Or, I could run into a wall

So, I can’t get daily contacts. My right eye and my left eye have both apparently gotten a lot worse over the past 2 years, and so I have to up my prescription by an amount that the optomestrist says may make me feel a little queasy and so I should ease my way into it. Plus the lenses alone will cost between $327 and $476, depending on the type of frames I have them put into.

I’m going to trial the contacts still, but not really sure what I should be doing glasses-wise. I will be poor, regardless.

Meh.

Grr

So, to whoever it was who stole Rish’s laptop last night… I hope karma gets you. Or you realise that you’re better off just giving it back for that no questions asked reward. I don’t care about the laptop, it’s just the work he had inside of it :(

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Did my second PUMP class. Feeling quite shakey.. I need to get dinner started so I don’t fall over into bed. But it was good, though I think I had my weights too high at one point :p I’ll gauage it properly next week.

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I nearly lost my work diary today. I headed to Woden to book an optomestrist appointment (think I’m going to get daily disposable contact lenses for those times when I really should have been wearing contacts), get lunch, and to just get out of the office. I put my diary on top of the car while I got my keys out, then got in and drove off. Made it back to work 5km away, and realised that there was no diary on my passenger seat. Crap. Drive back to Woden. Diary is on the ramp out of the car park *phew*

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Okay. Need to make sweet potato chips. Yums.

Rainy weekend

So often I come home from long weekends rather tired, and so not ready to face the working week again.

I think it has alot to do with the travel. Even though Rish is often the one to do the driving, I still get tired travelling, have a hard time sleeping in the car, always still watching the road. But that’s my problem, hey? :p

We got to the beach, even if it was Monday lunch, and even if we didn’t swim. We still saw beach, I still got enough sunshine to bring out my freckles. :)

Last night I dreamed that I was in a plane crash. I blame it on me completely forgetting to call Rish’s mother to organise our flights over the Greece in July. It looks like I’ll spend a few weeks in Greece, rather than chopping around Europe. Rish will be usy druring the times I was looking at, so I’ll just have to leave him to his work and what he’s meant to be doing while he’s there, and I’ll just have to spend more time in Summery Greece :p Such a shame. Going the start of July – just over 3 months! :)

Off we Hop

4 day lng weekend, so we’re off up to Newcastle with the rest of the traffic to Sydney, bright and early tomorrow morning. Once Rish is out of the shower, I’ll be inspired to pack and get myself off to bed.

Wondering if it’ll be beach weather – there’s been iffy weather up there, and there’s a cold snap due (from 30 doown to a max of maybe 15 tomorrow?) here overnight. Maybe winter will come.

Got a line-up of social events, friends and family to see. Chocolate eating to seriously consider :p

(yet another version of that bunny cartoon I see every year)

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Body Pump

Okay. I just completed my first bodypump class.

(and I was just about to eat some leftover kangaroo and vege kebabs when I’ve realised that, hey, I should take my antibiotic, and then wait half an hour and then eat *pouts*)

Okay, that done.

I reckon I’ll be sore on Friday :p I used the smallest weights because I knew that for my first class I wanted to focus on the technique etc… The is a technique class on Fridays, but it’s a 5pm, and 5pm Friday? If I am off work I’d rather be drinking :p

So, I had mini-weights on. And I was going along fine. Rish has taught me well with rechnique. I saw some girls (one in particular) with terrible posture throughout and really hoped that she wasn’t hurting herself. I biceps went pink during the bicep stuff, so I knew the blood was flowing there! (yes, I go pink and red so quickly)… and the squats and lunges kill me. The kill me without music, and with Rish just pushing me along, so to put me to music, in a class, it’s good for me.

So yes, I’ll be back next Wednesday night for the same torture. Rish and I are going to try to do a second weights session on Sundays, where I can focus on the weights etc, but both will be good for me, and with the cardio sessions through the week. I’m having fun (but feeling oh so guilty over the little easter eggs that were going around today and I decided to eat!)

Back to Work

So, the theory worked in that I’m feeling far better today that I was late last week, and the extra time at home probably contributed to me feeling better. I do seem a bit sniffly this morning, but that’s probably because I’m going to be seeing children today and my body is already trying to get rid of any contact I may have had with them. Like Hay Fever, but with children.

Gym yesterday went well – Mostly on the treadmill – did my 5:30 in a block that totalled 15 mins (did another 4:30 at the end of that), then used the eliiptical on a hard setting for 15 mins, then back to the treadmill for my vesion of intervals. Yesterday that meant starting at 6.0, then going for 3:00 at 9.0k, then back to a walk until the next song at 3:00 to go then put it back to 9.0k, back down etc. 3 min blocks with at most 2min rests. With a 5 min or so go at the end :p

Think I did more than I had sugars in my body, because once I got home I was vague vague until I’d gotten some dinner and some Nip/Tuck watching out of the way. Gotta love a Christmas episode!

Okay, there are 4 work days this week, then the Easter long weekend. I can do this! :p

Lose Yourself

About to head to the gym for (hopefully) a good cardio session – I can’t push myself too hard, given it’s still 31 degrees, I’ve been sick and I haven’t done much this week, but I will pop the ipod on, and do wha I can. Will do at least my 5:30 mins on the treadmill… Still haevn’t set up my playlists properly… maybe I’ll get a chance this week, maybe not.

My hair is almost black! A used a darker dye this time around, and without the sunshine, it looks rather dark :) I like it! I’m just still adjusting to it – nice change :) I just got a inch or so trimmed off it, no special style or anything. Might cut it shorter for winter, but until then this is good for now :)

Okay, let’s do it.

Life, curveball (and other analogies)

Well that’s good in theory until, just as I’m dozing off, I get a phone call from the real estate agent saying “the owners haev decided to put the property on the market”.

*sigh*

I of course don’t think it through as well as Rish and immediately panic and get upset and think, this is the third time in Canberra that this has happened to me.

Gah.

We are still entitled to stay until the end of the lease, regardless, due to the law here, but after that who knows. Another move? I start saving my pennies and buy? (But I want to spend my pennies and go to Europe this July – not that I’ve booked anything yet, slacker) *sigh* Just when I felt like I knew what was happening in my life, I always have something thrown at me.

I’m going to wander to the local shop, mostly to clear my head, but also to look at yakult and other “good bacteria”-laden products. And buy a lemon.

The Theory Is

• I Stay home from work today
• I get a few more hours sleep
• I take my antibiotics
• I drink so much water
• and I continue that on the weekend
• By MOnday, I’ll feel great and facing the kids at work and the prospect of talking all day without drying out and feeling pain and losing my voice won’t be a problem at all

This year I’ve already gone home early on too many days. That eats into my flex time and messes with my body mroe because I’ve pushed it further usually that I ought to have.

So today, I sleep.

1 down 49 to go

Just got back from the chemist with this huge box of penicillin – 50 capsules. Let’s hop that by the end of that my earache and sore throat are long gone, hey? Given that was the cheap part of the purchase…. because despite not being on any other medications, the antibiotics will “definately stop the contraceptive pill from working” according to the guy at the chemist (yes, there was emphasis on the definately)… so other backup measures need to be in place (or at least within reach) before I let Rish anywhere near me ;) Or myself near a glass of wine, which is probably not a good idea to combine with anitibiotics either. But there’s a wine and cheese night tomorrow,and after that we’re catching up with someone for drinks. :( bah. Just have to be careful, I suppose.

I’m also hungry. I’m seriously going to have to be planned. Taking 4 a day, at least 2 hours after food and 30 mins before… I’m not sure how that will work wiht the insane dinnertimes we have… maybe I can take one before my afternoon tea and one before my dinner rather than one before bed? Maybe this can help with weightloss as I’ll be fearfull to eat and I won’t be able to figure it out. Or they’ll upset my stomach, which has been known to happen.

Okay, sandwhich time then naptime. I thinkk I got more germs than I woulds have liked to while waiting for the doctor. Children are gross little germbags.