esmerelda in residence

quiet

Nothing much going on here - quiet @ work, quiet @ home. The Mr started renovating the study over christmas break - gyprock is up and we are supposed to paint today but who knows if it will happen. The weight-loss journey continues, I am down 13kg since starting WW on 31 Aug - feel so much better for having lost that weight, but still have a way to go. 

Track work on my train line means I have been driving to work instead of taking the train - I was one lost mofo the first day but I think I am almost ready to give up using the "driving nanny" (GPS) - at least for the trip home. Seriously, it took me 1.5 hrs to make a .5 hr trip my first day. 

Since the news at Chez Hamwich is less then riviting, check out these little time wasters:

dogs

chickens

and something to make you think:

 

Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

 

Procrastination

As I come to the end of my holiday break, I think of all the things I should be doing/should have done while on holiday, but instead  - well, it's obvious, isn't it?

I do feel very good about having given the kitchen a proper "inspector general" type clean, cupboards scrubbed top to bottom, stove cleaned and shined, drawers & pantry cleared out of old spices and things well past their use by date tossed out (really, is there any reason to keep a packet of candied ginger with a use by date of Apr "05? and what does that say about my housekeeping skills? ) Redundant kitchen items packed up and ready to be delivered to the op shop and a general decluttering of benchtops - I like my kitchen again. 

There are other things percolating in the background, some good, some not so good. Watch this space.