Archive for February, 2006
Yesterday we went down to Cornwall for the wedding of two mutual friends from uni. Traditional service (lovely dress!) in Truro and then a reception in Falmouth in the very nice indeed Falmouth Beach Hotel where we stayed the night. The food was superb, the speeches were most amusing, the band was excellent, and to top it all off we got to catch up with another good friend from uni and her boyfriend who were also there 
Aside from the traditional loss of children or gaining of children-in-law (depending on how you look at these things), the day also involved the loss of a handbag, the omission and consequent purchase of footwear and the gaining of a flower arrangement - not quite up there with Eastenders but fairly eventful for the South West I thought! A fun weekend all told Congratulations to the happy couple!
Breakthrough!!
3:33 pmLast night, whilst at Starz - the home of the best barbeque ribs in Exeter - I had…. a salad!! I consider this to be my biggest achievement to date in my quest to lose weight and become fit It did have steak in it, but I figure it still counts as everything else was a fruit or a vegetable.
In other news, my next grading is on Saturday 4th March - why on a weekend?? Why?? I like my lie-ins dammit!
Catching up
12:59 pmWell, I’ve been using Dvorak for about a week now and am finding it much easier altho still some considerable improvement needed. It feels better than using Qwerty did (Qwerty itself now feels most odd indeed) altho passwords and non-letter keys are still proving to be a pain. My guitar practice is also going well - I now know what ’sus’ and ‘add’ mean in terms of chords and my theory is getting better; still need to work on getting to grips with barre chords tho as they’re not flowing yet.
In other news, I’ve given up on the gym in favour of walking to work - it’s cheaper, means I can still leave at 4pm and makes me feel a bit more alert in the mornings. It also means I am no longer quite so old woman like with excess gym on top of TKD I’m also having another of my WoW phases, altho not at the expense of other things like the afore-mentioned guitar, TKD and domesticity.
Valentine’s Day
11:50 pmLie in, lovely card, day off work, KFC lunch, brownies, meal in evening - v. good day
Dvorak
1:48 amToday (well yesterday) I decided to switch to Dvorak as my wrist has been playing up - a few hours in and my touchtyping is slow but better than it ever was in Qwerty and it can only improve …. or drive me insane
That is all.
Time to post: about 5 mins…. hmmmmm
Weekend musings
6:04 pmIt’s Saturday afternoon and I’m sitting on the sofa idly chatting to people, having been out to lunch earlier with Kev (obviously!) and Dave B and had a yummy vegetable broth and toad in the hole, with an evening of Saturday telly and left over pizza ahead of me - bliss Been getting fed up lately of having to go to work and TKD in the same place and feeling as if I lived there so a relaxing weekend away from the place was just what the doctor ordered.
Currently looking forward to Valentines Day which I’ve booked as a day off work - lie in, brownies and a meal in the evening on the agenda; TKD very much not It occured to me earlier that all the holidays seem to be squeezed into 4 months of the year with nothing between Easter and Xmas other than a vacation if you can afford one….seems most unfair to me, pressie getting should be more spread out throughout the year like pressie buying seems to be :p
All that Brazz
12:17 amAnyone else think it’s funny how you can get up late and do nothing for most of the day and then go out for a few hours in the evening and feel like you’ve had a full day of activity?
Just been out for JamesOff’s birthday meal at Le Brazz, possibly the poshest place I’ve eaten in for food presentation if you don’t count Robinson College, Cambridge when I went for my interview all those years ago when the letters U, C, A and S meant something. Was nice seeing people and James seemed to like his pressies (a 3D drawing pad and funky clock) and afterwards it was back to his and Roz’s for homemade Maltesers cake and a rendition of Happy Birthday before coming home feeling really rather full indeed
