41 years and counting. Today´s entertainment has been cancelled, due to illness in the family. So, instead for spending the day basking in the warmth of my co-workers’ recognition, I’ll be tending sickly children. Yay! snotty tissue for a B-D prez!..
And I still have to receive the Happy-Happy-Rainbows-And-Magical-Unicorns M4 that I wished for a week or so back…
My B-day is on it’s way, and apart from World Peace and Food For All, all I want is this…
Pretty please?
Historical day today!
Following some ten months of industrious bicycle commuting, I finally managed to crash! Brutally. Over the handlebars, no less. And it involved a party of the second party…
So, universe – I’ve survived a few scrapes, was allowed to get away with stuff that I really shouldn’t have gotten away with. And now this. Could we call it blank slate? OK?
Postscript – and a word to the wise. Should you find yourself in a situation wherein you are approaching a teenage cyclist, apparently on his/her/it’s way to school, in the morning, sporting a dreamy kind of look in the eyes (and a pair of headphones) on a narrow piece of cycle path - give said person a wide berth
It could turn out that, as you move to your right to create space, he/she/it moves to his/her/it’s left, to create chaos:-)
Voila, a chance to validate one of Newton’s theories…
Success!
I’ve recently bought a nice new camera (Olympus XZ-1, if anyone was interested) after having realised that there are next to no piccies of the kids taken after 2007. Which was when the old camera went bust. And whatever pictures there are, they are snapped with a mobile phone. To varying degrees of horrible.
So, you ask – what’s so special about that then. There’s not even images uploaded of friends, dogs and gear. Nada!
Well, the Success! part refers to the fact that I – for the first time in a long time – actually made a plan for spending a wad of cash. Previously my behaviour was something along the lines of:
So, having done steps one and two I actually managed to put my Grown-Up hat on and ask .”Do I really have to have this right now? And do I have the funds for it right here and now?” Since the answer to both of these boooooring Grown-Up questions was a clear and distinct NO! I actually managed to practise the restraint needed to defer to the next paycheck – which I knew would contain a bit of financial windfall.
And then I splurged. Well knowing that it was OK, it didn’t break the bank and all was well.
The paradox for me is that, having spent quite a lot of money (for me, at least), I’m actually closer to my goal of practising financial frugality than I was before. Nice, innit?
This is something that I should have done way, way back. But somehow never got around to…
Anyways, here’s my summary of the TPB-inspired 30-day challenge I submitted myself to during March.
First off all I would like to, in all honesty, admit to failing at the challenge. Although some parts went quite well (Move slow, lift heavy) I did tend to cheat on some of the others, mainly food-and-drink-related things… I’m a bit too much of a beer-hog, (lover, enthusiast, drunkard – it’s all the same to me…) and at times processed stuff made a short and tasty journey through my innards.
So, where does that lead us? Well, for one I intend to do another challenge shortly. Same duration – 30 days – only this time it will be in the form of ten three-day challenges. I’ve noted a tendency in myself to having problems keeping focus for so long a time. So, by cutting down the duration and being able to give myself a pat on the back after three days (Attaboy, well done. Have a para nut…) I imagine that the journey will be somewhat easier.
Then, there is the item of restraint. As I’ve previously mentioned, restraint is sort of my motto for the year. I’ve come to a point in my life where I realise that unless I start practicing restraint on all levels, things are going to go downhill. And quite rapidly at that. Hence another round of challenge(s) is called for. Although this time around I’ll skip the documentary part…
So, starting next week I’m officially launching the brand new “3X10-day Challenge” – obviously with the ulterior motive of getting fit for Beach 2012:-)
I just realised that I could possibly be the laziest bastard around… On the couch, dog Smoring beside me, I turn off the computer by way of remote access*, instead of getting up and walking 5 meters.
All in all, I think it cost me a minute.
*(more on that in a later post…)
Even the good lord took a day off. And so have I. Two, for a nice, even number.
And no, the resolve didn’t hold up this weekend either. But I did get some quality time with the kids. And used the old noggin, trying to fix a sink.