Mood:
brightTomorrow we're off on our hols for a week. Yay! We're going to Ilfracombe in Devon. We're planning lots of long walks with the dogs, but lest you think it'll be a super-healthy-energetic holiday, there's also going to be lots of cream teas and plenty of lounging around watching tv. We have a load of films and books plus the entire season 2 box set of SVU to take with us :-)))
Not much to report since last week. We went to see Clerks II which was really good. We also had another visit from the hedgehog! This time I went back out after the dogs had been safely shut indoors and managed to catch him not rolled into a ball:
I have finished 5 out of 6 units of my coursework for my fitness instructor course. Had a bit of a blitz on it this week, as I wanted to get it out of the way before we went away. I now know the names of lots of bones and muscles and understand how the cardiovascular system works. Yay me! I found the anatomy stuff really interesting. But kind of freaky. I thought beforehand that finding out how my body worked might kind of, I dunno, empower me or something. Instead it just terrified me. So many things that could go wrong! Once I knew that my entire existence depended on my left ventricle pumping blood round my body (you see, I did learn something) I suddenly developed an irrational fear that it would stop doing this for absolutely no reason. And all those muscles and ligaments just looked like injuries waiting to happen. It's like when I learnt how car engines worked. For years I had happily driven around without giving a moments' thought to what went on under the bonnet. Then all of a sudden the whole process seemed so incredibly complicated, it was a miracle to me that the engine ever worked at all. That's kind of how I felt about my body. I tried explaining this to Dave and he just looked at me like I was completely mental. LOL.
Anyway, I seem to have digressed a little. Oh yes, the course. I've booked my practical course/assessment for December 8th. Eeek. I'm kind of nervous about it. Before then I have to plan a lesson and write it all down as my final bit of coursework. Then I have to actually do it on the course. I'm going to have to do some practising when we get back off hols. I think it might be an idea to go along to some proper aerobics classes a few times as well, just to get a feel for it. And nick ideas off the instructors, obviously.
Right well I gotta go pack now, so I'll sign off.....back in a week!
