Has created this fantastic selection of shakes and easy meals designed so that people like me who tend to eat what they want when they want...can get into the habit of eating precisely what your body needs...nothing more...nothing less.

So I'm doing it!...I'm on my second day and I really want chocolate and I have decided that decaffeinated coffee isn't as good a placebo as I had first hoped. But I'm going to do this! I need ot do this.

The chick who signed me up lost 35kg in 3 months, I'm giving myself till my birthday (6 months) to get down to my ideal weight...not too bad I think :)

So yes...if I'm a bit cranky lately...this is why...

That $900 he is going to give me will do very nicely to set up my Photography buisness!

Karen has been awesome...I mean she is about to start another business so she is pretty good at it by now!

She is going to get her graphis designer to set me up with letter heads, business cards, advertising etc etc etc. I am going to create a website then look at someone to host it! Karen is going to advertise my business on all of her websites as the preferred photographer for live-gigs and club7. She is going to put my name forward to bands and venues wanting promotional photographs etc etc....

Just need to get my abn and register my business name "Kristin Thomas Photographer" lol sounds all classy and proffessional doesn't it!

So I should be up and running for when I finish my diploma and I will have a small portfolio...which of course will build over time.

I want to be the "Cheap but still excelltent quality" option for those people who don't have a couple of grand to spend on a photo shoot.

And with Karen working for me as well I know I will get business very quickly!

Yay...so by the end of this year...God willing...I will be a small business owner :)

hehehe who would have thunk it!

...To do more photography...

so what am I doing?

Well I just enrolled in a Diploma of Proffessional Photography that I can do all external study and they take fortnightly payments. I can take anywhere between 3 to 12 months which is great. And better yet...If I get my cert 4 TAA this year it means I can teach Photography as a VET subject at school next year.

Plus pretty sure this is all tax deductable...

Yay for me following one of my dreams!!!!

is stuff

After our picnic we went walking and saw tall tall trees....

....a path that went forever....

....Squiggly wiggly vines....

....a mad Vicki playing tazzan....

....and two for the price of one native wildlife.

We then moved on to the winery....

....which presented us with many tasty wines.

Then we went for a walk in the vinyard....just one day before they took the grapes off the vines...

The view was BEAUTIFUL.....

The friends were great....

If just a little bit silly...

In the end we became one with nature and really appreciated everything around us that God has made....just for us.

I really do love the kids I teach...when they go through hard times I just want to be there for them. I think of them like they were my own. I hope they all know I will always be there to help them through.

Recently I recieved some rather disturbing and at times abusive emails from someone that is suposed to be a Youth Leader in his church....

Apparently according to him my heart is full of poison and I poison those around me and I produce poison fruit.

I tried not to take it on board but part of it bothered me...unitl I recieved something from one of my students from 2 years ago...It really has given me new faith in myself as a person...a knowledge that God wouldn't have given me these kids only for me to poison them...he gave them to me because he knows how much I will love them and look after them and teach them...not just science, but I teach them about life....

"Hey miss thomas :P thanks for the commenthavent seen you in ages.. how are your going? i hope you are well :) you might like to know i'm still benefiting from the stuff i learned in science 21. the science and the life lessons... i cant thank you enough. keep up the good work :) xox"

I know God has me in the right place...we often talk about influencing the "one" and it's all about saving the "one" and even if we reach "one" it's worth it. I will tell you something I will keep doing all the extra hours, sharing not only my knowledge but my heart with these kids...because of this "one", because this "one" has given me the hope that I am doing the right thing and where there is "one" there is always another "one".

It's all worth it!

What is it with me and cars?

Here I was minding my own business after a great session at the gym...waiting patiently at the big round about and BAM! 4wheel drive up the bum....I'm still waiting to get my car back now Dad's needs to be fixed as well.

Now I have a sore back and neck and a headache....it's not fair!

On the up side I get 2 days off work....