Sue Heintze’s Blog

Yesterday we had our spa treatment which was heavenly. Though afterwards I really felt quite ill – I think all that massaging and stuff really stirred things up and made me feel very off. Oh I got sucked in big time too, after my treatment they applied a light make up using Jane Iredale mineral makeup. I decided to buy the pressed powder and a brush to go with it as I’ve never used mineral make up and it looked nice and natural. I just said yep I will have one of those and a brush thanks. Ah hem – $168 thank you very much! The damn brush was $83! WTF?? I know I could have gotten it for at least half that on the net. Next time.

Anyway today I felt good, really good. I swear the morning sickness pills are working. However, now Damien appears to be getting the flu! We can’t win! And the weather is still shit. I only had one sleep today, about half hour.

I never realised how good fruit really tastes. I found some big juicy white peaches in the IGA here and I have been eating 3 a day! And today at Eumundi I bought a pineapple, which happens to be the best pineapple I have ever tasted. And 3 mangoes. I figure surely it can’t hurt if I eat lots of fruit. However, I am also eating lots of cheese. I have a thing for sandwiches at the moment. Ham, cheese, tomato and lettuce on wholemeal multigrain. I also bought some home made butter at the market, oops, and some big muffins – ginger and banana, and feta and pumpkin. Oh and some coffee and walnut greek yoghurt, yum. Tomorrow we are going to the Farmer’s Market – probably much of the same stuff but I will get some more muffins and perhaps another pineapple!

Pic is from the photo shoot I did a week and a half ago.  7 1/2 weeks and I thought I should wear a bit of a loose fitting top   We are sitting here deciding what to have for dinner.  Neither of us are particularly hungry, me because I eat all day long and only have room for little bits at a time, and Damo coz he’s sick.  I feel like a couple of steamed dimmies hehe.

So, I have avoided making it public because as you might understand, I feel a bit paranoid and scared about it because of my previous miscarriage.  I thought I would at least wait until my first scan, of which I had today.  I’ve been so excited to just make the scan, to see what is going on inside!  My baby has a heartbeat!  So that’s a good sign.  I’m at 8 weeks.  It just looks like a little smudge on the ultrasound.

My weight is staying stable, yet I’m eating like a horse.  Lots of carbs – fruit, fruit and veg juice, wraps, sandwiches, rice cakes, pasta, you name it. 

I ate a pie the other night for dinner!  Had this thing for pastry.  Chile con carne pie with cheese – was pretty good too.  I NEVER drink juice, but I have had this thing for fruit juice as water doesn’t seem to quench my thirst.  When I went out for lunch with my mum and sis the other day I had a carrot, apple and ginger juice.  Yummo.  I think the ginger helped ease my nausea – so now I have a thing for that too.

I’ve been sick – not physically, but just feeling nauseas 90% of the time, often with a constant headache, and unbelievable exhaustion.  I yawn all day.  By 5pm I’m absolutely stuffed and can’t do anymore than sit on the couch.  Insomnia is pretty bad – waking at 3-4am most days again, though I did have a good 2 weeks where I slept well and thought that was over.   So the sleep deprivation hasn’t helped me in being able to keep active because I just feel wrecked.

I eat often as it eases the nausea.  Some days even though I eat regularly I get so hungry very quickly.  It must be in times of a growth spurt or something, because other days this doesn’t happen.

So all in all I feel like a washed out rag for the majority of the day and night.  I hope it goes away as soon as possible!

I am off to Noosa on Thursday morning for a week – I am SO needing a week laying around the beach and pool.  Have booked in for a 2.5 hour spa treatment at Ikatan Spa on the Friday – heaven!

Ok well I think I might go for a drive to try and find some of these ginger lollies that are supposed to help ease the queasiness.

Well over the next few months there will be a few big changes happening.  Unfortunately I can’t say too much because you never know who’s reading – or should I say, I’m always surprised to find out who IS reading.

I have some work to do between now and Friday where I have a deadline for providing programs for the big project that is still in the pipeline.   I have a few other projects to get underway in the next 3 months.

You should see my house – I really have a little shop happening here now.  Empty boxes everywhere, and my cupboards are just full of stock.  It’s a little bit of a trap to have the yummy new Chef Jay’s Gourmet Brownies in the cupboard I pass before I go to bed   I have so far tried the White Chocolate Mousse, the Ultimate Chocolate Walnut, Lucious Peanut Butter and the Caramel Butterscotch Torte.  I am not sure if I will try the Double Chocolate Decadence or not – single choc is just fine for me, don’t want to go overboard!  So, yes you guessed it, I’m not dieting for a comp anymore.  It didn’t last too long, I’ve had a few things come up so for now there will be no comp.

We are planning to have a trip up north soon, just not sure when exactly.  Probably Noosa.  I’d love to go back to Palm Cove actually, the Sea Temple was awesome.

Nadia and I went to a seminar preview last night, for Alpha Dynamic.  It was really, really interesting.  As always I am a bit skeptical of this stuff, but when they demonstrated the memory thing, I was blown away.  This lady sat out the front while the presenter asked 20 people in the room to suggest a  ‘thing’ – for example, Women’s Health magazine, hydraulic oil, Blackberry Mobile phone, V1X 3 golf ball, a red apple, and so on.  He wrote them all down on a whiteboard.  When asked, this woman systematically went through the 20 items, 1 by 1, in perfect order.  I was amazed!  I want to send my husband to the seminar just to improve his memory!  Anyone else had any experience with this sort of brainwave stuff – Alpha, Beta, Theta, Delta?

My Big Pud has been told by the vet he needs to go on a diet   Poor Pud.  He’s 7.3kg up .5kg since last year.  I think he looks very healthy!

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Either this guy has a massive gut or is in very severe lower back hyperextension.  Either way, it’s not pretty.

Anyway, so my sleeping has been crazy.  I am getting up at 4am most days – a sleep in for me is 6am.  No idea why.  I’m starting to feel a bit shagged today, I guess it is catching up with me!  I don’t think I can do a training session today, it would just wipe me out.  So, will make sure I get a decent night tonight (not sure how I will do that yet, not like I have any say in it!), and then do Friday and Saturday gym sessions.

It is so very humid here at the moment – training is really tough, sweating like a pig and heart rate very high.  Burning heaps of calories. 

I had a coffee and 2 hour chat with Nadia Tuesday morning.  That was great, we don’t stop yakking the whole time.  Looking forward to our bike ride and sand sprint session on Sunday morning.

I did an ancillary shoulder, arm and calves workout yesterday, followed by 20 mins of cardio.  Mike said it was ok to add some additional isolation work since I don’t have any in this particular program.

My foam rolling and dynamic warm ups and stretching are going well – my chiro was impressed with my hammies this time around, much more loose and not overly sore.

I believe SHAPE magazine is out today!  Go get yourself a copy of this brand new fitness and health mag, it’s gonna be big!

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When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning….   Uphill… barefoot…   BOTH ways  Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay  a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it  and how easy they’ve got it!   

But now that… I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!   

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it! 

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!   

There was no email!!  We had to actually write somebody a letter – with a pen!   

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! 

Child Protective Services  didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! 

There were no MP3′ s or  Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!   

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favourite tape and “eject” it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause – that’s how we rolled, dig?  

We didn’t have fancy crap like  Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it! 

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either!  
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!  

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We   had the  Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen… forever! 
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!  

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!

There was no  Cartoon Network  either! You could only get cartoons on  Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait  ALL WEEK  for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! 

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!   

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980   or before! 

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Thanks for the laugh Hils!