Back again...

Well I am back again - I've been reading posts but just not posting anything from my end.

This week and last weekend have just been crazy with packing and moving. How does one end up with soo much stuff? Seriously I feel soo good about myself as I have donated soo much "good" stuff to Anglicare and the Good Sammy's - my good deed for the year! But I hate clutter and I just looked at all this stuff that is virtually new that I never use or wear and thought "why hold on to it when there are lots of people that would need this stuff"....

Anyways so we got the keys to our new little pad on Tuesday and I had the day off to move and unpack stuff there. I was all happy about the place until I got home late that night to our home up here in the hills and realised just how big our beautiful house is compared to the Vic Park one and I had a bit of a cry...yes silly I know its just a house but I guess its my first house and I was feeling a bit sad. Plus all our gardens have been freshly done and mulched so they look hot and the weather is getting warmer and I just want to jump in our pool and have a swim, which won't be able to happen anymore as the new place doesn't have one - oh well, at least our spa is coming with us. I just keep thinking, we can stay in this place for 6 months and then if we like Vic Park I will start looking at buying our own place again but down there - I'm toying with the idea of buying an older house and doing it up as I notice there are some gorgeous looking houses down that way that are soo cute and very "melbourne-ish" when done up....will see.

As far as food and exercise goes - well exercise has been non existent. As soon as I finish work we head to the house take boxes to the new house and unpack and then head home about 10pm and then start the day all over. I'm not stressing about it, there's not much I can do and we will be in on Saturday (having a Grand Final BBQ and drinks at our place with friends) and Monday is a public holiday so I plan on starting fresh then with a walk around the river and doing JL a few times...so there's no point stressing myself even more with worrying about exercise. Food has been fine, too busy to over eat. Dinner have had to be take out stuff but I've managed to keep that healthy i.e. Nando's chicken and a bought salad with no dressing from Coles and then japanese and miso soup, no deep fried stuff and I'm actually feeling quite light in my stomach and good.

I've had a bit of a stressful day with other crap that is going today so I'm thinking I might have to have an alcoholic beverage tonight - but we'll see how I go.

So I guess my next post will be next Tuesday with all the goss on the new place and what I think of the new suburb - bring it on baby!!!

Mel.
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Quick Update...

Hi all,

Well just i have been quite absent lately...in the last week soo much has been happening. A few really bad things - which I'm not going into but a few major changes have been made in ole Melly's life.

Anyways just wanted to let you know that I am still hear and reading everyone's blogs.

My diet and exercise was total crap last week - it was just the last thing I could do or think of. But I am getting back into exercise this week and starting to eat and eat better....

One last bit of exciting news is we are actually moving. I am really excited but sad at the same time. We are selling our absolutely beautiful house up here in the hills and leasing a lovely house down in Vic Park, just a 10 min walk from the foreshore!!! Basically we are just going to invest our money until we decide if we like Vic Park etc....the house up here is too big to manage when Stu goes away all the time i.e. the gardens etc and I will know be travelling with him so it will make it doubley harder so we are moving to something with a smaller yard and also closer to the city and my friends and family and all the nightlife etc...so in that respect I am really excited. We get the keys next Tuesday and then will start moving small stuff next week then next Saturday (yes Grand Final day) will move the big stuff in the morning, then we will well and truly deserve a rest to watch the GF. But so at the moment I am madly trying to organise stuff to move. Once we are settled we will have a big garage sale to get rid of stuff we don't want and also the other stuff get put into storage and then the house will be put on the market.

So I think my exercise will be put on the back burner for a bit - still doing my Pt sessions and yoga but once we move down near the river, we will be walking our dogs daily and now I have my totally wonderful orthodics I will start running again - yah!

Ok, things are majorally hectic up here so I gotta mosey - big smiles :)

Mel.
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RIP

Not much I can say, being bought up with motor racing everywhere, Peter Brock was an icon and did soo much for Australian Motoring racing...I feel for his family and for his supporters - this is very sad, again an unbelievable tragedy - regardless of the risks involved in his profession, this is still a sad day...

It's been awhile...

Yes, I have been slack with blogging lately - not sure why, just really busy at work and haven't had the time to get really into a good blog, but I have been still checking up on everyone...seems like we are all busy at the moment!

Well let's see what have I been up to....last night went to the Eskimo Joe concert at Capitol in Perth. This is the second time I have seen them play live and they are just brilliant live, the vocals are just as good, if not better, than their cd - so always impressed. What I wasn't impressed with was the venue...could a worse venue be picked, I don't think so! Unless you were right up the front or against the front railing you could not see a think and it was packed like sardines - the upstairs was like a sauna, so that was actually very disappointing. Last time I saw them at Metros in Northbridge and usual that was an excellent venue, with viewing everywhere!!!

Anyways onto my health and fitness. I am loving my pilates, am doing it 3 times a week at the moment (except on 2 times this week due to sleeping in on Wednesday morning), I already feel my legs feel longer and leaner (hehe), you do soo much leg work, particularly the beloved "leg circles" that you really can feel it, I better have a great butt soon - ha! Also loving my PT sessions, he is really pushing me each time and I feel my fintess is starting to improve - yah!

So my gym membership expired on Tuesday and for the first time in like 10 years I am without a gym membership. I really thought that would stress me out but I'm really relaxed. I think in the end I just dreaded going to the same ole boring gym day in day out and I need this time now to do something different because now i love my pilates, I love my pt sessions and I have my orthodics now and am going to start jogging. First day was meant to be Thursday and today but for those in Perth, it is absolutely WINDY and freezing at the moment, so I will just wait til hopefully Sunday when the weather should (?) be better - but yeh, so I am really loving the idea of doing outdoor summer exercise and not "dragging" myself to the gym - I'm sure in 6 months or so I will be ready to go back but at this stage the new exercise regime is making me feel really good and helping my anxiety levels and happiness heaps - I don't seem to be pressuring myself as much....if that makes sense?

Now food wise - OMG, what have we done with Melissa!!! I am going great guns! I'm not saying that I am perfect at all but I have slowly been changing some habits and I am really proud of the way its all falling into place. I havne't been having carbs at night with my dinner, besides the minimal found in salad and veges, this is a huge thing for me because I was addicted to stir frys with rice or cashews and because its not portioned controlled I would majorally over eat - so I have finally kicked that habit and been having like a chicken breast and salad each night and I feel lighter afterwards and in the morning etc....as for alcohol well I have put myself on a minimum alcohol consumption type "dare" for the next 4 weeks - I'm actually one week down and went through a whole weekend (including a girls night in) with no alcohol. Last night I had one glass of wine the whole evening then water all night. I have found I am starting to really think about what I am having and only having it if I really love it, the wine was great last night and they didn't have the drinks I felt like having so instead of just continuing to drink I didn't - that is just amazing for me because I wouldn't have done that a couple weeks ago and I find that is the same with food now, I'm really thinking about if I really want it and if its going to be worth it...I hope that all makes sense but I am just really proud of my new thinking.

I haven't noticed any weight changes or anything like that but I have noticed my attitude and positiveness changing - I'm not as worried and stressing about my weight - I kinda just feel calm and "happy" and I am really trying to concentrate on that....so yeh, I'm happy with things at the moemnt - yipppeee!!!

Next weekend is one of my oldest friends 30th birthday and she is having a fancy dress "G" party - am going with Stu as Goths...so can't wait to don the black fishnets and heavy black makeup - speaking of make up, which I love, I used my new napolean eyeshadows in purples last night and did my eyes nice and black with the purples shadows and shimmer....I got lots of compliments - I just love playing with makeup these days...haha!

Ok, this one is dragging on a bit - so I better go - hope you all have a fantastic weekend and I will chat more next week....PS - my weekend is a family roast tomorrow night (no alcohol for me) and Sunday will be clearing out the spare room to paint and start putting together a home office for Stu to do motor racing stuff from, I got the new ikea catalogue and am in love with some of the office furniture so I can't wait to get that (go look next week) and of course new a new lap top...goodness there is always something!!!

Melly
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