Okay, am feeling particularly like sharing today, obviously.
Two things:
1. Wonderful Kids' story read with my own ones tonight: "Our Twitchy" by Kes Gray. It's the best adoption story ever! So cute. A rabbit finds out his Mum and Dad are not his Bunnymum and Bunnydad, and are in fact... no, can't tell you, that would give it away! Just make do with their names: Milfoil and Sedge, which I think are just gorgeous names!
Best bit (about Twitchy): "Its soft grey fur was smeared with brown mud. Its long floppy ears were rolled up and fastened with clothes pegs. It had a little dangly twig tied to its fluffy tail." (This makes me giggle every time I read it, and I've done so several times already this week. Poor wee bunny!). Okay, so I'm nuts! *grin*. So what else is new?
2. I had this sudden thought tonight as I was thinking how the jeans I cut off into shorts a couple of years back when I wore through a knee (not being a trendy cow, there was no way I was wearing them with a great gaping hole in one knee) are actually not that tight any more, and the other pair I bought to replace them are not my favourites cos they're lower cut than I like (once again, not trendy, I prefer jeans to my waist, being much more flattering to girls with love handles... yada yada).
Okay, so the thought was, "Hey, since I lost weight after getting online last year (about 3kgs - yeah, figure out how that weight-loss programme works and you'll be quids in), I wonder if my old Gap jeans would finally fit me again?"
These are jeans I bought in America (or Canada, I forget which) more than 10 years ago, when I was thin and childless (Okay, so I'm not fat now either, but...), and I just didn't have the heart to chuck away when I got all child-bearing and slightly wider at the waist, cos I loved them to death (*fondles them lovingly*).
Anyway... I couldn't resist! Dug them out of the wardrobe! And... TA DA!, I fit them, I fit them!!!! Woo! They are size 6 US, which is about a 12 NZ, and I've been wearing 14's (8 or 10 US, who knows?) now for yonks, never thought I'd get back in those! Jeez, I finally did something right! Thank you LJ, and all the distractions here for making me eat less and lose weight. So (TMI) I'm now a fairly steady 63kg, instead of the 66-67 I seemed to be for a long time! Woo! No, I am not converting any of that to imperial - get your own calculators out for a change if you're interested! (And I'm 173cm, which I just happen to know is 5'8" for anyone who wants to know).
Okay, I warned you, I was never really fat, I know this, and that I've been blessed with good metabolism (thanks, Dad), but before you get jealous or anything, know this: I don't exercise and I'm a flabby cow with stretch-marks and cellulite to die for! *pokes tongue* Don't we all love ourselves? *smooch*
1. Wonderful Kids' story read with my own ones tonight: "Our Twitchy" by Kes Gray. It's the best adoption story ever! So cute. A rabbit finds out his Mum and Dad are not his Bunnymum and Bunnydad, and are in fact... no, can't tell you, that would give it away! Just make do with their names: Milfoil and Sedge, which I think are just gorgeous names!
Best bit (about Twitchy): "Its soft grey fur was smeared with brown mud. Its long floppy ears were rolled up and fastened with clothes pegs. It had a little dangly twig tied to its fluffy tail." (This makes me giggle every time I read it, and I've done so several times already this week. Poor wee bunny!). Okay, so I'm nuts! *grin*. So what else is new?
2. I had this sudden thought tonight as I was thinking how the jeans I cut off into shorts a couple of years back when I wore through a knee (not being a trendy cow, there was no way I was wearing them with a great gaping hole in one knee) are actually not that tight any more, and the other pair I bought to replace them are not my favourites cos they're lower cut than I like (once again, not trendy, I prefer jeans to my waist, being much more flattering to girls with love handles... yada yada).
Okay, so the thought was, "Hey, since I lost weight after getting online last year (about 3kgs - yeah, figure out how that weight-loss programme works and you'll be quids in), I wonder if my old Gap jeans would finally fit me again?"
These are jeans I bought in America (or Canada, I forget which) more than 10 years ago, when I was thin and childless (Okay, so I'm not fat now either, but...), and I just didn't have the heart to chuck away when I got all child-bearing and slightly wider at the waist, cos I loved them to death (*fondles them lovingly*).
Anyway... I couldn't resist! Dug them out of the wardrobe! And... TA DA!, I fit them, I fit them!!!! Woo! They are size 6 US, which is about a 12 NZ, and I've been wearing 14's (8 or 10 US, who knows?) now for yonks, never thought I'd get back in those! Jeez, I finally did something right! Thank you LJ, and all the distractions here for making me eat less and lose weight. So (TMI) I'm now a fairly steady 63kg, instead of the 66-67 I seemed to be for a long time! Woo! No, I am not converting any of that to imperial - get your own calculators out for a change if you're interested! (And I'm 173cm, which I just happen to know is 5'8" for anyone who wants to know).
Okay, I warned you, I was never really fat, I know this, and that I've been blessed with good metabolism (thanks, Dad), but before you get jealous or anything, know this: I don't exercise and I'm a flabby cow with stretch-marks and cellulite to die for! *pokes tongue* Don't we all love ourselves? *smooch*