Weekly Round Up #24

Weekly Round Up #24 (05/01-11/01)

I have been so ill this week, it’s not even funny. Particularly not funny, because I started my first week at a new job. Being Walking Dead Girl wasn’t doing much for my first impressions, but I survived without having to take a day off, just about, and am hoping that they see the real me from now on!

I did manage to get my Jantastic off to a good start though. I ran with lungs filled with porridge on Monday, then managed not to drown for three swims. I’m pleased to report that even poorly, I managed to swim 16 lengths, which is twice as many as I need to for my January challenge. I didn’t swim them consecutively, and I haven’t timed how long it takes, but I at least know I can do the distance. And if I can do the distance in bits when I’m ill, I’m pretty sure I can do it in one whack when I’m feeling a bit closer to 100%.

The Boyfriend was back off for his training, which made me feel a bit sad – not that I had much time for sulking about it between all the sleeping I was doing. He’s been really good about phoning every day, though, and the week went so fast, before I knew it, the weekend was upon us.

We spent most of the weekend watching films. Grand Budapest Hotel – weird but very enjoyable. I, Frankenstein – biggest pile of shite we’ve watched for a long time. Amazing Spiderman 2 – I enjoyed it, the Boyfriend did not. We don’t normally watch three films in two days, but we were both pretty exhausted, and vegging out made us both feel a whole lot better. And we did go swimming. The Boyfriend tried to teach me about front crawl, and I did manage to do a whole length (just about) but I’m still a long way from being comfortable doing it.

I’m hoping next week is a little more eventful. When you basically sleep for five days (including at your desk at work) it doesn’t leave much time for doing exciting things. Or eating. Or anything, really. I’ve done more today than I did all last week. Here’s hoping the rest of the week continues in this fashion!

Weekly Round Up #11

Weekly Round Up #11 (06/10 – 12/10)

It’s been a slow week of recovering from the trials of the half-marathon this week. My legs were understandably achy, and my feet suffering from a touch of tendonitis. But it’s a testament to my improved stamina and fitness that I felt almost recovered by thursday.

Then at the weekend I came down with a strange cold/flu virus that had me feeling very weird. Consequently a large portion of the weekend was spent in front of the television, watching bad films I’d mostly seen before, and wishing my temperature would lower so I stopped feeling like my heart was going to beat out of my chest. It wasn’t pleasant, and I’m only just starting to feel properly myself at time of writing almost a week later.

Still, between the illness and the aches there were things going on. On tuesday, Mum and I went to pop-up choir with my old piano teacher and family friend. It’s for an arts festival that’s taking place in our hometown – a bunch of amateurs coming together to sing some songs for about an hour during the festival. We did Words by the BeeGees and You Are Not Alone (version I know by Michael Jackson, but it wasn’t his name on the music) and a rather shaky version of the Hallelujah chorus, which we will apparently be performing with some ukeleles. I can’t even begin to imagine…

The weather has been pretty grotty, skipping past autumn, straight to winter by the feel of it, but it’s been a perfect excuse to get the fire going, and I’ve enjoyed snuggling on the sofa with the Boyfriend to the gentle crackle of burning wood, in the soft light of the flames. Terribly romantic, which, given that the Boyfriend doesn’t have a romantic bone in his body, is rather lost on him!