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But then I had it with a huge STEAK nomnomnom.

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Lovely day today, yes, i did sleep in and miss the morning gym session, but I sweated like crazy in my make up one tonight!!! That’ll teach me to get up nice and early :)

The CP Challenge kicks off tomorrow. It’s one of those pedometer things, do 10k steps a day, raise money, have fun. I’l looking forward to fighting with the numbers on the pedometer ;) Sign up is still open til the end of the week if you want to enter a team of four. It runs for eight weeks. Have you ever counted your steps with a pedometer for weeks? How did it go?

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In all my inspiration today, it looks like I’ve kicked off another Bloggest Loser challenge! What is that? Well, basically a bunch of internerds track our diet and exercise the way we know best – online – and the winner is the one who gets the closest to their goal over the challenge.

So, I’m aiming to get under 70kg. And will post about it every week, lest I get picked on by the others for not posting. Twitter will flood with crap about ‘workouts’ and measurement. And my reward? A dress from the Maiocchi summer collection. Or 2. Cos I’m likely to get one anyway!

Want to join in? Sign up for a Daily Burn account, and join the challenge group here with the code A7F6FA

Bring it on!

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Kicked off my birthday last Friday at the gym – I’d been awake since 4:30am, so why not get up and hit the gym at six so I could indulge later in the day? ;) This was after getting a cute cute tote bag from Rish from Honeybee in Newcastle, that I hadn’t told him I’d been eyeing off! (sorry have packed it away!)

Coffee and the Purple Pickle ANU

Met with Rish afterwards for a coffee at the Purple Pickle.

Coffee and the Purple Pickle ANU

I made it to work about nine, with a bag of mini redskins, milkos and sherbies to hype everyone also up with (because I was bouncing off the walls!) and the birthday fairy had been overnight!

Birthday/last day at work

My desk was so clean, only because that was my last day! There was 2pm cake – one of the girls made me a cake using a gluten free Rowsie’s Cakes cakemix she’d picked up a supabarn, with some raspberries on top. Nom nom.

I picked up my bamboo and left at about 3:30pm… off to tidy the house ahead of having workmates over to help me work through some of the wine – a social way of having less to pack!

On Saturday night, Rish took me to My’s Vietnamese in Weston so that he could FINALLY try their laksa that I’d been going on about.

My;s Vietnamese Weston

We took a bottle of champagne that I’d been given for my birthday/farewell. It was wonderful!

My;s Vietnamese Weston

Started with the fresh rice paper rolls.

My;s Vietnamese Weston

I had my usual – Rice noodles with tofu and veges

My;s Vietnamese Weston

Rish was happy with his Laksa :)

My;s Vietnamese Weston

But still had room for deep fried ice cream with caramel topping!

A lovely night, topped off by being watched over by His Noodliness

My;s Vietnamese Weston

(after being given a wonderful drawing of the deity by my nephew!)

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In the Dark

April 5, 2011 · 4 comments

Well, glad to see I’m not the only one with a morbid curiousity/need to read the Sweet Valley Confidential book! If you get it, let me know how terrible it truly is! (and lend it to me, hey? :p)

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Stayed back tonight to get my March stats in, not QUITE at the last minute (due COB tomorrow!) but getting close! Unfortunately, the end of daylight savings meant walking home in the dark :( At least it wasn’t too cold, yet!

Has your day changed since the end of daylight savings? I can see I’m going to have to make the most of the light mornings while we’ve still got them! Gym session or a run I think!

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After a much needed run, and a short but tough gym session with Rish (Bench Presses and Leg Presses *dies*) went past the supermarket to gather the ingredient to make Lisa’s 6 Cs Curry… except I made it with chicken for extra protein-y goodness, and no cauliflower because there was only one which looked a little sad :(

Meddled slightly with the quantities also – upped the spices and coconut milk, along with the amount of chickpeas and an extra carrot. Just to get it to last longer.

6 Cs curry

Gotta keep this up – it was a good run today, my pace was much better than a week ago. The cool weather and relaxing day before it helped a fair bit, as did having lots of nervous energy to burn ;) In training so I can make it round the loop twice for the Mothers Day Classic 10km in May. 2 months to go – I can do it!! (Wanna Sponsor Me?)

6 Cs curry

What are your ideal running conditions?

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Unconscious Mutterings Week 422:

  1. Leaning :: online
  2. Projects :: completed
  3. 404 :: not found
  4. Page :: paging
  5. Twitter :: rati
  6. Renaissance :: dress
  7. Webinar :: learning
  8. Community :: blog
  9. Illustrate :: my point
  10. Clean slate :: starting over

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Post-gym Breakfast

November 19, 2010 · 5 comments

Breakfast

From the Purple Pickle.

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Start

October 14, 2010

After Rish actually dragging me to get out of bed (after I tried to sleep past my alarm) I got to the gym this morning, and feel good after that start to the day. A sweaty hour on the cross trainer/stepper thing… The heart rate monitor wasn’t picked up on this one. Disappointing! I’ve stolen [...]

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An Out

September 6, 2010

Got the very tempting reminders that the Uni census date for this semester is this Friday, and if I withdraw from a subject before then I won’t have to pay, nor will they record the withdrawal on my record. *tempted* ‘Rapp’ from Ali Baba In better news, bootcamp this morning was awesome. 5 rounds of [...]

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31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 19) Back at Work

August 19, 2010

Back at work today. Fortunately I have 2 days of PD – feeding. Which means I don’t have to see clients. It does mean I have all my workmates who I haven’t seen in awhile for various reasons just checking that I’m well and telling me I look terrible. Thanks :p I went for a [...]

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Step Up

July 15, 2010

I’m sure we all have things that are just that much trickier than others, for me, when it comes to the gym, it’s the stepper. Something about the stepper than makes my heart race (score one for the heart rate monitor!) and make me want to quit. (not as soon as the treadmills though – [...]

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How was your Sunday?

July 11, 2010

Woke up to the news that the kettle was dead…. so went down to the local shops, but no luck in woolies, The Reject Shop, Aldi or Homeart. There were some in Target, but they started at $60. Uh, no thanks! Headed into the Canberra Centre around lunch time, and success at Big W – [...]

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Mothers Day Classic 2010

May 9, 2010

What a way to spend a mothers day morning – in the Crisp Canberra air, running around the lake in the sunshine. Today was my third Mother’s Day Classic… and it went well :) My time was 31:10 according to my watch, 31:20 according to my official time that was just smsed through to me. [...]

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