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Working in the Heat Wave
Posted On 22-01-2010 , 11:15 PM
Working in the Heat Wave
Today I have spent lots of time fixing my website after I destroyed my New Releases page trying to add a code. Anyway I've fixed it now, but I feel exhausted. It is so hot! I'm afraid I don't cope very well in this oppressive heat. I envy the Northern Hemisphere their winter. How I long for some snow, or rain or anything to cool this climate down.
It's my night off from my full-time job and I have a lot to catch up on. Daniel returns to school on Thursday after almost 2 months off. He's not looking forward to it. He likes to be home, and I like having him home.
Daniel is going into Year 11 at school, his second last year. Then he wants to have a gap year before going to college.
So tonight in all this heat, I'll be getting school clothes ready and covering books. I just feel like sleeping all the time as the heat drains me of energy.
The nights are also very hot and hardly cool down at all. I must invest in some air conditioning in the near future as it's impossible to sleep in this sweltering weather.
When I become successful, I would love to have a swimming pool, it's something that I've always wanted.
The weather forcast for the coming days is hot, hot, hot and no rain (as usual).
So all you northern hemisphere dwellers enjoy the cool weather and think of us Aussies battling the heatwave and the bushfires!
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My new health and fitness regime!
Posted On 03-01-2010 , 10:57 PM
My New Heath and Fitness Regime!
Last night for the first time in 6 months, I stepped onto the dreaded scales. I'm been avoiding the scales for the past six months, since I quit going to the gym. I gave up going to the gym because I wasn't losing any weight. I now realise that going to the gym was stopping me from putting on weight.
Anyway, I noticed that my work uniforms were getting too tight so I bit the bullet and weighed myself. Much to my dismay, I have put on 4 kilos over the last six months. So today I started dieting and exercising.
I had a cafe latte protein shake for breakfast.
We decided to drive to Bathurst today so that my learner driver son could get some practise driving on the highway and add to his hours in his log book. He has clocked up 10 hours of lessons now, but still has 110 hours to go! Learner driver training is very strict in New South Wales and it takes 4 years to become a fully licensed driver. Anyway, as we were in Bathurst we had lunch out and I had a turkey, salad and cranberry wrap with a diet Coke. Tonight we're having stir fry chicken with rice. Then I'm off to do my long night shift at the hospital.
For exercise I'm doing 30 minutes cardio per day plus weights every second day. I have exercise equipment at home which I've dusted off and intend to use daily! Today I did 10 minutes on the exercise bike which nearly killed me. It's amazing how quickly one can lose fitness. I used to be able to stay on the bike for 60 minutes not so long ago. This is what happens when you stop exercising. After the bike I did 10 minutes on the cross trainer, 5 minutes on the rower and 5 minutes of ab exercises. I felt exhausted after all that.
The hardest part for me is drinking enough water. I've never been a water drinker and I have to force myself to drink enough of it. I've had 4 glasses so far, and 4 more to go today. I'm determined to do this, I turned 54 in December and I don't want to be fat and 55 next December. I have been spending all my spare time on the computer instead of exercising, so I'm going to do my exercises everyday before I check my emails or do anything else on the computer.
Anyway I survived my first day, many more to go!
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