Just put Sad Bottom-of-the-Fridge Leftover Vegetables into a pan to roast (okay, so the onions and garlic were neither sad nor leftover, but I do love a roast onion).

PLN continues.

I know it is sort of working because I have a cold and I look like a reanimated zombie.

Tomorrow: six hours of Wagner.  That should clear out the sinuses.

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Did the gym today.

Did not want to.  But I felt I MUST.

And the endorphin buzz got me through the afternoon.  (We will draw a discreet veil over the fact that I got the sniffles about 4pm and my head feels funny.  It's just some toxins making their way out of my body.  And that's my story and I'm sticking to it.)

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....not long back from the gym ( Read more... )

I'm feeling smugly satisfied because:

•  in the last two weeks I put on 5 kilos (FIVE!) due to general erk and not being organised at home and falling into that "what's just one?" trap (this is not what I am feeling smugly satisfied about, oh hell no)
• but then I went at it at the gym and managed to get my food choices back on track (ie make the healthy ( Read more... )

Action today:

1. LMusA

• the lovely Anna found me the sheet music for From Rosy Bowers (Purcell).  Have printed it out and found a recording I like.

4. Geoffrey Parsons award:  

• Tom has settled on Schlagende Herzen (Strauss) and Von ewiger Liebe (Brahms) for our two audition pieces. 
• I went and found the soprano version of the Brahms (but the recording I ( Read more... )

A week or so ago I was meandering through old entries trying to find a recipe I posted a couple of years ago.

Which is like going to look up just one small thing in the encyclopedia and coming to about two hours later sitting on the floor surrounded by open volumes.  I guess the internets equivalent is getting sucked into the TV Tropes vortex.  ( ( Read more... )

For those of you who came in late:

1. I put on weight and the gym habit suffered

2. I re-dedicated myself to the effort, using the logic that as I organise 20,000 people a year I can certainly sort myself (who is just one person and one who I happen to know pretty well) out with some minimal mental application

3. It's been working!  Am about to begin ( Read more... )

Petrified by Fort Minor

Have put in the non-video video because really, how many moodily-lit black-and-white shots of people miming into microphones do you really need in one lifetime?

Just enjoy this song and find your inner hip-hop-happy place.

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A little background: weight went up.  Bad choices made with food.  Gym attendance dropped way way down.  Could feel self sort of spiralling and becoming lost and sort of nothingy.

I put this to the management committee (Ingrid and Kindilan) (incidentally: this in itself a major change in life-management, that I actually ask for help with my problems ( Read more... )

Haven't been able to type these sentences at 6pm on a weekday for about a million years (maybe TWO million years): Just now back from the gym.  Ick - I am all sticky.  There are funny-looking people there with bad fashion choices. And cute boy sprinters running around the track outside.

Feels marvy.

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