Cate's Diary

Hi LaMa. That's sweet. Making Mum laugh is so rewarding & also means I have really connected with her. She's getting more distant from the world, but is happy. I enjoy my time with her. I'm very lucky. She's 90 & better than she was a year ago. xoC

Hi Mystic- That's not at all sad. It's probably just another expression we use for what is essentially a bunch of different coloured carrots. Market shopping expands your vegetable rainbow! :D I also love market shopping because all the ends are still on (read either makings of stock or chook food for our son's chooks) but also knowing that they have only just been picked & are usually grown with minimal or no spray.

Yesterday- Went to the golf club but only 1 other person turned up. It was a cold & windy day! Visited Mum & then visited the home she used to be in to catch up with some of our faves. It was lovely. Came home & didn't do much but enjoyed the day.
I have gone over a week without any bread or cereal for breakfast. I have 5kg to go, but losing 2kg in the last few weeks has me feeling a bit better. Losing this 5kg would be wonderful, but I will have to get serious e.g. cut out wine. We're going to Hobart on Friday morning to see our son, R, & for 8ball & I may try to cut out wine when we get back.
Bye for now, xo Cate
 
Thanks Mystic. Got on the scales again today & dropped another .5kg. This not having starchy carbs (ie toast) for breakfast seems to be working.

I'm staying home from golf today as I was awake for hours in the middle of the night. It's freezing! Our heater door's catch failed yesterday morning & our bottom neighbour was going to get a part for us yesterday & fix it & bring it back up when he got back. He didn't. I think he got home late & hopefully he'll bring it up today. We have had to have it as an open fire, but have had to keep the vent open so that it doesn't smoke & most of the heat goes up the chimney.We managed to keep it ticking over during the night, by adding a little piece of wood each (apparently) during the night.
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone".
R, our younger son has sent some really good messages in the last 24 hours, but his last said that he felt the best he has felt for about 2 months. He has Friday off so can spend the day with us & doesn't start work until 5pm Sat so can spend the day with us while G plays 8ball. He will most probably go shopping with me & can help me find a coat. The 8ball venue is where he works so we will also be able to drive him home after work Sat. Sunday morning we are going to go the Farm Gate market for breakfast, stock up on our week's groceries (& his) & head back home Sunday. It will be nice to see him a little better.

We think we'll go get some wood today.
 
Mystic-our neighbour couldn't get the part so ordered it from Melbourne. It didn't arrive today, but hopefully will tomorrow. Meanwhile smoke is getting out of the heater into the house & it's not very efficient at all. Lucky we're going away for the week-end!

Today- Had a good ride on my stationary bike, ate very well & I forgot to say lost another .5kg this morning, which means 2.5kg lost in a bit less than 3 weeks! Very happy about that! 4.5kg to go!!:D xoxo Cate
 
Yikes, it sucks that your heater broke. Hope you can get it fixed soon. D:

Congrats on the half a kg this morning! You're so close to your goal.
 
Oh, brrrr! So do I Cory. Today hopefully. Having a fair bit of stress at the moment- not from our sons I might add. G's older brother is driving us crazy- it's a long story & the women golfers have created a bit of a shit storm. I didn't go to golf as I was so tired after being awake for hours, but I totally forgot that we were going to have a meeting after golf & all sorts of things happened. One of the old bullies ripped into B, who's our secretary and she sent me a message on FB asking if I was ok as I wasn't there & told me a little about it. I'll ring her in a minute. Bloody women! There's a few who are lovely but some who are absolute bitches. They are mean & nasty. Poor B. She's a lovely lady. I had better ring now.
xoC
 
Well done on the weight loss Cate!!! I wrote a bit in my diary, turns out my husband was having a few insecurity issues... I won't write it out here as it's there. Wasn't quite about my weight loss though. Relationships are complicated!

Urrrgh sorry about the bitchy women in your golf team. I honestly don't understand some people!!
 
Bitches be cray. (translation: women with unsavory personalities are emotinally challanged) ;) ;) :p

Hope you are warm now. I wanted to stop in your thread to say THANK YOU for the FREAKIN LUCK because I got the job. I accepted a really sweet compensation package this morning and I start on Monday. I think it was all due to your FREAKIN LUCK. Now I'm sending it back to you so that you can use it with the Golf Bitches. <3
 
Hi wlf buddies. Bitches don't deserve any time or energy wasted on them! I'm using my iPhone & really can't cope with it- WAY too tiny. Great news on getting the job. I'll take some credit, but only for the possibility that I may have given you a teensy bit more confidence or made you laugh. WOOT! Well done! Won't be home for a couple of days xoxoC
 
Yay! Just downloaded tapatalk & hopefully it will be much better to use on my phone.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
I use tapatalk as well. It seems pretty darn good to me! Pictures sometimes require me to 'view in browser' and it's not easy to format text, but other than that it's simple and clean.
 
It will be better when I play with it for a while & get used to it. I now have 6GB on my phone so will be using it more. There'll be no more Indigo text though!

Had a really good week-end. We arrived at our son's place(R) at lunch-time Friday, unloaded the station wagon load of wood, did some chain-sawing in his backyard, went out for a few hours 8-ball practice, back to his place for dinner & then to our hotel. Saturday G played in the state try-outs (started off well, but went downhill) I bought myself some new thermals, a sleeveless vest, a new coat & then some more thermals(it was cold!) Everything was cheap- June sales! :D
I went for a big walk in the afternoon with R & we managed to have a really good talk. He is on medication, but it would not have kicked in yet. It's a mood stabiliser, which should also help him sleep. At the moment he is just seeing the GP, Tom, but has not seen a counsellor yet. Medication is a good start. We talked a lot & it was good. He was the best he has been for AGES.
He went to work (he is currently working in the club where G was playing 8B) & then after he finished work we went out to the Italian restaurant he & I had coffee at in the afternoon. I had spotted gluten-free pizza on the menu. I hadn't had pizza for yonks! We had a scrumptious dinner, the atmosphere was great, the service was perfect & it was lovely seeing R more like his old(young) self. We talked about our Italian trip & I mentioned that I got to love Limoncello. Next thing we each had a small Limoncello as a nightcap. It was a really good Italian experience & R & I both later gave the restaurant a really good review. I think it had been the owner we were chatting to.

Yesterday we went to the Farm Gate market early for breakfast, back to the club for more 8-ball -G played even worse :( spent some more time with R & got home very tired last night, but relieved that R is starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. SUCH a relief!

Weighed myself this morning & I weigh the same as Friday. Phew! I did LOTS of walking! LOTS!
xoxo Cate
 
The weather here is awful & I'm back home in front of the fire & about to read a book. The shit storm continues with the women, but so far I'm not involved directly. The minute anyone steps out of line & especially says something about B or the general committee I will be saying what I think & know to be true. One of the men has caused a lot of the trouble, told some lies, including to his wife & he is back-peddling, but mostly by telling more lies & has caused a lot of trouble. I will never understand why people can be so underhand. I just don't get it.

I feel I'm out of touch with everyone's diaries at the moment so won't try to contribute today. I'm not feeling my most positive so would not be able to contribute much.
Love to all xoxo Cate
 
Some people are just tiresome. But who cares about what tiresome people do when your son is moving in the right direction? A bunch of big hugs is coming your way, let´s do this!
 
Hey Cate...just checking in. I'm way far behind in diaries. Glad to hear your son is doing better though! That's great! :) I hope the drama with the women works itself out.
 
Hi Mystic, LaMa & Jen, thank you so much for caring & being so supportive. How our son is going is WAY more important than women being bitchy. I love my WLF friends!

Going to golf with the women should have a good outcome. 2 of them said they were going to ring B & apologise. Long story but it was worth hanging around to have my say. I avoided conflict. I hope it went well!

My golf was ok, but I played in a group with the Captain & the President & they are both short handicap golfers. I wasn't overawed or anything. No-one played great golf yesterday. We were lucky it wasn't freezing & raining, but it was very wet underfoot & there was no run. All in all I thought the day went quite well, considering what I was anticipating. If they had bad-mouthed B I would have done my lolly & I'm glad I didn't.
Better read some diaries before we have to head off. Vet's golf is today as they were rained out Tuesday. Bye for now xoxo Cate
 
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