Mood:
chattyNow Playing: Keane - Hopes and fears
Had an old friend round this afternoon. Well actually he's the younger brother of my best friend from school days. When we were kids he used to annoy the hell out of us by pestering us when we were trying to have deeply important conversations - you know, about crucial stuff like what we should wear, or hair crises. Weird to think that we're all grown up now :-)
Anyway, he's starting this cool website called 1000 things to do before you die, so came to have a chat about accounts and tax and stuff. It was really nice to see him and catch up. The guy is a total nutter. Last year he broke his neck diving (he's fully recovered now). It doesn't seem to have put him off doing insane stuff as last week he did the Pamplona bull run. All makes good material for the website I guess!
It did make me think, cos he was asking if there was anything we had done that we thought should go on there. The most exciting thing we've done recently is a trip to the Isle of Wight, which doesn't really compare! The thing is, we're really stupid over our dogs and every time we contemplate going abroad on holiday we just don't want to leave them. We had a chat about it and decided that travelling could wait until the dogs were no longer with us (sob!). In the meantime, I'm pretty happy with our life; we're very lucky.
This morning my combat class was cancelled so I did my upper and lower body weights workout. Didn't manage any progress on the pull ups as the gym was quite busy and I get self-conscious doing them in front of other people, seeing as how I can only manage a few and they're totally wussy. I meant to do push ups on the stairs when we got home, but forgot. Must do better with the quests!
On the weights front, though, I'm quite pleased with how I'm progressing. I love the fact that with weight training you can really see yourself improving and getting stronger as you manage to up your weights. It's much more quantifiable than with cardio workouts. I'm definitely starting to see more muscle definition on my arms. If I could just lose a some of the extra fat I think they'd be looking quite cool. Speaking of which.....
.....food wise I feel like I've gone off the rails a bit this week, with so much eating out. I'm going to try and eat really well this coming week. I'm out with a friend for dinner on Monday, so that probably won't be a perfect day, but I'll try to make sensible choices and avoid the cake :-)
In other news, our house was invaded this evening by ants. FLYING ones, no less!! Eeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuwwwwwww. We went into the lounge and there they were in one corner, all over the floor, windowsill and curtains. It's at times like this that I appreciate my lovely husband. He let me shut him in the room with a hoover and large amounts of ant powder, and when I dared to look again there was not an ant to be seen. What a star :-)
Also in other news (gosh I'm chatty tonight) we have ordered a camera for me! Well, actually we have ordered the fancy next model up camera for Dave, this one, and I will use his current one. Should be cool. I'm looking forward to taking more photos of stuff to put up here. For today I shall leave you with this one Dave took on our morning walk of Neo having a good soak. I think that dog was a hippo in a former life.
