New Month, New Start!!

As it is the start of a whole new month so begins my new start!!! How many times do we all say that today we are going to do whatever it is we are wanting to do only to have it blow up in our faces by 4pm.  Well, today it is my turn.  I woke up, stood on the scales, did a small inward cry as the scales screamed at me to lose some weight.  I have been on so many weight loss programmes over the years that I would hate to add up the monetary value.  Seriously....if I had just knuckled down 30years ago and lost the weight on my first diet then I would probably be quite rich now.  If, if, if!!!! Our whole life is full of If's.  But OK....there comes a time when something triggers an idea and you have to run with it.  Well....for the last six years or so I have had many triggering moments but this morning I am totally serious.  I looked at a photo from last month.  It would be a lovely photo apart from the fact that I am 20kg overweight in it.  Looking frumpy, older, and totally matronly.  How hard can it be to stick to something that you really want??? Somewhere deep down I will find the willpower and become the svelte figure that I know is lingering inside this flabby body.
There...it is written down so therefore it has to happen.  Accountability!!!!

Wild, wicked woolly wind

Today is not a good day.  The wind is doing my head completely in.  It is reaching gusts of over 100kmh plus it is very warrm Nor'wester so this in itself is depressing.  It reminds me of the fohn winds that Canterbury gets which is one reason I couldn't live there.  Suicide rates rise rapidly during the fohn wind season, and I can totally understand why. Your whole being feels completely exhausted, the eyes very heavy and there is absolutely no such thing as any energy left, complete with a migraine type headache and you have one horrible day set out in front of you.
The countdown is now on for getting back to work.  I am in two minds about it.  I have loved my six weeks of holidaying.  Checking off the 'todo' list has been rewarding, things like painting the laundry and bathroom; getting the garden spruced up and looking lovely again; sifting through old clothes and books and at times I seriously consider giving up work and being a lady of leisure but on the other hand, I love the company at work, the rewarding feeling of coming home after a day of work.  And the money is always handy. So for another year, I will get up each morning, albeit grudgingly (mornings are not my strong point), head off to work, catch up on the latest news, enjoy good company and review it again next summer holidays.

Is ignorance really bliss???

I get really frustrated these days with how little I actually know!! For years I could rely on a good sense of humour and dare I say it...looks...to get through a conversation.  As the years have passed, not quite so gently I realise that I know very little about what's going on around me.  In the middle of last year I decided to rectify my ignorant knowledge of geography and learn where all the countries were.  Thanks to Sporcle, I managed to finally identify all the countries and where they were situated.  I thought I was extremely smart until one very cool customer asked me the capital of a European country.  Alas I did not know.  Next mission was to memorise all the capitals.  Done!!! Same cool customer then asked me about the language of a European country.  Bummer!!! I could tell him where the country was and what was the capital but I couldn't even fathom what the culture was.  Now I am on a spree of learning about each individual country.  I thought alphabetically might be the way to do it or geographically.  I have started!! I have chosen the alphabet way!! It's like being back at school and doing one of those horrible assignments where you get teamed up with some git and have to come up with the most informational and artistic poster on some country. (I was always the one doing the pictures!!!)
When I get through the A-Z of countries I will then start another mission where I am so carelessly unlearned.  Believe me!!!!! There are a billion of subjects that I know nothing (and I mean absolutely nothing!!!) about.  I totally admire people like Stephen Fry who knows absolutely everything there is to know and presents it in such a fantastic manner.  Funny but informative.
So my mission for 2012, should I choose to accept it, is to learn about all 200 countries. But for the mean time, I really need to get with the current events!!! That my friend is a whole other blog!!!

Life is such a rollercoaster.  One minute you are up and the next you are crashing down at a great rate of knots. 
This is my blog.  This is about me and my dreams, dollars and disasters.  The last being plenty off.
I am not here to be judged or taunted but to be supported and trusted.
Where does time go?  How come it suddenly becomes clear that we are middleaged and not young and carefree? Even though we try to pretend that we are!!  We have now responsibilties and we pay taxes!!! How many times do we have to fall down on a particular road only to realise that we should be taking another route.
After years of having one fall after another of one particular road I now am going to start taking the journey again but on a different path. Yes, there will a time when crossroads are ahead and the choice to turn one way or the other has to be made but there has been many a successful traveller that has made that choice and arrived safely.

Every mountain started with a single stone