Flash Back Friday...

Well.. Wednesday night anyway... I have another post under this.. so scroll down once you have a laugh!

My bestest (that is a word!!!) friend Monica... I have spoken about her before.. but we have been friends since birth!! This was taken at her 21st!! She is nearly 30 as well! She is the total opposite of me.. but it works!!! We have never argued!!
Yes.. this is my Hen's night... I re framed from posting a photo of the stripper, but if demand is there I will post a photo!!! ;-) I am handcuffed to a wheel chair in fuckin' under ware! Beautiful... really beautiful... that is my sister pushing me around! I think the chair came from the hospital?? Not sure (mum is a nurse) My sister looks so young ! Is was just 18!
OK.. STOP FUCKING LAUGHING!! I did the mullet and it didn't work!! Ok.. and I guess crimped hair didn't really work either?? And what is with that fuckin' bow! My god.. what was my mother thinking! School photo from about 1986?? 85?? We went to primary school in the bronx (thanks to zoning...) but I guess the upside was we where the best dressed kids in the school and we had both parents still living under the one roof. I remember my sister coming home from school once asking my mum to get a "Step-dad" for her...
Taken and Jack's brothers wedding! Jack and I had just gotten engaged at this stage! One of the hottest day I can remember!! Followed very closely by our own wedding.. (those photos aren't far away!!0
4wd trip at the south east of South Australia.. my car that I loved! Just realised I have missed an album... the reason we bought the new car.. the photos of my old car on it's roof! I was about 70kg here... I had to sell that car because I couldn't fit three kids across the back seat with the twin pram that I had!
Photo of me at Naracoorte about 99?? We won the a grade netball premiership. We weren't that great but we had a great shooter..(OK... fringes don't work either)
This is Jack's parents house (Bless their hearts.. don't know how they live up there..) that little head bobbing in the water is Jack.. just coming off ski's... (1997??) that is where we are heading tomorrow night (after jack's finishes work).

On fire....

That is how I feel... Example.. not even seven thirty in the morning, but the house is clean, washing line full and things are falling into place for yet another great day!

A day of organising and baking. We are heading away on holidays tomorrow, so need to pack etc.!

We have a hay cutter coming to our block this morning to have a look at our wheat! Sadly, i think it is coming down for hay and not be harvested! Pity.. the crop looks fantastic! But Jack doesn't think the season will be able to finish it off! Hard call to make, but I guess that ball is in jack's court (He is an agronomist) I think the crop will come down while we are away, so we don't have to watch it!!

So.. a week away... I might be able to post at Paringa when we get back to jack's folks house, but they have dial up and I have no patience...

BUSY.. weekend! The Wimmera Grand final was on here in Warracknabeal on Saturday. jack was on the gate all day for APEX and I took photos all day for the paper! Sunday.. more photos.. vote count and Monday was spent in Horsham.

I went to the new YMCA gym in Horsham and was almost in heaven! Very cool and a heap of fun! Bit sore yesterday, using different machines .

So... today will be spent baking a orange cake, chocolate cake and the WW sticky date pudding (3 pts a serve).. popping them into the freezer to keep them fresh until we arrive in Morgan on Friday!

Hugh.. looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, but he was just washing his hands because he had ripped out Kindergarten vegie patch... yeah cute... really cute!! He has my grandmother totally bluffed. When she was here last week, he was kissing her and cuddling her, she was lapping up the attention, but the entire time he is doing this, he has one eye on my Mum, looking for a reaction from Mum.. little shit.

My beautiful girls... this is at the football on Saturday. So many people ask me if I have hundreds of photos of my kids and I do.. but I LOVE this one! In both this photos my kids are dressed from TOFI... (new season stuff in and they sell ESPRIT online now as well...)

Have a great little weight loss victory story to share. Before Christmas I went shopping with a friend for some pants and a top. My dear friend has to most gentle of souls and would do ANYTHING for you! Anyway.. shopping brought size 24 clothes for her. Last week we went shopping and brought her size 12!!!!! She went to a wedding in March after Christmas and she was so shocked with the photos, she did something about it! She was 104.9kg and now weighs 67kg. She hasn't used any program, but watched what she ate and very very determined! She look fantastic!!!! She gets it.. she will never get back to that size! But.. living in a small town she has been getting some nasty comments.. "I heard that your husband was looking to stray.. great that would lost some weight so he won't".."Yeah you where fat before".. "I heard that you weren't eating anymore.. are you sick?" Some might have been said in jest, but all hurt. I have said this before, that people never comment on your weight before you lose the weight.. why do they think it is up for open conversation once you have? A simple "You look fantastic!" is a compliment and acknowledgement of efforts without it also being a slap in the face at the same time! Yesterday, I dropped off a clothing store voucher for her. She will have to replace her entire warerobe. She still has a little more to lose, but she has two pairs of pants and three tops that fit! I am very proud of her!!!

WEEK ONE REPORT

Food: Definitely great and feeling great for it! I ate a lot more wholegrain foods and cutting out those nibbles at the end of the day made me feel very strong! (Strong with willpower that is!) I look more food was eaten and I drank more water!

Exercise: Great... pushed myself that little harder and feeling the benefits!

Choices: I was impressed with my own choices at Football! I ate a steak sandwich for lunch and ate apples for morning and afternoon tea!

This week will present some challenges, but none that I can't handle. I will not be able to get to Gym, but will have plenty of opportunity for extra exercise. I also will have to deal with not cooking meals, but that shouldn't be too hard either. My biggest hurdle for the weekend will be GRAND FINAL DAY!!!! YEEEAHHHH GOOOOO CATS!!!! there will be a lot of chips and beer to be drunk and I do intend on enjoying the day! I have my five year old converted. She was leaning towards collingwood..but has swapped team! My main hurdle with the game on Saturday is spending the weekend with 4 other families.. all from SOUTH AUSTRALIA and my husband is also from SA... so this situation COULD be dangerous!

So.. If you don't hear from me for a week, perhaps you might want to send a serach party to Morgan.. I might be hung up by my ankles from a tree, by my geelong scarf!

Stop, look, listen & think!!!

My lesson for you all for the day...

It all started off well... i had to drop into Kinder this morning with the other two kids quickly to drop off some CD's for another mother and our kinder teacher... When i arrived the bloke from the "Tingle Toodle" (road safety education program with Vic Roads) was there and our director was looking for a 'helper' for Tingle Toodle...

sure I say.. no probs...

Next thing you know I am dressed from head to toe is this huge costume, trying not to laugh (cos Tingle Toodle doesn't talk.. just uses hand signs).. sweat was pouring off me after 15 minutes of high-fiveing, cuddling and helping them "stop, look, listen and think..."

Friggin' funny! there are photos... will have to get off kinder camera to share! Here is the photo of my grandparents (Dick.. my Dad's dad and Old Nannie my Mum's mum) with Emilie. It was great for Dick and Nanna to catch up as well. Nanna lives in Ballarat now, dick is still in Hopetoun (just turned 90).



The girls (my fairies) and me!

Choices

food: made a beautiful pot of soup for lunch for Nanna and Mum... tea could have quite easily been take-away.. but made pasta instead!!

Exercises: No planned exercise. but still a very active day!

choices: I choose to leave the left over cake at Kindergarten yesterday (from afternoon tea) there, so not tempted to eat it!

Choices...

I have received this email previously.. but means more at the moment!

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"

He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... You can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood." each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the>positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.

"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."

I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw him about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins..Wanna see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

He continued, "..the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John. She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'.

Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.' "He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Great little feel good email....

Yesterday was great!

FOOD: Great! Doing well... nice clean eating!

Exercise: I had a fantastic workout at the gym (little sore today - DOMS) and walked the streets to fill in time!

Choices: I did NOT to eat the chocolate that a mother brought to our playgroup meeting last night! Others mindlessly nibbled away at the maltesters and PODS... I just sipped my green tea!

Had Grandparents day a kinder today... Will post photos tomorrow. I got a little teary. My grandmother is getting old and walking with a walking stick.. made me sad, but I was so happy she was able to get down to see us again!

Anyway... gotta stir tea!

200th post!

WOW!!! that is cool.. dashboard just told me that I clicked up 200 posts!!! Cool.. who said I wouldn't last hey!!

Anyway...
Organising our holiday for next week... we are heading to Morgan in SA on the Murray river for a little holiday with friends of ours from SA... Terrific group of people (five families staying in two houses - 13 kids in total from 13 years to 4 months...) and been on the telephone organising food, keys pick up, TV's for the house to watch the AFL grand final etc.. getting very excited!

One friend, N, just lost her mother (like in the last two weeks..) so she is really looking forward to a break. She was saying for surreal the whole situation was after her mother passed. I am sure a few of you could relate to this. But she said she walked out of the hospital and there are still cars driving around, people walking past her... the world continues! She had to get fuel after leaving the hospital, and crying at the petrol station, she just couldn't believe the feeling of 'life going on'... thinking one of the biggest life moments has just happened, in losing her mother, and the world just didn't stop!

I was telling her about my old WW leader who lost her son last year (9 years old) and how she went and brought a huge block of chocolate while they removed his organs (for donation).. lining up in myers with her huge 'comfort' food... while people just continued to shop around her, oblivious to her personal situation... that her son would be gone by the time she got back to hospital.. surreal.. totally surreal..

Anyway... kicking some serious arse at the moment! the only thing that I tasted that was a little naughty was a little bit of the batter from my Orange cake (well.. I should say Kate's (private) orange cake...) Pushing myself harder at Gym.. ticking all of my little boxes!

Day 2
Food: Great (one lick of Orange cake batter the only sweet/fatty thing)
Exercise: got up at 6.15am and walked without my MP3 player , was flat, in the fuckin frost!
Choices: Organised my house so I could study without a nagging thought of the housework!

Picture of health....

that is what my Doctor told me yesterday....

That I am a total picture of health... blood sugar perfect, kidney and liver function perfect, hormones levels perfect, blood sugar perfect, iron levels perfect and my cholesterol was 3.1!!! Also.. I just need to watch my lumpy neck to see if they grow... Dr said that they don't seem like 'bad' lumps, but just need to watch them! I was very excited!!!

My Doctor then went on to ask about what sort of foods I ate and my exercise... "very good Kirsty.."

Even my blood is telling me that I am healthy!!!

So.. the weekend was VERY busy... I took photos all day Saturday for the hockey grand finals (both Warrack men & women won btw) and my in-laws where here on Saturday night. Went out for tea both Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday was spent trying to get some washing done, but it was wet (I am not complaining in the least). Yesterday, i left home at 8.20am and got home at 5.20pm! Busy day in town.

But...

With the modules that I am doing with Fitnation, has me so inspired, pumped or as Hayley (private) says I.AM.IN.THE.ZONE!!

Sometimes, when your head is in the right space, it just seems easier. I was a little stressed about my little lumps and once I knew that it was all ok.. head jumped back into five gear and the viewfinder became clearer again!

So... I have started the 12 week challenge. Took my measurements and photos last night and set some goals.

My goals are to have improved fitness levels (measurable)

Tighter and firmer body and lose the extra 2kg that I have been carrying over winter (another 1 or 2 would also be nice:)

How will I do this??

• I will NOT eat after 7.30pm at night.(that is my danger time.. tired and tend to eat while not hungry)
• Drink 1.5 litres of water a day
• Make healthy food choices
• Weight bearing exercise twice a week
• Cardio 3 times a week

I have made these rules not negotiable! I can bend them, I can't twist them to make them work for me.. they are my rules.. really.. rules for my life!

I know I will have some reader tut tut me for starting a challenge (because they don't believe in them etc...) but I know that my body could be firmer and tighter.. and I am going to do it!

Started 17th September and ends on the 10th December - I will measure each month and weight each week. Took photos at the start and will again take them at the end.

At the end of each post, i will (for my own use) journal the previous day (s) activities, food, choices etc..

Day one.. (84 days...)

Food - Spot on.. even ate my fruit for the day

Water - Yep

Activity - Gym (both weights and Cardio) 1 hour kids sport in the afternoon

Choices - I choose to have chicken and sweetcorn soup for lunch... delicious and wholesome!

Flash back Friday..

I should be cleaning my house for our weekend of vistors.. but it is flash back friday! These photo where taken from Dec 1996 to August 1997!! Jack and I moved to the Riverland in South Australia - and the day Princess Diana died I was on a paddle steamer "Industry" have a cruise up the murray before I started work the next day!

We lived in jack's parents house the brought to retire into at Paringa... right on the murray! they moved in just before Jack moved down south to Naracoorte and I stayed on with them for another 6 months until my transfer came through...

I am sitting in Jack 'tree house' from when he was a kid. Jack grew up at Bray - about 10 minutes out of Robe in SA... (Jan 97)

Feb 97 - on our wya to one of Jack's friends wedding at Murtoa.. check out the ute! It was hot!! Jack loved it! The dress that I am wearing, Jack brought for me.. still have it AND it is too big!!
April 96 - Theresa's (Jack's little sisters) 21st - 70's theme.. jack was going for the 70's porn star look! I wrote a car off about 2 weeks prior to this... very sore hips !
Sep 96 - First time I met Jack's best mates.. at another wedding... I think I got a good report (but that wouldn't be hard... they are nice blokes and his old girlfriend is a bitch!) got sooo pissed that night! We are all going away together at the end of the month! Thousands of km's between everyone.. but they are truely great mates!
See.. Jack still married me before I learnt to cook.. that is the bread in front of jack.. bless his heart

Rain... where are you?????????????????????????

It is so overcast and grey outside... praying the rain does follow. I haven't said much, but the season for farmers will again soon turn pear shape if we don't get some rain soon! Looks promising today, but we have had so many days like this and the rain just doesn't fall!!!

I had a day of tests yesterday.. I had to fast overnight till 9.30 for blood test (iron, thyroid levels, HDL, LDL, Blood sugar, Kidney function, ,liver function) THEN i only had 30 minutes to eat before another 6 hour fast for an ultra sound in the afternoon. (Abdomen, pelvic and neck)

All that because I have lumps in my lymph glands in my neck!! My mothers family has a history of polycyclic disease, so I think my Dr was being very through. (my grandfather had a kidney transplant in the early 80's due to polycyclic disease)

But.. i felt REAL hunger yesterday!!! I have never skipped breakfast.. just don't function well without it! Or maybe it was the coffee that I was missing! I have swapped to drinking the new Necafe NUVO coffee, which is half caf.. taste the same as the other coffee we drink, but I really missed it yesterday! Once I had the blood tests, i went to our little cafe and had poached eggs on toast and before gym I ate a hand full of nuts. That was 10.30... I hunger pains really kicked in at about 4pm.. ultrasound was booked in for 4.30, but didn't get out till 5.30pm!! I was starving. Picked up the kids from a friends and grabbed a sandwich from her kitchen to stop me from pulling into the roadhouse for 3 fried dim sins (and yes.. i was so hungry I would so have eaten roadhouse food.. i was THAT hungry)

I am a real five meals a day person (two of those meals are snacks...) I have started the day today with baked beans on cape seed toast to get back into my routine again..and already a couple of glasses of water!

I went to the gym yesterday, explained my injury (I got a piece of glass wedged into my heel while cleaning on Sunday... see cleaning IS bad for your health) and my PT changed my program a little for me so I could work out! Still a little sore, but on the mend!

House is ready for in-laws visit!!! i even de-webed the outside of the house! Toady will be washing and then I have another assessment to type up for fitnation.

We have a combined Apex dinner tomorrow night and little Laura is having a sleep over at her friends Sophie's house, so my mother is coming down to babysit the other two for us!

Have a great day!

Sara????

Do you think I should let EZIBUY know that I no longer need the SARA catalogue sent to me anymore???
Cos I will NEVER get back to that size again!!!

93kg?????

When I was fat, i avoided the scales.. a case of burying my head in the sand and if I don't know, i don't have to address the situation... great plan! If anyone asked my my weight (close friends and family..) I would state... "About 74kg..." that seemed like a nice weight for me!

Anyway... I had a Dr's appointment yesterday and our family Dr ( a lovely man) took my arm when i walked in and plonked me directly on the scales in his office. "Kirsty.. you are fading away.. hop on here for me..."

Then he starts clicking away on his computer and tells me that in Feb 05, he last weighed me I was 93 friggin' kilos... That was just prior to me having my tubes done. Farrkk...

I can remember weighing in at 86kg at some stage.. but man... that is only 7kg away from 100kg!

I have to go back tomorrow for blood tests.. I am having my Cholesterol tested as well.. little excited about that. I am expecting it to be a little high, as it is in all of my family, but it will give me a great bench mark for future years...

Will keep you posted on my results!

I am working on my "lifestyle philology" at the moment.. almost a novel, but there have been some great posts out there with different opinions, so I am finding it very rewarding for my own mind, documenting what I believe in.

For the first time in a LONG time my house is clean from top to bottom... bring on the in-laws!

i couldn't go to gym yesterday... pissed about it as well.. but on Sunday i was cleaning and broke a photo frame and got a little slither of glass suck in my heal.. fuck it hurt. still can't put weight on it. Hoping I can get there tomorrow!

till later..

Cleanup...

Nothing else would encourage a HUGE spring clean other then a visit from the in-laws!! Jack's dad visits quite often (he has a plane and flies down maybe four times a year...) but Mother-in-law only gets here a maybe twice a year... so spring cleaning has started! I have till next Friday to get the house spick and span!

Weighed in at WW yesterday morning and I lost half a kilo from last weigh in.. so :)...

Choices...
I chose NOT to eat any of the kids fries at McDonald's yesterday (that required REAL willpower)
I chose not to drink last night when everyone else was (that took no willpower at all..)
I chose not to eat Boston bun when everyone else was...
I chose to take fruit with me while taking photos yesterday, just so I wasn't starving when I got home and demolished the fridge.
I chose to again aqua jog while the kids where having their swimming lesson. So what if my hair got wet..

Flash back Friday....

Thanks beck for the idea...!!! Here is my little flash back to 1993-1995!! I am a great photo taker.. there isn't much in my life that has been missed by a photo! But... when you take the photos, you are hardly in any of them!!! So it was a little hard to find many photos of me!

Mar 1993 - year 11 at School! can you see what I am holding in my hand??? A case.. a trumpet case... (and no.. I never went to band camp!)

the Deck - again 1993.. I was only having the discussion about where you sat at school with a friend that went to school in Melbourne. At our school, the Deck was as good as you could get in somewhere to sit. Usually the year twelve kids sat there and no one even tried to sit on someone Else's 'spot'... unwritten rules of high school. My friend said the same happened at her school. The year 12's must have been away the day this photo was taken as we wouldn't day sit there if they where around! (I am guessing that I was about 70 KG in this photo.. i still have my uniform and it is too big!)
My friend S and I BEFORE we got our first Tattoo's.. just 18. Don't ya love those fuckin' tencel jeans (can you remember them...) and those ray bans... I thought I was cool!
My sister Sally and I at an air show, Sally is 4 years younger then me... she was always the thin one! Now.. we are about the same! (she just has bigger boobs!) nice frogskin OAKLEY's Sal...
About the one and only time I have worked in a shearing shed.. other then smoko and lunch that is! Fuck knows where in hell I got the flannie from???

So there is a little inside into my past years.. more next friday!!!

Cellulite.....

Ok... picture this....

Yummy Mummy decides to FINALLY cleanout her bathroom cupboards.. apart from the 198 hairties and about 1000 bobby pins, she locates a tube of 'magic cream' she forgot she brought several years earlier.

You see... a few months after darling little son was born, YM was finding is hard to squeeze into her size 16 jeans. , as her legs where getting a little large. Yummy Mummies legs where getting very dimpled, due to excess fat, cellulite (Otherwise known as Orange peel syndrome, cottage cheese skin, the mattress phenomenon, and hail damage) YM honestly believed that it was just a layer of "baby fat' from being pregnant that needed to go, just to make her jeans fit better... (YM was in denial at this stage about her weight!!! - she didn't think that she was fat.. just breastfeeding.. umm three kids in 2 and a half years... umm.. big boned.. denial.. total denial..)

On a shopping trip to Horsham one day, YM found the answer she was looking for! A body sculpting cream.. that would help remove cellulite! Perfect! Yummy Mummy thought that would solve all of her problems and her jeans would fit!

YM lavished her legs, arms and belly with the wonder cream.. everyday for a week... They jeans still rolled off her belly and her tops still burst at the front! YM threw the cream in the back of the cupboard... "bloody waste of money...."

Now... two years later Yummy Mummy 'discovers' the open tube in the bathroom cupboard...

She laughs... at what SHE thought the cream would do for her bumpy, cellulite covered thighs!

Then she thinks to herself... cellulite.. where in the fuck has it gone?? She strips her jeans off and starts to examine her once pitted thighs for cellulite!! In the end, she starts to pinch the skin together... hellloo there old friend.. you are there, just hiding!

Some of you must be thinking that Yummy Mummy has FINALLY lost her mind. Why in fucks sake would she think that a cream would help her jeans fit better??? She is a real natural blonde?? Cos' two years ago she didn't have a clue! But... she is sure others have tried some of these quick fixes without knowledge that it is actual FAT that needs to be lost to help.

As the tube of wonder cream has hit the garbage, YM again ponders the journey she has travelled since then...

Random things.... about me...

• I have an amazing memory of the 'little' things from my life. Example.. i can remember being sent into the bank to make loan repayments for my parents house with a pay in book.. I can even remember how much it was a month ($56..) I would have been 9 when they had totally owned the house... I remember many many little things.. like what I was wearing on my 8th birthday
• My parents split up when I was just pregnant with Emilie... totally shocked for a day, then realised it should have happened many years prior.
• My parents are now both happy...
• I have had a friend since I was a baby.. she was born 11 months after me and she lived 5 houses from mine. We have never argued and still to this day i believe I could tell her anything and she would still be a friend forever...
• I used to eye off Jack when he was going out with someone else. He would buy his lunch from an cafe across the road from my office.. I would just happen to time my lunch at the same time... I used to eye off his HUGE Biceps!!!
• About 5 people last weekend at Jack's school reunion asked jack if he worked out!!! (he doesn't.. just has a great build naturally..)
• I lived with my in-laws for 6 months before we got married. Jack was transferred to the south east of SA and it took me 6 months to get a transfer with my work... I loved living with them and cried when I had to leave!
• I think that I am very close to my siblings. We speak each week.
• I used to live with a lovely lady when i first started working and another friend would stay there on Saturday night so we could go to the pubs. We would often get home at 4 - 5 am, then her parents would collect her at 8.30am to take her to AOG church..
• We moved in together not long after that and she left the church...
• I still have one grandparent from each side of my family alive..
• Some of my best childhood memories are with my grandparents on holidays.
• My family where big on holidays when we where kids...
• I always wanted to be a nurse but I feel ill at the sight of blood.. still do. I had to re-think my career path.
• I don't think i could go back to my old profession now. I used to evicted families from houses.. once I put a family with 4 kids on the street. Sure.. they didn't pay their rent and had repeated chances. Heart strings get tighter once you have kids.
• I once uncovered a huge crop of drugs in the riverland. The tenants had a huge water consumption on a out of town property. I went out to look for a water leak and found a huge dope crop. Made front page of the paper. scared the crap out of me.
• I evicted them as well....
• I once rolled my car... five times with no seat belt on... only scar is on my shoulder.
• I was in be childhood bested friends wedding 8 days after the crash. Her mother had to alter my dress to cover the big scabs.
• I named my sister... she was un-named for 2 days after she was born. On the family farm we had a cow called Sally...
• Sally doesn't like her name....
• My brother and sister think that I have only been funny twice in my life, but I try all the time. One time when they through that I was funny was on my birthday one year I rang everyone at 6.30 in the morning, asking why they hadn't rang for my birthday.
• I can't tell you the other one.... very naughty
• But I try... example. My sister is VERY protective of her good recipes. Over the top protective. I once rang the aunt of her ex-boyfriend to her a great salad recipe and i also spent over two hours going through her cook books for her lemon tart recipe. She cut up bad when she found out that I sourced them out. Emilie's kindergarten is producing a recipe book this year as a fundraiser and I have put in "emilie's aunt Sally's Spiniach, pinenut and noodle salad" and Emilie's Aunt Sally's lemon tart".. she doesn't know, but she will LOVE her christmas present from Emilie.. her recipes published!
• I only learnt to cook in the last two years.. now I love it!
• My aunt once told me I had "Thunder thighs".. i was about 10... I thought it was a compliment.
• I love giving birth... If i could tag team and pregnant lady at first contraction, deliver the baby for them I would.. love it!
• I have written off two cars.. both Bubble back lasers...
• I kept all of my baby teeth.. I was saving them to cash in all at once..
• Then I discovered the tooth fairy isn't real.
• I still have them...
• I better go to bed... another big day tomorrow..