BLOG Publicity & Sharing

I read a post yesterday where the writer was so pleased that she overheard a really nice comment about her from her husband to his friend. She was so pleased because she said "he doesn't even know that I know" yet she was telling all of her blog readers about it.

So, I was thinking to myself as I drove into work this morning, how many of us have told our partners that we have a blog? I know I haven't.
Its not that I wouldn't want her to know about it or to read it, but it feels like just an additional little outlet for my feelings and somewhere where I get some good advice from time to time that I like to keep a little secret.
Isn't that odd when it’s available to the whole world to read and comment on?

To take that thought to the next stage, how many of us tell anyone at all about our blogs? Do we just wait to be discovered?

New Year’s NON-Resolution

So having said that I was not making any New Year’s Resolutions but made some sort of half-hearted commitment to making my gym regime a little more of a ‘must do’ rather than something that is always the first thing to be sacrificed in favour of other tasks.

Well my start on this was to change my attendance at Spinning classes from Monday evening with the occasional Sunday morning thrown in, to Tuesday & Thursday morning before work and again on Sunday morning. I intended to add two additional weight resistance sessions on Monday and Friday mornings before work.

I don’t know what has made this work for the past two weeks (OK I know its still early days) but I not only still feel totally committed to this regime but I think I am getting almost obsessional about it!

I am getting such a buzz from the Spinning classes that I feel much more alive when I get to the office and I am getting fiercely competitive with myself over the progression of weight/repetitions during my resistance workouts.

Can I maintain this? Time will tell

Six Wierd Things About Me

I've been tagged by Furtheron. Thanks pal!

(THE RULES: Each player of this game starts with the "six weird things about you" blog post. People who get tagged need to write their own six weird things post and state the rules clearly. At the end of the post tag six more people and don’t forget to leave a comment on their blog to tell them they have been tagged and tell them to read your blog.)

1. I have had a squint since I was born. It was operated on when I was 5 but it didn't really correct it so I still have a very lazy left eye that often (when I am drunk or tired) doesn't look at the same place as my right eye.

2. Despite what I think is probably a good cover up, I really don't like change. I think I give off vibes that I can thrive on it, but it is really uncomfortable

3. I am a Status Quo fan! (like that one Further On?)

4. At the age of 41 I learnt to drive a Heavy Goods Vehicle (40 ton truck) and got my licence with only 24 hours tuition - just for fun. I have never driven one since

5. At the age of 60 I learnt to ride a motorcylce for the first time, passed my test and now can't get enough of my Honda VFR 800

6. Although I am outwardly quite a gregarious person, I am really very introverted and often feel insecure. - Enough of this introspection, who started all this stuff!!

I tag:

Lisa
Suzanne
Delirious
Jill

As I am new to blogging I don't have a community that contains enough folks to tag as they many have been tagged already

In Retrospect a Good weekend …… BUT

Why is it that plans to achieve the most simple things have a habit of escalating out of control?

I had planned this weekend to stake two of my small trees that had suffered at the hands of the recent strong winds (near gale force) here in the south east. This should have taken no more than 20 to 30 minutes.

Step 1 - buy two stakes and tree ties – No problem

Step 2 - drive stake #1 into ground – No problem

Step 3 - attach tree to stake – aha small problem here several other shrubs hampering this as they are entangled with tree

Step 4 - first unplanned move – prune shrubs to release tree

Step 5 - repeat 2-4 for second tree

Step 6 - discover third tree that needs same treatment

Step 7 - repeat steps 1- 4 for third tree

Step 8 - stand back in awe of the ‘mountain’ of pruned shrubbery that now adorns the centre of my lawn

Step 9 - cut the prunings into reasonable sized lengths so that I am able to put into the car for transportation to the municipal dump

Step 10 - hot bath to ease my aching back muscles followed by a large gin & tonic

The whole thing only took 4 hours and I still have got the pleasure of dumping it all at the tip nextweekend!!

The whole thing only took 4 hours and I still have got the pleasure of dumping it all at the tip nextweekend!!

New Glasses

Well one pair of them anyway.
I received a call that both pairs were ready for collection and went in to get them today.
Eyesight - brilliant improvement especially the new long distance prescription, I didn't realise how much I wasn't seeing!
But that is where the problem started. When fitting them I asked for the fit to be tightened. No problem said the assistant, "I just need to bend the end of the arm straight and then curve it again with an extra centimetre." SNAP!!
"Well I have never seen that before" he said. "Before I send them back for a replacement arm, I better fix the other one in case it does the same" IT DID!

So I now have a perfectly good new pair of intermediate and reading bi-focals but need to wait another week for the long distance ones. Keep an eye open for me on the roads guys!

Tolerance Resolution is at risk!

So, driving in to work this morning there was a discussion / phone-in on the radio about what really bugs folks. This got me thinking about my previous New Year resolution comments about tolerance – or should I say intolerance.

It was really worrying how quickly I started to bond with all these strangers complaining about things such as the inane use of mobile phones in public confines like public transport, cafes, restaurants etc, telling other inconsiderates at the other end of the line where there were and exactly what they were doing. Often they are so loud they could have achieved the same objective by simply opening the window and letting their grating voices carry on the wind. There was a list of many other forms of irritation but before I could get into them, I was immediately transported to my own little agenda by the foreign lorry drivers behind me blinding me with headlights adjusted to the right , the imbecile travelling in excess of 100mph with only one headlight and therefore looking just like a motorcycle, several other inconsiderate car drivers sitting in the centre lane with no traffic whatsoever to their left who, when I overtook them and returned to the left lane, still stayed there!

Dammit I should have kept playing the CDs – it looks as though my attempt at tolerance is going to be sorely tried to manage the end of the week

1st Post 2007

I was thinking over Christmas that having made the title of this blog so specific, I am not sure I am going to be able to keep this up so I may digress from the age theme as time passes :-)

Back to work today but there still seems to be a good number of folks still on holiday.
Oh well gives me time to get all my 2006 backups sorted out and get set for the 2007 onslaught of emails and attached files to respond to and to file away somewhere!

No really specific resolutions made this year as I never seem to get to keep them anyway.
I have however had some vague thoughts about attempting to be a little more tolerant with people that I disagree with. I am sure that they are really not all idiots just because they think differently to me :-) The other one is to make my gym regime stick a little better this year. I am definitely not going to get hung up about arriving for work at 8:30, feeling guilty that I was not here at my "usual" time of 7:15. Oh and more motorcycle riding this year is a definite