I have worked my normal week of hours in just 3 days and have to work tomorrow morning a half day, then I am off work for 4 and a half days. I HAVE to garden plan on spending ONE entire day in the garden should knock out the last of it to be done. ONE garden HEINOUS, 1 small, but fully in sun and 2 in complete shade. SO early morning start on friday, so we can hang at the lake sat/sun/mon I dont need to work on my tan I am one of those ridiculous persons whom sit in the sun and go OLIVE brown immediately people pay exorbetant prices to get my skin colour and I SIT in the SHADE where possible, (thats if we can get across the darn road!!!! SH1 not pretty into Taupo ANY busy week/weekend), have only walked once so far this week but will get a few in over the next 5 days.
Have managed to walk upstairs and downstairs one foot at a time instead of DOUBLE stepping on one step so that is encouraging, in saying that though I did take pain relief tonight first time in over a week, so instead of every night and morning pain relief I am down too just mornings with the odd night thrown in, WHEN I need too, and only little swelling visible on outside right ankle when DAY has been long and tiring, like today did a 10 hour day.
So people stay safe, and will check on in next week around Monday if I havent fallen into the gardens and become a garden ornament, or fallen asleep at the lake like Rip Van Winkle!!! or got the walking bug so bad I am walking the length of the North Island!!!! (inserts Tui Ad here).
Ciao
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Walking in the rain..
why I love and hate it, keeps you focussed (not to slip and make an ass of yourself infront of incoming traffic), need to wear a light parka which makes you sweat in all the wrong/right places!!! then add to that my glasses fog up I must look red in the cheeks wet matted hair and fogged up glasses YIP exactly what people need to see on their Sunday drives!!! and huffing and blowing.
A point I forgot to add in the last post THE PHYSIO stressed I wont be doing the MAY half marathon better to aim for the August one and unless a small miracle happens the may half marathon wont be happening (although as I said there is a 10 km option).
Have been doing more driving lessons this time IN a carpark (with no cars), and out at our local rugby fields WIDE open spaces and AGAIN no cars!!!! is all coming along nicely, hilarious at times but coming along, and the key is PATIENCE and no giggling cause then my son gets the giggles and well no concentration.
Last few days and nights have been unbearably hot and sticky and no sleep before midnight then waking at 6.00am after tossing all night trying to lay on A COOL place in bed (not ready at that hour to be up and or awake), rained heavy here last night and awoke to cool temperatures and must have had a better sleep.
Am pleased to be walking (well in my case dawdling and meandering along), have managed 3 walks so better than none and have been on the exercycle 3 times inbetween days so its a start in the right direction.
Am working huge hours this week so will have to time walks around everything else and MAY even do some night walking after dinner when it cools down (around town as we have some CCTV cameras and good lighting), and around our small CBD it is a 4.5km round trip walk also if and when it rains you can stay halfway dry by being undercover, have used that circuit more than once when I was training in earnest because 14km walks in the rain ARENT pleasant well not in DRIVING southerly Taupo rain anyhow.
Hope everyone has a better week.
Ciao
A point I forgot to add in the last post THE PHYSIO stressed I wont be doing the MAY half marathon better to aim for the August one and unless a small miracle happens the may half marathon wont be happening (although as I said there is a 10 km option).
Have been doing more driving lessons this time IN a carpark (with no cars), and out at our local rugby fields WIDE open spaces and AGAIN no cars!!!! is all coming along nicely, hilarious at times but coming along, and the key is PATIENCE and no giggling cause then my son gets the giggles and well no concentration.
Last few days and nights have been unbearably hot and sticky and no sleep before midnight then waking at 6.00am after tossing all night trying to lay on A COOL place in bed (not ready at that hour to be up and or awake), rained heavy here last night and awoke to cool temperatures and must have had a better sleep.
Am pleased to be walking (well in my case dawdling and meandering along), have managed 3 walks so better than none and have been on the exercycle 3 times inbetween days so its a start in the right direction.
Am working huge hours this week so will have to time walks around everything else and MAY even do some night walking after dinner when it cools down (around town as we have some CCTV cameras and good lighting), and around our small CBD it is a 4.5km round trip walk also if and when it rains you can stay halfway dry by being undercover, have used that circuit more than once when I was training in earnest because 14km walks in the rain ARENT pleasant well not in DRIVING southerly Taupo rain anyhow.
Hope everyone has a better week.
Ciao
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
WHAT NOT TO DO.........
When I was a young girl pre teen 12 IN FACT I was driving albeit in a prefect (my friends parents car) and only up to 3rd gear BUT none the less driving when Iw as 13 I used to drive my dad down to the shops and back for practice by 14 I was driving everywhere with my parents in the car and at night MY dad said only way to learn and be CONFIDENT on the road by the time you get your licence!!!! and yip you guessed it FLEW through the practical and theory and have had MY FULL driving licence for 25 years now!!!!!
So I figured well my son is 12 and a half I will start him off too (note to self PLESE GET FAMILIAR with A:road code B: leagal requirements pertaining to AGE!!!!to be driving on a road!!!)
we have spent a few days in the garage no KEYS in car just him adjusting to seat mirrors pedals etc and "dry run" changing of gears, and talking through scenarios etc.
WELL this morning I thought why not take him to the new subdivision no CARS around and just drive in a straight line HE DID VERY well and only bunny hopped once until SOME PLONKER on a T intersection in a MOWER CONTRACTOR vehicle pulled straight out in front of us and scared the BEJESUS out of me and my son, HE SLAMMED the car brakes on and the clutch and MOTHER YELLED at MAN in truck, one shakey son ME AGED by 10 years, and THEN I thought RING THE POLICE and get the exact AGE of WHEN DRIVING lessons can occur, (because I do realise things have changed), only to find out that YOU HAVE to have your learners licence TO EVEN be on the road learning to drive DUH,(bearing in mind I had just ONE actual professional driving lesson before my licence THE INSTRUCTOR knew previously I had been driving he knew my dad well, and he was an ex policeman and knew dad had been letting me drive).
I can now sympathise with some of the groups who are calling for more education, I mean DO they expect 15 year olds to just get in a car and learn all this and be confident on the road at the same time, WHEN I LEARNT our car wasnt fast, and there weren't alot of cars around then a few BUT NOT like today and they certainly WERENT FAST PACED!!!! Is the reason for high road crashes lack of confidence, (NOTE to self get all material associated with laws and ages FOR anything to do with BOYS!! and BOYS doing anything!!!! not just driving).
And will ring Taupo Track (car club) to see what they do out there, in fact I was driving tractors at 13 and 14 too and motorbikes(scooters only 50cc), we are ONLY going to practice going up and down the driveway so he can get the feel of the car and gears (it is a manual), and actually he blimmin DROVE up to the heart pulpatation point VERY WELL.
AND considering in just a little over 2 years he will be driving it is all going too fast, next there is the can I drink, WHEN can I drink, the voting, PLEASE make all these things one AGE LIMIT then dumbarssssssseeee parents like me can at least remember things.
I think IF I HAD to sit my licence again I may not pass, given todays lessons....... ( I have however reitirated the clutch brake scenario in a hurry when you have to STOP!!!! well before it was needed today)
Normally i am a well informed person and look at all avenues before heading down the path of DOING anything, (am having a blonde day and IT was a full MOON last night)......
ENOUGH rambling about DRIVING (or lack thereof after today). I went to physio and we discussed the position I am in wanting to increase exercise and walking again, and was told to bike for a couple of weeks to move ankle joints and in different directions, and then I can start slow walking and a few km's at a time 1 or bloody 2 km FFS, and then I have to access it. Enough ramble for now.
Ciao
Ok to digress on physio appointment I am pissed because NO ONE asked me or suggested that I should get on a bike and I could have been doing that for the last 4 weeks, ( I have had 4 different physio as my one is on holiday and I had to take appointments available...), he has said EVEN though I have been doing all the right things resting, anti inflammatory rub (herbal totally organic), pills, pressure bandage and exercising IT still could take 6 - 12 months and NOT TO AIM for HUNTLY 1/2 marathon but the TAUPO one INSTEAD in Aug, so alot of 2 km walks I can feel coming for at least 1 month then I will ease it from there to up the anti!!!! Although nothing stopping me from doing a 10km walk in MAY to see how the distance holds up I guess.
Spoke to someone else who said their kids had been having driving lessons and they are 13 eeekkkkkkk guess I am not the only brainless person around.........
Oh well I am done for the day and am going to my neighbours for a cuppa of tea.
Ciao
So I figured well my son is 12 and a half I will start him off too (note to self PLESE GET FAMILIAR with A:road code B: leagal requirements pertaining to AGE!!!!to be driving on a road!!!)
we have spent a few days in the garage no KEYS in car just him adjusting to seat mirrors pedals etc and "dry run" changing of gears, and talking through scenarios etc.
WELL this morning I thought why not take him to the new subdivision no CARS around and just drive in a straight line HE DID VERY well and only bunny hopped once until SOME PLONKER on a T intersection in a MOWER CONTRACTOR vehicle pulled straight out in front of us and scared the BEJESUS out of me and my son, HE SLAMMED the car brakes on and the clutch and MOTHER YELLED at MAN in truck, one shakey son ME AGED by 10 years, and THEN I thought RING THE POLICE and get the exact AGE of WHEN DRIVING lessons can occur, (because I do realise things have changed), only to find out that YOU HAVE to have your learners licence TO EVEN be on the road learning to drive DUH,(bearing in mind I had just ONE actual professional driving lesson before my licence THE INSTRUCTOR knew previously I had been driving he knew my dad well, and he was an ex policeman and knew dad had been letting me drive).
I can now sympathise with some of the groups who are calling for more education, I mean DO they expect 15 year olds to just get in a car and learn all this and be confident on the road at the same time, WHEN I LEARNT our car wasnt fast, and there weren't alot of cars around then a few BUT NOT like today and they certainly WERENT FAST PACED!!!! Is the reason for high road crashes lack of confidence, (NOTE to self get all material associated with laws and ages FOR anything to do with BOYS!! and BOYS doing anything!!!! not just driving).
And will ring Taupo Track (car club) to see what they do out there, in fact I was driving tractors at 13 and 14 too and motorbikes(scooters only 50cc), we are ONLY going to practice going up and down the driveway so he can get the feel of the car and gears (it is a manual), and actually he blimmin DROVE up to the heart pulpatation point VERY WELL.
AND considering in just a little over 2 years he will be driving it is all going too fast, next there is the can I drink, WHEN can I drink, the voting, PLEASE make all these things one AGE LIMIT then dumbarssssssseeee parents like me can at least remember things.
I think IF I HAD to sit my licence again I may not pass, given todays lessons....... ( I have however reitirated the clutch brake scenario in a hurry when you have to STOP!!!! well before it was needed today)
Normally i am a well informed person and look at all avenues before heading down the path of DOING anything, (am having a blonde day and IT was a full MOON last night)......
ENOUGH rambling about DRIVING (or lack thereof after today). I went to physio and we discussed the position I am in wanting to increase exercise and walking again, and was told to bike for a couple of weeks to move ankle joints and in different directions, and then I can start slow walking and a few km's at a time 1 or bloody 2 km FFS, and then I have to access it. Enough ramble for now.
Ciao
Ok to digress on physio appointment I am pissed because NO ONE asked me or suggested that I should get on a bike and I could have been doing that for the last 4 weeks, ( I have had 4 different physio as my one is on holiday and I had to take appointments available...), he has said EVEN though I have been doing all the right things resting, anti inflammatory rub (herbal totally organic), pills, pressure bandage and exercising IT still could take 6 - 12 months and NOT TO AIM for HUNTLY 1/2 marathon but the TAUPO one INSTEAD in Aug, so alot of 2 km walks I can feel coming for at least 1 month then I will ease it from there to up the anti!!!! Although nothing stopping me from doing a 10km walk in MAY to see how the distance holds up I guess.
Spoke to someone else who said their kids had been having driving lessons and they are 13 eeekkkkkkk guess I am not the only brainless person around.........
Oh well I am done for the day and am going to my neighbours for a cuppa of tea.
Ciao
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Slack I know...
havent posted in like 3 days oh well, not much happening. Have been working, and by the end of my day I am tired, SORE foot (from my accident), dinner gets sorted have eaten out every night(at my best friends MY NEXT door neighbour ) so just a waddle down the drive we had a half ham so have shared it all around HAD ham and potatoes and salad, ham potatoe salad and salad, ham steaks eggs and chips ham steaks pnieapple rings and salad, tomorrow having ham and egg pie!!!! tonight we had mixed grill WE pool all ingredients and feed approx 7 people most nights 3 families combined.It works out loads cheaper and well we eat together as an extended family approx 4-5 nights
BUT today I read LeanJanene blog about the dumping and Productive Burping and thought ok, well I had 2 chip sandwiches for lunch (I know not good choices) and BOY about 40 mins later I YAWNED and had watery eyes and it didnt stop for at least an hour and I WAS MAJORALLY sleepy (dumping episode?) So I read up about it and was sure thats what happened, the last 5 days I have been great with food fruit nuts proper snacks good breakfasts etc loads of water BUT TODAY no fruit and no water!!!!! and no exercise I had a very quiet feet up day I worked most of yesterday and after working 6 days I was pretty knackered today not much motiovation happening AND I hate that part I know I have worked all week but HOW come I cant just bounce out of BED HELL I AM ONLY 40!!!What am I going to be like at friggin 60!!!!
Have my fruit and snacks sorted for tomorrow when I am at work I am generally ok with food and water and fruit, as I look after young children we all eat fruit at morning and afternoon dinner times and drink loads of water throughout the day.I get most of my food sorted at night so I am not rushing in the mornings.Have got some scrummy white flesh nectarines and peaches they are soooooo nice apples oranges etc, I have snacks at the moment like cherry tomatoes baby carrots and lebanese cucumbers(mini ones) sweeter and juicer than big ole icky cucumbers,rice crackers nuts and raisins too and about 4 litres of water for my son and I. I freeze 3/4 of our water and as it thaws we have ICE COLD water which I can drink loads more of than tepid water, I have a water filter unit (new filter is $190)bench top unit wont be replacing filter just yet,I purchased a brita filter jug and filters with some shoppiong vouchers I won ages ago and have the Brita just waiting to be used YAY and can have fresh filtered water for approx 18 months once present filter putters out.
Have another long week of work ahead of me and am not sure when I will get in exercise, if not wont stress, am heading to Physio next week down to one appointment per week, (as a result of Oct 11 th accident where I was going 3 times a week), BUT as I am wanting to retrain towrds half marathon, WANT to ensure they will see me on a need to basis should my ankle flairs up (as it is swollen by end of day anyhoo just by normal walking and general daily activity).Which worries me a little BECAUSE when I get up in the mornings some days since the accident I feel stiff AS in the right ankle like a bloody arthritic 90 year old getting out of bed and trying to get circulation into injured joint!!!I know they have told me it will take awhile but gawd I do my exercises for strengthening I keep it elevated pressure bandage it I have done all the right things and continued physio appointments all the way through and doctors appointments SO WANT to see some sort of forward motion and indication of WHEN I CAN start in earnest my training(have I mentioned patience is not MY MIDDLE NAME!!) I am still on anti inflammatory medication BUT only in the mornings and VERY rarely do I take a night time anti inflammatory pill now.THROW on top of that the sinus and snoring SHYTE I am the catch of the century!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL have a good week everyone.
Ciao
BUT today I read LeanJanene blog about the dumping and Productive Burping and thought ok, well I had 2 chip sandwiches for lunch (I know not good choices) and BOY about 40 mins later I YAWNED and had watery eyes and it didnt stop for at least an hour and I WAS MAJORALLY sleepy (dumping episode?) So I read up about it and was sure thats what happened, the last 5 days I have been great with food fruit nuts proper snacks good breakfasts etc loads of water BUT TODAY no fruit and no water!!!!! and no exercise I had a very quiet feet up day I worked most of yesterday and after working 6 days I was pretty knackered today not much motiovation happening AND I hate that part I know I have worked all week but HOW come I cant just bounce out of BED HELL I AM ONLY 40!!!What am I going to be like at friggin 60!!!!
Have my fruit and snacks sorted for tomorrow when I am at work I am generally ok with food and water and fruit, as I look after young children we all eat fruit at morning and afternoon dinner times and drink loads of water throughout the day.I get most of my food sorted at night so I am not rushing in the mornings.Have got some scrummy white flesh nectarines and peaches they are soooooo nice apples oranges etc, I have snacks at the moment like cherry tomatoes baby carrots and lebanese cucumbers(mini ones) sweeter and juicer than big ole icky cucumbers,rice crackers nuts and raisins too and about 4 litres of water for my son and I. I freeze 3/4 of our water and as it thaws we have ICE COLD water which I can drink loads more of than tepid water, I have a water filter unit (new filter is $190)bench top unit wont be replacing filter just yet,I purchased a brita filter jug and filters with some shoppiong vouchers I won ages ago and have the Brita just waiting to be used YAY and can have fresh filtered water for approx 18 months once present filter putters out.
Have another long week of work ahead of me and am not sure when I will get in exercise, if not wont stress, am heading to Physio next week down to one appointment per week, (as a result of Oct 11 th accident where I was going 3 times a week), BUT as I am wanting to retrain towrds half marathon, WANT to ensure they will see me on a need to basis should my ankle flairs up (as it is swollen by end of day anyhoo just by normal walking and general daily activity).Which worries me a little BECAUSE when I get up in the mornings some days since the accident I feel stiff AS in the right ankle like a bloody arthritic 90 year old getting out of bed and trying to get circulation into injured joint!!!I know they have told me it will take awhile but gawd I do my exercises for strengthening I keep it elevated pressure bandage it I have done all the right things and continued physio appointments all the way through and doctors appointments SO WANT to see some sort of forward motion and indication of WHEN I CAN start in earnest my training(have I mentioned patience is not MY MIDDLE NAME!!) I am still on anti inflammatory medication BUT only in the mornings and VERY rarely do I take a night time anti inflammatory pill now.THROW on top of that the sinus and snoring SHYTE I am the catch of the century!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL have a good week everyone.
Ciao
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Exercise Exercise Exercise
NOT NOT NOT happening in this heat I go to bed DAM HOT wake up stinkin HOT, and just get hotter all day, I have however been eating really well and DRINKING like a dehydrated CAMEL!!!!! I have a banana, 2 pieces toast with marmite and garlic and tomatoe on it, then fruit for morning tea, then tuna/salmon salad sandwich, snacks of more fruit and nuts in the afternoon, then tonight boiled potatoe, salad and HAM (the 2nd xmas ham we were given we have now opened) VERY NICE, finished with with fruit and icecream, FEEL bloated though and know its the water too, I have drunk about 3 litres today. Had a better sleep (as son went onto nebuliser before bed and it settled him down to a quieter sleep), have to work most of tomorrow and ALL WEEKEND sat and sun, need the money BUT will be tired, and then into a 5 day week so 12 days straight (however I dont work full days at a minimum 5 hours maximum 9 - 10 hours now and then though) THIS week is just one of those LONG WEEKS and LONG DAYS, Jaxx will tell yall I HAVE A PROBLEM saying NO!!!!! Oh well a sleep in tomorrow is on the cards for me YAY!!! Oh and should any burglars come to my house THEY WILL be sorry for the last 3 nights and tonight I expect nude sleeping on top of all the blankets WOULD SCARE anyone OFF FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!
Ciao
Ciao
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
NO SLEEP.......
AND they say that sleep deprivation is a BIG cause in obese and weight issues NO SHIT!! I know that being sleep deprived makes the following day crappy YOU make crap food decisions, crap exercise decisions (or not), and have a generally crappy day, AND thats how today is starting out I had wicked cramp in my right leg at 3am, the leg I injured SO IT FELT 10x worse!!!!) then I had to go to the loo (toilet), then at 5am some NICE person rang my cellphone and asked for Lisa I said "thanks for ringing the wrong number and waking me you dim shit!!!" and inbetween all that MY SON who suffers with asthma HAS COUGHED all night long and kept me awake. NOW those of you who don't have asthmatics in the family may HAVE A SNORER, and it is the same thing YOU LIE there wishing they would SHUT THE HELLUP, needless to say he has been on the nebuliser already (AND I dont know why in the hell HE DOESNT get up and use IT!!!) this morning. THE heat affects him here in Taupo we can go from 26 degrees down to 3 degrees and it is those temperature spikes that throw him alot!!! MAYBE I should go on the nebuliser... ME thinks a trip to my naturopath for HERBAL or organic sleeping tablets today I am now 4 nights crap sleep and AM feeling it...For those of you reading I am into naturopathic and organic lifestyle where possible and where finances allow (mostly skincare haircare and cleaning products), I used to buy all organic including FOODS when childless and single!!! and have been for about 18 years......
Well have been in the sun for over an hour gardening I find it kind of calming and I feel alot better, finished for the morning and will attempt some more gardening tonight in the cool or tomorrow morning before the heat comes, I have been watching Biggest Loser on channel 3 and find it frustrating they dont talk much about the FOOD side of things, and really focus on the exercise AND BOY do they do it tough!!! Wonder if it would ever come to New Zealand I WOULD audition and give it a whirl for sure.....
Well have been in the sun for over an hour gardening I find it kind of calming and I feel alot better, finished for the morning and will attempt some more gardening tonight in the cool or tomorrow morning before the heat comes, I have been watching Biggest Loser on channel 3 and find it frustrating they dont talk much about the FOOD side of things, and really focus on the exercise AND BOY do they do it tough!!! Wonder if it would ever come to New Zealand I WOULD audition and give it a whirl for sure.....
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Why when we exercise.....
WELL me anyways I feel worse for it, yesterday had an ok day, tired earlier yawning NEEDED to hit the pit!!! AND I DID, BUT here in lies the problem did I sleep OH NO, I tossed and turned and hrmmmmpppfffd(maoned), blankets on blankets off, slept miserably HOT AGAIN, and when I awoke this morning was dragging mt feet terribly, into town earlyHOLIDAY MAKERS in Taupo make town and going anywhere a nightmare sometimes and the TRAFFIC chaos (for a small town anyhoo), GOT back from town AND I hit the wall I went to bed for 40 mins and slept DONT know why and FELT much better afterwards, lunch then I had to work.... got home around 6pm and then dinner NOW I have no ENERGY to do anything which peeves me off ALOT, I see people walking int eh cool of the evening and I just can't drag my sorry arrrrsssse up to do that, I really need to do it in the mornings OR ELSE it doesn't get down at all. Water ok food ok exercise not ok, I am feeling that back to the gym WHERE I started my incredible JOURNEY through the Green Prescription whilst training for my first half marathon, (applying to the doctors for 3 months free membership under the guidance of gym people and doctor monitoring my progress, ACCOUNTABILITY to others), might see how appealing it is after another cruddy sleep (I used to go to the gym from 8 - 10.30am 4 - 5 times a week (thats showering included) and LOVED it whilst also WALKING huge kilometres on top of the gym.....
No ephiany's today but no doubt when I am out in the garden early tomorrow morning I will think of thoughts aplenty.
HOPE everyone else is sleeping ok, and if YOU ARE well boo har har to you. (tongue in cheek).
Ciao
No ephiany's today but no doubt when I am out in the garden early tomorrow morning I will think of thoughts aplenty.
HOPE everyone else is sleeping ok, and if YOU ARE well boo har har to you. (tongue in cheek).
Ciao
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