Ni Hao!

Well the gym is still going well. this week is the first week I have deviated from my normal routine... but I do plan to make up for it. Soon enough I will be a bridesmaid, so I really need to start moving my body to be as healthy as I can be on the day :)


A new colour scheme for the Yokai masks. This one was made for my friend Dominique's birthday. Dominique will be travelling to China with me next year. Speaking of China, my introduction letter, and my 'job application' have been sent off to China, now I just await my reply! I have a few back up plans, but some may require my friend and I working at two different places within the same city... we will crack that egg when it comes to it!

Lets learn some Chinese!

gym II

... I have yet another gym membership. this time for Fernwood. lets see how long this one lasts!

fitness take 2

What can i say, some days i feel like a born loser.
This week is no exception. I had a gym membership... And, like all things that i start i go hacks for a month or so, then petter out into nothingness. I spent 300 big ones on a good gyms membership, only to end up not going in the last month of it.. Oh, sure i can use excuses to back up my reasons, but i know that in reality its all down to laziness. I didn't want it enough.- but like the fool that i am, I always say it doesn't matter, that i have a better plan, so... while that plan forms in my head i neglect the last plan and etc, etc in a never ending cycle of destruction. I know i shouldn't beat myself up over it, many people don't take to gyms- and i know a few people who let their memberships lapse... But i wanted to write it here.. so i can remember for myself- and so some of you can prod me to move my ass when you see i am flagging again!
On this same topic i went on a school excursion the other day, the final component of which was a climb up a hill... I was the last one up the hill.. and for a long shot too.. seriously like ten minutes after the rest of the group had climbed it i finally made it to the top and by golly did it hurt, not just physically but mentally.
So... I bought a helmet the other day. Its purple and silver and pretty. yep, you guessed it, my new pursuit is bike riding. It worked once when i was living with Bernardo (when i didnt have the naughty David shoulder imp saying bad things in my ear: e.g. FRAPPPPPPPPEEEEEEE)and i have decided to do this alone. I am not setting a goal thats unattainable, (like my lose 30kilos in 6months gym deal) but something broad. The official label is "just be healthy"- No crazy four-times-weekly-only-eat anything-green-plan... I am going to allow myself some leeway- a little bit- like, coffeees on wednesdays for uni, and when i meet up with my fave girls; dinner out only once a week maximum- and choose the healthy option- cut down on meat, and increase my vegie intake to 80% of my daily food( which i am proud to say i have been doing pretty good at) but keeping my goals to a cyclic and easier to manage area. :)
Tegan has volunteered to be my wing captain and go with me, which is excellent as she has an awesome bike track close to her house! so yeah like i said earlier...
This is my new plan of attack. Riding, riding towards freedom... and hopefully i will stick with it.



P.s i just read over this and i realise its all crazy eccentric all over the place weird sentances... but really...meh.

Too many Eggs!

I started gym on thursday... i have had only sunday off. i feel sore.

Today i had to go for my program with Lifestyles today, you know, the part where they take you through all the weights, the cardio, etc? It was seriously hard work. she took my blood pressure (that thingy squeezed my arm like a crazy squeezy thing!-ow!) And then i had to perform like a gym monkey on these various machines.. oh i hated those machines! then after some planks(*shudder*), and some stretches i was allowed to go home. ouch ouch ouch!

When i got home however, i found my family waiting on the doorstep, all 5 of the Shepparton crew. Alex is so tall now he is taller than me (hes 12) and i am so proud because he is a little rebel and getting "quite handsome" according to my Oma. The little ones are still 2 crazy little things running around off tap, And mum is still lovely mum. Murray sat in the corner reading Daves Asterix novels, and Alex and i played Mario kart (which he beat me at, and he had only played it for ten minutes total before i joined in! damn him!)A nice visit from the folks! (Dave also says that if i ever feel clucky we can have the kids over again for a while- last time it was like a nightmare!)

On a more exciting note: I found the resin section at spotlight! oh the joy! i was so so excited! i got some resin dye, but they had some nice square molds and round molds i wouldnt mind getting. i made ring bases and a bracelet to try it out on and now i just have to get off my lazy butt and do it.

now onto some beautiful things i would like to try to make just so i can keep this an actual craft blog...




The masks are from Deviant art, the skirt from etsy- i want to try making a gorgeous mask like these! All i need to do is find some vegetable tanned leather to get started! Spotlight used to have it, but i guess i am either going to have to get some from the guy at the sunday market, or i am going to have to be wily and start looking at different businesses around Bendigo?!

anyway. i dont have much else to say except i how have a lot of eggs courtesy of my mum (like 30) so if you want one or two come over, i have them spare.:)

sunday sunday... a blog about blogs

I made a jacket! yes, a real live honest to stitch jacket! from my own fabric and everything! i am so uber proud of it, because i didn't use a pattern, and just kinda winged it from a cut up old shirt of Davids!


Babel fish translatin'
I go to the golden calamus margaritae, and has brought the book about the tegan gluten free meal. She is drinks prettily, and her laughter is bright and brittle, when the glass dingdong sound has a point to cause to juxtapose to the cane darkness and micro dark, mellow tone. I love her happiness, it is the infection!
This is my fun times i had with Babel fish translation... ahhh ahahahhaha original:
i went to the golden vine and brought a book about gluten free foods for tegan. she was pretty drunk and her laughter was bright and brittle, with the tinkle of glass- slightly juxtaposed to the dark and somber, mellow tones of the vine itself. i loved her happiness, it was infectious!

Inspired by Casey's Shoe obsession, i thought i would stick to the theme of her awesome post and post a picture of some of my very favourite shoes i have seen in the world wide web.

These beauties are from the Helena Angelique line, and god they are beautiful! when i figure out how to make shoes, i am so going to replicate these babies! feast your eyes!



In other news, i am joining Lifestyles gym on tuesday, and hopefully with sal as an extra motivator, i will be able to have many fun early morning gym sessions with her. I spend most of my days being a slack home body who mopes around on her ass all day complaining about how much weight i am carrying, but as of yet, not doing a single thing about it! so! this will motivate me, move me, compell me (for 320 bucks a quarter you would hope so) to get off my ass and do something! i want to be fit and trim for summer, or at least for China and Japan at the end of the year! its a good year for motivation! its a great year for affirming friendships! its a good year for making decisions! and this year is going to be MY year. But onto what its really about...

It is nearly half way through the year and no matter how much i try to look at it positivly, i can already see i have wasted another six months of my life not living up to my full potential. Many things account for this, the main one being laziness. this is manifested in me spending my days indoors, eating fruit toast, and waking up at 12.. things i am not too proud of mind you. we get only a few years on this earth to really make use of our time, and that is when we are my/ our age, and when we are old and grey. The middle is where we are busy, filling our time with work and family, and we look back on this time, the now, and wonder what we did with all the spare moments we had. I will look back and see i played video games, and lounged about the house when i could have been out forging stronger bonds with my friends, or stronger bonds with my self. This "self" includes the body, and the mind. Sometimes i wonder why dont i take up an instrument? why dont i learn a new language? why dont i go out more often with the people who are closest to me ( you know who you are) and make memories to keep me comforted in those long abscences of contact that i know are inevitably going to arrive, when our lives and family bog us down in the future?- why? because i..am..lazy.. and THAT is what i want to fix. its not about body image (although that comes into it) and its not about fitness, its about being motivated, and using the time i have to make myself into the person i want to be, and to me, these years we have now are by far the most important ones to use, and to prepare you for the times ahead... so as a message to all of you out there who have bothered to read this far, and for those who are in foreign lands, i am sending you out a virtual hug and smile with a promise to use my time more wisely in the future, and to promise to make more memories with you, together :)

love christi.