Happy New Year, everybody (only 8 days late!)
I got back to Edinburgh on Sunday and rather hit the ground running - Monday and Tuesday were spent frantically springcleaning the house (or removing the pall of very fine sawdust that the guinea pigs generate) and since yesterday I've been back at work. I had a very nice restful time over Christmas and New Year, but the restorative effect has worn off rather quickly.
I have an awful lot of New Year's resolutions. It's more like a to-do list. This is probably bad.
* Finish my degree
* Redecorate parts of the house (paint the hall, get rid of the awful dirty-beige living room carpet)
* Sort out all the stuff in the cupboard in the study, ditto the spare room, and rationalise it
* Go on holiday somewhere that is not Britain
* Spend more time making things
* Revamp this blog so it looks less 2001 (it didn't even exist in 2001...)
* Read more widely
* Eat more healthily, avoiding chocolate biscuits
* GET BACK INTO THE GYM THREE TIMES A WEEK
Yes, the last one is deserving of those capitals. 2008 was not a good year for fitness in the slightest. I spent the first half of it with sore feet, and once I got my insoles I went running twice. Not stellar. I hardly did any weights and basically depended on cycling to remind me that I like to move, and it wasn't enough.
That, combined with spending three days a week in a room with a constantly replenished tin of chocolate biscuits, has not been good for the body. Weight-wise, I'm about back where I started back in 2005 - slightly fitter, perhaps, but still. It may not be a coincidence that at this point I had not long finished a postgraduate degree, and that during my university career I had depended largely on cycling as my exercise. I am somewhat frustrated to be right back wher eI started. (Maybe I should have called this blog something indicating that I intended to learn from the past?)
Anyway. This period of my life is over. The biscuit tin at work officially no longer exists. (That red thing over there? Just an optical illusion.)
As for the exercise... well, I managed to hurt myself on Monday in an incident involving a fully loaded drawer. I pulled it out too far and then leant in and grabbed it, preventing it from squashing my feet and kneecapping me on the way, but wrenching something in my lower back. Not my finest moment. However, it's feeling a lot better now and if all goes well, I'm hoping to get back on a treadmill by next week.
3 comments:
*waves hand* These are not the biccies you seek...move along...
I will make you look much more organized by posting about New Year's Resolutions even later. Though I'm referring to it as a "sanity list" this year.
Woo. My confirmation word is "decalama" I'm thinking either a llama with ten legs, a name for a group of ten llamas, or some super ultra ten-times fuzzier brand of llama wool.
Happy New Year K!!! I can help you with #4 -- jumping up and down waving my hands madly! You could come for a visit! (Can you see my big grin???) It's not very exciting here, but it would be relaxing LOL!
Well as I chickened out of the Great Winter Run today, I am in no position to comment, am I? However I too have every intention of getting back into the gym (or A gym - new job has gym membership perks but at a different gym. Oh the dilemma!) Perhaps we could nag each other?
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