On my mind. What’s on yours?

I have writer’s block. I have a whole host of things I want to write, but can’t, because I have a lot on my mind. Lots of small things. Like:

* The blazer I didn’t get. I tried it on {the one above} and liked it, but decided not to get it. Then, after deliberating, I decided to go back to get one for a friend and myself – and there are none left. That’ll teach me.
* Today I’m popping out in my lunch break to get a biopsy thing {just a cervical thing and nothing major, but I’m a thinker and it’s consuming my thoughts}. Can’t wait for it to be done and dusted.
* Lacey’s birthday. She’s turning 4 in a fortnight and I feel like she should have a party, but really? And she wants a Tinkerbell birthday cake, with wings. Or an Ariel cake with a tail. Help!
* Insulin Resistance. I just learned last month that I have it and now I’m taking medication for it, which makes me feel a bit sick-y until I get used to it.
* Cocktail parties. Tomorrow night we’re hosting the Top 50 Bloggers party in the City {for Kidspot who I work for}. What to wear? What to do with my hair? How am I going to fit all the stuff in my car and take it to the party {goodie bags, stuff and more stuff}?


What’s on your mind? Care to unravel it?

75 thoughts on “On my mind. What’s on yours?”

  1. Whats on my mind? 1. I should be in bed now 2. I need to finish the school website 3. I need to declutter the house 4. I need to get inspired in so many ways I dont know where to start!! I'm afraid if I unravel my mind now, I might not be able to get it all back together again!! 😉

  2. I have the same problem as the first. Everytime I see something I like and don't get it there and then, thinking I'll wait until it's on sale, when I go back they have none and I miss out!!!!! 🙁

    Apart from that, why the hell am I not losing weight faster than 1 kilo a week! That's what's consuming me.

  6. So much on my mind right now that I wrote a similar list, but it was so long I felt compelled to write a 'things i'm grateful for' list just to balance it out in my head. My main concern right now is where this baby that is arriving in 10 weeks is going to go (hello cramped apartment) and what on earth we are going to name it if it is a boy!!

    Shame about that jacket, it's lovely and a great price.

  8. On my mind:

    – My illness which won't go away, ever… and I feel nothing but stressed over it

    – That I feel guilty still for saying some things I said to an ex-friend recently that pretty much sealed our fate of not ever talking again and I'm fighting the urge to apologize because in the end HEDOESN'TEVENCARESOJUSTLEAVEHIMALONE.

    – My assignments

    – That it's HIS birthday today, and I have no business texting him to say happy birthday

    – That I really want to do more to get fit

    Isn't little black dress the automatic answer in a what do I wear situation? There was a reason you walked away from the jacket to begin with… you'll find a better one that you can't possibly walk away from.

  10. Do I apply for a full time job that pays more than I have ever earned and I think I would be great at, or do I stay at my casual job that I no longer enjoy (actually I have grown to loathe going to work) but means still get 2 days a week with just me and the kids…

    Can I maintain the willpower to not eat one of the Humpty Dumpty eggs that are on the top of the kitchen cupboard today.

    • If the full time isn't full-time-ridiculous-hours go for it! You have to be happy too 🙂 And your kids know – and benefit from – the difference (I think!) But don't eat the egg 😉 Good luck whatever you decide!x

    • My gut says that I can't keep doing what I am doing. I think I will apply and see what happens… Maybe fate will make the decision for me!

      Thank you so much for a great blog chantelle, I love it!

      P.s I didn't eat the egg 🙂

  14. I was feeling unraveled and decided what i really am is tired. My son left for school and I went back to bed and slept hard for most of the day. And yes there was a list a mile long that needed my attention. I ignore it and even turned my phone off. I only woke up to let my pups out and to drink water. I wasn't sick just tired. When I did get up my life seemed much more manageable. Life is so much harder when we are worn down and worn out.

  15. thinking that it must be really horrible to be booked in for a cervical biopsy AND be feeling yuk from insulin resistance! Poor you.

    On the cake, what about dollar shop wings stuck on the top of a cake!! Hehe, then she can lick them clean and wear them for the rest of the party!!

    • Thanks hon. It was yukky, but I just want to get everything sorted so I can stop being in limbo (unknown) land.

      The dollar shop is where I need to go! Thank you. xx

      P.S. What about you? What's on your mind?

  16. I have IR and if you are on the same medication as I was, it's terrible!
    Take it with milk and half way through your meal instead of before or after.
    hope you start to feel better soon lovely.

    I'm so sad that I can't make it to the dinner, wish I was in Sydney and NOT in freezing my bum off visiting people in canberra!

    xx

  18. After speaking to Chantelle just now and noticing how cool calm and collected she is about the lots that she has on at the moment – I thought I'd visit fatmumslim. Now I know why? because she has all of you beautiful people to care and share with. So lovely!! I really should blog some health and fitness tips on here for you ladies!!!!! Jenna

  19. P.s Jenna being Chan's little sister – that still doesn't know how to follow on here! haha I'm hopeless

  20. Nothing really on my mind at the moment, just wanted to chime in as a fellow IRer — you'll get used to the meds, will feel better, and they will help you stay healthy, I promise!! I hated it when I had to start meds. But, I figure if it halps stave off the diabetes, then I'm all for it!

    • Thanks Kate. I've just learned (from the specialist) that IR is the opposite of diabetes and is genetic, but could result in diabetes around menopause. I plan on kicking it's butt well before then.

      Good luck on your journey. Hope you kick it's butt too! x

  21. You asked what's on my mind … I hope you meant it when you asked.

    My daughter gave birth to her 17 week old fetus Saturday morning. He had a heartbeat but way too young for lungs and so unable to survive with a birth weight of 137 grams (0.3 pounds) and nearly seven inches long. He was perfectly formed with long piano-player fingers and his father's toes. It broke hearts all over the L&D; and we, his family, feel kicked in the heart. T-MH carries my adoration to the stars where he becomes a part of the Universal Matter…

    Hey MP, keep an eye out for T-MH, he's going to need to be carried about til he gets a wee bit bigger. Tuck him into your ample bosom and 'kangaroo' my precious teeny grandson until he can care for himself. Tell him stories of his culture and introduce him to the classics and curses. I miss and love you both more than words can say. Believe believe believe !~!

  24. Raya had a mermaid cake for her 3rd birthday – easy, easy, photos in my facebook account Telle if you want ideas. Just need a dolly varden tin. I was put on Diabex for insulin resistance and yeah it makes you feel bleurgh initially.

    What is on my mind? Bubs not moving much. Went in for a tracing today and again tomorrow.

  25. I hope everything goes well for you with your biopsy, Chantelle and I honestly can't believe little Lacey is almost four – I have been reading your blog for a long time and I can remember some old posts of yours, like your letters to her and it's amazing, almost watching her grow up through your writing.

    On my mind? Only two things at the moment, firstly, when will I hear back about a job I interviewed for and secondly, when will the developer release the prices for the apartment we'd like to buy.

    xxx

    • I thought her birthday was two weeks away and last night I realised it's NEXT WEEK. Now I'm freaking out. She's such a big girl and so cute. 🙂

      I hope you hear back about the job soon. I have my fingers crossed. x

  26. I'm thinking I'm pretty lucky at the moment. Only wondering how I am going to get away with growing out grey hair from completely dyed. Only one big worry in a relative. I thought I had saying no down pat and then people keep asking me for extraordinary stuff, go figure!!

  27. What's on my mind? How there is so much to do and that there is more to come and time is running out! I am dealing with school enrolments for my first kid and I am trying hard to be brave…I feel for you and your insulin resistance… I have it too and have been taking meds for it for about 8 years… Saved my life as I was pre-diabetic when I found out… 8years later and 2 pregnancies I am fit but sick of the dietary restrictions and the dizziness that can come with the meds…:-s But life goes on and it marches way too quick for me to keep up…. This is me dumping my thoughts on this very spot – thanks for the opportunity and I love your blog 😉

    • Thanks Alice. I hope school enrolments goes ok. I am going to be a big fat mess when it's Lacey's turn.

      I'm so luck to have found it early (IR) and I have a severe case but really low blood sugar levels (so nowhere near diabetic). I'm hoping to kick it's butt before I'm near diabetic.

      Darn genetics. x

    • Darn genetics indeed!!! Enjoy your time with your gorgeous Lacey…From what I have read here she seems quite a character and so full of life!!!Much like my not so little one…I almost had palpatations when I realised I had to enrol my daughter this year… She actually asked me if I was ok because I think I may have almost fainted with shock(or maybe it was just the meds lol!)… Stick to the meds.. Your body will eventually settle and it will not be anywhere as bad as it was in the beggining…As for me I hope you don't mind but I will stick around your blog it is gorgeous…hee…hee

  28. I love that jacket.
    I am feeling a little like you, too many thoughts, too man tasks, and I just din't know where t start with my thoughts or my jobs!! This makes me even more insane, so tomorrow I've resolved to try and find some focus to get myself moving, not sure how yet!!

  29. Oh noooo! A Brisbane friend as this jacket, so I'll have to take a look while I'm in the big smoke for us both. No drama, we can work out details tomorrow. WHEN I SEE YOU! So exciting.

    Go the Ariel cake, I say, she was always my favourite Disney girl. I love a red head, what can I say.

    What's on my mind? Getting my stuff to take items down small enough to be allowed on the plane, finishing my to-do list, organising everything I need for when I return to Brisbane AND getting enough sleep to shake this head cold.

    You're right, it does feel good to share! 🙂

  33. Ariel was always my favourite Disney princess, because she had red hair, but I don't know how to make a mermaid cake. My mum made me an amazing fairy cake when I was little though – she used a pyrex bowl instead of a cake tin to make the cake, iced it using royal icing and decorated it with icing-icing and aflowers etc., then put a fairy-doll into the centre of it, up to its middle, so it looked like the cake was the fairy's dress. I loved that cake! Good luck with a busy week – all I have on my mind is finishing school for the holidays – just 3 more days til I can rest!

  34. things on my mind – getting to Melbourne today. Then working out how to drive a hired car through the busy streets of Melbourne. I so hope I do not have to do one of those crazy right hand turns, and I hope that I remember the trams are also on the road.
    Then I need to find my hotel, find world vision on Thursday and find the Digital Parents Confernece on Friday! Plus be back at the airport on time Friday night!!
    Crazy three days ahead of me 🙂
    Cheers
    Lisa

  35. What isn't on my mind; Really. I got a huge “To Do List”… And it keeps getting longer and longer by the minute. Your post about Success really hit me hard. In a good way. Im 32 and I've spent 12 years on my career (Accounting & Business Management) and it sucks!! Now. I am so burned out. I should be totally thankful well I am. But still, ya know?. I must tell you I enjoy your blog. I enjoy your IG posts. And I want you to know you do an awesome job! I have the same issues with the whole cervical thing. And I hope 1) your insulin resistance gets better 2) You have a great time at the Blogger Event. Oh, And! Lacey, maybe search on Wlton.com. Im sure there is a way to create a 3D cake, but where to find instructions and how is the million dollar question. Chantelle, Thanks again for being an AWESOME PERSON :)!!!!! xx

  36. My hubby is not enjoying his job. It's FIFO & I hate hearing him so sad & stressed when he is far away. Knowing I can't fix it for him drives me crazy!!

    My eldest turns 12 next week & has hormones racing through his body & is becoming very unpleasant to be with. I am constantly trying to figure out how we will get through this stage if growing up.

    The fact that after 15 months & 2 miscarriages I'm still not pregnant. Do we give up or keep going? This thought goes around my mind all day long.

    My mind is like a ball of wool, the more you pull the more it unravels. I'd like for my mind to stop & be quiet for a little bit…

    • Oh my gosh, you have so much to unravel.

      I remember being a teen. It was so awkward and icky, wasn't it? I hope you have enough patience to survive it with him. Have you read the book Raising Boys? I've heard it's amazing.

      As for the pregnancy, I'm not allowed to try for a baby at the moment – and I know it's nothing like what you're going through – but I understand the anxiety and heart-ache you're going through. I hate this it's so hard. 🙁

      xx

  37. REST AND RELAX. Haven't done that properly from planning on renovating the kitchen and after the renovation is done. The organization is still not quite complete. Then came my dad's illness and following his death a month later, everything became topsy-turvey. His death really spiraled me downwards and made me lose interest in everything I do. I still miss him after four months of his passing but life goes on and I am picking up my life again.
    Well, time I get back to the drawing board – scrapping to my heart's content.

  38. That I really should go to sleep! It's 2:09am and I can't stop reading blogs. You click on one, then another, then another… I feel like a box of Pringles.

  40. About the cake…I see you've got other responses, but I'll post mine anyway. I recently made a cake from the Betty Crocker site and it turned out really well. Their videos make it easy to understand the instructions. I also watched the one about the mermaid cake and was amazed because it was simple yet magical. I thought it would be really fun to do. Now I've found someone who needs it!

    Halfway down the page, you'll see the mermaid:
    http://www.bettycrocker.com/videos/specialty-cakes-and-desserts/birthday-cake-videos

    About your insulin resistance, you may find some really helpful information at http://www.bloodsugar101.com. I've been researching for a diabetic friend and I think this is the best source I've found yet.

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