I heart my laptop!

My laptop rules. It’s speediness means I can do amazing things like play Itunes and do other things at the same time. Woohoo. I haven’t tried using the wireless yet but I set up my modem – I thought it would be dead hard because I lost the install Cd (well, it’s not lost, just in a box in my storage space…. arggggh!) but I did it. The hardest part of the whole changeover process was that I only had one mouse and had to keep swapping it over. I can’t use those whizzy finger thingos on the laptop. Plus the mouse kept thinking I’d double clicked when I’d only clicked once so I got very mad.

Get this, I used a flash drive to move all my files over. It took 16 minutes to copy the first lot of files onto it and 16 seconds to transfer them off it and onto the laptop. I even copied over my emails which isn’t the most intuitive process – plus I couldn’t search the folders on my old computer cos the search made the monitor go crazy! That was some fun.

The only thing that’s slow is my internet connection so I’m going to have to play with that tomorrow. I’ve spent far too long at the computer today. Oh and I also need Office or an Office substitute. I only want Word and Excel, not all the other shit that comes with it.

Okay, I have a deep, un-laptop related thought for the day. You know when you have kids and you made the tough calls and you tell them – ‘you’ll thank me for this one day’, that’s bullshit isn’t it. Have you ever thanked your parents for the tough calls? I’ve never thanked my mum. Mostly I still bitch about it. Although one time when I was 16, I told her I was staying with a friend and actually stayed at my boyfriend’s place. She found out and came and picked me up. I’ve never said that I was secretly relieved cos after the first night I was kinda bored and had no way of getting home. But if I told her, I’d be admitting she was right

Fun run

We went for a long run today – 15 kms. About half way we passed a laptop shop and I’ve been looking for one for a while and, even though it was a quick browse, I found the one I want and put it on hold. The salesman had a bit of trouble with the concept that I was in mid run and had no cash or cards on me. He also had trouble with the concept that I didn’t want a sales pitch, just a few answers to my questions.

Anyway, I have to go in tomorrow and pick it up which is a total pain in the arse because it’s opposite Vic Market. I’m a bit worried too because it’s the same price as a lot of others I looked at yet far better than anything else in the same price range. It’s refurbished but I’d be paying at least double to get the same specs in something new. Plus tomorrows the cut off (end of financial year) so this is it.

After that, we continued running but it got very wet then very windy. By the time we got to Princes Park, we were the two most miserable runners ever. If we’d have seen a cab, we’d have not made the full distance. Luckily the last 4 kms were nice and sheltered.

I’m feeling a bit poorly now – we’d planned the run for 2.00 this arvo so I had a yummo orange and macademia nut slice for morning tea then no lunch cos I get sick if eat within 2 hours or so of my run then Simon called to say he was working from home so instead of running from work I went to his place. After much paffing around, it was 4.00 when we started running. by the time we ran, shopped, ran some more, showered changed, got out for dinner, ordered and got served I could have eaten a horse. I could have eaten a dead, rotting horse carcass! I scoffed down the best ever curry platter (we went to Lentil as Anything – one of my fave eating places in the world) and a few glasses of wine. Not exactly a winning combo!

We finished the night at the pub watching the footy. I’ve never been into footy but our family tipping comp is so hotly contested that I’ve been taking more of an interested. And – damnit – I tipped Melbourne! I have a system that makes no sense but usually works. It’s based on geography and personal bias.

So tomorrow I’m getting the laptop and since I’m in the Vic Market ‘hood, picking up some fruit and vege, then off to get some wool. In the arvo I’m planning trips to Borders and Starbucks and anywhere else with WiFi. I’m so excited – my old PC is so shite it has a Y2K compliance sticker!

Runs and Gatherings

Tonight was supposed to be a speed interval session at Princes Park.. ha, ha, that soon got moved inside. We did 2 min fast, 3 min recovery x 5 on the treadie at the gym instead and I’m buggered now. I think I went too hard cos I couldn’t maintain my fast speed for the last interval.

In November I have to go back to Tassie for my Nan’s 95th birthday. I’m determined to be total buff and gorgeous by then. I’m going to see heaps of rellos that I haven’t seen in over 10 years (I’ve been back home since then but never bothered seeing them).

Now, all you Melbourne knitters, the lovely Brooke is organising a knitting get together with much frivolity and snack foods. Go tell her you want in on it. Remember you burn 40 calories an hour more knitting than just sitting on your butt.

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Cold

I’m so cold. I don’t think I’ve been really warm in the last two months or more. Yesterday at work I was complaining about the cold and one of the woman said she freezes when she gets up of a morning until she puts on the ducted heating. I nearly hit her. If I had ducted heating, I’d be in heaven. Well actually even hell is looking good because it’d be warm.

The other day I thought about packing all my stuff into the car and driving until I could turn the heaters off and moving there. It’s damn cold. Sometimes it’s even colder inside our house than it is inside. At least I’m motivated for my morning run – it means I only have to shower in the arctic bathroom once a day!

When I get paid this weekend I think I’ll go shopping for more heaters and some thermal underwear and a bodysuit made from electric blankets.

Tagged

I’ve been tagged by Jaykay (I think someone else tagged me as well so if it was you, yell at me in the comments cos I have the attention span of a goldfish atm).

Aim of the game is a one word response.

1. Where is your cell phone? somewhere

2. Relationship? phhtt

3. Your hair? brown

4. Work? distant

5. Your sister? invalid

6. Your favourite thing? bed

7. Your dream last night? weird

8. Your favourite drink? coffee

9. Your dream car? any

10. The room you’re in? bedroom

11. Your shoes? bed socks

12. Your fears? clowns

13. What do you want to be in 10 years? famous

14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? sister

15. What are you not good at? co-ordination

16. Muffin? top

17. Wish list item? laptop

18. Where you grew up? Tasmania

19. The last thing you did? wash up

20. What are you wearing? pjs

21. What are you not wearing? enough warm clothes (more than one word but I’m freezing)

22. Your pet? none

23. Your computer? dinosaur

24. Your life? quiet

25. Your mood? tired

26. Missing? sleep

27. What are you thinking about? knitting

28. Your car? filthy

29. Your kitchen? filthy

30. Your summer? please

31. Your favourite colour? purple

32. Last time you laughed? today

33. Last time you cried? yonks

34. School? boring

35. Love? huh?

I tag Kada, Mary and CKK.

Night all, I’m off to bed. Been feeling a bit under the weather today. And cold.

Sunday

Bike rides 4, bike accidents 0 – woohoo!

I’ve not been out on my bike for weeks so headed out while my sister did her walk today. This should give you an idea of cycling prowess – I can ride while she walks and she has chronic fatigue. This kid about 3-4 years old went whizzing past me being all feisty and making me look bad. Then we got across the creek and the kid went tearing down a hill and fell off. I laughed a lot. Sucked in, kid, that’s what your feistiness gets you. My sister said I’m going to hell for that but the kid didn’t see me laughing.

One day I’m going to ride fast enough to get some cardio benefits.

Anyway, this arvo I’m off to the pub. My sister wants to watch her team play (the Saints) and it’s not on telly so I said I’d go with her and play the ponies. I’m taking my knitting. All I need now is a pack of Craven A and some glases on a chain to complete my look.

Naked at Work

I went for a run in my lunch hour at work on Friday. I’ve never run at lunch time before and it felt weird showering afterwards. I kept thinking OMG, I’m naked at work! Even though we only did a short run, my new shoes rubbed on the back of my foot enough for me to bleeding when I got back! Not good. Hopefully I can sort that would somehow.

Next week I’m thinking of knocking off early because Simon has Friday arvos off work and we can do our long run then – or tackle Mt Dandenong for a shorter, hillier run.

I had a massage on Friday night, very needed. Seems my calves were full of knots.

Yesterday morning, I felt pretty battered from the sore foot and the massage. We’d planned a long run around the Tan and Albert Park lake but I decided to just try the Tan first so if I felt too crap I’d not be far from the car.

The first lap ended up warm us up nicely and I felt no pain (thank you, Elastoplaster) so we headed down to the lake and got in our whole 14 km including 2 runs up Anderson St (without stopping – go me) and a race up one of the hills on the other side. The whole 14 kms felt pretty effortless and has got me feeling more confident about getting my goal time for the City to Surf.

When I got home, I found out I’d done something stupid. Jadey called me about the blogger meetup but I’d somehow thought it was in July – I think I’d got confused with the Ausrun meet – and had double booked myself. It seems I always miss the blogger meets. Next time I’m going to write it in my diary and make sure I get there even if it means crawling on my hands and knees. I’m sure it was a fantastic night.

Instead I went to Can’t Stop the Serenity, which was pretty awesome – a screening of the movie Serenity to raise money for Equality Now. They had these all over the world and I’ve never been to a fan event before so it was heaps of fun. To complete the geekiness, we popped into Minotaur beforehand and got the first 4 editions of the Buffy comic.

Speed

After saying I never do speed intervals, I actually did some last night. I meet up with a friend a Princes Park – god knows I’d have never made it otherwise. It was freezing. We did 3 X 1 km bursts, not all that fast but fast enough. Tomorrow we’re meeting up at lunch time for a run from work along Dandenong creek. Pity I can’t take a long, long lunch or I could do some City to Surf training up Mt Dandenong.

Oh and I found a good way to occupy my commuting time on the way home – looking up running routes in the Melways. This morning I planned a trip to the gym before work but decided halfway to have a rest day instead. I decided against getting changed out of my workout gear in the car – the top would have been okay (I had on a singlet) but the trousers would have been challenging. I’ve also discovered leaving work at 4.30 is far superior to leaving at 5.00 so I think some early mornings are on the cards for next week – which means getting up even earlier to get in a run. Sounds like I have at least another week’s work which rules.

Frustrations

First up, I have an blogging etiquette questions – when people leave comments with questions, should you reply in your own comments section, reply in the comments on their blog (if they have one) or post the reply? I’m never sure and I assume people aren’t going to come back and read through the comments to see the answer, plus I get my comments emailed to me so never go into that section.

Today’s been a bad day. Not serious bad, just irratingly niggly bad. I got caught in traffic again this morning, the traffic is hell this week for some reason and it’s so unpredictable. No matter what time I leave home, I get caught somewhere along the way. It vexes me no end that most of these cars are people going into the city and I have to get around them. Catch public transport, you precious bastards and leave the roads free for those of us going places where there is none.

It took me over an hour to get to work. That’s ridiculous. I get so angry and frustrated sitting in traffic. It’s such a stupid waste of time. But I don’t get stuck long enough to do anything productive like put on my makeup or knitting or stuff like that. I sometimes have my breakfast in the car though – and now my car is filled with coffee cups. I’m never working anyway ever again that isn’t accessible by PT.

The other thing I’m sooking about is that I put on 3 kilos this week, well just under. What the hell is that about? How can a person put on that much weight? You’d think it’d take a serious effort but no. Well about from cake-apoolza the other day. Damn you, Preston market and your $4.90 boxes of little cakes. Three freakin’ kilograms. That’s insane.