Push ups:
14/16/12/12/17

Sit ups:
15/18/14/14/20 (Owww...)

Squats:
13/16/13/13/18 (Managed 20, HAAAARRRR)

Laptop has stopped working again- it turns on fine, but the screen is too dark to see anything.
Took it down to computer repair place, turned it on, it was fine.
Took it home, it wasn't.
Taking it back tomorrow.

I have had it with this shit.

Push ups:
14/14/10/10/15

Sit ups:
14/17/12/12/17 (Ow...)

Squats:
13/15/11/11/15 (managed 20 HARRRRR)

Weight: Lost 3kg :)

Happy birthday anotherusedpage !
Hope you have a suitably lovely day :)

*much love and hugs*

Saw this around LJ, and inspired by the Random Acts of Kindness in TLL, I thought I would give it a go.

STEP ONE

- Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV"). The important thing is to make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) can get in touch with you. Your home address is not required!

- Make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.

STEP TWO

- Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now, here's the important part...

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes one person's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use - or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free - do it.

- You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf - to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not - it's your call. There are no guarantees with this project, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give and you might receive. You'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

My Christmas wishlist:

1. 
   

Feeling a lot better, thanks to obsidian_sphinx being lovely and bringing me tea in bed etc.
Today I even managed to achieve things!
-Went to therapy today- another hard session but very useful.
-Had 2nd HPV jab
-Found new larp trousers
-Went to acupuncture
...and then got home and fell over, exhausted (slept really badly) and ill.

On Monday I start week 2 of exercises :)
(Also, I lost 2kg :D )

So, after a fair few not good days, it seems like things might be on the up.
I've felt awful, tired and exhausted; therapy has been hard; my larp trousers have split; my laptop got sick and this morning wouldn't even turn on and my period started this morning.
But, I went on the adventure and had a great time and even won a point!
The ever-so-talented obsidian_sphinx has revived Keef (laptop) and got it running Ubuntu.
And it's Dr Who tomorrow! :D

Fingers crossed this trend continues.

Push ups:
11/15/9/9/>13 (managed 15)

Sit ups:
12/15/11/11/>15 (ow...)

Squats:
11/13/10/10/>13 (managed 15)

HARRRRR!

(Not manly- I really want to wash my hair but there's no point doing it before adventure)

Squats:
8/11/8/8/>9 (managed 10)

Sits ups:
9/12/9/9/10 (managed 10)

Press ups:
10/12/8/8/>12 (managed 15)

Ow...

Press ups:
10/12/7/7/>9 (managed 10)

Sit ups:
9/9/96/6/>8 (managed 10)

Squats:
8/8/5/5/>7 (managed 10)

Weight: No gain (not great, but better than gaining)

(Also, am back in Durham and had an awesome interactive last night :D )

MCMXIV

Those long uneven lines
Standing as patiently
As if they were stretched outside
The Oval or Villa Park,
The crowns of hats, the sun
On moustached archaic faces
Grinning as if it were all
An August Bank Holiday lark;

And the shut shops, the bleached
Established names on the sunblinds,
The farthings and sovereigns,
And dark-clothed children at play
Called after kings and queens,
The tin advertisements
For cocoa and twist, and the pubs
Wide open all day--

And the countryside not caring:
The place names all hazed over
With flowering grasses, and fields
Shadowing Domesday lines
Under wheat's restless silence;
The differently-dressed servants
With tiny rooms in huge houses,
The dust behind limousines;

Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word--the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.

Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

So, today I decided I would Achieve Things, unfortunately it seems the world has other plans

Good: Slept quite well, after finishing godawful book ('Dracula: The Undead' by Dacre Stoker for the interested)
Bad: Housemates who were also pumped for getting Things Done are feeling awful, so it's just me

Good: Yesterday the lovely mistress_helly gave me a lift to B&Q so I could get everything I needed
Bad: After spending time and effort (and money) spraying all weeds with weedkiller, it rains- pretty much wasting all of the above

Good: Dionysus statue arrives!
Bad: Means that something I ordered from America has arrived before something I ordered from the UK the same amount of time ago

Good: Going home on Friday
Bad: There are going to be Discussions about future and money, which I hate, and am worried I cocked everything up and oh gods it's all my fault

I have passed my Masters!
I am now Master of Classics :D :D :D

80s female vocalists; in particular, Kate Bush and Joan Armatrading.
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I would be very much indebted to you if you kind folks could keep an eye out online and in the many cities which you inhabit for a figure/statue of Dionysus. I am looking for one, and so far the interwebs have let me down *woe*
Undying gratitude/monetary recompense/drinks/etc would of course be forthcoming!

Many thanks

For those of you unfortunate enough to have come across Jan Moir's horrific article about the death of Stephen Gately, in which she refuses to allow his memory, his family and fans any dignity by casting cruel rumours about the circumstances of his death, because he was gay. This article is cruel, ghoulish and homophobic.
Charlie Brooker writes an excellent and touching attack on it, here, and encourages readers to contact the Press Complaints Commission.
I also encourage you to do this, such truly horrible "journalism" should not go un-noticed or un-punished.

Edit: Oh fucking hell, her reply: "I think it is mischievous in the extreme to suggest my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones."
What the fuck is this shit.

This is pretty much what level my brain is at the moment:

Start singing the song near me and watch me complete it and maybe do a little dance.
Catface :3

Am full of ill and ache. This sucks.
*woe*

It seems that Uzume, my beloved LARP sword, has broken a bit, and will take some time to be fixed. *woe*

So, does anyone have a 42" sword I could borrow for interactives?
(Please, think of the mages!)