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Same shite different day.

Life is very monotonous and boring at the moment. Get up go to work, get stressed, come home, eat, study, take boy to work, go to bed.

The weekend is the only variation I get at the moment. Saturday I am going walking and then out for lunch with a friend. Sat arvo mum and dad are bringing over my new washing machine (cause my old one is destroying our clothes), and dad will be making ammendments to my kitchen in order to improve it so that I don't get so frustrated with not having enough working room.

And Sat night we're going to an engagement party which is on a boat which will tour along the Port River for a few hours. So that should be good.

Sunday is study study study. I have to churn out 2400 words by Friday next week. I'm going to do enough to pass and that is it. The subject is shite, so I have no enthusiasm for it at the moment. And with everything else going on its just too hard to concentrate.

Any hoo... its hump day. On to sorting out the pays...mine will be a nice one having done a 55 hour week!!

Almost complete!!

Finally somewhere to put my books !

Awesome TV cabinet

The lounge.... complete with cat!

So the furniture arrive Friday morning, and they chipped the first bookcase. They took it back and replaced it, and brought the TV cabinet. Andrew spent Saturday setting up the TV stuff while I was at work, and I spent Sunday morning doing my bookshelf... I think I need to by some more books though!!!

So the lounge room is pretty much complete! We just need to add a few pictures to the walls and then we are done..... and on to the next room... actually onto the hallway, the pink is starting to get to me a bit.

Weekend was busy. Worked for 10 hours on Saturday, and then spent yesterday doing bookshelf, weeding the front garden, and having mum and dad over for afternoon tea.

The boy and I had a fight last night... actually, I yelled and he said nothing as usual. He has no fire in him. I can't have an argument with him, and it drives me nuts. I just want a little bit of spark!!!

But, back to work today.... the place is looking a little different with all the shelving gone from the store room, and boxes of stuff packed in its place, but i'm getting there with it all. Just have to spend the next 2 hours doing some more packing of boxes, and then things will be a bit more respectable around here.

What the ??

So the furniture guy calls me yesterday and tells me that my TV cabinet and bookshelf have arrive already, and can they deliver it tomorrow after you part with the rest of your hard earned cash. Ok I said..... and feeling rather excited - becuase we were not expecting this stuff until at least mid July!!!!

So when I get home tonight we will have a NEW TV cabinet, and my beloved mega bookcase.

Rest assured - there will be phots on Monday!! This means that I can FINALLY empty about 5 boxes of books and ornaments that are just taking up room in the study. And my lounge room will look complete!!!! So exciting.

Having never bought NEW furniture before, this is all rather exciting for me. And for Andrew too. Our home is really starting to look like ours... and for that I am very very pleased.

Thanks god its Friday... even though working tomorrow...and yes Froggy, I'm getting paid, and since I get paid by the hour... it will make it all worth it....especially at time & half rates! More mula to save up for my new kitchen.

Have a good weekend people, and I will put up more piccy late Sunday or on Monday!

Thank you !!

Thank you for all my birthday wishes. I had an OK day at work, but had a lovely dinner with my family at a seafood restaurant. And got some nice pressies and a bit of cash to spend on myself... not sure what I'm going to get just yet.

Anyways, the week is almost over. Have to work on Saturday for most of the day. But its just packing stock and pulling shelving apart, so should be OK.

My favourite instructor from the gym called me on my birthday to find out if I was Ok, cause she hadn't seen me for a few weeks. I thought that was rather nice. I really need to get back to the gym, I have been way too slack... but being so busy at work hasn't helped my motivation.

Anyhoo... on to some work I suppose. Shopping night tonight, and SUSHI!! I love the new sushi place near us. It is so so yummy!!

Another year older

So, I was thinking about what I was doing on my 22nd birthday, and the thoughts that got dragged out of the depths were not good ones. I was experiencing my first boyfriend and subsequesnt physical abuse, I was regularly taking drugs, I had alienated my family, and I had moved out of home with said boyfriend. I was also working as a car detailer - cleaning cars. At the time I was young and impressionable.....and didn't know any better.



So now I start to look at the past few years, and see how much I have accomplished since losing said dickhead boyfriend, and gaining Andrew in my life. I have grown wiser and smarter, and STRONGER.



I have suceeded and am suceeding in a good job. I am loved by my parents again. I own a house. I am completely drug free including cigarettes (can't kick the caffine though). I am in a wonderful abuse-free relationship. I am not too far off completing my accounting degree.



I have a lot to be proud of. And I am proud of myself in what I have achieved. I may still be fat, but I DO NOT smoke cigarettes. I own my own home - a dream 10 years ago that I had pushed far out of reach..... I own a lounge suite too.... lets not forget that bit!! :)



I am 32, and I am a success.....

Red Hair, Happy Cats & Lounge Suite!

Seriously Red

New lounge

Lounge Room

Happy cats

So the lounge arrive Friday, and when I got home and looked at it - the colour was Chocolate!!!! When it was in the shop it looked charcoal... must have the lighting. So I ummed and ahhhed about it, and decided that it looked OK. I bought light blue suede cushions to give a bit of contrast and to match the walls. Just waiting on the bookshelf and the TV cabinet now... they are about 4 to 6 weeks away.

Red hair - well the dye bottle and I got friendly again last night... and its nice to back bright red. I was so careful putting it on in the bathroom...cause I have a bad habit of getting it everywhere. And As much as I tried, I still managed to stain some wood, and the mat. Bloody hopeless.

The weekend was nice - spent time cleaning, sorting, cat proofing the back yard, and reading my book. Didn't get any study done, but I need to get my arse into gear this week, and get onto that.

All in all a good weekend.

Birthday tomorrow..... shhhhhhhh... turning 32.

The lounge is arriving - but I'm at work!!!

Spewing I had to go to work - I wanted to be there for the delivery of the lounge!! But Andrew will be there, and he has instructions to make sure he puts towels on the lounge so that the cats will sit on them. Really looking forward to going home tonight to see my new purchase!!

BUT, I will got to the gym for 40mins and sit on a spin bike. I have been really really slack lately, and just can't be bothered. I'm going for a walk in the morning, but only if its not raining. We're meant to be getting quite a storm here over the next day or so. If it rains, I might go to the Step class at the gym.

Photos will follow soon!!! I just want the day to hurry up and be over!!!

So Exciting!!!

I have just ordered a new lounge, tv cabinet and bookshelf!!! All that for $2300 (got $300 off the original price)! The lounge suite is a 2 seater and a 3 seater, covered in Rhino suede, and is charcoal in colour. And since we had to buy floor stock we get the lounge delivered on Friday!!!!

I am so excited!! I have waiting years and years to be able to buy a NICE lounge suite. So Friday is going to be AWESOME!!!!!!! Photos next week. The TV cabinet and bookshelf will be about 4 weeks away, they have to order them in

We will be organising the house a bit more on the weekend, and have it a lot better than it is now.

Looking forward to the weekend!! Bring it on!!

Final colour

So we have the final colours now - the feature wall ended up almost purple in colour - unintentional - but looks good. We also painted the door, cause it was the same colour as the green before and we had to get rid of it.

So the lounge is done. We are in the process of organisiung furniture, and hoping to have a new lounge, bookshelf and TV unit soon.

It was a busy weekend with seeing mothers and getting the painting done. But at least we can relax and enjoy our new loungeroom with out the disgusting colour.

No gym tonight - got a headache so am off to the chiro in 5min.... hopefully he will sort my neck out. Too much stress I think!

Finally Friday

Its been a long week - slept in this morning accidently so was a mad rush to get to a supplier to pick something up then get to work. I went to an auction yesterday and had fun bidding on things for work - spent too much money, but got the things I wanted. The auction was fun - I was the only female there - which is always good fun!!

Thanks for the kind comments yesterday.... I will stop worrying about the whole weight thing at the moment - and try to make healthier choices.... Can't wait for everything to just settle down back to normal. I HATE change - and I've had (or having) two major upheavals this year... and its just getting a bit much.

Feeling odd today. Don't want to be at work, don't want to be at home. Don't want to be around the boy.... Just feeling really overwhelmed with everything at the moment.....

Anyways life goes on, and I just gotta deal with it all.

Happy Mothers Day to the mothers who read my blog !! Hope you have a great day. I'm looking forward to enjoying some time with my mum this year... cause this time last year - we didn't think she would make it to another Mothers Day! So YAY for my mum!! Love you lots and lots.

Not much happening

Life has been quiet the past few days... not much going on. Was feeling rather overwhelmed with everything that is happening with work yesterday, so was almost teary last night - but managed to hold off..... I'll be so glad once the move is done, we're in the new place, and work continues as normal.

Eating is disgustingly bad - I just don't seem to care about it... and I don't know why. The control thing just does not exist.... and I'm not sure why I can't get that back. At the moment I KNOW i'm eating for comfort - but I just can't help myself..... or don't want to help myself.

I can't even really be bothered to go to the gym at the moment - feeling so slack.

So, not sure what to do about it..... I know what I want to do, but putting that all into action is a different matter.

Painting ALMOST complete

Painter girl... looking really happy!
Before
New colour
After



So, we have done three out of the 4 walls.... the final wall (the one in the 'before' piccy) is going to be a darker blue and we are hopfully getting that done this weekend. As you can see the walls are a light blue, but they seem to have a bit of a purple tinge to them... which wasn't intentional, but looks good. Without the lights on, the walls look a darker blue, which we both really like.

So I'm feeling much more content sitting in our lounge room now. And for people who have never painted before I think we did a good job. Only a few more weeks and I can get my new lounge suite!! YAY!!

Last night I actually went to the gym - hadn't been for 2 weeks, so certainly felt it. I did a 30min spin class and an hour circuit. The only thing I struggled with in the circuit was the tricep dips, cause my hand is still sore from painting. And food was pretty good yesterday too... 2 little treats after dinner, but that was all. It was great to be back at the gym, but I really noticed how much weight I have put on... so I'm going to try my best to get my butt into gear!!

Anyhoo... time to start work I suppose.

Busy weekend ahead

So this weekend we add COLOUR to our lounge room walls. We are going to buy the light coloured blue paint of Sat arvo, and will start the dreaded painting. I didn't think painting was such a difficult thing to do until we actually got started!!! We both really want to get it finished so that we can buy a new lounge suite and finally set up things like bookcases, DVD's and CD's.

Walking tomorrow morning - probably for about 7 or 8km, god knows I need the exercise. I really want to go to Pump tonight - but will see how my day pans out.

Weighed myself this morning - and I have officially hit the heaviest weight I have ever been.... so surely that should kick my butt into gear?

Busy day at work planned - off to measure up shelving this arvo at the new workplace - not long till moving - the long weekend in June has been decided. What a great way to spend the weekend .... NOT... BUT I get paid by the hour, so the more I work the more $$ I get!!!

I will post photos next week. Have a good weekend!

And yes, my cat is doing much better.... he is now coming back into the lounge room, and eating and poohing, so its all good. They haven't been outside yet, I'll save that for tomorrow when I am home.