DIET COKE

I've remembered a few things Leo, our old, but new doctor said yesterday.

We talked about weight.

He's lost 20+ kilos in the last year.

I asked him how he did it.

He said he did NOT eat breakfast or lunch, and only had a small dinner!

I said "Oh, so you starve then?"   And he said YES!

Interesting.  

Then he said he only drank tea and coffee during the day.  I told him I only drank Diet Coke, fully expecting him to tell me off.

BUT, instead he said that was perfect!    PERFECT!

He said Diet Coke was good because it has NO sugar in it, and it won't hurt me.  He said it is even better for diabetics, but I can't remember why.

OMG... I was gobsmacked.

Here's a DOCTOR of 40+ years telling me it's perfectly OK to be drinking Diet Coke.

He told me, (YES TOLD ME), I had OCD!   I asked him how he figured that out?  And he said he could just tell by listening to me, and how I was overwhelmed by all the different situations/issues in our life right now.  He's right I suppose.  

I do like everything to be just so, running smoothly and so on.  

I do find myself in a flap when things are not going right, or I can't find something, bla bla bla.

So, there ya go.  I officially have OCD. edit:  To a MINOR extent, not full blown OCD.

What else?  Oh yeah, he said I'm the sort of person who takes on far too much, gives of myself far too much and probably always will.

I don't see that so much.  I've been trying to do more for me and Stew, certainly in the past few months.  But I feel I'm selfish more than giving.

I do what I want, when I want mostly.  I feel like a fraud when people say nice things about me.

HMMMmmm... this post suddenly got a bit deep.

Better change the subject. 😟😒

AND NO you damn haters out there, I'm NOT fishing for compliments.  I'm just stating how it is/feels for me. 

This weekend we have Lacy and Keera to stay.  It's Lacy's access weekend ... so we shall be doing kid stuff ... I even thought we could go to the movies?

I will check online and see what's showing.

Tonight we are babysitting Liam and Emily,  it will be lovely for the little kids to have a sleep over together.  I even thought of a pop up tent in the lounge for fun.

We have one somewhere...  in fact I think I saw it in the Tin Shed when Lacy and I were tidying up in there the other day.

I think we shall have a splendid time with the kids tonight.

12.30 pm:  And we went out to the Te Kowhai market this morning.

Bex was out there selling her soft toys.

It was PACKED!  So, so busy. 

And HOT.

Not only was a market on, there was also a car display, all sorts of vintage/hot rod/classic/muscle etc etc.

AND because it was being held at the Te Kowhai Aerodrome, there were helicopter rides, small plane rides (for a fee) and so on.

Just heaps to see and do.

ABOVE:  Bex and Keera.  

ABOVE: There was a line up of little planes and helicopters to look at.

ABOVE:  This was a pretty cool car.

ABOVE:  this was a really good market, and it's one I will be doing next year for sure.

I saw NO ONE selling anything like what I make.

ABOVE:  We sat and cooled down inside Bex's stall... and her cute toys were selling quite well!

I hope she does really well, she deserves to as she works hard to make all the toys.

ABOVE:  I saw something I thought would look cute in our garden, so we went back to buy ONE.

I say ONE, but stew had other ideas and he wanted to get THREE.

So... we ended up with three.

ABOVE:  We now have our very own flock of chickens.

Stew wants to name them:

ELEVEN,

HERBS..... and

SPICES

YEAH.  I wanted to call them Daisy, Doris and Daphne. 

So... Lacy has said, let's have a VOTE.

Who wants Stew's names?

Who want's Mine?

ABOVE: Griffin and Kayla called in for a visit this afternoon.

It was lovely for him and Keera to see each other... big brother/little sister.  Just a bit cute.

They have now left, and we await the next lot.

Well... it's 7.46 pm.  The 'next lot' arrived and promptly got in the pool for some fun.

Then we fed them all fish 'n' chips, and now they are happily playing together before bedtime.

My head is pounding, no doubt from the oppressive heat we have had today.  I feel like I'm constantly taking Panadol at the moment. 😒

I really, really can't wait until winter!

And on that score, I'm signing off for the day.  It's gunna be another long, hot and noisy day tomorrow.