Work, Weight, Hot and Tired

I'm writing this in my house-sized sauna. The heating is *still* stuck on high and I am remembering in great detail, Aussie summers! I cannot wait for the plumber to arrive next week and relieve me from this 40 degree hell!

The question this week has been to work late or not? With job losses and the recession, I think everyone, everywhere, now does whatever it takes to make sure they hold onto employment. And with mortgages and families to support, rightly so. But I also think companies are taking advantage of this and keep pushing for more from their employees. They need to get more for less. But even in these worrying times, I am sticking to my new year's resolution not to work above my designated hours. For two years, I worked 55-60 hours a week (instead of my 36) and I felt like my life was only work and sleep repeated again and again. What I have realised this year is that everyone is replaceable (even if you work double!) and you don't get thought better of for working harder. So with my "new" hours, I am finding there is balance in my life, I am happier, less tired and my bosses actually respond more positively to me (who knew?!) The purpose of our lives is to be happy and I think all companies everywhere, have to remember that we are all doing our best but ultimately, we work to live.... really live. We don't live to work.

It may be a quiet Sunday out there but for me this morning, it was (dum dum duuuum) The Moment of Truth. It was my second weigh-in for Weight Watchers. Last week I lost 2kgs (4.5lbs) and was over the moon (celebrating by buying more OPI nailpolishes). Although I've stuck to my points this week, I was nervous. Not only had we celebrated Shrove Tuesday (pancakes!), my Aunt's Birthday down at the pub and enjoyed a lovely Chinese on Friday, Mum had bought me some lovely new digital / electronic scales. What if my old crappy ones were so antiquated that although it would show my correct weight, it would show me heavier than I thought ....

With heavy heart (excuse the pun), I got on the scales and I had lost another 2kgs (4.5lbs). Woop woop! Yeah me! I also go down a point now so I have fewer points to eat. Am well chuffed with this achievement.

Off to sit in front of the fan until I wake up properly and attack the day with gusto.

(BTW the word for the day on Dictionary.com is "aver" .... to assert as true! You learn something new every day)

Rocket Science Anyone?

Today I decided to join up for Weight Watchers Online to lose weight and for better health .... and is it just me or do you need to be a Rocket Scientist to understand ProPoints??!!

I'm *still* scratching my head!

Any tips for better health, happier me and losing weight welcome!

Welcome to the Dark Side

As well as being a slave to Twitter, Facebook, Farmville, my Blackberry and my iTouch, I have now sucuumbed to the iTouch/iPhone/iPad app Paper Toss.

Oh how I laughed merrily when a colleague told me about it and smugly thought it would never take over my life .... and then I found myself glued to my iTouch, tossing paper UNTIL THE BATTERY DIED!

Peeps! This is a cry for help.

I'm Baack!

Cue dramatic if not scary music..... I'm back peeps. Back with random babblings of no consequence whatsoever!

So it's 2011 - how's the Year of the Rabbit been treating you so far? As I AM a Rabbit (as in Chinese horoscope and not furry with big ears), I thought this year would be all sunshine and icecream .... Needless to say I'm still waaaaaaaiting!

Yet, better times are ahead. Of that, I'm sure. And I am going to be optimistic that the rest of today will also be fab!

New Moon

I FINALLY saw New Moon when it was released on DVD. I pre-ordered it and although it was due to arrive Monday, 22nd March, it had arrived on the Friday previously.

In (three) words, I LOVED it! In fact I think I enjoyed it more than Twilight although you need that movie to set the scene.

Bring on Eclipse!!!!!!!!!!!!

My new coffee machine

Behold the Bosch Tassimo! I ended up selling my beloved Kindle as Amazon.com wouldn't release the majority of the books to be sold to UK Kindle owners and with the money I bought a new Tassimo coffee machine. It's so cute and makes great coffee and Milka hot chocolate too! YUUUUUUUM!

Facebook

If I've haven't been here for a while, where HAVE I been? In a word, Facebook! It's so easy to keep in touch with people there (although I am spending a lot of time with my virtual farm - LOL!) If you're on Facebook and not yet 'my friend', please find me or email me and I can add you!