It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog. There’s just not enough time in a day to do everything I’d like to so different things get neglected at different times. Lately, it’s been this blog.
Here’s some of the thing that have been happening.
The Nokia deal is done. I will become a Nokia employee on the 17th. Their benefits add up to more than I was expecting so there’s an effective pay rise in there too (on top of the pay rise I got after the yearly salary review).
I did Jury Duty a while back now. It was interesting but a blunder on the part of one of the lawyers meant the case had to be scrapped (we heard something we weren’t supposed to) and restarted at a later date.
From the last week of January to mid May I was on a diet. I lost 10kg and I need new clothes. I didn’t really have a plan or program or anything. I just started eating about 2/3 as much at each meal. It’s enough that I feel hungry when meal times come around but not enough that I’m starving all day. I still have snacks and “bad” food but since my total input is less, my weight has gone down. It’s a principle I picked up from The Hacker’s Diet, something I actually did some years ago now. I used the Eat Watch program to track my progress.
I started doing the exercise plan from the book but as winter came on I had trouble getting up in the morning so I gave it up. I noticed something though. It didn’t make any significant difference to my weight loss (something the book does note). I also noticed that while I don’t feel any different as a result of losing 10kg, I did feel “better” while I was doing the exercise routine. Why is it that these separate facts can’t be kept separate? All you ever see is people saying that you _have_ to exercise to lose weight and that losing weight will make you feel better.
Anyway, since I wasn’t starving or anything I didn’t increase my meal size much after officially ending my diet and as a result my weight is still going down, currently sitting at just over 93kg. When will it stop? I don’t really know, I’m just along for the ride :)
We have a Wii now. We got one for the Wii Fit which Bree is using in lieu of trying to maintain an exercise program. Apparently a Gym membership is at least $500 per year while a Wii + Wii Fit is $550 just once. The Wii Fit is much more fun than any gym though I guess you won’t get the same results if you use one. To be fair though, you can’t go to the gym for 20 minutes while your kids are asleep but you can use the Wii Fit.
Bree got Drop Dead Fred and watched it with the kids. Isaac totally freaked out during the scene where he gets his head stuck in the fridge. The kids in general are skittish when it comes to watching non-kid-oriented movies that are scary or violent. I guess that’s why it doesn’t take much to get a PG rating.
Isaac is growing up fast. He no longer has a dummy. It took him longer to get over it than Emily did. It also took him longer to get over his something than Emily did but he’s come good now.
He went off of swimming like Emily did and it took some weeks of one-on-one lessons with me in the pool before he’d stop screaming everytime we went near the pool. He went off of kindy and threw big tantrums when we dropped him off. He was generally fine once we left but would then throw tantrums when we picked him up. We’d throw tantrums almost anywhere, droping to the ground screaming long and loud.
After a few weeks of constant work he started getting better. His tantrums eventually got to the point of being merely formal protests without any real feeling in them. He still throws tantrums from time to time but he’s always been more into screaming and tantrums than Emily was. When he’s mad at us he’ll go and get a hug from Emily, it’s cute to watch.
Isaac can’t sleep without a nappy still. He does do a wee in his nappy when he wakes up (like Emily did) so we’ve got him Nappy Pants so he can actually take himself to the toilet (not that he has yet but perhaps as it warms up he’ll do it). However he’ll still wee without waking up, which has even caught us out while driving home after being out.
Sirens. The kids know they come from Ambulances or Fire Engines. For some reason though, they’re terrified of them. Emily always asks me if someone is dead when she hears one.
Emily starts prep next year but it looks like she won’t be going to the school we picked out. Despite being on their list for the last 4 years we didn’t get in so now we’re looking at other options. It might not be a bad thing though because we haven’t looked at anything since we moved and we’re more south than we were when we originally looked around.
The kids play well together. They love singing and doing actions. I’ve got a bunch of kids songs on an iPod in the car that they like listening to. It’s funny driving along and all of a sudden they both start waving their arms around, doing actions that they’ve figured out for the song.
They both love the song Angels by Robbie Williams and request it whenever they’re in Bree’s car (it’s on her iPod). Emily can sing most of it. She actually sings lots of songs but in a sub-vocal way. She tends to get really shy when she hears her voice so it’s hard to get her to perform for other people.
