Blog Chicks lunch

Yesterday I got to hang out with a bunch of cool blogger chicks at the Blog Chicks lunch. It’s so nice to spend time with people who understand terms like ‘analytics’, ‘plugins’ and ‘wordpress versus blogger’.

It was fun!

I got to meet:

• Liz from Savvy Cat
• Lucy from Chief Bridesmaid
• Jennifer from Jenius
• Sheryl from One Bite More
• Marilyn from Live first, write later
• Trish from My Little Drummer Boys
• Suze from Chocolatesuze
• Helen from Grab Your Fork

And it was nice to see Emma from Reality Ravings who I met at the last meet.

Leigh very bravely let me do a lap of honour in the Renault Koleos (and discovered I’ve been mispronouncing Renault for all these years) and I didn’t even crash it! Damn that thing drives like a charm, though it’s about 3 times bigger than my little Mazda, hehe.

The highlight for me was watching foodbloggers take photos of my lunch:

Classic!

Suze also got an action shot of everyone mid-conversation and mid-nomming.

Was lovely to spend the afternoon with you, ladies; let’s do it again soon!

Eggs from a chook’s bum

If you wanted proof of just how awesome I am, here it is:

Half a dozen hen’s eggs given to me because I’m such a lovely and helpful person. The chooks live in a backyard in downtown Rockdale and were hand-picked especially for me.

Noice!

I’m told the best way to enjoy their home-grown flavour is to poach them, which I’m doing for brekkie tomorrow morning. I need a high-protein breakfast before the Blog Chicks lunch tomorrow.

Now I need to decide which Threadless tee to wear tomorrow!

My offensive socks

My socks offend people.

Specifically, this pair of socks:

Funny how the toe separation freaks out some people beyond belief. I have been known to taunt people who are anti-toe socks, hehe…

You can tell I'm procrastinating when I change the blog's theme

Yesterday I was given a display of magnolia flowers, hand-picked from a garden. BECAUSE I’M ENGAGED.

I’m sorry, I’m still getting used to the phrases “engaged”, “fiancé”, “getting married”, etc.

We’ve been given a gazillion congratulations cards, something I wasn’t expecting since we’re of the generation that doesn’t seem to do cards anymore (myself included). I’ve decided to keep the cards on our sideboard for a long time since there’s still a good 18 months before the wedding.

I’ve also decided to put a ban on thinking about arrangements for the wedding until at least next year. Otherwise I’ll turn into a total Bridezilla. In reality I should be spending time catching up on normal things like housework (zomg I’m so far behind) and the new clients I have on the horizon.

But it’s so hard to turn my brain off. I’m now waking up at about 5.30am on weekdays and 6am on the weekends. I can’t think of anything decent to tweet about. My brain is about 23 steps ahead in organising the wedding that hasn’t even been organised yet. I don’t want to become the person who only talks about wedding preparations but I think I’m already halfway there.

Can you please tell me to shut up if I start talking about weddings too much? Be prepared to slap me across the face occasionally. Otherwise I’ll have to slap myself, and that could be interesting.

Bloggest Loser

I attempted this last year with Leigh (and she whipped my arse, hehe) and I’m willing to give it a go again as part of Blog Chicks Australia.

I have a new level of motivation now and even though I considered last week to be a complete write-off, I somehow managed to still lose a kilo (yay me! Let’s have a cupcake to celebrate).

As a general rule I try to follow the methods of the CSIRO well-being eating guide and get the fat jiggling on the cross-trainer that collects dust in the loungeroom.

It doesn’t help with all the chocolates sitting on the dining table that were gifts from very excitable work friends as well as the chocolate I won from Jen (!). Oh, and the fundraiser Freddo Frogs in the kitchen at work.

Those Freddo Frogs are evil. But also a bargain for $1.20, and the proceeds go to a good cause. NOM.

So last week I was 93.5kg and this week I’m 92.1kg and my goal is to 90kg by September. Slow and steady, yeah?

Ideally, my first real goal will be to get to 85kg in… I don’t know when. Maybe before the wedding I’m going to in November. We’ll see, right?