'Oh do you know the muffin man ...

The muffin man, The muffin man
Oh do you know the muffin man
Who lives on Drury lane?'

(The Muffin Man J. W. Elliott)

Yes! Muffin Day at work... who in Gods name came up with that idea ... there were muffins for miles - bacon and corn, triple chocolate, banana and maple syrup ... so many muffins! The kitchen was full of them. People were eating them all day. Every where you looked someone was holding one! Damn. Guess how many Fat Nancy ate???? Zip, nada, zilch, zero! That is right. I didn't eat a single one ... I took a banana muffin without the muffin! Yay for me!

Another yay for me .. I hauled my fat arse out of bed this morning at 6am and went for a walk for an hour in the rain. It was beautiful. The river was so calm and the sea was so rough and loud.

So results for the day

1) track DONE
2) under 20 points DONE
3) weight at home NOT DONE
4) walk DONE
5) water DONE
6) 3 servings fruit/vegies DONE
7) healthy snacks if nec DONE
8) plan food for day NOT DONE - not quite - didn't work out what I was going to have for tea until I got home
9) no diet coke DONE - 3 weeks today!
10) update journal DONE

8/10 ... not bad for a fat girl!

Hopefully finished my training at work today. It was very stressful - I had to take calls while my boss was sitting beside me listening to my calls. I was so nervous it wasn't funny. I survived though and the rest of the afternoon (while I was training with someone else) I actually felt like I was getting the hang of it. Sometimes it almost sounds like I know what I am doing. God forbid!

School holidays started today officially. C2 has unfortunately got a bad ear ache which developed just before tea. He couldn't even eat the fish and chips that beloved BF bought home for him. Poor wee thing was in tears at the table. We gave him a panandol, sent him for a hot shower and he is now tucked up in bed with his teddy (Doctor Oscar) and his beanie on sound asleep. I hope it has cleared up in the morning. C2 doesn't often get sick and when he does he bounces right back so hopefully fingers crossed he will recover quickly this time as well. He has great plans for his holidays which revolve around playing with the millions of pieces of lego he got for his birthday recently. I am not sure what C1 is going to do in his two weeks off. As much as we have encouraged him to find a hobby and find interests he finds everything boring. This generally means that all weekend he will hang around everyone else and won't actually find himself something to do. We live in such a lovely place that we find it quite unbelievable that there is nothing he wants to do. He has swimming, biking, fishing etc on his doorstep and he finds them all boring! After much deliberation we have decided that we have encouraged him as much as possible, made every suggestion under the sun to give him ideas of what to do so at the moment it is up to him. It probably sounds mean but we just carry on doing what we have to do in the weekends in the hope that he will just decide to go out and do something.

BF and I have a quiet weekend planned (as per normal!). Going to my parents tomorrow to do fire wood and look at the new house site. Their house is being started in a couple of weeks so the driveway and the area for the house was dug out today. While the contractors were putting the driveway in a few pine trees had to get knocked down so BF and my Dad will be doing the manly thing with the chainsaws. Apart from that we are just going to be doing the normal - washing, housework, mowing lawns etc. I am planning on getting a couple of good walks in this weekend too.

So that is a wrap for me tonight ....

better go to bed and get some sleep ...

catch yas tomorrow

PS in case you were wondering about the fish and chips that the boys had for tea... I had a few chips and a home made pita bread pizza. Took my points up to 20 for the day. So much better than normal when I would have a piece of fish, heaps of chips wrapped in bread.