Hi everyone
Sorry I haven't been around lately but I was busy with my head in umpteen English grammar books for my exam, which was supposed to be yesterday ...
I say 'supposed' because the night before, I started getting griping pains in my stomach and in the early hours, I developed the stomach bug from hell! I was rushing to the loo literaly every 15 minutes ALL NIGHT and by 7am I was utterly and totaly shattered.
I was pretty distraught too as I couldn't see how I could drive all the way to Uni and sit in an exam for 2 hours in that state. Anyway, I rang them and they said not to panic: I could miss the exam, fill out a 'mitigating circumstances' form and provided I could get back-up from my GPs practice, I could sit it in May. So I went to see the nurse later that morning: hopefully, the note from her and the fact my visit was logged onto the system will suffice.
I'm feeling a bit better today (typical!). The only positive aspect might be that I'll have lost a couple of the pounds I've undoubtedly gained due to my pigging out in the days preceeding the exam. I've discovered, to my dismay, that I'm still as much of an emotional eater as ever
I'm glad to see everyone is hanging on as best they can ... the fact we're all still posting shows that we're holding on: I don't know about you, but I know when I've 'given up' when I hide myself away and ignore the world - just me and my chatter-boxes!
I'm not really dieting at all (except, maybe, that I'm not eating anything greasy or hugely carby). I've been a regular 'Mrs Nibbly McNibble' though ... I can't seem to eat loads in one go but boy can I make up for it during the course of a day! I've made an appointment to go back to my CDCs on Jan 8th though when I'll face the music, take the consequences of Christmas on the chin and continue my journey to the end (when the hardest part of my journey will BEGIN - maintenance!)
I think we're going to be putting the decs up soon - I haven't felt very festive to be honest: I've had too much else going on to be concerned with baubles and tinsel. (just call me Scrooge!! lol)
In true 'Debbie' form, I've made things even more stressful as I decided the other day that this would be a good time to have a huge clear-out of my craft supplies and stick them on Ebay. So now I'm surrounded by 100 tons of card-stock, paper, rubber stamps etc etc ... my room looks like an explosion in Hobbycraft!! Why do I do it to myself???
Right, well I'm off to pack some clothes I just sold on Ebay - have a great day everyone!
PS
Carb Addict: ouch!! I knew someone who broke their scaphoid bone ... apparently it's one of the smallest bones but one of the most painful if broken! Hope it feels better soon.
PPS
Ann - darned men and their bigger muscle mass = weight loss!! Grrrrr!! (well done to him though!
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