life (minus 200 hours holidays). The pixie and I will get into a routine and then Daddy will come home and mess it up! I have been blogging this since five this afternoon and since it is now half past nine and three glasses of champagne later I really have to go and lie down.