After only one day…

1. I need a new wardrobe, because my clothes don’t suit my style anymore.  In fact, I even wore a necklace today with my dress (and btw the colour is gorgeous when I wear purple!)

2. I went to a party this afternoon and was surprised to get the reaction… the reason… I’d forgotten I’d only done it yesterday!

3.  I started chucking out my hairbrush and old hair products… I need different stuff now

4.  My head feels smaller… very strange but true.

5.  Connor says I look like a boy

6.  Bradley just smiles and says I look like my old photos.

7. Lance is hugging me more, and keeps telling the kids he has a sexy wife

8. I find myself wondering why there isn’t a tool on the net where you can propagate all sites I’m linked to with my new avatar!  It’s a bloody pain!

I wrote a blog post in October last year about Simply Slim after a discussion about the drug at bookclub one night.

For those living under a rock… it’s a weight loss miracle cure that’s not sold by pharmacies, but by agents and random people who have set up camp in shopping centres across the country (that in itself is a worry!).  It was/is touted as a natural weight loss pill and hundreds and thousands of women have been buying it and losing oodles of weight.

However with the weight, comes horrific side effect, some of which I blogged about at the time.

The point of my new blog post…  KUDOS to the medical council for FINALLY investigating this stuff!

According to the Government Gazette, the MCC has suspended the sale of the product with immediate effect.  And according to Timeslive the levels of sibutramine found in the product are above legal limits and after many complaints they’re suspended the product.

I get between 20 to 30 hits on my blog post every day from google searches like “simply slim complaints” and “simply slim dangers” and “has anybody experienced side effects of Simply Slim” and “simply slim side effects”.

My stats have been telling me that there’s a HUGE problem with it.

And on top of that, one of my friends has been told categorically by her doctor that her heart problems are directly related to her taking the drug!

I’m sorry, but that’s not normal. I know that a lot of people swear by it, and have lost oodles of weight on it… but people… you’re killing yourselves early!!

I just hope they actually shut the whole operation down. And yes, I feel sorry for the agents. They’re really in the middle of this mess, after being given “medical” training on the stuff and being told that there’s nothing wrong with it, and it’s safe to take.  Ja right!

And I’m NOT going to respond to people who comment saying I have no idea what I’m talking about… this is my opinion! I know people have gotten their lives back on the stuff because they’ve lost so much weight in the process, that’s not the issue… the issue is how much of your body you’ve irreparably damaged by taking it.

You all know I like random… so this blog challenge from Female2Female is right up my alley!

If I could work half day I would

In my kitchen cupboard is Kelloggs frosties, tinned salmon, lemon cream biscuits, soya sauce and thai stir fry sauce

On my desk – my Blackberry charging cable that keep forgetting to take back to work!

Image in my head – planning images for Tanya‘s engagement shoot next weekend because I’m trying to convince her that they won’t look like retards!.

In the middle of my to do list – the print orders that are outstanding so I can’t deliver the DVD or the photos.

I am dreading – I’m not really dreading anything at the moment apart from the traffic on the way to work every morning.

Right now I want to start blogging on my new domain

I think I’m a little loony.

Going to have my hair cut short on Friday… squeeee!! (as Veronica would say).

I went to my long awaited dermatologist’s appointment this morning… and all I know for certain is that I’m going to be going to the loo a lot in the next 6 months.

He’s put me on a diuretic which is apparently quite strong and will make me need the loo all the time… fabulous.

The verdict was as follows:

1. My hairloss is my body’s reaction to the hormonal issue, but follows the same pattern as male baldness.  FABULOUS!!
2. My acne is part of the same problem
3. It’s also caused by stress.  Funny that!!
4. The medicine he’s given me should sort both problems out … but it’ll take 6 months   We should be able to stop it though.
5. And I have to watch what else I eat because this stuff has high levels of potassium in it, so I have to make sure anything else I take is potassium free.
6. Note the should is not a will!! 
7. He phoned an endocrinologist because of the low testosterone levels found in the last tests as they were very very low and concerning.  FABULOUS.  The specialist is also confused by the results.  So… I’m off for more blood tests tomorrow to repeat that particular test.

On another hair note, I’ve booked my hair appointment… with Jessica‘s stylist because the other chick was only available at the end of February!! My oath!! I hope this chick cuts well.

Lance is still trying to tell me it’s a bad idea because it’ll accentuate the bald areas on my head   But I can’t do this for another 6 months

I’m sure by now you’re tired about hearing about my hair… so I’ll find a new topic for tomorrow… maybe something to do with me stressing about the small chapel on Friday and wondering how I’m going to get around it without tripping over the bridal couple

I’ve decided to cut it, and now that I have… Lance (who has ALWAYS wanted me to cut it short again) reckons I should leave it for a few months because he thinks I’ll look worse because my hair is so thin.

But anyhoo, my plan is to cut it.  I just have to find another hairstylist who can do it.

I got Jessica‘s hairstylist’s number yesterday, but then today, a colleague also loved that hairstyle so much that she emailed the makeup artist in question and asked for her hairstylist’s phone number… and it turns out this person works from a house close to where I live!

So now the only dilemma left is what colour   I’m thinking red!  Lance reckons brown… he doesn’t get that it has to be funky! I can’t go blonde my skin is too pale.

Oh and the other thing… I need to lose weight then… it’ll only look funky if I feel funky again.

I saw the link on Mr Lady’s blog, and had to follow… and found this amazing video on a blog that I used to follow and have added to my reader again… which you have to watch too… and have some tissues handy

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It’s awesome, I want to write something like that for my kids, but I can never find the words.  And how awesome is that photography?!

It’s not ready yet, but the domain has been bought and registered and WordPress installed. And I didn’t use any of the names I proposed in my previous blog post!

Just waiting for the design from Judith Shakes (using the web design voucher that I won through Weekly Winners), and we’ll be up and running!! Can’t wait to get going on it actually

Bradley comes up with the strangest things some days.

The boys were playing in the garden with water pistols this afternoon while I made some tea.  When I got outside, Bradley said “We saw two wasps kissing Mom”

Me “What?”, thinking I’d misheard what he’s said.

“Two wasps kissing”

Me “Couldn’t have been, wasps don’t kiss”

Bradley then replied “Well, what if one was a male and the other was a female and they were that close, what else would they be doing?”

What else indeed, my son…

I changed the subject

I’m not sure if I mentioned it here, but I resigned about 6 weeks ago. I’m moving to another company within the same group.

It’s a BIG change… yet still in the same building and it’ll mean working with people I kinda know already.  So it was very weird to say goodbye to everyone today, knowing that I’ll probably bump into them on Monday.  I even had to hand in my laptop, clear out my emails and data folders; just as if I was leaving the group.

It’s a BIG change… I’ve been working in Stockbroking for 10 years.  It’s a change of industry.

It’s a BIG change… My new role is kinda airy fairy right now and I’ll have to mould it into what I want it to be… it’s all about Web 2.0 and Social Media;  working from IT, but closely with Marketing to build their social media skills.  So it’s exciting!  I’ve been building up to this for a while with the experience I’ve had in the last 18 months.

It was sad to say goodbye.  I’ve worked with one of my staff members for 10 years on and off.  It was very strange knowing that we’ll probably never work together again.

Anyhoo, what better way to start a new decade than with a new career

So, you know my hairloss story… it hasn’t changed

My dermatologists appointment is on Tuesday.

In the meantime, I’ve been considering my hairstyle again.

I hate it!  I look like a frump.  I cannot get my hair straight even after using a straightening iron forever.  And if I do get it straight, its all fluffy and crap within an hour anyway, so what’s the point. 

Lance thinks I should go short again, and so does Madi.

The thing is, it’s a age thing.  I know I know, it’s all in my mind.

I’m not getting any younger, and the only people that have short hair are older people.  And I don’t want that yet.  Even my hairdressers lately have said that only older women have short hair.  I don’t want to surrender to the idea that I’m getting old.  As it is, that’s the major factor for me not giving up my job and doing photography (I have yet to see an older successful female photographer)

I’m close to 40 you know! I’m on the downward side of 35 now… it’s closing in quickly.

But then, I saw this photo today on Kat‘s blog. MY GOD, how stunning is that haircut on the makeup artist!!

And then I’m tempted all over again.