Five on Monday

1. I am bad at blogging. Every time, I say to myself “now I will really do the weekly blog” and every time I do it for 1 or 2 weeks and that’s about it. Maybe I need a less boring life, so that I actually have things to blog about? Or I just need some more discipline, to start up my PC once a week and go online and post my blog (I am online every day at work, but blogs are blocked, so no posting from work). Am I going to promise I will post every week? No, because I know I’ll break the promise, but I’ll do my best!

2. Less than 3 weeks and I’ll be on vacation (aha, one week I won’t be able to blog is coming up, lol). On October 8, we’ll be flying to Malaga (in Spain ), to board the Adventure of the Seas on the 9th. We’ll then cruise the Med, get off the ship on the 16th and stay until the 17th in Spain (we intend to visit Gibraltar ). I am really really looking forward to it. We haven’t booked any excursions (yet) because it’s supposed to be a relax vacation. At first, we said we wouldn’t go to Rome while in the port of call for Rome , because I have visited before, my mom has visited it many times and we don’t feel like rushing around and spending a lot of money to just quickly see it all over again. But now we have decided that we might take the train into the city, take some pictures, have ice cream, shop around and go back to the ship. But that is the most I will do there, I will not be the one running from the Vatican to the Colosseum to the Forum Romanum to the Spanish steps. In Mallorca I want to shop for the Mallorca pearls. I have also seen en excursion at one of the other ports to some sort of turtle farm. And that’s about what I intend to do and see. :-)

3. The day before my vacation is the last day for me on this part of the project at work, after my vacation I’m moving to another stream within the project, and I’m very very very happy with that. Less than 2 weeks before the person who will replace me is going to start, and then 1 week of handover and then I’m gone. Woohoo!

4. This whole change at work makes that I’m going from extremely stressed out to just a normal stress. And while I can’t diet when I’m extremely stressed, I can diet when I’m just normally stressed, so I went back to Weightwatchers. Over the summer, I gained some weight again (hello, twice to DLP, a couple of birthday parties, and then of course all the boulimic episodes everytime I was about to explode from stress) but I still weigh less than when I started Weightwatchers in June, so that’s a good thing. J It’s hard to keep to my diet because of irregular working hours etc, but I really hope I can find some rhythm that allows me to do something about my extra weight.

5. Weighing less is very important, because it’s getting so difficult to find clothes. I must say that I’m actually very disappointed in the private shopping session that I did. Yes, we went to some nice stores that I didn’t know before, and yes, I saw some nice clothes that I would have never considered before. However, I have to lose like a gazillion pounds if I ever want to fit in those clothes. I now realize that that day didn’t help me at all. I still didn’t find a skirt or pants or whatever that I can buy now because I fit in it now. I only saw clothes that don’t come into my size. I had hoped that the personal shopper would show me stores that do carry clothes in my size and look good. Not so. So I’m rather disappointed. Last weekend, I went shopping, because I really needed some things for when the weather is getting less good now. I ended up with some boring old-fashioned clothes. The only things I could find in my size. Although I had hoped that I would have known where to go to find more glamourous clothes. Oh well…. I guess I’ll just have to keep up the diet.