Day Thirty Nine: And Then I Made Pancakes

Today was just all shades of summer, I wouldn't ask for more on a daily basis otherwise after three days I'd be all, "Nooo! It's just too much for one person to cope with."

Whenever I say "No" with more than one 'o', this is what I'm actually thinking.

Hmph, I've only just remembered we meant to tighten the suspension in my car this evening, but when I got home I desperately needed some food, which lead to needing a nap, which then meant it was sometime around 10pm and then I needed pancakes. This is why I couldn't cope with repeated instances - I'd just start to fall behind on essential tasks. I'll find some other time this week to look at the car. Maybe Friday.



Fitness: Today consisted of four hours of skating, then two hours of pooling. I can't say swimming really because I can't remember swimming any more than a few meters at most. Anyway we did 25 laps at the rink (untimed) but it would have been under five easily, but not too much else other than simply the extended period of time spent skating was too arduous, except for the jumping which my legs refused to play the game for as it was past the three hour mark and I was asking for them to power spring - they came back with a definitive, 'hell no.'. They weren't happy with the laps straight after that either but they held out. Then we had a short break before heading out to Westwave for hydra slides and water walking. Having never done water walking before it was highly entertaining and surprisingly demanding (compared to what it looks like) and then some spa and sauna time. It has been entirely too long since I last went swimming, but looks like it may become a more frequent occurrence.

Aikido: No training today.

Derby: Four hours of skills, agility and a little endurance thrown in there to keep us lively. Finally! My legs and feet have come back to me (metaphorically...) actually I think I found them at the end of the public session yesterday when I started attacking the cones with no appreciation for my limits to see what I could do. I packed it in straight afterwards yesterday, so today was the first day of having shaken off my funk and just had a lot of fun when we went through all the transition drills. Thank you, feet! It's also good to have found how to reset them if they start to give out on me again.

Diet: One might think I could have laid out some more jumps if I'd had breakfast before heading into training. Then because we were going swimming I didn't want to eat something straight before hitting the water, but had a chocolate milk straight after training. Came home and had salmon and carrots, passed out temporarily, woke up and decided I had to have blueberry pancakes and yoghurt for dessert. In retrospect I should have taken some fruit with me when I left in the morning. I thought I'd have time to go to the supermarket instead, oops, not so.

Sleep: Woke up at 8ish, probably could have done with another thirty minutes or so. I had a power nap from 8.30pm till 9.10pm as I wanted to do a few more things before going to sleep but I couldn't even keep my eyes open. It's just 11.45pm now, I need to have a quick shower and then that'll give me just shy of seven hours, but after my nap earlier I think that'll all balance out. We'll see, I'm sure everything will all work out this week.



Argh. I meant to tidy my room this weekend. Place is still a damn tip. I've given myself three weeks to make this place less of a disaster zone and I have doubts it'll be enough (laziness and a severe lack of spare time in which to do so play equal parts)