Let the reno's begin (again)

Given I am spending a lot of time on the couch this week (saves waddling around the house like a pregnant woman), the husband has had to entertain himself of an afternoon.

The boy has leave for the first two weeks of September, but he wants to do some small things before he is on leave. like have some timber on hand, the doors and windows and some other bibs and bobs.

The back of our house as it stands yesterday

The side of the house

The very dodgy 'stink pipe' and missing weatherboard (it has been missing for almost 5 years now)

The uber-fancy pipeworks

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Liquid Diet

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Aunty Em mentioned that she wasnt jealous of my liquid diet. I have to admit, I was terrified at the thought of it. Just so you realise, I have to be on a liquid diet for around 2 weeks, and then move to mushies for another 2 weeks, and then start to move to normal foods.

As I said, I was terrified of the liquid food stage, what the hell was i going to drink? All i could think of was water and soft drink (which was obviously ruled out very quickly). So far, 3 days in, it hasnt been too bad.

My food intake goes like this:
Breakfast: half a glass of orange juice
Lunch: half a cup of soup (pumpkin, chicken and sweet corn, veggie - anything really, just as long as it can be sucked through a straw)
Dinner: half a cup of soup or some custard, depending on how i feel.

Yesterday i could only manage a few teaspoons of food at each sitting, so it took me 4 hours to get through my half cup of soup, which meant by dinner time i wasnt overly hungry, and just had 50mls custard.

It is amazing to think that just last week I would have drowned that entire 400ml tin of soup in one sitting with a bread roll or something. We had 'dinner' at my father in-laws house last night, and he made the comment that he likes cooking for me, as i eat so little, and I bring my own food :D

Suppose he has a point now.

Oh, and as an added bonus of the liquid diet, I have lost 8kg since last Friday
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A new begining

I am starting a new life, a new beginning in my world.

For many years I have struggled with my weight, nothing would ever help me lose the weight i needed to lose. I ideally need to lose around 40kg, but I could never get past 10. So, we made the decision to look into lapbanding. I looked at other options, stomach sleeving, gastric bypass, but decided lapbanding was the best option. So i did my research, up'ed our health insurance, and waited for the year to pass. I saw a dietician, talked to as many people as possible about the surgery, the pro's the con's and everything in between.

Tuesday came, and off to hospital we went. Apart from the nerves, I help up pretty well, and the surgery was a breeze. According to my specialist, I have beautiful anatomy on the insides! That made me giggle and cheered me up.

So, here I am, two days after surgery, feeling rather fragile. I debated for a long time about telling people, and I am cautious on who I tell on the outside world. But i figure that this is a journey that is much bigger than our renovations, and I am not ashamed of having to have the surgery.

So, this is me on Tuesday (well a stimulation of me, I'm not too keen on posting my real self on the internetz)


So, lets raise our juice glass (because all i can eat for 2 weeks is liquid food) to a new beginning!

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Spotlight on a Mac - Ted

My new favourite program is Ted.

Now, if you aquire your television through your computer (of course deleting them within 24 hours) this program is for you.

ted can find episodes of any TV show. Just add your favorite shows to ted and it searches for them, and the best bit, it downloads them for you!!! So, when you leave your computer on overnight to make full advantage of the huge amount of data your ISP gives you for free, it just downloads them for you to watch in the morning.

It even comes with a list of shows you might like, but if they don't have what you want, you can make custom lists.

Beaut!

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Laundry: Update

I was asked to swap my days around at work, and had today off instead of tomorrow (which totally ruined my plan to take today off as well as tomorrow, giving me almost three weeks of leave for the price of two)

So my plan of attack was to get into our laundry and paint it before the new dryer goes in.

Hmmm, seems I cant find a before picture on this computer, and well, I am too lazy to walk to the office to search the hard-drive, but it structurly hasnt changed, it was just plain white

we temporally put everything back in (mainly because I wanted to shower in the next couple of days before i can paint the back wall)
Just so you can see the difference in paint colours

Now, technical issue, should I paint the back wall Toffee Fingers brown, as per our loungeroom

Or just paint it the same colour as the other walls (Dulux's Hogs Bristle Half)?

Opinions???

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two little ducks

Picture post of my morning today

Two happy ducks looking for bugs in our (overgrown) grass


One jack russell who would not stop barking at the ducks from within his kennel

Until he chased them away

And that was the end of Benny's activeness, he soon went and curled up on a pillow in the shed, more than likely dreaming of ducks

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It's Tuesday and I Cant' Wait

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Over the weekend, I brought a new clothes dryer from ebay. It is practically brand new, rarely been used, and was local (a rarity), and best of all, $250 cheaper than the one we had been looking at earlier in July.

So, I cant wait to have the old dryer moved out, so I can paint the inside of our laundry cupboard, and have the doors installed. I am thinking of painting it the same colour as the rest of our house, with the back wall the same colour as our lounge feature wall.

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