ANOTHER DAY, SAME BUILDER

Another day dawns, and if all goes well our kitchen and garage will be all fixed and I can put things in their 'proper' place in the garage by dinner time.

I should also finish 2 bags today... had a minor hiccup last night and couldn't finish them.  The hiccup?   Splitting headache and just too hot.  

I have been getting blasted cramps in my legs for a few days now, and I'm sure it's due to all the sweating I've been doing!  It's totally gross how much fluid I've been sweating out.  GROSS.
Wet knickers ... yeah, not a good look on a grown woman!

Steve is coming home after lunch, he's going to spend some time with Dante while Bex goes to the Dr.  
I was slightly offended when he said he was coming home to watch the baby, but I get it... he didn't want me inconvenienced, what with the builder here etc.  
At least, that's what I'm telling myself.  *sniff*

Dante was on my bed for a little while yesterday, so I propped my Teletubbie 'La La' up so he could talk to her... and he loved her!  He kept smiling his head off and coo'ing.  OMG it was so cute.
Then I put him in his bouncer with La La:

ABOVE:  Dante and La La... how utterly gorgeous is he?  
Steve was not impressed.  I don't know what he's got against La La, she's cute... even if she's yellow!   

Now... question.  Just how much junk mail is too much?
Seriously, yesterday this is what was put in my letterbox:

ABOVE:  18 separate flyers.  What a bloody waste of paper.  I only looked at 4 out of all of them, and even that was fleeting.

I had been meaning to keep every single one that came through my letterbox for the whole year... just to see how HUGE the pile would be.  But I forgot ... so will do it next year now.  (If I remember!) 

Where you live, on average, how many do YOU get a day? Week?  Any idea?  Or are we all so used to them we don't even notice and just throw them out immediately? Do you?  I wonder how much businesses spend on them, and do they know most of us just throw them out?  Surely they do?

Now... enough on that... how am I doing?  Still doing fabulously on the OFL Plan.  Still totally in control, still happy as a pig in mud.  Still looking forward so much to next summer, when I will be a 'normal' size again. 

F*#K did I just say I was looking forward to next summer?  Maybe I won't feel the heat so bad next summer?   I live in hope.

ONWARD... 

SUE:  I have not cut out ANYTHING at all!  If I feel like something like cake, ice cream, fish 'n' chips and the like, I have it as my ONE 'whatever I desire' meal a week.
My 'plan' is nothing but cutting back on portions, and eating healthy meals as much as possible. And getting some exercise whenever possible.  

I'm not going fanatical on the exercise either...I've been down that road and don't want to go there again!  Going to the gym for 2-3 hours EVERY DAY is not sustainable, and I'm just not in that headspace anymore.

I think cutting back on portion size has been the biggest factor in my ONWARD FOR LIFE Plan working.  It is far too easy to slowly give yourself more and more over time... so I suggest if you want to lose some weight, put your dinner on a LITTLE plate.  AND don't pile it 8 inches high!  lol

Yaaa, two bags done:

ABOVE:  Lucinda, you get to choose which one you would like.

Now I move on to a baby bag (same pattern, different fabric)...  BUT NOT RIGHT NOW.

Steve is going with Bex to the Dr's and I am babysitting Dante after all!   Wowzers!
Looking after the baby.... cool.

Neil the builder has been here all day painting and fixing skirting boards.  The kickboards in the kitchen have not arrived yet, so he or another bloke will come out and replace them when they arrive.
So... it's turning into a long haul this repair job!

Sushi Rice:  I buy the rice labelled 'Sushi Rice' for a start.  Then I put it in me rice cooker... 1 and a half cups water to every cup of dry rice.  Cook until  soft.  While it is cooking, put in a pot 2 tablespoons of Rice Wine Vinegar and 2 tablespoons of sugar for every dry cup of rice ... heat to dissolve the sugar and put aside until the rice is cooked.
Pour the vinegar solution over the cooked rice and stir carefully, don't mash the rice up.
Then turn the rice out onto a flat surface and fan to cool it down.  Once cool commence making your sushi.
I have a bowl of water with rice wine vinegar in it, it's handy to dip my hands in, it stops the rice from sticking to your hands.

Steve is cooking dinner tonight.  I can smell bacon...
And for dinner tonight, courtesy of Steve and Bex:  Bacon wrapped steak strips, roast veges, mushroom & bacon with a mushroom mash.  It was delicious.
Thanks so much, there is nothing better than a home cooked meal... that I didn't have to cook myself.

End of Day:  I've felt ill all day.  The heat is really draining me at the moment.  My hot flushes have come back during the day something rotten.  It now just makes me feel ill every time I get a flush.
It might be time I explored other options to help with them again.
nite nite.