Lots to be excited about!

Hello! It's been so long since I've posted. We still don't have internet at home and I'm at Tara's - apparently quickly checking email, but doing a blog update too!

I am rather excited today. I registered my business names! Yippee! My fitness business is called "Fabulous Figures" and my tanning business is called "Tan-To-Go" Next step will be designing our business cards and website. I started studying again this week. It is so exhilarated studying something that is interesting, rather different to my boring work stuff. I go to college Tuesday and Thursday nights as well as all day Sunday, so I will have a very full schedule.

We have had crazy rainfall recently. The last week has been nice and sunny though. I couldn't even get to work last Friday as all routes to the office were flooded. Water was lapping at the doors at home! Arnie was even treated to a night sleeping inside.

Well only a matter of weeks before the October comps are here. I'm getting excited for the girls. We have booked our holiday and paid in full today. Yippee, off to Thailand. I'm looking forward to that. Settlement on our land is on Monday and we will officially be back in the mortgage market.

So much happening and so much to be happy and thankful for! I am loving life : )

My Graduation

I forgot to mention my graduation in my catch up post. Whilst I was MIA I had a graduation ceremony for a qualification I completed through work. We had to dress up in gowns and it was rather exciting! We went out and celebrated after the ceremony and I was very very sick the following day. I don't handle alcohol very well.

I didn't end up accepting that job either. Thank you to everybody who sent me good luck wishes about that. They wanted to negotiate the money and I said no. Since then I have actually been really enthusiastic about my job. Funny how things happen.

Gerards surgery went well today. Thank you to everybody for sending well wishes. Hopefully this will be the last of the skin cancers. Especially now that we have the spray tanning business. I must say he has developed tanarexia. Every 5 days at the maximum I have to tan him! Beats soaking in the sun though.

We picked up the keys for our rental property today. It is a brand new house so it is lovely and clean. The area is great for bike riding. No gigantic hills that put you off riding! The kids will love it. Although I will miss being able to walk past the ocean every morning. But it's not forever, we'll be back soon I hope. Lots of work to do over the next few days so I'll probably catch up with you all next week!

Gone are the days.....

of me being the aerobic bunny at the front of the class jumping the highest and putting everybody elses moves to shame! I did a Body Step Class tonight....I am so damn unco these days! I used to LOVE step classes....we'll see if the love returns in time.....

I have had a great week thus far. I have been to the gym 3 days in a row. Yippee. I have eaten clean 3 days in a row as well and I have also slept like a baby the last 2 nights. I have the next 4 days off work. Tomorrow is to take G to his surgery. He has to go back and have more cells cut out of his head as the doctor didn't go deep enough. So that is a bummer, but I'm sure it will all be fine. Then we start moving on Friday. We will move a bunch of boxes on Friday morning and I will get them all unpacked before we move the big items over on Saturday. EVERYTHING will be unpacked by the time I go to bed on Sunday night. Then I will have to get some mirrors organised for my posing classes as I already have appointments booked for the following weekend. I seriously love teaching posing and routine instruction. I love working hands on with people and seeing them improve and gain confidence in themselves. It is such a satisfying feeling.

Well on that note, time to chill out and wind down.

Long Time No Post

Well well well, it has been a long time between posts! My trip to Melbourne seems so long ago now. I had a great time. I got to spend lots of time with the beautiful Hilde, meet Shar, have some enjoyable conversations with Sam, Lia and Katie, catch up with lots of people including Cheryl, Jodie, Sue and Ali and the absolute pinnacle of the weekend was seeing 2 incredible women that I have been privileged to share their comp journey with win their category!!!! The above picture is of me with these amazing women - Dee and Christy. Sam summed up my feelings when she said to me at the end of the night "You must be feeling very proud right now!" Proud indeed!

So you will see by the other photo above that we have sold our shack. We went to auction on the last week of July and sold at the auction. Talk about an adrenalin rush! That was fun. We have already reinvested in a block of land. Can you believe we have bought a block right across the road?! We are moving to the "good side" of the street - haha....well the views are better on this side anyway.

I have been in the process of packing up the house as we move next week. I really don't like this task....it positively sucks. I have been a big fat slacker as far as my training goes. I am so unfit and feeling very gross. I have been talking with a friend of mine about this over the last week and she is helping me take control of my training and state of mind in order to get back on track. Time to start getting motivated and setting goals.