And I hear you say 19 years isn’t a milestone… next year is 20 and that’s a milestone, but when you look at it closer, I have been at channel 7 over half of my life now…
I’m 38 next week and started there a week shy of my 19th birthday… and have been there ever since… There’s not many left at Seven that can say that these days, but this afternoon was able to reminisce with some of my colleagues who have been there even longer than me; and who passed the half life milestone even earlier than I did… It’s also a sad time for us old-timers- or long-termers, as we are gradually seeing our life and our ‘home’ at Mobbs Lane being ripped apart as Seven prepares to move out for good and prepare for the next chapter in its life at ATP in Redfern.
While News officially moved out 5 years ago; I've still been a regular at the Mobbs Lane studios as a lot of our maintenance is still done there; I still have long term equipment storage squirreled away; and not to mention the goldmine that is the News Archive… It’s been very sad over the last 6 months as we prepare for the final move and seeing stuff that has always been there, and put away on the back of a shelf “because it might come in handy one day” be thrown away like it doesn’t mean anything
Every corridor, every office, every edit suite, every Studio has a story (or many) to tell, and to see all this being torn down and thrown out is a very sad time, especially for those of us who have spent the best parts of our lives there… Those big Studio A productions; those mammoth OB’s like Golf and Bathurst; and those major news events that we have downstreamed through Studio C like the Thredbo Landslide, the Gulf Wars, September 11 and Diana’s Funeral; along with the iconic dramas like A Country Practice, Sons and Daughters, Rafferty’s Rules; and current ones Home and Away, All Saints and Packed to the Rafters…
When they pulled the photos off the walls in the corridors earlier this year, that’s when it really hit me that we were moving… I had a tear the night we moved out of the Newsroom in August 2004; and I’m sure when I make that final drive out of the gate next year; it will be a sad day… I’ve had such a great times there, and met and worked with such great people, both on screen and behind the cameras; anyone who’s still at Mobbs Lane and has spent time there in its heyday, will have a tear in their eye the last time they leave…
Seven is only my 3rd fulltime job… my first in 1987 at Westpac and then Channel 10 in 1989; before moving to Seven in October 1990.
While todays blog is off topic; it's something that I wanted to share as it’s another thing that is very important to me and my life
Until next time
This morning’s weigh in, 6 weeks after my banding had me at a total loss over the 10 week period of 25kilograms… astounding… That’s 3.9kgs this week and 11.4kg since the banding… I’m still pinching myself as it’s so hard to believe I’ve done it in so little time… It’s not been easy and it’s only going to get harder as time marches on… And when getting dressed this morning I even managed to do up my belt another notch… I’m starting to think this weekend will be a wardrobe raid for some of my older smaller jeans so my current ones don’t look like tents on me (and fall down) while I’m and Melbourne and when I get back… That will definitely be another positive step in this whole process
So that was almost 4kg in a week, with only a couple of decent walks does have me wondering though if I am actually eating enough… Breakfast is fine, and so is lunch and through the day; with my biggest meal still being at night – not that its big by my old serving sizes… Tonight for example we had sweet and sour chicken… Protein was a heaped spoon and a half of sweet & sour chicken (with veges); carbs was a serving heaped spoon of rice (probably about ½ a cup); and then one of those steam fresh bag of veges… Takes about 20 minutes to eat and I feel fine; but then by about 9pm I’m getting the munchies again, so tonight I had a couple of vitaweets with some avocado & ricotta cheese… Enough to put the hunger at bay… A lot of it I think is the no snacking and grazing through the day; and the no drinking with meals is defiantly helping too; although I’m still having trouble making sure that I have my 2l of water a day
Tonight for the first time I also used my new Portion Perfection Plate which I got last week when I bought my bandbuddies starter pack… 3 months of vitamins and 10 meals… I also bought a couple of books and the plate and bowl which is a constant visual guide of how you should be serving up… They say not to use them every day, but it’s always good to use them regularly as a reminder to correct portion control, which is what Band eating is all about
Blogging has been a bit quiet the last week as it’s been so hectic at work… getting ready for Breakfast on the Bridge; as well as my annual pilgrimage to Melbourne for “the Race that stops a Nation”; so with all that by the time I get home, last thing I want to do is get in front of a computer again… but I’m going to try and keep regular daily postings going, especially while I’m away in Melbourne; as that’s my next big challenge – good thing is that’s a little different from Bathurst as we have a self contained unit and I tend to go shopping the night I arrive and most meals I have in and will be again this time; even if its just because I want to try as much as possible not to blow my current regime.
After such a warm day today; I looked out the kitchen window to see my tomatoes looking the bit worse for wear… I’ve been watering regularly; but 4 out of the 6 plants are now struggling and 2 of them I think are beyond help; so when I get back from Melbourne it might be time to buy some more, so I can ensure an endless supply for our salads over the summer… and with tomatoes being one of those “free” foods, I’m sure I’ll be eating them every day for lunch or dinner… The herbs are going well, and some are even out of control and the chillies are going well too but no fruit yet… one of the tomatoes that’s beyond help has a couple of fruit on, but the other have flowers but no fruit as yet… should be soon as its been nearly 8 weeks since I planted them…
Until next time…
