Tips and Chuckles…

You’d think going for a run was a simple affair – get dress, go – nothing more than that. Well, I’ve got a handy tip. Check your outfit before leaving home.

I got to the Run for the Kids training run tonight and set off running then noticed my t-shirt. I’d not changed it. Then I looked down the neck of my t-shirt and realised I’d not put on my running bra. Oops!

My head hadn’t been in a thinky place when I’d got changed, the bottom half of me was okay but the top, not so good. It wasn’t even a regular bra but my fancy dress up bra.

Still it ended well. It ended up being more supportive than some of my sports bras. Who knew you could have good cleavage and support?

I felt sick on the run again today. I’m going to try leaving a good 3-4 hours between eating and running in future. It would help if people didn’t give me cake. I couldn’t even have a beer afterwards and I came totally and utterly last (yeah I know it’s not a race but I’d like to kinda keep up).

Yesterday I went to Princes Park to do some speed intervals. I don’t really know what I’m doing but it seemed like a good idea. I thought I’d try running 6 minute kms for 2 km at a time. I did the first km and died. I did it in 5.26 mins though. Then I walked half a km and tried again, this time doing 1 km in 5.19. I think I need to work on my pacing because that is too fast for me to run. Well too fast for me to run for 2 km, obviously.

Oh and I didn’t feel sick yesterday because I went in the morning so had only eaten a banana.

In the afternoon, we went to see Rocky Balboa. What a great movie. I heart Rocky. I was all inspired when I left the cinema. I am so buying a punching bag if I get a job because it won’t bitch nearly as much as my sister does when I punch it.

Anyway, I thought I’d tell you a funny story. A friend of my sister’s came over today (he with the evil cake). He is touring the US soon and wants to re-enact scenes from movies in different cities. He tried to work out a movie for Chicago! We were both screaming ‘Chicago’ and he goes “yeah I’m going to Chicago, but what’s a movie from there?” My sister even sang the song and he still didn’t get it.

Happier

I’m feeling much better today, though I’d prolly feel even better if some pesky mosquito hadn’t been buzz around me all night. How come you can’t sleep through the sound of a mosquito? Damn things.

The interview went kinda well yesterday. I don’t have all the skills they need but the girl from the agency is going to talk to them about me because she thinks the skills I do have are so strong, they might be willing to training me.

I’m ambivalent about this job though. I’m not sure I want to return to a full time serious career position. I’ve been making such great progress with my writing. This is a very serious, very corporate career position. It comes with a very serious, very corporate salary. Part of me feels like I should be pursuing a career, a proper career in an office. To stop dicking around. Another part of me says that I should take my writing seriously or I’ll get nowhere with that.

I tried on running shoes yesterday at the Athlete’s Foot. Strangely enough, the guy said completely different stuff to what everyone else has ever told me about my feet. He said I had high arches. I’ve always thought I had high arches but every other time I’ve been fitted they’ve said I have normal arches. It’s stupid but I’m kinda proud of having high arches. He also said I needed a lot of heel support. I tried on some ASICS 1120s and they felt great but I’d really like a second opinion on this. I’m not investing all that money in a pair of running shoes that aren’t right – I’ve learnt my lesson on that.

Finally, some of my ebay auctions finish today. Hopefully I’ll get lots more bids. I’ve still got more stuff to list too but ebay kept stuffing up yesterday. I should go out for a run I guess instead of sitting around obsessively pressing refresh on my ebay browser.

Weigh In 77.1 kg

You know who sucks – me. I’ve put on 1.2 kg this week. I don’t even know how that happened. Well apart from not exercising enough and eating too much. I really don’t have to overeat much to put on weight and that sucks.

I haven’t been running since the Sunset Series the other night because I’m scared I’m going to get sick again and that sucks. The Run for the Kids is in less than 5 weeks and I’m totally unprepared and that sucks too.

I have a job interview today and I don’t want to go because I’m not going to get the job anyway so why waste my time and I dont’ want to get all dressed up and go into the city for nothing. And if, by some miracle I get the job, I’ll only suck at it.

I’m sick of being broke and struggling and I’m mighty sick of ebay because every time I try to list stuff on there, my browser freezes up.

I’m sick of everything and life sucks. I’m such a chirpy little rainbow today, aren’t I.

Ebay

I’ve just listed some of my clothes on ebay — here — and still have 2 more boxes of stuff to list. Arrrgh, let me tell you if you think it’s a good idea to buy black clothes before you lose weight, think again. Once you lose the weight, they are a total bitch to photograph when you want to sell them on ebay. Plus it just took me 2 hours to list 6 items. Everything is running insanely slow today.

Bad and Good

Sunset Series fun run at Princes Park last night – definitely bad. The first lap went well, I did great times then the second lap. Just after the midway point, I started feeling sick, then sicker and sicker. I had to stop running and walk. My friend, Simon, stayed with me even though I kept telling him he didn’t have to which wasn’t so much him being nice as being slack. Around the 6 km mark, an old man passed us so I ran to get ahead then felt sicker and walked. The old man passed us again – he was really, really old – so we ran then walked. Finally I let the old man get ahead. I walked, very slowly to the finish but once that finish line can into sight I had to do a sprint.

Afterwards I felt like I wanted to either vomit or pass out. Still managed to eat my post-run sausage though. It took forever to walk the km back to the car, I even needed a rest stop halfway. Am still feeling queasy today. Not good at all.

But this is good – I wrote an article for Women’s Health and Fitness magazine and my copy turned up today. Check it out if you get a chance – I interviewed a few bloggers for it Woohoo!

Working Man

Andrew got offered a job today. He starts work on Monday. I’m so happy and I think it will be a really good thing for him. It’s the first interview he’s ever done so pretty amazing that he got it. Of course, he’s very confident and self-assured, mostly due to good parenting (see what I did there). It’s working in a call centre but sounds great and if he sticks at it for 6 months they offer training to move into other areas. I reckon a year or two of working and, if he wants to go back to uni, he’ll be much more focused on what he wants to do.

Still there’s a part of me that is sad. Mostly because he has a job and I don’t. That doesn’t seem right. Sure it’s much easier to get call centre work than IT jobs especially at this time of year, but he’ll be earning more than me! Plus he turns 20 this weekend and he’s no longer a teenager. I’m not even used to him being a teenager yet. How did that happen?

Tuesday

My weight is down to 75.9 kg today. Ha, I knew the scales were lying yesterday. And that is why I never pay too much attention to them.

I’ve decided to have an easy day today. I hurt my leg doing yoga on Sunday!!! Am I the only person in the world who can do that? I’m hoping to do the Sunset Series run at Princes Park tomorrow – hopefully they’ll let me pay the concession price because I’m still fairly skint, but they aren’t too clear on their site who gets concession prices.

And that leads me to a rant! I’m so shitty about this – unfair concessions. A lot of runs give only give concessions to full time students. That means if you are on a health care card and struggling to survive, you pay full price, while some snotty little shit who’s at uni and living at home, needing nothing but party cash while Mummy and Daddy foot the bills gets a concession! Sure a lot of uni students struggle but then surely they’d be on a health care card.

It’s just like senior card discounts. They bug me. You know ANYONE who’s old get ones. If you are old but you own a million dollar mansion in Toorak and collect zillions of dollars from investments, you get a concession on public transport and movies and stuff. And, trust me, rich old people will do that.

Weigh In 76.8 kg

That’s a 0.8 kg gain this week but I’m not fussed. The hot weather always screws my weight around and I’ve been drinking about 800 litres of water a day. I know I’ve been eating relatively well and exercising so I figure as soon as it cools down, I’ll get normal.

You know what amazes me. When you go to the gym and people get to their class early so they sit on the ground for 10-15 doing nothing. Why not hop on a bike or something? If you’re going to be at the gym, may as well exercise.

I went to the gym yesterday and did a cardio workout then yoga. I had to leave yoga early though because you only get 2 hours parkng validation at the gym and I am not using my precious (and rapidly diminishing) supply of money on parking. I validated my ticket and left the gym then ran, all sweaty and gross, through the shopping centre to the ticket machine so I could get out free.

It’s been a hard week as far as money goes. My sister loaned me some because she rocks but I was supposed to get paid $80 for some work I did and only got $40. I’ll get the rest next week but really needed this week. I get $100 tomorrow so that rocks. I want to suspend my gym membership but I need money to do that.

So this week’s challenge is good posture. I have the worst posture and always slump but this week I’m going to be aware of it. Head up, stomach in.

Hot

How frigging hot is it! I’ll be glad when it cools down a bit. Didn’t stop me from going to the R4TK training run yesterday. I decided to not be lazy this week and do the 8 km run. Came dead last but still got a coffee and muffin so that was good.

When I got home, we spent the arvo watching Grey’s Anatomy. I’ve not seen it before and now I’m hooked. I also ate far too much bread – it’s just too easy to live on sangers when it’s so hot.

Today I’m heading over to the lovely air-conditioned gym. Might stay there all day so I can avoid the heat.

I’ve got so much to do this week, I need to make myself a schedule.

Oh yeah and Andrew had two job interviews this week – my mad resume writing skills are paying off him a lot better than they are for me. Fingers crossed that he gets one of them.

Valentines Day

Pssst, I’m feeling trapped in at the moment. My housemate is painting the side of the house outside my room and, I know if I open the curtains and the window, he’ll keep talking to me (or more like AT me). I’m in no mood for that so I’m sitting here with the curtains closed, scared to leave my room. He has no comprehension that I have better things to do than hear about his prostate plus he stinks! A couple of times he’s had my sister and I holed up in the hallway and he reeks of BO. We inch away trying to get out of smell range but he walks after us.

One of the local bars had a singles night last night for Valentines Day. I’d thought about going then remembered Andy was coming over for dinner. Personally I’d much rather spend time with my son than some desperate stranger in a bar.

Since Andrew didn’t get into the course he wanted at uni, we spent some time writing his resume and applying for jobs. I put together a basic application that he can use and change around. Don’t they teach that stuff to kids in school any more?

I’m kinda glad he didn’t get into his course. When he said he wanted to change over to Psychology, I’d have been fully supportive if I’d felt he really wanted to do it but I got the feeling that he just wanted out of his Computer Science course and would take anything else just to stay at uni. I reckon a few years in the workforce will do him good then if he decides to go back to study, he’ll be doing it because he really wants to do it, not because he’s too scared to do anything else.

After I dropped him home, I passed the bar and checked out the singles night. The place was packed full of tanned, blonde chicks who all looked the same and a couple of meathead guys. I think I made the right choice picking family time instead.