The training is going well, although we have no real need to start hard training just yet I have been trying to lose some weight since I found out my bad news. I don't think I am fat, I used to lift weights very regularly and after I stopped, things - kinda went a bit downhill so I feel I need to tone up a bit. In the last month I have lost just over a stone (around 15 pounds) and I really feel like this challenge is something I can achieve.
Unfortunately it is not so easy to give up smoking. I really want to stop. I think it's a disgusting habit and I have to wash my hands and chew some gum after each cigarette because I can't stand the smell on me.
The thing is, every time I feel that I have had my last one, something comes along to piss me off and I start smoking. Then I have a coupe of days before I can get myself psyched up enough to quit again.
The other morning (Thursday, I believe) I had decided to stop but then I had a 2 hour session of being on hold and arguing with an AOL call centre in India. Time for a cigarette.
Then, I get home and Kirstie starts trading MySpace comments with a guy she knows (completely innocent) and I start to get jealous. Time for a cigarette.
After these two events it takes me another couple of days to get my mind right to quit again. I don't know, maybe I'm just making excuses because I'm too weak to quit. Maybe it's that I'm too unhappy right now to deal with this too. I managed it before though so I think I can do it again. Let's hope so.
In better news, we went into a store the other looking for cheap equipment to take to Costa Rica in the sale. I saw a Jeep backpack for 20, it was a bit small and didn't have everything that I need but it was a good price.
On the way to the counter, though, I noticed a much larger backpack made by Victorinox (the company that makes Swiss Army Knives) which was amazing. It was large and had everything I needed plus more, but looked way too expensive. It didn't have a price so I took it to the checkout to get a price.
This bag looked like it would cost at least 100, even in the sale, so I didn't hold out much hope of getting it but when the girl told me 25, I nearly told her to "stop being so fucking stupid". I didn't though and now I am the proud owner of a quality backpack which I like even more because it was such a bargain.
PLEASE. I know that this may get annoying but I have to keep asking. Go to our sponsorship site and pledge as much as you can afford. We need to raise so much money and it seems like this is going to be the hardest part of the trek.
Let me know if you do sponsor us, I'd like to thank you personally.
Thank You.
Kirstie and me are doing ok. We have our ups and downs. It seems that many of our downs could be avoided if we just told one another when we didn't understand something.
"Expectation is the root of all heartache. "
William Shakespeare
Unfortunately it is not so easy to give up smoking. I really want to stop. I think it's a disgusting habit and I have to wash my hands and chew some gum after each cigarette because I can't stand the smell on me.
The thing is, every time I feel that I have had my last one, something comes along to piss me off and I start smoking. Then I have a coupe of days before I can get myself psyched up enough to quit again.
The other morning (Thursday, I believe) I had decided to stop but then I had a 2 hour session of being on hold and arguing with an AOL call centre in India. Time for a cigarette.
Then, I get home and Kirstie starts trading MySpace comments with a guy she knows (completely innocent) and I start to get jealous. Time for a cigarette.
After these two events it takes me another couple of days to get my mind right to quit again. I don't know, maybe I'm just making excuses because I'm too weak to quit. Maybe it's that I'm too unhappy right now to deal with this too. I managed it before though so I think I can do it again. Let's hope so.
In better news, we went into a store the other looking for cheap equipment to take to Costa Rica in the sale. I saw a Jeep backpack for 20, it was a bit small and didn't have everything that I need but it was a good price.
On the way to the counter, though, I noticed a much larger backpack made by Victorinox (the company that makes Swiss Army Knives) which was amazing. It was large and had everything I needed plus more, but looked way too expensive. It didn't have a price so I took it to the checkout to get a price.
This bag looked like it would cost at least 100, even in the sale, so I didn't hold out much hope of getting it but when the girl told me 25, I nearly told her to "stop being so fucking stupid". I didn't though and now I am the proud owner of a quality backpack which I like even more because it was such a bargain.
PLEASE. I know that this may get annoying but I have to keep asking. Go to our sponsorship site and pledge as much as you can afford. We need to raise so much money and it seems like this is going to be the hardest part of the trek.
Let me know if you do sponsor us, I'd like to thank you personally.
Thank You.
Kirstie and me are doing ok. We have our ups and downs. It seems that many of our downs could be avoided if we just told one another when we didn't understand something.
"Expectation is the root of all heartache. "
William Shakespeare
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Here's your spanking!!!
I sang you..uh...typed you... a birthday ballad in Geezers today!
PS> I'd let you have all of my M-n-M's if I could figure out how to get them to you, honest injun!!