Start of the year
Welcome to 2008, bloggardes! Hopefully a year full of exciting bloggage and personal development. If nothing else, a year ful of twittering and pies.
Xmas break has been much appreciated by myself, with lots and lots, and in fact, too much food. This is the first year that I've actually felt dumpy and fat following the season, and my trousers are in fact way too tight for myself. The fact that my father has told me that he went from being svelte to being stodgy around the age of 28 also gives me cause for concern, suggesting that I'm going to swell in the waistline very soon.....and considering that when I went thin (after the post-degree summer of immense walking/dinners of cabbage and rice/working for chain-smoking troglodyte women a la bingo) I moaned like stink about losing my sexy paunch, it is a shocking case study in hypocrisy. Anyhow, I am determined to walk more places this year, and so long as the weather is nice, to always walk to the shops and even start walking to and from walk more often. It may take a long time and be inordinately boring, but it will be good for me. Especially since gym-type activities are so dull. At least I'm not going podgy alone, quite a few friends are also getting the dreaded gut.....
Anyhow, it was a quiet holiday with much watching of immensely trashy TV (Next Top Model, anyone? Those people are absolute loons), much dinging in WoW, and half-reading (still reading) a very interesting book about chinese navigation. No, really, it's quite fascinating! I've also been resting and healing, my arm is now without bruises and only twinges slightly when I try to move it too quickly, sleep on it, or perform small repetitive movements too much. Still will have to go to physio I think (for peace of mind more than owt else). Bike is hopefully still deposited in my street - not that having it nicked wouldnt be a wonderful thing since then I could claim the insurance - and I should be able to quite easily afford something newer and spanky-er in a few weeks when the prices may drop again. Bank loan is liable to be taken to help, so that I dont empty my account though, but I'll probably only have to borrow max. 50% of the price, so Jon-ster in this case is very (:-))))))
Have also bought some nice new kitchenware, though no knives because I already have too many. Kitchen gadgets have also been avoided, though I am currently hankering after an electric waffle iron which seem to be very thin on the ground in this country, the most regularly occuring hit on the internet being these rather natty but expensive catering-size jobbers. No mind, I dont really need....but it's not about need in this case! I *did* get a new cafetiere - my mokka is really in too skanky a state for continuous use, and you dont get coffee-in-a-jiffy with them on an electric hob as compared to gas. Also a butter dish (despite my protestations of slimming above) and a 1-egg sized frying pan, which is most dinky and will be really useful, 'specially if I can squeeze two eggs in there. Also a draining rack for the sink - boring, eh? - and something else I'm sure I've forgotten. It's all languishing with P at the moment since I didnt want to lug all of that, plus my clothes and other presents and the laptop on the way to work this morning. Yes, I've come straight from Brighton to work, with the rather nasty discovery that the train tickets I usually buy aren't valid before 9am. Fucksocks.
And not only are my trousers to tight, but they are now wearing through at my inner thighs! Damn. I'll have to go and buy some new ones at the weekend, worse luck.......
Anyhew, back to the work wotsit.....
Xmas break has been much appreciated by myself, with lots and lots, and in fact, too much food. This is the first year that I've actually felt dumpy and fat following the season, and my trousers are in fact way too tight for myself. The fact that my father has told me that he went from being svelte to being stodgy around the age of 28 also gives me cause for concern, suggesting that I'm going to swell in the waistline very soon.....and considering that when I went thin (after the post-degree summer of immense walking/dinners of cabbage and rice/working for chain-smoking troglodyte women a la bingo) I moaned like stink about losing my sexy paunch, it is a shocking case study in hypocrisy. Anyhow, I am determined to walk more places this year, and so long as the weather is nice, to always walk to the shops and even start walking to and from walk more often. It may take a long time and be inordinately boring, but it will be good for me. Especially since gym-type activities are so dull. At least I'm not going podgy alone, quite a few friends are also getting the dreaded gut.....
Anyhow, it was a quiet holiday with much watching of immensely trashy TV (Next Top Model, anyone? Those people are absolute loons), much dinging in WoW, and half-reading (still reading) a very interesting book about chinese navigation. No, really, it's quite fascinating! I've also been resting and healing, my arm is now without bruises and only twinges slightly when I try to move it too quickly, sleep on it, or perform small repetitive movements too much. Still will have to go to physio I think (for peace of mind more than owt else). Bike is hopefully still deposited in my street - not that having it nicked wouldnt be a wonderful thing since then I could claim the insurance - and I should be able to quite easily afford something newer and spanky-er in a few weeks when the prices may drop again. Bank loan is liable to be taken to help, so that I dont empty my account though, but I'll probably only have to borrow max. 50% of the price, so Jon-ster in this case is very (:-))))))
Have also bought some nice new kitchenware, though no knives because I already have too many. Kitchen gadgets have also been avoided, though I am currently hankering after an electric waffle iron which seem to be very thin on the ground in this country, the most regularly occuring hit on the internet being these rather natty but expensive catering-size jobbers. No mind, I dont really need....but it's not about need in this case! I *did* get a new cafetiere - my mokka is really in too skanky a state for continuous use, and you dont get coffee-in-a-jiffy with them on an electric hob as compared to gas. Also a butter dish (despite my protestations of slimming above) and a 1-egg sized frying pan, which is most dinky and will be really useful, 'specially if I can squeeze two eggs in there. Also a draining rack for the sink - boring, eh? - and something else I'm sure I've forgotten. It's all languishing with P at the moment since I didnt want to lug all of that, plus my clothes and other presents and the laptop on the way to work this morning. Yes, I've come straight from Brighton to work, with the rather nasty discovery that the train tickets I usually buy aren't valid before 9am. Fucksocks.
And not only are my trousers to tight, but they are now wearing through at my inner thighs! Damn. I'll have to go and buy some new ones at the weekend, worse luck.......
Anyhew, back to the work wotsit.....
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