I have been doing so well with my healthy lifestyle but I got ill last week and didn’t eat hardly anything for two days. When I got my appetite back I wanted to eat anything and everything, including the not so good for me foods. The worst thing that has come back in night time snacking. For the past three nights I have found myself snacking in the evenings when I’ve not even been hungry. Its really disappointing and I’m really not happy with myself. I dropped 3lbs last week because of me not eating and I was hoping to only put 2lbs back on again so that I would have lost 1lb of real weight. I need to start eating right again. I need to do because I need to look the way I want to look and I need to NOT have huge hips again like I had two months ago. I still wouldn’t consider weight loss supplement but some kind of craving stopper would be fantastic please!

Sometimes when I get a blog I have to write, I have no idea what the hell I’m going to write about it. Like this one for example - Ferrari parts. I know nothing about cars in general never mind specific cars. All I know about Ferrari’s is that they go very fast and its only rich people who can afford them. That’s about as far as my knowledge goes so there is no way I will be able to write a full blog on them. Better luck next time eh!

Does anyone still use website directories? I haven’t submitted any of my website to free directories for years now. I used to submit them all to every single one I came across all over the internet. I think now I am a little more reserved as to who sees my blog, especially my other blog. I think I’m getting a little over the whole blogging thing anyway. I never really have anything interesting to say and when I do, it never comes across the way I want to. I was definitely more into blogging when I used to design my own websites and build them myself back the good old days of iframes and div layers. Unfortunately they are not around any more. Only unfortunately because I have no idea how to build websites based on CSS and PHP. When I was putting new layouts up on an almost weekly basis, I kept blogging to keep people coming back to view my layouts. Now that I use pre-mades, I’m not really that interested. I’d much rather be posting photos over at my Flickr account that blogging at the moment. Maybe it will come back to me in a few weeks.

I was looking at caravan park holidays yesterday for sometime in the summer next year. I don’t know where I’m going to get the cash for it but I’m determined to make sure that the kids get a holiday ever year. When I was younger, we had holidays at least twice a year and now my parents go away 3-4 times a year. They don’t go abroad, they always go on caravan holidays in the UK but they do travel to the south of England and are thinking of going up to Scotland next year. I love caravan holidays. Some people wouldn’t even think about going on them but they are great for the family. You have your own private caravan where you can chill out, eat, watch TV and relax. Then you have the night clubs which have fantastic kids entertainment. I had the best nights ever in those clubs when I was a kid. I used to get really involved and join in all the competitions, getting up on stage and learning all the dance routines to the songs. You also have all the day time entertainment for kids, the swimming pool and the arcades which always cost me a fortune! When we went to Wales in 2006 when Meghan was ten months old, I had to literally drag Alex out of the arcades every single night, haha. You had to walk through it to get to the club and it was a nightmare. Even Emelye came away without as much fuss as Alex! Some people like going on orlando vacations and even though I would not say no if I had the opportunity to go, I think I would rather have several caravan holidays a year than save for years and years for one holiday.

Spain was amazing though. I definitely want to go back there in a few years.

I’ve probably blogged about this before but I still want it doing so its an on going topic! I would really love the kitchen redecorated but to be honest, just some new floor tiles would be nice. We have a horrible, old lino down at the moment and its all ripped near the back door and under then sink area. It just looks a mess and a new flooring would definitely make the whole kitchen look a lot nicer. The landlord said when we first moved in that he was thinking of redecorating the kitchen the first summer we were there. Its now been three summers and its still not been done. I’m still hoping on him just coming round and telling me to clear the kitchen to be done, haha.

My grandad has recently had another hip operation. He’s had so many problems with this hip since the first initial operation. I think this might the fourth time he has work done on it including three hip replacements. He used to play rugby and that’s the cause of all the trouble he’s had with it. The hip replacements never really worked out right and the last one he had a few years ago has left him with loads of problems. He’s had a lot of infections and this surgery was to remove his hip, clean out the infection and place a block in his hip until the infection had completely cleared up. He’s going to be without a hip for around 3-6 weeks and then he has to go back into hospital to have a new hip replacement put back in. If this doesn’t work then he might have to be a wheelchair.

Its sad to see him this way really because we used to do everything together. He’d take me to rugby practice, swimming lessons, gymnastics and the park. To see him unable to walk a distance without a walking stick isn’t nice. We used to go to the cinema a lot together too but he can’t sit for long periods of time any more so we don’t even do that together.

I was trying to figure out a way to move one of the beds downstairs so he could sleep downstairs but there’s no way we can do it. Thankfully my grandparents have a walk in shower with a high seat inside, rather than a bath otherwise they would need to look into getting them one of those walk in tubs installed. Hopefully this last operation works and he doesn’t have any more problems with it.

I started National Blog Posting Month over at Love Duckie yesterday. It didn’t really go as planned since I didn’t have time to blog until after 10PM and Alex shouted me upstairs because Meghan had thrown up all over the bed. She’s fine now and I don’t really know what made her sick but she did eat quite a lot of sweets and chocolate yesterday with what she got for Halloween. We are having a no junk food day today and after I’ve been food shopping, I’m going to pile her with fruits and vegetables! I hate the weekend when I have nothing left in the house. I’m going to buy a couple of tins of fruit this week so I have something in for days like yesterday where I have nothing left in the fruit bowl.

I’m looking forward to NaBloPoMo mainly because I haven’t been the best blogger in the world recently. I barely blog once a week and usually that blog post is forced. I love my Ten Things On a Tuesday that I started but I must have missed about four weeks of it - not in a row - so I’ll definitely be keeping that up this month. Probably by the end of the month I’ll be blogging about the most unrelated and stupid topics like Oklahoma City lawyers and similar random things. I’m hoping I can make it the full thirty days. It would be nice to have my blog a little more active and it would also be nice to have some visitors back.

Is everyone excited for Halloween? I’m half and half. I’m really excited about my costume but I really can’t be bothered going out. I’m going into town with my sister to the rock club who are having a Halloween party but I’d rather just stay in. If I hadn’t have spent so much time and effort on my costume, I really wouldn’t bother going out but since I have, it seems a waste of time to just not go. My sister is going as Little Bo Peep and I was going to go as Jessie the Cowgirl from Toy Story 2 but all the costumes I found were in the US and were so expensive so I had to think of something different. I eventually decided to go as a female version of Alex from A Clockwork Orange. I felt a bit stupid at myself when I figured out what I was going to be because since seeing A Clockwork Orange, I have always wanted to dress as a droog. I didn’t want to go as something spooky like a witch (I wouldn’t want to look like I need some decent acne treatment!) or a vampire although I think I would like to go as a zombie one year!

I hope everyone has a good and safe Halloween. I promise I won’t be up to any ultra violence tonight ;).

Like you know, Alex started college in September and he’s loving it. I have an interview at college on December 1st for the course I want to do and I’m really excited. I hope I can get on the course and if I do, I will start in January. I’m a little worried about being an older student at university when I eventually attend - I will be almost 26, I think - but my Dad went back to college at 55. He did a couple of courses on cad drawing to help him with his freelance work that he does. When people want an extension done on the house, he draws up the plans for them and it makes things a lot easier for him now he’s learnt CAD. If he can go back at that age, I’m sure I can go to university in my mid-twenties.