ouchie.
Purchased today:
12:30pm 1 battered sausage, half a portion of chips, no added sugar vimto £2.90
No web purchases today, but I did get a delivery of 2 sample tea towels. Score!
Friday, 9 May 2008
Thursday, 8 May 2008
STASH!
My friend at work has just brought me a HUGE stash of her Grandma's fabrics. There is suiting fabric, denim, gorgeous fuscia silk, houndstooth wool, nice silky heavy black material that will be LBD material when I find a good pattern! There's some cute florals and also some silver sparkly velvet that I already have a bit of - I made it into some pyjama bottoms and I must say they are fantastic! There is also a TON of spools of thread and zips, long long zips that I can make floppy disc wallets with and yards upon yards of stretchy lace trim. I have promised to make my friend a flowery, lacey ra-ra skirt!
In other news today, I have invented a cool tournament system that we might implement at training over the next few weeks, to help keep people interested over the summer holidays. Basically, it's 2, 1 minute rounds of sparring and the winner goes forwards to the quarter-finals, then semis then there will be an ultimate winner out of the class. If we implement it over the whole of the club, then the winners from each class will go forward to fight each other. I think we need it, we get bored to easily. Or maybe I should just say, "I".
I'm inspired by Obsessive Consumption and so for the next week, you're going to see exactly what I've bought every day! I know, interesting or what? Anyway, today's list goes like this:
8:20am - 11 Litres of unleaded petrol @ 107.9p a litre
12:30pm - Sesame Ryvita, Chocolate Crispies, Solero Ice Lolly
No internet shopping so far today!
6pm groceries
Oooh and the stuff I ordered the other day for my little crafty things arrived today. I will be playing at the weekend!
Yesterday I did make it to the gym. I benched, squatted and good morninged, also laterally pulled down and had a nice s-t-r-e-t-c-h. I swear I was a cat in previous lives, I love stretching.
I also overdid the hamstring exercises, because I had trouble walking round Sainsbury's then had even more trouble walking up the hill to Hampstead Heath to watch the Typhoons fly over. My legs seem to be ok today, but they are nicely achey.
In other news today, I have invented a cool tournament system that we might implement at training over the next few weeks, to help keep people interested over the summer holidays. Basically, it's 2, 1 minute rounds of sparring and the winner goes forwards to the quarter-finals, then semis then there will be an ultimate winner out of the class. If we implement it over the whole of the club, then the winners from each class will go forward to fight each other. I think we need it, we get bored to easily. Or maybe I should just say, "I".
I'm inspired by Obsessive Consumption and so for the next week, you're going to see exactly what I've bought every day! I know, interesting or what? Anyway, today's list goes like this:
8:20am - 11 Litres of unleaded petrol @ 107.9p a litre
12:30pm - Sesame Ryvita, Chocolate Crispies, Solero Ice Lolly
No internet shopping so far today!
6pm groceries
Oooh and the stuff I ordered the other day for my little crafty things arrived today. I will be playing at the weekend!
Yesterday I did make it to the gym. I benched, squatted and good morninged, also laterally pulled down and had a nice s-t-r-e-t-c-h. I swear I was a cat in previous lives, I love stretching.
I also overdid the hamstring exercises, because I had trouble walking round Sainsbury's then had even more trouble walking up the hill to Hampstead Heath to watch the Typhoons fly over. My legs seem to be ok today, but they are nicely achey.
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Hum. What to say today.
Well the outporing of my graphic efforts at work came today - 2 pallet loads of A4 reviews. Nice to start the day off with some physical exercise, unloading the truck!
I have been distributing those MMA leaflets again at lunchtime, I seem to have come away with fewer bruises and trapped fingers today.
I am partially working on doing something with 3.5" floppies, perhaps for the craft fair, perhaps not.
I am officially hating sparring in martial arts. Hate it. Don't want to do it. Want to go home. Of course if just needs something to get me interested again and I'll be all set. There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm for tournaments at the moment, perhaps that's why I'm not bothered about sparring.
I am making an effort to go to the gym tonight. I am determined. Apparently my "unfitness" is all in my head. If that's the case I should be able to rock on through some heavy squats and lifts and be fine tomorrow.
I have planned some quality printer-time tonight. There's a few things I want to make for the next craft fair and need to print some stuff out. I also need to carve out time to photograph myself making stuffies. At least it's the right weather for it at the moment. I might bring in the camera and tripod tomorrow and have a bash over lunchtime now that I've finished delivering all those leaflets.
Oh I had the wierdest, angriest dream last night. I was late for my friend's wedding and I was screaming myself hoarse at my parents who were supposed to be getting us there! This does not bode well for the future, we are having to get the train to Darlington on the morning of the wedding, which is fine and will probably work out well, but I think I would rather be going the night before, however there is no-one to cover my ladies class. So Friday morning train it must be.
I have been distributing those MMA leaflets again at lunchtime, I seem to have come away with fewer bruises and trapped fingers today.
I am partially working on doing something with 3.5" floppies, perhaps for the craft fair, perhaps not.
I am officially hating sparring in martial arts. Hate it. Don't want to do it. Want to go home. Of course if just needs something to get me interested again and I'll be all set. There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm for tournaments at the moment, perhaps that's why I'm not bothered about sparring.
I am making an effort to go to the gym tonight. I am determined. Apparently my "unfitness" is all in my head. If that's the case I should be able to rock on through some heavy squats and lifts and be fine tomorrow.
I have planned some quality printer-time tonight. There's a few things I want to make for the next craft fair and need to print some stuff out. I also need to carve out time to photograph myself making stuffies. At least it's the right weather for it at the moment. I might bring in the camera and tripod tomorrow and have a bash over lunchtime now that I've finished delivering all those leaflets.
Oh I had the wierdest, angriest dream last night. I was late for my friend's wedding and I was screaming myself hoarse at my parents who were supposed to be getting us there! This does not bode well for the future, we are having to get the train to Darlington on the morning of the wedding, which is fine and will probably work out well, but I think I would rather be going the night before, however there is no-one to cover my ladies class. So Friday morning train it must be.
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
More Shop and Cornwall
Here's another couple of poster prints in the shop.
We spent the weekend in Cornwall which was pretty boring this time. Although I did find the most amazing gingerbread-man ice-cream. Gingerbread-men and ice-cream. Together. With clotted cream on the top! The train down was horrendous, I thought I'd got a seat only to be turfed out about 10 seconds after setting off. The whole train was unreserved because of the bank holiday, so why this guy thought he had any more right to the seat I was sitting in than I had, lord only knows! So I spent a lovely 3 and a half hours standing. We got into Penzance at eleven and back to the in-laws at midnight just in time to see bonkers Boris win the election.
Saturday turned into nap-central. On Sunday we walked into St Ives, and on Monday we walked into St Ives again, although this time I found a charity shop with some cute cups that I will be using for some crafting!
The lethargy is almost lifting and I feel almost awake - I have been taking vitamin Bs in the hope that I might return to almost-normal levels of awake-ness. Unfortunately I am rotting my teeth with Pepsi as well, since caffiene seems to have no effect on my sleep patterns because I am so tired!
I am hoping to get a grand workout tonight because my sparring skills seem to have taken a nose-dive. My new classes start at Abbot's Langley (Watford) on Monday and I want to up my confidence a little bit before then. I am also hoping to get to the gym at least one morning this week since the cake belly is taking over!
We spent the weekend in Cornwall which was pretty boring this time. Although I did find the most amazing gingerbread-man ice-cream. Gingerbread-men and ice-cream. Together. With clotted cream on the top! The train down was horrendous, I thought I'd got a seat only to be turfed out about 10 seconds after setting off. The whole train was unreserved because of the bank holiday, so why this guy thought he had any more right to the seat I was sitting in than I had, lord only knows! So I spent a lovely 3 and a half hours standing. We got into Penzance at eleven and back to the in-laws at midnight just in time to see bonkers Boris win the election.
Saturday turned into nap-central. On Sunday we walked into St Ives, and on Monday we walked into St Ives again, although this time I found a charity shop with some cute cups that I will be using for some crafting!
The lethargy is almost lifting and I feel almost awake - I have been taking vitamin Bs in the hope that I might return to almost-normal levels of awake-ness. Unfortunately I am rotting my teeth with Pepsi as well, since caffiene seems to have no effect on my sleep patterns because I am so tired!
I am hoping to get a grand workout tonight because my sparring skills seem to have taken a nose-dive. My new classes start at Abbot's Langley (Watford) on Monday and I want to up my confidence a little bit before then. I am also hoping to get to the gym at least one morning this week since the cake belly is taking over!
Thursday, 1 May 2008
More In The Shop
I haven't been doing much over the past couple of days because of some Migraine of Terror stomping on me, but the sun shone this morning so I managed to get a nice photo of this print I've been working on. Of course, it's in the shop. I've got a few more to frame and photograph, so that will be fun!
Tonight - boy beating. I am feeling a little more energetic. Be afraid boys, be very afraid!
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Mini Shop Update
These little guys are in my little shop.
Last night we went to see Nizlopi. They were so fab that I decided not to take the camera and just enjoy the show. So you will have to imagine a picture of a small bespecatacled chap with long hair, playing "Nanny" his double bass, and a tall blond skinny chap dancing around like a chicken, but singing with the voice of 1000 folk singers.
Monday, 28 April 2008
Baby Ninjas
I spent Saturday in the company of 30 4 and 5 year olds, herding them around a sports hall, supposedly teaching them martial arts. In the end, not a lot of martial arts went on, but it was all good fun. I'm not sure my ears have recovered from the shrieking!
I also bought this
in red hippos and green hippos. Green! Hippos!!
I also bought this
in red hippos and green hippos. Green! Hippos!!
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