To a Better Body...

Today I made a decision to workout this flabby lazy body of mine.  I quit smoking and I waited a while before doing any exercises because I wanted to make sure that my lungs had recovered enough that I dont cough and splutter at every movement and also everytime I used to "workout" I would stop when it got too hard or I got tired and use the excuse that I needed a smoke.

Well not anymore!

So anyways I just finished doing my first set of exercises. Which is like a freebie home made insanity type workout, which comprises of these exercises:

The set-up is simple.

After you warm up by jogging for 2 minutes, you will do one exercise 20 times, then do a moving exercise for 50 metres (or 2 minutes, if indoors) followed by the next exercise, without rest.

After you finished the whole set. You rest by jogging for 60 seconds. And then you go again!

How many sets? As Much as you can do before you collapse!

Stationary exercise     Reps     Moving Exercise
Push Ups                  20        Sprint
Inverse Crunches      20        Knee-ups
Squats                     20        Heel-ups (kick your heels to your butt, every step you make)
Burpees                   10        Lunges (do this slow..see it as your break)
Lying Leg Raises     20        Jumps, with both feet next to each other

WHEW! that was hard work!

Ok, technically I only did up to the burpees and I only did 4 and I stopped after this exercise but hey man get off my back OK? I haven't worked out since before I hit the 25 year mark. And all these spare tyres I'm carrying can get really heavy!  I know Im making excuses but at least I'm getting up and giving it a go, right?

*in tiny voice* ...and I got a cramp in my arm after doing push ups...

Boy I was huffing and puffing after just a few short minutes and I feel like I should do more...but because of my procrastinating nature I will say I need to put the garbage out and clean the kitchen, although to be perfectly honest, the only reason why I decided to work out was because I was putting off doing these chores!

Oh man, will I ever succeed in life?  I think to myself "probably not" (because I have this idea in my head that if I keep at it, that blogging will make me money...pfft), but I will say out loud "Yes I will." Im duplicitous like that. Think one thing, say another...story of my life!

Oh well...

Here are my short term goals:

 *To work out everyday
 *To lose 10kgs (I'm 165cm and 7okg)
 *To be able to do more than one set

So there we have it.  That seems to be reasonable enough.  I'm sure I can muster up some motivation everyday for some exercise.  OMG, give me strength!
Anyways I better get to those chores.

"Procrastination is the theif of time."


...and John Key is an IDIOT...
...and Paula Bennett is an fugly SLORE...

Tragedy in Queensland

Our world has lost another beautiful Angel and is worst off for it...

A father in Queensland allegedly threw his young son off Story Bridge in Queensland, Australia then proceeded to end his own miserable life.

Here is the story I read...

Man and Baby dead after Story Bridge fall.

This is the type of thing that stops me in my tracks and makes me think about all the children in the world who are violently stolen from Earth by people who think it is their right to do as they please with these innocent Angels.

I was in the process of writing a ranting post about the standard of customer service provided by certain companies until Tiki called to me to watch the evening news.

I was devastated to hear about this young childs abrupt end to his life.  I will never be able to understand, nor forgive a person who is capable of doing commiting such an act, and I probably will never try.

It is beyond my ability to comprehend or justify why someone would feel the urge to do such a terrible thing.

May the Lord take you into his arms young one. 

And to the "father" who took your young life, May God have mercy on his soul.

Bad service

Just to let you know...

The service at the Subway inside the Mobile service station on Roscommon road - OMG so bad...went there yesterday to get something for Sala to eat on my way to pick up Tiki from Craig and Shars place, and Sala orders her meal, everythings fine, except the lady who served us was like really impatient, had a really thick Indian accent and mumbled quite a bit (because believe me I understand even the thickest of accents, I like have an ear for it I think...) and was just generally rude.  So Sala oders a 6-inch steak and cheese sub and a strawberry smoothie, but after the payment is made Sala decided that instead she would rather have the carribean smoothie, which I though was fair enough, right?

WRONG!

Sorry, you would be mistaken if you thought that as a paying customer you could order something at Subway and then maybe change your mind.  The server says something along the lines of "No, sorry you can't change..." and Shar overhears her (and Shar is like HUGE on customer service) and asks whats the problem, the lady explains that she cant change Sala's order because she's already put it through on the till.  At first I was like, HUH?  Then Shar goes rank on this chick serving us and starts drilling her about why, it was so funny but I was holding my God Son C.J and decided we should just keep this moving along, so I said to Shar "Are you ordering C.J a strawberry smoothie?", she goes "Yeah," so I said "just order a carribean and we'll swap ok?" Shar replies "Ok."  and turns and orders while glaring at this ignorant woman.

So we wait while our server chats to her workmate for about a minute, then she runs some tap water into a jug, continues to chat to her co-worker for another minute or so then decides she better start making the smoothies.  At this point she disappears into the back area for a few minutes, we're standing around thinking "Wow, the fruit must be so fresh she's gone to harvest it!".
A few minutes pass by and she returns with two frozen packets, obviously the smoothie ingredients, and blends them up with the water in the jug from the tap, then when they're done she hands them over.

The wait could have been acceptable if the service was better but not when we tasted the smoothies. Did I say smoothies?  Should be correctly advertised as "Watery frozen fruit drink with powdery after taste" instead. Well Sala actually liked hers but the strawberry one was horrible.

So if you live near Roscommon Road Mobile station and know/have met the ignorant bitch who works there, tell her she should not forget that without a customer there is no sale, and without a sale, there is no job - So DROP THE FUCKING ATTITUDE AND EARN YOUR MONEY!

And on a lighter note, I have purchased a battery charger for my camera and I'm waiting impatiently for it to arrive...

Decoden FAIL...

FML!  Shitty shit...

The most annoying thing happened.  ALL my decoden-ing hard work went down the drain today as I realised that my pretty jewels and flowers and cute buttons and whatever else junk I was planning on looking at everytime before I opened my laptop fell off.

Fell OFF!

So annoyed, seeing as I spent hours figuring out how exactly I wanted it to look and I even started to glue shit on there and then - dun, DUN, DUNNN!!!

Things falling off left, right and center simply because I decided to apply a protective film (clear contact paper) because I'm super paranoid about wrecking my lovely new laptop and the glue wont stick properly to the contact paper! Son of a Bitch...

Now I am left wondering where do I go from here...

Do I -
A: Rip the contact paper off and glue stuff directly to my laptop and wreck it forever, because epoxy is like the hardest shit to get off?
B: Find an alternative glue to use (ie hot glue, super glue, liquid cement etc)?
or
C: Wallow in self pity, bitch and moan and nag about it until I forget about it? I'm not going to hold my breath for option "C" as the " bitching, moaning and nagging" seems endless where I am concerned, regardless of issue...

Well I suppose its not all bad, I still have my totally unique and pretty keyboard which I deco'd myself with ingenuity alone (and stickers and glitter and things...).  Here are some pics of my progress before it all decided to crumble before my eyes...SOB!

Here is the "before" pic - the only thing I changed was the screen saver - My Little Ponies - such an improvement, don't you think?

And from here on I will play sad music and mourn what could have been...

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The first step..But wait there's more!

Some of the supplies...

Some assembly required. Get a grown up to help here...

After I added the lace and ribbon!

And I wasn't even half way done yet...WAAAHHH!!

See my keyboard? How pretty is THAT? I painstakingly applied every single sticker...

 So there it is, until I figure out "where to from here", It will stay plain and undecorated.

I'm too depressed and annoyed to go on,  and there will be those readers who
might think that I am totally shallow and that there are other things more important to blog about like famine and poverty, but those are things that I have no control over so get over it.

Quick post

Howdy strangers! 
Sorry I haven't posted in a while..been really busy.

So just for blogging sake and to make sure you don't lose interest, here's a quick update post.

OK, Sala's FINALLY home.  She bought her beautiful self home and lots of lovely treasures as well.  She's already back at school and doing really well (but there was no doubt).  In a nutshell, she's awesome.

One of the many treasures Sala bought home was a laptop (^.^) and it is so pretty and new and perfect!  I tell you more about it when I finished decorating it.  I decided to go with a "deco den" theme and so far so good.  I got my camera in the mail as well, turns out I didn't really do my homework that well because my wonderful camera is just a point and shoot, not a DSLR like I was lead to believe...FML.  AND it came with no charger! I haven't bothered to ask the guy I bought it from because it wasn't advertised with the camera but I still think its really stupid to sell something with an integral part missing!  So, I still need to get another battery for it and a charger (I think Lil has one...? Don't want to buy!) and then I can take stunning photos like my favourite blogger - Xiaxue, and I have finished blinging it so here are a few pics of my pretty creation.

 What do you think?  Not bad for a first timer right?

Close up

With the lens cap off...

(I don't know why this pic keeps turning on its side when its the right way up when I upload it...Gah!)

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...and for your entertainment, I have provided a "before" pic of my laptop...

I LOVE my little ponies, so I made it my screen saver

(much to Tiki's dismay lol)

I still haven't finished it so in my next post, which will be all about my new blinged gadgets, there will be tons of pictures filled with glitter-bombed stuff.  Sala said I might need an intervention, Tiki agrees. I Laughed out loud. I think if I try to bling Legend then I might need help, but for now I'm good.

I'm still smoke free and so is Tiki.  It's been an up and down ride and at times we have both admitted to wanting a smoke but I have made a vow to myself that I truly believe in, that I NEVER  want to touch another cigarette again. EVER.
I'm so proud of us and I keep trying to get others to quit as well, I guess they don't really think I'm a good enough ambassador since its only been 25 days, and it probably seems a bit premature to them for me to say things like "You should quit oi, it's bad for your health" or "Quit now so you can have many more years to live" or "Do you know how much money you could save if you quit?". I could go on for days but my voice can get a bit naggy so I stop for their sake.

Speaking of the cost of smoking, did I mention that smokes have gone up in price as of 01/01/2012 and that if Tiki and I continued to smoke we would be spending around $70 a week! That's a lot of money, especially when you put it into a yearly budget perspective. On average we could have spent almost $4000 on cigarettes alone in one year! Fuck me ragged! I could think of millions of things I would rather spend that kind of money on! I try to tell other smokers about this ridiculous cost and although most nod their head or mumble some sort of agreement, I know they are only thinking about their next smoke.  Ah well, its their body and all I'm trying to do is add a few more years to their lives.  OMFG, I get so preachy when I quit smoking!  My family probably rolls their eyes behind my back when I drone on about being a non smoker and that they should also be non smoking...eh who cares.

Ummm...I think that's it, I have touched all bases. I have to get back to my deco den project - results soon! ;) So much for it being a quick post LOL!