Just got home from my parents house. Tonight's drive was much better than the drive up there. Having an hour watching tv with my bunny before bed then moving day tomorrow.
Food wise today has been good. Had a yogurt for breakfast. Didn't have time for much else as we had to pick my nephew and his dog up, take mums little one to vets then meet my auntie, cousin and her son (plus dogs) for a nice long walk. It was the littlest ones first walk so I had him on the lead. He couldn't keep up with the others bless him, and there were a couple of times he just sat down looking at me for a carry. He did pretty well though. We had lots of stares from people, well there were 6 of us walking 5 dogs, and we also had a few people asking if we were dog walkers from the nearest RSPCA centre. All in all a lovely morning and a lovely walk.
Lunch again was on the run, as we dropped the dogs back at the house I grabbed a seafood medley and bottle of water from the fridge to have in the car on the way to town. We wondered round town for a while, mum bought me a few bits for my birthday and we also went to an old fashioned sweet shop where we found an amazing selection of sugar free sweets. We bought some to share. I tend to keep mine in the car, mostly for my long journeys or for after work/before shopping to stop me buying rubbish. In town we had to pop into next so my mum could take some stuff back. This is where the highlight of my day happened. I'll explain.
A few weeks ago my mum told me about the next sale. She has a next card so she gets to order stuff online the day before the sale starts. At the start of the summer season I saw a gorgeous dress in the directory but couldn't really afford it, so when she mentioned the sale, I asked her to get it for me. The pre-sale started at 6am on the Thursday and mum got up especially to order some stuff. At 6.03 she was on the checkout page but my dress had already gone. I had never seen it in any of the stores so assumed it was never meant to be. Back to today........ Wandering round next, not really paying much attention as I had no money, I glanced over at the sale rack. Something caught my eye..... I called my mum in a serious tone...... She turned as I pulled something from the sale rack......... MY DRESS!!!!!!!!! We couldn't believe it. In final reductions. Ok, so it was a size 12 and I wanted a 10 but I tried it on anyway. It's quite flowy so we're going to have it taken in a bit, (luckily mum knows a dress maker) but not until December time. We go to Dominican republic in February for my parents 30th wedding anniversary and they're renewing their vows so the dress is for that. Figured there's no point getting it adjusted until December as I may lose or gain (hopefully not gain) weight before then and we don't want to do it twice. I still can't believe it.
So anyway, that cheered me up considerably. The rest of my day was pretty uneventful. Tea was steak and dry fried eggs followed by muffins. Mum also made me muffins for tomorrow so I can have something to snack on while I'm moving.
Called into the big tesco instead of my local on the way home and finally managed to get some reduced fat cocoa powder. I might add it to some muffins later in the week.
All in all today has been a pretty good day. Let's just hope the rest of my week off is just as good.
you have done so well to date.!
