Christmas is HOW far away?

So I decided to go shopping on Saturday at the local complex, and wandered in through Myers.... being that I was sick and all I wasn't really paying much attention until suddenly I was overcome by Christmas carols. What the hell I thought, its only September!! Low and behold there were christmas trees and ornaments and twinkling lights for as for as the eye could see! I was in a state of disbelief. It wasn't even the end of September (26th), and already the decorations were up and about, and reminding me that the year is almost over AGAIN!!!!!

I quickly hurried through the trees and ran up the escalators in order to get away from the reminder that another year was slowly coming to a close. Off I went shopping, tried on a beautiful $300 dress, but couldn't justify the cost for just one night. So ended up with an on sale (reduced by $70) dress for a grand total of $80, and then a few other bits and pieces all from Myers. Myers have a great 'larger' woman section, and it has recently expended its range, so I think I tried on about 15 different things, and walked away with about 5. Not bad for someone who hates shopping!! The dress is for a black tie dinner I'm going to next week, so I should look nice.

Leaving Myers and heading into the mall I found another shop that catered for the 'larger' woman and ended up with a pair of pants, so all in all it was a good shopping trip for clothes. I really only intended to look at dresses, and was supposed to just buy paint, but I kinda got carried away (which does NOT happen often). My motto these days is 'if it fits well, then buy it!'

So off I wandered to Target, and guess what was in their store.... MORE christmas decorations. What is the shopping world coming to!! Give it a few years and they won't bother putting the stuff away... might as well leave it out for the whole year.

I bought my paints and headed off home. Misson accomplished, paints bought, dress bought, and Christmas decorations left behind in the shops where they belong. I'll think about it again around the 20th of December.... when Christmas will really be 'just around the corner!!'

Back again

so since my last post I've done the Pink concert, the jimmy barnes concert, and been to Melbourne! Pink was good, but not fantastic cause she didn't do part of her show and that was disappointing. Jimmy was great... I was deaf for 4 days afterwards, but loved hte concert that went for 2.5 hours. Melb was fun, Andrew and I had a good weekend, and enjoyed going to Etihad stadium for the Crows v Carlton game. We did a tour of the MCG as well which was surprisingly really good. Caught up with a friend and ate lots food.

Speaking of food, I'm still fat, and not much is happening with the diet thing. I've had some blood tests taken this week to make sure I'm generally in good health, and get the results back next week. I also have an appointment with an ENT in a few weeks. My nose has been playing up a lot lately and I have concerns that there is something wrong. Hopefully it is just blocked, and needs to be drained or something.

Andrew and I nearly broke up, but have decided to stay together for now. We had the first really honest open discussion that I can remember, and it was so refreshing to finally have him talk!! I just hope it happens more often.

Work sucks arse, and I'm really really close to quitting. I've done my resume, and plan to start applying for jobs in the next week or so. its probably not the nest time to be moving jobs, but I'm so unhappy most of the time. I guess I'll see what happens when the bosses wife goes on holiday. If things manage to settle down I might reconsider my options..... but I'm getting too unhappy.

Not much else is going on. Looking forward to day light savings so I can start doing some more walking... not too long to go now!!