A peaceful place to rest

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I’ve been thinking about getting new bedding for a few months now and finally decided to take the plunge since most of it was 30% off (and Christy drew on our bed with ink!!!!). Firstly I needed a fleecy underlay – since losing weight, hence losing a lot of my padding, I’ve been getting sore when I lie down for more than a few hours. I also decided to try ALL white bedding for that “hotel” feeling. I was a bit nervous but I LOVE how it looks. So clean and fresh and oh, so, peaceful. And yes, I did have a great nights sleep, with no sore body parts…… but Kevin complained of a sore back this morning…. go figure!!!

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The old bedding

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The new bedding – what do you think looks better?

Rosie on the bed

Rosie – already at home on the new-look bed. We just have to be more vigilant for muddy paws now :-).

Australia Day

We had a VERY quiet Australia Day this year. Usually we do lunch with Mum & Dad but they are off in their caravan to attend a wedding. Instead I went to the gym, did the groceries, tidied my desk,

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did some work for my BPS organising class with Wendy and did a layout for the class

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took my photo of the day – CHOCOLATE! Actually didn’t think I had much in the house until I went searching…

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Kevin added an extension to our chook mansion before going into work. They now have a nesting box and some of the chooks have already used it (so Kevin is feeling pretty pleased with himself), and the girls will now be able to collect the eggs.

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Amy decided she wanted to learn to iron so she had her first lessons. She did great, ironing all her and Christy’s clothes.

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Our only bit of celebration happened at dinner when we had a BBQ with damper and lamingtons.

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So a lazy but rather satisfying day. We ended the day watching The Three Musketeers – but somehow we just ended up watching the second half – suprisingly it still make sense and we didn’t realize until the credits started rolling after just 45mins :-). We then watched the first half of Harry Potter VI and will finish watching tomorrow night.

Full steam ahead for 2008

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Well, I’ve been putting the final touches on my goals for 2008. I really am excited about the coming year. It’s going to be a big one. Both Kevin and I should reach our goal weights and probably have some cosmetic surgery, we have a trip to Queensland and a trip out to Ayres Rock to look forward to, and I need to start planning our trip to the UK in 2009, not to mention all the little things I hope to achieve. I’m not going to make limiting computer time a goal this year cause now that I’ve discovered blogs that it just not going to happen. I am an addict but I do feel the inspiration I get from my favourite blogs really does enrich my life and makes me want to do more and be better. And that has be a good thing :-).

HOME/GARDEN

– Work on household routine – need to incorporate detailed cleaning

– Continue work in veggie garden esp. winter production

– Grow potatoes (have large pot just waiting to be used)

– Get worm farm going again (may need new system)

– Work out how to get seedlings to grow in green house (no success so far)

– Shop for fruit and veg at local markets /continue to buy organic where possible

– Learn to make more things from scratch i.e rolls, tortillas

FINANCE

– Start paying extra of mortgage (by mid-year)

– Start saving for UK trip (due to start next week)

– Stick to budget (you never know it might happen one day)

PERSONAL

– Learn to sew (either in classes or on my own)

– Take a vegetarian cooking class at Nan Tien Temple ( have form printed out, just have to mail it off with a cheque)

– Volunteer work – still trying to find the right thing for me (already do uniform shop and canteen at school)

– Make more hand-made presents (those I made this seemed to be a big hit)

– Organise ( and keep organised) my scrapbook space (can’t wait for my Big Picture Scrapbook class with Wendy Smedley to start)

– Develop knitting skills – make something other than scarves

– Read more about simple living

– Get back to working out 6 days a week (3 cardio, 3 weights)

– Get out and enjoy life more (already started on this one)

New Years Eve 2007