Sunday Night Finds

 

These may or may not be new to any of you.

Three very different songs but I've been enjoying them tonight non the less.

Hope you do too :)

xx

Linking up tonight with Thea's Sunday Session

Hump Week

And what a hump it has been.
This weekend marks the end of week 2 of Dry July (and quietly, also my detox month) so you'd assume it would all be down hill from here right?
Wrong.
It all started going downhill as of last Monday.
Tiredness, no thanks to my thyroid, combined with the nonchalance losing weight brings to me was my inevitable undoing. (I had almost reached my goal weight - just 1.5kg off according to my scales on Mon- Yippee!)
You see while others see results as a reason to spur them on, I seem to suddenly relax.
I thought that even though I hadn't done a smidge of exercise all week that my past efforts would make up for it and that I owed it to myself to have a little rest on the healthy eating and fitness plan seeing as I'd been so good on the alcohol front all month.

Imagine my horror when I hoped onto the scales and saw a 3.5kg weight gain!   WTF?!
I'm back at square one and then some!
Not only have I fallen off the wagon, the wagon's dragged me along the asphalt all week and trampled me for attempting to hang on.

Needless to say I had a little cry this morning, moped around the house for a bit then decided to pull my shit together and get back on the horse.

Sorry for getting back on the negativity train, but honestly - I didn't believe it was possible to gain that much weight in less than a week but lo and behold I've set a new standard. And when i really stop to think about what's been going into my mouth all week it actually makes sense. It's like the flood gates opened up and my mouth along with it ready to ingest whatever came my way.

• Dumplings, dumplings and ever more dumplings
• White bread, white pasta, white rice, fried chips, cheeese, cheeeeeese, cheeeeeeese!!!
• Snacking on double brie and smoked ham on Savoys or in a sandwich every day
• Two pieces of toast with breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• English toffee ice-cream every night (it was fat free ok, so by my deluded calculations I could eat a quarter of a tub per sitting)
• And of coarse, sleeping in and sitting on my ass at every free opportunity I could find

Any wonder I'm not coming to you from an insulin induced coma right now.

I know I said my PCOS condition was a blessing in disguise because it stops me from treating my body like shit.
And that's very true.
But sometimes the weight of it all - the diabetic diet, the hormonal imbalances, the inability to conceive, the constant struggle with my weight and need to work out twice as hard as the average human being in order to maintain it - can feel like too much to bear.
Sometimes I just wish I could have it easy for a change.
And then I remember. It's not a life threatening illness. I'm not powerless to create change. I can control my symptoms and while yes there are people in the world that have it way easier there're are so many more who have it way tougher than I do.
So today I chose to take this weeks lesson and run with it - literally.

I cannot afford to give up. The payoff's too important xx

FotoFlexer

I've been searching for an application to fill the void that iphones and instigrams have created - and this one comes close-ish.
Still really really really want an iphone. Hurry up Apple and release the iphone 5 already!

Winter Wanderings

I'm reeeadyyy!!!

Loving trees and the silhouettes of bare branches against a winter sky at the moment.
And of coarse, who could ever get enough of the ever cute Mr Oskie? Especially in his winter wonderland get up :)

Dry July - Week 1

So week one has gone by without too much of a hitch and I'm now onto week two still alcohol free. Go me!

Although I didn't think I'd be missing alcohol as much as I have been, especially during the week. It's strange since I hardly ever drink on a weekday - it must be the temptation of knowing i can't have it surely.

Aside from that my big sister and her beautiful boys have come back to visit for a few weeks from their home abroad in Malaysia.
It felt so good to hold them in my arms today. Play time and cuddles are bitter sweet when in the back of your mind you know they'll be gone again so soon. I feel like spending every waking moment with them and cuddling them in my sleep as well.
Lets see how i feel after a month of their screaming, jumping, running & mess making hey?  :)

As you can see us adults started having more fun with the play dough than the kids were by the end. Haha - I love a bit of sister silly time xx

Bastards!

Hey YouTube!
WTF?

I can't tell you how annoying it is to try searching a song only to find the best quality and nicest accompanying videos have been disabled.
What the hell?
So this prompts me to start checking some of the links on my blog and lo and behold my So Long Lonesome link has been blocked thanks to EMI.

Well EMI, fuck you too. Fuck you a lot!

Blocked in my country hey?
Why? Have you never heard of a little brown country called Australia?
It's a humble little place with just a little over 22644056 people living in it. Look it up sometime, you may be surprised to find we don't hop around in kangaroo pouches or sip tea with Oliva Newton John. We actually care about music made from instruments other than the didgeridoo.
(Although while on the subject of Miss Newton-John, I did cut her off in a grocery store once in order to complain about my newly bought can opener that wouldn't open my can of beetroot - but that's a whole other story)

Seriously though, I can usually find at least one half decent clip in the long list my search brings up but it seems in this case they're one step ahead of me.
So a final big fat F you to copyright infringement.
Look I get that mostly it serves a good purpose but how are people meant to share the love? Isn't that what gets bands and the like noticed in the first place in this day and age?
I think mostly I'm annoyed that my poor innocent little blog has been inadvertently affected.
Well we'll just see about that!                                

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Aaah, well I feel a little better now that I've had my rant.

(But better still that I managed to find a replacement clip for my afflicted post.)
So there!

Ner, ner, ner, ner, ner!!

HA! 

Katsicles :p

Repeat. . .

XL - SBTRKT : This may soon become one of my favourite albums for 2011.


I keep coming back to these songs throughout the day.

Hold on

Wildfire

I'll probably be sick of the whole album by the end of the week at this rate. For now though, there's nothing but love  :)