My biggest worry was my teenagers room, its always a bear cave in there, well I'm assuming it is cause all i ever get is a grunt or a growl if i enter. i find it easier to throw in some food then run in and grab what i need while shes munching on something. she assured me it was fine, why didn't i check for myself, my instincts warned me and sure enough the agent walks in there and the fan blades were dirty. WTF????? yes she took a picture and i knew that you can get form 11's for a dirty fan.... its so pathetic it is amusing. my mum was here for our daily workout and she heard this and says, that's alright i will fix that right this minute , and raced in and wiped it down, so it will be interesting to see what happens, the old house i rented before this one, i got a form 11 and thought what the shit is this for as I'm uber careful as a renter, and i mean careful. having kids and renting means I'm always on the look out almost to the point of paranoia. The form was for a dirty kitchen fan, but it wasn't even dirty it was a wipe mark from me cleaning it..... grrrrrr i had to fight hard for that as i knew it would be a mark against me for future rentals, how is that even allowed? I'm sorry your honor, yes it was me , the value of this house that i was paying over priced rent for was dropped by 50 thousand dollars because i left a smear mark on a fan during a routine house inspection, it has now been remedies your honor , i am just thankful the agent didn't look behind the poster in the hallway or under the mat in the lounge and don't even think about looking at the 2nd drawer down in my bedside dresser.
I know that these things are a must to keep check of due to many houses damaged by tenants that are just neglectful but sometimes it is just too much. So after that little rant, i spent alot of time this week making sure things were just right and a fan blew it all, its almost like the lady thought , oh my gawd if the fan is dirty , imagine the other gross negligent things this woman has done, i better check the toilet bowl for impurities if that be the case.
i must have burn hundreds of calories this week getting this all done , including mowing, raking and edge trimming , the old fashioned grass scissors way. So i was really thinking , yer i have to be in for a good loss this week, Last week i pulled a 400 gram loss, which was too small for my liking so i was really sure that this week i would finally get into the 91 bracket.... how did my weigh in go? ugh bloomin heck, i did the usual prep, got onto the scales and bom bom, only lost 500 grams, bringing me down to 92.1 and no matter how much i sucked my tummy in it stayed that weight. i am seriously going to have myself a massive celebration when i get to my 80's cause the 90's were bloody hard. ( should have seen my clothes in the 90's lol)
Last weekend i had no kiddies at all at home so it was really nice to just get in the car and go fishing. Went to the usual spot and not even much of a nibble so the next day we went to our old hunting grounds, sadly it isn't out really old grounds as the floods have wiped that spot completely away :( so the newer old spot had to do. This day i figured i would wear a skirt, and singlet top, the skirt was short but i thought well no one sees us in this spot and it was a lovely day my legs could get some sun on their pasty whiteness.
From the look of my ouchy pic i probably should not have underestimated the sun or the gale force winds that hit us when we got to the jetty . i was a little concerned with the skirt and wind combo and had to apologise to Damian for the flashing problem. He apparently didn't mind at all, wink wink. I , however was horrified that boaties kept coming back and forwards past the Marilyn Monroe show i had going on.
I did manage to catch a couple of fish though, that were released immediately as they were too small lol.
The last few days have been so busy with my training and cleaning, and even when i was so exhausted from all the work i had done i remembered the challenge that was set this week of 300 pushups on top of the ones we have to do in a workout.... what?????? how in the world, what was this woman thinking? Anyway. i was chatting to Connor while cooking dinner and realised i didn't do my 50 push ups for the day. so i stirred the dinner, then got my 50 done and got back to the dinner, he didn't even batter and eyelid lol, he just kept happily chatting and playing while i went from stirring dinner to push ups and back until i did my fifty.
so i am halfway through my 300 , yayy, i know i will get them done, but wow they make my shoulders all wanky. i will no doubt be having trouble raising my hands above my head for a while, so i have made sure not to have any appointments at banks, cause if i do and a robber bursts in yelling , " get your hands above your heads of you die" then I'm stuffed lol.
So house inspections done, fishing was taken care of, ahhh that's right, i wanted to tell you all about my mindfulness course i also went and had a gander at yesterday.
It was a really interesting course and i have decided to sign up for the 4 weeks one in August. Mindfullness is all about living in the now, not the past or the future,. As someone who suffers both anxiety and depression i have always lived in the past or future, both of which are not places i liked being if they were negative and usually my head found all the bad things and reminded me of them. Being mindful tackles those issues and teaches you how to stay focused on the now and not letting these thoughts and feeling stop my day, but instead I'm accepting they are a normal part of life and am letting them come along for the ride.
I even download Russ Harris's book the happy trap for my kindle and will be reading through it as i feel its got a lot it can teach me. I even went to www.thehappinesstrap.com.au and had a sticky beak. I was impressed with the information i received and will learn alot of coping strategies from here.
Being disorganised or having your mind be a mess can interfere with life's goals, so i found cleaning my house up more and organising my office space more., doing these courses and having the support i do has made my weight loss journey a lot easier. I love so much that Damian sees the strength i am using to achieve my goals and he is being so very loving and sweet with me, complimenting me and helping keep me on my journey. I love that my mum gets on her workout finery and comes over every day to sweat her ass off and get through the workouts with me and is actually enjoying it. I love how the new me is proud of her work and yet is still motivated to lose more.
i just wanted to share this last pic before leaving you to go and finish your chores. Kahlyssa had left her nutella at my place and i text her to say , whyyyyyyyyyy you leave your nutella at my house???
