get told off from my youngest son, James when I ask for his help on the computer and because I dont understand he seriously grumps at me and tells me that I should know all this.....*blowing raspberries* at the little tike!

Anyway. I popped to a local Weight Watchers meeting this morning and bought these:

The new Weight Watchers magazine annnnnnd 2 packets of the NEW Garlic and Herb Bag n Bakes....YUM! I will be trying this next week. The bag n bakes are only £1 at the Weight Watchers meetings at the moment.

I am going to re-start my Weight Watchers and do a week or two on 'Filling & Healthy' also known as, 'Simple Start'. I will do a brand new weigh in and get going on my Weight Watching journey. I think that I have been stalling getting into my Weight Watchers journey over the last few months again because I wanted to document this and because of having terrible computer problems and knowing that I can't document properly it has made me have as many false starts...well, that's my excuse anyway, well, not really an excuse because I am usually an all or nothing person and I want everything just right before I can get myself into things properly.

Okay, I am thinking to do my weigh in's on Monday's again because I don't want to wait until Thursday, although I do like a Thursday weigh in....ummmm - nope! Monday mornings it is going to be! So all details will be logged on here!

I have been battling a cold for the last week but I am much better than I was this time last week.
I don't know what it is this afternoon but I am feeling like I want to get on and just get things done i.e. stick to my rota's, do my measurements every week or so, and just be awake!....heehee - now that sounds daft...'just be awake'...lol but I just want to get going and keep going! :)

Tonight I am going to do a body scrub and all those lovely pampering things which is a good start...bring myself back to life again...oh dear! I am coming out with some good ones today, but hey that is how I am feeling and we all have different ways of expressing how we feel don't we?

I think that is all today but if I have anything to update about then I will be back, but if not then I will be back tomorrow. Have a good day or evening, whatever time it is where you are in the world!

Having said that, I did have trouble signing into blogger using Google Chrome :/

I will manage though, it is just until I get used to using Google Chrome. 

I am doing my online grocery shop tomorrow. I am finding that I am saving money by doing grocery shopping this way. I am still going to Costco every month to do a major stock up but I now just do an online grocery shop inbetween, whereas I was doing a major stock up at Costco then into Tesco and the Nutricentre, and then another major shop in Asda every month and all on the same day, and then STILL buy weekly at Asda....what was I thinking?

I just might do a video of my groceries so you can see what I am buying for my Weight Watchers :) My husband brought the video camera, tripod etc down from the loft and I have written all the instructions down as to how to use it....nope! I am not technically minded :/ I wish I was but our 15 year old son is the techno geek in this house!

I have no get up and go today, not sure why, but there is always tomorrow.

I am SOOO glad to be back online with a new reliable computer :) :) :) Everything is all rigged up to our new computer i.e the camera, printer etc so any photo's I take I can now post them again...WooHoo Our old computer just did not have much ram and it was full. Our son cleared loads off it and done all his techno stuff to it but it didn't seem to want to go any faster. It was rather old and he started talking computer jargon about it as to why it wasn't running right but it is just so confusing to me when he talks about the gubbings in a computer.

I have just cooked up 2 chicken breasts, one of which I will have for my evening meal tomorrow along with roast veg and pasta, I will probably post a photo of my meal/s.....cause I can! :)

A recap about my Weight Watchers:
I am on 29 points per day and 49 per week. I have subscribed to Weight Watchers online which is mainly so I can start and see what activity points I earn each day wearing my Fitbit which I have synchronized to Weight Watchers. Because I have my Fitbit synchronized with Weight Watchers I can start to challenge myself to earn extra activity points. I think the other Fitbit gives you challenges automatically but that is the Fitbit you wear around your wrist, I wanted the Fitbit that I can clip onto my clothes which I clip onto my bra strap. I will post a pic tomorrow of the Fitbit I bought.

Well I think that is me for today, so until tomorrow, I hope you have a nice day or evening, it is evening here; 8.09pm to be precise.

Finally, I am back!
I still haven't purchased a new computer this month so for now I am using my middle son, Adams computer, but we are buying our new computer in February. We have had to put buying our new computer back a month because our car is off the road due to the brakes failing and we must get that sorted. When the brakes failed no-one was hurt. We discovered they actually failed just as my husband was pulling off our drive. It could have been very nasty because the night prior to this my hubby was travelling down the spine roads with our middle and youngest sons in the car, but there was no signs of the brakes deteriorating at that time. The brakes had been leaking the whole time and no-one knew, although the ABS light had been coming on prior but we thought we got that sorted.
My eldest son, Michael managed to get some sort of braking on the car and he took our car to the garage. A week later and £120 worse off we went to collect our car with absolutely NO brakes on it AT ALL.....talk about being ripped off. The garage said he didn't know what was wrong, and this guy apparently has 30 years experience...YEAH RIGHT! Another lad said he thinks it is the ABS module so our eldest is going to fit a new one for us. We are NEVER going back to that garage!! The bloke in the garage told us that he will try fitting another ABS module but it will cost us £150 just for a second hand module.....AHEM! I DON'T THINK SO! My husband and Michael have found them on E-bay for under £50, or even a scrap yard will have them for about the £50 mark.....£150....BAH BLUMMIN HUMBUG!....Rant over!


Okay, back to everyday. We had a lovely Christmas! I hope you all did! I also celebrated my 49th Birthday in early January....one year to get to goal weight and fab at 50!!


I have subscribed to Weight Watchers online. I weighed in yesterday, Thursday at 15stone 2.5lb.
I have also bought a Fitbit which I am hoping will motivate me to set myself and achieve goals and earn Weight Watchers activity points, I have my Fitbit synchronised with Weight Watchers online so it automatically updates my activity points.


A few days ago I tried online grocery shopping for the first time which got delivered yesterday so I am all stocked up with groceries and raring to get to goal weight, especially before I am 50 years old


I will be updating daily now because it is so much easier and SOOO much quicker with this computer.


Back tomorrow, Saturday 24th January 2015....OH YEAH!!

I am having THE worst computer problems. Last Tuesday and Wednesday it took me literally ALL DAY to be able to do anything on the computer. It kept malfunctioning something terrible. When it did go online it just would not do a thing so we have decided to buy a new computer BUT we can't buy a new one until mid January....boohoo Christmas has to come first when we have kids and grandkids.
I am going to try to update as much as...computer allowing

We done a big grocery shop yesterday. We went to Costco where one of the assistants proceeded to embarrass me. The story goes like this: All my items were put onto the belt, I grabbed two boxes to put the items into as they came down to me but one of the assistants decided she would help to pack our items, I have to say that we prefer to pack our own things ourselves, anyway, she had the longest tarted up finger nails I have ever seen for a shop assistant. At one point she had her hands hanging over the edge of the box into it, as I put a box of strawberries into the box I accidentally caught her finger/finger nail with the edge of the carton and OH MY GOODNESS! She screeched so loudly, "OUCH!" of course everyone looked and I immediately felt so embarrassed by the way she screeched at me, I  immediately said, "Oh! I am so sorry!" She then put her back to me and wouldn't speak or acknowledge AT ALL! She eventually turned around and spoke to the cashier and said, " I was frightened to look at my finger because I thought my cuticle was cut but it wasn't". I tell you, there was NOT A MARK on her finger AT ALL! She then turned away and helped someone else. I'm sure she could have acknowledged me and accepted my apology or something...the nasty piece of work, I did apologise, what more could I have done? It's not as though I tried to hurt her deliberately. The cashier even smiled at me because she couldn't see a mark on the assistants finger either and that she made a deal about it.
Anyway, I also bought a good few of the Christmas presents, I just have two more presents to buy and that is me done...woohoo.
I have only just put the Christmas tree up today and I still haven't got any ornaments on it yet, I will do that tomorrow.

I have decided that come January 2015 I am giving it my all to get to goal weight before I turn 50 years old, so that gives me 1 year to do this. I turn 49 years old on January 8th, so one year, surely I can do this! I never wanted to be fat and forty but unfortunately I have just got bigger in my 40's and I am also going through the menopause which doesn't help keep our weights down or lose weight so I have decided that I am going to be fit and fifty, so it will be full steam ahead to lose the weight and get fit!

Over this last week or so I have been cleaning every nook and cranny in my home and I mean EVERY nook and cranny. I have had to do a thorough clean to make sure I have got all the saw dust out from when my hubby was sanding the stairs over the last month or so. I still have one or two things to still clean but I can say that all the saw dust has gone now...all cleaned away. I always do a thorough cleaning of my home at Christmas time and I always will and of course I do my daily cleans and occasional deeper clean throughout the years but the Christmas clean is THE BIGGY! Tomorrow I will be getting on with that last few jobs of cleaning and finish sorting the tree.

I will try to get back tomorrow, I need to find photo's to take to put here...if my computer will let me.

Night night

I didn't manage to fall asleep until after 4am this morning and because of that I didn't get the best sleep at the right time during the night, all to do with the body clock and so I have been quite tired throughout today. I have also had a migraine for most of the day which always make me tired.

I haven't done much today but I am getting on with it now despite it being 8.02pm. I have so much to do before tomorrow night which is the end of my Christmas cleaning week....for this week anyway and then I have more jobs to do next week and so on until Christmas Eve.

I received our youngest Grandson's Christmas present today which is a dressing up trunk because he just LOVES to dress up.

I don't have anything else to say today but I want to come back daily even if it is just to say, "hello"

Back tomorrow.

For a moment there I could not sign in to my blogger and I thought that I had lost you all...worried there for a moment but FINALLY I am here!
We have been very busy lately...with what? I hear you ask, well, we have been sanding our staircase back down to wood...and what a job that has been, and the mess...WOW! The mess, it got everywhere. Thankfully it is done and the staircase is back down to the wood now and varnished. We still need to replace the landing carpet and we also want to replace the hand rail and spindles which we are doing in January, lets get the Christmas shopping out of the way first.
After we have replaced the spindles and handrail then I will post the before and after photo's.
I have had mega cleaning to do after all the saw dust that was created doing those stairs but I do my thorough cleaning at this time of year anyway which I have been doing loads of. Every cupboard, every corner and even the walls have and are being cleaned. My hubby also painted the stair, landing and front hall walls and glossed skirting boards and door frames.

My washing machine packed up at the end of October and I was without a washing machine for a week....ARRRGGHH Got my new machine now, just what I needed to have to buy at this time of year...ah well, needs must no matter what time of year and I am very grateful to have been able to buy a bigger and better washing machine :)

I have been feeling quite down/depressed over these last couple of weeks despite being on anti depressants, but I think it is starting to lift.

My weight is at 14st 13lb and has been fluctuating between 14st 13lb and 14st 10lb for the last few weeks.

There was loads more I was going to say but I can't remember what they were now...well, it is 1.02am so after a sleep I might remember what I wanted to say and I will blog about it tomorrow...or should I say, later today. Oh! One thing I have just remembered is that we are going to have to buy a new computer early next year because this computer has now become laughable....well, if I don't laugh I will cry because it is extremely frustrating when it wont do nothing or jumps back to the desk top, and when it will do something it can take forever. We do all the clean ups etc etc but to be honest it hasn't got the biggest memory and it has got quite a lot on it, so a new computer is definitely called for.

We have a few jobs that we want to get sorted next year and things that need buying and a computer is on that list.

Night night for now.

I am going to get back to blogging, we have been very busy lately but I will be back this week!!