no photog genious but here's some photo's

I can't get these things in order so here's some photo's of the changes. You'll notice the door frames and doors have been painted through out the whole house. That was a pain. Not to mention all of the walls, they were originally in suede effect, a different colour in every room, on every wall which needed to be undercoated before being painted in new colour. We have painted the kitchen cupboards but are not yet finished with the kitchen. We have also tiled the floors in the kitchen, entry, laundry and bathrooms and toilet. And we have removed a wall between the lounge and the kitchen making it more open living. Friday I also got a new front loading washing machine, Daz and my dad went and got it. It may not have been what I would have picked but am happy to be able to wash my clothes again. We also recently got a new hot water system, the new Heat pump. Once I get a current invoice for the power I will let you know if the expense is worth it.

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Well, its coming to an end.

The waiting that is. DHS has made contact and next weekend they will be attending the newly improved 'Our House'. Our first assessment meeting will happen next Saturday. I'm of course nervous, always am when we have visitors, especially someone who could make or break our application.

I'm worried about the dogs and what they will think about them and about the snakes that are in the lounge at the moment.

The fact the Daz doesn't have a job at the moment isn't great either but good practice for us living on 1 wage.

Other than that, we really haven't done much, haven't gone anywhere exciting, done anything exciting, just work no play, makes me a dull chick :(

Once I have finally cleaned up I will post some photo's of our painted kitchen and our tiled floor and some odd other photo's maybe.

catch ya later

MISSING

JUST ME, SOMEWHERE IN THE PAINT FUMES

Just a bad blogger

I am such a bad blogger, I don't seem to find time to read blogs let alone update my own! I apologise in advance.

I have been still reading every ones blogs just not updating my own. Although I have been inspired by a few and have indulged into the gardening.

I have brought a few new plants and worked out why some of my drought tolerant plants have died ........ apparently for the first year they still need regular watering ????? Why call them drought tolerant then huh?

So some of the old were removed and so new plants planted, some water saving crystal kind of stuff added, removed some old tired looking pots and gave them a splash of colour. To my surprise the pots are already blooming :) (will provide some pic's later)

Then low and behold, the next door neighbour that I have been complaining about not leaving food for their animals when I have to feed them, which is about another 2 times since I last complained on my blog, have gone and given us their second hand Pioneer surround sound system and DVD player since they brought an new one! They apparently really love me taking such good care of their animals :) (should stop complaining about now)

Then we got another call from my niece to advise that the pavers I wanted were being delivered whilst I was at work. (her partner works at a paver manufacture). When I got home there were 2 pallets of 50x50 mm pavers on my natures strip. The kicker? FOR FREE! I counted them, 90 pavers!

And even better, Daz got a job. I don't think I mentioned before but Daz quit his job in January to do sub-contracting but then after about 5 weeks the work dried up along with the economy. So where he would put out 5 resumes and get 7 calls, he sent 10 resumes and all he heard were crickets in the background. So after a few trial and error's at a few work places, he has now won a full time job and starts Monday which will relieve some stress from the household.

Training and weight wise, well nothing has happened there, no surprises. I don't even have a battery in the scales. Daz has been a bit preoccupied with his weight over the past few weeks but nothing else.

Times getting away

I can't believe the last time I blogged was in January!

I guess the only reason I'm blogging today is because I am off work and going to take Dazza to the doctor's. Poor Dazza fell over on Friday and as the stoic male, didn't want to go to the doctor's but with the constant complaining and carry on I'm making him go today. It's swollen like a football and must be painful, especially when the drugs wear off. He stated that he heard it 'pop' on the day and can feel crunching as he tries to walk on it. Me thinks this is not quite right. I'm thinks x-ray or ultrasound is going to be needed.

Its funny but Dazza gave me a back handed compliment last night. His sister was over and was talking about getting a treadmill or one of those vibrating things. One of her friends has one and told her how she had lost like 3 kilos in a matter of days. I find this hard to believe but we are talking about someone who is well and truly about 130 kilos.

To the backhanded compliment, Dazza says 'you should ask Sue cause she knows lots about exercise, it just hasn't reached her butt!', hmm hello, Sue in the room (or is that an elephant in the room?)

So I guess that answers your questions, no I haven't been doing much. We have however pulled up the floor boards in the entry, dining room, kitchen and removed the old tiles from laundry, toilet, bathroom and en suite and started laying the new tiles. Now that's a bit of work that's for sure.

Well best be on the run, have to call the doctors and Dazza on the road to recovery.

I'm over it already

What's it been? A week since new year's............. I know I didn't make any resolution but come on, I have been treating myself better this week, better than before, omelette's for lunch, fruit cut up, good portion control for dinner but I seem to be getting bigger!

What's the deal? Maybe this 'being nice to one's self" isn't the right way to go.

I can hear you all now, keep it up Sue, you can do it, soon it will make a difference. Well soon isn't good enough, I want it now, just a little at least. I want it to reflect on the scales, even just a few hundred grams missing, please sir, can't I have some more............................

On another note, I have decided to not wait for the local council to employ me, I'm branching out, I'm going to apply at Centr*link. Surely if there are 40 positions up for grabs, I can get me one of those. The pay is good and you get a RDO a month. Its in a call centre again but the pay is say $6000 to 16000 better than the pay I have now per annum and I get a RDO, the hours of the centre are better than were I am and 15.4% super and I get an RDO. See how I am harping on the RDO, haven't had me one of those for such a long time, its fantastic that a call centre would even have them. Oh better still, paid adoption leave for 12 weeks. Bliss. I have submitted my application on Thursday, the app's close on Monday but I got a call on Friday morning for the phone interview, so just have to wait for the call to go to the assessment centre for 3 hours where a panel interview will be conducted. If I'm successful, I will commence on the 9th of Feb. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

So I'm just going to forget that I weighed myself tonight and continue in the denial mode that has worked for me that last few months.

As per my "non" New Years resolution, I am being kinder to myself and eating better. I have made a big batch of fruit salad and have been taking some to work for my snacking times, been eating better at lunch and even eating something for breakfast.

Still my bad time is after dinner watching TV or actually doing anything after dinner includes snacking on something. Tonight it was in front of the computer eating popcorn that I did not microwave but cooked on the stove in a pot (with oil) but that didn't really work that well so not eating it, that's at least a good thing.

I'm really bored and think that I will go to bed, God knows I could do with a early night. My shins are sore which is a pain in the ...... well shins, have only been walking so don't know why they are sore, it's not like I've done allot of said walking.