Had a lovely weekend *grins*

I finally watched Fight Club on Friday night. Excellent movie (not partial to the beating in of heads, but you know, have to deal with it to get the rest of it). Can say that I’ve seen it :) And could return the DVD to a friend we’d borrowed it off way too long ago :p (Crush on Helena Bonham Carter has just grown)

Coming home to snuggle up and watch a DVD after gym, instead of hitting the Canberra Centre in search of the end of the sale bargains and to look for a new mobile phone for Rish.

Instead, we did that on Saturday… 4 hours worth of wandering later - I have a new pair of running shoes, Rish has the new Nokia 6220 to play with, and I had REALLY sore feet, and threw a little tanty *heh* Still managed to gym it up, though.

Was going to craash out for an early night but talked into heading out for coktails… I’m so easily persuaded! :) Nice to get out, though I was struggling to stay awake - not so good as I was the designated driver as Rish’s arm probably isn’t right yet for driving… 2:30 bed time.. :)

Had friends over for a BBQ lunch today, to catch up again before we head away. I lost both games of 500, with different partners :p WEll, we technically didn’t lose the last one, it never ended, so maybe we’ll rematch them when we get back from Europe :p (Do they still give out playing cards on airlines? I’d love another deck to add to my collection! I think I’ve heard of them being handed out on Emirates flights - I’ll have to ask :p)

And just now I’ve come back from the oval - sprints across the field with Rish *dies*

So, things hurt, haven’t had much sleep, but I’ve had a wonderful weekend (yes, I even got the washing done) and am ready to hit the four days I have remaining at wor before my holiday! *dances*

So, I think I’m going to achieve some sort of sticker-based goal before I head away. Which is nice. Yes, the target number of gym/running sessions has been reduced, but have thrown myself into it head-first for June - hoping to come out of it with better fitness and a reward of a nice out with Rish. Which I’ll earn if I do today, Friday and Saturday. Doesn’t have to be running, or a particular exercise, but I do have to get myself going pretty much every day. Thursdays don’t count - Japanese in the evenings makes it a long enough day without tacking a morning gym session on. Maybe if it was summer I could cope.

Maybe if I wasn’t staying up way past my bedtime chatting online, I could cope, too :p

I have some awesomely cheeky new lingerie - little white sailor bra and undies. There’s a little anchor on the front. No, no action shots (unless you ask nicely and privately ;) or bribe me with chocolate *giggles*) These would have really been good for the party the other week.

And I have yet another bra size in my collection. Now have a 14B. This cup is definately small, so is probably a true 14A. Glad I tried it on though. Sizing is useless. Tried on a corset too… fit nicely, but my breasts kinda disappeared into it… So, no luck on that front today.

Started to look for new runners… nothing that was on special grabbed me (or were in my size) , so I’ll probably head to Woden tomorrow to look at the stores there. I’m happy to not buy on sale, but if there’s something half price just because it’s last season’s colours, I don’t think it matters too much for running in!

I did the 14 minutes I promised Rish I’d do yesterday. Nothing today, but did other machines at the gym, but he promises me we’ll run around the lake tomorrow, and he’ll push me, I can count on it!

Right now I’m trying to decide if I can be bothered dying my hair. I have inch-long roots, which became apparent because I finally washed my hair. It’s hard to bring myself to do that at 3 degrees!

Okay, a little bit shakey on my legs today, after returning to the gym yesterday after being sick - went stright into Pump class, and with a different release that I haven’t done before *dies* crouching to put my groceries away tonight (after having to return to woolies to pick up the bag of cans of soup I’d left behind) was MURDER… let alone the light cardio session I did after lunch today… I hear I may be bussing to work … so not looking forward to tackling the hill! *dies again* Damn you squat track!

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I have:

- Tickets to Greece
- and a massive headache

Not related whatsover. I have recently woken up from a nearly 2 hour nap after work after trying to get rid of headache through panadol, water water and more water, and food.

So I tried sleep.

no, the headache is not as bad as before, but it’s still there. Fortunately, I can probably take some more panadol soon, if I can scrounge some up.

In other news.

I jogged 4km this morning. Given that was on the treadmill, and not 5km, I’m not sure how I’m going to go at the funrun on the weekend. Oh well. I’m enjoying this. :)

Obviously I’ve skipped my Wednesday night Pump class for sleep. At lease I’ll be able to go Saturday this week.

And yes, I have tickets to Greece. Fly out at 6pm-ish on July 7. So that’s just under two months away. In two months I’ll be in the sky! I love having something to look forward to. :)

Shame I can’t really be bothered moving to do either :p I think I’ll try the steak… get the pan heating. I have a really nice pack of three T-bones. One for me, one for Rish… another one for Rish for when I make him eat alone on Monday because I’m getting my dinner and wine paid for by national office :p

So not going to the torch relay tomorrow… I think it may be best to avoid the city altogether…. but I did get to see some of the fireworks tonight… saw the ones over Telstra Tower while making my way to the gym in the dark because I was running late… but I made it to the gym, and did about an hour of not so intense cardio, which is more than I felt like doing when leaving work today.

My team leader when I walked into the meeting today “Fiona, you look exhausted” then “Are you?”… hmm a yes was probably the most accurate response to give. Yes a little :p So, no, I won’t be taking up the offer to work an extra two days (Saturdays!!! wtf?) in May in order to to “catch up” admin work, tyvm :p I need my time away from work. if I’m struggling to get there 5 days in the week lately, I so don’t think I need to be there for a sixth :p

I think it’s my contacts. Lack of glasses - you can see my tired lines and circles a lot more. :p

Anyways. A long weekend is 24 hours away (7:21 of work!) then it’s three days of… well not sure what! :)

We had a friend down from Newcastle which was great the past coupel of nights. Thanks for visiting Jess! :) Great to catch up with people… also saw lotsa people on the weekend… and there’s a wedding in Newcastle on the 3rd May to get up there for… I love my Newcastle people… they’re welcome any time :) xxx

So, my predictions were wrong. I was a bundle of energy at work today :) May have something to do with the levels of caffiene in my blood, that I started the day with a flu shot, or tha I bought a new rice cooker so am currently making sushi for dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow.

Or I could jsut be having a good day, whatever :p

It was a productive day. Lists and phone calls. Strategies to see more kids this term. Planning insanely ahead in my diary. I have something booked for August 14. But that’s fine :)

Had a good gym session - needed given the extra muffin I ate today during our planning meeting. Amazing how tempting it is to eat when you’re overwhelmed with the feeling of what are we going to do?! But I set my treadmill target to 3km today - just under 21 mins today. Will up it to 3.5km next time. Gotta build up. And the rest of it was good.

Now to keep all this productivity up for teh rest of the week. I’m taking Friday off, short week! yay!

Had a disasterous afternoon shopping with Rish yesterday. Hating everything I tried on, hating sizings, hating that I can’t be a more common bra size, wishing I was just looking for shoes… but it has all motivated me today. So what, I couldn’t fit nicely into the size twelves I was trying on in dresses - I have a few cm to lose, I just need to work harder. Yes, I know a 14A is not the most easy to find bra size. There a two options there - stick with the Bonds bras that fit me well, while woring towards being a 12 again. I can do that.

I know I haven’t been the most motivated the past week or so - 4 days straight of PD is an “excuse” … but a pretty poor one. I didn’t have to eat the snacks and junk sitting on the table. I could have squeezed in an extra gym session if I’d gotten myself out of bed, but throwing in a few late nights, while I should have probably been asleep in my own bed, not that good for an early gym start.

But I went yesterday and pedalled on a bike. Not much of a sweat, given that I was all snotty with this stupid cold, it wasn’t too bad. And today I went back, jogged a little, and will hit the jogging properly again tomorrow. But I did well on the elliptical.

Different motivators? Being able to fit a sexy corset that fits me. Yes, there were some held back tears when I realised that the size 12 Pleasure State corset I was trying on was going to slowly kill me if I stayed in it. But I will get there, and there are a few events to aim for. :) I have a thing for hot lingerie, so want to be able to wear the pieces I want!

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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.

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!)