Chilling And Resting

It is the bank holiday weekend and it is nice to have some time away from work. Work is getting me down again just lately and I hate it when I have weeks like this. Things are starting to get better but when the pressure is on, it is full on and nobody takes any prisoners, plenty of backstabbing going on too, which I really hate!

I went to try some jeans on that I have had my eye on for a few weeks but they are skinny fitting but I hoped I might get into them. I tried a 32'' & 34'' waits jeans and I think I would have had to gone up to maybe a 38'' to get them over my legs. One of the downfalls of being a cyclist I guess.

I've had a couple of good workouts just lately and although I'm still overweight, I feel that something could be working. I just need to get my head around getting back onto a diet but I'm struggling. I need to concentrate on stretching as I am so stiff I can't believe how the lack of movement can make things harder for me, time to knuckle down I guess!

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A Few Days Off

It's Friday and I'm towards the end of my week off on holiday from work. It's been a good rest, not done a great deal but sometimes doing nothing is just what you need! Had a breakdown with the boiler this week and basically they got the boiler working but I need a new boiler. The old boiler is old, they have stopped making any spare parts for the thing and they stopped producing it in 1996 so I have a guy from British Gas coming to see me in a couple of weeks. I'm going to have to look at getting a new one, what happens if it breaks down in winter and I'm stuck to get it repaired, all I know is it is going to cost at least £1500!

Went to see Julian Clary last night at New Theatre here in Hull. I really enjoyed it and it was a good laugh, he is so quick witted and always has some sort of an answer or joke when it is needed. Last time I saw Julian was in a gay pub in Soho called Rupert Street. He walked past me, in make up but he looked great and so tall too!

One of my harddrives crashed this week and I almost lost everything on it, Vince has managed to recover a lot of stuff, music, photo's and documents. I'm going to look at taking everything off and put them onto a Blu ray disc or two to back up then format the harddrive, hopefully that will sort out the problem on it. You don't realise just how much you collect over the years and how many duplicates you make. I like to make compilation albums and there are loads of albums I've made and you can tell the mood I was in at the time of making them!

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Holiday Is Over

Been a nice week off this week, weather has been sunny but really cold until this weekend when it has started to warm up a little. It has been nice just relaxing and not doing a great deal, although it was a return to the gym this week. I've managed to do a full work out and even managed to run for a minute with no pain from my knee, obviously I didn't want to over do things so next week I'm gonna start pushing a little. This week was more of a get back into it and get used to the new machines at the gym. Some of them are quite different to what was at the old gym, but it's just a matter of getting used to them and also remembering what I used to do with my personal trainer!

Started to get some seeds planted this week too, got seedlings planted too, I just hope the weather warms up now and doesn't kill anything off. Last year the weather was pretty crap and hardly anything grew or like the tomatoes they just wouldn't turn red, stayed green and not even formed properly inside, so loads got thrown away.

So the plans for the next couple of weeks are to go to the gym on a night, see what it is really like, push myself a little with each visit there and hopefully strengthen the knee. I need to sort the diet out too, fine tune it a little as I haven't lost any weight this week, but I'm hopeful things will start to change again!

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Still On Holiday

Still got a couple of days left of my summer holidays and I've enjoyed the rest even though there's no money to do much. I got a text this morning telling me that when I go back to work next week, I'll be on a 3 day week and the following week I've got Monday off but that's as much as I know right now. Guess I'll be spending more time at the gym!

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Let The Blog Slip

Ooops, I was doing so well at keeping this up to date! As I write this I am on my second week of my holidays. It's been ok so far, Vinny is here with me but there's not much money, the weather wasn't too great until the weekend and it has been sunny. Today is really hot and sunny too! I've so far been in the gym nearly every day and my body shape is slowly changing and looking good, I seem to notice little things like a muscle will look different on my shoulder or one of my favourite shirts is suddenly tight over my chest, one way of sorting your wardrobe out I guess lol!

Talking of the gym, I'm no longer working out with Steve my personal trainer. He'd left Hitness First and was still coming to the gym to train with me, but he went on holiday and when I got in touch with him, he said he was busy as his football pre season training had started so I said I'd leave it with him to get in touch, which he hasn't so I take it we won't be working out again. It is a shame as I liked him and enjoyed working out with him, but at the same time he has shown me enough to be able to carry on with his ways and ideas, the only thing is I don't have a workout partner and I can't lift the weights we used to lift on my own!

Me and Vinny did Hull Pride at the weekend, it was pretty good for my first local pride, I don't think he found it brilliant but it was slowly filling up as we left.

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Back To Normal

I've gone back to work, I went back yesterday and it feels like I've never been from the place. You just don't realise that having a few days off work should rest, relax and recharge the old batteries and forget about work. But when you go back it is like jumpiong back into old habits, hitting the old routine and before you know it, the memories of a Christmas holiday are so distant. The weather hasn't been fantastic either, they are saying it is th worst winter in the UK for the last 25 years. I don't remember it being so icy for so long though. The roads are not too bad but the paths are really bad. I've not been out on my bike and I don't think I'll be going out this weekend as the bad weather is supposed to be here for another few days. Oh well, hopefully there'll be stuff to watch on the TV!

Dentist Again

I'm off to the dentist later today. I broke a tooth on Christmas day whilst tucking into my Christmas dinner and I reckon they will pull it as it has been filled before. I really do not like going to the dentist as I have had loads of work done to my teeth when I was younger. I've had a brace twice and had perfectly healthy teeth taken out to fit it. Some of the pain I've had afterwards having had them cleaned or a filling so I am not of fan of dentists!
I've just got back home after going there and he's put a temporary filling in but I need to either get it filled or a crown put on but I don't know which is best. It will cost £50 for the filling or £200 of the crown. I will think about it and decide but whatever, I want to save this tooth!

Back To Normal

Well, I went back to work this week and everything just seems as normal as it did before I went on holiday. I did enjoy the break, I went to London for 4 days, and Brighton on one of those days. The second week saw me in York, Scarborough, Manchester and Leeds so I did get about a bit. Went back to work to begin learning to program a new machine we were getting, it was similar to the old machine but obviously does a lot more so as well as doing my programming I had to take care of my job as well as sort out other problems. Through all this I have had to work overtime, so been doing 11 hour days plus Saturday and Sunday. I'm tired and a little bit annoyed I didn't get out on my bike but having said that it is raining. I was lucky with the weather as the week before I broke up it rained and we had 2 glorious weeks of sunshine and now all back to normal like I said!

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Computer Crash

We have just had a serious PC crash and had to take off all the files we had stored on the computer. Vista was really playing up and it just went on an almighty go slow, cpu was fine but it was saying that there was huge usage on the memory. So there was no choice but to re-boot but finally back on line with no real problems as such.

I break up this Friday for a week's holiday and will be going to see my tattooist this Saturday to finalise plans for my back tattoo. I'm really looking forward to this as I have wanted this for years and in two weeks time I will start getting my back tattooed. They have booked me some sessions in for the coming months which I have to make sure fit in with my arrangements.

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