Well, hello again
Nice to see people back here :-)
Another way to avoid writing my essay. Hurrah!
Another way to avoid writing my essay. Hurrah!
Accountability post: gym stuff
I have, at one time or another, owned pretty much every as seen on tv exercise kit on the planet. Including but not limited to
- manual treadmill
- electric treadmill
- exercise bike
- trampoline
- ab roller
- electric muscle jabbing thing
- wondercore
- twist and glide
- mini stepper
- weights bench
- inversion table
- gravity walker
I went running for a while, a year or two back, and £70 for decent shoes seemed like a bargain.
I am struggling without my usual walk from the car park/ running about the office so I have bought tiny space kit and I'm just documenting it here to remind myself not to buy more. I still have a vibration plate but I don't tend to use that for exercise; it's more for the days when my legs are a bit numb.
- Switch Just Dance 2020 (I will let myself renew the music library for a year at £20 when my trial expires) £25
- Switch Ringfit adventure £90
- Switch fitness boxing £40
- Switch zumba £34
- Yoga mat and strap £21 (not used yet but see next entry....)
- DS yoga instructors cartridges x 2 £9
- Exercise bike £110 (using with youtube virtual tours)
A total to date of £350, once that dance music licence is renewed.
My gym, which I never went to, was around £500 a year. So £350 is still a bargain even if I only use everything one for novelty, I suppose.
Mainly I have to not buy more stuff, unless I really use this stuff. I have room for a flat treadmill to go under the sofa. Everyone is sold out of those, which may be a good thing. because it'd take my total to £800 which, for a lazy woman, seems a lot. But it *will* fit under the sofa.
- manual treadmill
- electric treadmill
- exercise bike
- trampoline
- ab roller
- electric muscle jabbing thing
- wondercore
- twist and glide
- mini stepper
- weights bench
- inversion table
- gravity walker
I went running for a while, a year or two back, and £70 for decent shoes seemed like a bargain.
I am struggling without my usual walk from the car park/ running about the office so I have bought tiny space kit and I'm just documenting it here to remind myself not to buy more. I still have a vibration plate but I don't tend to use that for exercise; it's more for the days when my legs are a bit numb.
- Switch Just Dance 2020 (I will let myself renew the music library for a year at £20 when my trial expires) £25
- Switch Ringfit adventure £90
- Switch fitness boxing £40
- Switch zumba £34
- Yoga mat and strap £21 (not used yet but see next entry....)
- DS yoga instructors cartridges x 2 £9
- Exercise bike £110 (using with youtube virtual tours)
A total to date of £350, once that dance music licence is renewed.
My gym, which I never went to, was around £500 a year. So £350 is still a bargain even if I only use everything one for novelty, I suppose.
Mainly I have to not buy more stuff, unless I really use this stuff. I have room for a flat treadmill to go under the sofa. Everyone is sold out of those, which may be a good thing. because it'd take my total to £800 which, for a lazy woman, seems a lot. But it *will* fit under the sofa.
almost new year
I'm just back from a fab break in LA, seeing films (Mary Poppins/Vice) and shows (Come From Away/Wicked) and eating both badly and really well, with a friend I hadn't seen in far too long. I have come back with a suitcase of lovely gifts and terrible candy.
Having done no work at all, my head is clearer, and I'm ready for the year ahead. My fridge is full of things to make stews and soups; the soy yogurt is already on the go; my cupboards are stocked for the apocalypse; tomorrow I'm getting the vitamin D lamp out, and going to start walking again. And I have things to write, hurrah.
Underspent on hols so that's some more in the unemployment fund, and new duvet covers arriving from the sales.
I am happy to be back in my simple little home, and keen to find more balance next year. My health needs to be the focus and I'm glad an opportunity for breathing space is coming up.
Parent related calls: dad in another fight with a resident at the care home; police control room with a neighbour wondering where dad was. Pretty low stress. Next visit is end of Jan, if the weather is ok.
Just watching this last episode of Extreme Couponing and changing over the laundry before bed. Hoping my body seamlessly adjusts to UK time.
Getting a chauffeur back from the airport was the best idea ever.
Having done no work at all, my head is clearer, and I'm ready for the year ahead. My fridge is full of things to make stews and soups; the soy yogurt is already on the go; my cupboards are stocked for the apocalypse; tomorrow I'm getting the vitamin D lamp out, and going to start walking again. And I have things to write, hurrah.
Underspent on hols so that's some more in the unemployment fund, and new duvet covers arriving from the sales.
I am happy to be back in my simple little home, and keen to find more balance next year. My health needs to be the focus and I'm glad an opportunity for breathing space is coming up.
Parent related calls: dad in another fight with a resident at the care home; police control room with a neighbour wondering where dad was. Pretty low stress. Next visit is end of Jan, if the weather is ok.
Just watching this last episode of Extreme Couponing and changing over the laundry before bed. Hoping my body seamlessly adjusts to UK time.
Getting a chauffeur back from the airport was the best idea ever.
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Yuletide Letter
Hello, thank you for participating in yuletide!
If tere is a squick free story of your heart you would like to write, PLEASE DO THAT! I love these universes and would love stories set in them even more so if you wrote what your heart chose.
My fandom prompts this year are:-
Westworld. The hosts are taking over, right? Flashbacks of the same things a hundred times have to have an impact. Or what if they build their own hosts to amuse themselves - what would that do? Are the new ones like an underclass? No mind wipes, one used and you're done? Or mind wipe the architects and trun them into hosts. Or find a way to age like the man in black. Or they all go mad now their god/creator is gone and find a new one. Or escape on the trains into the outside world where they hide out, Bladerunner style. SO MANY OPTIONS. Pick one or make up a new one? Basically I love the exploration of AI versus human intelligence, how both learn and react, and how that interplays.
Legion. What's Oliver been doing in the ice palace? How's his road trip with Lenny going? Or, something sweet about his courtship, in the world of hep cat. Maybe there's beat poetry. Maybe he kills Lenny with beat poetry?
Or, I'm slightly in love plutonically with Cary/Kerry. Backstory? Do they ever hide the other way round? How are they going to find their way back to each other again - if they ever do? What if he dies first (as he's old) - what happens to her?
The Thick of It. Creative swearing of any kind, in any plot. I exspecially like Malcolm/Jamie swearing, but as long as it's humorous, I'll go with whomever.
Do not wants: dub con non con, ickily graphic gore or common squicks. Show me hints, not the whole of the moon, especially if the moon is covered in blood.
Thank you for writing or me :-)
If tere is a squick free story of your heart you would like to write, PLEASE DO THAT! I love these universes and would love stories set in them even more so if you wrote what your heart chose.
My fandom prompts this year are:-
Westworld. The hosts are taking over, right? Flashbacks of the same things a hundred times have to have an impact. Or what if they build their own hosts to amuse themselves - what would that do? Are the new ones like an underclass? No mind wipes, one used and you're done? Or mind wipe the architects and trun them into hosts. Or find a way to age like the man in black. Or they all go mad now their god/creator is gone and find a new one. Or escape on the trains into the outside world where they hide out, Bladerunner style. SO MANY OPTIONS. Pick one or make up a new one? Basically I love the exploration of AI versus human intelligence, how both learn and react, and how that interplays.
Legion. What's Oliver been doing in the ice palace? How's his road trip with Lenny going? Or, something sweet about his courtship, in the world of hep cat. Maybe there's beat poetry. Maybe he kills Lenny with beat poetry?
Or, I'm slightly in love plutonically with Cary/Kerry. Backstory? Do they ever hide the other way round? How are they going to find their way back to each other again - if they ever do? What if he dies first (as he's old) - what happens to her?
The Thick of It. Creative swearing of any kind, in any plot. I exspecially like Malcolm/Jamie swearing, but as long as it's humorous, I'll go with whomever.
Do not wants: dub con non con, ickily graphic gore or common squicks. Show me hints, not the whole of the moon, especially if the moon is covered in blood.
Thank you for writing or me :-)
things that make life easier
www.josephjoseph.com/en-gb/washdrain
This washing bowl which doesn't require upper arm strength to empty it is great for woolly limbed days
https://www.tristarproducts.co.uk/perfect-cooker.aspx
This rice/ stew cooker can be left alone while I do other stuff and means I can cook for one and have another dish the next day - no eternal leftovers
http://www.sitandsleep.co.uk/unique-sleeping-solutions/hideaway-bed
This futon is comfortable and folds into a very small space
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00QJDO0QC/ref=fs_pnwf
The kindle paperwhite makes reading larger books more comfrtabe and had an easy on the eye backlight for reading in the dark
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confidence-Vibetone-Vibration-Trainer/dp/B003U6RI74/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1492978949&sr=8-17&keywords=vibration+plate
home vibration plates don't tone you up or make you thinner, but they do assist in recovery of fatigued limbs
This washing bowl which doesn't require upper arm strength to empty it is great for woolly limbed days
https://www.tristarproducts.co.uk/perfect-cooker.aspx
This rice/ stew cooker can be left alone while I do other stuff and means I can cook for one and have another dish the next day - no eternal leftovers
http://www.sitandsleep.co.uk/unique-sleeping-solutions/hideaway-bed
This futon is comfortable and folds into a very small space
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00QJDO0QC/ref=fs_pnwf
The kindle paperwhite makes reading larger books more comfrtabe and had an easy on the eye backlight for reading in the dark
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confidence-Vibetone-Vibration-Trainer/dp/B003U6RI74/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1492978949&sr=8-17&keywords=vibration+plate
home vibration plates don't tone you up or make you thinner, but they do assist in recovery of fatigued limbs
Bus!
I got the bus to work today.
I smiled at people.
I had some small amount of walking.
I left wik sharo to be sure to be in time to get the bus.
I bought oranges at the store on the way home.
Because work pay my parking it's slightly more expensive to get the bus than take the car. But I did like seeing who was walking their dog and doing what in the gardens without actually haing to, y'know, go for a walk.
I am going to see if I can get interesting buses to any other parts of town at the weekend, for entertainment!
I smiled at people.
I had some small amount of walking.
I left wik sharo to be sure to be in time to get the bus.
I bought oranges at the store on the way home.
Because work pay my parking it's slightly more expensive to get the bus than take the car. But I did like seeing who was walking their dog and doing what in the gardens without actually haing to, y'know, go for a walk.
I am going to see if I can get interesting buses to any other parts of town at the weekend, for entertainment!
using up stuff in the fridge food plan for next week
Smoked tofu stir fry - tonight dinner/ Monday lunch
Rice, beans and red pepper hummus - Monday dinner/ Tuesday lunch
Baked potato and vegan cheese - Tuesday dinner
Hummus and sandwich thins - Wed lunch
Pepper onion potato and corn polenta - Wed dinner, Thursday lunch
Baked potato and tofurkey sausages - Thursday dinner
Friday - out for lunch and dinner
Breakfasts - savoury mochi, porridge, avocados
Snacks - fruit, the soy yogurt mountain, miso soup
Drinks: squash, the coffee mountain. Am getting used to less diet soda in my life.
Food budget for April is £20 a week, because I have so much to use up! So into town on Saturday for fresh fruit and veg from the market (proved v cheap and great quality this week) and a trip to the wholefoods shop for tofu products.
As I am getting the bus to work this week, I won't be tempted by supermarket stops on the way home; it will only lead to more walking, which in current state of illness, is not wise.
Rice, beans and red pepper hummus - Monday dinner/ Tuesday lunch
Baked potato and vegan cheese - Tuesday dinner
Hummus and sandwich thins - Wed lunch
Pepper onion potato and corn polenta - Wed dinner, Thursday lunch
Baked potato and tofurkey sausages - Thursday dinner
Friday - out for lunch and dinner
Breakfasts - savoury mochi, porridge, avocados
Snacks - fruit, the soy yogurt mountain, miso soup
Drinks: squash, the coffee mountain. Am getting used to less diet soda in my life.
Food budget for April is £20 a week, because I have so much to use up! So into town on Saturday for fresh fruit and veg from the market (proved v cheap and great quality this week) and a trip to the wholefoods shop for tofu products.
As I am getting the bus to work this week, I won't be tempted by supermarket stops on the way home; it will only lead to more walking, which in current state of illness, is not wise.
HOUSE MOVE TOMORROW
my world is boxes
there will be no broadband for a fortnight, just phone internet :/
there will be no broadband for a fortnight, just phone internet :/
dear yuletide author
Thank you for participating in yuletide! I haven't for a couple years BC life but am so pleased to be back again - it's one of the bright lights of the holidays! And a special thank you for loving one of the fandoms of my heart. Write whatever gives you joy, although extreme fetish is not my cuppa. i like darkfic, I like curtainfic, I like most things inbetween.
Blades of Glory - one of the most under rated films of all time. I like the love/hate vibe, obviously. Some prompt ideas...
Chronicles of St Marys
This is such a great series! Historical education, steampunk broken-down science, evil overlords pursuing you across time and space.... it has everything!
Better Call Saul - a series with so many blanks to fll in!
I hope that gives you some ideas to start things off; but really I will be delighted with anything in these glorious fandoms!
Blades of Glory - one of the most under rated films of all time. I like the love/hate vibe, obviously. Some prompt ideas...
- I'm fascinated by how the get the ideas forr their routines - who made the space costumes, at what moment did they realise they both had Flash in their hearts?
- Do they go on to coach the first f/f skate team and break down gender discrimination in sports?
- Does the iron lotus one day go HORRIBLY WRONG?
- Or awesome costume arguments and fighting over the hairdryer.
Chronicles of St Marys
This is such a great series! Historical education, steampunk broken-down science, evil overlords pursuing you across time and space.... it has everything!
- Any new perspective on a historic event would be fab - Wright brothers, the titanic, discovery of penicillin, the boston tea party, real robin hood - whatever you would like the setting to be.
- The team are at their best when faced with a broken pod, a tea crisis and impending doom. So, big doom.
- I'm also interested in stories from the point of view of the Time Police - how are they meant to do their job when those crazy historians can't keep to the most basic of rules?
Better Call Saul - a series with so many blanks to fll in!
- Tell me about one of Slippin' Jimmy's best scams
- I'm a sucker for misery. What's life like at the Cinnabon? What's in his head as he mixes frosting?
- Does Saul get a break, and get free?
- Where does Kim end up, and with who?
- What about all of the wives?
I hope that gives you some ideas to start things off; but really I will be delighted with anything in these glorious fandoms!
weekend
I've been with the parents since Friday night.
Showed them a leaflet of the new place ("That's nice" - but they don't really get it); managed to get mum out into the garden for an hour, took dad out to buy a paper and get cash, did a lot of cooking, hoovered, restocked the freezer, drowned many fruit flies. I haven't eaten anything cooked here myself - I'm all prepackaged salads - because my immune system is too broken to risk it.
It is difficult knowing they are not really there inside their brains. Dad is mega forgetful and can't make many decisions, and mum's drugs are making her hallucinate. She knows things aren't real, but she still sees them. (Ponies in the living room, broken sofa, etc).
They offered to get me something for the house as a graduation gift, but really, it's just another cheque. I'm quite down about the whole graduation thing anyway; I don't think this will help.
In better news, I have signed them up for broadband, so that's a thing which will help. I can work here some occasional Mondays/ Fridays now. Dad has interpreted that as "more visits" instead of "longer visits", and I will cross that one when I get to it.
Kindle has kept me sane, and work tomorrow in Glasgow will be good; many nice people to visit.
Showed them a leaflet of the new place ("That's nice" - but they don't really get it); managed to get mum out into the garden for an hour, took dad out to buy a paper and get cash, did a lot of cooking, hoovered, restocked the freezer, drowned many fruit flies. I haven't eaten anything cooked here myself - I'm all prepackaged salads - because my immune system is too broken to risk it.
It is difficult knowing they are not really there inside their brains. Dad is mega forgetful and can't make many decisions, and mum's drugs are making her hallucinate. She knows things aren't real, but she still sees them. (Ponies in the living room, broken sofa, etc).
They offered to get me something for the house as a graduation gift, but really, it's just another cheque. I'm quite down about the whole graduation thing anyway; I don't think this will help.
In better news, I have signed them up for broadband, so that's a thing which will help. I can work here some occasional Mondays/ Fridays now. Dad has interpreted that as "more visits" instead of "longer visits", and I will cross that one when I get to it.
Kindle has kept me sane, and work tomorrow in Glasgow will be good; many nice people to visit.
Vegan food
When I first became vegetarian some 20 years ago, eating out was a world of vegetable lasagna and macaroni cheese, and that got better slowly overtime.
The vegan equivalents, today, are hummus/oilves/pita, and superfood salad, or in less cosmopolitan places, a baked potato and beans.
I may have hummus fatigue by new year.
Best eaterie so far; wagamama. They are totally geared up for world of veganism, a well oiled adaptation machine. Second is Loungers, with a whole vegan menu, but it doesn't change very often.
Here is hoping ti improves faster than vegetarian food did.
The vegan equivalents, today, are hummus/oilves/pita, and superfood salad, or in less cosmopolitan places, a baked potato and beans.
I may have hummus fatigue by new year.
Best eaterie so far; wagamama. They are totally geared up for world of veganism, a well oiled adaptation machine. Second is Loungers, with a whole vegan menu, but it doesn't change very often.
Here is hoping ti improves faster than vegetarian food did.
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Viewing
Cineworld 36/40 Sausage Party. DO NOT SEE THIS. It was awful.
Netflix 28/20 - All of Being Human. I LOVE HAL.
Netflix 28/20 - All of Being Human. I LOVE HAL.