PostHeaderIcon Imma so tardy!

March 18th, 2010 Author: Tails

So I know I havent done an update in a while, except for the weekly poll results, and that makes me feel sad (the lack of updates, not the poll results).

I have a few things to update on, so to give myself some structure, I’ll make the list here:

The wedding I shot recently
My sister’s graduation
Unisa updates
Weekend away at Sedgefield

So there it is. I might not update in that order, but those updates will be done by Monday evening! Speaking of which, yay for Monday being a public holiday! I need it!

In other news, a quick update on my WeightWatchers programme: I’ve lost 2.2kgs in total since joining! I’m now down to 53.6kgs!! Only 3.6 to go!!

PostHeaderIcon Poll Results: Does thunder and lightning creep you out?

March 15th, 2010 Author: Tails

Does thunder and lightning creep you out?

Hell no, I love it!! (58%, 7 Votes)
Thunder does/a little, but lightning is beautiful! (25%, 3 Votes)
Lightning does/ little, but thunder is awesome! (8%, 1 Votes)
Yes, both frighten the bejabbers out of me! (8%, 1 Votes)
No (0%, 0 Votes)
Yes, they both creep me out a little… (0%, 0 Votes)
Yes, I’m terrified when it starts thundering away (0%, 0 Votes)
Yes, I’m terrified of lightning (1%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 12

How odd, it seems rain-related polls get more vote responses. I chose “Thunder does/a little, but lightning is beautiful!” because, truth be told, thunder does creep me out. Same goes for my dogs, the poor things. I do tell them that “God is just moving his furniture around again and there is nothing to be frightened of” :P

When I was in JHB, the thunder there was so loud I literally jumped each time there was a huge clap of it, and I was all alone in my guesthouse which made me even more jumpy.

New poll up of course. This time involving food. Let’s see if food is as popular as rain! Hehe.

PostHeaderIcon Poll Results: What is/was your favourite Fairytale?

March 8th, 2010 Author: Tails

What is/was your favourite Fairytale?

Thumbelina (25%, 1 Votes)
Three Little Pigs (25%, 1 Votes)
Three Billy Goats Gruff (25%, 1 Votes)
Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor (25%, 1 Votes)
Hansel and Gretel (0%, 0 Votes)
The Ugly Duckling (0%, 0 Votes)
Tom Thumb (0%, 0 Votes)
Rumpelstiltskin (0%, 0 Votes)
Peter and the Wolf (0%, 0 Votes)
Little Red Riding Hood (0%, 0 Votes)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (0%, 0 Votes)
The Frog Prince (0%, 0 Votes)
The Elves and the Shoemaker (0%, 0 Votes)
Cinderella (0%, 0 Votes)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (0%, 0 Votes)
Black Beauty (0%, 0 Votes)
Jack and the Bean Stalk (0%, 0 Votes)
Other (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 4

Thanks to everyone who voted! I had to choose between Peter and the Wolf and Three Billy Goats Gruff. I chose the latter because it was the first book I learnt to read, so it has some good memories.

New poll up, regarding thunder and lightning. Check it out and vote vote vote!

PostHeaderIcon Poll Results: Have you ever danced in the rain?

March 1st, 2010 Author: Tails

Have you ever danced in the rain?

Yes (58%, 7 Votes)
Yes, more than once! (25%, 3 Votes)
Maybe some day (8%, 1 Votes)
I want to… (8%, 1 Votes)
No (0%, 0 Votes)
No and I never will (1%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 12

Looks like we have some free spirits here! Lots of people people dancing in the rain! And a record number of voters: 12! Yay!

New poll up, another whimsical one: What is/was your favourite Fairytale?

PostHeaderIcon Weight: Lost!

February 23rd, 2010 Author: Tails

So as the title says, I’ve lost weight (thanks to WeightWatchers). 1kg to be specific! Yes, sure, some will be water loss, but it still counts! I weighed in at 54.8.

Although I’m excited at having climbed on the scale and seen that I was down by exactly one kilogram, I still realise a few factors could have contributed to make it inaccurate, so I’ll only truly get excited when I’m closer to 53 or 52kgs.

The diet thus far hasnt been very difficult to stick to, and I was a little worried because not much of my eating habits had changed, mainly the portion sizes. I even managed to remove sugar from my coffee without much fuss (I thought I’d hate it more than I did, but it’s actually not bad).

But this just goes to show how important portion sizes are! And in case anyone is wondering, no I didnt go on a diet of just carrots and lettuce or something extreme. In fact, I managed to fit in calamari, a cocktail, a hot cross bun, and even pizza into this week.

For those who are interested, I’ll list my week’s intake here:

Day One:
Breakfast: Nothing
Lunch: White bread x 3, margerine x 3, turkey slices x 6, lettuce and tomato (basically, one closed and one open sandwich): 9pts
Dinner: Chicken leg (medium sized), chicken wing, 1/2 cup of rice, peas and corn (just less than a cup): 7pts
Snacks: Coffee, full cream milk, 2 x sugar, 1 x apple: 3 pts
Total: 19/18 pts

Day Two:
Breakfast: Oasto Easy (Strawberry & Yoghurt flavour): 3.5 pts
Lunch: Nothing.
Dinner: Chicken thigh (with skin), gem squash, 1/2 cup of rice: 6 pts
Snacks: Coffee, full cream milk, 2 x sugar: 2 pts
Total: 11.5/18 pts

Day Three:
Breakfast: 45g All Bran Flakes, 1 cup of full cream milk: 6 pts
Lunch: White bread x 2, ham slice, lettuce and tomato: 3 pts
Dinner: I & J Chunky (crumbed fish), 1/2 cup of rice, peas and corn (about 1 cup): 6 pts
Snacks: Coffee, full cream milk, 2 x sugar: 2 pts
Total: 17/18 pts

Day Four:)
Breakfast: Oasto Easy (Strawberry & Yoghurt flavour): 3.5 pts
Lunch: Hot dog bun, mayo (approx 1.5 tsp), 2 tsp tomato sauce, vienna: 4.5 pts
Dinner: Pizza slice (Roman’s margerita with extra tomato, medium) x 3: 7.5 pts
Snacks: Just Juice can, 100ml wine, Coffee, full cream milk, 2 x sugar: 4 pts
Total: 19.5/18 pts

Day Five:
Breakfast: coffee, 2% milk: 1 pt
Lunch: Burger bun, chicken fillets, sauce (basically a chicken prego roll): 5.5 pts
Dinner: 80g cooked calamari, 1/2 cup of rice, gem squash, 1 tsp Grape Seed Oil (chilli flavour!): 3.5 pts
Snacks: Wine, cocktail, oils and bread pieces: 6 pts
Total: 16/18 pts

Day Six:
Breakfast: coffee, 2% milk, extra milk: 1.5 pts
Lunch: Burger bun, ham, 1tsp Dijonnaise, tomato and lettuce: 4 pts
Dinner: 350g cooked pasta, tomatos, 3 olives, herbs and spices, 1 tsp Grape Seed Oil (chilli flavour!): 5 pts
Snacks: None.
Total: 10.5/18 pts

Day Seven:
Breakfast: Oasto Easy (Strawberry & Yoghurt flavour): 3.5 pts
Lunch: Hot cross bun: 3 pts
Dinner: 125g cooked spaghetti, 100g bolognaise, 2 tsp Grape Seed Oil (chilli flavour!): 7 pts
Snacks: 100ml wine: 1.5 pts
Total: 15/18 pts

I dont reach my 18 points every day, but the times where I normally would take a huge portion (*cough*spaghetti bolognaise*cough*), I’ve cut back which is a big thing. Plus the decrease in sugar intake (eg no sugar on All Bran breakfast or Oasto Easy) is clearing working. Also if you’re more aware at how much a teaspoon of margerine is, you tend not to waste points on it. 1 teaspoon of marg is worth 1 whole point! Eek!

Yay! Here’s to the next kilogram!

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Completed = crossed out

Personal Growth:

1. Go to a movie alone
2. Do volunteer work
3. Get published (letter/story/photograph)
4. Plant a tree
5. Buy a worm farm (or "shares" in a worm farm)
6. Try a new restaurant
7. Take each member of my immediate family out to lunch (0/3)
8. Read a biography
9. Write a novel
10. Finish a YOU magazine crossword
11. Frame & hang 10 photos I've shot (0/10)
12. Get MagMark bookmarks made
13. Get professional photos taken of myself
14. Make my bed every day for the next 2 weeks (14/14)
15. Train myself to do the splits
16. Go shopping alone 5 times (2/5)
17. Get Gizmo's lumps removed - not recommended by vet
18. Travel out of South Africa
19. Get car fixed (bonnet, dent, rattling)

Online:

20. Go one day a week without Facebook for 3 months (0/12)
21. Get 5 new blog followers (let me know if you're following my blog so I can count you) (5/5)
22. Get three people to start a blog (0/3)
23. Sort my blog links in catagories - in progress
24. Re-evaluate bracketed items in this list when individually completed
25. Get 3 other people to do a 101 in 1001 list. (1/3) - let me know if this has inspired you so I can mark off a notch here! *in progress: penmagedragon*

Health/Diet:

26. Go to the dentist
27. Use body cream every night for a month (0/31)
28. Donate blood (this is a scary one for me!)
29. Get two other people to donate blood (0/2)
30. Incorporate three new meals into my diet (2/3) - fish/calamari, Cottage Pie, ?
31. Make an emergency kit
32. Learn CPR
33. Stretch (ie yoga-style) every day for a month (0/30)
34. Take my pill every day for 60 days (60/60)
35. Try a new food (ie snails)
36. Stop drinking fizzy drinks for 30 days (0/30)
37. Go to the gynecologist once a year (0/2)
38. Try the fruit of a Delicious Monster
39. Go to every gym class for a month (12/12)
40. Find out my blood type

Hobbies:

41. Get my Sexpo photo printed on canvas
42. Do some fabric painting
43. Take three images in a series (0/3)
44. Get three images printed on canvas for my lounge (0/3)
45. Bring our bonsai back to life
46. Buy a bigger pot for my Delicious Monster - Birthday Gift '09
47. Get fish tank looking and running great
48. Shoot a sunrise
49. Keep my bedroom floor tidy for 2 whole weeks! (2/14)
50. Complete a scrapbook

Random/Fun:

51. Ride a luge pipe
52. Watch Forest Gump
53. Fly in a helicopter
54. Ride in a hot air balloon
55. Write to a celeb (and try get an autographed photo)
56. Walk into an elevator and don’t turn around, just face the other people
57. Win a competition
58. Get birds to visit the garden regularly -17/05/2009
59. Build a puzzle
60. Take my dogs to the beach (and take pics)
61. Get a professional massage
62. Get canvases and do rat painting art
63. Go to Build-A-Bear and build a bear

Financial:

64. Keep a list of expenses for 30 days (0/30) - in progress
65. Save R3000 (R0)

Social:

66. Go to a strip club
67. Throw a party for someone - 02/01/2010
68. Go wine tasting
69. Go grape stomping
70. Do a Township Tour
71. Go camping
72. Host a board game night
73. Go cherry picking
74. Go to a Summer concert - 14/02/2010
75. Throw another cocktail party
76. Do a girl's night out with cocktails
77. Go gambling
78. Go to a Lesbian Bar/Club

Learning:

79. Learn to shoot a gun
80. Learn to pole dance
81. Learn to belly dance
82. Learn to make three new dishes (0/3)
83. Learn the harmonica
84. Learn how to change a tire

Work:

85. Shoot 5 weddings (1/5)
86. Get business cards printed
87. Get portfolio book printed
88. Photograph at an animal shelter
89. Take a photography course
90. Shoot a wedding for free
91. Redo my dad's website
92. Buy new camara equipment (lens/body/memory card/etc)
93. Advertise my business (paid advertising)
94. Host a stand at a wedding expo
95. Backup my computer data
96. Get to work on time every day for a week (5/5)

Love:

97. Initiate romance once for every 3 five times (2/5)
98. Make love 5 times a week for 1 month (0/4)
99. Have sex blindfolded
100. Be naughty in a public place
101. Get engaged

Start Date: May 02, 2009
End Date: January 28, 2012
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