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We’ll live in slow motion and be free.

A very quick update:

Okay so this blogging every day for a month didn’t actually happen. I became internetless for a week due to changing ISPs and then all I did was watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic once we were connected again.

So what has happened over the past week or so? Well Erin’s and my  care package arrived at each other houses within a day of each other. I loved mine and will be sharing in another post soon.  Work became super busy and has started to return a normal pace.  I developed some sort of stomach bug and couldn’t keep food down for 8 days.  I was a model for a friend who is doing body painting last Sunday. It was so much fun.  Again another post.

I’m finally back to my regular routine at the gym and have started saving again. So life is good.

 

Bought some wine and some papercups

So tonight my flatmate made a peanut butter cake  which I think was inspired by this for a baby shower.  I got to have a bit of the cut offs and omg is it super rich and probably not the greatest idea in the world to do when your tummy is already dodgy.  I’m so sure my body is telling me to lay off the sugar and the caffeine for a while so I might start doing that tomorrow, when there is no cake near me.

What goals do you have this week?

The Self Photo Challenge.

Hi Everyone,

How was your weekend? mine was spent mostly resting and trying to take it easy from being a little unwell over the week.  I managed to leave my house for the first time since Thurs and had coffee and cake with Phillip and Kahu.  Bad idea according to my tummy.  Urgh! Hopefully everything will be better this week :)

In the meantime I’m participating in Paper Mama self photo challenge. Are  you?  I love to see your post if you are.

My camera is currently dead at the moment and since I bought it in Japan- I can’t seem to find the battery charger. Any hoo you’ll have to excuse the poor quality pic and the poor lighting. It was New Years eve/day *

Obsessing over…

being well again and getting back into regular exercise.

Working on…

establishing routines again. I’m feeling a little all over the place at the moment so getting regular exercise,diet and more routines will definitely help.

Thinking about…

future plans and what I need to do to make them happen

Anticipating…

Death Cab for Cutie concert in few weeks. So excited.

Listening to…

the humming sound of my netbook

Eating…

well right now its 11pm at night but at dinner it was Steak and Brocoslaw

Wishing…

I could do all the things I want to do NOW.

* Oh yeah blogging after 11pm at night makes me lazy to the point of I can’t be bothered to crop.

Cath, she stands with a well intentioned man.

For a while I was starting blog posts with apologies and promises to blog more and finding myself not actually doing so.  I would start writing posts but only to find that I was continuously backspacing the text, browsing for some inspiration online or reading other blogs.  There was inspiration out there alright but I guess the mind and heart goes numb when it’s exposed to too much and needs to take a break or to create something out of the gallimaufry of blogs, social networking sites and the wider web.   It probably didn’t help that through reading other blogs, I was beginning to think that perhaps my life lacked something and therefore I had nothing to post about.  I don’t have a boyfriend or a cat or a dog or an Etsy shop.  I lack the creativity skills to actually execute something really well and I tend to be quite private in my opinions about things.  I’m also extremely introverted and spend about 80% of my time outside work on my own.  I have my own set routines during the weekdays and the weekend.  My social /extroverted side is pretty much expressed online.  

I got so caught up in other people’s online lives, opinions and self expressions that I forgot about mine and the good things that have happened and are happening.  I neglected the fact that for the first time in about ten years, I’ve only had one anxiety attack in a year and that was due to being in a foreign country, being incredibly sick and not being able to speak the language.  I’ve been exercising more than I ever did since mandatory high school P.E classes and have been thinking about making more changes to help lose weight but also be healthier long term.  I’m starting (well trying to) to save money for another overseas trip next year.   I have a small group of friends whom I see on an irregular basis. My weekends are always filled with caffeine, naps and gaming.  I lead a quiet life but it’s good.  It’s moving towards other things, bigger adventures, new sights, and new people.  Right now I’m just doing the groundwork.

Sometimes I just need a little reminder.