About time I told everyone a little more about my life
As everyone knows who reads this any bit regularly that i'm loving life in kerry. But that is all you hear, now i'm going to make you jealous of my life by going into the gorey details.
My average week consists of two days kayaking and two days climbing. But you knew that already.
We moved onto moving water two weeks ago with the kayaking. That is fun. My little boat is deadly though, it's so trippy and catches everything, even the things i don't want it to catch. My roll last week was shocking. I did manage to roll up each time i capsized but never on the first attempt. I think i just need to relax under the water have a very short conversation with myself to get my head sorted and then roll up. I think i panic a little and try to roll up straight away without setting up correctly. The week before we only had one day kayaking and that was in the sea surfing. It was great fun again my roll failed me on the first attempt. That is my mission for the next day on the water. Practice my roll. Apart from some annoyance with my roll my kayaking is going good. I've been away from moving water for too long, i'm terrified in the smallest of waves. It's terrible. I just need to cop on, i've been in bigger water.
Climbing is going very well. I'm much more confident about leading. I let two tricky routes at the dingle climbing wall. They wern't really hard or anything, i'd climb them no problem on a top rope but lead climbing has always been a challange for me. Next week i'll be doing it on real rock outdoors. Aghhhhhh..... No seriously i'm kinda looking forward to it. It's about time I got my head around that obsticle. Go me climbing.
I love my little house. It's in the middle of nowhere, the nearest shop is in a pub about 5 miles away. I love it. We light a fire every night and usually watch TV. I'm not so happy with all the watching of tv but i'll get over it. We are just about settled, there are still about
two boxes which need to be emptyed but apart from that it's looking fantastic. It's so homely. Living with liam is not how i imagined it. To be honest it's a stuggle at times. Our moments of tension usually come about because the house is messy and i'm the only one cleaning. And because all we do in the evenings is watch TV. There has to be loads of other things we could be doing. We did get Sky+, perhaps that was a mistake. But i don't think Liam could function without watching at least two hours of TV a day.
I had forgotten how good it is to vent on LJ. It's wonderful. I do keep meaning to update more regularly, but i'm just totally unmotivated to turn on my computer in the evenings. And as soon as i see the tv on my brain turns to mush and i become a tv zombie, uninspired and lazy.
I have been going for physio on my shoulder. Apparently my shoulder blades are too far apart and I have no lower back or stomach muscles to compensate for all the upper body excercise i've been doing lately. He did give me some excercises to do and i try my best to do them every day, but to be honest i'm useless at doing them. Perhaps once every two days...
I had a little incident with my ipod this week. I was bringing it from the car into the house along with loads of other stuff. I never noticed it falling out of my hand outside. It was left outside in the rain for two days before I found it sitting in a little puddle. It seems to be ok though, it's dried out and appears to be working fine. I'm charging the battery as i write this.
I have loads of stuff to do this weekend. I must buy fish stuff for my aquarium, go into town and buy liam a birthday present, print out sponsership card and then drive up to the burren sunday evening. I'll be wrecked. On that note i'll leave now to be productive in my days activities.
My average week consists of two days kayaking and two days climbing. But you knew that already.
We moved onto moving water two weeks ago with the kayaking. That is fun. My little boat is deadly though, it's so trippy and catches everything, even the things i don't want it to catch. My roll last week was shocking. I did manage to roll up each time i capsized but never on the first attempt. I think i just need to relax under the water have a very short conversation with myself to get my head sorted and then roll up. I think i panic a little and try to roll up straight away without setting up correctly. The week before we only had one day kayaking and that was in the sea surfing. It was great fun again my roll failed me on the first attempt. That is my mission for the next day on the water. Practice my roll. Apart from some annoyance with my roll my kayaking is going good. I've been away from moving water for too long, i'm terrified in the smallest of waves. It's terrible. I just need to cop on, i've been in bigger water.
Climbing is going very well. I'm much more confident about leading. I let two tricky routes at the dingle climbing wall. They wern't really hard or anything, i'd climb them no problem on a top rope but lead climbing has always been a challange for me. Next week i'll be doing it on real rock outdoors. Aghhhhhh..... No seriously i'm kinda looking forward to it. It's about time I got my head around that obsticle. Go me climbing.
I love my little house. It's in the middle of nowhere, the nearest shop is in a pub about 5 miles away. I love it. We light a fire every night and usually watch TV. I'm not so happy with all the watching of tv but i'll get over it. We are just about settled, there are still about
two boxes which need to be emptyed but apart from that it's looking fantastic. It's so homely. Living with liam is not how i imagined it. To be honest it's a stuggle at times. Our moments of tension usually come about because the house is messy and i'm the only one cleaning. And because all we do in the evenings is watch TV. There has to be loads of other things we could be doing. We did get Sky+, perhaps that was a mistake. But i don't think Liam could function without watching at least two hours of TV a day.
I had forgotten how good it is to vent on LJ. It's wonderful. I do keep meaning to update more regularly, but i'm just totally unmotivated to turn on my computer in the evenings. And as soon as i see the tv on my brain turns to mush and i become a tv zombie, uninspired and lazy.
I have been going for physio on my shoulder. Apparently my shoulder blades are too far apart and I have no lower back or stomach muscles to compensate for all the upper body excercise i've been doing lately. He did give me some excercises to do and i try my best to do them every day, but to be honest i'm useless at doing them. Perhaps once every two days...
I had a little incident with my ipod this week. I was bringing it from the car into the house along with loads of other stuff. I never noticed it falling out of my hand outside. It was left outside in the rain for two days before I found it sitting in a little puddle. It seems to be ok though, it's dried out and appears to be working fine. I'm charging the battery as i write this.
I have loads of stuff to do this weekend. I must buy fish stuff for my aquarium, go into town and buy liam a birthday present, print out sponsership card and then drive up to the burren sunday evening. I'll be wrecked. On that note i'll leave now to be productive in my days activities.