Kelly's Life...

And mini spring rolls...

2009-05-21T12:07:00.000+10:00

Do I really need the 4 mini-spring rolls I just ate for snack from the school canteen? I should have eaten the congee instead :( Maybe I will go back and eat some of that too.

Coffee, cakes and biscuits

2009-05-20T13:18:00.000+10:00

I.need.will.power!

I need to remind myself that coffee does not need cake and coffee does not need biscuits and I don't even really need coffee... why do I drink it then? It will not help me to fit into my dress properly on our wedding day, it will not make me healthy, it will not make me feel better, actually I hate the taste it leaves in my mouth.

REMEMBER THIS NEXT TIME KELLY!

I'm Back

2009-05-19T13:21:00.000+10:00

I have decided to revive this blog a little.
I finish up in China in 6.5 weeks and I feel as though once we are back in Australia, I can lay my other blog to rest and re-focus on myself and my own blog rather than our blog (which is really my blog!)

So I am going to have a little play with this blog over the next few weeks, jazz it up, etc.

Take care, Kelly

I'm Baaaaaaack!

2008-03-13T20:04:00.000+11:00

Hi
I feel revived. I've worked out this tricky web proxy thingy (only took me 8 months!) And now I can easily read and comment on other peoples blogs.

I'm still not using this blog, but come and read my adventure in China it's at:

www.kellykane.blogspot.com

Closing this blog for a while

2008-01-13T23:37:00.000+11:00

Hi everyone.
I have been so slack with blogging here the past 7 months and trying to think of both blogs is too much. For that reason, I am not going to post on this blog, at least until we return to Australia in 18 months. Please save my travel link if you would like to stay in touch, as although I am slack with it too, I check it more regularly than this one. I only use this one to check everyone else's blog!!!!! (When it decides to work!!!!) I haven't shared my engagement story yet. I have just been too busy to start, though I will - I promise! On my other blog ;)

Take care,
Kelly

We're Engaged

2008-01-02T16:58:00.000+11:00

This morning we got engaged. More to come later!!!!!

2007-11-04T18:14:00.000+11:00

Hi Everyone
We are currently in Wodonga briefly for Kane's brother and new sister-in-laws wedding. It was beautiful. I have written this brief comment while it is easy to(not blocked in Oz) but not much time to go into anything as we have so much to do before we fly out in one more day.
Cheers
Kelly

Moderating comments now...

2007-08-13T18:41:00.000+10:00

Blogger Comments Explained!!

Hi people, I am just letting everyone know that I am now moderating blogger comments because China does not like to allow freedom of speech! Therefore it blocks blogger on my computer- great hey! How bloody wonderful I you can hear me say :)

I have found a back entrance onto my page through pkblogs, but I still can't see the comments you leave for me. I can't leave comments either, so PLEASE..... don't think I am ignoring you or being rude and lazy, I just can't leave you a comment on your blog, so from time to time I might leave you a comment in my posts and you may just happen to see it when you come visiting.

I can however read your comments if I have to moderate them - yay - a little success! So I will moderate, read and allow comments hence forward.

I will leave you with more photos.

Me and Mum

Kane on couch

View from 17th floor down!

PS - I did weight and cardio in our compound gym yesterday arvo which has 3 treadmills, 2 bikes, 4 weight machines and free weights and... it's free for residence!

I'm in China!

2007-08-10T23:30:00.000+10:00

me crying as I left my family
the view from one of our balcony's
View from other balcony

Hi all,

I am in China and it is a massive new experience. I am having a lot of trouble with blogger though, which is a bit sad. I can do almost everything except look at blogs. I can't see mine or yours but I can get to the dashboard, profile etc...
If you don't hear from me in a while it is because I can't use blogger!!!!!

I will leave you with some photos...

Plodding

2007-08-02T14:52:00.000+10:00

My Birthday Picture 25-7-07

Hi everyone

I haven't had much to say lately, seems as though most people are hidden in winter gloom!

I had a lovely birthday last week. Although I didn't get many presents, I did only just buy a brand new laptop, had my hair and nails done. I thought that was nearly enough :) I did however get a couple of gift vouchers, tatts ticket and lunch in the botanical gardens in Albury. I was actually pretty damn lucky.... my birthday was a beautiful day now I come to think of it! I never have nice weather on my birthday, it is afterall Xmas in July (25th). The sun was shining the birds were gathered around scavenging, it was warmish if you were in direct line with the sun, so yeah happy Kelly :)

We have totally moved out of our house now, it is all clean, we only have a couple of little thing to finish off outside like fixing the bloody automatic roller door. It has decided to cark it when we are out of the house and very poor, same thing happened with the heater 2 weeks ago- bam - there goes $400, and we're not working at the moment and still paying the mortgage as we still have not tenants - grrrr

I have had a wonderful day today, gym'd it. I only did 20min cardio (as was very bored) and did a circuit weights session and finished off with 5 min cool down on teddy treddy.

I have done 4 loads of washing, reorganised my beauty case (got rid of the hair), made minestrone soup, folded washing, played on 'puter and cleaned room that is stacked with 6 suitcases! Ha - I don't need to work to stay busy eh?

I am actually really loving not working, I am so content, so happy and non stressed. I have been thinking of doing a course on gel nails when I come back from China as I really know that I don't want to teach when I have kids - really not liking it. Does anyone do nails out there? What's it like? I know I love getting mine done and I am really good a putting nail polish on every ones nails - I have a very steady hand.

Oh well - 5 sleeps until we go to Melbourne, 6 till we fly out to China

Bye everyone
xxx

It's my birthday tomorrow!

2007-07-24T21:25:00.000+10:00

Big news... (for me anyway) it's my 27th birthday tomorrow. I hate odd birthdays, I feel so much older when it's an odd one. Nothing at all planned, maybe dinner with the boy. That's right I back in Wodonga. Thought I should help to pack the house up, hehehe.

This is one of my favourite pictures of Shar from the INBA. She rocked!

I bought the Harry Potter book last weekend. I think I'm 150 pages in. It's so tempting to read it 24/7.

I had to leave my Leo behind in Traralgon today, I had a quite a few tears, I love him dearly. Hopefully he will be happy with Mum, Dave and my brothers.

This is my new hair from Fridays session with the Australian colour champion for 2007 Felicity at Cobarzz Eco Salon in Glengarry.

holidays continued...

2007-07-22T09:47:00.000+10:00

Well what to say about my holidays? Not too much at all! So this is a pretty boring recount.

I went to visit my Great-Grandmother in her nursing home on Monday last week, it was her 94th birthday. Her eye sight has deteriorated dramatically in the past few years and she had trouble recognising me when I first came in. I had to get real close and say 'hello Grandma it's Kelly'. She still was a bit apprehensive as it was a surprise and she wasn't expecting me. We had a big chat and then I continued on driving back to Traralgon.
I can't account for Tuesday!!!!!! (it has disappeared never tob e seen again)
Wednesday it was snowing on the hill surrounding the Latrobe Valley. It was extremely cold 7.3 degrees I think. I went to visit my step-dad's father who is sick. We chatted for about 2 hours, I told them about my travel blog and my Aunt and Grandad saved it as a favourite.
Thursday Mum and I drove to Melbourne for an appointment.
Friday I had my hair nicely coloured and got my nails french gel'd. I didn't get the tips as my nails grow quite nicely. I just wanted the gel to protect the nail from breaking. I went out for tea with 3 of my friends and got a lovely surprise a voucher for my birthday. Thanks so much girls!!!
Saturday I went down the street with Mum for some groceries and then went and watched TTU netball. I used to play for TTU before I moved to Wodonga. Nearly all the girls playing were different from when I played. The quality was verrrry different too. I always explained that our Mitta 'A' Grade in the Tallangatta and District was close North Gippslands 'B' Grade, but after yesterday we are on a par with their 'A' Grade too. This makes me feel pretty good because years ago I was only playing 'C' Grade down here, now I'm 'A' Grade a Mitta (or used to be)Sooooo... I must have improved ehh?????

See ya
Kell

Melbourne INBA

2007-07-14T17:35:00.000+10:00

I went to the Melbourne INBA today. It was an amazing experience. I was in awe of the dedication these girls put themselves through to get to competition standard.
I got to meet Sue, Jodie, Hilde, Selina, Kerry and her friend Kerry, Ali and Natalie. We had coffee at Choclatte on Bourke Rd Camberwell before heading down to the pre-judging show. Photos were taken while at coffee, but my camera sometimes is not well behaved so the other girls will email through some groups shots I'm sure.
At the pre-judging there were many classes and it will be interesting to see if the girls I thought were well defined etc won or not. The Fitness class was amazing, what those girls can do is whoa!!! There were so many sports model competitor's and this division is spread out over the whole pre-juding show. One of the girls obviously had lost a lot of weight to be in the comp , it may have been a reward at the end of the weight loss journey. She had quite a lot of loose skin around her stomach etc, but how motivating to see her up there!!! She must be so proud of herself :)
Shar was sensational, I have photos but wont be able to put them on for about a week. She was sooo dark, Natalie and I nearly didn't recognise her. When I came home I showed my Nan a comparison of her in her blog picture when she was bigger compared to the photos today, Nan nearly fell over!!!!
After sitting down for the 3 hour show I was starting to feel a little ill. Maybe from the air con or dehydration, or maybe the lights but I had a headache and decided to come home and miss the awards. It was going to be a 3 hour wait and so made the executive decision to hop the train and head home. Like everyone now I'll need to wait to hear results.
See you,
Kelly

Week 2 of not working.

2007-07-12T20:37:00.000+10:00

G'day everyone.

Life has been smooth sailing at the moment. We successfully had our birthday party last weekend. Everyone had great night at the Stanley Pub. The meal were terrific, service fantastic and the money over the bar was a big hit! Kane proceeded to get 'smashed' drunk, and he tried to tongue kiss several of his mates. I drove home which in a way wasn't a bad thing as I was feeling quite well the next day, the same can not be said for the other half!

I'm at Mums at the moment just relaxing. When driving from Wodonga to Traralgon I tend to come down with some kind of bug. Not sure why.... maybe the smog in the valley, some people put down to air con, or the stress of tiredness of it all. What exactly causes the sickness, I don't know! I had a massage on Monday and the lady played around with my neck, that could of contributed, my neck was quite stiff and sore afterwards particularly on the right side, which is funny... this year I have had right side soreness all over. Sciatic pain in my right hip, knee calf and ankle, soreness in my right ribs, tightness in my right glutes and lower back and in my knee. All connected somehow, it must be!

So anyway my sore throat is still sore after resting for two days, it hurt to brush my hair today and phlegm is in back of throat, so I'm guessing I have sinus. Sudafed and nurofen seem to be helping. I went to the old faithfull chiro today in Traralgon (I hadn't seen him for 5 years), and he said I adjusted quite well and that the pain my neck should settle in 1 day or so. He also said the pain I have had in my ribs for the past 7 weeks (a la netball training!!!) could be a cracked rib or muscle injury, well der! Apparently may take 6 months properly heal.

I bought Leo, my cat down to Mum's this week as he will be spending the next two years with Mum while I am OS. He is very sloooooowly adjusting! The hissing and spitting are only occurring now within a 4 metre radius which is a vast improvement on the first few days. I had one highly stressed puddy cat. I have been giving him 1/4 Valium (vet prescribed) to help calm him down occasionally, however I think this may only be affecting his mobility, he seems quite able to think mentally during this drugged state as the growling certainly does not cease.

I may be going to Healesville tomorrow to start my trek to Melbourne, not that T'gon is that far from Melb, it's just easier to travel on the train from Lilydale to Camberwell than drive from T'gon to Camberwell (I hate driving in Melb traffic) I have written down the address of the comp and where everyone is meeting for coffee so I only need to get there. I was waiting to see how this bug developed!

I am thinking of selling my car before I go OS. Doing some research today and I think I can still get around 11 grand for it. Not bad for a 7 year old car. We will see what develops there.

Cheers for now and good luck to Shar who is competing in her first figure comp this weekend!

Kelly

Hello there...

2007-07-05T18:20:00.000+10:00

Well hello there everyone.
I am a free woman! No work or anything to do. Can you hear how bored I sound? We had our worldly possessions packed on Tuesday and sent off on a ship to China. I am living out of several large suitcases and toiletry bags at the moment. I may have to 'cull' further before I leave.

My house is clean, bags packed, I can't change any addresses yet... oh the boredom of a life of luxury! Soooooooo, I bought a book! It's called 'A Very Short History of the World' by Geoffrey Blainey. It's a bit heavy, but I do love history.

We bought a new laptop last Friday and so I am typing on it right now. It's a Toshiba Satellite A200/C00, it has Core2 Duo processor and runs with Windows Vista instead of XP. We have also downloaded a trial of Office 2007 which is a novelty, I usually get the latest office 2 years after it's out. Trust me it very different, especially Word07!!!!!

We also got a lot of movies from a friend the other day, but you know what? I am so not in the mood for hard core movies- Give me the midday movie at the moment. BF been watching shooting movies and horror, I think it was Wolf Creek yesterday, not my type at all. I really enjoyed Miss Potter... that's my type of happy feel good movie.

This weekend has multiple happenings. It is Kane's 30th birthday tomorrow and so we are having a b'day party for him, my step Dad and myself, as we all have our birthday's in July. This is happening on Saturday night out at the Stanley Pub which is close to Beechworth. Why all the way out there I hear you ask????? We play against Beechworth in the footy/netball this Saturday and so I thought lets do something different. I have ordered a marble mud cake from the cheesecake shop to take out, so that will be very yummy. All my family are coming up from all over the state to watch me play my LAST GAME of netball and celebrate our birthday's, it's also a bit of a going away party too.

Onto next weekend.... da da da... I am going to Melbourne to watch the INBA. I have never been to one of these events before and it should be a real eye-opener. I am really looking forward to meeting a lot of people I know, but have never met. So I will be meeting people for coffee at a coffee shop near the venue.

What a lovely long post (by my standards)
Cheers everyone,
Kelly

One more day...

2007-06-27T21:40:00.000+10:00

Tomorrow is my last day of teaching until I reach China. It is bitter sweet at the moment. I'm glad it's over, but... I feel bitter towards the girl taking my class for some reason???? She gets all my hard work, my organised and mostly well behaved classroom, everything! I feel really rattled, trying to get all my stuff out of the classroom, being told to hand in my keys, organising my stuff to be packed for China next Tuesday as well as visitors on the weekend. How the hell do I fill out a detailed insurance evaluation form detailing quantity and cost of things I'm not even sure I'm taking yet. I'm a visual person. I need to see things to list them. I'm getting stressed again... why? Because I am out of control and I hate that feeling. My routine is shot and I'm lost...

To finish with, this our new niece Chelsea. This was the day after my operation, you can see the yellow eyes! Cooper, our nephew is in the background eating his banana.

Lost Links

2007-06-24T19:47:00.000+10:00

If your link is missing from my links can you please write my a comment so I can re-link you? Some went missing when I had to re-do my blog due to fiddling!!!!

I had tears everyone...

2007-06-24T18:50:00.001+10:00

I was watching Sunrise the other morning and they flashed to 'Brtiain's got talent'
This bloke gave me goose bumps and tears. He is amazing!!!!

It's getting closer...

2007-06-21T21:27:00.000+10:00

Moving time is getting oh so closer.

It is really starting to see how much needs to be done in the next 6ish weeks days:

change all addresses
rent house out
contact bank to change loan to investment loan
contact superannuation
finalise legal stuff
have stuff packed for China
move rest to Leeton
play three games on netball
go to Melbourne for INBA
get nails and hair done
waxing
live out of suitcases for 4 1/2 weeks
go and stay with Mum
go to Brisbane before I leave
work for one more week
Try and lose the 3 kg I've put on in the last 5 weeks!!!!!
Visit grandparents

OMG

I'm starting to get edgy!!!

Winery Walk-about Photos

2007-06-12T16:48:00.003+10:00

We did 8 wineries. Times this by tasting sweet wine (yes, I'm a sweety) and all the fortified's (if they were good a couple of times). Yes............. I was verrrrrrrrrrrry drunnnnnnnnnnnnnnk by the end!

Warning!! Warning!! Below is crappy Japanese food... stay away. You can see the huge pile of tempura prawns on the table.

Long weekend quickie

2007-06-11T13:57:00.000+10:00

The weirdest think just happened to my post. All of a sudden it made a weird sound and then the create blog page closed and it was scanning through my blog page, right to the bottom..... really freaky!

Leo-Neo and I two weekends ago before Netball on a Saturday.

Blogger might be having a big day with most of the country having a public holiday today. How good is that? I've had friends from Traralgon come to visit. We did the Rutherglen winery walk-about on Saturday, had a great day, was very drunk by the end and have the shitest meal for tea Saturday night. We went to a Japanese Tepiniaki (sp?) bar. We had a banquet and I felt so sick by the end. The tempura prawns were revolting, never going there again! Yesterday was a bit of recovery and cleaning. We had dinner (Pizza-yuck, I had a piece of garlic bread instead) at a friends place last night. I made a trifle and we had that for dessert. Played a game called Dumb Ass and went shockingly bad! So I got a lovely long sleep in this morning, woke up and had mini wheat's and green tea for brekkie as well as my daily yakult and multi-vit tablet and watched Miss Potter on my laptop, what a great movie, I really liked it.
Just a quick post today as I'm not in the mood to write a great deal, not after writing 20 school reports in the past week :((( Joys of teaching.

2007-05-31T19:56:00.001+10:00

Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. You need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog!

I think I might be one of the last to do this activity...

1. I was zone high jump champion in Year 7.

2. I don't like dogs very much, I hate being licked and hate the bruises they leave on you legs with their tail if it's hard and I hate the jumping and barking!

3. I'm a cat person.

4. My parents divorced when I was 6, my Dad was abusive. My Mum then had a boyfriend Peter for 5 years, they were about to get married when he died in a car accident. Mum then met another man who is now my step Dad but it took a lot of time for be to come around to him. My family went through a lot and I still don't want a relationship with my Dad, even though he has been trying. I had a lot of trust issues with men after all this in my teens and early 20's.

5. Kane is my first serious relationship, previously I had one 4 month relationship which ended when he cheated on me, it took a long time to get over it. And that is the reason I moved so far away from home.

6. I am addicted to picking things like pimples.

7. I am really want kids. Some people want to go overseas, get to a particular job level or own their home, my goal is to have children.

There you go, not sure if the above is what we are supposed to write but oh well!!!!! When reading through it, it sounds a little negative, oops.

I went to Body Combat tonight and I felt so unco! I think it will take a bit to get used to it.

D.O.M.S

2007-05-28T19:44:00.000+10:00

Oh the pain... I just finished 1.5 hours netball training :0

I tried to really loosen up the sore bits but seriously some bits can't be stretched!

I'm a glutton cause I'm off to swim and body balance tomorrow afternoon!

At school we have been focusing on bouncing back like 'Tigger'. Therefore do not despair... I will bounce back like Tigger!

Oh my God!

2007-05-27T20:23:00.000+10:00

I was think out loud the other day...
Monday - netball training
Tuesday - spa (planned to swim but there was another netball team taking up the public lanes)
Wednesday - 2 hours netball training
Thursday 1 hour netball training
Friday 500m swim and spa
Saturday - 1 hour netball game
Sunday - Body Balance class and 2 hours weeding
Holy shit!!!!
I did 6 training sessions this week, no wonder my body is screaming today.
Back is very sore today so are hip flexors and my glutes that go around my hips.
Just a short one cause I was impressed and shocked, now I need to add some weights and totally change my diet to see some changes ;)
Cheers

Still mending

2007-05-20T17:26:00.000+10:00

My back and I are still on the mending path. I have had acupuncture 3 times now in the past week, I think today was definitely the most painful, but I have been told that's good! It means the needle penetrated the problem bit of muscle or better known as a knot! But apparently there is no such thing as a knot, the muscle is connected at both ends so it can't knot, but it feels like a knot so therefore it has been given the name 'knot'. It is always a learning experience asking questions while getting a treatment done. Like a few years ago I said to my Osteopath "my necks out", he said "your neck can't be out, you'd be in big trouble if it is"... so I'm learning something new each day.

I'm still not training or playing as yet, but my back is about 85% at the moment. You should have heard all the cracking my body did after my treatment today, my friend always finished off with stretches, she's really good! Unfortunately she won't take much money, but I try to give her some anyway.

I think I play for the next 5 games and that will be it. There will be 3 hard and 4 easy games to go. In the middle of that there are 2 weekends off (1 bye and the Queens Birthday break) I am going to finish off in the last week of the school holidays, My Mum is coming up for my birthday and I would like her to be able to watch me play. She hasn't been able to do that for 5 years, and I think I am a much better player now. However saying all that I am not going to rush buck and if it is at all uncomfortable I won't play and I'll pull the pin. I do think this will be it for netball, I can't imagine there would be a comp in China!

This week I had another big run in with the naughty child in my room. I was almost in tears when I walked in to my Principal and said you have to either suspend him or I'm going on stress leave cause I'm not coping. For me, if you do the wrong thing, there has to be a consequence... apparently not for everyone. Luckily later that day he graffiti'd all over the school buildings with washable black texta!!!!!! So he was suspended finally. Less that 30 days to go...

At the moment I am planning on going to watch the INBA figure comp in Melbourne in July. If you are planning on going it would be great to meet up :)

Cheers everyone
Kelly

To play or not to play?

2007-05-15T18:25:00.000+10:00

How has my week been??? Pretty exhausting.

Here is a picture of my only darling left, Leo.

I have a pretty dodgy back and so I have seemed to yo-yo from osteopath to chiropractor to masseuse for the past 10 years. I play netball and I know this is not the best sport to be playing for a bad back with all the pounding up and down asphalt court. This has all come to head in the past week.

We played a pretty rough team on the 5th of May and we were thoroughly beaten physically and mentally. My back was sore afterwards so I stretched and had a hot bath and used a heat pack. The next day I went down to the Murray River in Albury and stood in the cold water up to my rib cage for 15 mins with some of the football boys (this is supposed to help bring out bruising) and then went home for a hot shower again. I was still pretty sore and this continued into the next day, Monday.

I rang an osteopath and was able to luckily get in the same night. She asked a zillion questions to which I answered and then started to assess my back, well she got a shock. She was probably think 'this girl is being a sook, it can not be as bad as she says!!!!' I am very tight! I have knots from my hamstrings to my right neck. She played around with my neck and my shoulders as well as my mid back for around an hour and did spoons to bring blood to the surface of my skin. Spoons is a technique of using a Chinese porcelain soup spoon and scraping this across the skin. It brings up some beautiful purple and blue bruises and goes down in around 4 days. Most of the time it is not sore to touch. I then did not do netball training Monday night.

This kinda helped on Tuesday and Wednesday and I thought I'll try an easy practice game in WA on Wednesday night. After the first drive I strained something in my lower back! :{

I have a friend who is in her last year of Myotherapy and asked if she could look at it, but she couldn't until Sunday and I was supposed to play of Saturday. I ended up taking the game off as it was even sore when sitting in the car.

Has anyone ever had an injury but felt guilty for not playing because you're part of a team? No one said anything to me, but it felt as though I needed a medical certificate not to play.

So I am in two minds. I said I would play until I leave to go OS, but I am having second thoughts, should I give netball up and rest my back so it's right when I get OS or do I continue to get almost weekly treatments to fulfill my commitment? I know I want to spend extra time with my Mum before I leave and so I'll be finishing up early anyway, should I just finish up now and if I do, how do I explain it to my team?

I didn't train on Monday past because my Myotherapy friend did acupuncture on my lower back as she found a stiff joint, my butt is aching cause I think I've got knots in it and its almost like sciatica and I am only going to do a light run through on Wednesday if my back pulls up OK after my next acupuncture session on Wednesday, but it is still pretty sore today and it's been a few days. I went swimming last night because it is supposed to be good for your back and i have been doing exercises to stretch it out...

I don't know what to do!!! I could go on and on about it...

What else -

I got a gym membership, I am going to start doing Body balance, maybe some pilates and do some swimming as well to start with, do you know how expensive it is? $295 for 3 months!!!! WTF??? Luckily I can claim some on my private health ;)

R.I.P my beautiful girl

2007-05-04T21:49:00.000+10:00

I was sadden and devastated to find my beautiful Burmese girl dead in the middle of the road on Wednesday night. I had Ali for almost two years, she was the most gorgeous cat you could ever have. She never jumped on the bench to eat defrosting food or annoyed you while you were eating. She wasn't noisy or malicious she was the perfect cat. Ali was the type of cat that everyone loved and you would always find her snuggled on my bed or following me around the garden or climbing on the roof. I miss you Ali and I'll never forget you...

Our other cat Leo is missing her terribly. Did you know the grieving process for a cat can take from 2 weeks-6 months? I think mine will last that long too.

And the heavens opened...

2007-04-29T18:13:00.000+10:00

Wowwwie.... my cats are scared to go outside.... and the scary thing would be.... rain!!! what is that again?!! :)

How lovely is it to lay in bed and hear the pitter-patter of rain on the roof? I grew up living in a house with a colour bond tin roof and nothing tops that sounds, well maybe silence after a full on day with 20x5 year olds is nice as well!

How has the rest of the week gone? Well I had a very heated argument with the parent of the naughty boy from my previous post. I have eaten very yummy food the in past few days, I have made 99% fat free chochie muffins, I made minestrone soup, and we had beautiful Thai food last night, we had satay skewers for an entree, Kane had masman beef curry and I had prawn pad thai, though we do share :) Kanes Mum came to visit and she mad made us a yummy apple pie, so I made golden syrup dumplings as well as some egg custard. So gourmet food all round. Though the surprising thing is... I lost .5kg this week and it is almost TTOM which means I'm getting pimples :(((. Who knows what is going on (hormones I guess)???

I visited the dentist for the 4 time in the past 12 months on Friday. I have a crack in one of my molars under the tooth, so the crack is in the root, so every now and then it hurts. One day I could be munching on an apple - all good, the next day I might soft cooked chicken and I get shooting pain. It all very frustrating. To make it worse everytime it gets to me and I make an appointment to go and get it looked at, its a 'good' day ad not playing up!!!! Huh.. frustrating. I feel like a sook. So now I need to call on the day it hurts and they will fit me in even if it's busy because it is too bloody elusive! Option are to get rid of the filling and put some stuff in to sedate the nerve a bit???!!! and the other option is to take the filling out band it and try to reshape it to take less pressure when I'm eating. I just glad I don't have to have root canal and a crown, which is really expensive and it'd hurt a lot.

I played netball yesterday, we won. I got an elbow to the chin and my lip went numb like at the dentist for about 5 mins, t'was very unsettling. I was really pissed off though, one the new girls to our team just was not listening yesterday and kept doing stoopid passes and kept stuffing up. I was on fire and was reading the play well, so I was trying to dictate play a bit and set up in the goals, but she wasn't listening and kept missing great opportunities for a set up. huhhhhh!!! Was shity afterwards and then Kane lost in the footy. I got in the best which is good considering I was off for 1 and a half quarters. I think I am getting my period and mentioned above.

Alrighty off to cook some rice, I've made curried sausages in the crock pot and it will be nice served with veggies.

Nite-nite.
Kelly

Anzac Day

2007-04-25T17:21:00.000+10:00

Hi everyone.
Today was ANZAC day and I went down to the 11.00 service. There were so many people there for the Wodonga service today which was great, I even got a tear in my eyes watching the WW2 diggers walking past. It is great to see more and more attending Anzac services and I hope this trend continues. Thankyou to the Australian army past and present for all that you do for us, and I'm sure they do a lot more than what we are allowed to know :)

OK -
Yesterday was one of the worst days I have ever had with a particular child in my class, I have never been so friggin angry/frustrated with a child before and I was so close to loosing it yesterday. This particular child has been extremely difficult all year and I'll name him X. X did not get to go on our excursion to the park yesterday because he did not bring his permission note back to school, I asked him for his note every day. After the rest of the class and I got back to school from the park, we went out to playground to have a play, another child did a flip on the monkey bars and accidentally got X with his foot. So X punched and kicked the other child and he fell and hit his head. I went a got X and made him have timeout on the seat next to me. After 5 mins I asked all the children to come inside, X cracked it because he did not get to go on the playground (wonder why????) So he latched onto the wooden seats and tried to grab every pole as I dragged him back to the classroom. I asked him to sit on the floor in our room, when he refused a had to take him next door to a buddy time-out room. While in that room he burped in that teachers face and laughed! When she yelled at him over it he did it another 2 times. He tried to destroy her library area and tried to run out of the room 3 times. It took him 35 mins to calm down and apologise to the poor child who he'd assaulted outside in the playground.
After recess we came inside and packed our bags and had show and tell. X started deliberately burping and farting using his mouth and hand and flinging his arms around. I had to pick him up to remove him to the time out spot. He didn't like that, so he started to crawl under a free standing whiteboard on wheels to play with the doll house. I had to pull him back out and he knocked his head and started crying, then the department nurse walked in to talk to the kids and about the hearing test/vision test she'll be doing on Thursday, he started farting with his hand again. I had to hold his hands and then he bit me. I sent a card to the principal for immediate help at this stage. Anyway he ran out of the room not once but three times as people brought him back each time. I had to leave during this to go to the Gyno appointment that got cancelled last week. After school X's sister came up to school to complain because X did not get to go on the excursion and she couldn't understand that it is X's responsibility to give the teacher the note. Apparently it was in his bag all along, but I am not allowed to go through students bags. This sister could not understand that I didn't get the note out of his bag for him because "he is only little." That one statement alone tells me why this 5 year old child behaves the way he does. He is the only male child in a single mother Chinese family and he is spoilt/babied!
I was furious last night, I couldn't sleep and I don't know what I am going to do with him tomorrow.

Luckily I don't have to have another operation to get my endometriosis burnt off.
So today I have been thoroughly binge eating to make myself feel better, I know this doesn't work but I still did it. I am off to netball training soon and I think I'll feel shit running around with so much rich crap in my belly.

I was bored this arvo (hence eating crap) and I took some photos of myself. I'll try and post these as well.

Bye everyone, This is my vent for the day.

Go Chris!

2007-04-19T20:51:00.000+10:00

I think I am in the minority, but go Chris on TBL. I feel sorry for him, they are all so cold towards him. Yes, he is young and probably didn't make a great first impression with his talk of winning, but come on it's a game (and not the only one to talk about winning). I think everyone has seen him as a huge threat. He has grown in the house, and I can definitely see that he has matured during the past few weeks. No matter how much I like Chris I think his chances of winning are slim, he doesn't have too much weight to lose, and with strength training... I hope you know what I'm talking about , but the ratios don't add up! Unless he cardios and becomes a skeleton.
Anyway that's me going on about Chris.

I'm still not feeling too well, it is definitely a head cold, last night I needed 2 nurofen and 2 panadeine forte to play 30 mins of netball (I got told to try to sweat it out... didn't work!). I'm really stuffy in the head and nose/throat, not in the chest luckily.

I had my specialist appointment today, so I took half the day off from work. I went shopping before my 2.00 appointment as the house cleaner was coming to clean the house. The surgery rang to inform me that the doc had to go to the hospital to perform 2 emergency cesareans. Therefore I had half a day off from work for nothing. My appointment is now scheduled for next Tuesday.

With my spare time today (tongue in cheek ;) ) I went shopping of some 70's clothes. There is 70's theme night at the footy club with weekend. I brought a paddy's day colour green dress that looks as though it comes straight from the 70's, a pair of grape colour wet look platform boots and a grape/green belt. It should come together really well. The only problem is my boobs! I have 14C/12D breasts and the dress is a size 10!!!!! They kinda pop out! I may have to wear a singlet top underneath.

BF is at footy training tonight so I have some spare time, LOST is going so slow now (I'm changing subjects again) Desmond... work out what is going on becasue the show is dragging on!!!!

I had a yummy tea tonight, its a tomato tuna casserole, I'll share.

Kelly's Tomato Tuna Casserole

1 medium tin of tuna in spring water drained
1 can tomato soup
2 celery sticks diced
1 small onion diced
1 1/2 cups dry pasta
2 tbls Worcestershire sauce
pepper

Drain the tuna. Dice the onion/celery and add a little water. Microwave onion and celery in the microwave until the onion is transparent. Cook the pasta until soft.
Add tomato soup, tuna, onion, celery, Worcestershire sauce and pepper and mix gently in the saucepan. Put mixture in a baking dish, sprinkle with cheese and put into the oven for 25 mins on 180 degrees.

I can't tell you the nutritional details as its a home made recipe! It is yummy and I serve it with frozen (cooked) veggies or a side salad. Enjoy.

Have a great weekend everyone,
Kelly

Started Netball - Yay!!!

2007-04-17T17:12:00.000+10:00

Netball started on Saturday and we beat one of the stronger teams from last years comp 29-40. We have started to wear those Lycra dresses and they look awesome. (Lucky I'm one of the thinner players though!) I was very tired afterwards, a combination of lack of fitness and the heat/sun. I think this exertion ;) helped to bring on the following...

Over this sickness business big time. I have spent the whole day in bed today with a head cold that hit me on Sunday. I think I mentioned BF had a cold and I expected to catch it well....... I did! I battled through work yesterday so that I got my holiday pay, but today there was no chance. Feel as though my whole head is swollen, the puffy eyes are the worst and to make it worse, I can't get into the doctors for a medical certificate because they are booked out until Thursday, so whether I feel better or not it's back to work tomorrow. I just sent BF to the Chemist to buy some nose spray and I got some cold &flu tablets this morning, but I've also got some panadene forte if I need it, just gotta battle through it.

I took this photo during a practice match when I had gastro two weeks ago, so I'm not in it. But... I thought it was a lovely sunset shot. My team is wearing the white bibs.

Welcome to some newer bloggers and welcome back to K!
See ya
Kelly

Busy Long Weekend

2007-04-10T13:54:00.000+10:00

Sick of being sick!
I've been feeling under the weather the past two-ish weeks. I had a fair break from netty with gastro etc, but last Thursday was the clincher! I'd had a headache in my right eye for several days and so on Thursday last I made an appointment to go see the doc. I have had women's trouble for years now, which seemed to have be corrected with surgery two years ago, no no, says the body of late! Terrible pain, irregular and spotting as well as affecting the bedroom fun! (Sorry) So I'm going to the gyno next Thursday so I can get this sorted before OS in August.
But I also mentioned my eye and that the back of my neck was a little stiff as well. She said to rest a little and it should get better, probably a little stress. This headache spread as the day went on, so I thought, lets get some fresh air, so off for a power walk with the boy. I got home and decided to have a bath to relax, buy the time I got out of the bath it was thumping. Off to bed I went with some panadol. I woke at 2.30 and had some asplagin (codine and aspirin) and then woke again at 4.30, this time I had some tramol, (this make my drowsy and dizzy). Almost got Kane to take me to the hospital at this stage. I got out of bed at 10am and felt shit. I asked Kane to take me to the hospital and threw up in the car on the way, (lucky I had a bucket!) They took me straight in although there were others in the waiting area. Whacked a drip in gave me some morphine and were going to do a spinal tap for viral meningitis, like what Kane had. Anyway the big ED doc decided against this as it could make my headache worse. So by 5pm I was feeling a little better, but exhausted. It was either meningitis or a migraine, I still don't know. I was pretty pale for a few days after.

My Mum was coming up to stay from Traralgon. But because I could be contagious she wouldn't come near me, (she is caring for my sick Grandparents). So this Easter was not what it was supposed to be.

I woke up this morning and went for a run, but I am exhausted from it. Probably not quite ready for that, so an early night is on the cards tonight. I went and had micro-dermabraision done at the beautician to try and help with some break outs, but I think they are more a hormonal problem rather than anything else. I feels like you are being sand blasted if anyone is wondering. It's a busy week although I have still got a weeks holiday to go. Goes something like this:
Today - Micro-dermabraision, house evaluation (to see haw much all our reno's have increased it's price) and optomitrist appointment to get my eye's checked as there is still pain in my right eye from either the migraine or meningitis.
Tomorrow -de-fuzzing, and the man in coming to discuss the transportation of our belongings to China and a light netball training
Thursday - new hair-do and netball training/introduction at Eskdale.
Friday is free at this stage
Saturday - First game of the season.

I am hoping this sickness has passed now, but I wouldn't hold my breath... Kane is coming down with something, (he's quite a sook when he is sick!), so I'm laying into some echinacea and garlic a couple of times a day:) .

See you later everyone, there are some wonderful transformation photos coming up on various blogs at the moment... well done girls.

Happy Easter

2007-04-05T17:27:00.000+10:00

I hope everyone has a lovely and safe Easter break.

I hope the Easter bunny drops by...

Myself, Laura and Tricia at the Mitta Muster Labour Day weekend. Was very drunk!!!

Trying week

2007-03-30T18:20:00.000+10:00

These past few days have been very trying. On Tuesday night I started to get cramps after dinner, these kept up for most of Wednesday as well, around 5pm it went from slight and I mean slight cramps that I'd feel every ten minutes to OMG cramps. They started and within 2 minutes of immense pain the bottom end wasn't feeling too well. The cramps are still hanging around at the moment and so is the diarrhoea.

But that isn't the worst of it. BF Kane started to get a headache at school around 1pm. This progressively got worse and at 4pm he went home even though we had meetings. I got home around 5, (with said explosion!!) and he was in a bad way. A friend had driven me home as BF had taken the car to leave early. My friend gave him some strong headache tablets that she gets sent over from the US and he went and lay down. After about 2 hours I rang his sister- in-law who is an ED nurse from Albury and asked what we should do, she suggested more panadol and then if he still doesn't improve take him to the ED in Wodonga. He did improve slightly, but started to go down hill around 10.30 again. At 11pm we went to Wodonga ED, after initial discussion they thought he had a migraine, they were going to keep him in for a drip and some meds. Kane told me to go home to sleep and he'd call to pick him up, estimated time 2 hours.

I woke at 5am and I still hadn't had a phone call. After headache medication didn't work they did a spinal tap... he had viral meningitis!

So he has been in Hospital since Wed night and just came home this arvo. happily playing the PS2 :)

So the past week has been hard. Luckily it is school holidays though, I am exhausted and run down, with these cramps and diarrhoea, a cold sore (I haven't had cold sores for 5 years), and a pimple break out... I need the rest.

OK whinge done. I'm out for tea tonight with netball club, not that I feel like it much, but they are getting a bit ansy about not enough commitment from some people (hope it wasn't me). Practice match tomorrow, one on Monday and Wednesday next week.

Catch ya later,
Kelly

I might have confused you :)

2007-03-26T17:37:00.000+10:00

Sorry guys I should have explained more (doh).

The school is called Singapore International School, but it is actually in Suzhou with is 50 minutes train ride from Shanghai in China. So I'll be in China. The name is very confusing, but it has something to do with the Singapore Industrial Park that is in Suzhou, it was a joint venture between China and Singapore, so the school was built to teach Singaporean children 'Western/English education'. So I'll be living in China, but teaching what I teach now, with a Chinese teacher to help in the room, with hardly any behaviour problems, but with heaps of kids who still don't know how to speak English yet or have a different 1st language (ESL English as a 2nd Language).

It will be fun, but hard work!

Kelly

Almost Holidays

2007-03-24T15:31:00.000+11:00

I've been looking through some blogs at the moment and Wednesday seemed to be a very popular day!!! I'm sitting here watching Rocky 2 and eating mixed M&M's (so very healthy of me!) I've had tuna casserole for lunch and a white chocolate mocha from Gloria Jeans... love it! My only good meal today has been protein pancakes with maple syrup.

I did a body combat class at the gym the other week, it was different, I felt so un-co!! :)
Had intended on going again this week, but it was my Aunts B'day. She has some depression issues and so I thought it best to go out with her. I will be attending the class next week for sure.

Netball is starting soon, I think I'll have to get serious about getting fit as it's only three weeks away.

Over Seas Update - We have accepted a job at Suzhou Singapore International School. I will be teaching Kindergarten (Victorian Prep). It is such a big step and so much needs to be organised. I think I need to allow myself to enjoy the whole process as I feel myself on the brink of panic/stress about it all.

My cleaner is coming Thursday this week, so that'll be nice. School holidays are beginning in 5 days, I am definitely looking forward to the 14 days off. 5-6 year olds are very tiring!

Cheers
Kelly

I'm going to be in an ironwoman race!!

2007-03-10T09:35:00.000+11:00

Hold the fort.............................. I'm going to be in an ironwomen race................. maybe!
We are heading up to Mitta for the Mitta Muster this arvo for some drinking tonight. Tomorrow is the muster and I am a standby partner. It's not your ordinary Iron Woman Race. It has log, wheelbarrow, sprint and sculling elements.... (WTF???? I haven't sculled a beer in 5 years) Anywhooooo, I'll give it a go.

Our Pergola is being varnished today, to give that wet look I was speaking about. I am going to get some black mulch to put in the walkways, dippy areas around the yard. This is to help with mowing etc.

De-hairing at 11.45 today. Why is it that males repeatedly ask for Brazilians???? I hate the bloody things, they get so itchy and the ingrown hairs????? My body does not like Brazilians, he'll have to put up with a normal bikini wax. 1/2 leg and underarms will be done also, I have look very hairy lately.

We got a job offer from OS this week. Quite a shock, it'd been so quiet of late that we didn't think we'd get anything. Therefore we were becoming quite content to hang around for the rest of the year. NOT NOW!!! Big decisions are to be made this weekend.... Will keep you posted once we make our big decision. TO BE OR NOT TO BE.............

Till then
Kelly

Pergola nearly finished

2007-03-05T18:06:00.000+11:00

Today we had the pergola concrete poured. I got a charcoal colour put into the concrete and they have also left some colour powder on top, I suppose this does something. It also has a 'rock' look stamp as well. It is not quite ready yet, it still needs to be acid cleaned and have a clear varnish put on as a top layer. Apparently to test what it will look like with the varnish layer on as well, just wet it. Well I wasn't going to wet my new concrete but there was a little left over to the side, with a little water... presto!!!! Exactly what I wanted, so what you see in the photos is not quite what it ill look like after the varnish. Anyway have a squizzzz....

Pergola ready to rumble!

2007-03-04T19:58:00.000+11:00

This is my pergola ready to be poured. Tomorrow morning at 7.30!!!!!!! Very excited!!!!!!!!

Extra Extra!

2007-03-02T21:36:00.000+11:00

I tried to post these with the previous post but blogger didn't approve!This is the pre-concrete pergola. Very messy. You can see the grass growing in the fore-ground this is all from grey water from the washing machine only.This is facing towards the house from in front of our shed. Very messy. I have been living in this dirt for months!!!! Very over it!
This is my favourite garden area, the dirt you can see will soon be back much as the weeds love growing here. Look at how big my 'Elephants ears' are in the background This is why my washing always gets dirty, it has been dirt for at least two years. Only 3 days left!

So, so!

2007-03-02T21:23:00.000+11:00

Things have improved in the past week mentally, I feel I am in a much better spot. I'm really liking my work at the moment, (as much as can be expected!)
I feel very dowdy though! Flabby! Yuck! But I'm sick of the BF telling me to at least try! I know this, but let me do it stop pushing or I'll become more stubborn and I won't do it. I'm still doing netball training on Monday nights and yoga on Wednesday, so it's not like I'm doing nothing. Food has been good, but still not good enough.
We are getting our pergola concreted on Monday this week. Preparation is happening tomorrow and it will be poured on Monday. I'm getting the carpet cleaned on Tuesday and getting rid of lots of stain from my off-white carpet. And hopefully I can get a cleaner to start next Friday! Yes I am getting a cleaner. During my challenge I always found a way to clean instead of exercise, because I am a procrastinator! Maybe this will help me to focus more and argue less with Kane (most of our arguments are about cleaning!) See you all around!

I am checking blogs daily, I just haven't been posting, Cheers
Kelly
xxx

Day 2 of being good

2007-02-20T20:16:00.000+11:00

Wow, this is a change. I have been good for two whole days.

I woke up this morning at 5.30 for a 5-6km walk with my friend, we left while it was dark and the sun came up 25mins in. Got my heart rate up to 173bpm with the hills, with an average of 156bpm. I burnt 344 calories, whoo hoo! Came home and had brekkie and show and got ready for work. I'm feeling the early start now though...

Meals today -
M1 - Cottage cheese, oats and strawberry conserve porridge
M2 - Left over dinner - Beef stir-fry, rice and veg
M3 - Nuts
M4 - Found it hard to choose something I wanted here. I had three rice cake with avocado and a nut bar.
M5 - Low fat creamy tomato gluten free pasta with mushrooms and bacon.
Drinks - Organic low fat milk hot chocolate with M4

Looking at that I think I had too many fats today, even if they are good fats. I wonder if too many 'good' fats will still help to lower my cholesterol.

I've been getting this strange pain in my chest/abdominal area for the past four days. It is particularly worse when I am hungry. I thought it might have been indigestion, but it has not become better after three quick-eze chews. Might have to ask the natrapath about that one cause there is not way I'm going to pay $50 for the doc at this stage.

Kane goes on school camp tomorrow to an urbane camp in Melbourne so I am BF free for three days, twill be nice me thinks! :)

Cheers
Kelly
xxx

Update

2007-02-19T21:40:00.000+11:00

Hi everyone

Just letting you know I had a pretty good day today. Eats were pretty good, only one 'oops'!

M1 - Corn flakes and skim milk
M2 - Salad plate and two chicken strips, my 'oops' was 5 jubes from the class lolly jar, only because I had a few spare minutes before the bell went at the end of lunch! No excuse... I know!
M3 - Ducks nuts, an orange and two mini peaches (off my own tree)
M4 - 200g diet yoghurt (apple and rhubarb flavour, it's new and very nice) and some mini rice cakes (from health food isle at safeway)
M5 - Honey soy stir fry with veg and jasmine rice (this is lunch tomorrow as well)

I know it is far from perfect but pretty good for me at the moment. I still spent 2 hours on internet this arvo and 10 quick mins tonight (to write this). So I need to cut back on this.

I went to netball training, we did intervals, ball work and plyo lunges... oooh, I'm very weak in the quads inner thighs know, as well as a half court at the end. I've lost a lot of fitness.

I'm off to bed. I'm up at 5.45 tomorrow for a walk with my friend, we'll prob do 5km with a 1km run about mid-way... I'm building up!

Thanks for your comments ladies, it was a 'moment' to get real and stop pretending.

Kelly xxx

Home truths...

2007-02-18T11:34:00.000+11:00

I've decided to get real and divulge some home truths about myself. A lot will already be known, some will be new.

I have high cholesterol (7.1)
I am a skinny fat girl! (read this on the WH&F forum) 60.7kg/29.8%BF
I rarely follow through on anything.
I exercise once a week, Dru yoga and it is only stretching
I have high stress levels/I possibly even have depression (not diagnosed)
I have pain with my menstrual cycle/endometriosis/and pain during ovulation
My thyroid is low and liver levels high
I am internet obsessed. I've been on the damn thing for near 3 hours already today
Although tired... I find it hard to sleep due to stress issues
I really don't like my job much. My patience is dwindling
My relationship with my BF has been in trouble for over a month, we trying to work through it. I do love him dearly.
I still eat protein/carbs for brekkie but eat pretty crap for the rest of the day
I don't feel good about myself
I miss my family in Traralgon, but I love my family here in Wodonga

I need to make some pretty big decisions about my life, because I'm not happy. I know a combination of exercise/diet/naturapath can help to deal with 10/14 of my life's major issues. The other 3... will need soul searching and life changes.

Will keep you posted.

My Week

2007-02-11T16:13:00.000+11:00

Hiiiii!

Last week was very busy. I had a new student enrol on Monday and he has tipped my 'nice' class upside down. He turns 5 in April and so only just scraps in with his age. We are thinking about suggesting to his Mum that he goes back to pre-school because although he is academically able, he is very socially immature. English is his third language and he has been very naughty!!!!

I had my first class of yoga on Monday. It went for two hours. I am doing Dru Yoga with is mainly stretching, slow movements and relaxation techniques. I feel asleep during the meditation session at the end and slept really well that night and most of this week. I think the 'natural' pills/tonic from the naturopath is really helping to control my stress levels as well.

My cat got bitten by a black snake on Monday arvo. BF let her in a 4.00 after school. Around 6pm I noticed she really wasn't too steady on her feet. We rang the night vet at 8.30 and um-ed and ah-ed about taking her in, but it was $150 call out and although I love my cat I didn't think it was 'that' serious on Monday night. She was a little worse the next morning so I took her in at 10.15am. As soon as the vet saw her he said it was snake bite. So my baby Ali was in hospital for 3 nights/4 days on a drip. Luckily she did not need anti-venom as it alone costs between $480-$600 depending on the snake. All up it cost $418 and now she has to stay inside for a whole week. It is killing her already! My other cat has not stopped spitting and hissing at her since she came home and is still doing it 2 days later. I think he liked being the man of the house and having all the attention to himself. Ali just looks at him as if he is an absolute dickhead! I Don't blame her because that is what I'm thinking! Luckily it is not upsetting her.

Above is the arrogant little shit that is hissing at my beautiful baby below. Isn't she sweet... And I am very luck that she is still alive.

I went back to the doc about my cholesterol issue and she wants to try lowering it with diet.

So... choose lean meats - check, cut fat of all meat - check, choose low fat dairy products - check, no takeaway food (I only do this once a week at the most and we don't have pizza or any crap it might be some rice from the noodle box in Wodonga) No snack foods, well I rarely have these. So all in all I am already doing everything she wants me to do. The consultation took 5 minutes and they were going to sting me $50!!!!!! I did the sob story about waiting longer than I was even in the bloody room. At least she was probably running on time again after me! So they bulk-billed me!!!!! YES!!! What a lovely lady she was...

That's about it for the week, we are almost ready to have the concrete poured in the pergola area, so no more dirt and sand inside.. yayyyy! :)

February already!!!!

2007-02-04T11:18:00.000+11:00

Hello everyone.

It has been a hot couple of days this past week and it will continue to be as well I'm afraid. It's been in the high 30's so far, supposed to be up around 40 today and 39 for the next two days!

The start of the school year has good relatively well, a few issues, but nothing too major to share. I've got to do some planning work today so I know what I'm doing for the rest of the week with the kiddies.

I've done 1 load of washing, one is getting washed as I type and I have another load of whites to soak afterwards, (all going out onto the lawn as grey water). Even though it's a drought, Wodonga is only on level 1 water restrictions at the moment. I can't quite understand it! I think we must be nearly the only town in Victoria not on at least level 3 restrictions. We are allowed to water our garden every second day between 8pm-10pm and between 6am-8am. I've let the lawn die, but it's amazing how it comes up again with the grey water from the washing machine.

I went to netball training on Thursday night and it was pretty light going. It was still very hot though and I had a headache afterwards. I made sure I drank plenty of water before, during and after, but still running on asphalt is pretty hot.

I start yoga this Wednesday which will be nice, it will help to keep my stress-head at bay. I've been taking some supplements from the naturapath to help with my stress and I really think it is helping as well.

We went swimming last night out at Yackandandah, we took out some drinks and then went on a mini pub crawl, I was driving so i only managed 3 bourbons for the whole night. My BF was s**t-faced, I have some wonderful shots of him sitting in a bin cupboard in the TAB section at the pub!

I'm not sure if I mentioned a few posts back that I had to get some blood tests done to check cholesterol and other stuff. High cholesterol runs in my family and my Nan had open heart surgery in Dec as a complication of high cholesterol. Anyway, I have high cholesterol!!!! I am 26, I do exercise, I eat pretty well and I have a reading of 7.2!! It should be under 3. So I'm back to the doctor on Tuesday to find out what to do next. I've spoken to my naturapath and I think I'm going to try to control it with natural supplements and diet for 6 months and see if I can get it down. I don't know how this will go, hereditary high cholesterol can usually only be controlled by medication. My Mum tried to control hers with diet, she lost weight, but her cholesterol went up. The only thing that works for her is medication, it's the same with my Nan, my uncle and my Aunts!

OK, my 2nd load has finished, best put on the 3rd load of whites to soak,
Cheers.

Kelly

Australia Day

2007-01-27T22:11:00.000+11:00

Hello...

I had a lovely massage of Wednesday, the lady was great and it was really relaxing. It took nearly 40 mins to really relax as I kept on talking, but I nearly went to sleep in the last 20 mins. It was only $40 for 1 hour and 15 mins and she even came to may house which was great.

I had naturopath appointment that day as well. I am stressed!!!! It's in my eyes, and guess what I know that!!!! I'm a perfectionist/compulsive person. I think that's one of the reasons I didn't last with my last challenge, it's because I put the cleaning first etc. I am on stress tablets and a stress tonic to try to combat the start of the year next week (teaching I mean), but she has also got me signed up to do yoga! The place is only 4 mins walk from my house and my friend that I mentioned in my last post is also going to join me.

Last week I managed 3 long huffy puffy walks, so that is better than nothing. Netball training starts this Thursday and I will definitely keep walking and add a body pump/and or combat in there too.

I bought an apple corer and spiral machine from spotlight today as well as some glitter glue to put the kids names on their reading satchels.

That's about it my Australia Day was great, spent with friends, BBQ was had, as well as backyard cricket, PS2 Singstar and Triple J hottest 100. I must say I pretty disappointed with the No 1 song, can't even remember what it was called it was that memorable!

Have a great week,
Mmmwaaa

Motivating Myself

2007-01-23T20:02:00.000+11:00

I piked!!

I got myself all ready and phsyched, and I piked (Damn!!!). I had all my meals planned and I was going to go swimming in the morning and weights in the arvo, but Kane didn't buy me cottage cheese and guess what? It was easier not to do it than go and buy cottage cheese! How pathetic.

It is now two days after Monday and I have not started my program, but at least have done 2 power walks. I have just msg'd a netball friend to see if she would like to get fit with me. Maybe a training partner will motivate me again.

I went to the doctor this morning for a referral to get a full blood count done including cholesterol. My family on my Mum's side has a very strong history of high cholesterol, and my Nan had open heart surgery 6 weeks ago as a complication of not being medicated eary on (Controlled diet didn't work for my Nan or my Mum). I have known this for a while, but kept thinking 'I'm only 26, I couldn't possibly have high cholesterol'. Anyway spose we will find out when I have the tests done, I think I'll have it done on Thursday morning, I have to fast and the doc said the best time to get in done is 'mid morning' due to the oldies going in so earlier, therefore it's busy.

Tomorrow I also have an appointment with a natrapath, I think mostly out of curiosity. I wonder if the blood test and natrapath comes up with similar diagnosis'! Tomorrow I also have a shiatsu massage, this lady comes to my house, will be great to have my knots worked on, he he he!!!!!

Thursday it's a full facial done with dermalogica cosmetics etc! Looking forward to this.

Ok, so I still haven't heard from my friend about getting fit together, since I started writing this post. Fingers crossed,

Cheers
Kelly

Long and Overdue...

2007-01-15T20:55:00.000+11:00

Ok, where to start?

This is a really long post everyone.

I finished work on the 21st of December 2006, since then, I think I have been at home 7 days, but not consecutively.

It all started on the 15th of December, my staff Xmas Party, was a great night, a bit of mix up, but hey isn’t there always a problem. The next day we drove 2.5 hours for BF Dad’s (divorced) Family Xmas Party, at which the his new GF cooked. Was a great meal, we played cricket on the front lawn and stayed up late with ‘Sing Star’ and stayed the night. Drove home the next day (2.5 hours) around lunchtime and went to sleep.

Then started the last week of school, clean up, a baby-sit week. That’s all we do in the last week of the year, baby-sitting!!! A very full on week, class party, cleaning, keeping kiddies amused, presents etc. Second last day, one of my gorgeous girls broke her arm in three places. She was hysterical and I don’t do breaks/blood very well. She was crying, her Mum was crying and I was crying, she is OK, I saw her a couple of days ago, but I think I was just very tired and worn out by this stage.

School ended and I didn’t cry this year!!! I think because it was such a hard bunch of kids this year, I wasn’t sad to see ‘some’ of them go J. But still couldn’t comprehend that I now had 5 weeks holidays. Now I can’t comprehend how they are almost gone, well.. as I continue you might!!!

On the 22nd we drove to Shepparton for a B’day Party, friend of mine came down from Brisbane and we stopped over the night and then drove on to Bendigo for the real Xmas.

So we finally made it to Xmas. I was feeling pretty tired and was starting to unwind from school; I was sleeping well which was great. Had a great Xmas lunch at BF Mum’s house, and then we went to her new husband’s family’s place for dinner. It was a bit full on, 30 people I didn’t know on Xmas Day, eating their food. I felt like I was intruding and I suppose it took around ½ an hour to get comfortable and start chatting. They had a great tradition there though. They bought a piñata from a market and filled it with lolly bags, one for each child and hung it from a tree where no one could reach it. After dinner they each got to have a hit, when it broke each child got a lolly bag. It was a pity about the freezing cold and wind!

That night I went to bed totally stuffed!!! I woke up around 3am feeling a little ‘yuck’, funny sounds from the belly and feeling like I’d eaten too many sweets (too many to chose from!), though I know I was very careful, I deliberately didn’t want that feeling.

I got worse, the diarrhoea started, so many trips to the toilet, then at 5am I vomited, and then again at 7.30am, I was freezing and moaning from stomach cramps. This went on for the whole of Boxing Day, the day we were supposed to go home. On the bright side the diarrhoea stopped that night and I think I lost all the weight I put on in the lead up to and the day of Xmas.

Ok home on the 27th, we were supposed to go pretty much straight away back to Leeton, (BF Dad’s) for BF’s brother’s engagement party on New Years Eve. But hey, Kelly put her foot down… too much, I need to rest!!!

On New Years Eve we drove to Borellen, just outside of Leeton and had an OK night. But went back into Leeton after midnight, still not feeling 100% from gastro. We spent 3 days in Leeton, skied on the 3rd of Jan, I had a go on the knee board, biscuit and double ski’s.

On the 4th we flew to Sydney for our job interviews for OS. We had sign ups with schools Thursday arvo and an interview with a school in Angola as well. We went out for tea to Tony Romas, near Darling Harbour and had a great night. We got back to Star City around 10.30, next day we had interviews and presentations all day, we had interviews with International Schools in Suzhou in China, Tokyo in Japan, Tanzania and Indonesia. Friday night we went to the Casino briefly and lost $25 in 10 minutes on pokies. We wanted to have a go at poker, but too many people and too expensive per hand, we’re too tight for that! Sunday we flew back to Griffith and got picked up and went back to Leeton. The next day we drove back to Wodonga.

We were supposed to drive to Paynesville in Gippsland to go camping on the 8th, but due to the fires near Tambo Crossing and Bruthen, the Great Alpine road was cut, which meant going the long way. As I hadn’t stopped since school had finished I was stuffed and in the ‘I can’t be F’d’ mood! So I sat on the idea for a few days. I hadn’t seen my family yet and I miss them terribly. So I told Kane let’s just do it. On Thursday we packed and let for our trip, the long, but safe way J

Back- peddling…

I got my nose pierced on Wednesday the 10th! It’s still a bit tender, I was so nervous. Before this I had been felling a bit sick since Sydney, all a bit too much I hear! I nearly fainted Wednesday night at dinner with some friends, I think from shock and exhaustion. And with the long 7 hour drive on Thursday, I got a lovely cold, blocked nose, which did my piercing great discomfort and a sore throat as well as feeling more exhausted.

Eagle Ponit Caravan Park was fun. It was great to see my family, I got sun burnt, took lots of Cold and Flu tablets and nose spray to unblock my nose. We went for a small walk and did some canoeing, lots of talking, went into Bairnsdale for lunch and then came back to Traralgon on the 14th.

Last night I went out to dinner with a friend and today I took my brother’s out for lunch to the Ice-creamery. I love their baked potatoes.

So I am up-to-date, well in a short/condensed version I am. So much has happened and this post doesn’t even get down into the nitty-gritty of it.

I am exhausted and it hasn’t even finished yet. On Thursday I am supposed to go home to Wodonga (5 hour trip) and then drive back to Healesville (3 hour trip) for my Grandfathers 70th birthday Party, and then drive home again. The following week will be spent at home!!!! After that back to workL

How can 5 weeks be gone that fast? I am not ready for work, and I still feel very exhausted from everything else.

Never again will I do this much in my holidays, remind me please.

I have heard back from some schools about job OS, but I’ll save that for another post J Oh and I put on 2kg, lost it with gastro, put on 2kg’s and lost it from lose of appetite when feeling sick. So I am back to 60.5kg again.

Cheerio,

Sorry it was so long!

A-Z of Kelly

2007-01-08T22:17:00.000+11:00

A - Available or single? In a relationship with my BF Kane the past 2.5 years.
B- Best Friend? Kane
C- Cake or Pie? Marble mud cake from the Cheesecake shop.
D- Drink of Choice? Kahlua
E- Essential Item? My hairdryer
F- Favorite Color? Blue
G- Gummi Bears or Worms? Neither... I prefer chickos!!!
H- Hometown? Traralgon
I- Indulgence? Gloria Jean's White Chocolate Mocha
J- January or February? January, I'm still on holidays, have to go back in Feb.
K- Kids and names? Rip snorta, Kane calls me 'little stinky!!!!' - Ooops, I thought it was nicknames! I don't have real kids yet... I have two spoilt cats though, Ali who is nearly 2 and Leo is 1 and a half.
L- Life is incomplete without? Family
M- Marriage Date? Not yet
N- Number of Siblings? Three brothers, they are 24, 12, 8.
O- Oranges or apples? Orange at the moment
P- Phobias/Fears? Snakes and heights
Q- Favorite Quote? "Nothing tastes as good at skinny feels" From an articles in Slimming mag.
R- Reason to Smile? I'm on holidays!!!!
S- Season? Spring, my graden is at it's best then.
T - Tag three people! Pip, Rebecca and Michelle?????
U- Unknown fact about Me? I had braces in year 9, 10 and middle of 11. I used to be able to fit a $2 coin in between my front teeth.
V- Vegetable you hate? Brussel sprouts, roast pumpkin
W- Worst habit? Picking pimples and ingrown hairs...anywhere, including my BF's.
X- X-rays you've had? Teeth, fingers, full spine, neck.
Y- Your favorite food? Tuna casserol
Z- Zodiac? Leo, (my cats name)

So much has happened

2007-01-07T22:38:00.000+11:00

Welcome to 2007, the year I will!!!!

I've changed my blog and the name of my post to...
I'm on my way...
On my way to happiness, to the body I want, to the inner peace I'm searching for.

I'm not in the right frame of mind to have a long in depth post yet. Too much has happened in the past month... nothing bad, just so much. It has really caught up with me in the last day and a cold is about to attack (lots of echinacea to be taken).

When I've settled down and I'm ready I will post and fill you all in. I also need 'time' to work out my 2007 goals, one of which will to post on the IBO forum, I've been 'lurking' the past few weeks!!!!

I'm off to bed, I felt really dizzy and tired today, but I also feel ADHD, I can't write cause I've got the shakes and can't concentrate either, could it be the jet lag and travel from the past month?

Bed and rest.

Talk soon,
Kelly

That time of year

2006-12-13T19:47:00.000+11:00

Hot Air Ballooning across the Yarra Valley in March 2006

Hello everyone, well since my 1 clean day... zilch clean days :(((

I am pathetic!

Anyway, tis the time of the year when everyone in my class buy's me chocolate as a thank-you gift. Please... NO CHOCOLATE... but I can't say that can I? It would be rude, so I try to make a joke out of it with my Prep class, 'It will make Miss Rippon fat!' as I grab my belly. They laugh and think it's a great joke :) LOL. I wish they'd all put in and get me a gift voucher at Myer or something.

I have done all the Chrissy shopping, OMG how expensive. It's all wrapped and I don't even have kids to make it that expensive!

Last weekend was the last weekend at home for 4 weeks, heres the itinery...

Next weekend - To Leeton for Kane's Dad's Xmas party
Xmas weekend - To Bendigo for Kane's Mum's Xmas Day
New Years Eve - Back to Leeton for Kane's Brothers Engagement Party
3rd Jan - Leave from Griffith Airport to Sydney for job interview for teaching OS
6th - Back to Griffith Airport (Did you know it is cheaper to fly from Griffith-Sydney return than from Albury or Melbourne? And we'll be only 50km from Griffith for Engagement Party anyway)

Busy hey?

I found out that I have Prep again next year, and my class is just gorgeous. 10 girls and 9 boys and they can all write their name which is nice. I am so ready to handball my current class. They are really ready to go to their next teacher!!!! They are loud, rude, nasty to each other, (yeah, 5 year olds can be really nasty) and talk about wingeing and dobing!!!! Over them, big time! I have to admit though they have been a really tough bunch of kids, the chemistry was way off with my group this year.

So bring on next Thursday at 2.00pm , 5 weeks of holidays, lovely.

If I don't write for a while Merry Xmas and have a safe and happy New Year.

I did it!

2006-11-21T21:35:00.000+11:00

Hi everyone

I did it, I ate clean and exercised.

M1 - Oats and cottage cheese
M2 - Salad and 1 sausage (left over from BBQ)
M3 - Orange and 10 cashews, 3 almonds
M4 - 5 flavored rice cakes and avocado and 1 protein shake
M5 - Fish and veggies with small amount of potato

I went for a 50min powerwalk this arvo with Kane, it is very hot... it was 38 degrees today and it is only supposed to get to 21 degrees tonight. It is very windy and I am expecting thunder and lightening while I am in bed tonight.

I have painted my nails tonight as well as writing 3 reports for my students.

Well I did it and now I have to do it again tomorrow. Tomorrow I play netball at 7.15 so that will be my exercise for the day.

My baby 'Leo' being naughty. But he is soooo cute!!!

Ok, I'm feeling pretty crappy right now

2006-11-20T21:32:00.000+11:00

Hi everyone,
We had a BBQ for tea tonight. I had my aunt and uncle around for dinner and my younger cousins. We had a deliciously healthy meal and a small dessert, however I've been reading through my blog from August/September and now I feel fat again! I'm feeling sorry for myself because I gave up.
I don't want sympathy... I just need to verbalise my feelings and get on with it, just like Rebecca is. Good on ya Rebecca, I need your enthusiasm.
I need to believe in myself and that I can have a good body, I can! I just need to put in the effort... Consistently put in the effort. Tomorrow is a new day.
I will blog tomorrow and tell good things. Fingers crossed for me girls!
I found this photo of my team on Grandfinal Day, I have trouble seeing me though, I may be the girl walking off the court behind the blonde with the WD bib on.In this photo I am the (GS) navy blue and white girl right down the other end, I am behind my player.Kane and I at our 'mock' wedding on the day after G'final. A pretty funny event!!! LOL. Dick is marrying us here!

Renovating Over

2006-11-04T19:40:00.000+11:00

I am so glad to say that. I have lived in filth for the last 3 weeks, but now my house is clean... yeh!! LOL
I have de-grouted 325 large floor tiles in the last 8 days with a small hand tool, (my hand is very tender and bruised in some places, it is set like concrete in some places), painted my kitchen/dining room and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned.

I finished ripping out all the grout at 8pm last night and started cutting in with the paint. Each 'cutting in' took over two hours, so I did this while listening to Con Air on the TV last night. This morning I got up and rolled, cut in and rolled again and finished at 1.00 this arvo. I then cleaned for over 4 hours. The grout and plaster dust from the kitchen reno's was everywhere.

All in all I am very tired however happy because I have a clean house and all the major stuff is now over. We will have the pergola concreted soon and then there are all those tid-fidly thing you need to do to finish off everything.

Kane is at Derby Day today so I have done most of the work. I'm so glad it's over. I am going to get changed soon into PJ's and watch another episode of 'Band of Brothers'. See I only blog when I have time and that is also the same time I can watch 'Band of Brothers' LOL. I might paint my nails and have a malibu and diet coke.

So with all my hard work last week I haven't done any exercise however all the de-grouting and painting must account for something!!!!

I am getting up for a walk tomorrow morning and then doing nothing, nothing... oh that sounds nice.

???????

2006-10-30T21:04:00.000+11:00

Why, oh why does blogger disappear?

2006-10-27T21:16:00.000+10:00

Sorry bout this, but my blog has disappeared. Just trying to find it again.

Busy bee and sickness

2006-10-25T09:39:00.000+10:00

Hi everyone, it's been a long time.

I suppose I should start with saying that I have still been reading everyone's blogs each day... But... I have had my head in the sand, haven't wanted to blog for the fact that I haven't really achieved anything and thought how can I comment on others blogs when I haven't achieved anything???

I have been flat out lately. Since netball and school holidays Kane and I have been fixing up our house flat strap. We have totally re-done the backyard including a watering system, water saved it with crystals and mulched every garden bed, painted our room, had the plastering done in the kitchen and had the kitchen tiles done. Now we need to make slight changes to a laminate wall next to the oven to tile that tiny space. (The previous tile cracked because whoever put it on used the wrong glue and hence it has burnt the laminate, which is OK, except the tiles we have chosen are too deep and so they don't quite fit! It's always one thing that leads into another) On Saturday we are going to paint half the kitchen/dining/living room. It's quite a big job.

I am sooooooo over renovating. I want my own time back and I would really like to get up on a weekend, go for a long walk, have a shower, put descent clothes on and dry my hair nicely. Instead at the moment I seem to get up have a shower, tie my hair up in a bun, put a headband in and wear crappy paint/outdoor clothes and it make me feel shit all day. Then my weekend is gone and back into work for the week... same cycle next weekend again! OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!

So because we have been going so hard... (In an attempt to have it all finished before Christmas) I have come down with a nasty bug. We had a few drinks on Saturday night and a few cigarettes (naughty I know, smack, smack, smack), my BF passed out on the loungeroom floor as we didn't eat tea! I woke up feeling, well, crap. But as Sunday went on, I didn't get any better, the others did. Monday my throat was very dry and I had a fuzzy head, yesterday the nose started and the cough as well, by last night my voice started to disappear. This morning I have a full on head cold and crackly voice as well as these bizarre stomach cramps that have lasted 3 days so far. They are like hunger pains, but without the stomach grumbles or need to eat, and worse after I eat.

Exercise... whats that???? In the past 3 weeks I have managed 3 netball games and 2 3km runs. But somehow I have managed to keep my weight at a constant 60.3 - 60.7kgs. The bodyfat is creeping up slowly though.

Anyway I have 6 DVD's to get through while I'm at home sick, I'm watching the whole series of 'Band of Brothers'. While trying to ignore the dust, plaster and grout all over my house until it is all finished tonight. Tomrrow will be cleaning while trying to get over this damn virus.

See you,

Kelly

I'm still here

2006-10-05T21:42:00.000+10:00

Hello everyone,

This is just a very short post. I'm still here... still OK and keeping active. I'm reading everyone's posts to keep track of how your are all doing and plan on getting back into the routine of posting soon. I'm happy with everything and feel good about myself. Cheers everyone, talk soon.
Kelly

PS
This is a photo of Kane and I at the Albury Botanical Gardens on the weekend.

I'm starting again...

2006-09-17T18:45:00.000+10:00

Hi Guy's I've decided to start again with my challenge... however it is not going to be a challenge this time, it's going to be a lifestyle shift.

Let me explain...
I haven't put in close to 50% in the last 4 weeks, there are many excuses I could have a cry about but I'm not going to do that. I have 29 days to go on the IBO challenge and I'm not going to make anywhere near the changes I wanted to and with how slack I've been in the last few weeks I need to start again. I don't think my body will handle the updated program as all my work in the first four weeks has pretty much evaporated!!! I still weigh roughly the same... 61kg give or take, but my body fat has risen a bit. So I'm going back to the drawing board starting again and will use my IBO program to guide me in the right direction, I may do it slower than in the '12' weeks, but I hope to make changes of my own accord.

So there you go, hope I'm not disapointing you like I've disapointed myself but... hey life goes on.

I'm going to Mum's Tuesday for a week. I haven't been home to Traralgon since Christmas (It's 5 hours drive away) can't wait. Going without my BF so I'll be all lonesome I'm sure. I can't wait to catch up with all my friends etc. Mum has a tredmill so I'll be using it reguarly. I'll take my fitball and hopefully get to the gym while there. I'm not going to stress too much though. I'm on holidays for two whole weeks!!!

Take care everyone.
Catch up soon.
Kelly xox

Week 8 Day 1

2006-09-11T16:41:00.000+10:00

Kane's Footy team

Good news... and very bad news!!!

The bad news... we lost, the good news... it was even at half time, 15 goals all. The very bad news... We lost by 22 goals!

Yes, you read right! We lost by 22 goals in 1 half of netball! How hard is that to write!
More good news... Kane won his Grandfinal so it was a big weekend. He played really well and got a medal and all that jazz.

Back to the game. After half time our coach made changes and we kinda lost it from there. They got the first 6 goals in the third quarter before I even touched the ball. Then I missed a few (it was very gusty) and I got taken off in the last quarter! Game over. We got a dumb patch that says runners-up (losers badge, I've called it!) and a fake squishy netball from Netball Victoria. So I got a pocket knife, put a hole in the badge and wore it around my neck with a lanyard all night (You can see it in the pictures below). I've decided... I made it to the Grand final from 5th on the ladder and I'll be proud. A couple of the footballers asked if I wanted to swap my badge for their medal, I said, 'No, mines bigger than yours!'

So I'm a little sleepy, back to the real world tomorrow and will again try to make sense out of my update. Cheers everyone for you positive comments and well wishes for the weekend.
Oh.. and a big congrats to Carolyn, you look wonderful!

Izzy, Laura and I stealing the Seniors Premiership Cup at the Eskdale Pub. Was a massive 7 hour drinking session. Got onto full shots of kahlua, and full shots of vodka and milks for $5 a pop. Cheap!

Laura and I with our 'losers' badge. Izzy with her head in the middle.

Izzy and Kane with the cup! Flo in the background!

Week 7 Day 4

2006-09-07T17:35:00.000+10:00

Ok so I've slackened off a bit this week. I've this fear in my mind that I'm going to be soooo sore with the DOMS if I'd attempted my updated program this week and I want to be in the best shape I can be on Saturday for the GF. I'm slack, I know, avoiding the DOMS is not how I am going to achieve my goals and I know it. I have made a promise to myself to sit down and really think about my program and how to achieve my goals on Monday and then hit it hard for the final 4 weeks before continuing on for more lasting lifestyle changes. I did go to the gym on Monday and up'd all my weights with my 'old' program and yes... I'm still sore just from that, imagine how I'd feel on Saturday if i'd gymed it tonight with legs?

I haven't drank enough water today and I'm definitely feeling it. I stuffed up my routine today by not filling up my water bottle this morning when I first got to work, only had 200mls (?) in it, and thats how much I've had today... pretty bad hey? And I'm used to drinking nearly 3L a day!...
That made me go and get a drink and I'm feeling really light headed now.

I have the school walkathon tomorrow, two hours of walking should do me for cardio tomorrow, I may only walk half the time though, I have preps (kindergarten) kids and they are all new to this, I'll walk a few laps with them and then do crowd control as I know they'll start winging about having to do it and try to sneak off and play, (geez I'm tough!).

Have a great night, I'm off to our last netty training this year in 20 mins.
Ciao,
Kelly

Week 7 Day 1

2006-09-04T20:38:00.000+10:00

Had a productive day of exercise today. Did Shoulders/Back/Chest at the gym after work as well as 2 of 3 ab exercises, but went around the corner to find all the tredmills occupied in the cardio room. I went home and did 30 mins of jogging, (average heart rate of 161) and came home for a shower. I turned on the computer and found my program update... I only just got used to the other one! Anyway the only change to my nutrition was no more carbs at M4 anymore. I took a few pic's on Saturday for my update and I really liked this one, can't really remember why I was laughing, but it made my abs look ok for once. Maybe I'll have to laugh in my after shots to look a 'little' toned! Anyway I've started searching for a bikini for 'the end' of the challenge, I'm sure it'll creep up quite quickly. I don't like really low hipster styles, my abs will never look 'that' good to wear hipsters.

alrighty I've a busy week ahead, I've already told work I won't be in next Monday. Mad Monday here we come :)

Plan this week:
Monday - 30 mins jog, weights
Tuesday - Netball training
Wednesday - Cardio, weights
Thursday - Netball training, weights
Friday - Power walk and getting my tax done
Saturday - Grandfinal and then drinking, drinking and probably more drinking
Sunday - drinking, drinking and drinking
Monday - recover
Tuesday - Back on the wagon!!!!!

Cheers
Kelly

Week 6 Day 6

2006-09-02T21:56:00.000+10:00

I've come to the conclusion that we must be the most tin-arsed team in our league.

We won by 5 goals today and yes... We are in the A Grade Grandfinal!

We play Yackandandah, they are is awesome. So bring on the leprechaun because we will need some luck :)

So Kane and I will both play next weekend. It will be quite a large weekend I feel. I'm going to take Monday off as I remember what GF weekend was like last year... and the year before that... and the year before that. So it is sure to be HUGE!

I had my measurements done this morning. I little bit disappointing, I had a lady do them today and her idea of a measurement was to be very loose with the tape measure. I lost around 1-2 cm from most areas but I put on 1.5cm in my thighs???? I know they are smaller. My clothes tell me that. So I might ignore the numbers and go on how I'm feeling and how the clothes are feeling and I am happy.

So with netball continuing on for one more week I have 3 cardio sessions organised. Only need to plan 3 myself.

I'll go for a Powerwalk tomorrow morning and then breakfast, off to the gym to do arms/back/shoulders and then grocery shopping and home for cleaning and a relax!

Hope you're having a smashing weekend... I'm still in shock that we actually won!
Kelly

Week 5 Day 4

2006-08-31T12:53:00.000+10:00

Break-through!!!

I'm a 50's girl today! I was 59.7kg. I haven't been 59kg since I had gastro in Year 11, I would've been 16-17 yrs old. I was pretty happy. I tried the scales 6 times just to make sure!!! One time I was 60kg, another two times I was 59.5kg but I was 59.7kg 3 times so I'll go with that. I'll probably be up to 60.5kg again tomorrow as I seem to bounce around alot but it eventually bounces downwards!

Have a great day, I am.
Kelly

Week 5 Day 3

2006-08-30T20:17:00.000+10:00

Fish and veg - awesome!

I ate Bassa for tea tonight.. with veggies... yum, yum, yum!! Added some lemon and salt for flavour but it was delicious, just wanted to share. Catching up on some blogs and seeing what people are up to as well as researching a possible school to work in in China next year. I did cardio and shoulders/back/chest on Monday and did cardio yesterday, I am going to to abs tonight, legs and cardio tomorrow as well as a massage and power walk on Friday... all planned, lets see it happen. Booked in for measurements on Saturday morning and will get Kane to do 6 week progress photos on Monday. I'm a busy little beaver, I like saying 'little' now as most of my clothes are now falling off, especially my favourite pair of black work pants, sad to say goodbye though ;(

Hope your having a great week chickie-babes

Kelly

Week 5 Day 7

2006-08-27T20:38:00.000+10:00

We won, we won, we won, we won, we won... we won!

Did a mention we won?????

We won by 1 goal! One measly goal!

Mitta 39 defeated Rutherglen 38!

We won!

So I went out celebrating with my team. One kids fish and 3 bourbons :)

We won!

Work tomorrow :((((

So off to bed.

Did I mention we won?!!!!!!

Love Kelly

Week 5 Day 6

2006-08-26T18:52:00.000+10:00

Not much to report I'm afraid!

It's been pretty slow and steady at my end. My weight has gone up a little bit, so I think I've hit a plateau! I will have to watch my diet/exercise very carefully for the next two weeks. I'm about to hit the hump fortnight of my challenge. Tomorrow I am playing in a netball final, it's all very dramatic at the moment. Our GA isn't playing. I only found this out on Thursday and apparently she won't be there for Grand Final either... so tomorrow I'm shooting by myself. Well, it feels like that I'm sure they'll find someone for me to play with!

Kane won his final today, so his is straight into the GF. He is out celebrating tonight and I am at home watching Memoirs of a Geisha. Seems quite good at the moment. Only a quick check in. Hope everyone is have a great weekend.
Kelly

Week 5 Day 3

2006-08-23T20:08:00.000+10:00

Hi everyone,

Mostly back on the wagon again... do you like the sound of that? Mostly! I have had a great week with exercise and nearly on track with food... only dash to a mini fun size milky way at school. I did a great power walk on Monday and then legs/arms at the gym, DOM's set in yesterday arvo. I fought through a spin class, but couldn't give it everything, just too sore. I struggled to get my heart rate up at all, I think I got up to 148, which is pretty pathetic... I can usually get to 170 in a spin class. I woke up at 6.00 to do a 30 minute jog, I chickened out too sore and too many hills, I'm a sook. Did abs tonight and was going to do arms, will do them tomorrow I think before netball training. My rest day was going to be Saturday before my next final but I'll do the 30mins jog in the morning, it might make me really tired so I can sleep Saturday night... must sleep...must sleep!!! Lol.

The house-cleaner came today. I love the feeling of walking into your house and knowing that the cleaning has been done... and the smell. I don't even have to think about it this week anymore, one less thing to stress about. I think this will help my BF and I as well... no more arguments over the cleaning I mean.

Ok so meals today:
M1 - Porridge and protein powder
M2 - Stir-fry, veg and rice
M3 - Chicken patties and tatziki dip, apple
M4 - 4 rice cakes
M5 - eye fillet, veg and mushroom sauce
M6 - diet lemon jelly and cottage cheese
Not enough water :( , 1 decaf coffee

Off to fold the washing and then to bed I think, I feel my cold re-surfacing... more echinacea needed.

Good luck to Selina in her netball final this week, well done to Donna for her first two days with IBO, Rebecca for getting back on the wagon, I'm proud of you! and...Cate for breaking the plateau! And cheers to everyone who is visiting.

Kelly

Week 5 day 1

2006-08-21T13:07:00.000+10:00

We won!!!!!
I can't believe it, we were down by 9 at one stage and we won by 3!
My poor body though...
I was so nervous, I ate my oats in the morning and that was it... I couldn't eat anything else I felt so sick. I managed to drink lots of water and a had a gatorade to try and give me a bit more energy plus two guarana tablets. I tried to have a nap.... yeah right... like that was going to happen!!!!!!! So I played at 2.15 and the game finished at 3.55, over an hour and a half. There were 6 time outs for blood etc, one was mine! So my body finally let me eat at 4.30! I feel terrible today. No energy, tired etc. My poor body. So at home from work about to go for my powerwalk. Only 3 weeks to go till Grand Final... if we get that far. So next Sunday we play Rutherglen. I spoke about this team a few weeks ago. It was the team that swore and were quite feral! Anyway to next post :)
Kelly

Nerves are kicking in!

2006-08-20T09:02:00.000+10:00

I am getting so nervous about my final today, and it's not even a Grand Final. I think it's the added stress of being an elimination final. I went out and watched two other teams play in the qualifying yesterday and now I know who we'll have to play next weekend if we win today. My heart is beating and I have that butterfly feeling in my stomach. I might have to run to the toilet soon as well, lol! I couldn't sleep very well last night, had a really strong dream about a Tsunami hitting me and my family on the beach. I might look that one up on an online dream website. I couldn't get back to sleep after it at 10pm for 2 hours. My God it was annoying, and then my BF decided he was cold and threw a blanket on top of us, a pure wool one at that... pretty heavy, so I was a wake at 3am again for another hour. So I might try to have something to eat and go back to sleep for a bit, I need all the energy I can get at 2.15 today.

Week 4 Day 6 Sorry about the brag!!

2006-08-19T09:43:00.000+10:00

I woke up this morning and guess what? Smack bang on my 60kg target!!!! So I though lets take some photos to see the difference from 4 weeks ago or one month into the challenge. Please excuse the hair!!!

Before 61.4kg

After four weeks 60.0kg

I can see a huge difference in these photos and it's only been 4 weeks and half hearted at that. I think this is the inspiration I needed to really concentrate on being dedicated as I think I can achieve wonderful results from this point on.

Sorry about the brag, but I was pretty excited!

Week 1 Day 5

2006-08-18T19:57:00.000+10:00

Been a very busy this week and all without cardio. Tried to eat as clean as possible this week and had mixed results. Weighed myself this morning not expecting too much in term of scale weight due to not training and was pleasantly surprised to see a drop of 400g on the scales and a drop of body fat. I think not eating carbs after M4 has a lot to do with this as well as protein at each meal. I don't tend to get hungry during the day as much as I used to and I often feel like I'm eating way too much, (who ever thought I'd eat 6 thin rice cakes???? I used to think 2-3 was plenty!!!! Add a protein shake and this is heaps for me.

My knee has come good with a few days rest. It was still a little tender when running yesterday, but I think this was more to do with the bruising around the knee area rather than muscle soreness. I am planning on playing on Sunday and so I might even get it strapped just to be careful.

My references and application went through for teaching overseas next year and so today we started searching for jobs. There are quite a few out there but they all require immediate starts, Kane and I would rather finish this school year and then go over next year.

Alrighty... it feels weird not playing tomorrow, Kane does, which is also a bit of a nuisance because we have to drive out to Sandy Creek (30 mins away) both days, and both of us don't play until 2.15 so there goes two whole days. Can't wait for this season to be oo.vv.ee.rr!!!!

Have a great weekend everyone
Kelly

Week 4 Day 2 Sick!!!

2006-08-15T17:35:00.000+10:00

I am sitting in bed today at 5.30 (been here from 4.30 watching Bold and Beautiful) sick, sick, sick! I've been feeling pretty crappy since Saturday morning but kept plodding along. Yesterday the headache and dry mouth started despite the 3 litres of water and today the tiredness just has not left. I've had 2 litres of water so far and still have a 'heavy head.' You know that feeling? it just a pain-in-the arse, so I'm expecting a full on cold tomorrow and a sore throat! So in bed I am trying to rest and get better quick.

In my last post I mentioned that I had hurt my hip. On Sunday I stood in the Yackandandah creek for 20 minutes to try and bring out any bruises etc. (BF swears by it) I got out of the creek and started to feel a twinge in my right knee, it got worse and worse until I was limping around on my right leg! (Lucky the creek fixed my left hip!) I went to the osteopath yesterday arvo and he discovered a strained muscle in the back of my calf/knee. He worked on it and know it is quite purple... blue... black!

Very pretty, but very sore. I've emailed Sue and Michelle and I am to rest it until Thursday on my osteos orders, and then try to run on Thursday night. So there goes my cardio. I must be extra strict on nutrition to keep on track. Lots of water to get rid of nasty toxins and keep my fingers crossed that I am OK to play in the elimination final this Sunday. If you pray... Pray for me!!

Allrighty must try to sleep a bit know, hoping everyone is well, I've been checking everyone's blogs and it must be a busy time of year... Know that I'm thinking of everyone!

Top: The back of my knee

Below: The inside of my calf

Cheers

Kelly

Week 3 Day 7 Injured!

2006-08-13T09:33:00.000+10:00

Yesterday was an interesting day. I had netball, we played the top team without our 'real team'. This team was tough. The defenders I played on in goals are good, my head came up to their shoulders, felt like I kept kissing them!!! Their arm length was freakish! I play in a country league, these girls should be and used to play in the premier league 'Ovens and Murray'. Any how, the girl I usually play with Karla had a commitment and couldn't play (same as last time we played them in round 6) and so I was left to do the duties with our defender!!! and the B grade shooter! Last time we played them with the said combination we got flogged, something like 11-60??? Yesterday it was more a respectible 23-55! Hopefully if we get far enough in the finals we will do even better with a full team!

Injured! In the first quarter I tripped over my players foot and slam.... left hip hit the concrete... HARD! Bloody knee, sore shoulder too... no biggy, but gee my hip is so sore. I was limping around at the vote count/presentation night last night and everyone thought I had hurt my ankle, but no, it was my hip! Thus, I am not sure how cardio will go this week. I was keen to wake up this morning and go for a power walk... yes get back on the wagon! but it is just too sore, I'm still slightly limping around. I may have to do a bit on the exercise bike at the gym this week until I can move around freely. Any suggestions?

Kane got hit in the head yesterday so he has three stiches, luckily there was a docter there yesterday so they popped in a general and did the stitching during half time and back on he went, friggin boys!!! He is feeling a bit sorry for himself today.

Yesterday I did really well with food.

M1 - Porridge with cottage cheese and sugar free maple syrup (becoming my favourite!)
M2 - Guarana shot and sandwich plate at football.
M3 - Chicken pie (free meal)
M4 - Protein bar and manderine
M5 - Grilled fish and salad.

I had a few woodstocks last night and so I couldn't sleep last night, might be the sugar in it or maybe the caffeine. Got terrible cramps as well. Bloody cats didn't help!

So my weigh in day is tomorrow but I took a sneak peak today!!! My last four days have been quite good in terms of nutrition and so it is paying off on the scales. A big effort on the food today and I should report good result tomorrow to Michelle. Fingers crossed!

Lots of water today, eggs this morning, roast for lunch and fish tonight again.

Positives...
Each day I wake up lay flat on my back and feel my stomach. It is definately getting smaller, plus I bought my first pair of size 10's on Wednesday night. Results are coming as slack as I've been. Onwards and upwards my friends!

Have a great Sunday,
Kelly

Week 3 Day 4 What a week.

2006-08-10T21:29:00.000+10:00

To be honest I haven't been 100% dedicated over the past two weeks so it's time to come clean.

I have missed two power walks, one jog, one interval class and one spin class over the past three weeks. My eating has been dodgy and my water has only just been scrapping in. I have been feeling down for over a week now, taking this out on my poor BF and doing not much but sit on the couch. To clarify my eating. I do eat to the plan with most of my meals but will add in a few choc's and other naughties. I have maintained my weight and body fat over the past week. My monthly is upon me and so I hope to notice some differences next week. I emailed Michelle at the start of the week and she kicked my a** a little so my eating has been good the past two days!! Yay... little clap, I can do this!

I had a massage tonight before netball training, my glut's and thighs were so tight from sleeping in a fetal position last Saturday night on a frozen mattress! Have cleaned the house tonight, I'm off now to clean the shower and fold washing.

Have a great weekend,
Kelly

Week 3 Day 1

2006-08-07T16:59:00.000+10:00

I can not believe it is week 3 already! It doesn't sound real. Well the weekend was definitely action packed. Netball on Saturday, won this and we are now through to the finals if Barnawartha lose this weekend to the second placed team. We beat Barnawartha on the weekend by 22. I got best on court!!!!! My back is soooo sore from landing on the concrete all game, it feels like I have a dull ache in my lower ache, just like period pain.

Saturday night we had a 40th birthday party. It was a big, late night. I tried slept in a caravan outside, woke up in the morning and found a window open above my head. No wonder I froze! Sleeping is what I need to catch up on, had a huge sleep last night, 10 hours. My students at school are all sick, 8 away today, so fingers crossed my daily echinacea tablet is keeping away all those nasty bugs. I have headache at the moment so lots of water, hopefully not a bug!! Off to take my cats to the vet for needles and to have my green tea.

Week 2 Day 5.. Rest Day!!!

2006-08-04T21:35:00.000+10:00

Kane and I at his Mum's wedding last year, I think I'm 5kg lighter now. I am definitely feeling a big difference in clothes, especially around the backside! Getting lots of positive comments and disbelief that I have lost so much weight.

What a lovely feeling, a rest day. I got to get waxed, clean the house and do the food shopping after school. I am one of those people who likes to be clean and tidy... I'm sure I've mentioned that before :) So working full time and playing netball on a Saturday only leaves one day per week to get most things cleaned, organised, and to rest as well. Soooo.... I've decided to clean and shop Friday night after work (I'm sure you're asking me if I'm stupid... my BF does!) but I think... it gets all that extra crap out of the way and leaves time for exercise and quality time on my only free day, Sunday. So here I am finally sitting down after the week, all exercise done so far except for my spinning class on Tuesday. Thursdays leg/arm session in the gym was terrific, feel like I am finally getting the technique correct when doing the tricep extension, I feel the DOMs coming on in my left tricep so I'm sure this is a true indicator, but I also think I'll be feeling it in my thighs tomorrow as well. Food could be better, I definitely need to work on the food area of my plan, getting organised is the key!!! Hope everyone has a great weekend. I plan to get on here on Sunday and write that we won netball and are now into the finals... fingers crossed (we are currently 6th however we should be 3rd with our percentage).
Cheerio,
Kelly

PS, Congrats to Rebecca on sticking to her plan soo well... you're a champ!

Week 2 Day 3 - Mid week news!

2006-08-02T20:33:00.000+10:00

Yesterday I had a lazy day. I was sooo tired from my busy weekend that I crashed in a heap on the couch. I was supposed to go to a spinning class at 7.15, but my friend Renee the intructor cancelled about 1 hour before the session... (damn! I was so disaapointed, not!) Instead I got an early night, it was so good to be in bed by 8.45. I am feeling so much better for it today, feel like I have so much more energy and I'm not yawning every few minutes. So no cardio yesterday. Did Walk/Jog/Srint/Walk combo tonight with BF, he pushed me which was great. Burnt 386 calories and 40% of that was fat or so the wonderful polar watch says so. Max HR or 179 average was around 143. I'll do abs just before bed.

I set my weight goal at 60kg for the 6 week mark of my challenge, today I was at 60.8kg... whooo hooo. I think I'll have to change my target. I'm trying to focus more on losing body fat than weight, but little positives like this are nice.

Hello to all out in blogland,

Kelly

PS.. I didn't win 5th division in tattslotto :(

Much Better today

2006-07-31T20:47:00.000+10:00

Just thought I'd report... much better today.
M1 - Porridge and choc protein powder
M2 - Yogurt and 2 small mandarins
M3 - Wholemeal salad sandwich with chicken breast pieces.
M4 - Protein shake and 3 large strawberries
M5 - White fish and green veggies, two double 'd' minties
Exercise - Back, Chest, Shoulders and tredmill, 3 incline for 15mins after weights.
Just watching the Big Brother finale, BF is making stir-fry for lunches this week, (training him well! lol) Went and got some more protein powder, vanilla and strawberry for a change. I also got a calcium and echinacea supplement.
Bye
Kelly
xxxxx

Week 1 Day 7 ... Out of Control!

2006-07-30T16:45:00.000+10:00

Over the past few days I have lost control on more than one occasion... I only have myself to blame! I am still losing weight, and bodyfat (so the scales say :)), but I haven't been disciplined at all. On Friday I was to order a salad sandwich from the canteen at school before we got going. We had a dilemma and one thing led to another, I found myself teaching in someone else's room, this is fine, but I didn't get to eat before we left. We got going about 11.45am to drive to Melbourne, stopped at the petrol station at Glenrowan, which also has a Maccas!!! I chose a lean beef burger, it was on the healthy option, must have been good for me cause it tasted like crap! Got to Melbourne at 3.30pm, sat down to wait in the lobby of the Mecure Hotel for our interview at 4.15pm, we went up and asked the reception that we had an interview, they knew nothing about it, so we sat down to wait. 4.15pm past, so did, 5.00pm, and 5.30pm!! We still waited not wanting to make a bad impression and not be there if the interviewer came to get us, we kept waiting!!!! No show. So we waited until the seminar time, 6pm. Still no food, the seminar went until 8.00pm, I drank a few glasses of water. Once we got in the seminar room, the interview was there, we told him what had happened and there seemed to be a bit of confusion between the day shift reception staff and the night shift staff. Anyhow, he fitted us in for an interview after the seminar, he was very understanding, but god I was hungry!!! To cut a long story short, we are through to the next stage with teaching overseas! In the car at 9.00pm and got Thai food (Pad Thai for me) in Sydney Rd. Had a snooze in the car while my beautiful man drove us home to Wodonga, we got home about 1am.
Wake up in the morning about 10.30am had a poached egg on wholemeal toast, pack my bag and get going to the football/Netball out at Mitta Mitta. Got there just before I played so didn't get to have my sandwiches (I always get sandwiches before I play) . Played netty, we lost by 8 to the second top team, got to the canteen for something to eat.... NO FOOD!!! I had my protein shake. Had a shower and got changed. Went to practice my act for the social function last night. Had lots of fun and ended up eating mini pizza, dim sim, ham and pickle sandwich.
So I am ready to put my crazy weekend behind me, get on with the plan and refocus with a less hectic week/weekend.
I have Kane's grandparents with us today, we have been shopping and did some gardening and general cleaning, food could be better. I had a spinach/feta scone from bakers delight today so little slap on the wrist. Planning to have eye fillet steak and veggies for tea tonight. Put my weekly results in tomorrow and really need to send in my photos as well (just been too busy). I have had some great comments and my weight and figure the last two days so changes are happening!!! I wore a very short tight black dress last night in my act (I was posh spice!!) and I wasn't at all disgusted in how it looked on me! I am usually my hardest critic.

So life goes on. I decided to be totally honest with myself here, though the thought did cross my mind and not mentioning my short comings this weekend.
Hope everyone had a great weekend
Kelly
xxxxx

PS.
I may have won 5th division in tattslotto! Will find out tomorrow, I had 2 numbers plus a supplementary. Not too sure but I will investigate, could be @ $25.

Week 1 Day 4

2006-07-27T22:03:00.000+10:00

Hi guy's, I seem to be blogging quite regular at the moment which is great. Just came home from Netty training, we went out for tea afterwards to a pizza/pasta restaurant. I had the pumpkin ravioli as my free meal this week. It was nice, I thought this was a better choice than a cheesy pizza or creamy pasta. I did legs and arms at the gym before netball today. This bloke came up while I was doing the 45 degree leg press, he looked at my weight and told me I needed to add more weight. I was struggling on the last few reps as it was. I was only pressing 25kg, but it was my last exercise on legs... they were tired!!! Should I do a particular order with my leg exercises? I've been alternating between a leg/arm/leg/arm/leg. I'm off to Melbourne tomorrow for our interview and seminar about working overseas next year. I'm going to take a shaker of protein powder, a protein bar, fruit and a bottle of water with me so I don't buy anything naughty along the way. I will only buy grilled fish or chicken with veggies for diner!!! Bed time now! See ya guys,
Kelly
xxxxx

Week 1 Day 3

2006-07-26T20:31:00.000+10:00

This is the culprit!!!

Today I am starting to feel a little tired. The cat vomited on my pillow at 7am this morning, still love him though...) and so my idea of a snooze after the alarm was rudely interrupted. Enjoying my food at the moment which is great. Today it was..
M1 - Porridge and chocolate protein powder, a little low fat milk
M2 - Tuna and seaweed rice crackers
M3 - Chicken, veg and rice with soy sauce. One double 'D' lolly
M4 - I missed this due to a meeting and appointment
M5 - Eye fillet steak and seeded mustard with beans, mushies, capsicum and onion.... yum
Drinks - 1 Green tea, 1+L of water (not enough!!!)
Exercise - 45 mins cardio, average heart rate of 156.
I tried out my polar watch over the last three days and I love it! One of the best presents I've been given for a ages, and I'm using it nearly every day.
I went to see the osteopath today (why I missed M4). I hurt my back gardening on the weekend. I've also got a dippy neck, I sleep weird on my pillow so it gets quite sore. Damien my osteo is great, but mygod he hurts!
Went to the gym to do my cardio tonight, I didn't do what the program asked for... :@
I ended up doing 20 minutes on on the treadmill, 1 incline, 9.5km/hr. Then 15 mins on the elliptical doing a fat-burner workout. Then I did abs. I was very sweaty afterwards, I know I did a great workout.
Anywho, have a great night,
Kelly

Week 1 Day 2

2006-07-25T14:48:00.000+10:00

Ok I'm feeling a little guilty already. So far
Meal 1 - Porridge and cottage cheese
Meal 2 - Half low carb protein bar
Meal 3 - This is my mistake... 5 rice biscuits with avocado dip! and my wholemeal salad sandwich with 100g boiled childen breast.

A friend of mine a work made a platter to celebrate my brithday. I couldn't say no, I didn't want to be rude. I'll work extra hard at RPM tonight I promise!!!

Week 1 Day 1

2006-07-24T20:37:00.000+10:00

Well... I got over the first hump. All has gone well today. Food good, training good. Back/Shoulders and Chest tonight. 30mins treadmill cardio on 9.5km/h. Feeling a bit drained now. Tomorrow is my birthday and tonight we went and got my birthday presents!!! A F6 Polar watch... pink of course! As well as a 2Gig MP3. I decided not to get an IPod cause I can't download music or videos on my department laptop. The heart rate watch is great, I got up to 180 at one stage on the tredy, but I was mostly around 168. I'll play with the MP3 over the next few days to get it up and running. Did my photos today, eeeck. Won't be showing them for a while.
Anyway just a quick check in, lots to do...
See ya,
Kelly
xxxx

Procrastinating

2006-07-23T12:56:00.000+10:00

Here I am on Sunday, million things to do... Procrastinating!!!

Here is a picture of one unfinished garden bed. I need to put something in it to add privacy our our bedroom behind it.

A finished garden bed with 30 daffodil bulbs, a flowering plant and mondo grass...
Another nearly finished garden bed, all I need to add is mulch.
Our 'rubbish tip' garden bed. We need to go to the tip before we attempt this one, you can see the pile of rubbish at the back of the photo. Believe me... it is much bigger than it looks, being at the bottom of the slope is quite slimming!!!Our unfinished 'backyard'. Starting to do this, I think we'll have to wait until footy season is over to do too much to it. Just putting a tap in next to the shed. You can see the jungle of weeds near the shed.
Here is a picture of the 6 loads of washing I must fold before the day is out, as well as the shopping I must do, the floor I must vacuum and mop before a BBQ tonight as...

My Boyfreind goes out for a ride on his...

wouldn't you love to be male right about now????

Cheers

Kelly

One more day...

2006-07-22T19:22:00.000+10:00

Only one more day until I start my challenge. I try to be very organised... but I just can't do it at the moment. I feel like I can't control what is happening around me, so much is happening. I never... I mean never leave the house without making the bed, so I'm not feeling too good about the fact that I didn't make the bed four days this week. As a women and I have a strong belief that we can and often do do many tasks at the same time, (unfortunately men will do one task only at one time), therefore I when I leave the house cleaning to Kane, well you can imagine the result, not much done!!!

When I start my 12 week challenge I know and have discussed with Kane the fact that he is going to have to do a lot around the house to help. And in the past week he really has been helping with cooking and the dishes, but its all those little things that I innately think of such as, 'I wonder if the washing basket's full?' or 'will we have the right things for dinner tomorrow, do I need to go to the shops' or 'we're having chicken for tea, I'll get that out to defrost before work', my BF just does not function like that.
...I know... I need to get over this, but being almost obsessive compulsive about all this makes it hard to let go I suppose, even writing about this makes me jittery. So this will be a big hurdle for me.

The last couple of days have been on hyper-speed. I got my program Thursday??? I think! (See I can't even remember!) I have been to the gym this morning to get my measurements done. Question... Should I trust the Bodyfat scales at the gym? There is 3% difference between my scales home and the scales at the gym (taken the same day, 1/2 hour difference maybe, I didn't eat or drink). I asked for a gym program card to write Sue's program on as it has a section for sets/reps as well. I purchased a training diary, but I didn't like the way you had to write in the same things in each day. The program card seems easier for me.

Today I spent the day in the garden I feel 'dead', it's a huge workout for your body, all those squats, pulling plants out, raking, digging, planting, watering, cleaning. My eyes are tired, my back is sore from bending over, etc. So I am in my PJ's ready for bed... it's only 7.30 on a Saturday night!!! (Feeling my age)

My birthday is on Tuesday and I also need to go shopping with Kane to find a present. I am thinking about an Ipod to use when training and maybe a polar watch with a heart monitor, maybe I'll ask Mum to get me some perfume too.

Also Kane a I are planning to to overseas next year to teach. There is a fantastic group called Search-Associates which help to place teachers in International Schools across the world, so I found out on Wednesday that there is a seminar in Melbourne next Friday all about teaching overseas, etc. So I've had to write an internet application, an application to attend the seminar and pay $180 to attend as well, (Gee that sound repetitive) now with everything else going on this is all too much to wrap my head around as well, try my best though.

So next week I will start my challenge on Monday, have my birthday on Tuesday, go to Melbourne Friday at 12.30, drive 3+ hours to Melbourne, have an interview with Search-Associates 4.15, attend a seminar at 6pm until 9pm, drive home and play netball at Mitta Mitta (90+ km away from Wodonga), then attend a Mitta Football Club social function called Mitta Idol, apparently I am in an act or two, but I have no idea what I'm doing! Kane is going to sing a Frank Sinatra song! All while doing my first week of a 12 week challenge, it will be a challenge!!
Cheers guys,
Kelly
xxxxx

Feeling much better today

2006-07-19T13:30:00.000+10:00

Kane and I on the biscuit while we camped at the Murrimbidge River in Leeton in January.

Hello everyone and thank-you so much for your support. I really am feeling much better about everything. I have been spending a lot of time playing with my blog to try to make it look individual etc by adding, moving, removing and so on. So if you think it looks different each time you look, it probably is!!! I've been trying to add a ticker that counts down the weeks and days, but at the moment have only been able to make one that counts down months and weeks. Anyway, I'll get there soon.

I was hoping to start my 12 week challenge very soon, maybe this weekend, but I am still waiting for my individual program. Not worried at all by this!!!! I'm actually really happy with what I'm doing at the moment. I am seeing results after only 2 1/2 weeks of training with weights. I can see shape in my arms, and can feel a little round lump developing upper arm muscle (don't know it's name yet), even Kane can see a change. I can feel my stomach getting smaller when I lay flat on my bed and my clothes are also becoming looser. I've lost about 1.5kg, though my weight fluctuates with the amount of water, weight of food etc I eat and drink. I am trying for 3L a day however usually I get about 2 1/2 L water each day.

At the moment I'm doing...
Monday --Weights, abs
Tuesday -- Spinning class
Wednesday -- Weights, abs
Thursday -- Netball training
Friday -- Weights, abs
Saturday -- Netball game (although this week I have a bye, yayyyyy!!!! I'm doing gardening in my jungle instead!!)
Sunday -- Rest day (Gardening this weekend though)

I've made up a timetable... 7 days a week with 5 meals a day and a space for weight training and cardio. I'm sticking this on the fridge and use this to plan out my day. I find it really easy to get food ready for work, get meat out for defrosting and for grocery planning.

Hope this finds everyone well, hope the rest of your week goes quickly :))) Bring on the weekend,
Kelly

Not a good weekend I'm afraid!!!

2006-07-16T10:28:00.000+10:00

I'm in for a big winge... Sorry :(

Played netball yesterday... pause...pause...pause... (deep breaths, I'm so angry)

I'm sorry if anyone is an umpire out there... pause...pause...

We played a reallllly rough team, and I know in the past couple of weeks I've winged about roughness, but this team is not just rough, they are dangerous. We played them in the finals last year and there were punches!!! I-kid-you-not, today this one particular lady (GD) tried to take your legs out from under you, she has a gutter mouth, swore constantly...pause...pause

We had their umpire in the first quarter, within the first 3 minutes I was given a warning for pulling a ball in strongly as this bi&ch tried to smash it from my hands, I spun around to aim at goal and the GD was in my space, she got pulled for contact and then... pause...pause...
I got a warning!!! Can you believe it for being to rough and swinging around too fast. Anyhow, next quarter the other umpire saw how rough the GD was being to us and pulled her for everything, she started swearing and carrying on. She was given 7 warnings for rough play and swearing at players and the umpire, and then the WD 2 for swearing and from then on, it was umpire against umpire. We ended up losing by 7 goals, but I am so frustrated... It was piss$%ing down with rain... 9 degrees in Rutherglen. So my day hadn't started so good!! Then....

After drying off I went to the canteen to get a pie (Rutherglen Bakery is famous for award winning pies is my excuse) I ate it standing under the verander on account of the rain next to three Rutherglen supporters. They were carrying on... swearing at the umpire, our players etc because they were losing by 11 points and we had flooded their back line. They lost in the end so I whistled to congratulate my team. The look I got from these blokes was murder...
So...
I said "Do you have a problem?"
One bloke said "Stop being a smart ass!"
I said "I had to put up with your shit for the last 10 minutes, I think I can congratulate my team"
Then to my amazement this one short, fat, 40ish bloke said to me...
"You've probably slept with the whole fuc#*ng team anyway!!!" And then he walked away.
His two mates were still standing there, I said,
"Did you just hear that?" I was starting to shake,
They said "No" and walked away as well.
I just stood there for 5 minutes, shocked, I was shaking, I have never had anyone speak to me like that. Obviously he took his frustration out on me because his team lost, but his mates condoned his actions by not saying anything.

I went inside to the clubrooms and told a few people from my club what had happened and they were quite supportive, but I was still pretty angry. I asked our President if I could speak to the Rutherglen President. When I did he was very apologetic, but for some reason I got quite emotional and started crying.. (I felt like a dic*head) He made the short, fat, 40ish, drunk man come and apologize, he had no idea what he had said to me, but if did say what I heard his comment was,
"If I said that and you are that upset about it, you must have low self esteem!!!!"
...Like it was my fault. My friends told him to piss off, if that was his apology.
After that one of his mates who was standing next to me when it originally happened came up and apologized profusely saying,
"He does this every week" (Meaning inappropriate comments),
All I could say was
"You accept and condone his actions but not speaking up." It's like bullying, it just as bad to stand back and let it happen. Anyway apparently a lot of the Rutherglen supporters also said something to him as well, because they thought it was hugely inappropriate.
My BF was seething, he wouldn't speak to anyone... He was so angry.

So last night I didn't sleep so well. I'm so glad Sue did well in her competition, she sounds like she had a fabulous time and all that yummy food last night would've been so well deserved.

I'm sorry this was a big winge, hopefully now I've written it down, I can move on and stop stewing on the whole situation.

Have a great week everyone.
Kelly

Half way through the week

2006-07-12T17:48:00.000+10:00

This is our nephew Cooper riding a

motorbike at the Bowling Alley in May.

Been a busy week so far. Been eating well, or as well as I seem to get. I am really good with breakfast and I'm really organised before school with meals so everything's ready, I just can't stand that tuna taste after eating it so I snack on a lolly just to get rid of the flavor. I know... I should eat a piece of chewy or something!!! I stopped at three small red skins (the chewy drop ones :)) pieces so at least that's something, I don't gorge!! Lol. I had trouble eating my salad sandwich yesterday so I only ate half... Wasn't hungry or anything so today I ate the other half. I'm going out for tea tonight, not sure where I'm going but my BF will keep me controlled. Had planned to have small serve of spag bol anyway so pasta won't be so bad.

Training's been good, Gym on Monday, Spinning class last night, rest today and netball training tomorrow night. I'm supposed to leave 3 days between each weights session but because of netball training I might go Friday. Next week I start going every second day, ie, Mon, Wed, Fri.

Thats about it. I have a 4th year CSU student in my class at work at the moment so I'm doing lots of different jobs, it's good to have a change.

Heart Attack!!

2006-07-10T18:16:00.000+10:00

Thank God...
Found it;)))

My Blog Has Gone :0

2006-07-10T18:12:00.000+10:00

I can't find my blog! I'm trying to write a short message , post it and hopefully I'll find it when I click 'view blog'. Fingers crossed...

Feeling the week...

2006-07-08T20:14:00.000+10:00

Hello everyone it's been a couple of days and I have been flat out. Had netball training on Thursday night ran a few laps, but it was mostly court practice which is good because we need to work 'better' as a team and that means playing together and court time. On Friday I went to the gym to get a run down of all the equipment Sue wants me to use for the interim program. I went through one set of each exercise... was shaking with the tricep extension move. I was glad I didn't do too much more at the gym because I am sore!!! Very sore! I woke up this morning and my chest and shoulders were still shaking when tensed thus making running today at netball quite tender, each step and my boobs wobbled!! ;)

We won netball by 25 goals.. not sure of the result something like 47-23. They were very rough again, every week I think the other teams are extremely tough, I'm sure we're not as rough as most of the other teams. I can't stand being pushed around but I'll hold my ground if need be.

My food's been good the last few days, I love porridge, I have a really simple recipe:
1/2 cup oats
1/2 cup water
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
so yummy :)

Trying to get used to eating protein etc at meal 2, meal 3 and meal 4. If anyone could give me some hints on how to be creative etc with these three meal I'd really appreciate it. Meal 5 is quite easy, we usually eat pretty well anyway.

Off to do the dishes and put some washing in the dryer and clothes line, it's so cold here, I don't think the washing will dry if I put it out tomorrow.

I got it!!!

2006-07-05T17:45:00.000+10:00

Today I got my interim training and nutrition program. It all sounds so exciting. I had a quick look through it and it all sounds achievable, so that it very warming though I am sure it will get tougher as time goes on... I'm only a beginner!!! I will have to do a certain amount of cardio and a certain amount of weight training per week. My only question would be could I swap it for the cardio I am already doing?? The program says 1x35min cardio on a machine at the gym and 3x30-45min cardio outside. Could I use my netball training, spinning class, netball game and 25 minute run instead? I might email and ask just to get started. I think I'm right with the weight training part, I'll just ask questions at the gym, I might even book in to run through some exercises with a trainer just in case. I am going to go on Friday to start with the weights and then go on Monday next week. So my weeks at the moment will start on a Wednesday and finish on a Tuesday... Does that make sense???

Now for the nutrition... I think I can do this part easy. My BF is pretty keen to do the food side with me so that should make it easier. I will just give him more which is the case at the moment anyway. I'm lucky that he used to eat generally as per the meal plan when he was younger so he will be able to 'help' a lot. I'm glad a saw the flavoured rice cakes on the list as I love these. Has anyone tried the sour cream and chives with avocado???? Very yum.... Oh I'm so excited.

Last night was my first spinning class. Doesn't it burn??? I loved it! We rode up hill, had sprint races and sweated big time :) My bum feels bruised from the seat but that should lessen the more I do it. I'll definitely be back next Tuesday for more.

Thanks for your lovely comments Hilary and Selina, I'm sure I will get result and achieve the body I've always wanted. 12 weeks.... I could nearly be finished by next school holidays, that would be something. Writing here and reading others stories are so uplifting and motivational I really feel like I can do it.

Tata for now
Kelly
xxx

Winning by 59 goals feels so good...

2006-07-02T10:15:00.000+10:00

Bring back the 24 degrees at Noosa please!!!

Score: Tallangatta Valley 21 lost to Mitta United 80.
I played netball yesterday and I am a bit sore to be truthful. On Thursday night we did a little bit of body attack at netball training, I was getting a little sore in the calves and shoulders before the game yesterday. So I could feel the the soreness coming over me after about 1/2 hour of cooling down. My calves, my hips, my ribs, shoulders, back... all sore.

I suppose I've had two weeks off from netball, limited training, add on always playing GS and playing a whole game in GA yesterday, on a slippery wet court in 12 degrees and drizzle... should I be surprised?????

Anywho today will be a spa at the gym, cooking some savory muffins for snacks this week, video on the couch, a little cleaning (reiterate 'little') a very lazy day... today is a dark, cold drizzly day on North East Victoria.

I've had my whinge!
Have a great weekend,
Kelly

trying to learn ;)

2006-06-30T17:26:00.000+10:00

I'm trying to learn how to put my photo up in the profile area. In the help section it says to post a photos first, so here goes see if this one helps.

2006-06-30T17:03:00.000+10:00

The Superman ride at Movieworld, that first 'big' rise and fall is 4G's (Like losing your stomach but 4 time worse!!!)

The photo below is my boyfriend Kane and I on floor 77 (observation deck) at the new Q1 tower, the tallest residential tower on the Gold Coast

I took the plunge today, I contacted Sue at Ideal Bodies Online and have purchased a program from her. Because she is preparing for a competition at the moment I will be given an interim program to start with, but my 12 week challenge start will be the middle of July. Very excited!!!

I'm home...

2006-06-29T20:33:00.000+10:00

Welcome home to Victoria is what the weather said yesterday as we flew into Avalon. From Brisbane to Victoria it was beautiful up in the air, I think I spent the whole flight with my head squashed up to the window! You can imagine what that looked like to those around me :) But as soon as we get close to Avalon it was like a thick blanket of fog layered across the land around us... yes there was a distinct line of fog. We flew through the fog (which turned out to be a cloud) and wulah... there was Melbourne... drab, drab, cold, dark and dreary!!!!

Last Tuesday we went to Movieworld up on the Gold Coast. I was so proud, I did all the rides... Since I'm scared of heights my hands shook after every ride. Don't do the Superman rollercoaster first, this is a warning to anyone... try the lamer ones first. You feel like you're about to fly off into the sky so many times.

I met up with my mum and step dad and younger brothers for the night and had dinner at a beautiful restaurant in Southbank. Home again to Wodonga and into netball training again tonight. I think as a team we are going to start spinning classes on a Tuesday next week, one of our team members is a fitness instructor at a gym. That should be good.

It's cold up here!

2006-06-22T19:12:00.000+10:00

Hello everyone...

Well I am on holidays yay :) I have been looking forward to coming to Brisbane for 6 months having not previously been to QLD before, well it is cold. I'm in my PJ's at the moment after spending the day at Surfer's Paradise. I was shocked at how commercial it was, almost felt like Melbourne walking around the shops there. We had fresh fish and chips at Pete's Shack and went to the top of the Q1 tower for a look. We were lucky enough to see three whales blowing water down below us. I got some good photos of them and some good ones of the main beach and my BF and I, but I'll have to wait till I get home to post them.

I have been pretty good with exercise over the last two days, our hosts are very active and so I went for a 1h20m walk yesterday around the Jindalee hills and Brisbane river boardwalk and today went to Curves for 1/2 hour and a 1/2 hour walk home. My back is still pretty sore from netball and the bruising from the massage is still coming out, but hill walking.......... I'm not used to that and I'm definitely feeling it in my calves and my butt!!!!

Off to have my hair done tomorrow and shopping in Brisbane. As well we are having tea at Southbank and then across to the Casino. Saturday we are watching our friend play AFL football, we'll fit in some shopping too and then chill. Sunday morning we are going to high tail up to Sunshine Coast to Noosa for the day and then back to Mooloolabar to stay somewhere flash on the main strip. Theme parks are the go on Tuesday and then back to good old Melbourne to meet my Mum for the night in an apartment before the drive up the Hume to freeeezing Wodonga. Night everyone :)

Holidays

2006-06-19T21:27:00.000+10:00

I am soooo glad it's the holidays!!! I slept in to 11.30 this morning and I must of needed it. But one of the bad things is that all your time disappears when you sleep in so late. It's been a good day though. Cleaned after having amazing friends around last night, went to the movies to see the Da Vinci Code, which I thought was pretty good and then went to my friends house to get some myotherapy treatment on my lower back. I got slammed in netball on the weekend. I played one of those girls that really wasn't that good, so to make up for her short comings in talent department she attacks her player rather than the ball. Now I'm not the type of person who lets herself get pushed around on the court so I gave a little back and then she had the gawl to call 'me' a psycho!!! How rude!! Anywho to cut that story short I was a very sore little vegemite yesterday and so I've been massaged and ice massage to try to cut down the inflammation.

I'm off to Melbourne tomorrow for an interview about teaching in Japan next year, then onto Geelong to stay the night in Motel and flying to Brisbane at 8.05am out of Avalon airport. Can;t wait, get away from this cold weather in Wodonga. Doing lost of fun things... Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, markets and BF going charter fishing. Then back to stay in Melbourne Wednesday night and then back to Wodonga for netball in a fortnights time.

Only bad thing about going away is I'm going to miss my two beautiful cats.

Anyway I need to go and pick up Kane from his brothers house, they have been boxing for some fitness, I've never quite understood how they enjoy it myself.
Stay safe and take care.

Kelly
xxx