It's been an eventful few days.

Saturday night Yuri and I went to the praise party/valentines day party at the church. I was really good fun. Tried my hand (or should I say feet) at salsa dancing and although I was pretty much awful, I still enjoyed it.

Sunday we went to meet our new cell groups. Tommy made a new friend, who I'm sure will now be referred to as the dynamic duo. They were little terrors together. The only down point was when they found a bottle of flash bathroom cleaner and it got sprayed in Tommy's eyes. His scream alone shocked the life out of me and I was running around in a mad panic trying to wash the stuff out. Yuri later told me that the only reason he wasn't worried was that as a kid, he'd drunk some of the stuff. I did resist the temptation to mention that the effects were obvious. Still, once Tommy had recovered from the shock he was fine, and the boys spent a fair while chasing each other up and down the hall screaming at the top of their voices. Our poor friends are going to have complaints from their neighbours!

And last night was weigh in night. I'd been such a pig all week I was totally prepared to have put on weight. Imagine my shock when I realised I'd lost another 4lbs. That's a stone in total and I am so happy. Only another 3lbs to go and I'll have lost 10% of my starting body weight.

It's good news though. I've got a party to go to on the first weekend in April and it's eveningwear. Not that I've got the money to go out and buy eveningwear anyways, but I'm even less inclined to knowing that at this stage in my diet, I'll only ever get to wear said item once. It hardly justifies spending the best part of £100. And I need to get new shoes too - as the only ones theat I could wear are stuck in a suitcase in Sao Paulo.

Shoes are sorted - I found the Office sale shop on my walkies today. Now I've issued myself with a challenge: to fit into my prom dress that I wore when I was 15. That sounds bad, I know. But it's not as bad as it sounds. It's only a 16 so that's really only another dress size. The real problem is finding a bra to wear with it. It needs to have crossing straps and to be backless. Now that was difficult enough when I was a 36C. Now (although this is a rough guess coz I need to get buy more in the right size) I'm a 34J. I know available ranges have improved somewhat in recent years, but I wonder if they've improved this much. We shall see...