So what's new....

I decided I had neglected my page long enough... time for an update.

I am still a non smoker. I have been in so many situations at this stage where I should have wanted to smoke again but didn't and it's one thing I am so proud of myself for. But unfortunately pride cometh before a fall....

.... I went back to the auto suggestion guy about the weight loss. No success. I think I was right in what I said in my earlier blog. Plus the fact that the winter months are in - prime junk food season! Ah hell new year will bring a new me hopefully!

Just to help myself combat my overeating tendencies, I took up two classes in September - interior design and salsa dancing.

Salsa finishes next week. It was done in the same type of formation as line dancing - no partners required. It's great fun and the most enjoyable exercise class I ever participated in. I met lots of great people in the class and, like me, most of them have signed up for the more advanced class to begin in January.

Interior design lasted only four weeks, and even though we covered a lot in that space of time (12 hours altogether), we still only scraped the surface. Still, I have got plenty of ideas for when our house is fully renovated.

Now I'm here a few weeks to Christmas facing the terrible thought that I might not be able to afford any night classes, might not be able to afford the renovations to our house and the revamping of the interior, and worse still, that we might not be able to afford to attend my sister's wedding in Barbados next August.

Why? My husband found out last Friday that this week was to be his last in his current job - he's being laid off. A nice prelude to Christmas, my favourite time of year since I was a little girl. He has been laid off before, around this time of year actually one time. He wasn't out of work for much more than two or three weeks, at which stage he was about to go off his trolley, when he got a phone call from one of the companies he had visited with his cv the previous week. He stayed with them for two and a half yrs. Hopefully he will be as lucky this time.

It's not all doom and gloom though. He's happy he's gone from the job - it was tedious and boring and if truth be told he spent a lot of time doing nothing. Sounds like my idea of heaven, money for old rope, but he's not that kind of person. He has spent the last 2 yrs going from job to job never able to find something that pays a decent wage that he even half enjoys doing. Is he asking too much? I don't think so. I think I had between 10 and 15 different jobs before I found the one I'm in now and I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think he will find a job doing what he always raves about (car modification) but I'm sure there must be something similar he could do.

Anyway, I always seem to go off on a complete tangent when I make an entry here, but I will try to make more regular updates so there is more structure to my entries.

Stay safe everyone!