WOOSH is the sound that a week makes going by so fast. Sorry I haven't been here I guess really nothing too exciting has been happening and also I've just been soooo busy!!! Which is a good thing it keeps me out of the shops tee hee.
I will no doubt recall a few things that happened in the past week and a bit.
Day 54 - Happy Birthday to my Daughter - 13 hmm so must not remember DD13 not 12. Ahhh a teenager in the house - quick I'm moving out! LOL She was happy with her presents it wasn't much but I think $ it was enough! LOL
Day 55 - We took my hubby's boss to the airport as he is going to NZ for 3 weeks for work! I was glad we could help them out well someone needed to as they took so much luggage I think they needed to take food as well as enough 'electronic gear' for the time. We drove him in their car and then I followed in mine. Then took their car back home to lock it all up! Glad we could help! Certainly saving on carparking! On the same day DS9 had pancake day at school $1.50 for a pancake with all the toppings he said it was YUMMY! It's the simple things in life that keep him happy!
Day 56 - I got to pick up a few more of the freecycle things. A whole stack of books for DD13 (ah i remembered) some of the authors which were my hubby's fav so that's good she should enjoy those.
OH on the way home from Zumba Wed night I get petrol as you know and I only had the 8c off voucher for woolies. As I buy WISH gift cards to get 5% discount then I used that as I still had a lot of $ left. I also picked up the latest Women's Health Magazine and so with the extra spend in store it works out that the $8 magazine (I know its pretty pricey but worth the money) worked out to be only $1.50. I was really happy with that. Ok you don't end up saving on petrol that way but it's a nice little bonus!
Day 57 - nothing exciting happening here .... LOL
Day 58 - Had our first networking meeting for the company I am with today. We meet at Macca's I didn't buy a coffee so saved a few $ there but I also forgot to take my water and didn't want to pay $3 for 600ml bottle. Sigh....
Day 59 - Attended a birthday party for a good friend of ours at another friends house. It was lovely. We all paid $15 and got a yummy piece of steak with sides. Much better than going to a restaurant where we have trouble hearing one another. Great food, great company. We did BYO beer for hubby and I took water but they also offered soft drinks to those. DS9 was with us so he enjoyed the Red Creaming Soda cans that he drank - I think the host enjoyed giving them to him MORE LOL. DD13 was at my mums for her birthday sleep over so that saved me $15 as she can eat as much as me! LOL Although I hear that she got her fair $ spent on her as mum took her food shopping and she eye'd over a lot of stuff and being typical Grandparents gave in to her .... tee hee.
Day 60 - YUM Roast Dinner - who can ever say no to that! We get the best roast when we go to my mum and steps dads for dinner time. We like it because we go and collect our daughter and also get fed a good meal - sounds like a plan to me!!!
I'll leave it there and come back later!!! Hope your weeks aren't 'wooshing' before you!!! XOXO
Another day gone and I forgot to come back to post. Still stuffy with a head cold.
I did get up to go to the post office to collect a parcel - the ink cartridge I bought from ebay. I only paid $55 for it compared to the $90+ that everywhere else wants. I gather that this is because it's not labelled as an offical cartridge but still it works. I choose not to go official because I'm not too worried about breaking the warranty as these days the warranties on printers are worth the paper they are printed on.
That was it for Saturday.
As for Sunday pretty much the same excitment LOL. DD12 woke me up around 10.30am - I was enjoying the sleepin she was demanding that she gets her birthday gifts today to save some time tomorrow - tee hee. Good try kid. Your birthday is tomorrow so you can wait till then. She was less than impressed when I told her she also wasn't born till 11.05pm so perhaps that's a good time for presents???? Tee Hee.
So I rushed out to the shops today to grab the last present as I had been price watching for a long time on a DS 3D console. Game Traders had them for the best price of $199 which was good compared to any other store. I was able to use two westfield gift cards which I had prebought on facebook so saved me approximately another 5%.
We headed out to Charlies All You Can Eat tonight as we don't have time during the week to go and have dinner as I'm teaching Zumba. Just the 4 of us which was nice. It cost just under $60 but at least there are no dishes to be done. I drank water as a side so still haven't had any diet coke for 7 days. I'm pretty happy with that.
Still feeling pretty tired and worn out - blah...
Hope you had a great weekend XOXO
Friday was yesterday, sorry I missed a blog post but I really didn't have a lot to talk about.
I have a head cold and woke up quite sniffly and then had to be at the shopping ctr all day for wok. It was nice to meet people but having a stuffy head made it a long day. I did buy lunch again but only $4 I still haven't drunk any Coke Zero for 5 days now! Proud of myself for that! I did have nice chilled cold water with me thank goodness as it helped to be able to drink that all day.
Helped to pack up all the things yesterday and so I was given a lot of admin things that I will need which are free to me anyway but at least I have them now and don't have to wait another week for them to get shipped to me.
Kids went to the library as DD12 got some books in that she put on hold I'm sure she's going to read half the library by the time the year is out.
Had parent's night at youth group last night and that was good. Some nice yummy food for supper at parent chat time, it's a nice youth group which DD12 enjoys going there. I was in bed by 10.30pm once we got home as my head was so stuffy. I believe I only have this head cold as I'm choosing to eat well and be more healthy so my body is detoxing. Also on Thursday I did have a BIG serve of dairy which can make your sinuses really congested!
Had to get milk on the way home thank goodness the IGA is open as I forgot to go yesterday will all the rushing around to finish things, I told hubby do not buy any soft drink and he didn't but did bring in some icecream - that little bugger!
Well that's it from me this Saturday morning - sorry it was a day late but *sniffle, sniffle* you get that. I hope you had an amazing yesterday what ever you did. See you later tonight XOXO
Happy Valentines Day to those that celebrate it. We don't in this house. Hubby and I never met until 23rd Feb so we maintain that's more important and also it's just a hyped up Hallmark day.
Nothing too exciting happening here. Took Master 9 swimming this morning and part of his swimming vest is coming apart which is nearly brand new so I have to find the receipt to take it back to see if I can get a replacement due to it being 'faulty'.
Worked at the local shopping centre again and met some really lovely people from interstate which was great. Now I know someone in Tassie & Qld for avon who are in my team!
For dinner we went to IKEA as I had to cancel my Zumba class this evening as I had a few 'rsvp's early to say they aren't attending and also it was 36+ here in Adelaide today and the air con still isn't fixed grrr. I think my body needed the rest anyway. After standing and talking to people for 2 - 3 hours a day you can get quite worn out! It cost $37 for the 4 of us to have dinner and a little desert each (although I skipped that bit and just had a taste of other's) I also took my own water even though everyone else shared a soft drink.
We walked through the bottom 'market place' as usual to 'get out' but didn't buy anything. IKEA usually sends us a voucher to get a discount on a spend and I didn't have any ink to print that out so I will have to wait for another time to see if I can use another as it's a bit out of my way just to go for one or two things.
Put the air con on tonight as it's quite warm in the house. Double brick is great for the first day keeps the house cool but it retains the heat and so even when it's cool outside it's not inside.
Hope you had a romantic day if you celebrate Valentines Day! XOXO
Today I worked at our local shopping ctr again for the direct selling company and the promo girls were walking around westfield taking pictures of people inside a love frame so I agreeded to have a pic with a work college but I made it funny so it didn't look too 'weird' having a picture wth a man that isn't my husband LOL. I got a free Rose from it so that was nice - we like FREE.
Zumba is all wrapped up the week as I am not teaching tomorrow night with a hall that has no working air con and also at least 3 people are away. So it's not worth hiring the hall. It's also going to be 36 degree's so I am going to implent my hot weather policy.
Bought lunch again today but as we are standing near a sushi stand you stare at it all day so I thought why not - mostly it was nice but I was left hungry again this afternoon. I really need to eat more at lunch time I think or eat small and allow a larger snack in the afternoon.
Down to Zumba tonight with my mum and I gave the last of my ladies my little treat they all loved it. I'm loving their energy! Home and I get a hot shower and dinner at my mums before I have to head home - oh I love it!
On the way home needed petrol - because it's wednesday LOL - well also it's down to 1/4 of a tank and I don't want to get caught out, and saved nearly $8 filling up which is good because petrol is back to 149.9 - gee wizz!!! Milk is cheaper than that - I wonder if a car can run on milk??? LOL
Hope you had a great Wednesday XOXO
I don't think I've stopped yawning all day. Day 2 of no diet coke/coke zero. I did have a coffee at home this morning to attempt to wake me up a bit! LOL
Worked at the local shopping ctr today for direct selling and took my own water and morning tea so saved some money there! I did buy lunch but only paid $4 as I was quite busy in the afternoon and knew I wouldn't really have 'time' - which is an excuse I know I should be more organised.
This arvo we were busy picking up both children from school, I had to pack the car for the afternoon / evening ahead. Picking up DD12's Clarient and Music Bag for practice at grandma's and literally walking out the second she finished so I could drive home in time to get to teaching Zumba.
I made my ladies the cutest little gifts for 'Valentine's Week' a little chocolate heart with a card that said I love you all! Tee Hee. I am always doing little cute things like that.
That's it from me, nothing too exciting hope you all had a great day XOXO
A full on Mad Monday today!!! I taught a Zumba class first thing this morning and then came home to grab a banana (yeah bit effort there) LOL so I could go for a run to do a base line of 1km. The funny thing is that my phone was in 'miles' and so after 3 laps I'm thinking no this isn't right.... LOL. So I nearly ran 'a mile' today LOL. 1.4kms in total it was.
Then home to change and get organised as I was helping with the direct selling company's stand at our local shopping centre. I opened the cupboard and realised ahhh should have done this on the weekend as I don't really have anything corporate to wear Hmmm might need to go shopping... As that took me so long to get organised I didn't get lunch ready in time and so bought subway as it was the fastest and quickest thing I could think of to grab. I got NO diet coke or cookies I was so proud.
I have however drank 2.5ltrs of water today and visited the loo just as often LOL. Good thing they don't charge you to go ... I'd be living at home! LOL Although there's a way to save some money! I honestly do know someone who use to do this. They had a little wooden basket ontop of their toilet system and it was filled with 5 & 10c pieces the odd 20c and $1 coin. I use to be facinated with it as a kid LOL.
After school DS9 wanted to make a cake but refused to put the dishes away so hence - there was no cake made today.... LOL. We are busy tomorrow so there will be no cake then either Hmmm Wednesday ='s cake day??? Who knows LOL. Dishes could still be sitting there waiting .... LOL
Did an online training module tonight for Zumba all about your core. It was easy to understand as I've done a lot of anatomy at uni but it's just about learning how the body works etc. It was good, bit of a study for this old chook!
Hope you had a quieter Monday than me! XOXO
