I have been quite busy of late but sometimes I look back at the end of the day and think did I actually accomplish anything. I did have a massive clean out of my bedroom and did get rid of quite a lot. I still have several suit cases and boxes that I haven't even looked at (some in my room & others in the spare bedrooms), but I want to do one box or case at a time and not my usual lets open everything up make a mess and put it all back again.
We have been out of lockdown for a couple of weeks but another state New South Wales is coping it bad. Today they had 50 cases with 16 people in hospital and 4 in intensive care on ventilators. My state has gone nine days without a case. The vaccine rollout is extremely slow. I am hanging out for my second jab on August 6th.
At least we can go to the cinema - off there tomorrow to see the second of the "Escape Room" films. And finally we are being allowed to sit in our reserved seats for the rugby league. Next Saturday will be the first time since September 2019 that I will sit in my "own" seat at AAMI Park to see my top of the ladder team Melbourne Storm play. We have had the same reserved seats since the stadium opened in 2010. Last year there was no games played in Melbourne & this year due to capacity limitations due to covid we had to sit it different areas.
I've had some blow outs with food but I am trying to get back on track. I need to exercise more, my motivation is just not there at the moment and we are having one of our coldest winters so that is not helping.
@Katrin - Sorry to hear about your break up, but from what you have written it is probably for the best. Now you have only yourself to look after and please. As someone who has been single for a very long time I don't know if I could be bothered wanting to please someone else!
- Congrats on keeping watching your weight and continuing to loose.
- You asked about treats. For a no cost treat I binge watch several episodes, even the whole series if there is only five or six episodes of a series. I love just getting absorbed by whatever is going on. When I lose 5 kg (11 lbs) I treat myself to a Pandora charm. I have only just started doing this so I only have only bought two charms (the others on my bracelet are gifts). For an expensive treat (although a necessary one) I have a 90 minute remedial massage.
@Cele21 - Sorry to hear about your sisters house. Hope she is insured. I hope that the most important things (beside herself and the fur baby) like photos and sentimental stuff survived. Glad to hear your fitbit made it out okay!
- You mentioned your sister having Christmas in July. In Australia a lot of people celebrate a smaller Christmas in July as it feels more appropriate to celebrate Christmas in the winter especially as most people here were either born or are from European backgrounds. My family doesn't celebrate in July but then we have all the trimmings and cook the turkey in the oven on Christmas Day even if the the temp is 40C (104F).
- How are your knees? I hyper extended my "good" knee the other week & it was more painful for awhile than my "bad" knee. I read the other day that you know when you are getting old - you stop referring to your right & left knee and call them your good & bad knees.
@CJ_Here - I love fireworks but I am also scared of them so I am glad that here they are illegal unless it is a public function and it is performed by pyrotechnical people with the St John's ambulance people in attendance.
- Floating on a lake sounds lovely although not at the moment here where the temp is 13C (55F).
@ElaineJ27 - I hope your neck / shoulder pain has settled down.
- How are things at the Kidzeum?
- I feel so sad for you when you talk about your relationship with your mother. My Mum & I have a very close relationship, yes we do at times get on each others nerves and we do argue at times mostly we get on well. We are similar in many ways but also very different, she is nervous and worries about everything and I am a bit of a diva at times.
Margaret - How are you? How's WW going. I'm still doing WW but the last two weeks I have have had less blue dot days than not. I have even exhausted my weekly allowance and cut into my activity points. Still I am continuing to lose weight just very slowly.
@Glenda - We refer to Australia as Oz. We use the term Aussie but we pronounce this as Ozzie with a "z" rather than an "s" sound. I know most Americans pronounce it with the "s" sound.
- Keep up the walking. I've been walking more but I want to get back to other exercises.
- I don't recommend food poisioning. Although I have never really had it (just a couple of mild reactions to some dodgy food) my Dad was hospitalised twice (two separate incidents, and no not my cooking, he was at a lawn bowls event on both occasions). The first time for a week and the second for 10 days.
Well I think that is everyone caught up. I have made a note to self that if I don't see any emails from you from now on I am to check the fitbit website to make sure that my notifications haven't been changed.
Stay safe & be happy.
