I'm late with this one... wrote it on Thursday already!!
So… what shall I chat about tonight? Let's see…
Hubby Herman and I started on a new diet this week. Well, not really that new… we did it or a week along with my sister Suzaan and her husband Willie last year. He lost quite a lot on the diet, so we tried it. After that week Herman swore NEVER again, but here we are! It's the famed soup diet. If not THE famed, then ONE OF the famed! It's soup and fruit, soup and veggies, soup and fruit and veggies, soup and bananas, soup and red meat and tomatoes…. Soup soup soup… which upsets poor Herman's stomach terribly! For a big, butch guy, he's got the stomach of a sissy… hahahahah! I swear he spends more time on the toilet than he does in front of the TV. BUT!! The pants I am wearing today feels a bit looser than it did last week… well flip! After 3 days of fruit and veggies only – I SHOULD BLOODY HOPE SO!!! The nights are the worst, because we're constantly opening the fridge to find something to eat, just to remind ourselves not to do it. Today was a bit better, because we decided to mix the days' eating patterns just a little bit and eat tomorrow's lunch meat for dinner, with a great big salad. We'll just do another salad for lunch tomorrow… Wow, it was GREAT! We don't eat a lot of red meat overall, just because we prefer white. Every now and then, though, there's nothing like a nice big piece of nicely braaied meat! Then even Herman doesn't mind the hunk of salad I make him eat! If we were rich, we'd do the "steak & salad" thing every night! I must say, after tonight I get the whole "S&S" thing… Elouize is also on it now – you go girl! We'll suffer through this together! I promised hubby we'll only do it for two weeks, then it's back to our old, but healthy lifestyle. I also realized that there is no need to do "boring" salads and vegetables. The better it looks on a plate, the nicer it is to eat! So watch me spice up those squashes! I'm not the world's best cook, but I can surely try!
Did I tell you I'm also involved in another new company called Distinctive Choice Training? They do training for heavy duty machinery like forklifts and overhead cranes, etc… ANYWAY… I handle their admin. February seems to have started with a bang for DCT as we've been getting more and more training! I am so excited about this. I desperately need to supplement my income and if they keep this up, I'll be visiting Dubai by the end of next year! Yeah!
My boss at Aluminium Build is a real sweet guy. His only daughter (he has 2 sons as well) got engaged end of last year and the wedding is on Saturday 20 Feb 2010. I told him in today that he was the calmest father of the bride I had EVER SEEN!! He just laughed and said that his wife and daughter had things so well in hand, that he just followed their (extensive) planning schedule. It seems my mother was not the ONLY mother who believed in bi-weekly wedding meetings!! Hahahaha! Poor thing… I hope he'll put the extra tissues in his pocket like I warned him to do. He asked me to check the weather on the internet on Monday – they had prayed that it would be a nice day. Guess what? It's going to be 36 degrees Celsius! Herman says they prayed a little too arduously! We are very happy for the soon-to-be newlyweds and hope that they will have a wonderful life together.
I had a call in this week from a guy (Jacques) who was interested in using Admin Aunties for his admin. Turns out he needed someone to be available during the day, which I currently am not. So with a heavy heart, because he sounded so nice and so disappointed when I couldn't help him, I referred him to some of the other VAs in Cape Town. I'm still checking in with him, as he's keeping me up to date with whether he has found someone yet. I found out his wife handled his admin, but she died a few months ago. OH BROTHER! Now I want to cry! The poor man… Since he and I both get our precooked meals from Sally Oosthuizen from www.slimmingmeals.com (he got my details from her newsletter), he feels like family! I've put another friend of mine on standby in case Jacques doesn't get the right person.
Every week I do the shopping for essentials for work and today was no different. As usual I also pop into one or two shops… shhhhhuuuuttttt!!!!!!!!!!!! The girls at PEP stores treat me like family already and I get shown all the best buys! Lay-buy – what a wonderful concept! So at one of the shops I popped into, there were the cutest little key rings which is made out of some kind of artificial hair/fur. With two little eyes glued into place and the way they were glued together, they look like little miniature Chihuahuas! So each of my girls got one… they were cheap. Now you have to hear Mia ask where she put her "wawa"… Chené already has hers in her handbag – Paris Hilton, watch out! Herman just smiles when I come home with little prezzies for the girls. He knows he can't take this bit of fun away from me and he's even worse than I am when he has money to burn!
So that's it for tonight. I HAVE to get some sleep. Not been doing a lot of that lately…
Be Blessed my friends!
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