Supanova

My husband and I went to Brisbane yesterday to attend a Supanova convention. I had no idea what it was but B is into comics and games so i agreed. He organized for the kids to be taken care of so we could enjoy the day by ourselves. I was in for this no matter what we did.

We did a drive by the entrance to the convention to find a park and the line of people waiting to get in was so long it spanned blocks. But this got me excited to be there because of all the fans dressed up like their favourite characters. I had my camera on hand and here a few of the ones we saw inside when we finally got in.

Skiffy from Blade Kitten
Computer game

Joker dressed as the Nurse, Poison Ivy and Nightwing
From Batman

Daggy me and Sophitia Alexandra
from Soul Calibur 4 (computer game)

Batman and Catwoman

What I loved the most was getting to sit and listen to a few movie characters that were there signing autographs. Mary McDonnell from the Battelstar Galactica remake and Carl Urban from the new Star Trek movie. I'm not a trekkie fan but I do like both of these and because I've seen them recently, it made the experience really worthwhile. They were so down to earth, had great sense of humor and were really interesting.

We also caught a glimpse of James Marsters who is Spike from Buffy fame. He is in a new T.V. show out in the US called Caprica. Spin off from Battlestar Galactica. We were standing around trying to see the celebrities and an Asian girl in front of me turned around and showed me the signed photo she just got from James. As she smiled ear to ear she said " I used to watch him in Buffy when I was a teenager and I had a huge crush on him. I don't even know you but I'm so excited that I have to hug you." And she did. We had to laugh with her, she was so cute.

Me and B. after the long day

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Healthy Eating

My husband and I decided to finally, after years of him having type 2 diabetes, choose a better way of eating. I think one of the factors to taking us so long was not knowing where to start. I think most people know that if you choose to eat salad instead of take-away you will lose weight or at least not put more on. To add to ignorance even after asking around a few friends who knew something about it I lacked the motivation.
The other thing was I was waiting for B to want to help me plan what the meals were so he was involved in the process. I guess I am hoping that this will make the whole thing stick.

We have a family night once a week on a Monday and we decided that we could all benefit from a diet change. Plus I wasn't about to make 2 separate meal plans each night. So 2 weeks ago we sat down with the kids and talked about why we need to take care of our bodies. They mostly understood the idea and agreed not to moan about what they were served. We then pulled out some Diabetic Living magazines I'd forgotten about until that day and looked through searching for hope. I realized some of them have a weekly meal plan which was invaluable. Brett read out all the ingredients I would need to buy the next day and we were on our way.

Shopping took ages looking at fat contents etc and with the two littlest ones in tow it turned into an endurance effort. Arwen nearly fell asleep in the trolley. I've had the magazines on my kitchen bench the whole time, referring to them every day. I don't really like cooking and not knowing the recipes made the process long for me. Needless to say the food was good and most of the kids liked them too. We've been trying to make the kids lunch boxes healthier as well.

It's proved to be painful on the budget in that I had to buy ingredients like natural yoghurt that I only used a little of. I will be using such ingredients next fortnight too so we'll see if this coming fortnight works out to be a little easier on the hip pocket.

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