I'm Still Here

I can't believe that I haven't added to my blog for ages. So I'm going to change and try to keep it up to date more. A few things have happened over the last couple of months, the main thing is that I'm on short time at work, the Easter week I worked 3 days out of 4 and last week I worked 4 days. So right now I'm on a 4 day week which isn't fantastic but at least I still have a job.

So I'm going to try and use the time off to the best I can, so I'm going back to the gym to try and lose some weight, I'm going to try and go for a ride on my bike this week and try to do anything so that I'm not just sat at home thinking about things and sat on the computer. My photography hobby is slowly growing and want to try taking still life shots now, that should keep me out of mischief for a while. There's a photo!

5

Still Ill

Well, this cold is still pretty bad and I have been to the doctor's who told me I have a bad chest infection. Pills to take and cough medicine so hopefully it might start to shift this cold. I Haven't been anywhere on my bike so I'm missing not going out as I can hardly breathe so hard cycling is really out of the question
5

Aarrgh!

This cold I have is really hanging around and I've had to ring and cancel my tattoo appointment for Saturday. I'm in a lot of pain with my chest and there's no way I can sit for 3 hours without coughing and splutering. I was looking forward to this and now it has put it back further but at least next time I will be fit and ready for getting tattooed.

5

A Start Of Things To Come?

Happy New Year to everyone and I hope that Christmas was good for everyone and that you all had a good time. I spent the new year with the flu and was laid up on the settee all new years eve daytime, good job nothing was planned for the evening. To be honest I hate New Years Eve, I don't like the emotions that come with it such as people wishing they had done such and such a thing and another year passed ect. I think it is just another excuse for everyone to get really drunk, I sound a proper misery but I much prefer the feeling of Christmas.
So far after the cold, I went back to mayhem at work and then on Friday night the fridge freezer caught fire so that now has to be replaced and £250 pounds later the fridge comes on Thursday and the freezer in another couple of weeks. I have a huge gas bill to pay and I have another tattoo session on my back this coming Saturday so that is a lot of cash I have to come up with. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come!

5

Another Tattoo Session

Saturday was my latest tattoo session. I had another 2 and a half hours worth done which included colouring the dragon and a bit of shading and highlighting around my back. Wow, was it painful around the base of my back and I will be glad when it is all done. That was my last session of the year and my next session is in January 2008 and he told me that the next session should finish my back (until I decide on the rest of the design around my ribs) and my leg should be started after that. So the total so far is 11 hours of work and £600.

5

Foot Injury

For several months now, I've been walking around with a foot injury, which I put down with the long hours at work where I am constantly on my feet and to the footwear I wear at work. I finally went to see my doctor who told me I had to see a physiotherapist as he couldn't do anything. I went to see the guy last night and it seems I have got a condition called Plantar Fascitis which is the tendon the heel of the foot is inflamed and sore. He said it is due to overuse, which means a lot of walking but can be healed (no pun intended). I had shockwave treatment on it which meant 20,000 volts into the heel right on the spot it hurts to stimulate healing and also I have to stretch my foot as also it means the tendon is trying to flatten the arch of my foot. So I have to have treatment on it for the next 2 weeks and hopefully it will work, plus now I know exactly what I am dealing with, I can use Reiki on it. I really hate being ill or carrying any injury, it's just not me.

5

Latest Reiki - Seichem Level

On Saturday I took my latest Reiki level. This was Reiki - Seichem level 3 and the next level for me is Master level which won't be for a year or so. I have been doing this for almost 2 years to the date and the transformation of me and the way I think about things has been amazing and hopefully made me a better person. For me to explain everything that has happened to me would make me look like I've finally lost the plot but those who have done similar and had similar things happen to them will totally understand.

Today I rode to Withernsea which is a small seaside town about 20 miles East of Hull, I've not rode this far before or spent as long on the saddle as I did today and I can tell. It took me 2 hours to get there and a little longer getting home. When I got there it wasn't busy as the season has almost finished so most of it was shut and all I needed was a coffee but what cafe's were open were the ones where I couldn't take out a coffee and wasn't leaving my bike. So I spent just over 30 mins there and started riding home. so I did 40 miles and 4 hours cycling, wow just think of the calories burnt today. What makes me quite happy is how other road cyclists or mountain bikers always say Hi as they ride by, a mutual cycling acknowledgement I guess

5