jelly legs
27 Sep 2010 2 Comments
in blabber
i cannot bend my legs.
well, i can, but very painfully.
nope, it’s not my knees. i’m not that old! yet…
it’s my thighs. we went down 418 steps on saturday and went up and down a steep… ummm… hill, i think, on sunday and my legs are so out of shape, the muscles are screaming in pain right now.
i do walk up and down the stairs every day at work but that’s about it. and i thought i was in an okay shape but apparently, yoga and cycling use different muscles than walking down 418 steps.
this came as a surprise because, come on… i can do split! when i sat on the floor and reach for my toes with my hands, i can almost kiss my knees! i can do yoga poses! i go to work and stand for seven hours straight no problem! and MOH, who, i promise you, is in much worse shape than me, is not in pain.
i wince when i get in the car. i go aw aw aw when i sit down. when i bent my knees to pick things up from the floor today, i had to push myself up with my hands because i couldn’t use my leg muscles to get me up. walking up and down the stairs at work today was a torture. and it took me forever to walk up and down one level.
the good news is i lost about 300gr over the weekend even though i ate two plates of white rice, two giant pieces of cake with thick cream on them (one following a brekkie of leftover rice and one after dinner) and plenty of choccies. and all i had to do was walking down steps and climbing a hill. how about that…
this year’s birthday pressies
20 Sep 2010 3 Comments
in blabber
so on top of going to london, i got more pressies for my birthday this year.
my old laptop is slow. and it gets warm very easily. i’m fine with it, in fact i still use it until today but MOH kept saying it would catch fire one day (and, would you believe it, a computer at work actually went up in smoke. a fire engine actually came!). so MOH, his mum and dad all pitched in and bought me a laptop.
as i said, i still use my old laptop because i like it a lot but it’s nice to have a new, faster laptop on the side.
it’s sitting on top of the old laptop in this picture. it’s a bit smaller than the old one and kinda hard to use even with my short, stubby fingers.
aaaaaand… MOH is being extra sweet and got me something extra special.
here it is.
tadaaaaaaaaa…..
(please ignore the dry and hairy fingers. they’re ugly, i know)
but yeah… all in all, a good birthday 
off with the extra kilos – progress report
17 Sep 2010 6 Comments
in blabber
the black dress… i can zip it all the way up.
you can’t really tell from looking at me but i can feel it. my clothes are looser, my stomach is a teeeeeensy bit smaller, and when i put my moisturiser on my arms, i can feel bones.
i’ve only lost five kilos so far but i’m feeling good. i admit, i’m a bit obsessed with the scale but it helps to see the numbers written there because then i know for sure i’ve lost some weight, otherwise i feel like maybe it’s all just in my head.
the best thing about this whole trying to lose weight thing is that i’m doing so much yoga that i now have better posture. i used to keep telling myself to stop slouching and stand up straight. now, i think, wow, i am actually standing up properly.
yoga is kinda nice. i’m less stiff and it’s good to feel somehow flexible again. i used to be able to kiss my knees (literally) with ease, believe it or not. i can’t anymore so my goal now is to be able to do that again. and to do split with my left leg in front (i still can do split with my right leg in front).
now if only i can handle pilates. i reckon another couple of months with yoga will prepare me for it. pilates is hard core!
cold
16 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in in norway
i came out from work around 10.30pm last night.
the moment i stepped out of the building, the cold air hit me. it was so cold, it felt like winter. frosty breath. icy fingers.
i was sweating and complaining about the warm weather last week. we sat out in the sun and had a barbie at work last week.
unbelievable. not that i’m complaining or anything.
eight years
15 Sep 2010 2 Comments
in blabber
MOH and i have officially been together for eight years today.
this is how we marked the day.
i left home for work around 5.50am. kissed my still sleeping husband goodbye.
i came home from work around 1.15pm. MOH still at work so i did a load of laundry, yoga and made some pancakes.
at 3.45pm, i went back to work. MOH was still at work.
sometimes before 9pm, i wrote a message to MOH to tell him i’d be home a bit late. around 10, 10.30.
followed quickly by a message saying happy 8th anniversary.
i came home at around 10.30pm.
MOH told me off for working too much.
apparently, that’s how grown-ups with jobs and responsibilities celebrate anniversaries.
good + bad
12 Sep 2010 2 Comments
in blabber
yoga is good for you. or so i heard.
cheez doodles, on the other hand, not so. so they say.
i started my yoga session today with two pieces of the sinful, bright orange, addictive and super yummy cheez doodles in my mouth.
hey, it’s important to be balanced, right. all work and no play and all that.
after the holiday
11 Sep 2010 2 Comments
in travel
london – AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
while i probably would go crazy if i had to take the warm and stinky underground every day, i wouldn’t mind living a few hours drive away from london so i could visit it frequently. that would be soooooo good.
i had the greatest time. and i did fun stuffs for my birthday.
16 extra kilos of baggage later, we came home.
home on saturday, worked on monday. and this week, i worked 53 hours. talk about crashing back to reality.
i will write about our days in london. which reminds me, still haven’t finished writing about the rome holiday. i’m such a slacker.
i’ll be working 53 hours again next week so we’ll see how things go.
here’s a picture taken from behind our hotel room’s window. sunset over london.
oh, how i miss london.
