Wrapping up the week
Friday February 22, 2008

I’m so sleeeeeeepy! It’s the end of a long week and while everyone else is out partying and celebrating the end of the week, I’m celebrating in traditional Skye style =) Sitting around and doing nothing important!

I just got off the phone to my Mum. Argh, she’s so frustrating. I asked her a while ago if she would like to come shopping with me to find a wedding dress tomorrow. She was so happy to be invited and to feel involved, but now she’s trying to control the whole day. I told her what I was intending to do, and she was so against half of the day I had planned I had to back track and just agree to do what she wanted.

And then she wonders why I don’t want her to be too involved.

And then I had to convince Mum that the cats weren’t over a year old yet. Sheesh! You’d think she would trust that I would know how old my own cats are. But no… she’s magically managed to add 6 months to their age…

I had a semi vent to my sister just now and I’m so glad she understands what I’m having to deal with. The difference between my sister and I though is that my sister would roll over and take the path of least resistance whereas I’ll kick and scream all the way. Sigh. Mothers. I think I need to move on with my issues =)

So what has happened since I last blogged? Not much!

• I got good news that even though I’ve moved up into the next tax bracket, as of May this year the threshold will be moved, so I will move back down a bracket (yay!). This has made me feel very relieved. No more having to work out ways to offset my tax!

• I went running twice this week, despite not feeling great. I actually feel accomplished because of this, and I think that the light exercise has been helping ward off full blown sickness. I know not to go all out because I’ll weaken my immune system, but it’s helping me breathe easier.

• I got a compliment from my boss. That was nice =) Last year as you may or may not know, I was handed one of our most difficult client accounts and asked to manage it. We had a review at the start of this period with them where they slammed us (mostly due to the previous PMs bad job). We had a catch up this week and the turn around has been amazing. They have so much more confidence in us and are very happy with our work. I’m pretty pleased with that, although I know I wouldn’t have been able to do that without my amazing manager.

• I lost weight. Actually, let’s pull out all the stops here. I am soooo thrilled that in two weeks I’ve lost 1 kilo. That might not sem like much to y’all, but it’s a truckload to me. I actually only need to lose about 6 kilos (12.6 pounds) to reach my target weight, but I think that when you’re close to your goal it’s harder to lose. I can actually see the difference. I love my doctor now. He was a total fool when it came to “girl” stuff, but he has redeemed himself =)

And that’s about it. I best be off. Have to go write down all the addresses of bridal shops I want to go to tomorrow and then I’ll probably go to bed. We girls need our beauty sleep!