Having a Wii Fit
Well You guessed it, Big Mama now has to resort to getting rid of all that Easter bulge, so my hubby got me a Wii fit. This is the reason I have not had time to blog lately …. I have been balancing all day on my balance board, while attempting to ski and jog and do yoga and every thing else imaginable (ok not quite every thing)… so after two weeks you would think I would have started to shape up a bit…..I haven’t lost anything except for a whole lot of time. But I won’t give up yet because I know that I must be piling on the muscle while burning all that fat. It is actually a lot of fun though, even if it does constantly tell me that I am unbalanced. I didn’t need to pay $120.00 to realize that. My family have been telling me how unbalanced I am from the day I hit this planet…but thats okay, because life would be boring if every thing was always balanced. Our challenge every day is to keep every thing in balance while juggling ten balls in the air. Of course this is quite impossible, so that leaves us only one option to help us get through… chill out and have a laugh. The harder we laugh the more unbalanced we become… some times we are even left rolling on the floor. These are the fun times where we enjoy ourselves and relax the most. On the othe side of the coin we also experience the difficult times…. the times when every thing is so tightly controlled, meaning that we can hardly breathe for fear of losing our balance and falling in a heap, or the times when we are nervous or working hard just trying to get in control. These are the difficult times… but these are also necessary to help us experience and enjoy the balance and imbalance of life that comes our way. Any way as long as we make sure that we allow ourselves to loose control from time time , and try to not take everything so seriously, we will give ourselves the strength to take control when necessary. So hopefully this is also how the Wii fit will work for me. I have to say… I do cut a very nice figure as a a Wii person (Yup..thats how extreme things have got). My aim is to get a figure just like that and then we’ll see what I can do to improve it further…but one step at a time. Anyway I’ll try to keep you posted on my progress from time to time, and if you can let me know how you are doing while Wiiing Fit, it might give me the encouragement I need to keep on balancing, while I catch fish and stand on one leg while breathing correctly. All good for a laugh and at least it’s got me moving.
Okay Big Mama is signing off while exhaling deeply. OOOh Yeah!
Okay…Where did all the chocolate go
So here I am on Easter Monday and I’m looking at a bundle of wrappers wondering what the hell happned. One day it was there and then the next pfft…gone. I am talking about heaps and heaps of chocolate. What happens to us on Easter. We thnk we have permission to eat kilos of the stuff, because you know, after all “it is Easter”. I tell you its a farce. They even run stories on the news to convince you just before Easter that its really not that bad for you… maybe even quite healthy, and of course thats exactly what you want to hear. So as you gorge yet another Cadbury Creme filled egg into your gob. You feel quite okay because “it’s Easter”, and it’s good for you. Just think of all those Cancer killing endorfines swimming about, doing their stuff….eraticating cancer growing cells. Oh this is great… so you open up another Lindt Bunny, as you contemplate a cancer free existence, and the fact that the more cocoa you can get in, the better for you. Before you know it another couple of eggs devoured, but you don’t care, you are on a roll now and remember IT IS EASTER. Your supposed to do this, and it’s good for you… even now necessary to stay healthy. You start to feel unwell but you can’t stop now,you have to at least finish the Humpyt Dumpty egg and all those smarties inside. Now you can’t get up out of your chair, but you still continue to munch away because it would be harder to get up and move the chocolate away, than just sit and let it melt away in your mouth, as you contemplate life from the comfort of your sofa.
The next phase sets in. The truth of the matter starts to niggle at you. You start to feel annoyed at yourself as you mindlessly continue to nibble away at the stash before you. Okay enough is enough you say to yourself…tomorrow is a new day, and I am not going to have any chocolate…I’m going to get on my exercise bike ,and get rid of all the excess calories and toxic endorfines that I have put in to my system today. Yep… tomorrow I am going to eat only healthy stuff….so that means I had better finish this lot off today, so that I can have a fresh new start tomorrow.
Tomorrow dawns….I feel depressed not to mention exhausted from all that effort of yesterday. I wonder again what the hell happened…where did all that chocolate go. The reality is that it went down my throat and straight on to my hips. Oh well the good news is that at least I probably don’t have hip cancer… the bad news is that I feel fat, and I don’t even have any more chocolate left to cheer me up….hang on my husband didn’t eat all of his yet…YES!…. and you know what… its really not that bad for you… some experts even say it one of the best things you can eat when you are feeling depressed…and there is always tomorrow. Heck it’s not like I do this every day or any thing. See I’m feeling much better already. Well…. talk soon as I have to go and find the hubby’s stash….don’t you just love Easter hunts.
Bye for now as the even BIGGER (but hip cancer free) Mama is signing out (thats if I can still get through the cyberspace door).
Ya gotta Love your Mum
Hello world!
Well what do you know here I am blogging and I have no idea how the hell I got here. It all started last night when I invited my brother and his family over for dinner and a quiet drink. Somehow between then and now (with a couple of ouzos thrown into the mix) here I am on the computer blogging. Just goes to show how dangerous a night in with the family can be. What can I say though… FAMILY… we’ve ll got one and like it or not we just have to learn to deal with it. Dont get me wrong, I adore my family…most of the time… but there’s no denying that most of the issues that we deal with in life generally have some link to our family either directly or indirectly. Sometimes it would be great to just not give a dam, and bury our heads in the sand. But at the end of the day our family is still gonna be there, and hopefully that will be a good thing. Anyway if you are mad enough to be still here and reading this, then hopefully you will stick with it for a bit, because I plan on having a look at families and some of the issues (good and bad) that they bring to our lives. Hopefully we can have some fun along the way as well, because as they say laughter is the best medicine and God knows we all need some of that. Don’t worry I am not going to bore you with the little Johnny stories, or crack open the family photo albulm (yawn), no I wannt to get more to the meaty stuff…the type of stuff that makes us pull out our hair, or that really gives us a buzz, or whatevers goin on that just might need to be said.
Yep I feel better already and I haven’t even said any thing yet…but maybe not today, because to tell you the truth this bloggin stuff is really freakin me out, and I am not sure exactly how to even post this comment. Time to call on my son to find out what to do next to get this thing up and running. Hopefully you’ll decide to take this ride with me, and see where it takes us because I have a feeling I am goin to need some help along the way, and I will want to hear from you, if you can help me out, or tell me where I can go from here. Hell is not an option by the way although sometimes when it comes to family dramas that is exactly where I feel I am at.
Anyway catch you soon and just remember FAMILY matters when they’re ALIVE AND KICKING (and even when they’re not but that another story)
Big mama signing out ( I think)
