Wednesday Wants

Bay Wine Charms

Mornington Sea Glass

Crochet Basket

Plushka

Boticelli Dress

Ampersander

Milky Twilight Hair pins

Citrus Pop

What do you want?

What I could not live without!

Blog this Challenge 61

Messy, complicated, full, busy, fun, enjoyable, blessed, colourful… they're all words we can use to describe our lives at different times.

Share one thing that has made your life easier, and that you wish you knew about long before you first got your hands on it!

Challenge Starts: Friday, 5th November
Challenge Ends: Wednesday 10th November 8pm Sydney Time
Voting Starts: Friday 12th November
Voting Ends: Thursday 18th November 8pm Sydney Time
Winner Announced: Sunday 21st November

I could not live without my iPhone. I use it all the time; I email, search the internet, use a variety of applications and I even teach with it!

We live in a world of here and now. I teach students of Generation Y, so I need the here and now to teach them. I use google, wiki, I photograph and scan their assessment with my phone. 

I use it in my personal life too, I Skype, Facebook, twitter, I chat to my Weight Watchers Group, I read books, I have a shopping list, I shop using my phone with Ebay,  I have reminders, post it notes,  I even blog from my iPhone!

One of my favourite apps at the moment is Angry Birds. This app is awesome! 

The aim of this strategy game is to fling the Angry Birds into pigs who stole the birds eggs.
The Angry Birds app features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and lots of replay value. Each of the 120 levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy. I am stuck on Level 2-6. It is bugging me something chronic.

Basically my iphone is my life and lifeline as at the moment with renovations it is my internet and my telephone. I store important contacts as well as photos of products I like from stores. You might remember back to earlier in the year when my iPhone fell out of my jeggins into a toilet. It is still going on aside from everyone else dropping and smashing their phones all around me. (Note- if you drop it in FRESH clean water you can get your phone to work again by putting it in a ziplock bag with rice for 3 days for all the water to be absorbed)

My iphone is my life!

Post-it-note Tuesday

 Today is Post-it Note Tuesday!

What's on your post-it's?

Renovations Week 7

This week we've had lots of work at our house!

The steel went in

The old garage roof went as well. You can really see the enormity of the 4 car garage!

The old garage - to be removed at a later date!

All tarpped up so the stuff still inside doesn't get ruined

Saturday the roof trusses went up over the garage. I got out of helping! I went bathroom shopping instead, YAY!

My partner on the roof to be!

My Brother in Law

My Father in Law

Sunday - My Dad and father in Law working on our new master bedroom roof

What a weekend of work!

Polly Dolly - Bump

Welcome to Polly Dolly Challenge - Week 31:  This week's topic is .  Go visit www.danimezza.com and check out some of the other bloggers links too.

I have not yet been pregnant but if I happen to become pregnant in the next 5 years this is what I would wear!

What is your Dolly wearing?

Fat to Fit - Simple changes

WHAT SIMPLE CHANGES CAN YOU MAKE TO BETTER YOUR LIFE?

• Add more fibre to your diet - Change your bread or cereal
• Snack on fruit of vegetables not processed food
• Slowly reduce your sugar intake
• Eat healthy oils
• Add extra vegetables into dishes like spaghetti, lasagne, pasta sauces you won't even notice after time 
• Avoid shopping on an empty stomach
• Park your car further away in the shopping center car park
• Invest in a pedometer
• Drink green tea instead of coffee
• Eat smaller meals 
• Up your water intake

WHAT I DID LAST WEEK:

• I rode 23.26km Cross Country Mountain Biking @ Daisy Hill on Sunday 31st October
• Monday - Friday I ate fruit instead of processed snacks
• Wednesday - Went for a 5km walk with my partner and dog

CHANGES I'M MAKING THIS WEEK:

• Do more exercise
• Eat more whole foods instead of processed foods
• Watch portion sizing
• Eating fruit and vegetables instead of processed snack foods 
• Doing a morning workout with My Workout on Lifestyle You channel or afternoon workout with Zuzana on www.bodyrock.tv

My Aim this week:

• Is to drink less and exercise more.
• I am limiting myself to 2 alcoholic drinks on 2 days a week. 
• Do more free weight training
• Start running
• Walk the dog
• Ride more

Pedometer readings for the week of 30th October - 4th November

Friday	9795 steps	5.97 km
Saturday	6262 steps	3.81 km
Sunday	15484 steps	9.44 km   1.0 Points
Monday	10823 steps	6.60 km
Tuesday	11326 steps	6.90 km   0.5 Points
Wednesday	17355 steps	10.58 km 1.5 Points
Thursday	11269 steps	6.87 km 0.5 Points

Measurements

Waist: 68cm (at smallest part)

Hips: 82cm (on hip bone)

Bust: 87.5cm

Arms: Right 26cm Left 26cm

Thighs: Right 50cm Left 51cm

Weight: 49.5 THURSDAY AM.  

What simple changes are you making?

Wednesday Wants

Wine Glass rings

 Jansartsmocks

 

Passion for love

 

Hand poured Creations

Dandelion Lampshade

The Owls are Hunting

Post-it-note Tuesday

 Today is Post-it Note Tuesday!

What's on your post-it's?

Blog This - Challenge 60 - Vegetables saved my life

Challenge 60 is to share with everyone one of those lessons that you had to learn the hard way, and that you therefore won't forget!

Challenge Starts: Friday, 29th October
Challenge Ends: Wednesday 3rd November 8 pm
Voting Starts: Friday 5th November
Voting Ends: Thursday 11th November 8pm Sydney Time
Winner Announced: Sunday 14th November

The Hardest Lesson I learnt!

I am 30 and the hardest lesson I have had to learn is how to eat vegetables.

You might think it is strange that I had to learn to eat vegetables but I did. I used to only eat: Peas, Potato, Carrots, Corn and Green Beans, nothing else! I had always been a small and fussy eater as a kid and teen. My diet consisted mainly of carbs and meat with very few vegetables. When I turned 28 it all changed, I had put on 20 plus kg. It was all because hadn't eaten a salad until I was 28. 

I began a diet by Tony Ferguson, which consisted mainly of vegetables and meal replacement shakes. I did this diet knowing to be successful I'd have to force myself out of my comfort zone and eat vegetables (those nasty and icky ones with no taste or looked horrible). For almost a year I was on this diet. I introduced zucchini, broccoli, broccolini, avocado, spinach, watercress, shallots, cauliflower, squash, snow peas, lettuce, tomato, celery, sweet potato, asparagus, olives, pumpkin and many more colourful and weird looking vegetables into my diet. 

Now I can't imagine going back. Not only have I introduced vegetables but many other foods I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. I now eat prawns, fish, scallops, oysters, sour cream, duck, sushi & shashimi. (I am sure there is more I have forgotten) 

I now love exercise; in my 20's the only exercise I did was walk around University or the shops. I would not have ever thought I'd regularly ride 20km on a Sunday morning, or run 5km and enjoy it. I do weights and cardio of a morning and follow it up with 5 - 10 km of walking around my workplace. 

I have changed my diet and lifestyle and lost around 25kg to become a healthier and happier person. I didn't want to die of bowel cancer or a heart attack like my grandparents.

Over the past two years:

• I have learnt to try new things
• I have learnt in order to become healthy and fit I've have to learn to like things I would never have thought I'd like in my lifetime
• I have learnt because a vegetable may look or sound gross it most probably won't be once you try it.
• I have learnt to love cooking with new and different ingredients
• by trying new things I broaden my taste-buds
• I have become easier to please with food choices (I now can go to a seafood restaurant and not worry about what I am going to eat)
• I have become less irritable
• I have become stronger
• I have become healthier
• I have become lighter
• I have become a better ME!

What lesson have you learnt?

Renovations Week 6