staring at the face of temptation

No Wanna and Rachel I didn't end up going walking that Tuesday night. Mostly because it was dark and didn't feel comfortable walking in the dark alone.

But ... I did go last night instead. A little earlier this time just as the sun was setting. I actually feel very proud of myself last night. It had the potential to all turn to custard, but I was focused to keeping myself ontrack.

I asked a friend in the late afternoon if she wanted to go for a walk with me. She was unsure if she'd get her work done in time. By 5pm I'd walk just over 3kms in the shop and was pretty 'ankle' sore. Bill and I had a little 'debate' as to who was going out, me for my walk, or him fishing. In the end he decided the sea was a little rough to be taking the boat out, so that left me to organise my walk. An hour would do it because I had to be back to finish dinner before a friend came over for a few drinks. I calculated my alcohol points out and tracked them for later.

I went and saw her at 5.10pm and she said her work wasn't finished yet. Contemplating relaxing in for the night, I checked up on my blog and saw your comments Wanna and Rachel. Well that did it, I was going for my walk anyway. Before I left I put the rice cooker on with our brown rice and got the ingredients out for dinner, gave instructions to Bill on how to cook it and said I would finish it off when I got back in an hour.

Lauren (11yrs), Malachi (9yrs) and I set off. We got talking and before I realised we were well down the beach and it was getting pretty dark. We turned around to come home, but man was I sore. My foot was giving out on me and wasn't being helped by uneven ground with no torch! We were walking so fast in the end, I just wanted to be home!

As I limped in the door I was told the gas had run out, therefore no stirfry. Dinner would have to be microwaved or takeaways. At 6.30pm and as tired as I was ... takeaways it was! But the chinese place I normally get my low point takeaways from is closed for a month. Damn it! Bill and the kids got pizza and the smell of it almost tempted me... well it damn near swallowed me up! I sooo wanted pizza *Homer voice ... "mmmmm, want pizzzzzzaaaaa"*

Stood myself up, told myself off and marched to the freezer to fetch my handy, dandy ww microwave meal and put a cup of rice under it to fill me up. "Tick" ... another box checked.

By this stage I was so pumped by all the obstacles being thrown my way that I dodged, when it came to my allotted drink allowance I looked in the face of temptation and told it to go jump. I decided to be the sober driver ... hmmm we weren't driving lol ... but the sober socialiser, hey someone had to make sure no one made a fool of themselves.

So I went to bed very proud of all that was put in my way yet overcome! And that was all started off by your comments to inspire me to go for my walk. See you just never know the power of your words!! Thankyou!