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Today has been slow and very dull. There is no work for me to do at work, but unfortunatly I still have to turn up in order to get paid. So I sat here and read my book today, Past Secrets, which I have now finished. I’m on a newish type contract at work - since there’s no work at the moment and they’re scared I’m going to leave and find a new job. So they pay me for three days a week (up until Christmas) regardless of whether I’m working or sitting here reading my book. It’s because our busy period is during the Winter, so they want me to hang around for that, but understand it’s unfair to make me jobless especially at Christmas time!

Rob emailed me a photo of him from his mobile phone today. Hehe. I love it - he may not be 100% happy I’m posting it, he doesn’t seem too fussed now. That’s the problem with dating a blogger/photography lover - other people read about you and see you. lol. He’s already getting comments over at Flickr.
This photo made my day! I couldn’t stop grinning at it when I saw it - people at work must have thought I was going insane. He’s waving at me! Hehe.

It’s the day! I thought it would never get here, but no, it has and this week seems to have gone by so damn fast.
Everything is everywhere and we’re living amongst boxes - I can’t wait ’til we’re all settled in the new place, of course that’ll take a couple of weeks.
Here’s a pic of the mahem in our garage:

I also don’t know how quick the internet situation will be fully connected, so this may be a mini hiatus. But I don’t know for sure.

Well I went to Jenny Craig last night, I was so set to do it. My issue was the money. Being a fulltime student doesn’t leave you with a lot of cash. So I talked to my mum and Rob about it. I ended up bursting into tears, so did my Mum, when I realised I couldn’t afford it. But my Mum talked to me and she’s right. I may lose weight doing Jenny Craig, but what happens when I finish the program? Will I gain it all back and end up spending thousands of dollars on bland, sugarless, saltless and flavourless food. Which I totally agree on and I think I’d get bored of the food, so it would be hard work.

My Mum said she had always been watching my diet and was waiting for me to actually want to do something about losing some weight. She didn’t want to confront me about it incase I was too fragile. So now we are all aware that I’m going to get to 75kg by my 23rd birthday (20 June 2007). Which is approximately 31 weeks. So that’s an average of about 1-1.5kg a week.

I’m feeling really positive about this! We measured my hips, waist, bust and thighs so I can see the measurements shrink - it’s great motivation. I have stuck a peice of paper to my mirror with my goal weight and the date I’m going to achieve it.

One thing the Jenny Craig lady said that I think is good is that I need to make short and long-term goals.
Short-term goal: Lose 6kg by Christmas day.
Long-term goal: Be 75kg on 20 June 2007.

I’m a major wedding person and that is certainly a big goal for me. I want to be 70kg for my wedding day. I can’t explain it, but weddings are a big thing for me and I only want to get married once, like most people, so I want to look good for it!
There will also be friends weddings and engagement party’s coming up and I want to wear the sexy little dresses. Rob said he’d buy me one for my birthday (when I’ve lost my weight).

So how am I going to achieve this? Smaller portion sizes; I eat too much for dinner, I don’t need it all. I’m joining the Glenfield gym, it’s just down the hill from my new house. There’s swimming pools too! Yay! I love swimming. For the gym fee you pay you can use the pools, spa, sauna and hydroslides for free. Rob’s joining too, so if we’re feeling poor one weekend and have nothing to do, we can walk down to the gym and swim! Joining the gym is so much cheaper than Jenny Craig.

I’ve been yo-yo dieting for the last few years and getting nowhere. I think after bursting into tears last night that I’m so ready this time. I’m so sick of trying but never getting anywhere. I used to give up. Now it’s great because I have the whole family behind me and I feel so positive! Bring on June 20th!

Yesterday this got pointed out to me by Paddy. It’s just so damn adorable that I thought I’d share it… since I’m a Kiwi and all.

I’m off to Jenny Craig tonight for a free consultation. I want to lose some weight for summer, like most people. And they’re advertising $7 a week (+ food), but that’s cheaper than normal, so I’ll see what they say.

Rob suprised me yesterday telling me of some romantic things he’d like to do with/for me. Of course I’m not going to go into detail because it’s personal, but it actually quite suprised me. I’m absolutely thrilled though as I didn’t know he thought about that sort of stuff. I never thought of him as a romantic guy, but I guess he is, because I didn’t bring up the topic or conversation, he did. Yay! He just got even more irresistable, if that’s possible. :crush: :heart:

Last night my family and I rented Mission Impossible and Mission Impossible 2 as we saw the third one was out, but thought we hadn’t seen the first two. Turns out we had seen the first one and nearly fell asleep through it. We knew what was going to happen in each scene but couldn’t remember what was coming up. It was obviousley they good! (sarcasm).
I have also realised what a weiner Tom Cruise is. There’s one scene in the first movie where he’s sitting in some big blue chairs with the people who are going to help him save the day and he’s so tiny in the chair! The other two guys fill the chair, whereas Tom has the same body frame as the girl (Thandie Newton), not manly at all.
I want to know why everyone loved the MI series?! I was sooo bored. Sure I’m female, but I do still love some action films. But MI and MI 2 were so damn boring and dragged out! The scenes when Tom is doing stunt bits they slow it down, he just seems up himself.
I’m also shocked that people haven’t seen True Lies. Oh. My. God. It’s the best action movie out!! I’ve watched it numerous times, but still enjoy it. So many people I’ve talked to have never heard it. It’s got so many damn good stars, including; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold.
Your mission if you should accept it: rent True Lies.
Hehehehe cheesy.
Oh.. and Tom Cruise is wimpy. Even Oprah doesn’t like him anymore. (I know this video isn’t real, but it’s funny. lol)

University is over for the year and I survived it and hopefully did well in all my exams. I know overall I was averaging a B+ in all my papers, so hopefully I didn’t flunk out in my exmas, I don’t feel I did, I just hate exams!
So now it’s summer holiday’s for me! Such a shame I have to go back to work full time so I can afford rent, petrol and entertainment spendings. I’d prefer to go on holiday somewhere… but hmm probably not this summer.
This weekend will be spent packing the whole house, which is not exciting, but will be exciting on moving day. I’ll have to take photos of our new view, it’s absolutely amazing!

I got a parking ticket today! My first ever. I took my youngest sister to the orthodontist this afternoon. We were only in there about 20 minutes, but they snapped me. We came back to find a ticket worth $40. Should have paid the damn $2 fee. I’ve learnt my lesson.

It’s been a busy few weeks. I’ve been studying for exams (hence the title, “scarcity” = economics, get it?..haha.. lame!) and we’re packing boxes any spare minute we get. We’re moving to our new house on Friday 24th of November! It’s very exciting :).

I also drove Rob to the airport yesterday for his flight off to Fiji. I missed him as soon as I got home. lol. Not to worry, I survived two months, one week can’t be hard. I’m just jealous I can’t be there too.

There could be even less updates soon, as when we move we might not have our internet up and running for a bit.