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Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Hi De Ho Everyone

Oh I've been a slack slack blogger of late.
My excuse

BLOGSTIPATION!!!

My version of writers block, a complete lack of ability to blog.
i think I have had to much going on in this big old head of mine.

Catch up time.


You better pour yourself a cuppa whilst I ramble.....just jokes :-)

To get straight to it.
The dream house hasn't even begun at this stage. We have been filled with so much indecision as to whether we want to build or not. We have to owner build to save money but the time & effort it will take whilst working full time jobs & having a young family would certainly take its toll.
We opted to put it on the market for 3 months & if it sells then we buy an existing home & if it doesn't we shall build.
A big part of us still thinks we should build as there has been nothing listed on the market so far that fits the bill for us in our area & so far between the 2 of us we have probably looked at 10 or so homes.

The down side to all of this is that my husband works in the mining industry & whilst his job is supposedly secure you really can't trust that they are ever true to their word. He was working weekend roster where he did 3x 12hr night shifts but they have recently forced him onto an 8 wk rotating roster. This leaves him with a lot less time to build a home.


The indecision really is sending us a little crazy, time is getting away & we have made no progress in life, it feels like another year has just about passed us by & we are no closer to being in our own home.
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!

Any advice or suggestions gladly taken or if you know of a lovely home in the Hunter Valley NSW for sale let me know. It needs to be 4 bedroom & either have a shed & pool or room on the block for us to build a shed & pool. We don't mind if we have to renovate or if its a new home that we can move in & enjoy.

On the upside I have joined a 12 week fitness challenge & i am eating ridiculously healthy & exercising most days & really feeling fantastic, my weight loss results are slow but steady .
 I should be a yummy mummy by summer!!!

thanks for listening to my whinge, now that I have confessed i will probably stop hiding from the blogging world & get back on track.
Hopefully this is the solution to my
Blogstipation!!!!

CHEERS
Trish xxx




Friday, May 21, 2010

Serious Addiction

Dear bloggers, Hi my name is Trish & I am a blog addict!!!!!

Ever since discovering blog land my self discipline has slowly eroded away....
I have replaced exercise with long hours of sitting, its only a matter of time before the results of that begin to show....

I have replaced housework with more long hours of sitting, only doing the absolutely necessary tasks....

I have replaced social interaction with a day of hanging out with my laptop. When your mum rings and says  "Where have you been? We haven't seen or heard from you lately & thought you had disappeared off the planet"
you know you have a problem, by the way, I DIDN'T tell them I had traded them for You, my blog friends....

I think i have probably even developed a blog face, you know that face you get when your getting really involved in something on television, we call that "having your TV head on" at our house. I'm pretty sure I have a blog head on.....

So here is my 5 step plan to break my addiction;


  1. TO DO LISTS- Each day I am going to write myself a list of things I NEED TO DO  & check it off. I hate to not complete a task especially when its in writing!!!

  2. 30 Min's of exercise 6 days a week is a must. I turn 40 next year & I want to be 40 & fabulous, NOT 40 & frumpy!!!!

  3. No turning on the laptop unless all basic chores are completed eg bed making, washing pegged out, dishes done, floors vacuumed & bathrooms tidied.

  4. No computer time between 5pm & 7pm so that I will cook a decent meal, I hate cooking & now I have resorted to making the quickest meal possible, this must change!!!

  5. I am going to ensure I visit 2- 3 real people in the real world every week, not just dozens of cyber friends
Wish me luck fellow addicts......

What can you do to discipline yourself & break your addiction?


 Tic Toc people its time to prioritize our time!!!!
P.s clocks are my other addiction

 Feel free to join me here. We can support each other. Let me know how your going conquering your addiction perhaps we can create a link or a blog party or something? I will be sure to give you an update next Friday.

Have a wonderful event filled weekend everyone
Cheers!!!

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