In true Me fashion, New Years went with a quiet phutt rather than a bang, but thats kind of how I like it.
I've never been good with the whole Pub/N.Years thing, and although I love family parties with grannies jitterbugging and littlies doing the whole sugarbabes type dance stuff I've always prefered spending New Years in.
Strange, given that I love Christmas parties [ and somehow never get to do that anymore ] but I'm sure if I delved deep enough inside my memories I'd find some event which has shaped my responses.
So this Year was no different, with a couple of bottles of white, some silly stuff, and hugging at midnight.
I felt a bit sad for Emma, given that hse stayed up for it and it really was rather anticlimatic for her.
Maybe I'll do something next year.
Get the family together or something.
It IS possible.
Oh, hang on, let me think here....
Steve always goes up to Town and leaves his girls with Mum.
Paul vanishes off the face of the earth for the week.
Dave isn't on speaking terms with his Dad.
Ah, well, maybe we'll just get some friends over for the evening.........
[ cut to this time next year when I haven't done anything different:D ]
I did make some new years resolutions [ and I wrote that in lower case for a very good reason...I'm trying to actually do them this year and so I'm trying to make them pretty low key ]
My first, and I have to admit I've been doing this for a couple of weeks now, is to eat something green with every meal.
Its my way of trying to up my veggie count and generally eat a little more healthily.
Its going pretty well too.
My food looks prettier too, instead of a kind of nondescript yellow/brown/beige pile on the plate.
My second is to get more active.
And yes that means re-joining the gym.
Emma has suggested that we go as a family on either saturday afternoons or sunday mornings, and either just mess around in the pool or for her and I to go to the gym while Dave and jo swim.
I'm really going to try and make that work, because I think it will be good for us as a family to do something together like that.
Emma has a new bike and says she'll take herself off to swim once a week.
I want to get in the habit of going to the gym on my day off.
Dave wants to swim at leats twice a week especially as the Dr has said that he has to lose quite a bit of weight too and he has always loved swimming.
Jo just loves bouncing around in the wter, so as long as one of us is with her she'll be happy.
I dont think i have a third.
Like I said I'm trying to make these actually happen, and if I can get these 2 going then everything ese falls into place around it.
I lose weight when I excersize, but I don't if I diet.
What happens is that my eating habits change.
I eat more protein and less carbs.
I get less hungry.
My willpower increases, and I don't HAVE to finish a whole box/bar/pack of chocolates.
I do have a tendency to get a little adicted to training, but thats not a bad thing.
So I started this morning and did 3 sets of 15 rep bicep curls, tricep thingies [ ok i've forgotten what they're called ] shoulder raises and then 3 sets of 20 crunches.
Except my crunches were more like slurps.
:D
But I have faith, they will get firmer and snappier and more crunch like.
I'm going to re-arrange my bedroom so I can get my bench set up in there, and I'll dust off my 5' bar so i can do some squats too.
Wish me luck.
Monday, January 02, 2006
Friday, December 30, 2005
snow field
snow field
Originally uploaded by tobieforever.
I nearly didn't get to work this morning.
This was the clearest that it got, and that was only after I had to negotiate Crown Point which is steep and winding and always has black ice on the top just at the curve.
Typically it meant that I also had to pick my way past a car half in a ditch half in the road.
Lucky for me the weather warmed up a degree, the snow turned to sleet and it didn't freeze again before I got home.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
What do you mean you didn't recognise him?..He's Dr who!!!!
Back at work means nothing much to do except mend broken glasses and order things that can't be started till 2006 when allthe prescription houses go back to work.
Pretty boring.
There were a couple of medium points over the last couple of days.
Dave snoring through Harry Potter as Jo was muttering at me [ as Harry shook his head at Dumbledore and proffessed ignorance over who he'd seen with Lord V] that he only had to say it was the new Dr Who and everyone would have KNOWN
Me [nearly] snoring over Narnia as Jo and emma both got into it and got all upset over Aslan getting a hair cut.
Eating a whole box of Marks and Spencer biscuits ith a couple of bottles of wine and then crashing [ and of course, snoring]on the sofa.
Finding some gorgeous Freya bras in House of Fraser sale.
Ordering Emma's new pc.
Getting the sink fixed.
Actually this was a high point as anyone who has had to go fishing round a smelly u bend will know.
And this was one VERY VERY SMELLY U bend.
*retch*
It had a perished seal thingy, and had got knocked slightly out of true, so everytime we emptied the sink a bit splashed out of the join and sploshed over the stuff in the cupboard underneath, but luckilly my bad housekeeping meant that I'd just bunged everything in a box under there, so I just had a load of wet bits and pieces to throw out and not a whole cupboard ruined by the leak.
Phew.
Pretty boring.
There were a couple of medium points over the last couple of days.
Dave snoring through Harry Potter as Jo was muttering at me [ as Harry shook his head at Dumbledore and proffessed ignorance over who he'd seen with Lord V] that he only had to say it was the new Dr Who and everyone would have KNOWN
Me [nearly] snoring over Narnia as Jo and emma both got into it and got all upset over Aslan getting a hair cut.
Eating a whole box of Marks and Spencer biscuits ith a couple of bottles of wine and then crashing [ and of course, snoring]on the sofa.
Finding some gorgeous Freya bras in House of Fraser sale.
Ordering Emma's new pc.
Getting the sink fixed.
Actually this was a high point as anyone who has had to go fishing round a smelly u bend will know.
And this was one VERY VERY SMELLY U bend.
*retch*
It had a perished seal thingy, and had got knocked slightly out of true, so everytime we emptied the sink a bit splashed out of the join and sploshed over the stuff in the cupboard underneath, but luckilly my bad housekeeping meant that I'd just bunged everything in a box under there, so I just had a load of wet bits and pieces to throw out and not a whole cupboard ruined by the leak.
Phew.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Working again
The problem with broken PC's is that so many things happen that there's no point trying to get them down in here because I won't manage to remember all the important bits.
So give me a break, pull up a chair and watch me ramble on till I decide we've both had enough and i need another caffein boost to carry on.
In no particular order then, and allowing for the fact that my sense of date/time/space is completely knackered/atrophied/whatever.....
Went to see Nizlopi.
A somewhat weird experience due to the fact that they were number one at the time and I've never seen a band when they were even charted before let alone had one so close.[very cosy venue Cargo]
Fun though, even when you take into account someone chucking themselves under a tube at Moorgate and causing chaos on both the journey there and back, Dave's back giving him agony while we were there and the having to get up to go to work the next day after only a couple of hours sleep.
Went to see Coldplay.
Got repeatedly kicked in the head then squashed as she fell over the back of my seat by the girl behind me who was all excited.
Why is it that there are always people who seem to spend all their time getting into their seats, then out, then in, then out again ad infinitum when they've spent £30 or somesuch to get to see someone?
That wasn't the girl who sqished me by the way.
Oh, and Richard Ashcroft supported. Also fun.
Spent Christmas Day at home with Dave and the girls doing Christmassy things [read eating, drinking then falling asleep]
Got all upset when Mum rang to say that Mareks Dad had died [peacefully in his sleep at home where he wanted to be] on Christmas Eve.
I didn't know him, had never even met him, but Mum said they had spent the night washing his body, dressing him, and then lit candles and drank vodka and played songs and sang around the body, and that she wished that she had been able to do all that for my Dad when he died.
Then Dave got all upset /angry because it started him thinking about what would happen when HIS Dad dies[they're still not talking] and angry/upset because he was about to lose his job [thank you Mr Morrison] and just generally upset /angry because he couldn't make it better for me, and ended up nearly stomping out.
He didn't, and the fact that we were able to talk it through rather than it turning into some big screaming/shouting/walking out thing is a good sign I hope.
Jo loved her Dalek [ currently exterminating everything in its path]
Emma loved her furry Animal boots [currently sitting wet and soggy by the door drying out]
Dave loved his Ipod....
Well....I think he loved it.
No, I KNOW he loved it, its just I got it engraved with something that I thought would mean a lot to him [ and took me bloody ages to phrase right ] and he just blanked it.
Now i wish I hadn't bothered.
Me?..oh, i got loads of stuff that I like...[ thank you Alex, i would never have bought it for myself but i've wanted that soundtrack for years :D ].
Nothing major from Dave though and I'm not sure if that was part of the problem..Dave feeling that he should have got me something special.
But he paid for most of my trip to Paris, and there was no way i could have afforded to go if he hadn't so that was my christmas present really.
Got the PC fixed today.
Yay, go that man.
It was a blownpower thingy inside.
Alright, so I have no idea what the technical term for it is, its one of my many failings, get over it and stop looking at me like that.
*raspberry*
edited *a load of moany stuff about my ex*
Emma and me have had a long talk about her dad.
edited *more moany stuff about my ex*
He can be good company, and he's funny and gregarious, able to talk to anyone no matter what their status/connection/attitude.
But it all stems from the fact that he has no idea that anyone could ever see him as anything other than wondeful.
Sigh
On the whole I try not to discuss him with emma.
However, this time we have.
I've tried to be completely unbiased, and tell her his good points as well as his bad, but he IS very manipulative and I feel like bends the truth to get what he wants without even thinking about it.
He's always been like that.
So I've told her that as she'll be 16 next christmas, she should think about where she wants to go for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years and than let me know what she wants to do, and that We [Dave and I ] will accept her decision about it.
I've also told her to consider what her friends are doing and to realise that she's old enough to get herself to her dad's [or ask me for a lift] if ever she wants to just go over for an afternoon rather than waiting to be invited for a weekend as happens now.
I think he needs to realise that she's not a child anymore.
Pah
Now I'm in need of a pick me up to get the taste of irritation out of my mouth.
Hmmmmmm....where did I put that box of chocky biscuits ?
;D
So give me a break, pull up a chair and watch me ramble on till I decide we've both had enough and i need another caffein boost to carry on.
In no particular order then, and allowing for the fact that my sense of date/time/space is completely knackered/atrophied/whatever.....
Went to see Nizlopi.
A somewhat weird experience due to the fact that they were number one at the time and I've never seen a band when they were even charted before let alone had one so close.[very cosy venue Cargo]
Fun though, even when you take into account someone chucking themselves under a tube at Moorgate and causing chaos on both the journey there and back, Dave's back giving him agony while we were there and the having to get up to go to work the next day after only a couple of hours sleep.
Went to see Coldplay.
Got repeatedly kicked in the head then squashed as she fell over the back of my seat by the girl behind me who was all excited.
Why is it that there are always people who seem to spend all their time getting into their seats, then out, then in, then out again ad infinitum when they've spent £30 or somesuch to get to see someone?
That wasn't the girl who sqished me by the way.
Oh, and Richard Ashcroft supported. Also fun.
Spent Christmas Day at home with Dave and the girls doing Christmassy things [read eating, drinking then falling asleep]
Got all upset when Mum rang to say that Mareks Dad had died [peacefully in his sleep at home where he wanted to be] on Christmas Eve.
I didn't know him, had never even met him, but Mum said they had spent the night washing his body, dressing him, and then lit candles and drank vodka and played songs and sang around the body, and that she wished that she had been able to do all that for my Dad when he died.
Then Dave got all upset /angry because it started him thinking about what would happen when HIS Dad dies[they're still not talking] and angry/upset because he was about to lose his job [thank you Mr Morrison] and just generally upset /angry because he couldn't make it better for me, and ended up nearly stomping out.
He didn't, and the fact that we were able to talk it through rather than it turning into some big screaming/shouting/walking out thing is a good sign I hope.
Jo loved her Dalek [ currently exterminating everything in its path]
Emma loved her furry Animal boots [currently sitting wet and soggy by the door drying out]
Dave loved his Ipod....
Well....I think he loved it.
No, I KNOW he loved it, its just I got it engraved with something that I thought would mean a lot to him [ and took me bloody ages to phrase right ] and he just blanked it.
Now i wish I hadn't bothered.
Me?..oh, i got loads of stuff that I like...[ thank you Alex, i would never have bought it for myself but i've wanted that soundtrack for years :D ].
Nothing major from Dave though and I'm not sure if that was part of the problem..Dave feeling that he should have got me something special.
But he paid for most of my trip to Paris, and there was no way i could have afforded to go if he hadn't so that was my christmas present really.
Got the PC fixed today.
Yay, go that man.
It was a blownpower thingy inside.
Alright, so I have no idea what the technical term for it is, its one of my many failings, get over it and stop looking at me like that.
*raspberry*
edited *a load of moany stuff about my ex*
Emma and me have had a long talk about her dad.
edited *more moany stuff about my ex*
He can be good company, and he's funny and gregarious, able to talk to anyone no matter what their status/connection/attitude.
But it all stems from the fact that he has no idea that anyone could ever see him as anything other than wondeful.
Sigh
On the whole I try not to discuss him with emma.
However, this time we have.
I've tried to be completely unbiased, and tell her his good points as well as his bad, but he IS very manipulative and I feel like bends the truth to get what he wants without even thinking about it.
He's always been like that.
So I've told her that as she'll be 16 next christmas, she should think about where she wants to go for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years and than let me know what she wants to do, and that We [Dave and I ] will accept her decision about it.
I've also told her to consider what her friends are doing and to realise that she's old enough to get herself to her dad's [or ask me for a lift] if ever she wants to just go over for an afternoon rather than waiting to be invited for a weekend as happens now.
I think he needs to realise that she's not a child anymore.
Pah
Now I'm in need of a pick me up to get the taste of irritation out of my mouth.
Hmmmmmm....where did I put that box of chocky biscuits ?
;D
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