Wednesday, June 25, 2008
"One step forward, two steps back"
Literally! Life is so aggrevating at the moment. I'm stuck in a rut, and I can't dig myself out of it. I'd resolved to get back to my old ways - gym, running, and being in shape. Things haven't been going right in the lifestyle direction lately, I've been getting a little more overweight, and sluggish. I noticed it most in football training, and in playing games. I'm so far away from where I was at earlier this year, it's not funny. I've got no real excuse. I could blame injuries (had a rib injury that stopped me training for the Sun Run, and now, the latest thing, I've wrecked my ankle), but it's just been a slip back into my old ways really.
I hurt my ankle over a week ago, trying to cut out a shot at football training. End result, a trip to the hospital for x-rays, and a bad sprain of the ankle, requiring crutches for a few days. I've been taking tablets for the inflammation and pain, and as soon as I could walk on it, I started to (on Doctor's orders.) Over the weekend, it was sore, but I could walk on it. I went back to work in the office on Monday, and it was a terrible day. I was hobbling around the office, and outwardly, was acting as if things were ok. Truthfully, it was killing me. I couldn't find a comfortable position for the leg sitting at my desk. I got home on Monday night and it was starting to swell up again. The swelling has got worse since Monday night and now I'm almost back to square one in terms of having to ice it, and take tablets to get the swelling down. I've lost my patience. I did exactly what the doctor told me to do, and it seems I've only made things worse.
The other frustrating thing is that I wanted to start running again, and training. I decided to make a real effort on it on the Tuesday afternoon, and on Tuesday night I did this. It's really pissed me off!
The other thing that is annoying me is that I don't like being at home. I've been back home now for a month or more, and I am bored all the time. The only things I've been doing are going out with friends to the pub and drinking (which I DONT want to keep doing - not gonna help me put myself right fitness and health-wise). I seriously need to get my music going again - get some strings back on my guitar, and start all over with that. It's not helping at all that I feel like a cripple, can't go out running, can't go out on the bike, argh!
I'm trying to clean my room up a bit, and re-arrange things. I acutally arranged my dvds in alphabetical order last night, I was so bored. It made me realise I have a few missing from my collection - Spaced, Sean of the Dead, I think Rob and Carly have these?, and My Name Is Earl Season 1 and Season2, and Clerks 2, which I think Jon has (and probably hasn't watched). If anyone out there has any of my DVDs, give me a shout and let me know. For the record, I have 126 of them... about 10 aren't even opened. Gotta stop impulse buying from play.com
I started working my way through my '24' box sets (season 4 right now) and even that is annoying me... isn't it strange how everything bad that ever goes on (alright, I know it's fictional) happens within a 15 minute square of CTU? It's actually smaller than that, because wherever Bauer or whoever is, they are always "15 minutes out" when they need to get somewhere. So it must all happen inside an area about 2 miles square. And, why, in every series, is there always an "insider" who's working for the bad guys inside CTU? Didn't they learn the first time? Bah.....
I just had Monty Python's Holy Grail delivered. I might watch that later... I took Sarah to see the Spamalot musical in London, and it was great fun, but I've never seen the original film, so I thought i'd watch it and make a comparison!
I hurt my ankle over a week ago, trying to cut out a shot at football training. End result, a trip to the hospital for x-rays, and a bad sprain of the ankle, requiring crutches for a few days. I've been taking tablets for the inflammation and pain, and as soon as I could walk on it, I started to (on Doctor's orders.) Over the weekend, it was sore, but I could walk on it. I went back to work in the office on Monday, and it was a terrible day. I was hobbling around the office, and outwardly, was acting as if things were ok. Truthfully, it was killing me. I couldn't find a comfortable position for the leg sitting at my desk. I got home on Monday night and it was starting to swell up again. The swelling has got worse since Monday night and now I'm almost back to square one in terms of having to ice it, and take tablets to get the swelling down. I've lost my patience. I did exactly what the doctor told me to do, and it seems I've only made things worse.
The other frustrating thing is that I wanted to start running again, and training. I decided to make a real effort on it on the Tuesday afternoon, and on Tuesday night I did this. It's really pissed me off!
The other thing that is annoying me is that I don't like being at home. I've been back home now for a month or more, and I am bored all the time. The only things I've been doing are going out with friends to the pub and drinking (which I DONT want to keep doing - not gonna help me put myself right fitness and health-wise). I seriously need to get my music going again - get some strings back on my guitar, and start all over with that. It's not helping at all that I feel like a cripple, can't go out running, can't go out on the bike, argh!
I'm trying to clean my room up a bit, and re-arrange things. I acutally arranged my dvds in alphabetical order last night, I was so bored. It made me realise I have a few missing from my collection - Spaced, Sean of the Dead, I think Rob and Carly have these?, and My Name Is Earl Season 1 and Season2, and Clerks 2, which I think Jon has (and probably hasn't watched). If anyone out there has any of my DVDs, give me a shout and let me know. For the record, I have 126 of them... about 10 aren't even opened. Gotta stop impulse buying from play.com
I started working my way through my '24' box sets (season 4 right now) and even that is annoying me... isn't it strange how everything bad that ever goes on (alright, I know it's fictional) happens within a 15 minute square of CTU? It's actually smaller than that, because wherever Bauer or whoever is, they are always "15 minutes out" when they need to get somewhere. So it must all happen inside an area about 2 miles square. And, why, in every series, is there always an "insider" who's working for the bad guys inside CTU? Didn't they learn the first time? Bah.....
I just had Monty Python's Holy Grail delivered. I might watch that later... I took Sarah to see the Spamalot musical in London, and it was great fun, but I've never seen the original film, so I thought i'd watch it and make a comparison!
