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Mon, May. 29th, 2017 09:50 pm
Interrupting Japan postings for a loooooong overdue life update:
I have a kitten! A few photos up on my Insta. His name is Rory, cos he's a LION, rawr. Also because my favourite Crow is Rory Sloane. Mostly the second thing. And there are three Rorys in the team right now. But yes. My tiny meow is adorable <3 He likes sitting on my shoulder, purrs so loudly you can hear him from the other side of the room, so affectionate and sweet.
I also have a boi-thing! His name is Joe. He's a chef currently out of work with a bung shoulder that was bung when I met him late last year. Met on Tinder (shuddup) and things are awesome. Super respectful, not pressuring anything and just happy to go with the flow. I like him lots. I keep meaning to do a full post on this new and exciting aspect of life but it seems to be all but June and I've done nothing of the sort. It'll happen!
I am doing the fitness! I tried starting right at the beginning of the year, doing something every day I wasn't busy, but being the beginning of the year I was busy every day. So midway through January, when it turned out I'd done about 4 days of fitness out of the two weeks, I changed that to fitness every day regardless. Keeping that streak going has been great motivation. Primarily it's been sprints, which means 4 sprints over the course of 20 minutes--flog it for 30 seconds then rest for the next 4 minutes 30--and I kept the streak going all the way up until I didn't have enough daylight after work to do so, upping it by then to 6 sprints in 20 minutes. Also, yes, Japan fell in there, where I didn't do sprints but the walking totally counted. So for the past three weeks I've picked up things to do that aren't the sprints, pushups and situps and squats and such on Monday/Wednesday/Friday and 45-ish minute walks Tuesday/Thursday, still doing sprints on Saturday and stretches on Sunday. So far going well but I haven't had any walks that've tested me yet. The weather's been holding out, but tomorrow it's going to be the first of the proper winter days when I get home, cold and dark and wet and probably windy, but I'M GONNA DO IT. I've lost 15 kilos so far, aiming for another 10-ish. It's all making me feel super good about myself, for sticking with it and for making pants that wouldn't go over my hips last year now suddenly become baggy, for being proud of what I'm making happen in the mirror, for not giving up when the weather turned to shit... I feel good about me :D
I did a workshop over the weekend about indoor plants. I hope to keep them alive. I now have ivy in the toilet room draping down from the window, and a tiny new parlour palm that will get nice and tall and can go by the front door and look stunning, and a bunch of cuttings that I will attempt to turn into plants.
Crows are awesome and I love all of them. Just flogged Freo by 100 points in the wettest conditions I've ever seen in Adelaide. It was incredible.
I have a kitten! A few photos up on my Insta. His name is Rory, cos he's a LION, rawr. Also because my favourite Crow is Rory Sloane. Mostly the second thing. And there are three Rorys in the team right now. But yes. My tiny meow is adorable <3 He likes sitting on my shoulder, purrs so loudly you can hear him from the other side of the room, so affectionate and sweet.
I also have a boi-thing! His name is Joe. He's a chef currently out of work with a bung shoulder that was bung when I met him late last year. Met on Tinder (shuddup) and things are awesome. Super respectful, not pressuring anything and just happy to go with the flow. I like him lots. I keep meaning to do a full post on this new and exciting aspect of life but it seems to be all but June and I've done nothing of the sort. It'll happen!
I am doing the fitness! I tried starting right at the beginning of the year, doing something every day I wasn't busy, but being the beginning of the year I was busy every day. So midway through January, when it turned out I'd done about 4 days of fitness out of the two weeks, I changed that to fitness every day regardless. Keeping that streak going has been great motivation. Primarily it's been sprints, which means 4 sprints over the course of 20 minutes--flog it for 30 seconds then rest for the next 4 minutes 30--and I kept the streak going all the way up until I didn't have enough daylight after work to do so, upping it by then to 6 sprints in 20 minutes. Also, yes, Japan fell in there, where I didn't do sprints but the walking totally counted. So for the past three weeks I've picked up things to do that aren't the sprints, pushups and situps and squats and such on Monday/Wednesday/Friday and 45-ish minute walks Tuesday/Thursday, still doing sprints on Saturday and stretches on Sunday. So far going well but I haven't had any walks that've tested me yet. The weather's been holding out, but tomorrow it's going to be the first of the proper winter days when I get home, cold and dark and wet and probably windy, but I'M GONNA DO IT. I've lost 15 kilos so far, aiming for another 10-ish. It's all making me feel super good about myself, for sticking with it and for making pants that wouldn't go over my hips last year now suddenly become baggy, for being proud of what I'm making happen in the mirror, for not giving up when the weather turned to shit... I feel good about me :D
I did a workshop over the weekend about indoor plants. I hope to keep them alive. I now have ivy in the toilet room draping down from the window, and a tiny new parlour palm that will get nice and tall and can go by the front door and look stunning, and a bunch of cuttings that I will attempt to turn into plants.
Crows are awesome and I love all of them. Just flogged Freo by 100 points in the wettest conditions I've ever seen in Adelaide. It was incredible.