Happy Eurovision Day!!!!!

Well Eurovision was a DISATER for the UK but at least we didn't get Nil Points! Oh well may be next year. I even printed off a Eurovision score card of BBC website, i'm afriad my voting was nothing like the rest of the official votes!!!

I wanted France or |Greece to win, then Belarus i loved the Butterfly dresses i totally want one!

Yesterday was Whit Friday and Band Contest . As promised some photos !

I love it when they March, it always seems like a much more fun performance than when they are on the band stand. There were some really great bands and the rain held off all night! on the way home me and my mum called in a pub near my house for a loo stop that was about 10pm and we got home at midnight!!!

Today was the Saddleworth Beer Walk
I hadn't signed up and because the weather was awful we didn't go up to watch but as not to disapoint someone (they know who they are) here are a few for last year, i'm shocked how big i look on these pictures!!!

As you can see its a bit of a crazy day, i'm defo doing it next year!!!

Instead of going to Saddleowth we just went into town and it was Festival Oldham - The beach was the theme such a shame about the weather.

Deit wise it has been another disater, breakfast white oven bottom muffin with extra light dairylee triangles
Snack mcdonalds coffee and apple pie
tea Greggs cornish Pasty and and a sausage roll
supper bacon btty. and hink there may have been more but i have chosen to forget them! BAD BA|D BAD!!!!!

I was told about a really great website tonight by my friend Mandy its called Blipfoto. i love it you can up load only one photo a day and it knows from the data stored on you photos file when you took it so you can't cheat. i've always wanted to do a 365 but never get round to posting pics and forgetting when i've took them , i've checked and you and upload for previous dates as well so i'm going to give it a go.

My page is http://www.blipfoto.com/OpenYourEyes Now if your wondering about the title anyone who has a wii fit (sorry Nil)  will know sometimes the wii fit board tells you to do the body test with your eyes closed at the end of the test it says in its squeaky voice "open your eyes" i love it when it does that and think its quite apt for a photo blog.

woooo my 1st ever award!!!

Thanl you so much to CJ for my 1st ever award!!!

Thank you so much for awarding it too me!!!

now although i have never had an award before after seeing them on other blogs i realise they come with rules!

he award comes with some really cool rules! Here they are,
1. Get really excited that you got the coolest award ever!
2. Choose one of the following options of accepting the Oh My Blog! award:
(a) Get really drunk and blog for 15 minutes straight, or for as long as you can focus.
(b) Write about your most embarrassing moment.
(c) Write a “soundtrack of your childhood” post.
(d) Make your next blog a ‘vlog’/video blog where you’re basically talking to the camera about whatever.
(e) Take a picture of yourself first thing in the morning, before you do anything else (hair, make up, etc) and post it.
3. Pass the award onto at least three, but preferably more, awesome bloggers and let them know.

  1. i am sooooooo excited my 1st award and the coolest ever!!!!

now at 6am when i discover id won the award i was going to do the sound track to my childhood but now as its 00:23 i may as well do (a) as i am really quite drunk!!!

Ok so as yesterdays post announced today (ahem yesterday) was Whit friday and Band contest night!!! as you can imagine i have blown every syn i was ever alowed and opppsoe i;m drunk!!! we went down about 8pm, myself and my mum went to meet my gran who was already there but when we arrive we decided to get a drink before we met her!!! we went in Milan and because they are all sophisticated they gave us our drinks in really glasses instead of the standard issue plastic pint pots so we kind had no choice but to sit in the beer garder and be sophisticated! the we met Mar. i will be on a number of home videos of oldham (Lees) band as we went to get her a brew and cos it was so hot and she wasn't looking at us i screemed her name as the band was playing, it was only after i noticed all the video cameras Ops!!

i love the band contest brass might not be everyones cup of tea but its such a local tradition i'd feel robbed if i didnt go! i went last year in the pouring rain thats dedication for you!!!

Tomorrow is beer walk and i've not signed up so i can't officially  do it but thats another amazing event 1500 people all in fancy dress walking 11.5 miles in fancy dress. i might fo and watch part of it if the weather is ok!!

I know my diet is totally out of the window for today and this week but hey ho, life has to happen as well as dieting, i will not beat myself up, i have really wanted to resit but i haveny managed it, i hope mondays wi will put it all into perspective for me, because even though it is bank holiday my class is still open and i will go and face the music.

ok so task 3 of the award is to choose at least 3 people

well there are some blogs i really look forward to reading and when i see them on my blog list as being recently updated i smile before i even read them and they are, in no particular order:
 
Lauren@ http://fromhottonot.blogspot.com/ a girl after my own heart who just wants to graduate from high school marry christian slater and die ..xxx

River @ http://losing-on-purpose.blogspot.com/ some on who's blog i love to read and i have missed her while she has been oon holiday x


Gemma @ http://gemswwstory.blogspot.com/ this girl is such an inspration to me x

Mandy http://thelifeof-mandy.blogspot.com/ a perosn who i met via WW went on a photographic journry and someone i consider a really good friend and she is firmly on my xmas card card list, you are doing so well hun xx

Giggles http://gigglessummer.blogspot.com/ my most fave engaged peson in the whole world another WW friend, congrats hun xxx

http://justanordinaryhumblegirl.blogspot.com/ some i think is a really lovely person, who has had a mini break from blogging but i hope is back inblog land i love her posts and have missed her x

http://runningdivamom.blogspot.com/  another blog i love to read, and inspired me enough to know one day i will be able to run, it may not be today or next week but one day i will do it xxx

abi @ http://curlupanddiet.blogspot.com/ i love this blog and she loves my picture taking .


now there are many more people who i feel should be honoured but its now 1.09am and i think i should sleep

look forward to band contest pics tomorrow

PS i am reading most blogs daily but i know ive not really commented on many, please dont think im not reading them itsjust i've been come on quite late and blogging then becaue i like to read them all i never seem to have time to comment after my next holiday i hope to be in a better commenting place

 xxxxx

Band Contest Ahoy!!!

Its tomorrow!!! yay i'm really looking forward to it, but looking at tonights weather its going to be another washout! i hope not, the weather last year was awful!!!

Diet wise since Tuesday i haven't stopped eatting, and when i say eat i mean eating anything in sight! i've been constantly hungry. filling foods have been consumed, 1/3 super free but yet i'm craving salt and sugar. i was blaming it on that being my 1st day of feeling well for about 10days but i'm still hungry!!! so i fear this weeks wi result will be a gain, but i have 4 days to try and claw back the damage i've done. i haven't tracked but i'd say i'm defo over my weeks syns allowance already! ops

I have been good exercise wise today. i went for a walk this morning. i walked up quite a steep hill till i came to a public footpath the cut across thining i'd come out at the ressie, but i kept coming to forks in the road and couldn't decide which way to come, luckily because i was quite high up i could see roughly where i was in relation to key land marks so i wound my way back to the main road and came out in a pubs car park!!! i was getting a bit scared as i had come down a steep incline then back up another and thought if i need to retrace my steps i'm screwed!!!

 

 These are what it was like! very pretty but as you can see not very clear paths! 
i was only out for about 25mins but it was long enough!!!
then when i came home i did 30mins on the wii fit.

Then we went shopping in town and clocked loads of steps, outside the main shopping centre was all fenced off and there is a giant sandpit! we're not 100% sure what its all about but i read in the paper that its festival Oldham this weekend so guessing it has something to do with that!

There was also a Panda (i think the same one as in Kung Fu Panda advertising a Circus was a day for strange sights!

Then after tea i went for another walk, but i kept to the footpaths rather than falling for public off track foot paths! Had a lovely walk. i started off by walking up the main road near my house which is quite steep, the last time i tried walking up there was about 2 maybe 3 years ago and i gave up when i got to the chimney and turned back

 

 I live in what was a very big cotton mill town so we have chimneys all over the palce, this one i love if i can see it i know home is near by!
The i walked past the warm memorial

We had a miserable start and end to the day, this was taken at about half 7 tonight and it was glorious sunshine.
Next i walked down the road where my greatgran parents lived when i was small, my G Grandad passed away here then my g' gran moved in with my gran

 I have so many memories of this house and i was only 11 when frankie boy passed away, its amazing how they all came flooding back as i stood outside, they waited year to get UPVC double glazing and just after lulu moved out it got fitted for the new tennent! the privits are looking healthy i always remeber frankie putting his cig ends out in the soil and telling me ash was good for the soil!

 Final pic my decent back to my road. this might soud mad but i hate walking on flat roads, the really bore me. so instead of talking the easy option and the flat road home i doubled back on myself up a couple of small hills then down a massive one!!!

did just over an hour and my total steps for today are:

17,917

 feel quite proud of myself. 

going to walk to the band contest tomorrow and if the weathers ok we're going to go and watch the beer walk start and got for a little walk myself x

49.5lbs down!!!!

yay i did it i got my 3.5stone award and certificate tonight!!! so chuffed.

i lost 1.5lbs while on holiday, i know the bad belly possibily helped but i'm so happy!!! 1 more wi before i go to spain!!! hope i can keep it up!!

i'm 3.5lbsoff my next mini taget which was 26lbs loss.

i've dug out some old copys of slimming world magazines so gonna re-read them and cut out the recipes and wl journeys.

roll on 4st lost!!!!

i can't praise sw highly enough i have finally found  a plan that works for me, and there really doesn't have to be weighing and measuring (well some but you can get round it)

i did take some picture of me each day on holiday on my cameras internal memory so i will share them soon!

its the band contest on friday, i just hope the weather holds, last year was a wash out! and its a week earlier this year. yesterday was whit sunday and although i didn't see any parades i did hear a few of the brass bands playing near by makes me feel in the mood, plus its the one day of the year we can walk round drinking beer in the street (think of the film brassed off )

I kinda wish i was doing the beer walk (11 miles 11 cans of larger, fancy dress soooo funny) i did it last year and loved it, but none of my friends wanted to do it this year. am a bit gutted really x

Belly Ouchie

Hope your not eating as yo u read this, because if you are i'd suggest you come back later.



I've still got a dodgy belly, 7 days and still no sign of getting better. but its not like normal D, i can go hours with out going, then all of a sudden i get that familiar feeling and ut oh i have to go! (sorry but i did warn you!) sick of it now, its getting to the stage where i am straving but scared to eat. all i've had today was my tea, chicken salad, jeresy royals and sweetcorn, i know it prob wasn't the best thing to have but i am craving fruit and veg but again i'm scared to eat them, regret eating it now but hey ho. if i feel no better tomorrow i'm going to try and gwt in my doctors but its always a struggle, you have to phone up as the clock turn 8.30am and if your not on the line dead on the dot you have no chance of an appointment. so i know i will prob get sent to the walk in centre but i know they have limited loos so not the best place to go with a bad stomach!!!

i also really want to eat curry, hot and spicy home made slimming world friendly curry but again not a great meal to have on a bad belly!!! i just hope i've lost weight tomorrow if i haven't i really will feel cheated! i did weigh myself in boots today (i know i know i shouldn't but i was more curious about my height rather than my weights!) last time i got weight at boots they said i was 5'4.9 booo hisss i maintain i have 5'6. well today on the machine it said 5'4 but on the print out 5'5.3 (166cm) (just googled and 166cm is 5'5.35) so i can live with that, maybe i wasn't stood up properly the 1st time or maybe cos i've lost weight i've streched!?

i'm ofski for now xxx

1/4 of the way to the moon!!!!

The Pedometer challenge is going well from Work my team are currently in 15th possition which i think it pretty good. i had all the figures written down but they are in my bag down stairs and sorry i'm not going getting it. BUT with all the teams who have recorded steps we are approx 1/4 of the way to the moon!!! which isn't bad in about 4 weks.

Dawn if you read this i've got myself all mixed up in what figures i need to give you i will try and sort myself out this weekend.

My hoiday was really good, Sharm was nicer than i expected and i loved the Il Mercato shopping complex it reminded me a bit of Ceasers Palace in Vegas although its out door its very vegas'esk and i kept expecting the sky to keep changing.

There is no virgin megastore now, but from what i've been told the prices were wayyyy expensive so no wonder it closed. i do feel a bit sorry for thre shop, bars and resturantes as a lot of people are all inclusve in egypt and its a shame as the food an bars can be lovely but the bacelet brigade take one look at the prices and because they can't shake a wrist and get something for free pull their faces (sorry to anyone reading this who love all inclusive but i've never done it and not sure i ever will!)
i've had a bad belly since last saturday i thought it was the whole milk in my starbucks coffee as i forgot to tell my dad to get me a skinny cappachino but its been going on to long to be the milk, we have now put it down to handling Egyption Money as it can be a bit dirty looking. just need the poison out of my system.

 The tradiotnal shot out of the plane window, i think we were over Greece at this point.

 One of the 9 pools

 Buttercup - from the Delta Sharm "Zoo" - the hotel had a "Zoo" lots of "cages" but the only animals we found were 3 cows tied to palm trees in a fenced in pen that had a gap the could have escaped it it hadn't been so hot and them too lazy! too be honest we didn't really look for any other animals as we didn't know if the "Zoo" was open or if we had to pay and it was far to hot not to be near the pool.

 

A Tower

Shower Block

Our Apertment - the ground floor left had window and terrace.

Fingers crossed my bad belly mean i've not gained too mucg weight but we did have maccy D's 4 times and i haven't had MDs for months!!! ops just worried i've not eaten enough as that makes me have bad wi week. only time will tell.

QUESTION: Which celeb would you like to look like?

My normal Answer to thisquestionis Reece Witherspoon, but really thinking about it i think i'd rather look like Holly Willougby. Reece is very pretty but being a hollywood celeb she is prob a size zero or 2. where as Holly is a UK size 12 (US 8)  which is far more realistic, i read in a magazine that someone has said she is a great role modle for plus size people on TV!!! OMG i thought it was bad when they changed plus size from   18s to 16s, but for peole now to say size 12 is plus size is ridiculus at leat Gok has spoken out in her defence. Yes she may be slightly bigger than a lot of people on TV it is still a small dress size what is the world coming to!!!

From Tomorrow i'm back on A-Zing i have organised my photos admitidly i haven't got some pics for some ltrs so i might be naughty and work backwards and take some bu i think i have read a book a ltr and watched films the only K film i own is   Knight tale so watchig that on,but makes me sad for Heath Ledger.

I'm Home

i feel i have a lot to blog about but am too tired. had a great holiday. will update over the weekend. hoiday pics are on facebook if anyone wants a gander.

if you add me on FB don't talk about blogging unless its in a PM

cheers xxxx

I am a V.A.V

AKA Volcanic Ash Victim - flight was due out at 13:05, delayed til 14:10... but when it was saying gate open in 30 mins it then flashed up a message saying next update 3pm (hmmm very suspicious) then at 14:15 they made the announcement that our flight and one to tenneriff was canx as our planes were grounded in spain and they had no other planes avaliable. we all had to rtn stuff to the duty free show then go through imigration (have our passports checked!) and go through baggage re-claim then customs!!!! madness.... THEN we had to q up at customer service, well as there were 2 flights canx and over 600 people q'ing the messages that were coming back was we could have a refund or re-book for wed but we had to do it on line so we left the q as after 40mins we'd not moved up even one place. so we are at home, we've tried to canx todays flight but it won't let up we have to phone up but customer service is closed. we've rebooked an outbound flight for tomorrow as we don't want to wait til wednesday but we arn't sure if our in-bound flight is still ok, the website makes no sense.

i feel stressed and i want to try, but its not worth it.

I'll Be Back

Taking a break from blogging as i'm going on holiday....but in the words of the ledgend i'll be back.... don't delete me!!!!

It was my birthday yesterday and thank you to everyone who left me a birthday message on here and on FB.

It was a crummy birthday if truth be told... i was at work allday, i had been told i couldn't book it off, then i found out loads of people have managed to book it so that put me in a bad mood.

Then my birthday present from my old team was broken (a really pretty necklace from next) well that tipped me over the edge...i ended up crying about 3 times. its just one of those things it had already been exchanged once because it had broke in the same place before it had even been wrapped up, luckily it was my mum who had done the collecton and she had the recipt, i was wary about getting another one in case it broke, but they didn't have anymore in next and i could see anythign else i wanted ... i once again almost cried at the till getting the money put on a gift card.

The when we got home we had tea then the sore throat that i developed while taking phone calls at work really kicked in so i went to bed at 8pm and more or less cried myself to sleep... i think all the crying stemed from feeling unwell as crying is my main release mechism, still feel grotty and working all day to day on call centre cover today didn't help but i did only take 13 calls in a 10 hour shift so not bad really and i got tonnes of my own work done! so not all bad.

don't get me wrong i didn't have a horrible day and i got some lovely stuff from my mum... some t-shirts for my holiday and the cat "bought" me some bangles from H&M. i got money off the grannies and my team got me a next voucher.

Luckliy we'd been for the birthday meal on thursday night.
This is a shot of the back of the pub / resturant

And this is the veiw of Greenfield marina, a grand title but its at the side of the canal ( Hudderfield - i could be wrong i've lived here all my life and still get confused!)

It's be lovely on a warm day, shame it was bloody freezing!

I received some lovely birthday cards this year and i love them all but one i want to share a photo of, it was made by my lovely friend sue... who is no less a published author of a number of card making books and i got one of her lovely cards. i really didn't expect any cards let alone a hand made one, i know at least one of my friends who will be jealous.

I'd best try and get some sleep i just hope my flight will be ok and not effected by this blooming volcano!!!! xxxx

Voting day

Did you vote?

i did i really struggled to decide but decision made and by morning we should know who is in power - imo they are all as bad as each other

***Edit***Its my birthday friday 7th may ***Edit***
i've been out for a birthday meal tonight with my mum dad and gran, we went to a resturant called The Kingfisher in Greenfield - saddleworth, it was lovely i had Tempura king prawns with sweet chilli dip followed by 10oz rump steak grilled to perfetion chips (shhhh) salad, sauted mushroom and i had 2 onion rings am stuffed it was 2 4 1 on main meals so excluding drinks it came to £41 for 4 of us to have a 2 course meal!!!

New Look Blog - well kinda

Jessic at CBG blog taught me how to do tabs on my blog so i've added a photos tab (still work in progress) and 2 for wi's 2009 / 2010 rather than having them on the side bar, and i'm going to attempt to tidy up my blog over the next week.

Photo Tab
i'm working my way through all the albums on my lap top and taking out any pictures of me and putting them on the photo tab, some will be repeates that have already been posted on my main blog, but i think it will be good for me to have a quick reference to some of my pictures so i can see just how far i have come.
Wi Tabs
these are just what have been on my side bar, just think it will be easier and clearer to see my progress,  but if your interested feel free to have a look at them xxx

Georgia Davis - Brittans Fattest Teen
i feel a bit werid writing about this as i read a magazine article about her today and fekt a very strong reaction towards her but its quite a negative one and i'm sure people will disagree with me

click here for an article about her. the basics are she weighed 30stone (420lbs) or there abouts and got a scholership to an american well being camp and shed loads of weight maybe 12stone, then she has had to come home because her mum and step dad are poorly and she has fell into bad eating habbits again. I do feel sorry for her but she is now legally and adult and should take responsibility for her actions, but her family seem as bad they are not living a good lifestyle from what i have read (this is just my opinion and no-one elses, i'm not saying i'm right and they are wrong i just need to write about it!) i know the girl feels she should look after her family but i think she should look after number one and either go back to america to the camp or take up the offer of the uk summer camp. even if she can't do these she needs to be in counclling - she could be doing all these things but i feel so bad for her and think her family should make her see she should be her own number 1!

RANT OVER!

did you see my earlier post Roberto video?

he is a star he lost 24stone on slimming world, he is an inspration to me, i've got his pic stuck up at work, he keeps me on track most of the time!


I've got will and Synthia this next fortnight they will keep me strong on my hliday when i don't have you guys to watch over me.

 Will and Synthia with my certifictes i got last night

Enjoying a sunny moment on the bench in the front garden

Practising for our holiday to egypt (taken 5 mins before will traded her in for the camel - see facebook for that picture!)

We had lunch by the lake, roast beef on brown muffins, coke zero and a cadbury caramel bunny - yummy

A trip to Alexandra park is not complete without a trip to the lions den - this is our fave lion - not sure i've ever tooka picture of the other one!

The lions den isn't always the safest place in the park as will found out :o)

xxx

Inspiration

Roberto is one of my many SW heros

just watch his vid.

this dude lost 25stone on the same diet i do!!!

I did it, i did it, i did it and i did it good!!!!!

I did it, i lost 6½lbs this week, to say i was happy is an understatement!!! i got weighed 1st as i weight everyone else and a couple of the girls were locked out of the main room but looing in they were laughing at my little dance on the scales!!!

In some ways its good going in early and weighing in 1st but in other ways i miss the celebrating with everyone in the que.

I was also slimmer of the week. i got loads of fruit in my bag some tins so my food for this week is pretty much sorted!!!!!

Ok lets talk about my night out. Thank you for all the comments on yesterdays post. my night out was good i think. well from what i can remeber of it. i remeber going into the club i remeber sitting in the booth, going to the bar once. i don't remeber leaving but when i work up this morning i had a text off my friend that she sent at 4am asking it i'd gone home. i think i might have wrecked my very expensive and beautiful suede bag that i got from Zara, why i took it out is anyones guess - i need to get a suded brush to see if i can rescue it. i doubt that i can even replace it as its a limited edition one and i haven't seen them in Zara the last couple of times i've been in. oh well . i also appear to have lost my shoes - granted i haven't looked very far for them but i can't see them anywhere. i haven't got any cuts on my feet so i'm assuming i came home in them and i have found 2 glow in the dark rave bracelets so its anyones guess where i got them from. i texted my friend and she has no idea!!!!

Me and lauren in Legends

Me and Nat in Legends

 How Classy plastic glasses!!! this could be one of the reasons i have very little memory of the night Jacques cider yummy but evil - i have also remebered we had a shot of blueberry sambucca in this pub as well, i wonder if we had shots in Tokes - will have to ask Nat!!!

Do you think we should enter  Next Top Model this must have only been about midnight god i wouldn't have liked to see myself at 4am!!!


 I have no idea who these next too are but we obviously felt the need to take picks of them. i'm assuming rachel took them as she seemed to be the official photographer of the night!!!

 

 Awww bless look how scared he looks. i do kinda remeber this pic taken, as i remebr putting my hand to my face.

I wonder who he is?and i'm guessing i'm drinking vodka lime and lemonade.
I just wish i could remeber more about it. i'm sure bits will come back to me as the week go's on!!!

Got another day off tomorrow yipppeeee going to try and get up and have a little walk. hope the weather is better, its been so bloody cold today.

I didn't do a end of april round up as felt so disappointed in only losing 1lb for the whole month but i'm going to do a little one now

2010  i have lost 21.5lbs so far this year making that a running total of 48lbs (3 stone 6lbs!)

1lb to go for my next mini target and i haven't even decided how to record it in my journal!!!!
6lbs to go to my 2nd 10%

I got some really lovely comments form people at group tonight one of the target members hasn't seen me for a couple of weeks and she said she can see a big difference and a couple of people said they liked my hair.

going back to my night out for a moment, i also noticed i felt more confident chatting to people some bloke was talking to me at the bar - not like that. he was with his GF but normally i'd ignore people or one word answer and i felt ok chatting  and that was only pub 2 and i'd only had 2 vodcas by that point so it wasn't the false confidence alcohol brings

nighty night xxxx