Life is too short Col, for uncomfortable underwear. Yes, I'm going back to basics and I am done with putting up with uncomfortable undies because they're not ready to be thrown out yet (aka not worn out,) or they are allegedly sexy or for whatever reason, warm in the winter, cool in the summer etc. etc. etc. Let's face it, if your nether regions are uncomfortable then the rest of you is uncomfortable, right? It's exactly the same with painful shoes, your whole body is out of sorts when you wear uncomfortable / painful shoes. So, no more, I need cotton and I need comfort, end of. I feel liberated.
I've taken leave and have had a lovely long weekend and the weather has been glorious, it's 24 degrees today. Today being Monday and my last day off work so I thought I would make the most of the time and the weather. I went out for a coffee first thing and read some ore of my "depressing" book, (it is however starting to give me pointers on how to turn things around, i.e. flossing.)
I got home and cut the back garden grass, very hard going, first cut of the season and searing heat so took an hour. Followed this by a further two hours of gardening, I say "gardening" but it was basically hacking and chopping away at bramble. I'm ripped to shreds, felt light headed several times but in the end, filled 10 garden sacks with grass and thorns.
I followed the slasher fest with ironing then hovering, a solid day of hard work. I'm exhausted and my body is complaining, but a bit of manual labour does a body good right?
Saturday, 12 May 2018
Friday, 4 May 2018
Mayday
I was hoping that my new job would change my life, well, it hasn't exactly so far anyway but I do feel like I'm on a journey to and of improvement.
I've been using My Fitness Pal for years to keep track of what I'm eating and mainly to make sure that I'm eating enough of the right things, well I've just found out that I can tweak what it measures so I can see where I'm falling short, for instance, my iron levels have run low forever and that's normal for me but by choosing to monitor and log my iron on My Fitness Pal, I can see how I'm doing in this department. The same goes for protein, I'm not really having enough but I can monitor it and change my eating habits to combat this. Good huh?
I'm reading the most depressing book in the world at the moment. I'm not going to tell you the title because it's unfair to disrespect the author and my judgement will probably change in around 4 chapters when things start to get positive and constructive, at the moment, it's a never ending shopping list of all the negative things that happen to your body once you hit 40... which is a very long way off ;)
The author is a doctor and a realist and is just what I need i.e. no sugar coating and some serious straight talk and lets face it, we all need some straight talk in some department don't we?
This book may really change my health so I'm going to keep reading.
I have a few days off work, yesterday was freezing cold but I spent several hours on a play date with my darling great niece Everly, in the garden because that's where she wanted to be. She is two, going on thirty two. She has a flair for rationale that would shame an adult, (we need to go inside Everly because it's cold and staring to rain. "But if we put our hoods up (demonstrates,) we can still play outside!")
Jan and I agreed that Mum would have adored her and we wouldn't have stood a chance next to Everly. I'm so in love.
I've been using My Fitness Pal for years to keep track of what I'm eating and mainly to make sure that I'm eating enough of the right things, well I've just found out that I can tweak what it measures so I can see where I'm falling short, for instance, my iron levels have run low forever and that's normal for me but by choosing to monitor and log my iron on My Fitness Pal, I can see how I'm doing in this department. The same goes for protein, I'm not really having enough but I can monitor it and change my eating habits to combat this. Good huh?
I'm reading the most depressing book in the world at the moment. I'm not going to tell you the title because it's unfair to disrespect the author and my judgement will probably change in around 4 chapters when things start to get positive and constructive, at the moment, it's a never ending shopping list of all the negative things that happen to your body once you hit 40... which is a very long way off ;)
The author is a doctor and a realist and is just what I need i.e. no sugar coating and some serious straight talk and lets face it, we all need some straight talk in some department don't we?
This book may really change my health so I'm going to keep reading.
I have a few days off work, yesterday was freezing cold but I spent several hours on a play date with my darling great niece Everly, in the garden because that's where she wanted to be. She is two, going on thirty two. She has a flair for rationale that would shame an adult, (we need to go inside Everly because it's cold and staring to rain. "But if we put our hoods up (demonstrates,) we can still play outside!")
Jan and I agreed that Mum would have adored her and we wouldn't have stood a chance next to Everly. I'm so in love.
On the Up
Has this been the longest Winter in history Col? A few weeks ago, in the wee small hours, our clocks sprang forward over here into Spring, well, BST. We had beautiful sunshine the following day as if to celebrate, but it was short lived and for the most part, the chilled air and the cloudy skies persist.
I'm more than ready for sunshine Col, seems to have been so long since I've felt any warmth from our sun and my bones fee positively brittle from the cold.
Things are finally improving generally though, I was thinking about this yesterday and have pinpointed the change rightly or wrongly to the eclipse on my birthday last year. Since then, things have started to look up, not up and up, (January was the pits,) but on the whole, I seem to have a new found "can do, anything is possible" attitude. There once was a time when everything, anything seemed almost impossible, now, nothing seems impossible, difficult, far fetched, a reach, but not impossible.
Your eldest is engaged to be married, (still can't get over that.) I am "on his list" and I'd confirmed within two weeks that I would be there. (Authorised with work etc.) I hadn't planned on heading to NZ for a few years yet, work needs to be done here, my car has clocked over 102K so, it just wasn't on the radar for anytime soon, however, I've committed that I'm coming, I'd already committed to myself that I would, come hell or high water, have a new kitchen this year. Everything here is old and needs either refreshing or replacing, it's at the stage were I can't do just one room because one leads on to another.
Well it's all going to be OK. It might take me two to three years to do everything I need / want to do but that's OK, and by this time next year, I'll have spent a wonderful couple of weeks with you and the family and will have witnessed a dear hearts special day.
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