Thursday

Hi!

Well we got another 5 star review from our last guests! I don't know what happened to the sheets - maybe they used massage oil - but I can't get the marks out - so its the first thing I need to replace! After just two guests its not good!

The guests were lovely and it seemed like they had a great time - they went off and did lots of things! :-)

Our third guests is due Saturday night - just the one night and for a party in Bishops Hull - I hope it doesn't get messy!

The cleaner was supposed to turn up today and hasn't - and she has not responded to my message!  I was a bit concerned about what I wanted her to do to be honest so I'm not too fussed  and I have physio at 12.30.

So - Tuesday was my one-week weight in - lost 4lb - happy with that! I have no idea if I'll lose again this week but I hope so - I'm sticking to the diet!  If only I could lose 2lb every week! that would be awesome! Even 1lb a week! Just hate it when you've been dieting all week and dont lose anything!

It probably helped that I didn't drink over the weekend - well....I had a couple of glasses of wine - but I kept within my 'points'.

This week I have bought some architrave for the fireplace to neaten up the wood panelling where we hacked it off to get to the fireplace in the living room - I have also bought a big piece of timber for a mantle beam - the wood is called zebrano (because the grain is quite stripey), it was £100....so soon the fireplace will be sorted and the room will be decorated and we are going to have a move around of the furniture....and it will be another room done!  The wood for the mantle is still in my car because it is too heavy for me to get it out on my own and Andy is away until tonight - so I'll be driving around with it until then!  Bit of a pain in the ass as my tires need air too....I'll do that on the way to physio  and on the way back I'll stop and get the bits I need for satay chicken tonight! Wow - I lead such an exciting life!!!

Bank holiday weekend

Hiiii

Its friday 6.30pm....start of the bank holiday weekend and I'm bored! Andy is not feeling too good and is asleep - and I am waiting for our second lot of guests to turn up - and I am so bored I'm having to resort to chatting to Lissa on Whatsapp.....

Just kidding!

The annex is all ready for our guests - they are going to be here for three nights.  They have treats and milk and bread and wine!

I've just cooked chicken in yogurt - its a curry - and I forgot to get naan bread but I'd probably not be allowed any anyway!  I managed to stick to weight watchers yesterday....and today - but tonight I am gonna want a drink - so might go over!  In fact I'll probably want a drink tomorrow and Sunday night too (being a bank holiday and all..)

I seem to have done nothing but shop and cook since I went on WW....but its nice that I have had the time instead of working constantly on the house.  I'm going to have to get back to it soon though...or not! We don't have anything urgent to do (for the first time in almost 2 years) although there is still LOADS to do.  I haven't decided what to do next although I think it may have to be our living room - which has a half finished fire place and needs painting.

So - not sure what Andy wants to do over the weekend - provided he is feeling well!  There is stuff going on in Paignton which Helen and Paul asked us about - but with guests here...we didn't feel right going.  We will eventually make it so people can let themselves in, but as its early days we want to make sure we are not needed, and get more confident that people have everything they need. 

Anyway - I haven't actually got anything interesting to say so I'm gonna go...and hope our guests turn up!

Diet...disaster

Morning!

So...yesterday I signed up for weight watchers - and last night I completely pigged out!!  I am blaming the fact that I had no healthy food in the house - I got suddenly hungry and once I'd eaten something I shouldn't I thought...sod it - I'll go and buy all the healthy stuff tomorrow!

So - today I need to spend sometime figuring out what to eat for lunches and dinner - as well as snacks and sweet things.  Then I am going to go out and buy IT ALL lol....

My mouth is still sore - its annoying because tomorrow it will be a week - and it was only a filling! Its not even the tooth that is hurting - its the gums all around it...

Yesterday I cemented the new manhole cover - to keep it in place and the water level was so high I am almost certain it is blocked....joy

So what are today's tasks?  I am going to put all the clean bedding on the bed in the annex, and make sure everywhere is clean ready for the weekend.  I am going to do food lists and shopping and probably some cooking. After that? maybe some cleaning - vac up all the dead ladybirds in the dressing room!!  Oh....I might sort out a few electrics - there is a plug socket sticking out of the fireplace in the games room - it used to be attached to the board that covered and closed off the fireplace - now there is just a long cable with a plug socket attached to the end.  AND I need to replace the sockets I asked Connor to fix - both new ones got broken in the process.

First things first....diet planning because despite the fact that I messed up big time last night - I still really wanna do this!