…Just because I didn’t really like the header that I did yesterday… Well, most days around here are fairly quiet, but today has really been a quiet day for me – our cleaning lady came, dusted, terrorised poor Flipper with the vacuum cleaner noise, mopped, and left. And once again, I forgot to ask her to sweep and dust the front and back decks! I really need something to remind me – so I think that a nice, long, relaxing visit to Office Works might be a good idea, so that I can get some Post-It notes, then – if I can remember what I got the Post-It notes for – I can write “Remember to tell K to dust the front and back decks!” on one of them, and stick it in the middle of my Monitor screen. Well, maybe not in the middle of the screen – that would make it a wee bit hard to read emails… and kill things… and make headers…

So once again I played WoW nearly all day, for a change! 😉 I’ve left Wynterthyme sitting in the middle of Grizzly Hills waiting to see if Arcturis turns up or not. And so far, he hasn’t! Or at least, not when I’ve been looking! I’m even beginning to wonder if he’s still in the game, or if Blizzard have removed him – but I don’t think that that’s the case – if he doesn’t exist any more, then why are there always a lot of high-level (level 96+!) Beastmaster Hunters, parked in a rough circle around his spawning point? And as for the Spirit Cat (which Wynterthyme already has) there’s been no sign of him, either, and I’m finding that quite a lot off-putting, actually! He has more than a dozen spawn points, all around the Sholazar Basin. It’s not a terribly big area, so you’d think it would be reasonably easy to catch up with him fairly often – I always have in the past (alright, it was about four or five years ago, but still…!) Also, I haven’t seen any sign of the mob of Beastmaster Hunters that are always hanging around the spawn point for Arcturis – oh, you see the very occasional character flying past on their way to Wintergrasp, or wherever, but I don’t think they’re responsible for shooting Loque’nahak – because I would have found his poor cold, still, body lying on the ground, at least once or twice, as I patrolled the perimeter looking for him! No, I don’t know what’s going on with those beasties – I know they’re “Rares“, but really, this is going a bit beyond “rarity”! It’s beginning to look a lot more like “extinct-ity”, and I’m not appreciating it!

After wasting a lot of time sitting around clicking on my “/tar Arcturis”, and “/tar Loque’nahak” macro (“/tar” means “target [insert name of the creature you’re hunting]”, remember? 🙂 ) I moved on to Arisnoë, and did a bit more questing and exploring with her. It’s not easy, you know, with Arisnoë being a new-comer to Draenor, and only level 92 (she went up to level 92 this morning) the countryside isn’t very pleasing to the eye, I’m soloing, instead of working with another character in group mode, so leveling up is not only a lot harder to do, but it also takes a lot longer to complete quests! And some of the mobs I’m having to deal with are really, really mean and nasty! I died twice today fighting a multi-headed winged beast – only a level 92 mob, the same as me and my turtle, and we usually deal with level 92 mobs with not too many hassles – but these [censored] sods just wouldn’t go down – I suppose I really should look at my Combat Log next time it happens to see how they manage to take me down so easily – maybe it’s poison breath, or something – but one minute I’m fit and healthy and battling away – the next minute, I’m lying there dead! Anyway, I’m giving them quite a wide berth, for the nonce –  at least until I get a little “older”, anyway – then it’ll be them lying there dead (and skinned!) Arisnoë’s Garrison is coming along reasonably well – I now have a level 2 Great Hall (the Alliance call theirs a “Town Hall”) I’ve opened up my Mine, and put up a few new Buildings, but it’s still pretty primitive and rough, compared to the neat and orderly Alliance Garrisons! I can’t wait until I get out Frostfire Ridge – the area where I am now – because as you all know, there are three things that I really hate having to fight in – underwater, in a snow storm, and in the dark! And Frostfire Ridge is – shall we say – prone to blizzards and snow storms! 😦 And Arisnoë’s Garrison is right in the most snow and blizzard-prone part of it!

Food stuffz: last night for dinner we had some lovely, slow-cooked Corned Silverside – it had hardly a skerrick of fat on it, but just enough to impart some flavour to the meat. With it, we had some very delicious mashed potatoes, a half (each) of one of our own, home-grown Heirloom tomatoes, which I reckon was the best one that we’ve had of those yet! Firm, juicy, lovely taste and texture – a wonderful tomato! And we had some home-grown green beans – which were really different from the beans you buy in the supermarket, or frozen beans! They were quite dark green on the outside, and when you bit them, or cut them, they were almost grassy-green inside. Julian thinks he might have left them on their vines a bit too long, but I didn’t think so – I thought they were delicious! For dessert, I had a fig – yes, Julian did buy some – and a low-fat strawberry yoghurt. For lunch today I had two Ryvita crispbreads, with Philly Light, some sliced up left-over Corned Silverside, sliced tomato, and a dob of basil-pesto hummus. They were very yummy, especially with the Corned Silverside, and for some obscure reason, weren’t quite as crumbly as they usually are, which was a real bonus! 🙂 Tonight we’re having pork cutlets, pan-fried with a little butter, olive oil, and pepper, with which we’ll probably be having chips, half a tomato, and something vaguely green – probably the rest of the Brussels sprouts, and for dessert, I’ll have the (I think!) last remaining Chia Pod, and another fig (I wish there was a way of eating figs where you don’t get sticky white fig-sap all over your fingers – even soap and warm water doesn’t seem to wash it off terribly well!)

Weigh-in this morning. Was not good! I went up yet another two points, from 63.5kg to 63.7kg! Yesterday, not only did my feet look like sausage balloons, but my fingers got swollen too – so much so that I could very happily have gone out, and worn all my good rings without the slightest fear of them falling off! I really, really hate this [censored] humid weather, and what’s more, it really, really hates me too! 😦  My feet are still swollen today, but at least my fingers have almost gone back to their ring dropping sizes! Thank heavens for small mercies, eh?! What we need is a good, old-fashioned thunderstorm, to clear the air and burn up the humidity – or perhaps we should start seriously thinking about moving to Tasmania, or New Zealand!

This weekend’s a long weekend, though we probably won’t notice too much difference – once upon a time, “when I was a gel”, as they say in the classics, for starters, nothing was open on Sundays anyway (except Churches, of course) and the holiday Monday was sacrosanct – again, nothing was open – not even a Milk Bar, so that you could go and buy some milk, or  bread, or lollies! No! One did all one’s shopping on Friday night, or Saturday morning (and even that got grumbled about!) – these days, everything’s open just about all the time – even on Christmas Day, and Easter Sunday! So – what’s in a Public Holiday then, apart from some office workers not having to go in to work on the Monday (and sometimes even the Friday before!) but heaven help you if you work in Retail – you’re expected to show up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, on Friday morning, Saturday morning, Sunday morning, and of course, the Public Holiday Monday morning – for which you do get paid quite well – or so we’re led to believe, anyway. The point I’m trying to make, in a sort of a round about and typically long-winded way, is: is there really any point in having Public Holidays any more? It would make much more sense to just roster jobs a bit better, and then everyone could have one day off a week, or two days off every fortnight – or something. What do all of you out there in reader-land think? But as for tomorrow, I guess I’ll be up to my eyeballs in Frostfire Ridge, Shadowmoon Valley, Grizzly Hills, and the good old Sholazar Basin, still looking for Arcturis, and Loque’nahak… I’m not sure what Julian will be doing – he’s trying to unpack, and set up, his Commodore 64 Room, so he’ll probably do a bit more of that, however at this particular point in my epic dissertation, I have once again to inform you all that – well, that’s about it from me for this evening! 😉 Please do drop in again tomorrow night, to find out what sorts of adventures and scrapes I’ve managed to get either myself, Wynterthyme, or Arisnoë into, and how I manged to extricate us out of them, and whether or not my weight has decided to start behaving itself again – or if I’m starting to reach for the Optifast again! There’ll be lots more to regale you all with, so don’t miss out! Until then though, please try to bee good, remember that success comes in cans, not cant’s, and don’t forget to always drive carefully, to keep cool – or warm – depending on your preferences, and to look after yourselves… but most of all, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

I’ve been putting off starting to write this afternoon because I wasn’t sure how well I was going to be able to type. I did a “Julian” this morning, and accidentally managed to cut the middle finger of my left hand, whilst cutting the store label off one of my new pairs of slacks. Well, I was wearing them at the time, and if the silly people doing the tagging of the garments had taken a bit more care, and not managed to get the little plastic “T” poked half way through the waistband, as well as their “Made By” label, I wouldn’t have been holding the scissors at an awkward angle, and I wouldn’t have cut myself quite so badly! But of course, I’m on Warfarin, aren’t I, and blood just went every which-where (it was quite a nasty deep cut, actually) and it damn-well hurt a lot, too, so I sat there dangling my injured finger under the cold water tap (so as not to get any blood in the grouting, something that Julian is very strict about!) in the bathroom and called out “Julian, can I have a band-aid please, NOW!” He brought the band-aids, and I took my finger out from the cold water and we tried to dry it so that we could use the band-aid – but the wretched thing wouldn’t stop bleeding! We eventually got the bleeding to at least slow down a little, and applied the band-aid, but by the time I got to the Den here, blood had soaked through the band-aid and was happily getting all over anything I touched  I had to do everything one-handed for a while, which let me assure you, wasn’t terribly easy! I used a tissue to apply pressure to the band-aided cut, and everything calmed down again (but I wasn’t a very Happy Little Vegemite!) The cut is just below the fingerprint pad of my left middle finger, and only just slightly above the top finger joint crease, so it’s an awkward and uncomfortable spot – typing is fairly uncomfortable, so this blog might be a bit shorter than most, depending on how many typos ol’ fumble-fingers Winter manages to make (or not, as the case may be!) So, apart from trying to cut my finger off with a pair of scissors, how has my day been… well, pretty much “same as, same as”. I alternated between Wynterthyme and Arisnoë today, still looking for Arcturis (the Spirit Bear) and Loque’nahak (the Spirit Cat) to no avail – you know, in all the years I’ve been playing World of Warcraft, I’ve never, ever had such difficulty locating and Taming a “Special” Pet, or a Spirit Beast! Never! Either Blizzard have wound back the spawn rates, or there are simply too many people lining up for their chance to get something “different”. When I got to Grizzly Hills this morning, there were already two people there who were obviously waiting for Arcturis. How did I know they were waiting for Arcturis? 🙂 Well, why else would two level 100 Beast Master Hunters be hanging around a level 76 area, at the exact co-ordinates where Arcturis spawns? That’s why Wynterthyme was there, too! 🙂  After a while of hanging about wasting time there in Grizzly Hills, I went off to the Sholazar Basin to look for Loque’nahak. Once again, I don’t know what Blizzard have done with the spawn times – once upon a time, Loque’nahak used to spawn about every twenty minutes – give or take a few seconds if your watch wasn’t set correctly – but now? S’truth, I waited there for thirty minutes yesterday and didn’t see hide nor hair of him, alive or dead! He’s also got an awful lot of spawn points, and the Sholazar Basin isn’t all that big an area, so if you fly around the perimeter mountains, spamming “/tar Loque’nahak” (“tar” is short for “target”) if he’s around, dead or not, his “portrait” will pop up on your screen – you really can’t miss him – or should I say “you really couldn’t miss him!” – once upon a time… obviously you can now! 😦 I’ll give them both another try tonight, but I really don’t like ma’ chances! Too many people are after them – all one can do is try to pick a server time when just about everyone in America is likely to be asleep, and try then. Anyway, Wynterthyme and Arisnoë both had things to be done for their Garrisons, and I did a bit of straight Draenor questing with Arisnoë, and boy, it really is tougher for Horde than is was for Wynterthyme and Mouselet! I did notice a couple of new things though! In Wynterthyme’s Garrison, I was unable to locate the Stable Master – because there wasn’t one! I hit the Forums looking for information, and there were a lot of threads complaining about this lack of a Garrison Stable Master. In the end I had to go to Dalaran to stable my Pet while I looked for these Spirit Beasts (only because I knew where the Stable Master was in Dalaran!) However, last night when I was doing my “rounds”, I noticed that there was a new path, just outside my Town Hall! “Hello,” says I “I wonder where this goes!” so of course I had to go and look, didn’t I! Well, it goes down to a new little town, which I’ll swear black and blue wasn’t there the day before yesterday, and guess what! There’s a Stable Master there! This little town, by the way, is also down near where we did our Fishing Quests to open up the Garrison Fishing Hut – and quite frankly, the map doesn’t make sense – the little Village wasn’t very far down the new path that I found, but it was miles away from the Garrison – that is, following the path from the Garrison to the Village, and from the Village back to the Garrison (and yes, there is only the one path!) it took a lot longer to get back to the Garrison than it took to get to the new Village! The other thing I found while I was questing with Arisnoë, is a large Horde City – very similar to the old, pre-Cataclysm Orgrimmar! Arisnoë got a quest to go to Ashran for something or other, and she arrived at this “city”! It has a multi-Teller’d Bank and Guild Bank facilities, an Auction House, Stable Master ( 😉 ) both Class Trainers and Profession Trainers, and there’s a Portal to Undercity, and another to Orgrimmar – I think if I’d spent a bit more time looking around I would have found a Portal to Silvermoon City, the Blood Elf Capital, too! I don’t recall finding anything like that for the Alliance side – though no doubt my favourite eldest daughter will write a Comment if I’m wrong! 😉

Food stuffz: last night we had a gorgeous piece of King Island steak for dinner, plus our usual half a tomato, chips, and steamed sugar-snap peas – it was one of the nicest pieces of steak, too! For dessert I had an apricot, and a low-fat strawberry yoghurt. It was the last of the apricots, and when Julian went to buy some more today he was told that the apricot season is over, and there won’t be any more good ones until next season! 😦 But they did have some figs there, and I think he got a few of those – I hope he did, anyway! Lunch today was a reprise of Tuesday’s sandwich – chicken tikka sandwich chunks with some basil-pesto hummus in whole-grain bread – very yummy, and a lot less messy to eat than Ryvita crispbreads with toppings! Tonight we’re having slow-cooked Corned Silverside, with mashed potatoes, half a tomato, and, with any luck, some home-grown green beans! I have no idea what I’m having for dessert – you’ll just have to wait until tomorrow night to find that out! 🙂

Weigh-in this morning. Wasn’t as bad as it could have been, what with me having that BLT on sourdough, half a piece of flourless Orange and Almond meal cake, and half a chocolate-walnut Brownie (well, it was my Birthday!) I went up two points – from 63.3kg to 63.5kg, which I didn’t think was too bad, all things considered! Now I have until March 20th to get rid of a bit of it, because March 20th is when we’ll be having the Winter and Julian Big, Double, Birthday Bash – so I need to go down a bit, so that I can come up a bit! 😉 Back to the crumbly Ryvita crispbreads…. 🙂

Julian has just come in to show me a plate full of beautiful, lovely, and luscious home-grown green beans! Oh! They do look splendid! 🙂 I can’t wait to eat them with our dinner tonight! It’s so exciting, growing your own vegetables – there’s a baby capsicum growing there, too, and some baby leeks! Tomorrow our cleaning lady will be here instead of Monday, because Monday is a Public Holiday (Labour Day and Moomba, or something, I think?) She could come Monday, she said, but we’d have to pay her Penalty rates or whatever, so she said that Friday might suit us better? 🙂 Nice girl… So I’ll probably have another day of trying to find those pesky Spirit Beasts, and trying to get Arisnoë a better sort of Garrison – once I can find where to buy the Garrison Blueprints so that I can put up some more buildings, that is! And get her a few more Followers (she only has three at the moment!) And also at the moment, that’s about it from me for this evening! Do call in again tomorrow night to see if Arisnoë has a Spirit Beast yet, or whether my weight is slowly starting to drop down again – and there’s sure to be lots of other news and gossip, too, so make sure you don’t miss out on anything! Until then though, do try very hard to bee good, remember that life is like a coin – you can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once… and don’t forget to look after yourselves, to always drive carefully, and to keep warm – or cool – depending on the weather… but above all, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

Well, I know you’re all dying to find out how my day today went, so I’ll keep you in suspenders no longer! From the top, then! (or should that be “bottom”? if morning is the beginning, or bottom part, of the day… I digress…) I was a little disappointed when I weighed myself this morning, but I’ll get to that later – because my appointment with Dr. Y. was at 11.00am, I did my morning ablutions in the wrong order (again!) – I did my 2 kilometer/32.something minute’s walk as usual, before breakfast, but opted to go and brush my teeth, etc., etc. after breakfast, when I normally do all those sorts of things between walking and breakfast. Anyway, I did my walkies, and then came back to the Den to have my first cup of tea for the day, and my breakfast. Sitting on my desk was a gold-wrapped package, with an envelope under it. “Whatever can it be!”, I thought. Well, inside the wrapping was a black box – it was quite heavy, and I was quite eager to know what it contained! “Careful!”, cautioned Julian “It’s quite fragile…” – now I was even more curious! Fragile?! Putting the box carefully on my desk, I opened it rather cautiously… Inside the box was a very pretty, gold, replica of a Carriage Clock – a real clock, a wind-up one, with a double-ended key! The little clock stands about 10cm high, and it has three clear glass sides, and a clear glass top, so you can see the clock mechanism working, its gold key is double ended – one end is for winding the clock, the other end is for turning the hands, if you have to re-set it. It’s a dear little thing, and very easy to read, too, because it has a white face, with fine black numerals. The clock that I had on my desk was a digital one, and it told me the temperature inside and out, as well as the time, but it was very hard to read because the background was a dull, gun-metal grey, and the digits that gave me the time, date and weather were only a couple of shades darker. But the little gold Carriage Clock looks great sitting on my desk – unfortunately I’ll no longer have an excuse for being late to dinner! 😉

I’d just finished getting ready this morning, and was playing a couple of games of Solitaire before heading off for “The Appointment”, when Julian got a call on his mobile from Dr. Y.’s Receptionist – Dr. Y. was running late, so could I come at 11.30am instead, and did I have my (new) Referral? Yes, 11.30 was alright, and we didn’t mind – but… Referral?! No, I didn’t have one – yet! Remember last night I told you that I looked (belatedly) at my appointment card which had “A new Referral from your Doctor will be required” written on it. Well, that’s what happens, I suppose, when you write appointments into your calendar – but neglect to add any notes that might be on the card! Anyway, we apologised, and said we’d organise something with Dr. B. to be either emailed or faxed through to Dr. Y.’s surgery. Apparently it didn’t matter that we didn’t have the Referral with us today, but when we did get it, it should be back-dated to march 9th (today) We rang Dr. B and arranged to have her fax it through sometime today, so all should be well. Dr. Y.’s Receptionist said that if she hadn’t received it by Friday, she’d ring Dr. B. herself, and “hurry it up” – but I reckon that they’ve probably already got it by now – there are no flies on Dr. B.! 😉 So I duly turned up at Dr. Y.’s at 11.30am, where we sat and waited another half an hour (which we’d thought we’d have to do anyway) and finally we were ushered in to the inner sanctum! Dr. Y. was looking great (perhaps I am a good influence, because I thought he looked like he’d lost a little weight since last November, when I last saw him – and he’s always saying that he needs to lose some weight…) and was very pleased with me – I told him what I now weighed, and he said “Well, don’t lose any more!” to which I replied that I wasn’t trying to lose any more – I’d been on maintenance since November last year, but the weight was still trying to desert me (oh dear… a horrible thought just crossed my mind! About my weight trying to desert me? A bit like rats “deserting” my sinking ship? Is that a bad omen?! 😦 ) He was most impressed, and is very proud of me. Then he gave me quite a long and very thoughtful look, and said something about me being “inspiring”, and that I’d make a good motivator – that a lot of his patients would benefit from talking to me, and would I be interested in doing something like that – somewhat taken aback, I said “Are you serious?” “Yes,” he replied with a nod “I am serious!”. When I’d finished fumbling around on the floor while I picked up my jaw, I said “Yes, sure! I’ll talk to anyone you suggest, if you think it might help them” – he seems to think I’d be a great “motivational speaker”, I’m not quite sure why… but if I can help anyone, then I must.

And now he doesn’t want to see me for a whole year this time – I’m to stay on the horrible little fluid-retaining tablets (one month taking them, two months not taking them, as I’ve been doing since last November) until then – I’m to have another ultrasound before I see him next March, and we’ll revue my situation again then. So I guess we’d better not make any plans to visit Massa Marittima* in the (European) spring next year! 😉

Food stuffz: we had King Island Beef sausages for dinner last night, with Brussels sprouts, half a tomato, and chips. For dessert I had one apricot, and a small tub of “regular” (i.e. not low-fat or low-calorie – but Julian said it was low-calorie enough so as to make never mind, so I ate it!) rhubarb and vanilla yoghurt. As we were already out, and it was not only my Birthday, but lunch time as well, we first thought that we might try to have lunch at the East Empress Bistro, but we had some shopping to do, and we really didn’t want to do too much parading about in the heat and the humidity, we went to The Glen, where I got the second part of my Birthday present – two pairs of slacks, with pockets, because the only “bottoms” (apart from underwear!) that fit me at the moment are two and a half pairs of jeans (“how can you have half a pair of jeans”, I hear you muttering to yourselves… it’s perfectly simple, really – two of the pairs fit me, more or less properly, and one pair sort-of fits me – I can wear them, but they’re really too big for me, so they only “half” fit me, see?! 🙂 ) I also got another top, because it had long sleeves, and I can only wear long, or three-quarter sleeves now because of my yukky arms! I was talking about food though, wasn’t I! Sorry! So we ended up having lunch at The Shingle Inn – Julian had some sort of omelet-y looking thing (I think!) and I had my usual BLT, on sourdough bread, and we had half a Flourless Orange and Almond meal cake and half a chocolate and walnut Brownie each for dessert (there goes my weight! blossoming up like a mushroom cloud again!) Tonight we’re having pan-fried steak, I presume with all the usual suspects (half a tomato, chips, and some sort of “green” vegetable!) and I’ll have another apricot, and possibly another Chia Pod for dessert, OK?

Weigh-in this morning. Was very disheartening! I was hoping to have gone down another little bit today, but as usual, my stupid body let me down again! I went up… four ruddy points! From 62.9kg to 63.3kg – and from the look of my feet, I’d say that it’s nearly all fluid retention too, because of the abysmally rotten hot and humid weather! 😦 Ah well, my weight’ll go down again, once the weather cools down a little… I was just thinking – you read of elderly people who swear that they can predict the weather by their “rheumatics” – well, I must be some kind of human barometer then – predicting the heat and humidity, by the swelling of my feet! Now, that’s gotta be a first! 🙂 Anyone feel like notifying the Guinness Book of Records? 😉

And so to tomorrow – Julian has a trip over to Doncaster, to pick up, and drop off, some Dry Cleaning. Why, oh why does Daisy Dry Cleaning only have two shops in Melbourne! They’re the only Dry Cleaners that I’ve been able to find who don’t use chemicals, and only use water (or so they say) – it’s much gentler on the clothes, and even things that say “Do Not Dry Clean” come out like new! *sigh* So we shall continue to support their “Buy Me A Rolls, Next!” fund, even if it does mean a trip all the way over to Doncaster – though here’s a thought! It also gives us the opportunity to stock up on Nespresso Pods and T2 teas – because they’re not at The Glen or Knox City! (I think T2 might be up at Knox, but I know there’s no Nespresso outlet there!) I think I’ll stay home, if it’s going to be hot and humid again, and work on getting either Pangur Bán or Arcturis for Arisnoë, and Arcturis for Wynterthyme. And that’s really about it from me for this evening – I’ve had a very nice Birthday, I received a very pretty clock, some clothes, and some pats on the back from Dr. Y. and I’ve had calls from both my very favourite daughters! 🙂 Who could possibly ask for more! Do call in again tomorrow night to find out how I fared in getting Spirit Beast Pets for Arisnoë and Wynterthyme, and what my weight got up to (quite literally!) after the BLT on Sourdough Bread and half a Flourless Orange and Almond cake, and half a chocolate and walnut Brownie that I had for lunch today! Until then though, please bee good, remember to never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience… and don’t forget to look after yourselves, to always drive carefully, and to keep cool – or warm – depending on the circumstances… but most importantly, don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

*Massa Marittima – a very small town (well, it was then!) in Tuscany, where I stayed with my three Great-Aunts for about seven months, when I was five and a half years old…

Oh dear, here I go – this is the third night in a row that I’ve started writing so appallingly late – but, such is life, and as they say in the classics, “better late than being hit in the stomach with a wet fish”! er… I mean, “better late than never”, actually 🙂 Clarke was supposed to be here again this morning, then he messaged to say he’d be late, then he messaged again to say he’d be even later, and finally the doorbell rang – only it wasn’t Clarke, it was Paul! It seems that Clarke is still under the weather, so he sent his “neatest correct entry” instead – Paul! (Clarke had been telling us earlier that Paul had been losing weight, and I must say, he was right! Paul is looking quite slim and trim! 🙂 Perhaps I inspired him… 😉 ) Anyway, the work in my bathroom is at least half done! The shower door has been raised slightly, and a small strip of silicone applied along the floor under it to act as a “dust water catcher” – hopefully it’ll be enough to prevent the water seeping out and flooding the rest of the bathroom floor – if not, it’s back to the rolled up towels again, until another solution can be found. As for my recalcitrant vanity unit drawers, they’re still at “stage 1” – despite all Paul’s efforts today, they’re still not closing properly, and that weird and wasteful deep drawer, with its totally useless sloping base (I still have no idea why anyone would make (build?) a drawer like that – unless they thought it was going to be used as some sort of giant scoop?) has had to be taken back to the Cabinet Maker, to have a proper, sensible, flat base put on it instead, so that it can actually be used for storage, and not just as the glorified waste-paper basket holder that it currently is! Paul also told us that the Cabinet Maker is going to have to come out to have a look at exactly what’s going on with these supposedly self-closing drawers that don’t! So…. that’s where my bathroom’s currently at! “Watch This Space!” 🙂

As for me today, I mucked around with both Wynterthyme and Arisnoë, vainly attempting to get them both set up with a Spirit Beast Pet. Well, Wynterthyme already has one – “Loque’nahak” (please don’t ask me how to pronounce it! Just call him “Pangur Bán“, like I do!) the white “Riddler” cat I mentioned last night. However, I thought I’d take Wynterthyme out to try to Tame Arcturis, the Spirit Beast Bear in Grizzly Hills, because being a bear, he’s a lot stronger and hardier than a cat. So, after a great deal of dithering around and getting side-tracked, I eventually got to his spawn place… only to find three other Best Master Hunters pretty much lined up there, waiting for him to spawn! Two level 100’s, and one level 96! I sat around and waited for a bit, but the bear didn’t turn up – so I left Wynterthyme there and logged off, to go and see if I could find Pangur Bán with Arisnoë. This was a bit complicated, as I had to go from my Garrison in Draenor, to the Sholazar Basin in Northrend. This meant that I had to get myself to Dalaran, where I used to be Hearthed, because it had Portals to everywhere. When Blizzard closed the Portals (*cry*) I switched my Hearth to Orgrimmar, and later on to Pandaria, so getting to Pandaria was easy – but then I had to get myself to that magical Palace/Inn/whatever where multiple Portals, including one to Dalaran, still exist. It was a long, slow, haul, as I hadn’t done much of Pandaria before I fled to Draenor and my Garrison, not did I learn to fly in Pandaria before I left (and the Licence costs 2500 gold, which I didn’t have, and neither did the Guild Bank – so I decided that I didn’t really need to fly in Pandaria, after all!) so I had to “hoof” it. Long Story Short, I died a lot of times, and finally Thuglet had to come and rescue me and fly me to the Portal Palace. I Hearthed myself there, got myself to Dalaran, and flew off to the Sholazar Basin with hope in my heart. In the past, when I’ve hunted this Spirit Beast Cat, I’ve had absolutely no trouble at all in locating him, and he has multiple spawn points. Do you think I could find him?! Not on your nelly! There were, however, numerous people flying about – probably hoping to Tame him, or possibly looking to kill him (there’s an Achievement Award for killing him, you see) So, frustrated beyond belief, I left Arisnoë there and went back to Wynterthyme, who was still waiting patiently in Grizzly Hills. Guess what! Two of the same three Hunters were still sitting there on their Dragons, and the third one was still sitting in the same place as when I left, hours before! Again, I hung about for a while, but there was no sign of the bear, so… I left. All in all, I hunted for those two Spirit Beasts, swapping backwards and forwards between Arisnoë and Wynterthyme, all day – and apparently my little friends in Grizzly Hills did too, because they were still there late this afternoon when I checked back… I’ll try again later in the week – but I’m not feeling particularly hopeful! In the meantime, I’ve dug Pangur Bán out of Wynterthyme’s Stables, and taught him Tenacity, instead of Ferocity. I’ve since gone out hunting with him a bit, and he seems to be able to heal himself fairly well… I really hope I can find him for Arisnoë to Tame! he could make all the difference for her…

Food stuffz: last night we had pan-fried chicken, steamed sugar-snap peas, half a tomato, and a mixture of different frozen chips, and for dessert I had an apricot, my fig, and the Dark Cacao Chia Pod. For lunch today I had a whole-grain sandwich with some basil-pesto hummus and tandoori chicken sandwich chunks – really yummy – and for dinner tonight we had King Island Beef sausages, half a tomato, chips, and Brussels sprout, with an apricot, and a small tub of rhubarb and vanilla yoghurt for dessert. Très délicieux! 🙂

Weigh-in this morning. Was quite astonishing! I went down seven points, from 63.6kg to 62.9kg! Innat amazing! I only hope I can go down just a few more points tomorrow morning – say down to 62.5kg – that’s a nice “round” number to rattle off to Dr. Y. when I see him tomorrow morning! 🙂 I’m feeling a trifle more hopeful though – I goes up, and I goes down – so maybe I’m now as stable as I’m ever going to get? (unless I go and do something really stupid, like eating a whole box of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts every day for the next six months! – hmm… I have actually thought about doing that, you know… not that I would, of course, but I have thought about it…)

Josh came over today to do my hair for tomorrow – perhaps I should sleep sitting up tonight, so as not to mess my hair up…  but I think it’ll be alright as long as I’m extra careful… So, apart from being as nervous as all get up, I’m off to see Dr. Y. tomorrow morning… and I needed a new referral, which I forgot to get! Never mind – I’ll see if Dr. B. can email it through for me (I think that’s how she did the last one, actually!) What a shame it’s so hot – I would have liked to have stopped off somewhere for lunch, on our way home, seeing as it’s my Birthday an’ all – but we’ll see what happens… And that’s about as far as I’ve got with thinking about tomorrow – after I’ve seen Dr. Y. we’ll just “play it by ear”, as they say in the classics – and so that’s really about it from me for tonight! 🙂 Do drop by again tomorrow night to see how my Birthday went, how I got on at Dr. Y.’s, and did we end up stopping off for lunch somewhere on our way home. What happens in the afternoon will depend largely on how the morning events went – so there’ll be lots of news and interesting bits and pieces for you all tomorrow night! 🙂 But until then, make sure that you continue to bee good, remember that the best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician, and don’t forget to keep warm – or cool – depending on what you prefer, to always drive carefully, and to look after yourselves… but most importantly, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

Well, today was quite a busy day, despite the fact that Clarke didn’t turn up after all – it seems he had a slight touch of gastro, so he’ll be here tomorrow, instead. Perhaps. However, I busied myself with young Arisnoë, and finally managed to hit the magic level of 90! I quickly Abandoned all my listed Pandarian quests and took myself off to Draenor – which, let me assure you, is completely different – from a Horde perspective! When you, as an Alliance member, finally arrive in Draenor, you’ll see that it’s a green and (mostly) pleasant land, almost an idyllic setting for, say, Beethoven’s 6th symphony (the Pastoral), populated by strange looking Heffalumps, stinging butterflies, neon green wolves, and other such strange beasties. Lots of trees and flowers, tinkling brooks, pretty waterfalls – I think you get the picture. It’s pleasant, it’s pretty (not as pretty as Pandaria – nothing is as pretty as Pandaria!) and the quests aren’t too onerous. When a member of the Horde arrives, it’s on the other side of Draenor – it’s as bleak, cold, and hostile as the Alliance side is pretty, green and habitable. Instead of a neat, orderly, and dare I say it, almost civilised Garrison, where people sound “normal”, you get a makeshift, grotty, snow-swept camp ground, filled with tattered tents, smoky camp fires, and everyone either grunts at you in gruff broken English (the Orcs), or sounds like a Ferengi fugitive from one of the Star Trek movies! (the Goblins) The quests seem to be a lot harder (not helped by the snow-covered landscape and the gloomy, overcast weather) or maybe it’s simply because this time I’m playing solo, and not as a group. It’s turning out that as a solo player, I have entirely the wrong type of Pet – a Ghost saber-tooth cat that I’ve had and loved since he was a tiny little kitten (well, not really – Moonshadow was 21 when I got him, the same as I was – but you know what I mean! 😉 ) He’s trained for Ferocity, and he got killed about 25 times this afternoon… whatever we were fighting simply gave him one swipe, and he was dead – then they’d turn around and come at me! After I’d died about four times, I quickly learnt that as soon as my Pet died, I’d have to “Feign Death”, or face another death, and another long run back for my body. S’not fun! My favourite eldest daughter was over this afternoon having her hair cut, and she says I really need a Spirit Beast Pet, as they have a “self-heal” trait. I know of a couple that I can Tame, so I think that if I get time tomorrow, I shall go out and get myself one, and I shall train it for Tenacity, not Ferocity (I could train Moonshadow for Tenacity, but I think I need that “self-heal” trait, and the tougher and more rugged physical mass of a Bear or a Tortoise) At the moment, Julian is training up his Horde Deathknight, called Thuglet, so maybe we can join up later on…

Meanwhile, back in civilisation, Wynterthyme is still trying to get her Lumber Mill, her Storehouse, and her Mage Tower up to level 3 – but there are so many specific quests that need to be completed first, I can’t see it happening any time soon – still, the Mine and the Herb Garden are both doing very well for her, so I suppose I can’t complain too much! So now that Arisnoë has reached level 90 and has a Garrison of her own, and Wynterthyme (now at level 100) has no more experience-gaining constraints, I may be able to take her out on her own to see if I can complete these ruddy damn quests. Wynterthyme does have one Spirit Beast Pet – a rather strange looking cat with glowing aquamarine eyes, and a white body covered in different sized question marks! It looks like a large, white, cat-shaped version of The Riddler, from Batman – but I know there’s a Spirit Bear out there in World of Warcraft-land that shouldn’t be too hard to find and Tame, so I might see if I can get something a little “hardier” than a cat, with or without a self-healing trait!

Food stuffz: last night being Sunday night, of course we had an omelet each – Julian always makes extremely good omelets, and last night’s offering was one of his better ones! I had an apricot and another low-fat yoghurt for dessert, leaving one more apricot for tonight. For lunch today I had another two Ryvita crispbreads – this time with some of the basil-pesto hummus (yum! 🙂 ) a slice of sandwich ham on each crispbread, and a dob of quinoa tabouli salad on top. Once again, very messy to eat (the crispbreads always tend to break apart when you bite into them) but delicious. Dinner tonight was pan-fried chicken, “sea salt and rosemary” chips, half a tomato, and some very nice sugar-snap peas. Unfortunately, the apricot that I’d left for dessert tonight had “turned”, and I had to throw it out, but luckily I’d got Julian to pick me up some more apricots this morning while he was out, so I still got my apricot for dessert, plus a big bonus! Julian found a ripe fig hanging over our back fence this afternoon, so I had that too! And then I got greedy and had a Dark Cacao Chia Pod as well 🙂 (but they’re terribly low-calorie!) I’m still only doing one treadmilling per day, but now instead of just walking a distance – 1.5 kilometers – every morning (before breakfast) I’m walking a length of time – I was going to make it thirty minutes, but I’ve turned up my walking speed one notch, to 3.6 kph, instead of 3.4 kph – and I’ve found that walking at that speed I can do 1.8 kilometers in 30 minutes, or 2 kilometers in 32 minutes – so I’m doing the latter, or a total of 14 kilometers a week (or approximately 3.7 hours per week)* which should be enough to keep me healthy (I hope!)

Weigh-in this morning. Not too bad, considering what a naughty girl I’ve been! 🙂 I went down two points this morning – from 63.8kg to 63.6kg. Hopefully it might be a little lower again tomorrow – but I won’t grizzle too much if it’s not – I’ll only grizzle if I go back up more than two points! 🙂 Maybe I’ll worry another couple of points off, because of my visit to Dr. Y. on Wednesday… Not really much more to say about my weight, is there? I started on Maintenance in November last year, and since then it seems to have been relatively steady within the 62kg – 64kg range – so here’s hoping that that’s about where I should be!

I’m not too sure what’s happening tomorrow – Clarke is supposed to be here – but I’m not going to hold my breath! He was supposed to be here last week (or was it the week before? I fergit!) then today – well, he’ll either be here or he won’t – whatever! I’ll probably be working with Wynterthyme for most of tomorrow – and see if I can somehow knock some of those quests for level 3 buildings over… The air conditioning service man came today and found quite a lot of things wrong with our unit, which he’s now fixed, thank heavens, so we shouldn’t have to swelter too much if this horrible heat sticks around – although I must say that sitting out on the back decking this afternoon while my favourite eldest daughter had her hair cut was… quite pleasant! I must also say that Lee’s hair looks a lot better now – very, very short back and sides, with a little more length on top – Josh really is a very talented hair stylist! 🙂 Oh! Remember before that I’d said that Julian found a nice, ripe fig hanging over our fence, and which I ate as part of my dessert tonight? Well, he also found a beautiful big tomato on one of our plants – one of the heirloom ones, and although it’s not a ripe “tomato red” yet (it’s almost the same colour as the apricots that he got this morning!) he picked it and brought it inside, before the birds noticed it! 🙂 My favourite eldest daughter also showed me how to make a line graph – I think it may have to be broken up into two-monthly “sheets”, because otherwise it’s going to be too big to turn into a graph, and it’ll most certainly be too big to print out, if we ever do want to print it (which we probably won’t – but you never know!) So I’ve made a second start on my weight-loss record chart, and I’ve almost done two month’s worth of entries – who knows? I might even get it finished, one of these days! And on that note, that’s about it from me for tonight! Do drop by again tomorrow to see if Clarke did turn up, if my weight went up, down, or stayed the same, and how my hair turned out for my Birthday and for my visit to see Dr. Y. – both on Wednesday! 🙂 Until then, please try hard to bee good, don’t forget to begin doing what you want to do now – you are not living in eternity, and remember to take care of yourselves, to always drive carefully, and to keep cool – or warm – depending on the weather… but above all, please remember to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

*Apologies in advance if the maths is incorrect, which it very well might be – maths has never been my strong subject!

Woo-hoo! 🙂 We made it! Level 100! Goodbye Experience Bar – hello Reputation farming! (if we want to earn our Draenor Flying Licences, that is!) We actually hit level 100 fairly early on – after all, we only had a tiny way to go – and then it was straight back to our Garrison(s), where I’m afraid I felt a little bit gypped! Yes, at level 100, we now had access to buy the level 3 building “plans” so that we could upgrade all our Garrison buildings – BUT! We had to have completed certain quests in order to get the “Achievement” associated with each building we wanted to upgrade – f’rinstance, to upgrade my Lumber Mill to level 3, I needed to have the Achievement called “Upgrading the Mill” – which needless to say, I’d never heard of, and didn’t have! I should have it by tonight though – it was just a matter of getting “X” number of Work Orders through the Mill… I was able to upgrade my Mine though, and my Herb Garden, but to upgrade my Storehouse (where my Bank and the Guild Bank reside) I need an Achievement called “Got My Mind On My Draenor Money” – that is, I need to Loot, or to have looted, 10,000 gold on Draenor, and I have no idea how close I am to that amount! I could look it up if I logged on, but I can’t at the moment, because I’m writing this, and if I do log on, I’ll get distracted and never get this finished! Anyway, I think that Julian’s already received that particular Achievement, so I can’t be that far off it, surely! We also get the opportunity to create another three buildings – one large, one medium, and one small. I’ve decided to create a “Gladiator’s Sanctum”, because when I get it to level 2, I’ll get Safe Fall (no more dying from falling off cliffs and tall buildings!) and Underwater Breathing (no more expensive and hard-to-get Water Breathing potions!) I’ve also decided on the Dwarven Bunker and the Salvage Yard, because of the extra resources they’ll allow me to get…

Anyway, we spent a bit of time upgrading ourselves and our buildings, then we trundled off again, questing mainly for gold, but – and I don’t know about Julian – I’m also trying to keep track of the Factions we need to raise our Reputations with, for this Draenor Flying thingy. Reputation is a funny thing – as you go through the game picking up quests, you gain a “Reputation” with the group of faction who are giving you all these quests. The only thing I can liken it to is, say you go to Surfer’s Paradise for a holiday. While you’re there some of the locals tell you that some pets have gone missing from their back yards – they think that they might have been let out deliberately, and – because they’re terribly busy standing at their front gate looking worried, they ask you to see if you can find them. Well, you’re on holiday, but you’re bored, and they’ve offered to pay you, so you say “OK”, and start cruising around the streets looking for these missing pets. They’re not very hard to find, and they’re tame and co-operative enough to let you pick them up and take them back to their owners. You get your reward, and the locals think you’re a really nice person, and your reputation with them rises. If you do things like this often enough, pretty soon the “locals” think you’re a pretty special sort of person, and before you know it, you go from “Hated”, to “Hostile”, “Unfriendly”, “Neutral”, “Friendly”, “Honoured”, “Revered”, and finally, to “Exalted”. Quite a lot of Achievements and “Special Rewards” (like a special Mount, or a Faction Tabard) depend on your level of Reputation with a particular Faction (of which there are hundreds, by the way!) So if you’re after that extra special snazzy “XYZ” flying and riding Mount that everyone is coveting this week, which requires you to be “Exalted with A-Faction”, you’ll go and do as many quests as you can in A-Faction’s area, in order to build up your Reputation with them. I might add that Julian and I have never really gone down the Faction Reputation road, unless it’s been to get something like this “Riding and Flying Licence”, so it’ll be quite a novelty for us – if that’s what we decide to do.

So we had a good day – Julian died once, by falling off a cliff because he wasn’t looking where he was going – I was forced to “Feign Death” a couple of times to get the mobs off me, but I didn’t actually die 🙂 I’m really looking forward to getting back into things with Wynterthyme – poor old Arisnoë might have to take a back seat for a day or two until I get all this Garrison Building stuff sorted out and set up properly – but then it’ll be full speed ahead to get Arisnoë’ to level 90, and my first Horde Garrison!

Food stuffz: last night we had pork fillet cut up into little “rounds” – cooked beautifully, and while the pork was cooking, Julian steamed some sliced water chestnuts. Just before the meat was ready, he sautéed the steamed water chestnuts in the pan with the pork, and boy, did it make all the difference! 🙂 With it we had half a tomato, and steamed rice with finely chopped spring onions and a little bit of soy sauce mixed through it. For dessert, I had one apricot, and a low-fat yoghurt. Today for lunch I had two Ryvita crispbreads with low-fat ricotta, a slice of sandwich ham on each crispbread, and a spoonful of quinoa tabouli salad on top of the ham. They were a bit messy to eat, but very yummy! Tonight being Sunday night, we each had an omelet, made with Halloumi cheese, bacon bits, red capsicum, and spring onion. I had another apricot for dessert, with another low-fat yoghurt…

Weigh-in this morning. Batman is pointing up at his “Bat-Sign” in the sky with one arm! Yes, I went up again – four points! (disgraceful! hence the Ryvita crispbreads – probably for the rest of the month! Naughty Winter! No more berry crumble and chocolate mud-cake with gooey frosting for you!) However, I really do feel as though I was getting back into the range where I feel I should be – getting down to 62.3kg made me feel anxious, and getting down to 61.8kg really scared me a bit. Anyway, as I said, I went up four points this morning, from 63.4kg to 63.8kg, and I’d like to stop right there please, Mr. Music! My feet are still a bit puffy, though not as bad as they’ve been over the last couple of days, when they looked more like hams with fingers, than feet at the end of my legs, so I’m probably still carrying too much fluid… I really hate hot weather 😦

I spoke to Clarke this morning – he’ll be here tomorrow between 10 and 10.30am – which means he’ll be fixing my shower door and loosening up my recalcitrant vanity unit drawers. I hope. I also hope he’ll still be here when Josh arrives – I’d like them to have a chat about our aviary – because with me being the totally non-technical sort of person that I am, I’m afraid I don’t explain those sorts of things very well. I understand the principles and concepts involved, and I can see how it all goes together and why, but I get totally lost and tongue-tied when I have to try and explain or describe it to someone. Anyway, it’s been a long day, I have Followers to send off on Missions, and (hopefully) a Lumber Mill to upgrade – so once again, that’s about it from me for tonight! Don’t forget to call back again tomorrow night, to see if my weight is holding steady, or if it’s still on the rise (if it is, I’ll probably be panicking!) whether the design for our aviary has been sorted out or not, and if I have a level 3 Lumber Mill and Storehouse or not. But until then, do continue to bee good, remember that we are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems, and don’t forget to always drive carefully, to keep cool – or warm – depending on the weather, and to look after yourselves… but above all, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

Good grief! Is it the weekend already?! Why is it, that when you’re a child, time seems to pass with agonising slowness… It seems forever, until next Christmas, or your next Birthday – but as you grow older, the time seems to speed up, passing faster and faster every year, until you get to my age – Christmas was yesterday, and you wake up on Boxing Day morning, to find that it’s the day before Christmas, a year later, and you haven’t even started the Christmas Shopping yet!! And because time seems to pass in such a blur, you find yourself in danger of missing out on things, like Julian’s “Big Birthday Bash”, which oversight we’ve managed to explain away by saying that Julian and I are going to have a joint “Big Birthday Bash” on Sunday, March 20th (aren’t we, Julian! *glare*) at one of our favourite Eateries – either The East Empress Bistro, in Glen Waverley, or The Tender Trap, in Doncaster. Either will do – just book it! We also put off our Saint Valentine’s Day dinner because we didn’t want to go out for dinner to be given a “Special” much shorter menu, with very few choices, lights so dim that you need to bring a torch with you in order to be able to read it, and an atmosphere of totally false bonhomie – we prefer to go out together a week or so later, when we can read a full menu and enjoy ourselves without all the brouhaha of a totally commercial “celebration”. Well, we haven’t been yet – but we will, we will…

This morning we went out reasonably early – we had to go and get a couple of prescriptions renewed – and as we’d run out of cereal and stuff for dinner tonight, we stopped off at The Glen on our way home, did our bit of shopping – and had lunch there, where once again, I probably ate too much. So much for getting my weight down as low as possible before Wednesday morning! Anyway, when we got home, I jumped straight into World of Warcraft – I’m supposed to be working on a spread-sheet of my weight loss, going right back to August 18th, 2014, and I did start, but then I realised that I was going about it all wrong, and that I should have been doing a line graph, which my favourite eldest daughter had shown me how to do several months ago, only I couldn’t remember what she’d said now. Julian growled at me, and told me to look it up on Google – which I had, but I couldn’t get my head around it, so I think I’ll just wait until Lee’s over here next week, and she can show me again… So I didn’t bother with that today, I did all my bits and pieces with Wynterthyme and her Followers, then I picked up where I’d left off with Arisnoë. That went quite smoothly, and I got a fair way with her – I could probably have even made it to level 89 this afternoon, but her bags were full, so I thought I’d just make a “quick trip” back to Orgrimmar to empty out her pockets, and then go back to my ever lengthening quest chain. Arriving in Orgrimmar, I went to the Guild Bank, but my bags were so full, and the Guild Bank was in such a mess, that I didn’t have any room to sort through things. In short, we needed another Guild Bank Vault. Well, we had the money in the Guild Bank, from when I’d sold Mouselet (I think it was Mouselet!) a slice of Watermelon (worth about four copper pieces!) for 3500 gold on the Neutral Auction House in Booty Bay, but… I wasn’t the Guildmistress, was I, so I didn’t get the option to buy another Guild Bank Vault. Bother. I logged into my secondary account, located the Guildmistress, bought the new Guild Bank Vault, swapped the Guildmistress-ship over to Arisnoë, and Bob’s yer uncle! I went back to Arisnoë, with whom I spent the remainder of the afternoon, rearranging the entire Guild Bank into a more logical and easier to manage order – four items at a time, because that was how many bag slots I had left! You know, it’s only just occurred to me, as I’m writing all of this, that I could have (should have!) transferred the contents of my bags into my Personal Bank – I’d have been able to move the Guild Bank things around a whole lot faster with more empty bag slots – and moved everything I’d temporarily stored in my Personal Bank back to my bags afterwards! Why couldn’t I have thought of that three hours ago?! …So much for the “quick trip” back to Orgrimmar! Anyway, the Horde Guild Bank on Quel’Dorei is now all sorted out and nice and neat and tidy, Arisnoë’s bags are nice and neat and mostly empty, and she’s all set up for the run to level 89 tonight! Hopefully! Tomorrow, of course, Wynterthyme and Mouselet will take over, in their bid to reach level 100! They’re so close now – only about two and a half bubbles left to level 100 – no excuses will be accepted, from here on in, it’s “Level 100 or Bust!” Mind you, I don’t know what we’re going to do when we do get to level 100 – we’ve never been Raid or Dungeon-type players – so I suppose we’ll just concentrate on building up our Garrisons, and improving our armor and gear for the advent of the next Expansion, “Legion”, supposedly going live in September! If there’s one thing that Blizzard does do well, it’s the expansion “trailers”, and this one for “Legion” is one of their best! – they really inspire you to pre-pay, and buy the expansion – we haven’t yet, but I have a feeling that we will… (because we always do!)

Food stuffz: last night we had lamb backstrap, pan-fried (but not marinated this time) with half a tomato, “sea salt and rosemary” chips, and green beans, and for dessert, I had one large-ish apricot, and a Dark Cocoa Chia Pod (my flavourite! 😉 ) Today we had lunch at The Glen, upstairs in the Food Court – this time we both chose “Muffin Break” food – I had a chicken and lettuce sandwich, followed by a diet-breaking, weight-making, sinful chocolate mud-cake slice, with really thick, gooey, absolutely delicious chocolate frosting! I can almost guarantee my weight will be up in the 69kg mark tomorrow morning! (well, hopefully it won’t go up that high (6 kilos, in one foul swoop? It’d better [censored] not!), but my weight certainly won’t be going down tomorrow, that’s fer sure!) Tonight we’re having pan-fried pork fillet, with rice, spring onions, half a tomato, and green beans, and once again, I’ll have one large-ish apricot, and a Blueberry Chia Pod. I also think that I’d better not go out for lunch for the next week, but eat a couple of Ryvita crispbreads with low-fat ricotta and tomato for the next five or six days! mia culpa, etc., etc… (and yes, that chocolate mud-cake slice was worth it! 😉 )

Weigh-in this morning. Wasn’t pretty! What with the berry crumble yesterday, and the chocolate mud-cake today, it’s going to be even uglier tomorrow! But I am suffering from fluid retention at the moment, and my weight will go down again… However today I went up five points – from 62.9kg to 63.4kg – and I have a feeling that I can expect the same tomorrow morning. Well, I’m the one who’s been saying that I thought being in the low 62kg zone was too low, and that I’d prefer to stay in the 63 to 64 kg zone, so I guess I can’t complain too noisily now that I am in the mid 63kg range, can I! 🙂

I must say I’m looking forward to tomorrow, and reaching level 100 – for one thing, it will (should, anyway!) open up level 3 Garrison opportunities – to upgrade my buildings and Followers, thereby bringing me in more Garrison Resources, which appear to be “Garrison-speak” for “currency”! Whether Wynterthyme and Mouselet will go on to attempt to gain their Draenor Flying Licences or not, I’m not sure – my favourite eldest daughter did leave me a very detailed list of all the Draenor Flying Licence requirements in a Blog Comment a couple of days ago – it certainly makes for very interesting, if extremely daunting, reading! Anyway, once again that’s about it from me for tonight – but do drop in again tomorrow night, and see just exactly how much my weight did go up in the morning (probably a lot! ) and whether Wynterthyme and Mouselet did make it to level 100, if they died getting there, and if they did, what was it that took them down – as well as what boosts, advantages, and/or rewards did they receive when they finally did ding 100! Until then though, do be patient, and please try to bee good – remember that the best way to predict the future is to create it, and don’t forget to look after yourselves, to always drive carefully, and to keep cool – or warm – depending on what the weather decides to give you… but most importantly, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

Here we go again! YANH! (Yet Another New Header! 😉 ) What do all think of it? The background is one I made years and years ago, and has been a good stand-by ever since – the rest I cobbled together from various bits and pieces. I thought it looked quite nice – but there you go, I’m back into my “Violet” movement again – I wonder if it’s because when we were out this morning, I wandered through an Apothecary, and they had a very attractive stand of room reed diffusers (reed room diffusers? *shrug* …I dunno) – you know, those pretty perfume-type bottles with half a dozen sticks of cane poking out of them? Right, well Julian and I don’t think much of them – they start off scenting the room nicely, but after only a day or so, the smell vanishes and you’re left with a rather forlorn bottle that has about half a dozen oily and somewhat dusty sticks of cane poking out of it. Oh, I’ve been told that you really have to rotate, or twiddle, the cane sticks every day to get the best effect, and I’ve been told that you should thoroughly wash and dry your cane sticks at least once a week for them to work properly, and lots of other variations on the same theme – and I’ve tried them all! Sadly, none of them really work – so when I saw them all lined up in the Apothecary today, naturally I stopped and sniffed at each one, to see if any of them would be worth getting… They were all “alright” – nothing there really grabbed my fancy, but then I noticed that, hey! They had candles, too! I’m looking for candles at the moment, as the one that I’m currently using in the bedroom has almost reached the un-burnable stage. Now, as I said, Julian and I don’t think much of the room reed diffusers (or reed room diffusers – whatever!) even if I do always go and sniff them, to see if any of them smell nice enough to be worth experimenting with again… we also don’t really like soy candles, and that’s about all that anyone sells anymore! Why don’t we like soy candles? Well, despite what the chandlers always try to tell you, they don’t burn as well or as evenly as the paraffin wax ones. When you light them, the soy wax melts into a horrible yellow oil, which when cooled, becomes a horrible yellow layer of soft, greasy soy wax on top of the as-yet un-melted white soy wax underneath! But of course, soy candles are sooo popular! Everyone wants soy candles! (because you can’t buy the paraffin based ones anymore! That’s the reason why “everyone wants them”!) Anyway, getting back to the Apothecary this morning, in amongst all those diffusers were four or five boxed candles – soy ones, to be sure, but they had fairly promising names, like “Citrus Woods”, and “Hibiscus Flower”, and “Lemongrass”…. and…. “Violets”. I had to sniff all of those, too… I don’t much like the smell of Lemongrass, but I sniffed it anyway, and as usual, I wrinkled my nose and moved hastily on to the next one… the Hibiscus scented one was disappointing – it lacked “body”, and was so faint that you really had to stick your nose into the box to be able to smell it at all. The Citrus Woods was another disappointment – it smelt more like our camphor wood chest, than anything “citrus-y”! I saved the Violet one till last, as I love the smell of violets, and it was in a pretty mauve glass container, too (what was I saying earlier? 🙂 “Oh gosh, I wonder what on earth could have put me into a “Violet” frame of mind”, hmm?! 😉 ) Well, I guess that sometimes a violet just doesn’t smell like a violet – and this was one of those times, because whatever it was that it did smell of, it certainly wasn’t violets! It wasn’t unpleasant, but it wasn’t violets, either. I left the Apothecary with some mousewash, some fluffy soap, and a tube of toothpaste…

We left straight after breakfast to get my Warfarin blood test done, then we went up to Knox City, where I went to Butterfly and bought a couple of silver guard rings – as soon as I can locate my “good” rings, I’ll see if they’re going to work or not – but they look quite good on their own anyway, with just my original wedding ring between them. We had lunch up at Knox, and when we came home I did a bit more running around with Wynterthyme – I got her to two and a half bubbles to ding, went back to Stormwind, and turned off my experience bar – Julian got to about the same  point, and turned his off, too – so between now and next Sunday, we can both go out harvesting anything we can get our greedy little paws on, without getting ahead of eachother 🙂 Next Sunday, with a bit of luck, we should both ding level 100 at around about the same time, and then experience bars will be a thing of the past, until the new expansion goes live, around about September!

Food stuffz: last night we had King Island Beef sausages for dinner, with green beans, half a tomato (store-bought – none of ours are ripening! There are plenty on the plant, and they’re getting nice and plump – but they’re not going nice and tomato-red yet!) and we had a new and different type of chip – not the “sea salt and cracked pepper” this time, they were “sea salt and rosemary”, which were very nice too! Not quite as good as the cracked pepper ones, but nice enough to warrant getting them again. For dessert I had an apricot (they’re large ones, otherwise I would have had two) and some of the delicious Coles brand low-calorie Rice Pudding that we both like so much. For lunch today I had my usual “lunch in a shopping centre somewhere” – which is nearly always a BLT, with some sort of “cake slice” to follow for dessert. Today’s “cake slice” was an extremely nice “berry crumble” – no cream or anything, just the berry crumble, but it was really yummy! Tonight we’re having lamb backstraps, pan-fried, with all the usual suspects – half a tomato, green beans (or sugar-snap peas) and probably more of the “sea salt and rosemary” chips. I hope so, anyway. As there are no more figs ripe enough to pick yet, I’ll have another apricot for dessert, with maybe a Chia Pod because they’re fun to eat 🙂

Weigh-in this morning. I’m still confused… anyway, this morning I went down two points, from 63.1kg to 62.9kg, so Batman is starting to grow a cape under his right-hand pointy ear 🙂 I do know one thing though – this weather definitely isn’t good for me! I’m starting to retain fluid again, and my feet are getting quite puffy and swollen. I think I need to move to Tasmania, or New Zealand – or anywhere that’s cooler and has less humidity than here, anyway! 😦 So – I wonder what my weight will do after the BLT and the berry crumble? Go up again, I suppose – but I would like it to get down to, say – 62.8kg or a bit lower? for next Wednesday – just so that I can smirk smugly at Dr. Y. when I tell him what I weight now! 😉 (and to think – all the doctors – including Dr. Y. – said that I wouldn’t be able to do it, without having drastic – and permanent – weight loss surgery! …I think I have every right to smirk smugly at them all!)

I’m not sure what’s happening tomorrow – I know we have to front up at the doctor’s to pick up some new scripts, but apart from that, I think tomorrow’s relatively clear – I hope so, anyway – as I haven’t had a chance to do anything with poor old Arisnoë today – she’s probably moping around Pandaria feeling very neglected! I’ll have to see if I can run her through a couple of quests tonight, to make up for neglecting her today. I must find time to file my nails down tomorrow, too – they’re getting long enough to interfere with my typing, and that means that they’re going to start breaking, very, very soon! Besides! I want them to look nice for next Wednesday! 🙂 And having said that, I think it’s also about time for me to say “…and that’s about it from me for tonight!”, so I shall! 🙂 …and that really is about it from me for tonight! Do stop by again tomorrow night though, to see if Batman’s cape is going to turn into an antenna after all, depending on what my weight does with the BLT and the piece of berry crumble that I had for lunch today – and I’m sure you’re all very eager to find out how Arisnoë is progressing on her quests towards level 90! One thing’s fer sure though – there’ll be lots to tell you all tomorrow night, so make sure you don’t miss anything! 🙂 However, until tomorrow night, do your very best to bee good, if not gooder, remember that intolerance betrays a lack of faith in one’s cause, and don’t forget to stay cool – or warm – depending on your preferences, to always drive carefully, and to look after yourselves… but above all, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

Oh well, here I am, still trying to create the “poifeckt” header for the blog – yanno, they really look fantastic in Photoshop, and I feel really pleased with my work – but some of these templates enlarge everything (to different degrees!) some of them “muddy” up my colours because the [censored] template has an automatic “header shading” effect written into it – so it’s a very rare template that is truly “WYSIWYG” (i.e. What You See Is What You Get) rarer than hen’s teeth, actually! So I does me best, and as I said – they look great in Photoshop, so I upload it, and the [censored] template stretches and enlarges it until it doesn’t look very much like the way I designed it. This is one of those “stretchy” templates, and what you see in the header is nearly three and a half times larger than my design. “So, make it smaller, then!” I hear you laughing. Don’t think I haven’t tried it, because I have! Unfortunately, it’s not quite that simple. If I make the font size any smaller than the one I’m using now, I can hardly read it – which also means that I have no way of knowing how the effects I use on said fonts are going to look! I’ve made the text and text effects on this one as small as I possibly can and still be able to read what I’ve written, but it’s still too big…

Anyway, this morning I organised Wynterthyme’s Followers into their Mission Teams and sent them off to “do things” and bring me home some nice Garrison Resources, then I went back and picked up Arisnoë in Pandaria – I tell you, trying to find your way around Pandaria without being able to fly really sucks, big time! I don’t know if any of you have seen any of those beautiful old, Chinese scroll paintings, depicting tall “fingers” of mountains, their tops covered in bright green mossy-looking grass, and studded with quaint “bonsai” looking trees, lush plants and flowers, tiny streams that turn into majestic waterfalls, as they drop over the sides of these remarkably tall, skinny mountains – it’s extremely pretty – it looks as though it should be peaceful and idyllic, but you’ll find extremely lethal but handsome latte and dark chocolate tigers, vicious jade green tigers with glowing eyes, cute, harmless little critters that look like a cross between a beaver and a porcupine, small racoon-like squirrels – there are lots and lots of little animals running all around, and there you are, trying to get from Point A to Point B, with a big, fat gold arrow pointing in the direction you’re supposed to be going. I say “supposed” with good reason! You can’t go over the mountains – they’re un-climbable. There are roads through them, here and there, but once again, most of the time you’re obliged to go around the bases of the pretty mountains to find them, which sometimes takes you so far out of your way that you turn back, thinking you must have become lost! And most of the time, you have! (become lost!) The quests themselves are relatively easy, as long as you don’t have a gaggle of players all doing the same quests at the same time – re-spawn time is fairly slow, and hanging around twiddling your thumbs whilst awaiting your turn to kill the Boss Mob gets very boring, very quickly! Leveling up is fairly slow, too – so for goodness sake, don’t make the mistake I made this morning, and look at your experience bar! It’s really very discouraging, to see it creep along at less than a snail’s pace! It’s all pretty slow at the moment – at level 98, Wynterthyme and Mouselet are leveling at more than twice the speed that Arisnoë is, but she did manage to get to level 87 this afternoon! 🙂 Going back to Wynterthyme, whose Garrison had quite a nice level 2 Tannery, I found I was getting an awful lot of “Burnished Leather”, a crafting material used by Leatherworkers. I had nearly 400 of the ruddy things, but Wynterthyme isn’t a Leatherworker, and nor are any of my other girls! This Burnished Leather is “Soulbound”, meaning that you can’t sell it on the Auction House, so what was I going to do with it all? All I could do with it was Vendor it for a pittance – what a waste! If I hadn’t turned all the results of my Skinning into Work Orders at the Tannery, at least I could have sold the unprocessed skins on the Auction House, for around 1 gold each! Ouch! Anyway, after a bit of discussion with Julian, I decided to swap my level 2 Tannery for an Enchanter’s Study, which I used to have, but I got rid of it because I wasn’t able to DE (Dis-Enchant) things… then my favourite eldest daughter told me that I could DE things in the Enchanter’s Study, but only things that I’d either found, or been given, on Draenor! Whoops! And although I’m not an Enchanter (and I don’t think any of my other girls are either) I can most certainly sell the proceeds of my Dis-Enchanting on the Auction House! What’s more, if Mouselet gets anything he can’t use, he’ll give it to me for DE-ing, or if we come across a “drop” item (from something we killed) that’s “Bind on Pickup” (which makes it Soulbound) Mouselet will “Pass” on it, so that I’ll get it by default, and which I can then DE as soon as I get back to my Garrison! Well, making the switch back to the Enchanter’s Study was going to cost me valuable Garrison Resources, but I went and did it, anyway! Oh no! I clicked on the wrong “shop” to change! I clicked on my level 2 Storeroom, where my Banker, and the Guild Bank were situated! Arrrggghhh! *sigh* so, sacrificing yet more Garrison Resources, this time I clicked on the correct “shop”, and turned the Tannery into another Storeroom! It’s ironic, really! The Enchanter’s Study was opposite the Storeroom, and I didn’t have a Tannery. Now the Storeroom has become The Enchanter’s Study, and what used to be The Tannery has become the Storeroom… The Storeroom and the Enchanter’s Study are once again opposite eachother (only on different sides this time) and I no longer have a Tannery! This ably demonstrates the fact that – if there’s a long and convoluted way of getting something done, I’ll find it! 😉

Food stuffz: last night we had the rest of the Julian-burgers, with half a tomato, ordinary old chips, and green beans – and I’m already looking forward to having more of those Julian-burgers 🙂 For dessert I had a small fig, an equally small apricot, and some “mixed berries” low-fat yoghurt. For lunch today I had a whole-meal sandwich, with a bit ‘o betta butter, and some sandwich “tandoori chicken” chunks (Julian and I both reckoned that the last time that chicken saw the inside of a tandoor oven was probably several incarnations ago…) Tonight we’re having sausages for dinner (I’m not sure what sort though!), with all the usual – chips, half a tomato, and green beans or sugar-snap peas. We don’t have any more figs at the moment, so for dessert, I’ll have an apricot, and some of the extremely nice “Coles brand” (very) low-calorie Rice Pudding. After quite a bit of discussion, Julian and I have come to the conclusion that I really don’t need to do my lunchtime treadmillathon – as my favourite eldest daughter said yesterday, I only need to do half an hour, three times a week, to remain fit and healthy. As my 1.5kg walk before breakfast only takes 26 minutes, I’ll lengthen that to a full half hour, and skip the lunchtime walk. The early morning walk is very important though, as it helps kick-start my metabolism for the rest of the day – there’s no way I’m going to wriggle out of that one (unless I’m desperately ill, of course!) besides, I don’t want to wriggle out of it! 🙂

Weigh-in this morning. See-saw, Margery Daw! Back up again today – from 62.8kg back to 63.1kg – or, as I like to put it, “putting the point on Batman’s ear”, because on my graph chart, it looks like I’m drawing the silhouette of batman’s cape, with the two little pointy ears on top 🙂 So… let’s see what I’ll be drawing on my graph tomorrow morning! Maybe an antenna, if my weight goes up again, or maybe the edge of Batman’s cape, if it goes down! I’ve started setting up a spreadsheet on which to record this weighty business – but really, I don’t know very much about Excel, and how to set up spreadsheets – I’m pretty sure I could get the program to do it all automatically for me, if I knew how to work out the formulas – but I don’t, so I’m having to do it all very laboriously, but hand! It’s taken me since August 2014 until now, so that’s how many dates I have to put in, one by bloody one, and it has to range between 134.7kg an 61.5kg (or thereabouts) with every point in between listed, so that’s going to take a long time, too! Oh well, it’ll get done when it gets done, I suppose!

Tomorrow I have my next Warfarin blood test, but apart from that, I don’t think much else is happening – at the moment, the air conditioner is working again – goodness knows what’s wrong with it – we have a technician coming out to look at it – hopefully tomorrow afternoon, but at least it’s working for the moment! 🙂 Well, dinner is almost ready, and it’s really about it from me again for tonight anyway! 🙂 Don’t forget to look in again tomorrow night to find out if the air conditioner really is fixed, or if it needs some terribly obscure part that has to come from a remote little village in Siberia where they don’t even have email, before it can get fixed properly, if I still have any blood left after the Vampyre Nurse attacks me in the crook of my arm with a blunt and rusty syringe, and whether Batman will have to have an antenna or a cape hanging off the pointy ear of his cape 🙂 But until then, do behave yourselves, and bee good! Remember that every exit is an entry somewhere else, and don’t forget to look after yourselves, to always drive carefully, and to keep cool – or warm – depending on Melbourne’s weird weather – but most importantly, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂

Ho-hum, late again! But… that’s because my favourite eldest daughter came to visit me, so that we could chat and watch TV shows together 🙂 She went in to uni this morning and joined a whole heap of clubs and what-nots, and her teachers (?) say that she’s on-track to do an Honours degree, or to get her Master’s degree next year, as this is her last year of her Bachelor’s degree course, and both types of degree would require her to write a Thesis on her chosen subject… er… I hope I got all that right! (I probably didn’t, and if so, blame Google, not me! 😉 ) Before Lee came over this morning, I dealt with all Wynterthyme’s Followers, then proceeded to work with Arisnoë, who is now in panda-monium prone Pandaria. She’s been able to find her first Flight Point (but she can’t go anywhere because she doesn’t know anywhere else to fly to – yet!) and a nice, comfortable Inn, where she’s now Hearthed herself, as there’s a very handy Portal to Orgrimmar close by – and so far, everything’s going according to plan. Unfortunately I can’t fly in Pandaria until I’m level 90, and boy, do I miss just being able to zoom straight up into the air, to see the lay of the land, and be able to find places easily, instead of getting lost amongst the impassible hills and gullies, and trying to make my way down lethally steep cliffs and around mountain ledges! Oh well, I dinged level 86 yesterday – only four more levels to go! And when I do get to level 90, I should be able to get to Draenor – where I still won’t be able to fly until I’ve done a whole lot of tiresomely difficult quests, and jumped through numerous deadly hoops! Still, I’ll have my Garrison to keep me occupied, and maybe, with a bit of mutual help, Mouselet, Wynterthyme, and Arisnoë can all get their Draenor Flying Licences together – unless Blizzard, in their infinite wisdom, decide to make it easier to learn to fly in Draenor, once the new expansion comes out. And pigs might learn to fly, too!

This afternoon my favourite eldest daughter and I watched one episode of “Supergirl”, and one episode of “The 100”, where things are starting to get very complicated indeed! The new Chancellor is a bit loopy and is determined to kill any and all “Grounders” (people left behind on Earth that survived the nuclear holocaust) because he’s convinced – and has convinced most of the people from the space station – that the Grounders will kill them, if they don’t kill the Grounders first! Of course, it’s not true – currently there’s a very uneasy and fragile “truce” between the two groups, but the wholesale slaughter of the Grounders by this new Chancellor is making things very difficult indeed. In the meantime, there’s the equally loopy ex-Chancellor, who has found an AI (Artificial Intelligence) – “thing” – (for want of a better word!) which manifests itself as an extremely shapely and attractive young brunette, in a tightly fitting red dress and red stiletto shoes… This AI construct somehow alters a person’s brain chemistry, removing all physical pain and mental suffering – and now, apparently, it’s removing memories, too! Of course, this “pain-free” and blissful life makes the AI’s offer of “salvation” very attractive to an awful lot of people – but this AI is looking for something – something perhaps hidden deep in the programming of the crashed space station’s computer system? Lee and I are both very suspicious of this rather gorgeous AI – what exactly does it want, and more importantly, why?! I wish we could get hold of more episodes, instead of getting them doled out, one episode per week! After that we watched the first couple of episodes of Season 2 of another of Marvel’s comic-book turned TV-series, “Agent Carter” (loosely based on the “Captain America” story-line) We also have about six episodes of another of Marvel’s TV series, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”, but we haven’t watched those yet… maybe next week… 🙂 Actually, I don’t know if we’ll be able to watch anything much next week – Lee’s back at uni, but she’ll be over here on Monday afternoon – too late for watching anything though. Still, it’ll give us a chance to grab hold of some more Shannara Chronicles, I hope, for the following week! 🙂

Food stuffz: last night for dinner we had a beautiful piece of steak – King Island fillet – and it was cooked to perfection! We also had green beans, half a tomato, and the last of the “sea salt and cracked pepper” chips (of which we must get some more!) I had the second of the three figs, and one of the apricots for dessert, which left one fig, and one apricot for tonight. For lunch today I had a wrap – made with the basil pesto hummus, some of the quinoa tabouli salad, some Halloumi cheese, and sandwich ham. I only managed to get one treadmillathon in today, because my favourite eldest daughter was here – according to her, I really only need to do half an hour, three times a week, on the treadmill to get as much exercise as I need – well, so she says, anyway – she thinks I over-exercise… Well, I missed out on my second walk yesterday, because the accountant was here, and I missed out again today, because my very favourite eldest daughter was here… but tomorrow, I should be able to get both walks in, so… we’ll see how things go! For dinner tonight we had the rest of the hamburgers that Julian had made the other night – the mixture made a dozen, and he cooked six of them the other night, and froze the rest, which we had for dinner tonight, with ordinary old chips, green beans, and half a tomato. The remaining fig, although ripe, was very small, and so was the remaining apricot, so I had a low-fat yoghurt as well (alright, so I was greedy!) so I guess we’ll see what the scales say tomorrow! 😉

Weigh-in this morning. Was good – I think… I went back down three points – from 63.1kg to 62.8kg. I have my next appointment with Dr. Y. next Wednesday, and I’m confused – I don’t know whether I want to be under 63kg or over it! I know my “end goal weight” was going to be 70kg, because that’s what Dr. Y. thought my weight should be – but I wanted to get down to 65kg, so that I’d have some “wriggle room” when I hit Maintenance. Then finally, on the morning of November 28th last year, I did get down to 65kg, said “Hallelujah”, went on Maintenance, and started eating “normally” again. Then to my great surprise, and quite a bit of consternation, instead of going back up towards 70kg, I just kept going down – in fact, I’ve zig-zagged and see-sawed my way between 65.5kg and 61.8kg ever since! Now, as I’ve been saying for the last couple of nights, I don’t know whether I should start eating voraciously, to try to get somewhere closer to that 70kg marker, or whether to just shrug my shoulders, keep on going the way I am – not getting too worried if I “splurge” occasionally – but keeping an eye on my weight and more-or-less letting my body settle wherever it wants to – as long as I never go over that 70kg “ceiling”. I think that the latter is probably the most sensible thing to do… Oh well, I hope so, anyway. Julian thinks I should collate the whole diet trip in a spreadsheet, as I haven’t really kept a diary of my progress, just my daily graph sheets. It’ll be a bit fiddly, but it could prove interesting… I’ll think on’t! 🙂

Well, tomorrow is going to be hot again – and our air conditioner is playing up. Julian’s first job tomorrow morning is trying to locate a technician to come out to fix it – our only other options are to (a) melt, or (b) keep moving my Dyson Bladeless Fan around from room to room as needed, which will be a bore and a chore, but definitely better than melting! I have washing to fold and put away, and a lot of running around Draenor and Pandaria. Hopefully the house won’t get too hot before we can get the air conditioner fixed – we’ve got all the windows open at the moment to try to get it as cool as possible before tomorrow… Anyway, once again that’s about it from me for tonight – don’t forget to drop by again tomorrow night to find out if we melted or survived, and whether we’ve had the air conditioner fixed or not. Learn whether my weight “jumped” for joy at not getting a second treadmillathon for two consecutive days, and also how close Arisnoë is to level 90 and a Garrison of her own. There’ll be lots of news and interesting trivia for all of you, so make sure you don’t miss out! 🙂 Until then though, please continue to bee good, remember that we choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them, and don’t forget to keep cool – or warm – depending on your inclination, to look after yourselves, and to always drive carefully – but above all, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂