025: Successful Day if I do say so myself

It might only be early afternoon and I may have slept in until 10.30, but still I have managed to get some every exciting things done.

1. Finally completed the whole beginners lap on my 5K running challange (it has taken several attempts, for the first one, read here.)

2. Admitted to the government where I live. (I'm not on the run or anything, but the shire was chasing me down having a different address to the my registered vote, but I'm all legal now)

3. Tried (and failed) to roast pumpkin seeds. Mmmm, charcoal

Signed up for the 50/50 Challenge. To read fifty book and watch fifty new movies in a year. I just hope they let me go 'til November next year and not January. For more info on a very exciting idea, see here

4. Had lunch. Even small acheivments count, right? 

Gosh, I'm on such a roll, imagine what would have happened if I woke up in the morning, I could have solved world peace by now.  

  Kathleen x

024: When I told work I had plans, I'm not sure this is what they had in mind

I work five to six night a week and usually those precious nights off are when I make plans and reconnect with life outside my work. However, tonight was something different. Tonight, I planned to do nothing. I did get that dreaded call at half past six asking if I could cover a last minute absence, but I couldn't. My nothing-ness was already planned.

House mate had her own work to go to, so I waltzed down to the local to pick up a few essentials. Fixed myself a tasty dinner, poured myself a glass of second cheapest wine in the shop and settled in for a good read.
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 I cannot think of a better way to spend my evenings.

  Kathleen x

023: I didn't think I would appreciate it at the time

As it is coming around to the gift giving season, I though I might share with you all the gift that I had to pretend I liked until I actually used it.

Last year for my birthday, my sister bought be "The Book Lovers Journal' a cute little book where I was supposed to write down all the books I'd read and my opinions. I didn't really think much of it at the time. I was part way though my English degree at the time - all the books I read had thousand word essay written in their honour.

But then I needed it

In the early hours of the morning, and I had just finished J.K Rowling's first book for adults "The Casual Vacancy" and found myself clutching the poor book and sobbing into into pages. (spoiler, it has a sad ending) All I wanted to do was call my friends and tell them all they had to read this book. But it was three am, and calls that late are only acceptable if you are drunk or dying. So I just had to write about it.

So for all you people out there who are looking for something for the book lover who doesn't need any more books.  have a look here.

  Kathleen x

022: Apparently I would be dead in a zombie apocalypses

Spring has crept up on me so suddenly that I had almost forgotten my mid year resolution (much the same as New Year Resolutions, but without the hype and expectations) to be fit for summer. So I dusted off my runners and legging - the only time its acceptable to wear leggings in public - and decided to go for a run.

During my last feeble attempt at getting fit, I downloaded a 'Couch to Marathon 5K Running" Ap in the hopes that a little motivaion would help me get there (last time I hadn't even opened it) and decided that this sunny Spring morning would be a good time to try it out.

As it turns out, I'm not even fit enough for the beginners level. I jogged through my warm up, feeling the energy pulse through me - and then he (the little overly American trainer that I had selected) told me to run.

It might have been only for a minute, but I could feel myself dying as I ran. The warm breeze brushing through my hair, the flies hitching a ride on my sweaty back, uncoordinated feet hitting the pavement in some attempt at rhythm. It was the hardest minute of my life.

Clearly its going to take a while before I get to those 5km, but I'm (hopefully) not going to give up yet.

  Kathleen x