Christmas conundrums

Boy, do I hate Christmas shopping for teenagers - add to the fact they are male and it's double trouble. I think if I had girls this wouldn't be such a problem - girls love anything, well girlie... but men.. pffft, they are hard. Why can't they at least stay little? When the boys were younger (I'm talking about my three teens - well, technically Jake is still a 'young' teen at 13 but since he's difficult to buy for now also, I'm lumping him in there too,) - they were easy to buy for. You could purchase toys till they came out of your ears and still come out on top price wise.... now I have these big kids they are getting harder and harder to buy for. I've had Mason come up with some doozies of suggestions - I would love a crossbow... (uh, don't think so!) ... a large fighting knife? Uh oh, no chance sunshine...Well what about a shotgun? ........ What have MOTH (Man of the House) and I created here? Rambo?? In his defense he wants these things to use at our property down south - a place where he can run free on acreage and hassle the rabbits. But still - why can't he ask for a nice watch lol.

Band wise what's going on? Not much to be honest. I had that .25 of a ml (cc) put in a week or so ago and while it's taken a little edge off my hunger it's still not working as good as it could be. Strangely enough while I PB'd a fair bit before this last fill, I haven't done so once since. Hows that for bum about face? Could be I am aware of eating slowly again and taking small bites.. in hindsight I'm fairly sure that has a lot to do with it. Unfortunately,  I am still not back at that place I was a few months ago where I was not searching for food, in fact I had pretty much lost all interest in it.. and things were looking good. Now I still get hungry (though not as much as a week ago thankfully) and I can still pretty much eat anything. 

Last night I made up steak sandwiches for dinner... I toasted the bread, whacked in a whole heap of salad and fried onion and skinny pieces of steak ... and I managed to get this down lol. That said perhaps I should reiterate.  I managed a HALF then I was choccas. I gave the other half to hubbie. But still - should I be able to eat a steak sandwhich? I think not. Thankfully I have another fill appointment on the 18th and hopefully this should sort me out in time for Christmas. At least that's the idea in theory.. let's see if the practical side of it kicks in. I'm a little over losing the same half kilo only to gain it again: especially since I hit my all time low of exactly 26 kilos lost only to whack that half on again. Sheesh. 

That's it for me today; boring I know but I haven't got much to say. I'm just running around like a chicken with its head cut off as I finish preparations for Christmas. Buying food, wrapping, ordering pressies (off the net.. how good is this???? love it) and cleaning the house within an inch of it's life. This year MOTH's brother is coming over from America with the whole family. We get to see our little nephew again who we haven't seen in about four years and meet our new one, Kristian who we have never met. It's going to be funny listening to them both talk in American accents in among our Aussie ones. Fun times ahead.

Hope you are all staying sane in the Christmas rush. Will talk to you all again soon. For now, seeya later.

Cara xxx