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It's ink but not as we know it 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Or rather it's not as I described this morning. Discussion with my tattoo artist led to a change of plan. The space between where the main design was going on my back and the top of the arm was really too wide, so we're going for a two parter, to be completed sometime in the new year. I'll post a photo later, but basically what we've done is the flower and tribal design on my left shoulder. Part two will be a mirror of the design at the top of my left arm. Dee always claims to enjoy working on my ink. He does a great job with it and seems to like playing so I'm quite happy with that. £90 for today's session and another £90 when part two is done. So £30 less today than I had anticipated but £70 more overall. I know my Grandma has given me £30 for Christmas so that can go towards it, and I now have £26 back in my tattoo fund pot, so all I need to find is £34 in January. Hardly breaking the bank.On the car stereo today - Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue
Getting ill for Christmas 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm not kidding, I think I'm coming down with something. Just a cold would be liveable with, although I'm meant to be cooking Christmas
dinner for 13 again this year (cousin's hubby is coming too - it looks like they might be able to work things out) so even that wouldn't be great. But I actually overslept this morning. Practically unheard of for me. Okay, so oversleeping means coming to at about 7am on a weekday, but even so it's oversleeping. And I feel a bit groggy.I have three actual days of work and a probable half day that I might as well do, then that's me off until 8th January. I just could do without being ill this week because I'm meant to be going to two gigs at the club that I'm quite looking forward to. Wizzards of Ozz on Wednesday, then a four act line up headed by 4ft Fingers on Thursday. Never heard any of them, but I'm liking the live music thing and haven't had a chance to go for a few weeks.Speaking of, I ordered a CD from the Red Star Rebels website last
My waistline is going to hate me 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm eating too much. I don't know what has got into me, I just seem to be grazing constantly. It's not a good thing. While the scales are hovering on 9st 10lbs again rather than two pounds above it I know it's not going to take much and I'll be 10st and over again, wondering about how to get it off this time. I'm hoping that there has been sufficient physical exercise at work today not to have to worry about it too much. Preparations for the office move are continuing so we had a skip for the fourth time. I was up and down four flights of stairs several times with heavy boxes - but then I was nibbling at chocolate buiscuits all day, and I've eaten too much ice cream this evening. Must get a grip, must get a grip.Of course, it should be noted I started on the ice cream after speaking to my Grandmother on the phone. This is Dad's Mum, it's her birthday so I called to say hi, and just after she was done telling me about my youngest (on Dad's side) cousin's one year old s
Voyeuristic reading 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I've been reading Belle de Jour's latest book (early Christmas present to myself - yes, I know that's what the tattoo was as well, but since I'm going to mainly be getting vouchers or possibly the latest bit of my brother's CD collection which he thinks is wonderful and I'll use as a coaster I might as well treat myself to two). In many ways it's more interesting than the first, which was an account of her life as a prostitute which evolved from her blog. This is Belle moving on, getting out of sex work and disappearing off to the sun for a good long time before coming back and settling into office work. It's well written, entertaining, honest (assuming we're still on her actual life her and not moving into fictionlised accounts but you'd write a more satisfactory ending if that was the case), but what is utterly beyond me is why she still stays with The Boy. As far as I can tell from her writings, he's a lying, cheating little man with an irrational streak a mile wide, tota
Heels are better for you 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I've made a discovery in the last couple of days. My legs can't cope with flat shoes anymore. We're clearing the office for the move so I've been wearing flats for the last three days since I thought it would be more sensible while carrying boxes. And my calf muscles have been killing me. I would think it was to do with the moving and climbing up and down the stairs more often than usual, except that I wore my brown ankle boots with the three inch heel to go out last night (calf muscles still complaining)and this morning my legs are fine again. Clearly years of compensating for being a shortarse have taken their toll.Weird, huh?By the way, Wizzards of Ozz were fun last night. Four acts on the bill tonight. Am feeling a tad weary though...On the car stereo yesterday - Razorblade Romance by HIM Read more:Heels
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LA Fitness - an exercise in losing customers 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I had a letter from the manager of the local LA Fitness yesterday. I cancelled my membership there back in the summer after finding I just didn't have the time to go on a regular basis - and it wasn't doing anything for me anyway. Passing over the fact that they are apparently incapable of correctly spelling the road on which they are situated, I can only express my amazement that someone thought this type of letter was a good way of trying to extract several hundred pounds from a member of the public.The choice extracts are:At LA Fitness, we really want you to enjoy your body in the New Year. But I notice you've recently cancelled your membership, so now I'm worried you won't be able to....So all you have to do now is come into the club and set up an appointment to help you define your new goal and how to achieve it. But hurry (the exercise will be good for you).Seriously, what the hell possessed them to send that out? I have never written an angry letter in response to a ci Read more:customers
My holiday tradition - getting ill 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Christmas Eve - and as predicted I've gone down with something. Why is it I always get ill when I'm not working? Last night I ended up going to bed about 9.30 and I had been dozing on the futon before that anyway. Felt really grotty, and waking up at 4am with a streaming nose didn't help matters. I went over to Mum's for dinner today but wasn't feeling the best. I'm still kind of light-headed now.The trouble is, I'm meant to be cooking the dinner tomorrow. I don't even feel in a fit state to go to the midnight mass right now, let alone cook dinner for 12. Mum said not to worry about it, she's preparing most of it tonight anyway so it should only be a case of whacking the turkey in the oven and cooking the veg, and hopefully my uncle will lend a hand. But this is my thing, I've done the dinner for the last five or six years now. On the other hand, me coughing away in the kitchen isn't going to be great for anyone's appetite. I've made the mincepies and iced rum sa
Summing up Christmas 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I really don't know why it is I don't feel inclined to write when I'm not working. Maybe it's because I know I have such a lot of time in which to do whatever I want that I keep thinking "Well, I'll blog later" and never get round to it. I've been too busy destroying the Roman and Spanish empires over the last few days to go on line much at all.Christmas
was a bit of a bust really, due to me coming down with a stomach bug. On Christmas Eve I went to bed reasonably early, having already realised the cold meant it wasn't sensible to go to Midnight Mass, but I was woken at about 11.10pm by the most appalling stomach cramps. It was really scary actually, and I ended up calling NHS Direct because I was terrified it might be appendicitis or something. They subsided after a while, NHS Direct not having been much help because I clearly didn't fit into their tickbox questions, and I tried to get back to sleep. Shortly afterwards I realised I wasn't going to be able to sleep at al
Saturday 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The bunny is in my bad books. I had to pay an emergency visit to PC World this morning after I discovered last night that he had crawled under my desk and eaten the keyboard cable. I only got a cheap replacement but that's hardly the point. He is currently pulling envelopes out of the rubbish bin for a snack, having been sulking this afternoon when I kept stopping him chewing the carpet.Also went into town first thing to see if I could exchange my brother's Christmas present to me. It was a better effort than for my birthday (still haven't listened to one of the CDs he copied for me)- he bought me the 2 disc DVD set of Motley Crue's Carnival of Sins tour. Only problem is I bought myself the DVD back in the summer. Mum had apparently been deputised to check whether or not I had it. She can't have looked all that hard. Anyway, in spite of me not having a receipt HMV let me exchange the wrapped box set for a £19.99 gift card so I bought myself the 2 disc live album of Carniv Read more:Saturday
Welcome to 2007 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Last night GBF threw a party, but it ended up being the two of us for a large part of the evening when the excessively drunk people who had come decided to go to Gayville for an hour and a half. Most of them were back before midnight, which seems to me to have been a bit of a waste of the £10 entrance price. I didn't mind, although it was a bit rude of the others. GBF's sister's boyfriend expressed the same misgivings but GBF insisted he didn't mind and off they went. L came back before the others looking very ill and spent the last hour of 2006 and most of the early morning of 2007 unconscious on the bathroom floor, people treading carefully round him to use the loo. The boyfriend (M) of GBF's sister (C) attempted to kiss me at midnight in spite of the fact he was sitting next to his girlfriend. He also had a go when they were leaving at the very end of the night, but by that time he could hardly stand anyway. I suspect it took them a while to walk home.It was pleasant en Read more:Welcome
2006 good intentions update 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Way back at the beginning of 2006, when I had got over the hangover, I posted a list of good intentions
for the year here. The idea was that these were things I could aim for and it didn't matter whether or not I actually achieved them, a more sensible step than going for a set of resolutions I knew there was no chance of succeeding with. So, how have I done?1) I will aim to get my weight below 10 stone.Done - yay me! Sadly I achieved this one back in May and haven't gone beyond 9st 10lb on a permanent basis. In fact the starting weight for 2007 is 9st 12lbs, but I hope to be able to lose more this year. Please, DOYC, let me lose more this year! I don't know whether to set myself a weight target or not, but if I were going to I would set it at 9st 7lbs. And I'll get right on it as soon as I've finished these 12 mini pizzas and 12 mini quiches (although to be fair I've only had a bag of crisps aside from these today).2) I will not waste my money on faddy enthusiasms that di
Making a start with the intentions 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Well, I've made a start on decorating my bedroom - I wonder whether I will end up with my shoulders burning in agony in a couple of days time, like I did when I painted the lounge. As a reward for the first coat on the window sill and two of the walls I made myself a bacon sandwich for lunch. Here's hoping the calorie content of the bacon sarnie is cancelled out at least in part by the painting of the walls. They'll be ready for the second coat come 4pm so once that's done it should be dry by the time I get back from whatever it is GBF wants to do for his birthday. Then I can do the rest tomorrow.The big problem with my bedroom is the lack of ventilation. I've had one of the windows open as I was painting, but I don't want to leave it while I'm not in the room - the irrational part of me being convinced that large spiders are waiting to leap in as soon as my back is turned, even though it's January. However, under normal conditions the window area ends up developing milde
Post Christmas miracle 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I had a text from CG today - to say thank you for the birthday card. He can't remember telling me when his birthday was so it was a surprise. No doubt he will now lapse back into radio silence and I won't hear anything more from him until I run into him at this year's conference. Somewhere around the place I have the keys for the windows but damned if I know where they are. I have a sneaking suspicion I might have thrown them away in a cleaning frenzy, forgetting what they were meant to open. Hope not. While the front windows are fine I was thinking of opening the small window in my bedroom - the main one currently being unlocked already - in an effort to get rid of some of the paint fumes. It's January, there can't be that many spiders lurking out there, surely.All four walls in my bedroom are now yellow, the window sill and the small bit of skirting board by the door are white (well actually it's a colour called "contemporary" but damned if I could tell the difference bet Read more:Christmas
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Wondering about the neighbours 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Not the ones next door this time, I'm curious as to what has happened to Smokey Joe. Last night, at about 8.45, the police rang my doorbell to ask if I had seen him recently. It would appear that his daughter has contacted them because he hasn't been in touch since before Christmas by the sound of things. I haven't seen him recently, but I didn't see much of him anyway and as I said to the police the only way I tended to know he was around was when I got the smell of cigarette smoke in my bathroom. Anyway, the police then proceeded to batter down his front door. I'm assuming that they didn't find a corpse in there since there was no sign of an ambulance at any time. They stayed until about 11.30ish, I think waiting for a glazier and someone to deal with the door to repair the damage. I did pop out with the name and mobile number of the flat owner but it took me a ridiculously long time to find. Don't know whether it would be of any use to them.The evil streak in me sugges
Last day of freedom 1970-01-01 00:59:59 And it's back to work tomorrow, which might mean a sleeping pill and an early night tonight in an effort to get up on time in the morning. I'm going to take a drive out to the new office this afternoon since the car hasn't seen much use in the last few days and we've only got a week in the old place before I have to figure out the best way to get to the new one. I just popped out to the car to collect my map book - I'm going to investigate whether cutting across country will mean quieter roads than using the main ones. It was the first time I've been in that direction since the police broke into the flat downstairs (well, we don't want to be obvious about these things do we?). The window is still boarded up rather than fixed, although the door has been repaired. There is a whole load of broken glass on the patch of grass in front of the window though. Clearly the police aren't much into cleaning up after a forced entry. No smell of cigarettes and still no sound from downs
That Monday feeling 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Well, I managed to get up - really didn't want to, but I'm up, dressed, breakfasted, made lunch, done my make up and the rabbit has had a run around the flat. I guess I'm alive enough for work. The trouble is, I don't know what to do this week. We're moving offices on Friday, with an effective close down for three days next week as we unpack and get everything straightened out. Therefore, I don't want to start anything significant because obviously I'm not going to be able to get it done before we go and moving with a project 'in progress' will be a pain in the wotsit. Continued packing and maybe making plans for the year I guess.I am looking forward to having my own office though. On the car stereo yesterday - I brought you my bullets, you brought me your love by My Chemical Romance Read more:Monday
Keeping track of eating 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm being puzzled by my own eating
habits. Apparently, the number of calories an average woman should be consuming each day is 2000. Bearing in mind I have a fairly sedentary existence it would seem reasonable to aim for a bit under that but I'm not sure how much - 1500? 1750? Anyway, for no apparent reason yesterday I conducted an exercise in monitoring calorie consumption and it came out at 1211. Allowing for the possibility of underestimating in some cases we'll round it up to 1300 (this is in no sense scientific). So even if I drop my total calorie allowance to the day to 1500 I'm still quite significantly below with no real effort on my part.So why can't I lose weight?I am going to try and keep a track of what I actually eat for the next two weeks. How well that will go I can't tell, I tend to get bored with this sort of thing. It will be interesting to see what I do actually get through though, possibly without realising it.Yesterday's menu was as follows:Breakfast - 2 wee
Tuesday's menu 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Breakfast2 slices fruit loaf with margarine and marmalade1 decaff coffee with skimmed milk and sugarCalories c. 317LunchHam, cheddar and lettuce roll with mayoRyvita Goodness cereal barAppleYoghurtCalories c. 452Snacks/extrasHerbal tea x2Mint humbug x4Tea x1Raspberry licorice2 slices hamCalories c. 228DinnerGrilled pork chopThree boiled new potatoesBaby cornAsparagusDiet coke with lemon70g blueberry iced dessertCalories c. 401Total calories for the day c. 1398 Read more:Tuesday
The tedium of filling time 1970-01-01 00:59:59 GBF has finally met the bunny. He came over the other night with a friend and seemed surprised at how large he actually is. Otis, true to form, hid under the futon and wouldn't come out unless bribed with treats. For some reason GBF assumed Otis was going to be only about half his actual size. I think Otis is coping okay with having to be back in his cage again for the whole of the day. He does seem to be bery pleased to see me in the evenings though and is pretty much behaving himself, if one ignores the occasional sound of tearing carpet. We'll see how long that lasts. One of the women at work recommended contacting the animal shelter about getting him neutered. They apparently do treatments at cost which wouldn't be a bad option. I don't know if I need to get him vaccinated first though - but I can ask that when I contact them about neutering. Thanks to a fall on a surprisingly slippy pavement the other day I have a lovely bruise on my right arm, and a sore wrist as well Read more:filling
Wednesday's menu 1970-01-01 00:59:59 BreakfastPorridgeBananaDecaff coffeeCalories c. 302LunchPate, cheese and lettuce rollPrawn Cocktail crispsApple7 cherry tomatoesCalories c. 473SnacksFruit tea x3Shortbread biscuitTeaspoon mincemeatCalories c. 176DinnerMinted lamb burger3 boiled new potatoesBaby cornAsparagusSweetcorn relishDiet coke with lemonCalories c. 317Total calories 1268 Read more:Wednesday
Thursday's diet 1970-01-01 00:59:59 BreakfastHot orange squashToasted muffin with marmiteCalories c. 219LunchRoll with ham, cream cheese, lettuce and mustardBroccoli quicheAppleRyevita Goodness barCalories c. 529SnacksDinnerChicken breastSalad Read more:Thursday
To smear or not to smear 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I seem to have started a bit of a discussion on the message board I frequent with the revelation that I have never had a smear
test. Thankfully there is another woman on there who has admitted she's never had it done either and we're roughly the same age, otherwise it would feel like a bit of a pile on. I seem to be getting a reasonably sympathetic set of responses because I pointed out that the only time I've got close to having one I had a panic attack, but even so the overall message is "Go do it, now".Simple fact is, I can't. The whole concept freaks me out. You'd think that someone who is okay about having sex, who uses tampons, and who has even had a bikini wax wouldn't worry too much about having this done, but really, it's an entirely different prospect. You're half naked, in a room with a complete stranger who is proposing to stick a stick and a piece of metal shaped like a duck's head up you. Really, has modern medicine not been able to come up with something a bit l
Friday's menu 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Breakfast2 x wheat breakfast biscuitsbananahot orange squashCalories c. 262LunchCheese & salad rollBroccoli quicheAppleRyevita Goodness barCalories c. 595SnacksDinnerPork and veg stir fry with chow mein sauceCalories c. 368Total calories 1225 Read more:Friday
Psychology of calorie counting 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This calorie
counting exercise is proving interesting. As much in terms of my own psychology as anything else. For instance, I calculate that today's lunch is going to be 595 calories, or thereabouts. Good, bad, indifferent? But that looks like a large number. So instead of having a couple of slices of fruit loaf with ginger preserve for breakfast, which I really quite fancy but contain over 100 calories per slice, I opt for the not-weetabix plus a banana because it sounds healthier. Except that in reality there can only be about 50 calories in it, which isn't a whole hell of a lot really. And having decided on a chicken stirfry for dinner last night I went over to Sainsbury's in search of bean sprouts and things. Instead, being lazy, I picked up a pack of their stirfry veggies and chow mein sauce. I was going to have noodles as well, but a portion of noodles could be a couple of hundred calories by themselves so I decided against. And yet until I decided to have a late ev
Saturday's menu 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Breakfast2x slices fruit loaf with margarine and honeyHot orange squashCalories c. 193 Read more:Saturday
Sunday's menu 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Again, it doesn't look like I'm going for formal meals here so today is another listing session:250ml Innocent Smoothie 143 calsStarbucks Grande Skinny Vanilla Latte 218 calsToasted muffin with pate and pickle 272 cals1 x packet crisps 108 calsFruit salad, c. 246 calories, comprising:1 banana1 apple1 orange1 white nectarine100g strawberries50g raspberries50g pineappleTotal calories c. 987 Read more:Sunday
Conversations with legends 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm not going to keep on detailing my eating habits - it's not terribly interesting for me and must be boring as hell for anyone else. However, it has been wortwhile in that I realised I've let far too many carbs creep into my diet and need to pay attention to make sure I'm eating enough fruit and veg. I also need to watch out for the unexpected high hitters in the calorie stakes - like the noodles I nearly bought the other night. Still, 15 days into the New Year and I've lost four pounds. Feeling quite happy about that. If I can lose another eight that would be terrific. Not holding my breath though.I've mentioned before my tendency to hold imaginary conversations in my head, but I don't think I went into detail about scenarios surrounding some of these chats. They can be quite detailed at times. Bad sign? Doesn't mean anything? I don't know, but it's my internal therapy mechanism. Take yesterday for example:I had this conversation while I was having a long soak i
Work and hobbies 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I now have my own office. Once I have hanging files for the filing cabinet and can get the crap off my desk I will be all set. The phones went in yesterday and are being programmed this morning, the email was still down yesterday although in the afternoon our techie said that should be working again in 12 hours (yet on Friday he told me they would be back up in 24-48 hours, which would have been last Sunday at the latest), but the chaos is nearly clear and everything's looking reasonably neat. Won't last but there it is. We have someone coming in today to talk about our additional furniture requirements.The weight is holding steady at 9st 8lbs, which I'm pleased about. One more pound and that will be the lightest I can ever remember weighing. Obviously I have been below that, but in terms of consciously weighing and noting my weight 9 st 7lbs was my lightest. I've been dramatically upping my fruit and veg intake as a means of cutting the carb side of things, so yesterday's
MCR interview 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Kerrang is running a story on the background to the formation of My Chemical Romance this week. I read it in my lunch hour, and I'm staggered. I would recommend anyone with the slightest bit of interest in this band to go out and buy this week's Kerrang to read it for themselves. Some of it you might well be aware of, like Gerard Way's alcohol addiction, but reading what he went through in his own words, combined with the depression that has clearly been a major part of his life - I don't know, it always seems to make more of an impact that way. Then there are some of the quotes. It's scary how relatable they are, or at least it is to me. This one in particular touched a nerve:I don't know why but I've always hared myself. Hopefully that self-hate is growing into something else now; hopefully its grown into caring about myself and wanting to stay alive.I know that feeling. I never had depression in the same way that he had, but I've certainly had the feeling of hating my Read more:interview
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