The Long and Winding Road

I know I say this everytime but I cannot believe that it has been so long since I last blogged!!! I don't know why I don't keep up to date with this more often - its not like I am Miss Social Butterfly though I have been quite busy since the last time I spoke to you.

My niece has been and gone - she stayed about 9 weeks in the end. Her older sister came over to pick her up witch was a nice surprise that only I was in on. She only managed to stay a week but we managed to get quite a lot done in that week and they flew home after that. To be honest I think everyone (including them) is pleased that their summer trip is over! It was a bit stressful at times and dad had to use his Angina spray a couple of times!!! But they will be missed and I am hoping to go out and see them later in the year.

I am just entering my 16th week of Weight Watchers and have lost 19lbs in total. A few weeks I practically stayed the same (well i lost 0.5lb one week) and think that I have been pretty lucky to have done this. There has been a lot of eating and drinking so pleased that I have actually been maintaining. I have pretty much been sticking to it 5 days a week and then eating and drinking (with well made choices) what I like at the weekends. But I went to class last night and I had put on 2lbs which I was totally shocked about as I had actually thrown myself back into the exercise - maybe a bit too much though as is sometimes possible!

There is change going on at work. One of the guys in my team handed in his notice a couple of weeks ago without another job to go to. Pretty risky I think considering he is nearing 48 years of age but he has his head screwed on so don't think he will be out of work for too long. To be quite honest I am quite looking forward to his departure. I am hoping that it will mean that I will get a chance to get my hands a bit more dirty as he does tend to hog a lot of the work that comes in. How is one meant to improve their skills when not given the chance to do so!

Could really do with a holiday in the sun right now - I am definitely 1 of those people that suffer from SAD!!! The girl that I normally go on holiday with is off to Corfu for 2 weeks next week and I cant deny that I am a tad jealous!! Not sure why really probably just the fact that she is going to get to bake in the sun for 2 weeks! As I mentioned earlier I am planning on going to see my sister in the US but that is never much of a holiday!! And always end up spending way too much money!

Went to a BodyPump class yesterday morning before work as I was on a late shift. Was really good but as usual I felt like the fat girl in the class - all the others were skinny little minxes!! I am certainly feeling it today though - I can hardly walk and have had to cancel my spin class tonight as I don't think that I would be able to even get my legs over the saddle let alone peddle he he!

Well, I will endeavour to blog a bit more often - don't know if I will keep to that but I am certainly going to try!!!