Where has this year gone?
Seriously, I had good intentions of keeping my blog up to date this year. Clearly that hasn't happened. I could try to tell you that life has just gotten in the way, but that would be less than true. To be honest, I've just been very slack.
That's not to say I didn't have anything to post about. 2012 has provided me with plenty of blog-worthy events (I even had titles for potential posts rattling around in my head). I guess I'll just have to do a quick roundup post to bring you all up to date.
Shortly after Christmas, Steve hit triple digits on the scales and decided he needed to do something about it. Over the last ten years we've both gradually put on the kilos, so we figured we'd do this together. We jump started our weight loss with Optislim shakes, decreased our portion sizes, ate less pasta, cut out fast food and increased our exercise. This effort has seen Steve lose 12 kg and I've lost 10kg. I am finally back to my pre-baby weight. We've been a little slack during the cooler months, but as the weather warms up we'll go on family bike rides again regularly.
I have a "real" job. (Yes, sadly there are some people who believe being a mother doesn't count... *looks pointedly at my darling husband*) In an effort to stop Steve whining about me "not working", I started applying for casual jobs. While Cheyenne is still in primary school, I prefer to be there for her before and after school, so that does reduce the pool of available work. I found a night job doing retail merchandising. The money was great, the work was good, the people were a wonderful bunch to work with, however the hours didn't really suit our family circumstances. 9pm to 5am sounds doable until you discover that the company considers the end of shift time to be merely a suggestion and that you could be working anywhere from Caloundra to the Gold Coast and out as far as Redbank. Often the rest of our team worked until 7 or 8am and I had to keep asking to be let off "early" at 6am so that I could be home before Steve left for work. Couple this with the fact that Steve leaves home at a different time every day depending on where and when he's due to start his first job of the day, and you can see why I was destined to give this job up after only two and a half months.
I'm now working one day a week, during school hours, doing admin work for my tax agent. Sure, it may be only 5 and a half hours at a lower pay rate than the merchandising job, but I enjoy the work, I'm learning MYOB and some tax software, I can still do the school run, and (the best bit) I have no travel expenses since work is only 6 houses down from me.
Other things have happened this year, obviously, but those are the important things.
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