One of my new year goals is to update more often. I haven't actually been successful with that anywhere, yet. No, wait. I did update my Livejournal with my Flickr retrospective. And I've uploaded pictures to Flickr in 2009. I guess I'm getting there.
It seems like vox.com may have done some upgrades since I was around last, so I should probably check that out. And see if anyone is active that I know. And all that other stuf. Maybe after lunch.
I really need to sleep, but last night I couldn't and I'm scared I won't tonight.
I've got lots of big things (good!) happening this year, and some big decisions that might mean big things changing - i.e. work etc and I'm not in the best frame of mind to think too seriously about things with a lack of sleep.
Also I have a chipped tooth and I can't concentrate on anything for long before nudging it with my tongue and feeling the rough amalgam - I was convinced I had pork crackling stuck in my teeth for an hour when I did it. At least I'm off to the dentist tomorrow so that problem should resolve itself.
There is a lump in my throat and I'm not sure if it's me making it or whether a cold is growing there.
I want to make my resolutions, I kept a few last year so it seemingly was worthwhile...
All I've decided so far is that I want to lose 35 pounds in 17 weeks if possible...let's see how I get on.
Other than that I think my resolutions will centre around more sleep, more health, more reading, more friends, more self development and more Dr David Coddingsteine.
Currently reading...
Interesting, accessible and makes for brain crumbling thinking...I am the delivery guy and Dr David is Avatar when we sit up drinking and watching mindless TV and he gets board of the TV and I grow tired of thinking. Halfway through and will let you know a final thought when finished as it's a thought experiment and I've not yet come to a full conclusion...
And so now I try and sleep a bit more than I managed last night...I guess that should start with me going to bed...
Night night.
So it's 2008, the year that I get married.....
Happy new year to all, I have had red wine and Coddy has been in bed all evening because he is ill...I should probably go to bed soon as I'll most likely be driving home tomorrow, to be at horrible work on the 2nd....booohooo hiss...hate it!
Love you all and happy new year!
Today is Vox's first anniversary since the official launch. What's the best experience you've had on Vox in the past year?
Probably keeping in touch and getting to read Deletia's lovely posts and linking up with people like j3ssmin who have really interesting journals that I enjoy reading.
Gosh, it's so long since I logged into here! What have I been doing? Well.....lots!
I've been in my flat now for 9 months! I can't believe it, i've loved it and I have it looking exactly how I want it. I'm so proud of myself for buying it and managing it, even though it has been tough at times. The only down side has been the occasional lonliness. I love living on my own but now and again when I find myself having to stay in on a Saturday night (either due to lack of cash or simply lack of invites!) it can be hard....but nothing major.
I've been single for nearly 6 months now too. It has been so, so strange after being in a relationship for 7 years. I'm having fun though but it's been a steep learning curve. I'm realising that not everybody is what they seem and actions definitely speak louder than words!
Anyway, I'm still at the beginning of this new section of my life, hopefully there is a lot more fun in store :).
Well I have been pretty absent from both Livejournal and from Vox for a while now, and it's hard as I have so much outpouring that I would like to do and so much reading of my friends journals, but I am just completly lacking in emotional energy to do so.
Things are generally ok at the moment for me, but it doesn't mean that I necessarily feel that way of course. I'll update my major news in bullet points....
- Our house will finally be progressing with development - we've spent a hell of a lot of money on a new kitchen and are finally getting a new front door that isn't single glazed and really ugly, we're also getting the broken window in the spare room repaired and missing bricks across the dining room window added...I won't tell you how much it all cost, but put it this way, when I spent it I nearly threw up and it costs more than our car...
- We now have a new car - a lovely shiny blue Toyota Yaris, it's a smaller engine, but does us fine and will be lower insurance next year with my now no years no claims bonus - I need to sort my head out and reduce stress so I'm not such a terrible driver anymore.
- We spent a lovely week driving from Leeds to Molesey to Exmouth to Plymouth to Callington to Molesey to Leeds seeing lots of friends and family - sadly we have to go to Devon again as Coddy's uncle has passed away.
- I ran Guide camp by myself with a pirate theme, it was really good fun and the girls seemed to enjoy themselves, even if it took hours to get the tents up on the first night!
- We're very much looking forward to Cuba in October with Rachel - I even have a new passport now and my photo makes me look fat, blonde and grumpy.
- We had a small leak in our conservatory, but the roofer guy identified the problem and like grown-ups we have fixed it without parental or professional support - we adjusted the ball cock in the toilet (the level of water in the cistern was too high and going out the overflow pipe which was broken) and fixed a new length of pipe outside.
- My running is improving, nike+, means that I'm more motivated to run regularly and I've run over 10.5K without stopping in 1hr 5 mins. Rach and me are running a 10K race for charity next weekend and we are both really scared, so please sponsor us http://www.10ksponsorme.org/RachelandLucyRun
- I had a climbing lesson with Rach and Ian and am amazed that I managed to climb a fairly difficult beginners climb...
Ok so crashing a car is a very bad thing, but it has lead to me driving probably the newest car I ever will - my courtesy car is a brand new silver Ford Fiesta which had only 15 miles on the clock when it was dropped off. I'm not sure if I like it, as much as my Polo annoys me, I think I prefer the way it drives.
I am still very angry at myself!
It is definitely time for a new car and a new start. Have managed to trash what was a pretty decent weekend by pranging my car in Huddersfield. I am very annoyed at myself. Basically what happened was that we had dropped the Drs friend Tarran off at his flat in Huddersfield and were driving home through some backstreets that I don't know at all. We came up to a junction which I didn't see as being a junction as the rain and sun had made the road look totally white and even though it looked like a junction and the thought went through my head, I kept going, and a car coming from the left ended up with my bumper in its' side. Everyone was fine (well the uncommunicative driver didn't answer me or the dr when we asked, but him and his son looked fine) It's going to cost me £250 excess which is a pain, and I'm so annoyed at myself. Anyway I've been wanting a new (newer - not a brand new) car for ages and I think that this is the final thing to make me want it. I'm thinking of a Peugeot 207/306 does anyone have any good/bad comments on these at all?
Yesterday was a bit annoying too. I was all geared up to run Race for Life, but when we got there we found out that it was cancelled due to the rain, so I'm going to be doing it on the 28th July instead. Instead I ended up plugging in my Nike+ and going for a 6.2KM run to enter into the spirit of it and then came back home and read:
I really enjoyed this book as it was a nice chick lit type book which makes you all happy and smily at the end as well as a bit on the tearful side. She's a lot like Marian Keyes which I think is a good thing, but it's not necessarily high class literature, but did have some nice cultural references.
This week I have also read:
I also liked this book as it has again got some nice current cultural references, but it wasn't the most satisfying end to it, but it certainly isn't conventional in it's storytelling and there is a good degree of intrigue in trying to work out what will actually happen and how the conclusion will pan out. It also amusingly has the description of a "Chavathon" event and it's almost worth reading for that alone as well as the fact that the main protagonist is called Kerenza and has a cat called Smut.
I seem to be doing a lot better with reading at the moment, and although I set myself a new years resolution to have read 24 books by the end of the year and so by that token should be up to 12 by now, I feel that the 10 I am currently at is pretty impressive for me as I never seem to have time or energy to do much in the evenings at the moment.
Oh and because I like adding pictures - we also watched this last night which is one of my favourite films:
After a lovely lazy day of reading A Play on Words
in the garden and on the sofa in the sun room, I decided that today would be more of a day of action.
I have succumbed to buying some new trainers - I use mine at least 6 times a week and I've had them for a year so felt that it was an investment - so I bought some special running trainers - some nike plus ones (I don't have an ipod Nano, but am thinking of getting on so that I can play around with it and find out how far I'm running) I decided that I was going to do the following route - down the hill, to the canal, along the canal to Rodley and then along the road back here. On multimap it looks approx 2KM along the road and approx 3KM on the canalside. I definitely prefer running along the canal - it was flatter and the air was less polluted and exhaust fumed. I managed to do the route in about 37 mins with a 1 min break at Rodley for some water. I really need to get a pouch to carry things in as I took my mobile in case I needed to call Coddy to rescue me and it was annoying as I had a mobile in one hand and water in the other. The new trainers have given me blisters on my insteps, so I obviously need to break them in a bit more.
I now need to tidy up the house, do the washing and ironing, I would ideally like to sand the ceiling as it is annoying me that we have still done hardly anything to make this house properly liveable yet....
I'm also scared that I will happen across a mouse. On Tuesday evening I was watching TV and Stipey managed to bring in a mouse, I got Coddy to help me rescue the mouse and it was very much alive, but with it's back legs looking very poorly. Being wimps and animal lovers we couldn't kill it, so we put him in a shoe box with some water and tissue and decided to bury or release depending on what we found in the morning. Unfortunately when I took the shoebox down in the morning, there was no sign of Mr Mouse, lots of poo, but no mouse, I looked on top of the bookcase where his box had been (some 6 feet high) and there was poo on the top of there, but again no mouse. We looked everywhere and can't find him, so god knows where he must be, I hope that he is ok though as he looked like a friendly little thing.
I think it might make sense to move. I want to live by the seaside.
Watch this space.
