A few weeks ago I decided to weigh myself for the first time in almost a year, something I’d been afraid to do for ages because the tightening of my clothes seemed to indicate that I certainly wasn’t getting any lighter. Surprisingly it turned out I hadn’t put on any weight at all, although this somehow annoyed me more than what I had been expecting. For the past six months I’ve been walking to and from work and eating far less snacks (mainly because of the greater distance between my new workplaces and the closest bakery), so why does it seem that I’m losing muscle and gaining a size?

I hate it when normal people, or even worse skinny people, say that they’re fat. Obviously it’s a matter of persective - I have at least two friends who are considerably smaller than me who complain to me about their weight, and I’m sure anyone who I complain to who is larger than me feels like I’m being stupid and more than a little insensitive too. I’m not fat. I’m not even overweight. But I still don’t like my body. I guess I can blame the media for that. I like to rationalise that what I really want is to be fit and healthy, so I feel a bit less superficial about it all. Anyway, with these thoughts I decided to take up another type of exercise. Problem is that I’m lazy, it’s getting cold and I hate driving, so my chances of actually making it out to a class regularly seem fairly low. Then people started raving about this WiiFit, and despite not having a Wii it seemd like a good idea…

So a week later I’ve managed to eat relatively healthy (not a diet, I despise diets…), bought myself a WiiFit and hijacked my brother’s shared Wii. I rationlised this to myself by deciding the price of the WiiFit (and possibly a Wii console as well) is at least equal to the amount of money I’ve saved on petrol walking to work for six months, and therefore entirely justified and deserved.

After playing it once I started writing a detailed review, but there’s already plenty of those out there so there isn’t much point in me putting out essentially the same thing for no one to read. I will say that the game is very cute (I’m sure to an annoying extent to many people) and the less gimmicky exercises like the yoga poses and muscle training will probably have pretty decent sticking power (it probably also helped that those ones told me I was awesome at them). I’m aiming to do 30 minutes or so every day and see how I go!

A couple of weeks ago I decided to make a dress for a friend’s cartoon themed birthday party - in less than a week. Seeing as both my mum and I are working a lot and my sewing experience has thus far been hemming my jeans and hand-sewing little doodads, it turned out to be a bit of an ambitious project. Still, it didn’t turn out too bad! If you can’t tell, I’m supposed to be Alice from Alice in Wonderland…

Because my mum decided a pattern wouldn’t be necessary there was much cutting out of newspaper and theorizing, which led to the dress being big enough to probably fit another of me in there (okay, maybe a slightly skinnier me). In the end I sort of sewed myself into it, hiding the bunches under the apron (I’m so glad there was an apron!). I also seem to have issues sewing in a straight line… and a curved line… well at all really. But even though I’m not exactly up to making my own clothes or anything, at least I now have a vague idea of how to use a sewing machine. New skill!

I didn’t really have the right lens for the occassion (or maybe I just don’t know how to use it properly) - there never seemed to be enough space or enough light. But here’s a few of the other costumes people came up with:

Any Perthies free this Saturday might want to stop by this - the food fair is run by the local Burmese community and is usually held every fortnight or so. They’ve decided to make this Saturday a fundraiser for the victims of the terrible cyclone in Burma. I’ve been to the food fair a couple of times, and the food is excellent and cheap! Here’s the details:

Unfortunately I’m going to miss out because I have TAFE… but you should go anyway!

Please pass it on :)