Day Thirty Three: This Is the Life

I now have the skills to clean
the hover diamonds off the roof

What a wonderfully perfect day off. I loved the workshop (finished yesterday), there were so many fundamental concepts and principles I learnt that I can work on aside from the techniques. That said, I'm looking forward to my time opening up for everything else again. I am hopeful that I will bring a new awareness and level of competency to my Aikido and Derby training... I'll let you know how that goes.






Fitness: I wandered around the zoo today. Almost two complete circuits. It was pretty hot as well so I think that counts for double.

Aikido: I have this one day before heading back to the dojo... spent most of it talking about martial arts though.

Derby: No skating today.

Diet: I had part of a biscuit before heading over to Tessa's for a cup of tea, where she also made me an amazing smoothie that I wish I'd paid more attention to the making thereof, as I gathered it had fruit, linseeds, a variety of different milk type products, and some sort of powder. Anyway, it would have been ridiculously healthy and was a bit of an eye-opener as I've always gone for berry based smoothies previously, despite the fact that all the excess pips tend to build up unpleasantly. I will need to get that recipe... (subtle hint). We then ventured off to the zoo after this but I was starting to crave a solid eating snack so we shared a salami panini - I knew it was more about wanting something to sink my teeth into than being particularly hungry again so soon after breakfast. But you know, just off nine days solid training. I have some energy stores to rebuild (that's how it works, right?) We stopped for an icecream for lunch as we were predominantly wandering around in the sun - I wanted something energy packed and cold by that point. I snuck into the supermarket for a pizza bread square on the way home, then for dinner it was chicken and salad, followed by fruit salad, apple and blackberry pie and cream for dessert. Nothing particularly challenging. It's only just occurred to me now that we were at the zoo all day and didn't really have a proper lunch, which would explain why I was so hungry at 5 o'clock. Oops - was having too much fun...

Sleep: Went to sleep around 1am last night and woke up around 8.30am, so plenty of sleep. More bizarre, horrible dreams (they're normally pretty awesome but they've just been traumatising lately) but they don't seem to be impacting too badly on how rested I feel the next day. It's snuck into the 'almost overtime' portion of the night (12am) so I need to stop playing Dune 2 and get some kip. I can't believe I have to go back to work tomorrow - it seems like I should have some more time off already!



I really enjoy the zoo, but I really need to make an effort to go more often - I love animals and Auckland Zoo has done some nice habitat work so you don't have to feel too guilty about them being caged up for our amusement. 

Probably because it's made with extra love

Even more than the zoo though, spending time with quality friends. We all need to reset on the odd occasion and good friends are easily worth their weight in gold, or some other more precious commodity. Thanks heaps for the company today Tessa, you're one of the good ones. Plus, you still always make the best tea.