Monday 24th August

I WILL exercise today, honestly. I think I did very well yesterday doing all that painting, I was certainly sweating.
The hall so far. There is a bit of tidy-up painting to do, neatening up sort of thing.
I need a plan for the day.............
Today R has a girl coming round (not met her before) she is a friend of a friends mum n daughter popping round, her little girl is going to be in R's year at school and does not know anyone in the school, so her mum is bringing her here to meet R so that when she is at the school she will at least know one person to begin with, sort of thing.
I will eat as healthily as I can today - let's take one day at a time ok.

5.30pm - Eaten Hmmmmm......well, okish I guess, not the most balanced choices.
Breakfast - All bran and skim milk (sawdust)
Lunch - Turkey sandwich and half a bag of crisps
Tea - Wholemeal toast and plums

R had a new friend round today, a girl who is in her year at her new school, the mum brought her round to meet R, we had a nice afternoon, the kids played and me and Paula (mum ) chatted.

J had a good day in work, Neil isn't home yet. The weather is so nice out so I sent Neil a txt to see if he wanted to go for a walk later which he said he does.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh feel so FAT today (that dreaded word!)

1am - 2 scones, a Mcdonalds Happy Meal, Packet of crisps and cream cheese (light), a vanilla mousse erm......that's about it - Hmmmmm.........no wonder am going to bed feeling icky sick.

On the plus side, before we went to Mcdonalds for said Happy Meals (one for me, and one each for the kids), Neil and I went to West Kirby and did a brisk walk around the Marine Lake - I said we are going to do this each and every evening (weather permitting)

Tuesday 25th August

TODAY I WILL EAT SUPER HEALTHILY OK and I WILL DO SOME EXERCISE

Some pics from our walk around the Marine Lake last night
I love walking around here
Sailing club end of the Marine Lake
We are going to walk around it again tonight. I made Neil walk faster (he said "I thought we were just out for a stroll!!!". Last night it took us 20 minutes to walk around the whole circumference of the Lake.

Got up at 7.45am. It is now 8.30am and Neil has gone to work as has J. R is still snoozing. It looks lovely out today, can't decide what we might do today? I thought about hopping on the train and going to Southport? But am not very organised for that.

Had some wholemeal toast for breakfast with a cup of tea!

Did not go for walk around Lake as kids arguing and R got upset so well, there you go - happy families eh!

Work tomorrow, at least it's just a half day. J is registering back at college in the afternoon. Am supposed to be going out for a meal Thursday night with people from work, not sure if I want to go really (or can afford it since we are away at the weekend)

Wed 26th August

2.pm

OMG Neil has been made redundant - I knew work were struggling but I did not think for one minute they would make him redundant but they have.

3.30pm - Neil sounded upset on the phone when he called me earlier and a bit in shock I guess. I have no idea what we will do. Work are offering him 2 days a week till Christmas (self employment) and that is that. Now is not a good time to be job hunting...............there are NO jobs out there. I have no idea what benefits we may be able to get, if we may lose the house, what happens to all the debts that we are trying to get on top of (with a debt company) and so on and so on. Feck feck feck is all I can say. Yes I have my job but that is not very good pay (£8 per hour or $12.95 an hour) and I do 26.5 hours a week.

Things will be ok, I hope

There isn't a bright side or a silver liningat this point But hey, what do we know, sometimes these things work out for the best - that is all we can hope for.

Neil and I went for a late night (9.30pm ish) walk along the lake in West Kirby (not around it as it was too dark), which was nice (if a bit windy n drizzley), blew a few cobwebs away.
Am in work tomorrow as is Neil (his last day in employment)...he has been offered 2 days freelance till Christmas. He has a trillion people to contact on Friday from home. We are still (of course) going away for a night on Saturday which I am SO looking forward to.
J is in college tomorrow meeting his girlfriend and he is in work on Friday. He only has 2 day left in work next week before college starts. I think this job has done him good, he had enjoyed it and worked hard.

Friday 28th August

Had lovely night out the other night with people from work, the meal was gorgeous and it was fun.

Well done so far to Chris age 21 (nephew) who today was on Countdown (he has gotten through several rounds and has to go for semi finals or finals - not too sure). Anyway - he was on TV and is going to be on again on Monday apparently!!!!!

Neil and I went for a walk tonight (guess where - yep, the Marine Lake). I unfortunately gained back the 4 lbs I lost the other week - ooops. Better be good this coming week hadn't I.

 Sunday 30th August

Great weekend - more detail later but here is a band we went to see last night in one of the pubs in Knutsford - they played till after midnight, then Neil and I went to a club nearby till 2.30am!!!! (felt a bit old there as was full of young people!) but it was great - played all dance music!

We were going to stay at the hotel bar but since there were so many pubs with live music we decided to go out into the town instead.