Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Col :)  Hope that you're having a really fabulous day and we'll catch up soon.  The temperature here has plummeted, it was predicted but it's still a shock to the system.  Everywhere is covered in white frost and I could see my breath when I stepped out the door this morning.  My fingers are currently the colour of marble and I can't actually feel them, just waiting for Fay to bring over my coffee so that I can defrost.

It's our anniversary!  Dear Colette... is one year old, can you believe it?  One year of drivel.

Had a bit of a sore throat and sniffle all week, (it's all the bugs and germs in work.)  Went to bed at 9pm on Friday night, promptly fell fast asleep and woke at 2.45am.  The body felt tired but the brain was raring to go so I couldn't get back to sleep, hence the phone call and text not much after 3am.  I ran for 35 minutes then did 10 minutes of pilates.  It's now 9.20am and my eyes are burning.

Well, main news this week, brace yourself.   B told me last Sunday that she is headed for Oz and NZ in three weeks time for her 2nd cousin's wedding. She'll be in Oz for a week and in NZ for three.  I did my best, "I'm so excited for you!" performance and I am really happy for her but I'm sick as a parrot that it's not me headed in your direction.  I know that having several jealous bones in my body is not healthy and tried to tell myself that it would give me wrinkles but still, I'm so envious. 

The pilates exercises that I did last Sunday... well, it was Wednesday before I could sit down without serious discomfort.  My work trousers felt looser this week but it can't work that quickly can it?  I still have 2lbs of Christmas fat to go.  I could have been better, diet wise this week... but I wasn't.

Spent around two hours this morning, (in the wee small,) messing around with my iPod.  I told you it's been wonky for a couple of weeks?  Well, I couldn't even google an answer so Miss Non-Technical here, set about trying to suss it out.  Anyway, after restoring it to factory settings, re synchronising everything, (a lengthy affair and by the time I'd done all of that it had actually lost more of my playlists and was worse than before I started.)  I eventually sussed that it was having a memory issue, (I know the feeling.)  I've deleted some stuff and re-jigged and I still need to tweak, but most of my running playlists are back.  Thank heavens, don't know what I'd do without them to motivate me.  Wouldn't you think for such a simple problem, you would have a little message pop up on iTunes to say something like; "Hi J, you're nearing maximum capacity and this may effect your playlist display and access."  That would have been so useful.

The tidying phase continues, can't actually believe it's lasted this long Col, still, I'm more than happy that it has.

Just read a really funny part of "Eat, Pray, Love."  This woman... Liz... is me.  She was just explaining how difficult she finds it to meditate as her mind wanders.  I am exactly the same.  There is no quiet time in my mind.  If you've ever been to an exercise class which ends with a cool down and relaxation phase, well, I lie there and the worst thing the instructor can tell me is to; "clear your mind."  This is the cue for a thousand thoughts to descend into my brain, I think I've pulled something, did I turn the iron off before I left?  Gosh I'm starving, what will I have for tea?  I think there is turkey in the fridge, but it may be off, I need to go shopping.  I can't wait to shower.  Or, if you've ever been for a beauty treatment like a facial.  The therapist tells you to relax and she'll be back in 10 minutes, then you lie there becoming more and more impatient, you try counting to 60 several times in your head and after a while contemplate that 10 minutes must be up by now... she's late coming back, probably having a coffee and a natter.  I really do need to learn how to relax.