Steps today = 14,419 - woohoo
Filling up the skip is easier than expected!
All my bits ache!
Dinner at Bronwyn and Andy's - yum
Dinner at Bronwyn and Andy's - yum
31 May 2008
30 May 2008
TGIF
Finally Friday - it has been a long week!
Steps for today 10, 780 - so definitely better than yesterday.
Thai take away for tea - yum.
Steps for today 10, 780 - so definitely better than yesterday.
Thai take away for tea - yum.
29 May 2008
Thursday
Bad day for walking today as I am tired and unmotivated! Just over 7,000 steps for the day, so will do better tomorrow by walking the dog - it also makes her day too. Sole Sistaz are leading the step race at LWA!!!
The restaurant on Tuesday night was Gurkas in Lygon Street.
It is Nepalese and the food is Indian in style without the heat. If you get to Melbourne then it is worth trying it. We tried goat, there was a chick pea dish that was delish. If you check the link we had the Tenzing Special banquet. Everything on it was lovely, and the company was excellent (would have been better if JR was there, but you cannot have everything). It was more than enough food, there was also plenty of red and white wine.
The restaurant on Tuesday night was Gurkas in Lygon Street.
It is Nepalese and the food is Indian in style without the heat. If you get to Melbourne then it is worth trying it. We tried goat, there was a chick pea dish that was delish. If you check the link we had the Tenzing Special banquet. Everything on it was lovely, and the company was excellent (would have been better if JR was there, but you cannot have everything). It was more than enough food, there was also plenty of red and white wine.
28 May 2008
Cordelia and Organ Donation
27 May 2008
Travel
Yesterday I climbed into a gleaming white ute and was driven to drink Yass. I went to visit the Murrumbidgee CMA to talk about information management - always happy to talk to people and to travel to places far and wide. Having said that I am off to Melbourne tonight for dinner and then an all day seminar on Knowledge Management at Melbourne Zoo. Hope I don't end up in the wrong cage!
I have to say, Tuesday is the worst day of the week for me and this week it was even worse than usual. I went walking late and was behind the eight ball for the rest of the morning. I packed and put lunches together for MLR and AJR, packed the ironing for Dale, packed my bag for Melbourne. AJR caught the bus to school on time, then the three of us piled into the car, as I did not want to take my car to work to sit in the carage for two days there. As I was getting into the car I then remembered my handbag, so got out and fetched it out of the house. Back in the car, I trapped my fingers in the closing window, ouch! 50 meters down the road I remembered that I had left my work mobile phone and personal mobile phone at home. As it was more important to get MLR to school on time, we did took her to school first. Returned home for the mobiles, dropped of the ironing at Dale's, off to work arriving just after 9.30am.
Some days I think it would be easier to just stay home.
I have to say, Tuesday is the worst day of the week for me and this week it was even worse than usual. I went walking late and was behind the eight ball for the rest of the morning. I packed and put lunches together for MLR and AJR, packed the ironing for Dale, packed my bag for Melbourne. AJR caught the bus to school on time, then the three of us piled into the car, as I did not want to take my car to work to sit in the carage for two days there. As I was getting into the car I then remembered my handbag, so got out and fetched it out of the house. Back in the car, I trapped my fingers in the closing window, ouch! 50 meters down the road I remembered that I had left my work mobile phone and personal mobile phone at home. As it was more important to get MLR to school on time, we did took her to school first. Returned home for the mobiles, dropped of the ironing at Dale's, off to work arriving just after 9.30am.
Some days I think it would be easier to just stay home.
26 May 2008
Sole sistaz statistics
Here are the results of the Sole Sistaz efforts for the first 5 days.
Go team!!!
Number of Steps taken by me =62054
Number of Steps taken by the team = 186598
Number of Steps taken by the team = 186598
Daily Average Steps by me = 12410
Daily Average Steps by the team = 5331
Daily Average Steps by the team = 5331
Distance (KM's) by me = 40
Distance (KM's) by team = 119
Distance (KM's) by team = 119
Daily Average KM's by me = 8
Daily Average KM's by team = 3
Daily Average KM's by team = 3
Go team!!!
25 May 2008
Day of rest
Have walked approximately 9,700 steps today, which is not bad considering that the only exercise I took today was to buy groceries!!! Still in Lo Campo, LWA has sunk to a new record of 965, which just reflects the fact that most of the world is asleep and have yet to add their steps for today!!!!Really need to stop watching our global position.
Collected CH from the airport with LR and had a girls night out with a lovely meal at Thai Basil in Erindale - highly recommended.
Collected CH from the airport with LR and had a girls night out with a lovely meal at Thai Basil in Erindale - highly recommended.
24 May 2008
Alpacas and The Wall
The day started with a walk to the top of Monash hill with Millie and MLR. MLR thought it was too long a walk and sat down on the ground a couple of times. After cleaning the kitchen and the lounge room up a little I took MLR and went off to EPIC to see my friends Alpaca's. She runs Indigo Alpacas near Goulburn. My friend CJK and her kids J & J joined us at EPIC. CJK took some photo's and hopefully I will add them shortly. Afterwards CJK, I and the kids had coffee at Macca's.
In the evening JR, MR and CR and I went out to see Pink Floyd's "The Wall" at the Street Theatre in Town, an amateur production. We had tickets to dinner and the show. Dinner was in the Teatro Vivaldi, we had two courses before the show and then returned for desert in the intermission. The show was fantastic and we really enjoyed the acting, the singing and the light show which was spectacular. There were two problems with the seating, one was that it was unallocated and therefore first in best dressed, which is difficult when you are trying to get four seats together! This was further compounded by the fact that they did not open the doors until almost 8pm (rather than 7.45pm), which made for great stampede acts from people who had been waiting in line for 15-20 minutes. The other issue was that MV's seat in the theatre after dinner sank to the floor as she sat down. MV and JR had to move two rows back and sit where the roadies had sat before!!! Obviously the dinner portions were too generous.
Steps today = 1600 +
In the evening JR, MR and CR and I went out to see Pink Floyd's "The Wall" at the Street Theatre in Town, an amateur production. We had tickets to dinner and the show. Dinner was in the Teatro Vivaldi, we had two courses before the show and then returned for desert in the intermission. The show was fantastic and we really enjoyed the acting, the singing and the light show which was spectacular. There were two problems with the seating, one was that it was unallocated and therefore first in best dressed, which is difficult when you are trying to get four seats together! This was further compounded by the fact that they did not open the doors until almost 8pm (rather than 7.45pm), which made for great stampede acts from people who had been waiting in line for 15-20 minutes. The other issue was that MV's seat in the theatre after dinner sank to the floor as she sat down. MV and JR had to move two rows back and sit where the roadies had sat before!!! Obviously the dinner portions were too generous.
Steps today = 1600 +
23 May 2008
Arrival in Vina Del Mar
Having entered my steps yesterday I could see that the company I work for was about 95 in the world, checked again at lunch time today we are 198. A little later this afternoon we were at 360 and seconds ago I checked where LWA are and we are going gangbusters to 565th in the world - I should have stopped yesterday:)
A little about Vina Del Mar, it is known as the vineyard by the sea - I hope I get to try some of the wine while I am here!!!! The classic food is Empanadas: pastry filled with meat, cheese or mussels, and its population is 275,982. The city is the birth place of Alberto Hurtado, the second Chilean Catholic saint and founder of the Hogar de Cristo (Home of Christ) foundation, writer Maria Luisa Bombal, the author of La Ultima Niebla (The Last Fog), former Chilean president Patricio Aylwin, tennis player Nicolás Massú and Slayer vocalist Tom Araya - what more could you want. One thing I know is that I knew about none of these people before the GCC, so as my girth recinds my knowledge expands!
Should you want to visit this area, then here is some useful information Valparaiso and Vina Del Mar
Steps today only 8.700 - still good considering I did not walk the Millie dog this morning!!!
Steps today only 8.700 - still good considering I did not walk the Millie dog this morning!!!
Blue Mountains Daily Photo
Bro has gone and got enthusiastic about this blogging thing and now has an additional blog called Blue Mountains Daily Photo - check it out!
22 May 2008
Global Corporate Challenge
As you know I love travel, and now I have found a way to travel and see the family every day and maybe get fit at the same time!!!
I and seven of my colleagues at work have formed a team called the "Sole Sistaz" and we have entered the "Global Corporate Challenge". This challenge is to walk 10,000 steps per day for the next 125 days!!! Today was day one and I personally walked approximately 14,000 steps according to my pedometer. The day started with a brisk walk (it is Canberra and cold) with Millie (4,000 steps), followed by a team walk at lunch (another 4,000). The team walk at lunch included all teams at my work, there are about five teams.
Check out the website and see which other companies are competing.
The idea behind this is that we walk across the world and today we started in South America, in Val Paraiso, and at the end of today we have travelled to Vina Del Mar. On the website it gives me information about where I am and what is interesting to see, what the local food is (very important to me) and local customs. I will let you know where and how I go over the next few days.
I and seven of my colleagues at work have formed a team called the "Sole Sistaz" and we have entered the "Global Corporate Challenge". This challenge is to walk 10,000 steps per day for the next 125 days!!! Today was day one and I personally walked approximately 14,000 steps according to my pedometer. The day started with a brisk walk (it is Canberra and cold) with Millie (4,000 steps), followed by a team walk at lunch (another 4,000). The team walk at lunch included all teams at my work, there are about five teams.
Check out the website and see which other companies are competing.
The idea behind this is that we walk across the world and today we started in South America, in Val Paraiso, and at the end of today we have travelled to Vina Del Mar. On the website it gives me information about where I am and what is interesting to see, what the local food is (very important to me) and local customs. I will let you know where and how I go over the next few days.
4 May 2008
A photographer in Paris
Hi there,
Having just read Smells like? I thought I should add a Photographer in Paris (if you click on the title you will be linked to her site), however the best part of her site is A photographer in Paris blog. She is a talented photographer who spends her time wandering the streets of Paris taking beautiful photographs of my favourite city. Looking at this is the next best thing to being in Paris.
Here are some of my favourite photo's from Paris 2006
Arriving in Paris June 2006
Having just read Smells like? I thought I should add a Photographer in Paris (if you click on the title you will be linked to her site), however the best part of her site is A photographer in Paris blog. She is a talented photographer who spends her time wandering the streets of Paris taking beautiful photographs of my favourite city. Looking at this is the next best thing to being in Paris.
Here are some of my favourite photo's from Paris 2006
Arriving in Paris June 2006
The courtyard from our apartment in Paris
In the lounge room of our apartment
In the lounge room of our apartment
From the Louvre our first day in Paris
Here is the Monoprix (Woolworths or Tesco of Paris) above and the local street market below,where we bought fresh pasta and sauces, cheese, bread and cherries. At one point I asked the non French speaking indian student in the fruit shop for 300g of cherries in my best school girl french and came home with 1kg! The best thing about it was eating cherries in July as I associate cherries with Christmas in Australia. We had no trouble eating all of them. Note that we went to Paris twice, in early June as part of the bus tour and then again in early July under our own steam.
3 May 2008
Welcome home
Here is the card that MLR made me when I returned from Melbourne
This gives you an idea of the size of the card
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