Of Dithering not Doing March 21, 2008
Posted by Jen in : Dieting Misery, Journal, Novel , trackbackFour days off. Goodness me. Whatever will I do with myself? The boys are spending Easter with their dad and grandparents. I’ve had bold notions aplenty about what I could get up to. Having put my foot down, as it were, I finally collected my new car last week. I envisaged zooming about like they do on the adverts, looking fab ‘n’ funky with my flossy hair billowing behind me as I gad about from one cool place to the next. Sadly, much as I tragically love my new Corsa, the only other people I’ve seen driving them are grannies or people wearing anoraks. Hmmm.
Anyway. Four days away from work. I’m gradually acclimatising to the going-to-work-every-day thing. Time is magically expanding (along with the ironing mountain) and I’ve started writing again in the mornings. I even managed a 40-minute romp through the woods before my working day yesterday. Sadly, it did mean that the hair-straightening time was obliterated but I don’t think anyone noticed my large Russell Brand hairdo.
So. Shopping this morning. I do so love being pushed about by simpletons in a supermarket. But, once the fridge is filled with M&S goodies and the bathroom crammed with pamperingness, I shall relax. R-e-l-a-x. The snow will be falling and I will be chilling.
Apart from lazing about, there is the small matter of The Novel to edit. Yikes. Oh, and I ordered some new running shoes yesterday. Yes, I’m moaning about lardiness again. This weekend is the start of my stop-being-fat period. I hope the shoes get lost in the post arrive soon. I know someone who’s looking forward to a daily early-morning run.
Crumbs, dieting for two hours has clearly made me weak and soppy. Pics of my pets indeed.
That’s better.
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What are you worrying about, I drive a Nissan Micra …
I can’t resist putting out the odd gratuitous pet-shot either. So cute.
With all the writing, novel-editing, dieting, running, driving, anorak-buying, dog-pampering, ironing, bathing and hair-staightening, it’ll be back to work before you know it…
Have a lovely Easter.
40 minute romp in the woods? Can’t you get arrested for that?
Sounds like a blissful 4 days.
We’re going to visit friends which means that she will have tidy up, go the supermarket, pour me drinks, feed me chocolate and entertain my children (her godchildren).
And then I will come home to a still tidy house.
Sometimes I think that I’m a genius.
Have a great weekend.
x
Congrats on the new car and getting up early for walkies! I’m unable to do anything before 9:30 these days so I am very impressed. Enjoy your lazing about and Happy Easter!
Ha - loved the cartoon at the end!! That’s kinda how I’m feeling at the moment (She says….about to go out for a curry……and I wonder why I’m putting on weight *Sigh*).
Have a lovely Easter and to hell with the grannies…….you go and show em how it’s done!!
C x
Have a wonderful Easter and good luck with the edit
Now you’re driving one, the Corsa will become de rigour of course:-)
Enjoy your Easter, you well worked out, energetic person you.
btw, I’ve often wondered what the ‘dog who needs emptying’ looks like. Now I know and he/she is a babe:-)
Oh dear ‘lardiness.’ Yes, I know. A sad state of affairs indeed. Still, Easter is not the time to start dieting because chocolate is a religious order. Yes it is. So I am told.
It’s not Easter here in Thailand so only two days for our weekend!
Cathy, we could get stickers for the back window saying ‘I’m actually being ironic’ or something?
Karen - now that you’ve put it all in a list, I have become quite weary. Maybe I should have a little lie-down before I start?
Helen - honestly. One track mind. I despair. It would still burn up calories though so therefore worth getting arrested for…
Caroline - you are a genius; I never doubted it for a moment.
Yvonne - 9.30! Blimey… I seize up if I’m not stuck in by 8 and spend the whole feeling crapulous.
Carol - Mmmmmmmm curry. That recipe on your blog has made me fatter just reading it! Looks fab. I’m so envious of you and JJ being surrounded by such gastro-yumminess.
Liz - Thanks, you too! I’m guessing Easter isn’t a big thing in Dubai?
Lane - he is rather a handsome brute, isn’t he? Well worked out? Well knacked out, more like.
JJ - No Easter in Thailand? I thought they pounced on every opportunity to decorate the shopping centres. No chocolate here. Yet. Sigh.
Ooh A fridge full of M&S goodies - how lovely. And so appropriate for Easter!
Running before work and writing in the mornings, how virtuous you are!
My week started so well, I did tons of really big jobs and should be feeliong proud of myself, but The Novel has hit a Big Wall and now I feel rubbish. I am, of course, supposed to be smashing through that wall right now. Hence commenting on people’s blogs…
I’m very impressed with your bank holiday itinery mine mainly involves sleeping in then waking up and thinking great no work and going back to sleep
I’m not really a dog person, but sometimes I yearn for one. Like when the kids start jumping on me at the crack of God-only-knows. I get up, and gaze down on himself and the bloody cat vying each other for my share of the duvet. I wish then that I had a dog to jump all over them too.
Crikey you are being good, all that romping and writing. The only thing I manage to do before work in the morning is eat and bath, the thought of any exercise would send me into hysteria. Probably why I’m such a dumpling! Loved the pics and know exactly how the woman with the gun feels.
Sounds like a lovely weekend planned. So glad to hear you’re carving space out for your writing again. ‘Stop-being-fat’ period. I have to do something about that too but can’t be bothered…it’s cold and summer feels like hundreds of years away anyway!
Helen - I never seem to quite have the goodies I fancy, that’s the trouble!
Clare - hello. Ugh, perhaps I should have made it clear that I don’t do all those things every morning? Ugh, the very thought!
Breezy - I wish I could train my stupid brain to stay asleep so that I didn’t nod off every evening before it’s even dark.
Leigh - Maybe you could train your imaginary dog to eat the kids?
Debs - I, um, haven’t actually started the running lark yet. Sadly my new running shoes didn’t arrive this morning. Oh, yes, I’m so disappointed
Pacha - The cold and wet is a bit off-putting in the going outside to be dynamic department, isn’t it?
Oh your dog is so handsome, I love the weak and soppy pet moments (I’m a sucker for pets these days)!
Hope you enjoy the long weekend. We don’t have any extra days off here either. *sigh*
Angie - hurrah, you’re back in Blogland! Hope you enjoyed your travels. No extra days off? Blimey, that’s no fun is it?
Nothing wrong with dog-blogging!
Why is it the simpletons all go to the supermarket on Saturdays? It’s the same here…
Enjoy you holiday, don’t do anything too virtuous!
Running shoes? I’m impressed! I used to like running. I’m rubbish at anything that requires co-ordination (tennis etc) or the ability to jump high or long (I’m not quite 5 ft 1), but I was okay at cross-country. (Stamina more than anything else I think!) Sadly, during my short lived gym membership faze a couple of years ago, I did something strange to one of my knees (it went ‘pop’ while I was on the treadmill and I kept going when perhaps I shouldn’t have) and I fear my running days are well and truly behind me.
I’ll be wafting you encouragement vibes anyway.
Lucy - Virtuous. Hmmmm. I might just joint the ranks of the simpletons instead. It might be less tiring?
Nez - Ooh, popping knees, not good. I tore my cartilage while running in the woods - you know it’s not good when you hear it go, even though you’re plugged into the iPod. When I say running… y’know… to an innocent bystander, it might look a lot like watching TV?
Awwww…that is one cute doggy.
I just got my first pair of proper running shoes. They are the ugliest things I have ever worn. SIGH. Hope yours are prettier.