Monday Blues

Well somehow its Monday again and as always time is flying. The weekend was a good one, and I am so excited that we are now into the last week of Winter, surely that gives everyone something little to smile about?? Its such a beautiful day outside today too, blue skies and the sun is shining, perfect for an after work run I think, and hopefully some weights too when I get home, providing I can get out of the office in daylight.

So on the weekend as I have already said I have had a baby shower and an engagement party, both were pretty nice times, but I am absolutely exhausted today from not having a chance to have a break over the weekend, thank god netball had finished or there would have been absolutely no time at all.

At least this week starts off a bit slower. Just work and some exercise tonight and tomorrow, hopefully do some washing too. I am trying to limit the dairy in my diet now and I am starting to feel better for it. Also need to book into the doctors as some point for a mole check, and get this bloody tummy sorted too, its time to know whether its a dairy or lactose intolerance that is causing me this issue.

I am a bit excited for Wednesday as I have the first industry night dinner for my new job, which should be exciting, its at a brewery, so hopefully that means a nice feed, some good drinks and learning some information too. Finally getting my hair done on Thursday too which will be nice, because it has been months!!!

Anyways I should get back into some work, just needed a 10 minute break to clear the brain so I could work more efficiently haha!

3000 views WOW!

So today I hit the 3000 blog page views and all I can say is AMAZING, I can't believe that people actually find this entertaining enough to want to read, so thank you, its very nice to know. Anyways its time for a weigh in!!!

3 months ago, this is where I was sitting

Thigh: 57cm
Waist: 69cm
Butt: 100cm...how big does that sound?
Arm: 30cm...muscly? haha
Clothing Size:10

Today
Thigh: 57cm but much more toned
Waist: 65cm woohoo thats a 4cm loss!
Butt: 89 cm...thats a whopping 11cm loss!!!
Arm: 30.5cm...more muscly? Goaling at netball probably helped that along
Clothing Size:8-10

Wow! Well I am definitely happy with that, I could notice some changes, but didnt realise the changes! That gives me great confidence to keep on going. So hopefully do some more exercise tomorrow and keep eating well.

Celebrity Wedding Ideas

I Love Rebecca Judds wedding dress...stunning!!!

Loving Avrils veil, big and beautiful

 



How happy are Josh and Fergie! Looks like true love!

Love Menas dress and wedding location!!!

Heidi and Spencer went with a yellow wedding theme

Absolutely love Kim K's bouquet and head jewels! stunning

Megan Fox was a simple but stunning bride

Kate was all class in the royal wedding of the century

How amazing is the colour of Reece's dress? Gorgeous pink tone

 



Love the off the shoulder look that Katie went with

I love the weekend

Well look what we have here, I actually got up early enough to post another blog, I have also already been for a 15 minute run and done 100 sit ups to help kick start the day. Its something that I really want to do everyday. But I hate the cold which does cause a lot of problems when it comes to me getting up early, particularly when its technically still winter.

Anyways I haven't done a weigh in this morning because I have already drank 600mL of water so it wouldnt be an accurate reading, so I will weigh in tomorrow morning. I am also hoping to do measurements tomorrow to see if there has been any change over the last couple months, I am hoping there will be a slight change, particularly around the legs and bum region!

Anyways today is the day that I can go pick up my wedding dress. I am so so excited. I have an hour to get ready, I am going to do my hair and make-up nice, put on my lingerie that I plan to wear on the day and also take the jewellery and see how it all looks together, fingers crossed it looks good, or I might be finding new accessories! I so can't wait to see the dress on again! Part of me is a little scared though...what if I dont like it anymore? I am sure as soon as I put the dress on, it is going to look great and exactly how I remember it.

Then I will have the joy of going food shopping, and then present shopping for the engagement party and bridal shower that I have over the next couple of days. Then maybe, just maybe I can start printing out the place cards!!!!

Also great news on the per head cost for the reception! I am a bit of a dummy apparently, because it hasnt gone up $30 like i thought, I just didnt read that it now includes the beverage package (worth $30), so I was adding the $30 on top again!! That brings us down to a much more reasonable $85 per head, meaning we just saved $3k hahaha, not that we had it anyways haha....

Have a great weekend everybody!!

Nearly the weekend!!!

Wow so what a week it has been! Last night was fantastic, having hair and make-up trials with the girls for Stephs wedding, I loved how great the hairdressers did all our hair! Looked fantastic! We then headed back to the bride to be's house for some yummy pizza for dinner...probably not the best thought out dinner idea for me, as my tummy has been regretting it every since. But o well. One of the bridesmaids did our make-up and I thought it looked perfect! I am so excited for the day to come around, 99 to go!

So tonight I am hopefully going to make a start on the place cards! In great news also, it looks like our price per head for the dinner menu hasnt been increased! Which means we might even be able to add a couple people back on to the list! But we will see how it goes, I really only want people there who actually care about me. Turns out so many people I thought would go out of there way for me...actually wont. Definitely disappointing when you would do anything for them. But thats life hey!

Anyways so I am so glad that its Friday, I am looking forward to some yummy drinks over the weekend, I have a relaxing night at home tonight, then hopefully get up and do some exercise tomorrow, weather permitting of course, then off to get my wedding dress, probably a lot of house cleaning when I get back from that, then off to a friends engagment party, then finishing off Sunday with a bridal shower, so hopefully a fun weekend, but one that I think will turn out to be pretty tiring to say the least!

I don't know if I will have time for my saturday weight update, so If not. have a great weekend all!!!

7 Months to Go!!!

Wow! Well I have certainly had a few days that will get locked into the memory bank. Tuesday night was my netball clubs vote count, and I came runners up best and fairest, well equal runners up with an amazing netballer and its just such a shock! 2 days later and I still cant believe it. This was my first season of playing netball properly in a league so to get a trophy is just unexpected, but also its so nice to feel really good at something. Hopefully the season won't clash too much with next years wedding and I'll be back to play again.

Anyways today is August 23rd, that means exactly 7 months to the wedding, and I am feeling a lot better about things now. I have started statusing about the wedding when I want too, because if people who I am friends with dont like it, they are clearly not me friends and can delete me, and then I will happily delete them from the wedding guest list too haha!

So as for wedding plans this week, I have heard back from the photographer and he is happy with the time frames I have given him, I have also contacted our florist for a revised quote because mum believes our grandma should have corsages, I guess she is right that they should get something, but it still seems a little pointless to me, but as most of you know, I am not the biggest an of flowers. I have barely been home this week so I haven't had the chance to start the place cards as yet, but hopefully will get this started over the next few days, and definitely over the weekend...well maybe.

Tonight I have the hair and make-up trials for my besties wedding! So exciting!!! Its a hairdresser I have never been to before, so I am looking forward to seeing how they work and what sort of job they do, I know the girl who runs it, so I am sure it will be a great experience and a great result too.

7 months to go...Its actually starting to feel like its going to happen now, especially with me being able to pick up my wedding dress soon! I really can't wait for the day to roll around!!!

Its Tuesday, Gotta get down on Tuesday

Sorry for putting that incredibly bad song in your head, but for some reason its stuck in mine, usually I can handle it....providing its Friday.

Last night was the League vote count for netball, I didnt attend, but was stoked to hear that I recieved 4 votes!!!! I didn't expect to recieve any considering it was my first season playing. So very very happy. Tonight we have our club vote count, I don't think we will find out who wins, but excited to have a nice casual night with the girls before the netball trip away.

So what else has been happening? Well not a lot because I have been posting everyday again. I have had a little bit of dairy so my tummy still isn't loving me, but have cut it down dramatically, as well as I am trying to do a little bit...even if its only 15 minutes exercise everyday and I think I am feeling better because of it.

This week I am also hoping to start printing out the place cards for the wedding. I still have to decide on a font, and whether to use Mr. and Mrs, First, and last names etc. So that will be fun to play around with.

ALSO in big news, my wedding dress has arrived! I can't wait to see it and try it on again! Hopefully it still fit!!! Fingers crossed anyways! Probably won't pick it up for a while!

Check- In

Good Morning all. Isn't it great that its Monday again? Not....

Well that was a pretty busy weekend, I already feel like I need another. Friday night wasn't too busy, just paying bills and catching up on our finances mostly, making sure we havent missed anything of importance. Saturday came around far to quickly with the last game of netball. I was so proud of the girls, playing the top team and we were leading at half time...After that the other team did get on top of us, but to lose only by 10 was a great feeling and gives us some good hopes going into next season. Saturday night I had to do the meals at the club rooms after the footy, and well wasnt that an experience. I grew up in footy clubs. My dad was always involved in coaching, selecting, so pretty much until I was about 10, ever winter weekend was spent in the footy rooms of whichever club it happened to be at that time. However I have never been treated so poorly at any other club. I was more frustrated since I had given up 3 hours of my time to serve, and clean up the meals, all I can say is that I hope there is a new president of the Footy Club next year....

Anyways so before I knew it, it was Sunday!!!! Got up and got a very over-due massage, my shoulder moves again! Then I set upon a 5 hour epic housecleaning and errand running mission, did the shopping, cleaned the whole house, and both cars and then did the ironing....its an exciting life isnt it?

I picked up the place cards for the wedding from mum and dads thinking I would have plenty of time to start writing them out, but it just didn't happen. So hopefully I can make a start on that tonight.

Its been a while since my last weigh in as well, I didnt have the chance to do my measurements, but I have been weighing myself everyday and have stabilised at 70kg! Which means I have lost 2kg. Not a lot, but I am already noticing the difference with my clothes. Also aiming to eat a lot better this week and try and do some exrecise every morning. I have made up a vegetable pasta for lunches...more vegies than pasta, I made some home made fruit porridge for brekky, and on the weekly shop I didnt buy any chips, chocolate or soft drink to temp us, instead I brought apples, bananas, low fat/lactose free yoghurt and some organic muesli bars. Not am I only hoping to lose a few more kilos, but I am hoping with a 10 min run/ride in the morning and healthier food I will have less trouble sleeping and less trouble waking up. I guess I will let you know in a weeks time how its going.

So whats on for this week?

• Big day of work on later today, probably running into the evening too.
• Netball vote count tomorrow night, pizza night and drinks with the girls, think I will skip the pizza.
• Wednesday night is netball, its latish, so hopefully I will have time to get some mid-week house tidying done.
• Thursday I am super excited for hair trials for my best friends wedding....woo hoo!!!!
• Wow Friday already...nothing planned for Friday night, think it will just be a good rest and maybe some house work.
• Saturday I am catching up with some old work friends in the city, and Saturday night I have an engagement party, so it will be gone before I know it.
• Then Sunday I have a baby shower...hopefully it will be a fun weekend!

Until next time :)

Wedding Ideas in Photo's

Its raining weddings!

So I got engaged at 22. Fair to say that is pretty young, well I think it is young. However even though I am this young so many people around me are getting married too. I find this so interesting because the average age to get married is 29. Don't get me wrong I think getting married young is a good thing....not that  think getting married older is  bad thing. I guess the way I look at it, I get to be married to my man at 24. That means we have at least 5 years to travel, focus on our careers, set ourselves up and then start a family of our own....which frankly still scares the shit out of me. Being responsible for a persons life....eek!!!

Anyways starting from next week, we have trials, engagement parties, fittings, bridal showers, hens nights, weddings!!!! And it is all so exciting, the problem is, next week still feels so far away!!! I know that once I hit my besties hair trials next week that the ball is going to really start rolling...because that next weekend I have an engagement party and a baby shower, the following week I have a work function one night, followed by a friends birthday the next weekend. And thats August done and dusted.

Then I say bring on September!!
Well September does technically start with my friends birthday, the following weekend I am sure will be filled with footy finals for me, the next is NETBALL trip!!! I have never been on a netball trip so its fair to say I am pretty excited, yet scared for the amount of alcohol that will be consumed haha. The following week finds me off my work probation! 3 months already? wow! and only 6 months to my wedding, this shit is cray! The next week I am hoping to be booked with a Collingwood premiership, although I am hopeful I am not confident that this will be the case. Somewhere amongst this there will also be netball presentations and a few friend catch ups!

Now October is rolling around...
I will be starting my second job around this time, and celebrating my fiance's birthday! Our dresses should be in around now too! Then there will be a friends 21st, my hens night and another engagement and a friends birthday to round out October nicely... Doesnt look like a lot, but considering I will be working 60 hour weeks, I think itll fly by!

November....and I am certain it is all happening by now....
First weekend looks pretty OK just work work work, rolling on to Melbourne Cup day baby, and then my dadio's birthday, A super busy week at work because we are getting audited....my first food safety audit, Im scared, the following week is my big brothers birthday!!! Followed by my besties hens night....woohoo! WHICH MEANS only one week to her wedding. So I am sure the weeks leading up to this will be filled with more than I think, including rehearsals, fittings, and all the other bits and pieces. Especially having to throw the work audit in there too.

Decemeber!!!
Starts with a bang... with the first day my best friends wedding!!! A massive day I am sure, and I absolutely cant wait for it. Other than work, things should slow down a little in the lead up to christmas. We will be finalising guest lists and ordering invitations to send out in January.Christmas will be fairly quiet for me, very low key and probably working through most of it where I can to bank some holidays for the wedding. New Years will roll around and another besties birthday will be here on the first day of January.

So after writing all of that, I think from next week, things are gonna get busy....Lets see if the blog will be able to keep up.

Finding the $$$$

So as most people know, weddings are expensive!!! With the average wedding costing $30k! Yep its more than you think its gonna cost. When we got engaged I thought no problem, we will be able to do the whole thing for $10k! How wrong we were....

At $100 per head for guests for food and drink, thats $10k gone quicker than you have ever seen. Then even if you add the essentials, the dress, the suits, celibrant, the invitations and hair and make-up on the day you already well and truly at $15k! Then if you would like a photographer, videographer, some decorations, favours, a guest book and transport, you are easily pushing $25k!  Plus your honeymoon? I'd say most people end up around the $30k mark.

Now I dont know about you? But thats 75% of my yearly earnings, even higher after the government take their cut. So it is an expensive business.

So what do I reccommend?

• Shop around, get quotes and ask if they can beat or do better.
• DYI where you can
• Call in favours from friends and family who may have talents in singing, decorations, MC-ing?
• Consider doing your own hair and make-up?
• Pick a line for the guest list and stick to it. No cousins? No partners? No children?
• Avoid wedding planners and try sites like easyweddings.com.au first and foremost

Ofcourse these things dont always make a crazy different in the price:

• Find out if your parents wish to contribute and get a figure on how much....this is something I have had extreme difficulty with, our parents will help ofcourse but wont give us a figure which makes like a bit harder when it comes to budgeting.
• I will be starting a second job, hopefully to give the bank account an extra $100-200 boost each week going directly into a wedding saver account
• Start looking into loans. Will your credit card suffice? Do you need a personal loan? Can you add the cost of the wedding onto your homeloan?

If all else fails elope....its all the same in the end....i guess hahah

Topsy Turvy

So things haven't been going that well of late which is why I havent posted in a few weeks. I have been trying to sort out my head, and then I remembered that the best way for me to do that was to write my blog. So as most of you would know from reading my previous blogs, I had been made to feel a bit selfish by a so called "friend" in the early days of my wedding planning. She made me feel like i didn't deserve to be excited nor should I talk about my wedding plans, and thats why most of the wedding plans so far I decided to do on my own. Simply because I felt like i would be putting everyone out, or annoying them to ask anything of them. Silly I know...

The last couple weeks have also been filled with some price increases to the reception meals, meaning that we have had to cut the guest list a little, but that doesn't really phase me, I want a relatively small wedding anyways. The hens planning has also seemed somewhat of a nightmare with timing, pricing and what to do seemingly difficult to get to suit everyone. I have taken a step back from the hens planning though, and I think my maid of honour has done a great job of planning it since.

The lovely ATO has decided to withold my tax return too, GREAT TIMING!! Because they want to review my claims, I have found this particularly hard to deal with, my claims are legitimate, I can substantiate them, yet I have to wait until October! What about all the other people who actually are tax evaders and who actually do the wrong thing year after year! But nope they penalise me. They were also particularly rude in their approach, the letter stating "of the 79,000 people we review, we find 55,000 to be fraudulent or incorrect" gee thanks Australian Government for calling me a fraud for working so hard, for working more than one job at one time, remember that time when i was at uni and living out of home and you gave me a whopping $14 a fortnight, forcing me to study full time, work full time and run a household. Yep your looking after the right people there, you just keep giving money to teenage idiots who get pregnant, and the people who would rather watch Jerry Springer on the couch all day, instead of looking after and appreciating the majority of the community who do the right thing!

So as you can see my head has been in one angry and frustrating place the last couple weeks...

But after a big chat with my husband to be and ofcourse my mumsy, things are feeling a lot better. I started planning the candy bar, selecting the style and lollies that I want to include, I have refined the guest list to a fair number, we have decided to go a little over budget so I can have the decorations that I dreamed of having, I have de-stressed a little by changing my hair and make-up to the same salon, that way we only have one place to go in the morning of the wedding day, my lovely maid of honour has put out the hens invitations, which has been a massive weight off my shoulders...

So whats next?
I want to start making up my little bonboniere boxes, and I have ordered the little stickers to go on them.
I am waiting to see who makes the effort to come to my hens before finalising the guest list and ordering invitations.
I am going to enjoy it! If I wanna post a status on facebook about the wedding, I am going to do it, cos its my life and I am allowed to enjoy my wedding.
I am going to talk about my wedding plans when I want to.
Most of all I am going to forget all the people that have been trying to drag me down, true friends want you to be happy, they dont make you feel like shit cos they are unhappy with their own lives....simple? I guess I will find out!

Until next time, have a good one