Monday 23 November 2009: Sarah tries to stay dry!

Sarah says:
That's my new hat to stay dry in the rain but it doesn't work really! It does protect my eyes and all, which is good, and the top of my head - but my lower face got so wet in the rain today! Viva Belgium! I kind of liked it though! It's a good way to wake up. Kind of refreshing in a weird way.

I think the above photo is also from Monday - yep it is - right after I did 24 minutes on the cross-trainer! Sweaty but good! Tonight (Tuesday) I get weighed! Fingers crossed! I see the difference in my face and body and in the way clothes feel but I'm not sure the scales will show that! I hope so! I need that kind of encouragement at this stage!

Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November 2009: Sinterklaas and Yma and a rainbow... and Sarah and The Lool have smiles for you...

Heidi says: Yma was very good with the Sint!

Sarah says: The above and below photos are the only ones I have from today - Sunday the 22nd of November. At least you get some smiles. Not sure why I am smiling - I'm feeling kind of blue today thanks to some sad news I got yesterday that broke my heart for some friends a little. I did see the film This Is It today with Ayla and it made both of us want to sing and dance and cry and smile. I loved all the talent in it. Truly. Not a great weekend, this one.... Hope the week is better... I feel like punching a wall right now to be honest - for several reasons I won't get into on here... That's life I guess. Time to blow off some steam on the cross-trainer...

Above photo of me is from yesterday the 21st of November? Was happy then too. The pictures lie. I don't feel happy right now. Yesterday I did for a little while...
I haven't put a fave Post Secret on here in a while so here's the one above, which I love!

Friday 20 November 2009: Heidi suffers from pregnancy dementia and Sarah suffers from being out of condition...

Heidi says: really, I do, even worse now than when I was pregnant with Yma. I forget, I cannot think, I am dumb, I cannot concentrate, I am sleepy... Let's hope it doesn't stay like that. :-)

Sarah says: Above and below pics are of me just after I did 22 minutes on the cross-trainer. Man it is hard. Doesn't really get easier! I will try to do at least 20 minutes five days a week. I see the impact already. That and bike-riding are making my body make the click. I feel it and I see it and I am happy for the progress because I am working hard at it and trying to really eat well. Not feeling as guilty when I cheat a little with a piece of chocolate or extra piece of bread. I guess that is the reward of exercise! I'm all for that! Can't wait till the sales in January because I'll have a great excuse to buy some new clothes - pants anyway! Mine are all staring to fall off a bit, which makes me happy! But my already calf muscles are getting even bigger from biking and that's not a good thing! Oh well - I'm just curios about my weight. I go for a weigh-in after three weeks of not being weighed next Tuesday night. Fingers crossed!

Nothing big planned for the weekend just got to clean up the mess of the house! The bottom photo is a combo of my tow latest obsessions - my shrinking silhouette and our new windows... :-)

Wednesday and Thursday 18 and 19 November 2009: a nice day for Heidi!

Heidi says: before - after
(when you have nothing else to do :-) )

Sarah says: Above photo is from today - 19 November - my kid tried to get in the shot as you can see. The below one perhaps shows some diet and exercise progress. Sometimes I see progress, sometimes I don't so it is hard to know what is in the mind and what isn't. In any event, I feel good and I am moving my body a lot so that can only be good. Right now, in fact, I am going to go on the cross-trainer! It hurts and it is hard and I am already tired from riding my bike in the wind today but I will go for it! It makes me feel less guilty about having a piece of chocolate every now and then!

Sarah says: Me and The Lool and one of our new windows on Wednesday the 18th of November... A day like any other...

Monday and Tuesday 16 and 17 November 2009: Sarah's head is shot....

Above photo is from today - Tuesday the 17th - just after a sweaty bike ride! My head hurts a bit these days! I have been using the cross-trainer and I find it very challenging - yet I like it a lot! When on it, around minute 18 or 19, I feel like I will keel over. But I already see changes and I can breath better each time. When I have pain in my legs or arms I just keep going and the pain fades. If I can keep this up along with the diet, I am certain I will see good results - and that makes me feel great - but my head aches! Maybe that is from riding my bike in the wind, in which case, there's nothing I can really do about that!

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 13, 14 and 15 November 2009: Check out Heidi!

That's me and Heidi above on Sunday the 15th of November and you can see each of our daughters in the background!

Check out Heidi above! That baby is growing well! That's also a photo from Sunday the 15th as is the below one of me.

The photo above is of me and Marv - remember him? Just after the Morrissey concert Saturday night the 14th. The concert wasn't that great thanks to Morrissey having voice trouble but we had a good time together anyway!

Above photo is from Friday the 13th of November just after I came home at around 2 am - so really it is the 14th - from Westtalent, where we chose the last 8 bands to compete in the finals. It isn't easy going out almost every Friday and Saturday till around 2 am and watching 8 bands each time but it sure has been fun and I have seen and heard some really great music.

Friday 13 November 2009: Friday the thirteenth, a lucky day!

Heidi says: My luck today will be if I see that my mother is okay. She is in the hospital after a small operation yesterday and I can't wait to go and see her!

Thursday 12 November 2009: Heidi and Sarah meet up with their old colleague and friend Nancy and check out the damage at the old office they shared...

Sarah says:
It was good to get together with Heidi and Nancy today and strange to see our old Sound Performance office, which burnt down a little while ago. Strange feeling. Hard to explain. Confusion mostly. Ughhhh. Anyway - life goes on for all of us and it's good we shared that past - we all worked together at not one but two different companies...

The below picture doesn't show much but I like it. It's as if Sound Performance is cutting through the whole Pottelberg like a knife. No hidden meaning there. Just the beauty of a photo...

Heidi's large and beautiful plant is still in the office and is still alive and looked fine! The office is full of water, ash and what looks like mildew. It's so sad to see. We chose all that furniture with love. It's a little heart-breaking. We could only look in through the glass so we couldn't see much. But there was a lot of stuff all over the place. Weird....

Tuesday and Wednesday 10 and 11 November 2009: Morrissey!!!!

Above photo is from today the 11th and below from yesterday the 10th just after the Morrissey concert in Lille, where The Mozzer played 6!!!!! Smith songs! It was a goody and I can't wait to see him perform yet again this coming Saturday in Brussels. It's great fun because Tom and I both enjoy the music so much. It's something we have in common these days so it makes for a great date for us! I wish I were as skinny is real life as I look in the above and below photos but truth be told - I'm nowhere near it!!!! It's going slow now and getting harder and harder! It's cold here and dark and that makes me want to eat more and be lazier! It's a constant battle! When does this whole weight-loss thing just click and become a lifestyle rather than such a mind and body controlling effort! Ughhhh.... Anyway - at least Morrissey appreciates fat girls! "You're the one for me fatty"! That's my husband's love song to me thanks to Morrissey. (Joking :-)
Today is a holiday in Belgium and we are all putting our weapons down! The world is a messed up place! The 9th of November and today the 11th both make me think about war and power and control and loss of freedom and all those horrid things that often do make the world go round! Can you imagine all those soldiers fighting WWI here in Belgium in the rain and trenches... Horrid thought. Today - the 11th - must have been so very meaningful...

Tuesday 10 November 2009: Heidi continues

Heidi says: And my picture comes a day late :-). I can't believe that we are in the month that I am turning 31. 31!!! That is amazing. It sounds so different than 30. 30 is just the beginning. 31 is being in your thirties. Two more weeks to enjoy my 30.

Monday 9 November 2009: Heidi's positive feelings are coming... slowly and Sarah can only show you her good-bad side as opposed to her bad-bad side...

Heidi says: At least one thing to be happy about today: I just received an Amazon package with five CD's in it! 'Sometimes I wish we were an eagle' by Bill Callahan, 'Veckatimest' by Grizzly Bear, 'Bone of my bones' by Ebony Bones, 'Sunny side up' by Paolo Nuttini and 'Music for men' by Gossip. Nice nice nice! At noon I am meeting with Sarah at the soup place. I don't know if my stomach will be happy with soup, but we'll figure that out soon enough. I am starting to have that typical annoying stomach ache that pregnant women have. It's disgusting. It makes me vomit when I am not standing straight up or when I am coughing. Brr. I am also really having this bad cold for more than two weeks now. It just won't go away. I hope I don't get the Mexican flue before Thursday. Thursday is when I get my vaccination! Three more days to go... Three more days to fight those ugly filthy beasts! Tomorrow I go to the gynaecologist again. Excited to see what our boy has been up to.

Sarah says: Saw Heidi today and brought my camera knowing I would but forgot to bring it to lunch! A pity! But as you can see, she already wrote something above so we can expect a photo of her soon too.. As for me, I'm only showing you the right side of my face because the wrong side - otherwise known as the left side has an alien living on it that just won't go away! I think it has a brain and everything... Anyway - my face is all wrong these days - a mess! It's the heat and the cold and the biking and the grease and the dryness. I need a new face I think.... As for the body - still busy with the diet but it is now going very slow! I did try on a bunch of too-small clothes tucked away in the back of my closet and I am happy to see I have gone down a size. But that has happened before so I won't get too excited! I need to work this forever - otherwise I'll just yo-yo around forever and I am sick of that! Sunday, thanks to my friend Carmen, I learned how to do exercises on a ball that supports my back and thanks to Aimee I now have such a ball so from now on I am going to try to have a ball with my ball! This week my cross-trainer should be set up too as it's been tucked away in the garage while our windows have been being replaced... So the future looks bright for my body but what about my face?! I think I should start charging this alien rent!

Sunday 08 November 2009: Sarah has a weekend full of cooking, music with a bit of exercise thrown in!

Heidi says: An easy and quiet day, with a walk in de Gavers. That is exactly what I needed after a hard weekend. It was busy and I didn't feel well (especially in the head). Back to positive feelings. Sarah says:
Easy weekend full of music at Westtalent and cooking at home as well as a little exercise today... Calm, relaxing, nothing bad other than a weird toe of mine that is hammering up big time! It hurts! My oh my does it hurt... Not sure what needs to be done... Anyway - a new weeks starts soon and I will be seeing Morrissey twice next week so that as to be a good thing! I think I'll also be seeing Heidi twice, which is also a good thing! It's time for her photo on here again and more importantly - I miss her!

Thursday and Friday November 06 and 07, 2009: Sarah is tired...

Above is from today and below is from yesterday. I am tired and I look forward to having a lazy night watching bad TV with my kid... Lazy weekend ahead too other than Westtalent on Saturday night, which will be fun because Tom will join me so it's like a date! As I don't see him as much as I would like to during the week, it's nice to have some time with him on the weekend!

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 02, 03 and 04 November 2009: Sarah has some days off from work and fun with food, friends and family!

Above and below photos are from today - 04 November at Carmen's house with Tilly. So nice to have a whole day to spend with good friends - good female friends! Feel very lucky to have these gals in my life! The kids were playing dress-up and so we did too! It was fun. We also ate a lot of good stuff. I ate some bad-for-my-diet stuff - have been eating badly for last two days! But - Monday I got weighed and had still lost another 400 grams so that's okay! No rush at all! I am just happy I am able to lose some weight lately!

Above photo is from Tuesday the 3rd I think with my daughter relaxing at home at night watching some bad TV movie... Our house is still all a mess from the windows but we have one couch we can all sit on and watch TV on so that's enough for us!
Above photo must also be from Tuesday the 3rd of November - showing some weight loss. I see it so that makes me happy. Long way to go still but at least it's starting to show a bit!
Above photo from Monday the 2nd I think - cooking and in the kitchen as usual! Made more fish meals and another slow-cooker one! Being on a diet has made me enjoy cooking even more for some reason!

Friday and Saturday 30 and 31 October 2009 and Sunday 01 November 2009; It's Flashback 1st of the Month at Face The Day! It's been a while!

Above photo is out of order because today's photo is down below with the Flashback 1st of the Month ones. Anyway - above photo is from yesterday - 31 November 2009 - I like it. It's a good one. My eyebrow looks to be the perfect shape! :-) Not that it matters!

By the way - here's a link to an article I recently wrote about the Design for Persuasion Conference I recently attended in Brussels via work. It's been a while since I wrote articles so I am happy I had the chance again...
Out of order - but above photo is from yesterday the 31st of October 2009 of me and the kid on Halloween. She wanted to put makeup on me too so I let her do the lipstick and I did the eyes. We do have quite the same eyes somehow though different colors of course - yet she has this wonderful almond-Bjorky eye look whereas my brown eyes look so small compared to hers... Genetics are strange...
Out of order but above photo is actually from Friday the 30th of November 2009 very late - just back from Westtalent and with strange rash as you can see...

It's Flashback 1st of the month here at Face The Day - so Heidi - if you can - take a photo today and post it! It's so fun to look back! Above is a photo of me from today - 01 November 2009.

Above photo of me and below one of Heidi are from one year ago today on 01 November 2008! Click here to go back to that day to see what we were up to...

Sarah: There above you can see me 2 years ago today on 01 November 2007 with glasses and a red face late at night... Via this link you can see what was happening at this time last year in my and in Heidi's lives.

Sarah: There I am above three whole years ago today with my great mate MS! She was visiting! I wish she were here right now. It was 01 November 2006 above. Here's a link to go back to that day at Face The Day!

There's Heidi above 2 years ago today in 2007 with very short hair!

And there's Heidi three years ago and one day on 02 November 2006 as we had no 01 November 2006 picture of her. She looks different! (Heidi: logic, I just became mother of Yma a month earlier...)

And there above you can see Heidi and me on a very Fall day four years ago today on 01 November 2005! We have changed a lot and haven't changed at all in these 4 years! Looking back is fun. Via this link, you can go back with us to 4 years ago today!