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Tue, Feb. 25th, 2020 08:53 pm
My phone carked it :< After years of loyal service it's just given up the ghost. It was the perfect phone: green, reasonably cheap and, best of all, waterproof. I've taken it in the pool on multiple occasions, been running with it in the rain, swum in the ocean with it shoved in my bathers. Apart from that one time last summer that I forgot to dry out its headphone jack after swimming in the sea and the salt very quickly corroded said jack, it's been brilliant. This afternoon, though, dead. Functioned fine while in the sea (well, 'fine', with everything wet the touch response always takes a bit of effort to dry your finger off enough for it to register, but still, fine), fine when I got out of the water and dried it off to stop my fitness tracking, but when I got home, it wouldn't turn on again. I took the back off, where it's usually bone dry, and it was sodden. I followed this tutorial to take it apart and subsequently shattered the screen and possibly broke its earpiece, but I had fun taking it apart, anyway.
So now I'm in the market for a new phone. I highly doubt I'll find that holy trinity of cheap, green and waterproof, but I can dream. Or just find another Motorola G3 on ebay. I've done that before, when the headphone jack died, with the intention of using its headphone jack to replace mine, but I've just been using the extra phone in the car for music. It came from Brazil, tho, so my Aussie sim card won't work in it, sadly.
ALSO. I have a bung ankle. This was from Wednesday two weeks ago, now. Running on the beach, doing my sprints as I've been doing for a good chunk of February, and I stepped in a footprint, rolling my ankle. It felt so innocuous at the time, just a bit of an, 'ooh,' bit of a sting, and I kept going with just a twinge, figuring it'd work itself out. Once I got back to the car, it had swollen up to give me a not insignificant cankle. After a week of no improvement, I went to the doctor and was told that yep, that's normal, this sort of injury usually takes 4-6 weeks to heal.
D:
This sucks balls. I've been doing so well with the fitness! Going to the beach after work for most of February to do sprints on the beach or go swimming if it's been warm enough. If I made it down every day for the month, I was going to reward myself with Copenhagen ice cream on the 29th and it was going to be awesome. I've been gearing myself up for self-imposed Walk Week! For the second week of March! When there were going to be no committments from Sunday through to Saturday, no footy or cricket, no family dinner and even a public holiday Monday, so I was going to go on a bushwalk (or similar) every day after work with the last of daylight savings... That's not happening now, cos the stupid thing'll only be at 3.5 weeks by then and not up to bushwalking. It STILL doesn't feel any better than day one.
But eh. New tech is exciting, my phone was getting somewhat slow and only just lasting the day on battery anyway, so that's fine. Ankle will heal, and I can't feel it at all when in the water so I can at least still do fitness while it's summer. I'm just piling together eeeeverything to give me motivation right now. For every 5 kilos I'm buying myself a fitness reward. 85kg will be new socks (I know, thrilling, but that should've happened this week if not for the goddamn ankle, and my sockies right now are so threadbare in the balls of my feet that one of the four has a hole there), 80kg will be new shoes and 75kg, my goal, will be sexy activewear from, like, Lorna Jane or Seafolly or something. Because screw you I'll have earned it by then. Anyway I'm compiling pictures of all these things as motivation. Also, a list of things to ddo to mix it up, such as Walk Week, which will now have to move to the end of the year (booooo), interesting places to do the fitness (like the beach! Or the botanic gardens, along the Torrens, look up other places...), do like a gym/yoga/pilates/whatever trial month to see what, if anything, I'm missing there. All that stuff. So I'll get back there. Just frigging annoying right now.
Time to look at new phones. Yay.
So now I'm in the market for a new phone. I highly doubt I'll find that holy trinity of cheap, green and waterproof, but I can dream. Or just find another Motorola G3 on ebay. I've done that before, when the headphone jack died, with the intention of using its headphone jack to replace mine, but I've just been using the extra phone in the car for music. It came from Brazil, tho, so my Aussie sim card won't work in it, sadly.
ALSO. I have a bung ankle. This was from Wednesday two weeks ago, now. Running on the beach, doing my sprints as I've been doing for a good chunk of February, and I stepped in a footprint, rolling my ankle. It felt so innocuous at the time, just a bit of an, 'ooh,' bit of a sting, and I kept going with just a twinge, figuring it'd work itself out. Once I got back to the car, it had swollen up to give me a not insignificant cankle. After a week of no improvement, I went to the doctor and was told that yep, that's normal, this sort of injury usually takes 4-6 weeks to heal.
D:
This sucks balls. I've been doing so well with the fitness! Going to the beach after work for most of February to do sprints on the beach or go swimming if it's been warm enough. If I made it down every day for the month, I was going to reward myself with Copenhagen ice cream on the 29th and it was going to be awesome. I've been gearing myself up for self-imposed Walk Week! For the second week of March! When there were going to be no committments from Sunday through to Saturday, no footy or cricket, no family dinner and even a public holiday Monday, so I was going to go on a bushwalk (or similar) every day after work with the last of daylight savings... That's not happening now, cos the stupid thing'll only be at 3.5 weeks by then and not up to bushwalking. It STILL doesn't feel any better than day one.
But eh. New tech is exciting, my phone was getting somewhat slow and only just lasting the day on battery anyway, so that's fine. Ankle will heal, and I can't feel it at all when in the water so I can at least still do fitness while it's summer. I'm just piling together eeeeverything to give me motivation right now. For every 5 kilos I'm buying myself a fitness reward. 85kg will be new socks (I know, thrilling, but that should've happened this week if not for the goddamn ankle, and my sockies right now are so threadbare in the balls of my feet that one of the four has a hole there), 80kg will be new shoes and 75kg, my goal, will be sexy activewear from, like, Lorna Jane or Seafolly or something. Because screw you I'll have earned it by then. Anyway I'm compiling pictures of all these things as motivation. Also, a list of things to ddo to mix it up, such as Walk Week, which will now have to move to the end of the year (booooo), interesting places to do the fitness (like the beach! Or the botanic gardens, along the Torrens, look up other places...), do like a gym/yoga/pilates/whatever trial month to see what, if anything, I'm missing there. All that stuff. So I'll get back there. Just frigging annoying right now.
Time to look at new phones. Yay.
