Lazy Sunday - Busy Week

I had a day off yesterday although I did do this.

But the misshapen top only confirmed what I already knew.  I really need a new breadmaker.  The one I have is thirteen years old, we got it when I was pregnant with Joshua and it's had lots of use over the years.  The little mixer blade thingy had something wrong with it, I can't remember what so Phill fixed it so it can't come out of the pan at all now.  Not hygienic and not mixing the bread right either. 

Also did a lot of this.

Phill went down and got the Sunday papers before he went to work and I actually read them both.  On the day they were published. It usually takes me a week to get through them if I do at all, as I get distracted.

The kids mostly did this all day.

But that's okay the holidays have only just started.  Today I want to get them outside into this gorgeous Spring weather.  I have lots to do, but this time early in the mornings is precious to me when everyone else is asleep.

I didn't even cook the dinner I had planned last night.  I'm not sure why, but I am wanting to sleep a lot lately.  I'm thinking a lot of it could be my body repairing itself and adjusting to new habits.  I've always had trouble falling asleep but not now.  I even had a nap yesterday which is so not like me.  I would have slept more but the phone rang, it was Phill who was very amused and said I was having a "nanna nap".  Why does that term irritate me?  Too close to home maybe?

The meat hadn't thawed out and I was so tired so the kids and I just foraged last night, I cooked them some salt and pepper squid I had in the freezer and heated up some pasta for myself.

I did a lot of reading yesterday about the liver and its functions.  Most of it I knew of course but a lot I didn't.  What an amazing organ and how we often abuse and neglect it.  I was curious about my weight loss and why I lost so much so quickly.  I have to wonder if it was all to do with my liver which has been so badly mistreated for so long.  I didn't realise that the liver deals with fat as well as poisons (they cutely call them "toxins" but anything chemical that we ingest is really just a poison if it has no benefit).  I also did some research on lemons.  Remember the old lemon juice in warm water that we were encouraged to drink first thing each morning to "get our insides working"?  I have been doing that for a few weeks, we still have a tree full of lemons and I figured it couldn't do any harm and at the very least the vitamin C would do me good.  There seems to be a lot of research to prove that it is an amazing liver tonic and cleanser, I also take a milk thistle supplement and drink dandelion tea at least once a day to help support my liver function and hope that it helps to repair itself after my years of alcohol abuse. 

I was hungrier than normal yesterday and ate when I felt I needed to.  I was sorting out some old websites and found a blog I'd kept when I rejoined Weight Watchers in 2005 when we lived in Western Australia.  My memory served me well when I said that counting points had messed with my head.  There was one day, we'd gone out somewhere for lunch, and I'd had a steak sandwich, grilled, with no butter and just salad and because I couldn't "point" it correctly, I just stopped counting points for the rest of the day. What madness!!  No I won't go back to that, it's just silly.  Great for first time weight loss, to get structure and an idea of what we should be eating in any given day for the weight we are but I know all that stuff by now.  I just want to be healthy and treat my body well so I can feel good, and happy every day. 

So Phill starts his two weeks annual leave today.  It should be interesting.  He's never had this much time off before, well not to my memory anyway.  He was supposed to start yesterday but he just had to get one more shift in, had some rambling justification as to why, I didn't listen, I just smiled quietly to myself and imagined him in a week's time down by the railway tracks sniffing at the diesel fumes with sad eyes and clean hands.  He needn't worry about being idle, I have plenty to keep him busy here if he's so inclined. 

So apart from my normal drudgery we have our trip to start getting ready for and I need to get some hay fever medication today.  I've had a headache every day for a week, and I am really trying to avoid any type of medication but it occurred to me yesterday that my hay fever has returned.  I only began to get it about three years ago but it's a miserable affliction and silly to suffer with it if I don't have to.