Thursday, January 31st, 2008, 3:28 am
The title says it all - and then some. Yesterday I had another go at running. I haven't done it for about 6 months due to an hip injury which made running for more than about 30 seconds excruciating. However It has been WELL rested (and subjected to many and varied physio exercises! lol!) and it was such a nice day that I thought I'd give it a go! I am amazed and stunned to say that I managed a mile (in 11 mins) without ANY hip pain at all. I am also amazed quite frankly that I was in fact fit enough to be able to run a mile, having not done it for nearly 6 months. OK so it's not exactly a PB, but it looks like all that walking and cycling to try maintain some of my fitness really paid off.
I haven't pushed it further than that - mainly because to be unable to run because of injury is NOT something I want to repeat. You need to start these things again GRADUALLY. If I hurt it again, I shall be gutted.
Something else which happened yesterday, also caused me to chuckle. It relates to Salsa which I have been doing for about 6 weeks.
3 weeks ago, I moved up to the improver's class which is taught by a bloke. He's just an ordinary 'blokey' bloke - nothing special and not my type at all, but what can I say about dancing with him? When you dance with him as opposed to all the other "nearly newbie learners" like myself - the difference is amazing! His leading is fantastic and he's obviously been doing it for years. Dancing with makes a girl feel like she can actually do this!
Anyway, blow me down if he didn't turn up in my flippin' dream last night! lol! (Won't say what happened - after all I do live with someone and the dance teacher appears to have a girlfriend) but blimey - I must have a huge crush on this bloke! - AND all because of his fabulous dancing!
What is going on girls! ROFL!
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008, 3:44 am
My first day back at work after nearly 2 years away, was pretty mind-bending.
Right on cue (although TBH I HAD been expecting it a week ago) my insomnia kicked in at 3 a.m. yesterday morning and that was it for my night's sleep. Zombie-Mellers the day I was due to go back to work! Typical
The day itself, was in fact "tedious as hell" lol! so having only had 4 hours sleep, I was really struggling to look interested in what someone else was saying, After 3 hours of this I'm not even sure I was safe to drive home! However, (and I'm working on why this happened) when I came home, I just sobbed my heart out. Then when partner came home and asked me how it went I started crying again.
I'm really hoping it was just how tired I was, although it did feel like it went much deeper than that.
One of the feelings which came back REALLY strongly yesterday - and really surprised me, was my disappointment at being passed over for promotion during the 5 years I have worked in that team. I am now in the position of being only one of 2 or 3 (in our team of 60 or so) at the lowest grade.
In a rare moment (OK several hours) of self-pity, I just let it all out. The feelings of things seeming unfair when I felt like I was doing the same work as everyone else, (my reports were always pretty good) and just not making the right networking connections to pull the right strings to get noticed. This was one of the reasons I broke down as I felt I was working so hard and thought no one noticed....
And of course now I am chastising myself for such indulgent self-pity, when I fell like I should just knuckle down and get on with it. Ho hum! Maybe I need to work "smarter" not harder to use one of those awful management phrases.
Oh well. Let's see if I can get through Thursday (my next day) without crying
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Monday, January 28th, 2008, 6:01 am
Lost 3 lbs this week (after my STS of last week), so at 9 stone 11, I'm nearly halfway through this years Easter Challenge, where I set myself the goal to get to 9 stone 7.
I'm already at my own goal weight, but want to temporarily lose another half a stone to get back to class for free on my old gold membership card from 18 years ago!
The countdown to work continues and I'm steeling myself NOT to spend 4 hours of a morning on my boards replying to all the newbies and generally dispatching advice and encouragement left, right and centre. It's going to be hard to learn to let go, but let go I must. There simply won't be enough hours in the day for me to maintain this level of commitment to iVillage and still hold down a full-time job.
First day at work is tomorrow, with a gentle start of 10-1. Three hours for 2 days for the first week, to ease me gently back in to it after such a long absence. I'll let you all know how it goes! lol
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Friday, January 25th, 2008, 4:28 pm
My manager came round today and brought my return to work buddy and we spent the morning sorting out how my phased return to work (which starts next week) will actually pan out.
I'm doing 4 hours a day for 2 days next Tuesday and Thursday. It looks like the first few days will be spent catching up on the administrative procedures which have changed since I was last there. It seems a lot of people have left the team and the nature of the work that we're doing has changed too.
We all 3 went out to lunch at the local Harvester afterwards and I had the fillet steak. I asked for it well done and you would not believe how charred and BLACK it was when it turned up on my plate. It was already shedding ash all over the mushrooms it came with and I tried to cut a bit off and it SHATTERED! It was completely inedible and when I complained the waitress had the GALL to say "well it IS cooked over an open flame!" as if to say, what should I expect, asking for steak in their restaurant. It was almost as if I had got exactly what I deserved by being so stupid as to ask for it well done.
YES HARVESTER, WELL DONE, NOT INCINERATED!
We couldn't wait for it to be re-cooked properly as we only had an hour and a half for lunch (and they were really slow bringing it out in the first place) so in the end, all I had was point-free salad and a jacket potato!! 3 points for the whole meal, brilliant! We even missed out on desert as it took 20 mins for the waitress to then bring the desert menus out and we had to leave! and I'm a bit miffed that they still charged £3.75 for the salad.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008, 12:27 pm
Partner was given notice at his current job recently, meaning his last day would have been 21st Dec. He was fortunate that they then decided to extend his contract for another month, but that still meant that come next Thursday, he would have been jobless again.
The last time this happened, getting another job took almost two years so how fabby that yesterday, one of his old bosses rang here, asking if he was free to work for them for a bit again!
Ok, it's only for a month, but seeing as they'll be paying him approximately 3 times his current hourly rate we're not sniffing at it. It's such a bit of good news that I really wanted to share it with you all.
The only drawback (and TBH it's a biggie) is that it's over 200 miles away as well so he'll be staying away during the week (Mon - Fri). Now last time he worked for these people in the same location, he did it for 9 months. During that time, I was completely alone on my own seeing and speaking to no-one at all during the week, except for work complaints which I had to deal with. That's the situation which tipped me over the edge and in to hospital last time, so I am a bit apprehensive.
I'm going to HAVE TO take care to fill my days. I need to make sure I try to arrange things to do and get out and about to enjoy myself. Mondays will be French and Wednesdays will be Salsa, so that just leaves Tuesdays and Thursdays. It will be slightly easier this time as I have more going on in my life now and I know it's human contact which keeps me sane and healthy. I've managed to get back in contact with one or two of my old friends and may even try to arrange to go out with them.
I also don't underestimate the importance of iVillage with helping to keep me sane and happy. I'll be posting quite a bit in the evenings I shouldn't wonder
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