Wii Fit fun!

For my birthday (to my complete surprise and bouncing up and down joy) my Mum, Dad and sister got me a Wii with Wii Play. I loved it and it was particularly unexpected as we had got the same for Dad for his birthday so when I opened the present from Kristy and found the Wii Play I thought she had got our presents swapped over by accident. On my Dad's birthday we spent the best part of the evening playing with the wii - unfortunately with Dad's recent accident (He fell over with a milk bottle in his hand, severing 2 tendons and rupturing one) he could only use the wiimote and note the nunchuk. He did however prove himself to be a demon bowler and he and JJ had a couple of matches. Poor Mum's wrist was hurting due to her arthritis so she couldn't play this time.

My lovely hubby hadn't got round to getting me a present so he got me a book and promised to get me the wii fit when it came out. Well today was crunch day and I waited in ALL DAY getting more and more annoyed waiting for it to come. Finally, about 4ish it arrived - I think I may have scared the delivery guy by me somewhat over enthusiastic answering of the door. I lasted about 1/2 hour before succumbing to setting up which took all of two minutes and then I felt guilty and decided to wait for JJ to come home before playing it.

When JJ came home, he was allowed about 2 seconds to take his shoes off before being forced into the lounge to play. Unsurprisingly I am classed as obese, JJ as overweight and it calculated my wii fit age to be 42 - annoyingly JJ was classed as 31! I played all the way through the exercises and then JJ did the same - JJ whupped me in nearly EVERY game, though seeing him trying to hula hoop in just his pants and shirt more than made up for it.

I HATE the gym and, though I went fairly regularly for a short while, I quickly stopped as I loathed it so intensely and found it so very boring. This however was enjoyable - we both finished knowing that we had done exercise but not exhausted and, having had a much needed shower, we were both feeling quite good.

All in all, I hope that I will keep up exercising with the wii fit (which incidentally is hard to type as I kept getting wii fiit) as it is enjoyable, variable, inherently silly with the aforementioned hula hoop game, a football heading game and a tightrope walking game just for starters. We have decided that we are going to take before and after photos - some without clothes and some with clothes which we can show the general public without causing mass panic.

• Change in BMI : NA
• Center of Gravity : L45.9 R54.1
• Age : 42
• Change in weight : na
• Time spent : 30 mins
• Total time : 30 mins

And Dad...

... is 64 so twice my age!

Bad but impressively epic dream...

So last night I had a nightmare that was so awful I woke up crying and it has sort of stuck with me all day. So in an effort to get rid of it before I go to sleep again, I am going to pop it down here...

It started with some giant disaster (I think it was a comet hitting the earth) where loads of people died. I dashed home to find JJ and K dead in the lounge. It had obviously happened quickly as K still had a book on her lap and JJ had the TV remote in his hand and the TV was still on, but they looked unmolested.

I thought that I would have to check on Mum and Dad, so jumped in the car and headed over there but the roads were largely blocked with dead people in the cars, so I had to walk all the way. When I got there, pretty much everyone in the village was dead except Mum, Dad and Chris (who in my dream still lived next door to my parents even though she moved our years ago). On the TV they said that the impact of the meteor (or whatever it was) was causing the atmosphere to boil away into space and that, over the course of the next 24 hours, everyone who had survived the initial impact would slowly suffocate. Chris was so upset at this and the loss of the boys that she went next door and took sleeping pills to kill herself and there was absolutely nothing we could do to convince to not do it.

While we waited to die, a bunch of about 8 or 9 astronauts walked towards us. They had worked out that, the International Space Station had enough air and supplies for 2 years and were gathering additional supplies before going back up (why they were gathering supplies in deepest darkest Surrey, god only knows). After a couple of years the world would recover and they could return. While we stood talking to them, two of them who had gone further afield for supplies were killed by something, freeing up two places on the station. They said that two of us could go with them and Mum said she didn't want to do it and would take sleeping pills like Chris to avoid the suffocation. So Dad and I sat with her while she took them and we talked to her while she fell asleep. We then put her in bed and left her to go to the station. During the launch, something happened to Dad and he was screaming and yelling and I was strapped in and I couldn't get to him, no matter what I tried, though when we arrived he seemed ok.

We had not been there long before it turned out that a lot of the food supplies had spoiled and we would have to go out and find the bodies of astronauts who had died and eat them. Dad went out on a space walk to start gathering bodies and, while he was out there I realised we had not given Mum enough sleeping pills to kill her and she would be waking up now and then would have to slowly suffocate (it didn't occur to me that she could just take more pills). I went completely berserk, screaming that I had to go back and that is when I woke up and sobbed all over a poor confused and half asleep JJ for about 1/2 hour.

There was another dream, part of the same sequence, but I have no idea how it fitted into the rest of the dream - I was in a large loft apartment with about 50 lesbians dressed as WWII wrafs, and they were script writers for the bbc and were discussing how much they liked Stephen Fry and one was saying how, when she was alive, she made a hole in the riser of the staircase so that she could watch womens ankles as they went up the stairs?! Bizarre.

Anyway, hopefully that is the end of it and I can have a good nights sleep tonight...

Jingle bells...

Well, again I haven't posted in a while, so a lot has happened in the meantime. JJ is contracting in Birmingham at the moment so he is away during the week and so christmas was a bit chaotic this year, I was reduced to wrapping the last of the presents on christmas morning!

Christmas Eve was nice - we went early evening to my Aunty's to see my cousin Glen, his wife Emma and their ADORABLE twins Darcy and Pheobe. Even JJ got sucked into playing with them, they were so sweet. We had intended to be there an hour, actually turned out to be about 2 1/2 hours, but we had fun so then headed home ot have our traditional German christmas. JJ had chosen to have cotlette this year, with cheesy mash and, as we no longer have a proper dining table, we used our cafe table which was quickly abandoned for the little tables on the sofa as the cafe table wobbles somewhat precariously. Then after the meal, we came to the important part - PRESENTS!!!!!

I got my camera (FINALLY!) and I am over the moon! The instruction manual is ridonkulously long and I have yet to download any piccies from it, but I think I am already part way to annoying JJ by Photographing EVERYTHING, regardless of interest or beauty.

The First Photo on the new camera

Only problem is, whenever I put it down for 2 seconds, JJ has it in his hands... I also got the most adorable Polar Bear money box - I had been eyeing this enviously in Sainsburys since they first appeared and had debated buying one before christmas in case I didn't get one. We also gave the doggies a water fountain with which they were spectacularly unimpressed with, though Sherb enjoyed the box.

As we were a bit later than we we had intended, by this time we were pretty tired and so I only managed to read a tiny amount of the instruction manual and took a bunch of bad photos. I think that JJ liked his pressie - a membership to the UK Wolf Conservation Trust and a photography day, plus a couple of small bits.

Christmas morning was a little fraught, trying to get out of the door when the presents weren't wrapped and the dog cage was buried under 6 ton of crud and the dogs sixth sense told them they were going on a trip about 3 hours before we left so that they dashed around in excited mania. However we finally got to my Mum's and were able to relax. The turkey had gone on a little late so veggies were still being prepared.

We opened our stockings (in a plastic bag this year as I had forgotten to take the stockings over at any point) and including a "wonderball" which was the weirdest thing I've seen - a ball of green crepe paper about 3 inches across which you slowly unrolled, revealing little presents, like a plastic lizard and luck tokens. We came to the conclusion that it was possibly oriental in origin, a lot of the presents had oriental characters or an oriental flavor. Sherb enjoyed the paper...

We had a glorious christmas meal - prepared by Kris and Dad, Turkey, two types of roast pots, parsnips, broccoli, peas, carrots, sprouts, broad beans in white sauce, cranberry jam, bread sauce and gravy. We then rolled away from the table without pudding as there was no way it was fitting in and then we finished opening presents, handed out by whoever was wearing the penguin hat of power.

After a somwhat vindictive Boppit session...

...we then watched the Mock the Week DVD, causing much hilarity, until Kristy and Thai dozed off on the sofa, Kristy blaming Thai's majical sleep inducing aura, which then spread to John.

and finally headed to bed. Unfortunately, we didn't pump up the mattress enough so JJ slept pressed up against me and stole the sleeping bag, so one side was frozen, the other side par-boiled. Ad in the fact that JJ forgot his nasal spray and was doing his bet impersonation of a congested rhino and I didn't sleep.

Next day, we eventually dragged ourselves together, hopped in the car and headed to JJ's Mum's. The traffic wasn't too bad except when we were in sight of the toll booths they shut the tunnel for a bit.

We happened to be stuck just over from a flatbed that must have contained Father Christmas making some last minute deliveries.

We had another christmas dinner at Paulines - delicious as ever with the Xmas pud and then, after a short sit down, we started to construct Tina's present from Father Christmas - a trampoline. It was past dark when we finished but we all had a go, Tina staying out on it for AGES.

We then headed in where Pauline plyed us with more sinful food and fixed the computer and laptop and showed Tina how to put songs on her mp3 player.

John Realises how bad the computer problems are...

...And tries to explain the problem to Pauline.


John snored on the sofa for a bit so I bought him home and he snored some more on the way home. We snuggled up on the sofa and watched a little telly before we headed to a contented bed.

A hilarious night out

Well it is Halloween and I can't find a pumpkin anywhere :( Instead I had bought a green plastic skull full of lollies to give to kids in their halloween bags so I popped a candle in that instead. I have made about 20 bags up with various bits in it. I ran out of bags last year so this year made my own from orange paper bags which I then drew piccies on.

Anyway, Mum, Dad andKris finally turned up and, after a quick tea of fisha nd chips, we headed to the theatre to see the splendiferous Russell Howard. He was Hys-ter-i-cule!!! We literally laughed until we we have tears running down our faces. He was slightly frantic in style, with one story startings, then another, then going back to the first and starting a third and it was so funny. The only slightly disturbing bit was when he was decribing how some people wake up and are angry with their partners because of something their partner has done in their dreams and both my sister and JJ, who were sat either side of me, turned to me and almost in chorus said "That's YOU!"
A good indication of a great night had by all was that we laughed all the way home and, once we got to ours and I shoved them out into the night to go home, I could hear Mum, Dad and Kris giggling all the way down the road...

A bathing disaster and welcome homecoming

Saturday was a loooong day. I really needed to sleep as a bad back had kept me awake the night before so I took the monsters to bed with me as JJ is home tomorrow and he won't let the monsters sleep with us so I like to take the occasional opportunity to snuggle. Unfortunately, Thai had the wiggles and about 5 am Sherb trod on a toy that woofs christmas songs and then decided that it was a threat to the security of the world and stood and barked at it forEVER!

I had LOTS to do today so, having checked my email, I went to jump in the shower. Luckily, I looked down as I reached for the tap as the bath plug hole had dropped through the bath and the water would be dropping directly on the floor. The day before I had been using loo limescale remover to delimescale EVERYTHING! (It is much stronger than regular limescale remover so is done quicker) and there was a patch of limescale around the plug that was a bit stubborn so I popped some more on and promply forgot about it. It seems that who ever installed the waster did a bit of a hash job of it and in the end just stuck it in using mastic. The limescale remover ate straight through the mastic and the waste dropped out.

After about an hour wasted and then a sheepish call to my Dad who said he should be able to fix it without too much of a problem, I was finally able to get on with it. I got quite a lot donw but my whole day was basically one of waiting for the moment J came home. Just before leaving for the airport, I went to check the fight details on my computer. It was frozen. I restarted and nothing it, it didn't go in, it just impacted on the surface. I evetually had to admit defeat and dash to the airport, HOPING I remembered it right and he was landing at terminal one.

His flight landed about 16 minutes late but, as J put it, it parked at gate one million 7 hundred billion 6 thousand and 5, so getting back to the arrivals took forever. He did not have a good trip, to the point where he was in tears when I finally saw him and I think he was desperate to get home. When we got home the dogs, Sherb in particular, went completely doolally and, haing worn themselves out, collapsed and slept happily knowing their daddy was home. I had made him chicken pot pie as he had overdosed on cheese while in switzerland, but we weren't hungry so we sat and talked and watched the video that he took of the wildlife and Rambo, his dad's dog.

I don't think I have ever been so glad to get into bed and snuggle with my hubby - I swear he was away from years not days.

Disgraceful behaviour in public

Spoke to JJ several times today - he is a having a miserable time in switzerland, but spen tthe afternoon shopping so perked up a bit and his Dad is giving us a DVD player that he doesn't want - we wanted to replace our cheapo one as it doesn't have multiregion functionality and a lot of our DVD's are from the US.

I editted all day and I think Mum and Dad are concerned that I am wasting away without JJ so Dad suggested we go out for Chinese food. After a huge debate about where we would meet and go we decided to the chinese in Godalming. We phoned ahead to book and had no problem getting a table and it soon became obvious why - their diary was open and we were the only booking for the night! There were about 5 tabes full the whole evening - a shame as the food was great. I disgraced myself by dropping my bowl towards the end of the evening. Dad amazed us all by knowing who pinky and the brain were (K protested this fact for ages) and general hilarity was had (much, I think, to the disgust of the other people in the restuarent). All in all, it was a really good meal.

Eventually we headed home.