Jill and Gerard's Seachange

It is interesting how one's diet can change one's mood!!

I have gone off the rails real bad with the "NO CHOCOLATE" !!!!! I was doing so well and had changed my food intake with no chocolate for at least 10 weeks, also changed a few other food items and was feeling real good!!! Joining the gym and having a weight loss challenge with Machele was just the best thing to do. BUT I gave in to peer pressure and had "just that little bit" of chocolate cake, and then that one hot chocolate, and then just that one piece of chocolate too many times and that was it!!!!

Thank goodness Easter is gone now and the temptation of those yummy Cadbury eggs are not in sight.. I went to the gym this morning the first time in a month and feel a lot better now that I have been.... So it is now back to NO CHOCOLATE once again. I just cannot have that "ONE" piece, bit like an alcoholic by the looks of things.

Gerard came along with me this morning to the Gym, after a bit of encouragement and he seems to be interested in going again. He wants to lose some weight off his tumm.... So hopefully this will be an interest for him too. He is working a lot of hours at the servo now with less staff on hand, so that keeps him busy. Looks like we are going to be like the "OLDIES". We have been having tea so late at night seeing he does not get home from the servo til 9.15pm. So he has suggested having his hot meal at midday!!!! OMG!!! never thought I would be having my main meal at midday!!! But we might eat a bit better this way, pardon the punn, but it will "eat" into the day a bit, but what the heck...

Anyway the season has changed a lot, gets dark now by 5.30pm, real depressing getting up in the morning with a dull day, no sunshine, but hopefully the winter will not be around for too long and we will be back to the lovely weather. Looks like we may have to go visit our "friends" u up in Queensland during the winter months!!! What do you reckon Annette and Paul?????

The Cormorants are starting to fly over in the mornings and back at night again, a spectacular sight as there are so many of them, it is amazing to see them. Ibis are back wandering about the place, the usual couple of rosellas are calling for their bird seed, maggies still come for the odd bit of food too.

Easter was rather busy around here with lots of people on holiday, basically the last long holiday session for a while with good weather,. Machele came down for the four days while Tamyka went away with a friend and her family. The time went by so quickly and we both got some paper work done which was good.

It is lovely sitting out on the verandah on those sunny mornings taking in the warmth without having to think about having the heaters on. Yes we have had the heater on in the house and the leccy blanket also has been lovely at night!!

I am sooo excited!!!!!!!

After the Commonwealth Games finished they had a sale of all the stuff used while the games were on. I have always been talking about having an umpires chair and everyone laughs at me! I want one so that I can sit up high and look over the trees to see what is happening further out in the water. Looking out for dolphins in one reason. Anyway I saw them advertising the same of the Games stuff and have ended up buying one of the "Crowd Controllers" chairs. At the moment it is at Machele's place in her garage until we can get the monster chair back here. Am looking forward to having it set up here, wish we could have got two so can sit up there with a friend also!!!! Anyway one will have to do..



Am picking Mum up soon to go to the local community centre as they are having an expo on vision aids for people with things like cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration etc. Might help mum with something!!!! Or maybe even me!!!!! Find I need the old magnifying glasses more often for close work these days!!!

So I will get off the Blog now and have a chat later on.

bye for now

luv Jill xxx

posted by Jill @ 11:48 am 0 comments

From glorious to......

Well this morning had the best sunrise I have seen for ages, mainly cause I have not been up that early for ages!!!!!!! It was stunning.

The day has been a very mild one with the water as smooth as silk, blue and no clouds, such a perfect day for a kayak trip!!!! still not got my kayak as yet..

anyway there was a slight breeze all day, very warm up until the rain came at about 6pm. Then it was so windy,, wild and wet. The rain has set in now so looks like we finally have some rain to wet the land thank goodness. It has been so dry.

I suppose winter is on its way so we can expect some cold and wet weather.

bye for now

luv Jill

posted by Jill @ 8:37 pm 0 comments

Wednesday morning!!!

Good morning to you!!!!

Just because I can I have not gone to bed. I did fall asleep for a few hours on the chair as usual and woke up once again with the lap top still open on my lap, my hands are very warm and I realise I cannot move them too easily as my cat Ashley has got up and made herself comfortable on my hands and the lap top!!! It is amazing how I just sleep through the whole process and amazingly my favourite game bubble thriller is still running... If it is not Ashley on my lap it is Rusty my other cat, they seem to be taking it in shifts at the moment as to who has the best time to sleep on me. While Machele and Tamyka stayed here last time, Ashley would wait til I fell asleep on the chair and then she would get up on me, knead my shoulder and lay across me, she had three positions and moved about with the same ritual each night!!! Well that is what they told me.

Now onto this morning!!! Daylight savings has finished now and it is 5.55am. The windows on the verandah outside are wet and streaky, BUT beyond the windows, it is just the most divine picture. If I lift my head up just that little bit I can see the water. The sun is trying to rise and I can see the dark bushes, the very cold water and the sky going from dark colours to a mauve to a mauvey orange, I can hear the resident willy wagtail waking up in the tree by our bedroom, oh yes I am sitting in the lounge room not on the verandah, a bit too cold at the moment.

The sky then goes to a gorgeous pale orange to a soft lemon to a soft blue with dark grey fluffy coulds dotted about the blue grey sky.

It is so nice I think I will go out for a walk it is just divine.

I will talk again soon.

Yep I am not going to bed I have decided, just because I can stay up if I want to!!!!

bye

It is 6am..

luv Jill talk soon


Well I am back and have the most wonderful walk.

The sun came up and the look was amazing.

Fed some swans, and I think the 4 babies are back!! well it could be them, there were four of them cheep cheeping, who knows they all look the same in the end. Fed them all some bread. More ducks are about than usual and there seems to be some regular Pelicans hanging about. The Cooties are back and also the Little Pied Cormorants are starting to fly across in the mornings and at night.

better go and do some stuff!! feel like going to bed now!!!

posted by Jill @ 5:50 am 0 comments