Jill and Gerard's Seachange

Been a hotty today!

It seems such a long time since I have written, thought I'd let you look at some pics for a while. Today was another warm one, but I was in the Palace all day and had the air con so did not notice it, I even had to turn off the air con for a while cause it got too cool.

Well it is now nine o'clock at night, the sun has gone and is almost completely dark can still see black clouds catching up with the white ones, the breeze is lovely now and there is a cricket calling, there is a whitling sound down by the jetties where the wind is going through something and the odd ting ting where a metal bit on the strings for the sails is hitting the tall pole is it the mast? You can tell I don't know much about boating can't you.

A couple of Plovers have started screeching in the distance. The wind is dying down and there is the pit pat of rain as it is trying to escape the clouds! As I ouch a mozzie, lean back here in the chair with my feet up you can hear the wind coming from different directions, going away and then rolling up the car park again, now there is absolute silence except for the tapping of the keys with my nails, damn must cut them, now the wind is on the other side of the house. They have forecast rain, but it does not look promising.. Have not had a good downpour for some time now and it is getting so dry about the place.

I have not said much about the house lately. Well the outside painting is almost done now, such a change to twelve months ago.... So many compliments on the place which is so nice. It seems like it has been going on forever, well it has I suppose, ever since we moved here really. We decided to paint the pine outside at the verandah as the place did not look finished off, the pine was looking rather dry and now we like it with the paint on, makes the verandah look part of the house. Was a difficult decision like everything else here, but it is done now and so now we will have to paint it all the time! Oh well Gerard will have something to do in his spare time,,,,,

Pat the painter hopes to finish here by Friday, so we will see.....

We have Gerard's sister and hubby, Chris and Jim coming down on Sunday for the week, so won't have much time on the computer I suppose as it will be a bit rude, but I will try and get on as much as I can, I need to start posting pics of the house before and after.

Kate rang the other day as she has got a couple of days off work so she and Matt are coming down to make a long weekend on the Australia day holiday which is so wonderful. They will be staying here with us this time which is even better. We are all looking forward to it. I am glad they like to come down here. Will be able to go out paddling in our blow up boats!!

Kate has been so hard at it since Boxing day with work as she is the Deli manager for six weeks, she has decided she will not do it again as she only gets thirty dollars extra in her pay a week for all that hard work and responsibility, unfortunately being nineteen does not get her more pay whereas the manager who left was earning over two hundred dollars a day compared to Kate's one hundred. Not bad for a nineteen year old anyway. She is exhausted and looking forward to the break down here.

Well it is still trying to rain with not much success at the moment it is black as I gaze out the windows, oh no I tell a lie there is a silouette of the bushes and there are a couple of street lights no four of them out at the car park, the clock has just struck nine thirty, Sassy is lying on the floor beside me fast asleep breathing rather heavily, on the chair on the other side of the table is Gerard and it sounds like he has fallen asleep also! I don't know where Milly is probably under my chair and the cats are out in their cage part taking it all in as they have been locked in the house all day as Pat has been in their area painting and their outdoor area had been moved out from the house for painting. Not happy girls at all.

Goodness I just sneezed and scared the life out of Gerard!

When Machele got back home she had her weigh in at weight watchers and put on 1.8kgs over the Christmas period, so she got onto me to challenge me. The first one to lose 5kgs has to take the other one out to dinner!! defeates the purpose, no not really, so I have accepted the challenge and have not had chocolate for 5 days now. Thursday is weigh in day so we will see how we go. I have almost put on all the weight I lost when I was doing the Bairnsdale Biggest Loser competition which is such a shame as I was feeling much better and could move a lot easier, so now back to almost square one, but I will achieve it this time. Yeah yeah heard it before I know, but it will be different this time... no really it will be.

I went to the doctors today as I had some blood tests done before Christmas and had not been back to the doctors, and guess what as I suspected, my Cholesterol was sky high, 7, the bad stuff was over 4, Soo the doctor has decided I need to go on some tablets seeing Mum has high blood pressure and Dad had had heart attacks, so the risk of me having a stroke or heart attack early is pretty high... Shit.... excuse me, sorry for swearing. So I now have to take medication most likely for the rest of my life to lower the Cholesterol... Great fun eh.... Also was told I need to lose 20kgs!!! Not fair it is always such a struggle, I can't help it if I like all the wrong things especially chocolate. I have removed all the chocolate in the house it is banned and I gave Mum what I had.. Gerard has been told to hide the cream biscuits and take the chocolate out of the house. No lollies either... or mud cake boo hoo. He has recommended me go on the CSIRO wellbeing diet as it is low in carbs and higher in protein which seems to work better for me. Cannot handle all the carbs, they give me terrible heartburn and so tired all the time. I have to do it this time for ever.

Go back at the end of Feb for another blood test and see how the Cholesterol is going.


Huh the wind has gone completely and so has the spits of rain, complete silence except for me and the clock ticking. Gerard has stopped snoring and is awake and Sassy has moved away. Not even any swans making any noises nor the cricket.

Have decided Tuesdays are going to be my work day, so that was today. I got into the Palace at nine this morning and ended up getting so side tracked by getting myself organised for a swap I am involved with at the Stamphappy online group. It is a Deco book, which is a little themed book, I have to make the book, decorate the cover and more pages if I want, make a page for the other nine participants to sign their names, and make sure there is at least 9 pages in the book, the book is then passed onto one of the other nine and they do two pages in it and pass it onto the next person, in the end the book is fully decorated with a them or your choice and then it gets sent back to the owner. As if I have nothing to do eh? It is a bit of fun and I want to get back into the stamping now that the renovations are almost done.

o.k. am going now to talk to Machele see you later on

posted by Jill @ 9:05 pm