Slacking on the blogg-age!

Apologies for not posting a blog yesterday but it was a busy day and i just didnt have the time to fit it all in!
Let me start at the beginning....

Weigh in morning, after a very shakey start to the week i managed to scrape in a pound loss again this week, not great but considering my scale peek i was expecting a gain....see doesnt do to be checking the scales midweek!
After weigh in me and two lovely ladies from group went to our local tea rooms and had cake and tea! I had the most delish scone and cream and cuppa, naughty me! But it was a better choice amongst snickers cake, mahoosive choc cheesecakes, rocky road bars the size of my head and warm fudge cake! See sensible choice now!!!
After finishing up there i went home and got ready to go up to see my nephew who turned two...now on every previous birthday ive missed cake, this time i was force fed literally...by my sis in law a chunk about 1" cubed! Apparently so i couldnt moan about missing it this time! Then it was time to go pick hubby up from his ship, and get some tea. We decided on a curry and settled on a dhansak and rice about 9 syns as 360g is 6.5 syns and it was 560g. 2 popadums for 8 syns and 4syns for mango chutney. After all that i decided to flexi syn the day and just get back on it saturday morning.

So on to today.

Breakfast was plums, melon and an apple chopped up with a coffee and coconut muller light.
We then went and did a bit of shopping as i no food in the house at all and only needed little bits as i wont be at home much next few days.

Then popped into town for a few more bits and a prezzy hunt for a friend, by the time we got home i was marving so had giant cous cous, bulgar wheat and quinoa with courgette, mushroom and onion. Ahhhh thats better :-) oh and a bottle of pepsi max as a bit of treat!

Then back out again to get some inspiration for our daughters second birthday, easier said than done but we have a few ideas and looking at decorating her room for her as well as it resembles a nursery rather than a toddlers room, and shes far more grown up than her two short years! I took with my my two HeB hifi bars to nibble on.

So back home yet again and its time for tea.
Tonights menu is homemade wrap pizzas, sw chips and salad bits.
I use the warburtons thin wraps as they are a lovely size and only 8syns, just like eating a thin crust pizza.
I top mine with tom puree, mushrooms, onion, pepper, my HeA of cheese, rocket and cherry tomatoes, pop in the oven until cooked.

Pudding tonight is the quark, mixed with white options hot choc 2syns and ive finally found tesco own stevia sweetner so mixed some of that in too, bunged in the freezer for a bit and taaadaaaaa mousse type cream pudding!

Loverly jubberly, now to snuggle up to the hubby and look at DIY stuff! :-)

HEA - 40g reduced fat cheese
HEB - 2 hifi bars

SUPERFREE
Plums
Melon
Apple
Courgette
Onion
Mushrooms
Cherry toms
Cucumber
Rocket
Pepper

FREE
Muller light yogurt
Giant couscous
Bulgar wheat
Quinoa
Quark

SYNS
Warburtons wrap  8
Milk in coffee  2
Options white choc  2

TOTAL  12

Where did this week go?

I cant believe its thursday again, where did this week go? Weigh in for me tomorrow morning and after yesterdays faux par im a little nervous about it to be honest!
Ive had a real strange day today, i just dont seem to be functioning at all and when i do, its not functioning right!
Im tired which is probably the main issue, i had a real pants night sleep last night, i was awake every hour pretty much for some reason, my daughter decided to scream and cry in her sleep at 4am which frightened the life out of me and consequently i "slept" the rest of the night with one ear and eye open making sure she was alright. My alarm then rudely decided to go off at 6am so it was time to get up and go to work...booooo!!!

Im on a green day again today and breakfast was dried weetabix minis that i had to eat on the run, well in the car, naughty me! I had a cuppa when i got to my mums to drop off pickle.

After a very odd morning at work where i seemed to be on another planet, more than usual some would say...it was time for lunch.
I had left over quorn chilli, a berry selection box of raspberries and blueberries and a packet of velvet crunch. Oh and the ever important brew. I also managed another 2 litres of water today too.

After my shift i went shopping for snacks for the weekend as on sunday evening im travelling up to Sheffield with one of my friends to go visit another friend and i want to try and be as good as possible, i bought grapes and free fizzy water for the car and mugshots and tesco cassava thins to snack on but more on all that on sundays blog.
However it wasnt until i picked up my daughter i realised i had forgotten to get me some tea for tonight, derrrr!
I wanted low fat chilli chicken supernoodles but my fab tesco doesnt do them so i chose the rather naughty beef full fat version for 10syns ouchy!!!

Once i was home and lil un was in bed i put my noodles on, cooked off asparagus, a pepper and red onion along with my second HeA of half fat cheese and ohhhhhhh my days was it scrummy! Totally worth my 10 syns lets hope it doesnt impact on tomorrows weigh :-/

Now im off to watch my silly ghost program and hit the hay early tonight for hopefully a better sleep, and hubbys home tomorrow too! Yaaaay!

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEA - 40g half fat cheddar
HEB - 35g weetabix minis
HEB

SUPERFREE
Raspberries
Blueberries
Asparagus
Pepper
Red onion

FREE
Left over quorn chilli

SYNS
Velvet crunch  4
Beef supernoodles  10

TOTAL  14

Cardinal syns

Well i did a really stupid thing this morning, and i know everyone does it....i stood on my scales before weigh in day......it instantly plunged me into a pit of dispair as the evil thing says ive gained 3lbs!!!!! Ok so i know i was a little (ok a lot!) Bad over the weekend but i have been good the last few days and ive been keeping active as well, walking during the day and then my wii work in the evening. Dont get me wrong i wasnt aiming for a loss this week because of the weekend but a maintain would have been great and i would have been ok with that. I dont say it very often but i was glad to be at work today to stop me from going on that downwards spiral of "to hell with it then"
Im more than aware the fact ive been active will probably play some part in it as i ache in the morning where ive been doin the weights, i drank about 4litres of water yesterday tho so im really hoping that it levels back out again for friday.
Anyways it inspired my to have a breakfast of pineapple, grapes and strawberries with a green tea and lemon.
I got ready to go drop my daughter off at nanny and grandads while im at work and because im still annoyed at the scales i forget my fleece which has all my work stuff in ... great start!
A cuppa at my folks and im ready for work, well sort of!

Lunch time rolls around and i have left over mushy pea curry and a brew but as i had left everything else behind theres no picture to accompany todays lunch, i also had 2 litres of water during my shift as well.

Back off to pick back up my girly and im hank marvin, so pinch one of my dads rice cakes to stave off the hunger as i wont be eating until later tonight after shes bathed and bedded amd obviously tea is cooked!

Tea tonight is quorn chilli with butternut squash chips, courgette and aubergine. It was supposed to be served in a giant pepper but the pepper collapsed lol
I make my chilli by softening off two chunky chopped onions, add in quorn mince, then a good shake of hot chilli powder, tinned toms and kidney beans in chilli sauce. Oven on and whack in the chopped veggies.
Now ive slightly booboo'd and im on a green day and ive only got one slice of wholemeal bread in the house but i dont have anything else for a healthy extra...naughty me!!! So il have a milky hot choc later before bed and have to miss out my others :( sad times! Must remember to pick up hifi bars in group friday!

For pud im having mango and the other half of the pineapple from this morning.

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEA
HEB - 1 slice wholemeal bread
HEB

SUPERFREE
Pineapple
Grapes
Strawberries
Courgette
Onions
Tinned toms
Aubergine
Butternut squash
Giant pepper
Mango

FREE
Left over mushy pea curry
Chilli beans

SYNS
Rice cake  1.5
Hot choc 2

TOTAL 3.5

Wooo hoooo a day on plan! :-)

It was a gorgeous sunny day today and its put me in a really sunny mood, therefore a good eating day, hmmm maybe im fat cos we have too many rainy, cold, wintery days and as our summer didnt really start thats why my weights the same as back in june!!! I suffer from FSAD - food seasonal affected disorder!!!! I really think i could be on to something here!

Brekki this morning came in the shape of cheesy beans on toast, im on a green day today so get 2 A choices and 2 B choices, i had 40g of half fat cheese, HeA, sprinkled over beans and two slices of my HeB bread all washed down with my usual cuppa.

I then spent the next hour or so getting ready and dancing around to Rihanna on the telly whilst waiting for my sis in law and nephew to arrive.

My mission today was finding my mum a bday prezzy and we ended up walking into town and spending a small fortune but did manage to find something i hope my mum will like! We were naughty and treated the kiddies to a sausage roll from Greggs and my sis in law got overly excited at a sausage roll with egg and bacon in....yuk!!! I was polishing my halo outside and then ran into tesco to buy strawberries, oranges, a pineapple and mango! (Seriously halo is glistening!!)

After the kiddies had a run round the park and said hello to the animals we mooched back home again and iade myself noodles and veg stirfry, the noodles were mixed into some soy sauce, veg was peppers, mushrooms and a stirfry pack. Really filling and served with some left over nas orange fizz from last night.

This afternoon has been a bit of a lazier affair with a dolly teaparty and silly games and bouncing on beds still it was lovely having the sun streaming in the windows and the tunes up on the telly.

Tonights tea was mushy pea curry and rice. Sounds disgusting and as an avid hater of mushy peas i was hesitant to try BUT its fabulous and tastes like chip shop curry sauce.
I took a big pan and added 2 cans mushy peas, 1 tin baked beans, 1 can chopped toms, and a massive shake of curry powder as i love my curries HOT! While thats heating through, in another pan i put an chunky chopped onion, pepper, mushrooms and a courgette in to cook and a pan of rice on too.
Once the pea mix is warmed through i blend mine til nearly smooth and add in the chunky veg, big stir round and serve on the rice. I had mine with my second HeB of bread, officially the most bread ive eaten in months but i had to dunk!!!

Pudding later is strawberries, the rest of the ff rhubarb yogurt and a syns worth of mini meringues on top (10 pieces) and il treat myself to a hot choc before bed.

Right im off to complete another evening of wii fit and body magic, i managed 2 hours last night of jogging, boxing, hula hooping and step aerobics and burned off 556 calories :-)

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEA - 40g half fat cheese
HEB - 2 x 400g wholemeal bread
HEB - 2 x 400g wholemeal bread

SUPERFREE
Mushrooms
Pepper x 2
Stirfry pack
Courgette
Onion
Strawberries
Tinned toms

FREE
Baked beans x2
Mushy peas x2
Noodles
Rice
Ff yogurt

SYNS
10 mini meringues  1
Hot choc  2

Total 3

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Fakeaway night!

Good day to you all!
Well i started my day today saying by to hubby for the week, and hello to hopefully a week not full of syn and badness, in redemption for my weekend!

Breakfast this morning was my HeB of muesli, with tesco ff rhubarb and vanilla yogurt, 2 plums, some blueberries and grapes with a big cuppa.

Dressed and off to the dentist, it was Leahs first trip and well she didnt exactly play ball but thought it was hilarious that the dentist was poking around in mummys mouth and blowing air in it, happy to report i have fab teeth still woohoo! I nibble a small handful of kettle chips to celebrate, ive synned at 5.

After the dentist im off to my lovely friends house so the kiddies can play and we can drink tea and natter til the cows come home! (Haha here i have to confess as she is reading this that i ate one yougurt covered raisen!!!)

Couple of cuppas later...half of one which ended up under my bum and all over her sofa...sorry again!!... and a banana that Leah didnt want, i thought we had terrorised my friend enough lol and mooched on home for some lunch.
I had lettuce, red cabbage, cucumber, ham, and a spoon of mini pasta bows with the last spoon of my cowboy casserole from last night...stuffed was an understatement!

After squirt had her nap we went to watch daddys ship go out and waved like a pair of looneys in the cold, but he did apparently see us which was good so we didnt freeze for nothing!
Back home she was fed, bathed and bedded and i set to work on my fakeaway sweet and sour chicken chow mein.

I cooked off pepper, onion, mushrooms, water chestnuts, chicken and beansprouts in a slug of passata, a veg stock cube sprinkled in, soy sauce, 330ml of diet fizzy orange and some red wine vinegar. Then boiled up some dried noodles, after the liquid reduced down it was ready to serve and scoff. Really tasty and filling :-)

Tonight i have set up some programs on the telly and i plan on doing a couple of hours step ups on the wii as a pre 30 day shred warm up beginning tomorrow whilst watching them, its my start to working towards my body magic awards, if i cant get my 3stone shiney, il get my bronze fitness award instead and hopefully the 3stone shiney will swiftly follow :-)

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEB - 35g jordans muesli

SUPERFREE

2 plums
Grapes
Blueberries
Banana
Lettuce
Red Cabbage
Cucumber
Pepper
Mushrooms
Onion
Water Chestnuts
Passata

FREE
Ff rhubarb and vanilla yogurt
Ham
Pasta
Noodles
Chicken
Left over casserole

SYNS
1 yogurt covered raisen 0.5
Kettle crisps 5

TOTAL
5.5

Normal Business Resumed, Extra Easy Style

Happy Sunday to you all! :-)

I was not amused at my silly o'clock wake up call this morning, who gets up before 7am on a sunday?! My daughter does thats who!
So i start my sunday off with a mahooooosive cup of coffee, and decide to have beans and mushrooms on toast this morning for brekki, and picked on a few grapes whilst i was cooking it up.

Back into town we strolled again today to pick up some cleaning bits and dinner for tonight, but for some reason the small person turns into a complete devil child, theres squinnying, screams, tears and tantrums, we end up in a cafe buyin her a sandwhich for lunch and shes not having any of it, its nearly thrown on the floor, so after glugging my tea down as im getting those lovely stares...(those of you with kids will understand "that" look that people give you when your childs paddying!) I quick march her back home and down for a nap...ahhhhh peace! :-) time for me to rustle up some lunch as i avoided all cakes, pastries, and other such yum naughty items out! I munch on 4 carrots and a slice of ham whilst cooking.
Todays lunch is giant cous cous, bulgar wheat and quinoa mixed together and boiled in a pan of chicken stock and a small glug of dark soy sauce. Then as thats softening i "fry" off in frylight mushrooms, pepper, red onion and 1/2 an auberguine. Once all cooked mix into the cous cous and serve! I had the rest of my pringle crumbs and a cocktail sausage too. All synned appropriately!
Whilst cooking our tea i nibbled on a corn on the cob :)

Tea tonight is a new one on me and a recipe that was in a magazine last year and recently posted in our SW group fb page...campfire stew!
Basically its sausages, bacon, baked beans, peppers, onion, garlic, chillies, tomato puree all cooked in a big pan with some paprika, served with mash and green beans....delish and one i will be having again!

Errrrgh got some serious sugar cravings this eve really unusal for me as im more of a savoury girl so ive just had 10 mini meringues for a syn and a pineapple with sweetner, i cant feel my tongue but the cravings been, temporarily i suspect, muted! Oh and i highly recommend the new coke zero cherry too, tastes like normal cherry coke :)
For the rest of the week i aim to keep my syns under 5 to make up for the last couple of days and also start working towards my bronze body magic awards in the evenings, Chris is back to sea so im dusting off my 30 day shred and blowing cobwebs off my wii.

HEA- 350ml skimmed milk
HEB- 2x400g wholemeal bread

SUPERFREE
Mushrooms
Auberguine
Red Pepper
Red onion
Carrots
Green Pepper
Yellow Pepper
Onion
Garlic
Tomato Puree
Green beans
Chillies
Pineapple

FREE
Baked beans
Giant cous cous
Quinoa and bulgar mix
Ham slices
Corn on the cob
Bacon
More baked beans
Paprika
Potatoes

SYNS
Pringle crumbs  3
1 cocktail sausage  1
3 Healthy Living sausages  3
(i think as i cant work out if the recipes changed so may only be 1.5)
10 meringues  1

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Date Night and Bad Food!

It all started so well and went downhill at lunchtime!!!

I got up feeling all positive and saintly this morning, i made myself a big cuppa and snacked on a few grapes whilst cooking up a red onion, mushroom and fat trimmed bacon sandwich, using my HeB of two slices from a 400g wholemeal loaf. Im back on extra easy today so i could be a bit more flexible tonight.

Then we mooch off into town to hunt down a kettle that doesnt give you first degree burns when u pour the water out, but no luck cant find one we like without spending a fortune, so decide to head home after wandering around a few shops and go a bit further afield and end up in our massive asda, bosh we find our kettle but its also getting well past lunchtime and im marvin!! Silly me buys some cocktail sausage and mini sausage rolls for Leah and 3 cocktail sausages and 2 of the mini sausages rolls end up in my belly....damn it!!! I did buy some fizzy water too tho ... im sure that balances it out?!?! No? This is why i never usually go anywhere near a supermarket unless ive eaten, its dangerous ground!!!
To make matters worse we then have to go to Tesco too to pick up one of squirts birthday prezzys and im going hang my head in shame and admit i had a krispy kreme donut, the jam one, cuppa and then picked up two tiger rolls, garlic sausage and crisps! Wtf?! What is going on!!!!! Now im sitting here feeling stuffed, bloated and guilty! :-(
However a slightly good outcome of all of this, and its only slightly, ive been sat looking through the menu for date night tonight. We are off to a rather posh Thai restaurant for our valentines/anniversary/mothers/fathers/birthday/christmas/newyears/valentines meal, theres two valentines in there as Chris has missed this years and will be away for next years too, thanks to his upcoming deployment, so our very lovely friend has volunteered herself for babysitting duties so we can have our last meal out together before he goes :-) i was originally going to have a thai curry but instead im going to choose the more low syn noodley salad type thing to redeem myself after lunch and pull back a few syns!

Well date night was awesome!!!
We went to Koh which is a very posh Thai Tapas Restaurant but without the prices, well except the champagne at £320 a bottle...ouchy!!
We started our meal off with the tapas dishes, i had satay chicken, probably not the best choice but one of my faves, Chris has crispy squid and we had a portion of thai red curry and pork spring rolls, i actually thought id died and gone to heaven!!! Managed to limit myself to a disarrono and diet coke, well done me lol
Main i had an absolutely stunning Phad Thai, noodles, spring onions, chicken, bean sprouts om a nom nom! Chris has Tamerind Duck with crispy seaweed and crispy Vermicelli noodles, oh my days ive never seen anything so funny, everytime he took a bite of these noodles they pinged off left, right and centre! One hit a fellow diner in the back of the head and one got me! And we shared a coconut rice... So not the most vertious dinners but hey ho!!
Home time for a brew  :-)

Total syns A Gazzillion but worth every one...back on plan tomorrow :-)

Ps theres no lunch or donut picture as we were out and phoneless!

Disappointment Where There Shouldnt Be

So weigh in morning for me today, i get to group early as i help to weigh in people so no brekki for me today, bad girl! However our very kind shop lady makes a rather delish hot choccy for me as our social team gets weighed and set up.

So how did i do....i lost a pound. Albeit a respectable and healthy pound i was really disappointed! After such a large gain last week i was hoping to knock a bit more off but as my lovely consultant says a pound is still a loss and i should be happy with that!

I thoroughly enjoyed group today, its nice to have a couple of hours to myself this week just for me, as usually Leah comes with me, we had some fantastic losses and celebrated our Biggest Loser, the lady who won is a true inspiration to us all losing an incredible 5st 10lb in just 5months, she looks amazing and we are all really proud of her :-)
I really do love our little group, full of support, laughs and loads of hints, tips and celebrations ♥

Finally back home im flying solo as Chris has run off to play golf again but we have nothing and i mean literally NOTHING in our cupboards and fridge, so im having a lunch on plan but off if that makes sense! Im havin the last of the potatoes before they resemble aliens in my cupboard, i found a small tin of spag hoops in the back of the cupboard and a dried up bit of cheese! With a glass of coke zero. Oh sad times with no veg or fruit in sight stroll on shopping this afternoon! But still a tasty lunch as im ravenous :-) and this is now my ultimate comfort food so happy days.

Afternoon spent shopping and finally filling up my empty cupboards and fridge equals happy me! We have my folks over for tea tonight and decided on gammon, sw chips, beans and mushrooms, not really enough superfree on mine but fridays are usually my treat night so in the grand scheme of things its not horrific, and i cut the fat off my gammon too just incase you were wondering, so really and truely a day on plan but off plan.... but il be straight on it like sonic come tomorrow again, until tea time but more about that on tomorrows blog ;-)

Now im settling down to a hot choccy and my fave muller greeks, im vowing this coming week that although they are on offer of 2 packs for £2.19 in tesco i will not be bulk buying again, altho they are very low syn they arent free foods so maybe thats why my losses werent great this week, so will be focusing on superfree puddings instead more than yogurts.

Well see you all tomorrow for another instalment :-)

Total syns im guesstimating at around 12 for the cheese, yogurts and hot choc but no more today to be on the safe side

Oh and theres no pics as my phone camera did funny things and wouldnt work properly :-/

Pre-Weigh Munchies and Lamb...again opsy!

Hello All!

Thursdays are my early shift at work and i have to try and sneak out the house at 0645 without waking anyone up, so last night i thought i would precook me some breakfast and tried a recipe i had seen on The Slimming World Files blog for rice pudding.  I poured some pudding rice into a pan and added enough diet cream soda to cover it and simmered until the rice was soft, I then added 25g of sultanas for 3.5 syns. All tubbed up and ready to go by the door in the morning.  I arrived at work bleary eyed and annoyed at the majority of the road users who cant drive, its a real bug bear of mine when people drive in the fast lane when the slow lane is free and refuse to move over so I can go past, absolutley drives me nuts! Anyway i pour myself a big brew and sit down to my cold pudding, its nice, no ambrosia mind you and i think it would be better if i had added a vanilla yogurt to make it a bit more creamy but it was filling and set me up for the morning ahead.

After a few hours of again being polite to the public, which was a real test today, it was lunch time and i finished up the last of my soup and had bought two prepacks of mango to much as well as another brew, hopefully as it is shopping day tomorrow i will be able to come up with some more interesting lunches for you next week! After my shift i go home and spend the next couple of hours playing with little un and tidying up, realising im desperately needing to spring clean soon plenty of body magic coming up with that as i have carpets that need steaming and windows that need washing (one whole side of my flat is floor to ceiling glass and Leah loves sticking her hands up all over them!)

Tonights tea is lamb....again....im not entirely sure how this happened, i have hand on heart never eaten so much lamb lol well tonight was lamb medallions which were absolutley delish and had not a scrap of fat on them, just griddled them until lightly pink in the centre.....mmmmm!!! with it we had mash 1/2 syn for some flora extra light and a little dash of milk from my HeA allowance, sweetcorn, carrots, courgette, leek, mangetout, cauliflower and broccoli. I decided to have my second HeA of 40g of half fat cheese over the top and it was lovely.

I spent the rest of the evening sorting out bills and other fun stuff before having a lovely mug of lemon and green tea and 2 muller greek yogs for 1 syn.
Tomorrow is weigh in day for me and every thursday evening i seem to come down with an attack of the munchies, its a common thing with everyone in my group as well as we have frequent conversations on our SW page, i think its because you know you have no more days to redeem yourself if you have a pig out, but in the back of your head all you want is a takeaway or chocolate or crisps, all those bad things which would probably sabotage your weigh in! im keeping my mind off the munchies by watching silly ghost hunting programs on telly and an early night...i want a good loss tomorrow...WISH ME LUCK!!!

Total 5 syns

Working :-(

So wednesdays i have to unfortunately work boohoo, 7hrs of blipping on a till is great fun ;-) however we managed to sneak a lie in again this morning until 9, then i had to quickly scoff down my breakfast of a rather repetative theme to which i must apologise but its the week before payday and its a case of cheap as i can get! Stroll on friday for a big shop and some variety, of which SW is all about! So melon and muesli is was with a cuppa to get me ready for my shift at work.

After an interesting ride to work involving bridges of burning tractor and a few hours of smiling sweetly to customers it was lunchtime, again another pot of soup, my 2nd HEB of ryvita, a big punnet of raspberries and a bottle of water.

Finally it was time to go home and we have had my brother and his girlfriend over for tea tonight. On the menu was Thai Green Curry, one of my fave meals ever! I made theirs the traditional way with coconut milk and other yummy and fattening ingredients while mine was chicken, okra, mushrooms, spring onion, mange tout, with 2syns of Thai Green Paste, simmer til cooked and then remove off the heat and add a coconut muller light, stir and serve. They had theirs with rice and i had a bed of beansprouts, all success express friendly and extremely delish, and as a treat i had 18g of sensations lime and coriander mini popadums for 4.5syns too very tasty.  For pud i had a muller greek 0.5syns (shocker!)

Im going to attempt to make some rice pudding for brekki tomorrow as im on early shift and try to sneak out the house not waking anyone. If it works i shall report back tomorrow
Right im off to bed all so goodnight xx

Total 7syns