it's a wrap

oh, look

the more things change, the more they stay the same

i'm in exactly the same place

watching the same music countdown

with the same 600 year old dog as last year

alone again, naturally

and the more and more i try to drink, the less and less drunk i feel

s'okay, though

sophie and i entertained some people a little earlier, in a most respectable fashion

and now she's having the briefest of lie downs in order to be well rested for the dancing storm she knows is coming

so, goodbye, 2009

you were pretty interesting

up and down to be sure, but admittedly never boring

and i've had some good tales to tell

so byes

florence and the machine - kiss with a fist

little miss

if you're feeling terrible and sick and wretched and have been for over three weeks

stay in bed on your one day off after working six in a row

eat a whole large packet of sour cream and chives chips

half a box of favourites chocolates

for breakfast

and watch sunshine cleaning

you'll need the remainder of the nice, soft tissues because you will bawl your fucking eyes out for nearly two hours

$85 a week is never going to buy your way out of some of the past, so just get used to it

santa baby

dear santa

thanks for noticing how extremely very good i've been this year - particularly in the last three months. i just wanted to express my gratitude for the two big things that have come into my life recently - surely you were behind this kind of karmic generosity? sure you were!

thank you for my bike - i love it and i go to the shed and talk to it most days because i've been too sick to ride it for the last fortnight

thank you for my boyfriend - he is lovely and just what i wanted! how did you know, santa, how did you know?

i don't want to seem ungrateful, but i don't thank you for the h1n1 novel influenza virus i got last week. i still feel about a half past dead, and am operating at about 30% capacity. it's putting a real kink in the bike riding, sea kayaking and kite surfing i wanted to try, and when i left work today i had to sit down on the corner for ten minutes to avoid some sort of complete systems failure. the silver lining, i guess, is that i quit smoking nearly two weeks ago. funny how you can just decide to give up something that's not good for you and do it without making a big deal out of it.

so, thanks santa. i'm appreciative and grateful and happy

fly safe - there's a million checkpoints at this time of year, and only a bloody idiot drinks and flies magical sleighs

love(d up) chirst

lolcat of the day

here's the thing

12 days of reasonably high dose prednisone is going to leave you a little fragmented

so

hold on for one more day

and anticipate that

great

big

crash

2 degrees of separation

sorry vodafone

you're out

i've moved on

i know it sounds a bit harsh, but i need you to understand

it's finally over

and

there's a new cellular mobile telephone network in my life

i'm taking the number, though

cause now i get, i get what i want

bye

experiential experimental

so, just for shits and giggles

and also because the subject is clinically unwell enough for a long enough time

put all of these in one person

STAT

• budesonide/eformoterol (200/6) 4 inh tds
• salbutamol (100mcg) 2 inh up to qid prn
• prednisone (40mg) po od
• theophylline (250mg) po bd
• nedocromil sodium (2mg) 2 inh q4H
• loratadine (10mg) po od

it's grand, i tell you

especially since with all these wonderful compounds i've now realised that I am

(yet always have been)

1. omnipotent
2. omnipresent
3. omniscient

so, yeah, i was right all along

i CAN see through time

atonement

monday

20 minutes treadmill - alternating run/walk
30 minute boxing session that does not break open freshly healed elbow

monday is weigh day, you know
so yesterday being monday i hopped on the scales, and i smiled a big, big smile :)
and then richard looked at the scales
and bloody hell
he cracked a big grin too :)

here's the thing that i can't stop thinking about

i weigh exactly 35kg less than i did four years ago

man, i am one boring person to listen to/read about at the moment
and yet
homercles cares not for beans

and also there's some undisclosure happening here
actually, let's amend that to a fairly substantial amount of undisclosure

case closed

atonement

thursday:

sea kayaking - 1.5 hours (don't fear the critters in the water. they're probably fish - i've heard that's where they hang out)

friday:

treadmill - 15 minutes (random running and walking pattern)
crosstrainer - 15 minutes
boxing circuit - 30 minutes

you'll realise you've probably overdone it lately when you have to stop at the end of the second round of the circuit, unsure as to whether you will throw up, black out or stop breathing. just take a wee breather - and then you can finish the third round and go to work - yay!

the new adventures of old chirstine

hey
guess what i'm doing on thursday?
no, not that
oh, yeah, but maybe that
but this for sho'
kayaking

past chirst is like "dude, kayaking and mountainbiking, seriously?" and present chirst is like "yup. just sink back into fat hell there, past chirst, we're all about the heha and the pushing play these days"

and very cute boys who are sporty and outdoorsy. we're very much about them too

best date movie 2009

fuck

i

love

this

movie!

love

love

love

it!

this is my new favourite movie, and did i happen to mention i love it? it's that instant feeling when you're watching a movie that it's the right fit, and you're going to be bestest friends with it for like totally forever. so, check out this review, and maybe also have a wee look over here. and here's a wee trailer too. sigh.

if i had to put some big grown up words around describing it, i would have to go with "totally fucking kickass coolness"

and it's just as well i've done all that atonement, because "the first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons, were the fatties"

so, being a fit looking nurse with a brain, i'd like to think i'd nut up rather than shut up, and grab me some firepower

atonement

yesterday:

walk/run alternating minutes on treadmill: 15 min
stationary bike: 15 min

new weights/ strength program where you are so amazed and proud that you can leg press 80kg

booyah!

self possession

i got to do secret birthday stuff with my sister today, which was fun

and then i was STARVING hungry

so i went to velvet burger and ate a velvet burger

and while i was there

i noticed that my exact same brand new bike was fixed to the wall, ready to be won in a competition

and they started playing death cab for cutie's "i will possess your heart" on the stereo, loud

and i thought, "hey, chirst world is pretty cool right now"

because it is

:)

lolduck of the day

sometimes you just need to take the plunge

the leap of faith

dive on in

ok

alrighty, then

here i go......

atonement

5km bike to gym
30 minutes boxing
5km bike home

gymjuries sustained today:

• bruise on front of shin from where i accidentally (as if i'd do it on purpose) walked into the toilet
• new friction burn on top of old nearly healed one from prone holds

and ha ha, it was funny cos i biked around the corner from anzac ave to the gym, and a lady quickly ran back to her car and started rubbing off the chalk mark on her tyre because in my dayglo yellow jacket she thought i was the parking warden. snorfl

past lives

with my owies and my hurties and my bruises i took to my awesome bed and watched 'land of the lost'(2009)
and it was very funny
and i laughed ha ha ha out loud

hothead

it was very sunny this evening

and it looked for all the world like my hair was on fire

but don't worry

it wasn't really

because i'm not an x/watch man

i did, however, get called a geek by two different people today

but that's okay by me

because

the geek shall inherit the earth

atonement

15km bike ride

people on bikes seem to be nice smiley people who tend to talk to you

and i put my own lights on my own bike

and i ring ring ringed my bell and talked to my bike like a crazy lady

ding

atonement

weights/strength program

and tonight, for the final go at my program, it was dictated that the following adjustments were made:

• kettlebell swing - increase weight to 10kg
• lat pulldown - increase weight to 39kg
• calf raise - increase weight to 54kg
• single leg pike - do it properly this time and not the way that made richard laugh at you the other day
• squat jumps - 15 instead of 10

my dodgy knee seemed to be ok tonight, so i did get back on the evil machine of death i mean the stepper for the prescribed 10 minutes at the end. the only thing that kept me going was 'the power of love' by huey lewis and the news as i accidentally said swear words out loud - the way i kept time with that song was just, well, words fail me (they probably failed several other people watching, too)

so goodbye, current weights program. don't feel bad or like it was your fault when you see me with a new program next week

we've just grown apart, is all

on yer bike

i thought i was just going to have a wee look around

but today i bought myself

my
very
own
bike

it's so cool and tough and pretty and i love it

so tomorrow i will pack my backpack and catch the bus to work in the morning and in the afternoon go back to the cycle surgery where it was born and ride it home

i probably won't need to wear my dayglo cycling jacket and bike helmet on the bus, though

probably