So today was a blank page, and I spent ages wondering what to write so I thought I'd write about not being able to think of something to write. I knew when I set myself this new project of writing a post every day that I would come across some obstacles. I realised that sometimes I may not be near a bit of technology to be able to post......no that doesn't happen very often, I'm always around on the world wide web in some form or other. I don't go a day without googling something, even if it's 'how to boil and egg'. Yes it's true.....I even saved a fabulous photo of the boiling time and next it what stage the egg will be at, from very runny to hard boiled. Fabulous, couldn't be without a search engine. Kids today have got it made when it comes to homework, we had to go to the library and work our way through the Encyclopedia Britannica before we could write an essay on Henry the Eighth and which of his wives he divorced, beheaded, who died or had survived. The other mishap I suppose I could face as well is being ill but there again I think I could manage a post between a burst of sickness or running to the loo. Will have to let you know on that one, obviously I won't go into great detail if that day comes. So nothing can stop the old brain from freezing or writers block. All the big famous writers and songwriters have it at some point so I will just go along with the fact that I'm probably in good company with the likes of J.K Rowling and Ed Sheeran, maybe we could all have a conference call to jog each others memories. Can imagine Ed ringing up though and saying' no sorry never have that problem', hes just too cool for school that man. Maybe my blank piece of paper is not empty but waiting for the next chapter of life to start.......personally it may be waiting for a miracle but I have quite liked having a blank day. This doesn't mean that I have been doing absolutely nothing, I have in fact been very busy, like most days but just obviously had a 'no blog brain day'. I'm making that an official holiday with a day off for everyone, yes it was a Saturday but hope you enjoyed it. So it wasn't so bad after all, I'm still here, healthy and happy and even though I felt sad at first that I didn't have anything to tell you, it just goes to show you can write about nothing. If you do have any ideas and you want me to write about them, leave a comment, meanwhile pass me around and share me with your friends!! (ooo er thats a blog for another day). Come back for more tomorrow for 'Pass the Remote' where I review the week of telly.
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I don't seem to have done any exercise for ages, It is a bit like my diet which I have written about previously, it seems to take a back seat in the winter. That's a shame because I do seem to remember how good it makes me feel, there is a definite natural high when all those endorphins get released and it really feels great. I wish someone would just explain that to my 'get up and go' though, I struggle to motivate myself on these dark evenings and I do need a massive kick up the backside. I have a had a burst at Zumba and do love it. I get a bit lost in a class as I'm always the one going in the opposite to everyone else. I am quite brave in that I will go to a class by myself and hope someone takes pity on the new person and have patience with the lack of co ordination and an overdose on perspiration and exhaustion just 2 minutes into the class. If I kept on going regularly I'd get fit wouldn't I? I would eventually gain the experience to find the right direction, puff and pant in all the right places preventing myself hyperventilating and actually look like Jane Fonda or Jamie Lee Curtis in the film 'Perfect'. It's finding the right kind of exercise to do as well, there are so many different ways to get fit now, at one time it was aerobics and that was it! We are now blessed with Konga, Burn, Jagua (no not a new make of car), Bounce, Pound, Boxercise, Bokwa, Pilates and someone finally realised that a night out clubbing made you hot and sweaty, complete with glowsticks you can 'Clubercise'......brilliant idea and proving very popular. Probably a bit cheaper and healthier for you than the mortgage you needed to enter a nightclub, down twenty pints and the only reason you found yourself on the dance floor was because your legs had turned to jelly or you were trying to impress someone with, what you thought was a cool performance of the Macarena or twisting ya melons with the Happy Mondays. That may have included a glow stick and a whistle but no recollection of where you had been the morning after and why your whole body was in agony. See that's it, you ached after clubbing because you'd actually been working out and not realised, so drop the booze, organise a great routine, download some up to date tunes and you've got a fitness class! I can't decide whether I want to do top sweatiness or if I'd like to get bendy at Yoga, might come in handy one day, I mean I may want to join a circus one day (you thought I meant the bedroom). I don't think I've got the millions you need for the gym and I don't think they just do a summer pass for me, the hibernator. I wouldn't be a very good Olympian would I? Sorry coach can only do summer training!! I realised a long time ago I was no Olympian really, I kind of got the idea when every time school sports day came round. They didn't really do a category in kissing and putting make up on. The early days were better with the egg and spoon race and parent races where you could see that the lack of interest in sport wasn't because you were lazy but it was actually in your genes. I do remember throwing a great javelin in secondary school though, I threw it in the trials as a teenage 'well that will do' throw and ended up with the top distance so therefore I had to take part......I was trying to get out of it not be good at it, maybe a missed a vocation there and a gold medal somewhere a long the way. I'll find my fitness mojo soon I'm sure, it's becoming lighter at night and I could actually come out of hibernation now. If you are in the Derby area I can recommend 24 Fit Derby, there are so many classes to choose from and you can grab a free taster too. The instructors are very nice and friendly and you can find details at www.24fitderby.co .uk and on Facebook too. If you see me there just keep throwing water and sugar free snacks at me, I'll be ok. Til tomorrow........ I still have my little collection of e cigs/vaping gadgets. I started with the 'real look' cigarette type years ago as vaping hadn't real taken off and can't remember what really made me start using one. I was smoking at the time and my first intention was to save money but didn't really take to it for long, I still craved the real thing so it got put in the 'bits and bobs' box in the kitchen drawer. We've all got one and it becomes like the twilight zone, the place where you are just not ready to throw that item out as you may need it in the future.....ten years later when it comes to the bit box's spring clean, you still have the same things....never been used. Vaping became the new craze and sometimes I like to buy a gadget just to experiment and see if it is as everyone raves about. You could fill this with fancy flavours and it was the easiest way of having a strawberry cheesecake without the calories. It was a bit fiddly at first to fill up but not bad really and I questioned again whether it was going to replace the cigarettes, was it safe? We still don't know really how safe these things are and whether they are bad for the body but I did get used to it for a while. After working my way through the whole selection of flavours I actually found I was losing interest in using it, but this was good. I only used it when I had a craving and eventually the cravings decreased. I have now been a non smoker for well over a year, not really counting as I've just enjoyed not putting the pressure on myself. So this little device can in some cases help stop smoking. I do keep it close.....it has been saved from the 'bits and bobs' box because as anyone who has given up smoking knows you still get cravings now and again. If I do get that craving I fire this baby up just to get me over it and for me it works. For some it's a replacement and better than the standard ciggy's, it's certainly more pleasant to stand next to someone vaping than smoking. I saw someone walking down the street today and did get slightly worried as this person seemed surrounded in vapour, she must have been very stressed and needed to vape like mad, I nearly pulled the car over and called the fire brigade. So many clouds around these days, icloud, onecloud, mycloud, yourcloud, but she seemed happy in her vape cloud. I think vaping and ecigs will be around for a long time yet, I purchased mine from VIP but there are many different types available. I'm in no way promoting this but if someone does think it may be a way of helping them quit the cigarettes then I don't think it's a bad thing to pass it on. Be good and catch ya tomorrow...... No we are not talking about the wibbly wobbly stuff that you eat as a dessert but the slightly slippy stuff that is Petroleum Jelly. I just happened to mention to my dad that my front door wouldn't close properly, so expecting him to give me some technical blurb about how wood just expands in certain temperatures or when damp he says to put petroleum jelly on it. He actually said vaseline but when purchasing some (no I actually didn't have any) Tesco's did a better value tub, well done Tesco!! I wasn't expecting this response to be honest and it was the last thing I thought I was going to hear for the front door. This is the second time vaseline has been suggested as an answer to a problem though as one summer while cutting my hedges ( I know, bless him) with hedge trimmers, he suggested the trimmers may need a bit of lubrication and asked if I had anything ie vaseline? Well those that know me well can imagine my face!!! 'No dad haven't got any vaseline, but I'll go and check anyway' Those that know me can predict exactly what came next........ I go inside to look what I have got instead......confide in the up most secrecy with my mum that I don't have the vaseline or any sensible products mentioned for the lubricating of hedge trimmers but what I did have was some very old (and I think it was well past it's sell by date) lubrication oil from Ann Summers (the adult shop), yep you know the one!!!! full bottle never been used, smelt a bit tropical........(I need to get out more). So I ask mum what I should do, she suggests to just give it him and don't mention what it is but it will do the job......(I think, from what I've read it does more than one job)...... so that's what I did, passed it to him and ran off. After cutting my hedges my dad raved about how good that oil was and how they've never worked so well!!!! To this day I don't know if he really knew what he used and those hedge trimmers are still going well!!! My dad always gives me good advice but wasn't sure petroleum jelly was going to work on the front door. With one hand looking like James Herriot's in an episode of 'All Creatures Great and Small' (no we are not going there!!! I am thinking do I slap it all the way down the edge of the door or just the metal locky bit???? So I just went and slapped it all the way down the side and behold after a good half hour......I kid you not, it did the trick, super duper open and closing of door. It's amazing. So there you go, sticking doors and lubricating hedge trimmers......choose your lubricant wisely........ bye for now........ |
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