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My good friends laughed and laughed at me last night........I was almost not game enough to bring out the layout I was working on..........(grin) because it is the same layout I have been working on for over three weeks! Fortunately I am not getting paid an hourly rate...... But boy don't I have some fun.

I have been having alot of fun with flowers and with sewing of late. I have even added the odd bead on the 'Caloundra' layout. Thanks to my design consultants Sue and Alison, I have some great guidance.

It's Friday

Here is my kitchen.........okay maybe I am being a little premature here....... I was so excited when the truck pulled up with all these bits. I hope the guys know what they are doing. Hopefully the old floor will be pulled up and replaced with the new floor on the Anzac Day holiday. I hope they can do it quickly and without lots of problems. I know these things never go to schedule/plan but I can live in hope hey......




I couldn't wear these on Tuesday. (Gosh I wish there was an easy way to put the images where you want them, instead of where blogger puts them............) So if you are still with me........ I had to go to the dr for a checkup yesterday and I thought while I was there I would get my ankle looked at. Can you imagine my fright when he said, "I think we should get it x-rayed, you may have broken it." In my head I was saying "Ahhh, you don't understand, I cannot have a broken ankle. I am a mother of three young children, I am taxi, I work, I work out, I DANCE!!! So you see I cannot be that badly injured." The polite me, said "Oh!" So I went and had the x-ray, had a coffee and a whinge at Daisy's, felt better, went and got kidlets, took said kidlets to footy training, went back to radiology to collect images, went back to doctor, (with Mickey), read the results on the way and saw it wasn't broken, phew!! Waiting at the dr. and then had heat and ultrasound on it. I bought a compression ankle thingy at the chemist today which I will wear when I am dancing. I had treatment today and will go back on Monday. My new gym program is good. Luke has me doing alot of strengthening exercises. Standing on one leg with my eyes shut, and that's on a disc on top of a flat ball which wobbles everywhere. I can do it, so that's good. I hope to strengthen up the ankle, so I can go back to aerobics one day. (I didn't tell the doctor I dance - methinks he would't be too impressed. The thing is, it doesn't hurt when I dance, as long as I don't go over it again, like I did on Tuesday, but I can do that easily on flat ground in flat shoes.........

Scrapbooking tonight. I love it! It's a fabulous night, I always hate it when it ends, at around 1am!!!

As I mentioned before I have a new gym program. I haven't had a full workout yet, have just spent two sessions going through the new program with Luke the new trainer. I am so sore today. Everytime I sit down or get up, I do it very gingerly. Heaven only knows how sore I would be if I hadn't been doing anything of late. I am looking forward to this, I love lifting weights and getting stronger. The cardio component is okay too, I do bike and treadmill. I prefer the walking to the bike.

Will see if I can fix these images on this post.....

I have started a new blog, just to document our renovations. That way it keeps everything in the one place.

Not happy Jan!!!

I am totally peeved..........no I am pissed off! And it's at myself. I did my ankle several weeks ago, and it's been slowly getting better. I was really lucky, in that I was able to get around okay, and I didn't really reduce my exercise. Mind you, when I did my calf muscle, they banned me from aerobics............... I have never been banned from anything, and then I am banned from one of my favourite activities........... Anyway I was recommended to do gym workouts with a rehab component to strengthen the ligaments. So today I organized that..........and did some creative accounting so I could afford to do it. I will enjoy the gym, but I loved the aerobics. I will miss Pump and yoga the most. Anyway I went over my ankle this afternoon outside Lanhams. One of the kids hadn't shut their door properly, and, because of the child safety lock, I had to get out of the car and open it to shut it properly. When I walked back to the car (peeved because I'd had to get out in the first place) I rolled my ankle on a slightly uneven bit of bitumen. I felt ill! It was that painful, that I couldn't even talk and the kids were asking me what the matter was. I have iced it, taken pain medication, but dancing tonight is out of the question. I tried my dance shoes on three times, and I can hardly stand straight in them, let alone dance.......................

Anyway, it's dinner time now, will maybe post a more positive post afterwards. It's a big episode of Biggest Loser tonight, so will be good. I can't believe it's nearly finished and then "Big Brother" starts.