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Archive for June, 2009

A million thoughts seem to be running around my head at the moment that would all make good blog posts but getting them out and down on ‘paper’ is proving to be a different story.

So here’s the first one. I’m thinking of quitting the gym. It’s been a friend to me in my OMT and weight-loss journey but now i’m thinking that the weight is off and i’d like to try something new. So i’m considering cancelling my membership and going to a yoga class or similar instead.

What do you think?

Plus points: I’d be doing something that is good for my body; at the moment it feels like my muscles are really being put through the mill and long stretches and relaxation might be a good way to go.
I can choose when i want to go there, classes are really regular and the centre i have found has a number of different teachers so i will be able to get someone i like.
I am trying to find a new centre of myself, and i think the techniques could help me with that
I’m bored of the gym and the monotony of getting up so early every day but i still want to exercise

Minus points: If i can choose when to go i might choose never
If i quit the gym and then decide in 6 months to go back it will cost me a little more money because the prices have changed since i joined 2 years ago

Halp, internets, halp!

Why don’t they blog? Why don’t they do anything online other than play games on Facebook with each other?

As you will know if you have been reading here for a while, i don’t have a lot of RL friends and those i do have are all people i have known for years when i was somewhat of a different person.

My BFF and i don’t see each other from one year to the next and we don’t have a heck of a lot of common ground but it makes no difference to our friendship and we slip into old habits as soon as we see or speak to each other. She’s the only person from school that i have kept in touch with over the 15 years since i left and there is nothing in the world that we wouldn’t do for each other.

Circumstance seems to have put me together with all of my other friends in RL. it was because of University, where i met a girl who i am still friends with now but who i have nothing in common with. If i met her today i don’t think i would even consider being friends with her because we have nothing in common no shared interest nothing. So why am i still friends with her? Well that’s the question isn’t it? I suppose i am friends with my RL circle because it’s easier than breaking contact and if it wasn’t for them i actually wouldn’t have any RL friends at all.

I think i find it hard to make friends because i am awkward as hell in social situations and i don’t really know how to talk to people when i meet them for the first time. So i don’t put myself out there to meet people and i don’t broaden my circle so i keep hold of the few friends i have because otherwise i would have no-one.

Which is sort of where you guys come in. My lovely, wonderful, awlways helpful internet friends. We’re friends because we have shared interests, hobbies, fun, sense of humour something and that makes us want to get to know each other better.

So here’s my proposal. All of you out there in internet world who i cherish friendships with so much…all of you move here near me so we can drink and cause chaos together and be proper, wonderful, lovely REAL life friends too.

right now

go pack

DO IT!!!!!!

I’ve had a really busy couple of weeks and i know i’ve been slack in keeping you lovely people informed about what i’ve been up to and i am very sorry about that. in the last 2 weeks i have:

• been to cricket twice
• been to a wedding (where i also did the bride’s makeup and sung in church for her)
• been to a family party
• driven or been driven approximately 1500 miles to attend above events
• had little or no sleeps
• drank too much
• eaten far too much
• not worked out
• trapped a nerve in my shoulder (hence the not working out)
• written another OU essay
• sold 2 gig tickets and posted them away

so you see, i have been doing things…just not here on these internets.

This weekend however i have no plans. i am going to sleep in, stay at home and if i can be bothered i will sand back the gate at the end of the garden so i can close it with something more appropriate than bricks. See how i am forward planning this already and what’s the betting something comes up to spoil it all…like my delightful neighbour who has already had a screaming row with her ‘friend’ at 0400 twice this week.

and what did we learn…through teamwork we can achieve so much more than we ever thought

Just to let you all know i am now up to 51 books read this year plus 4 re-reads so i am just about on target with my numbers for where i wanted to be.

Have a look at my book list to see what i’ve read.