301k in debt and morbidly obese - things aren't great!

gallygirl

:eek: maybe your app was right and you really were in Brixton :eek:.

So - fixing the porch light today are we .

mandragora_2

It's Saturday, first day of the holidays, and still before 10am. You wanted a run earlier and got hassle instead - so have another go now. It's daylight, you've got all day to get yourself somewhere nice that you want to run, so, get yourself out there. If you can do that, I can get myself off this pc and go and do the hundred cruddy tidying/cleaning/sorting jobs that I've ignored for the past six weeks, but now that it's the holidays and my mum's coming to stay later today, I really, really can't ignore any more. Join me in making headway against the things we both know we ought to do, and both know we'll feel better once we've done them, but, if you're like me, I'm making excuses to put off doing them. Please? Join me? I will if you will

gallygirl

mandragora wrote: »

It's Saturday, first day of the holidays, and still before 10am. You wanted a run earlier and got hassle instead - so have another go now. It's daylight, you've got all day to get yourself somewhere nice that you want to run, so, get yourself out there. If you can do that, I can get myself off this pc and go and do the hundred cruddy tidying/cleaning/sorting jobs that I've ignored for the past six weeks, but now that it's the holidays and my mum's coming to stay later today, I really, really can't ignore any more. Join me in making headway against the things we both know we ought to do, and both know we'll feel better once we've done them, but, if you're like me, I'm making excuses to put off doing them. Please? Join me? I will if you will

Seeing as how it's 45 minutes later and you're still on line I'm guessing you'll be blaming Mr B for not motivating you to get off here :rotfl:.

peaceandfreedom

MrBloater wrote: »

Up at 4.45 - check. Motivated to run - check. New playlist sorted and headphones located - check. And then it started going downhill. The zip on my tracksuit trousers pocket broke so I had nowhere to store my key. This necessitated fishing the British Telecom issue (1990) bodywarmer out. Then, as the porch light has been on the to-do list forever, I could not dig my way through the shoe mountain to find my running shoes and had to settle for the less than suitable Allstars. And when I activated my Runkeeper App it had me located in Brixton.

Mr Bloater - so glad your mo-jo's back. :T

BUT - why do you get up at 4:45am to go running - what's wrong with 6:30am, say, if you're an early bird?

Also, get everything ready the night before so all you have to do is put everything on and head out. Then you won't be rummaging for running shoes before the day has even dawned.

Lastly, it is clear that you don't actually enjoy running. Stop doing it and go for a longer brisk walk instead - it will burn just as many calories, it's easier and you won't find every excuse under the sun for not doing it.

I'm not sure how getting up in the middle of the night to do something you hate doing is going to help you prepare for your job interview. I think showing how you are doing a magnificent job is going to get you the permanent contract and I suspect you are indeed doing a magnificent job. You just have to prove it.

Tahlullah

There is nothing more annoying than some xxx deliberately getting in your face, trying to prove a point about who cares what.

To be honest, it's not a problem I suffer from any more. I just appear to be invisible to the majority!

Bit of a sod to have to jump through hoops on the job front again. Hopefully, a bit of prep, refining the latest buzz words and quoting the organisational business plan back at them, and you will be ok.

patman99

Look to see if there are any free sheds (or timber) on Freegle and extend your current shed into a big gym.
Look for a treadmill and rowing machine and you won't need to go out running the streets.

Northern_Lassy

Epic show of determination Mr B, keep it up xxx

MrBloater

Managed to get through the day without maiming anyone although the bloke at the first watch repairers I went to should consider himself lucky. Good points for today: getting watch fixed - been watchless for 9 months and everyday it has irked me. So I got it fixed. Have also done first day of Ab and Squat challenges and taken all my various cod liver oil / glucosamine / multivitamins which stop me creaking as much. Declined a glass of wine. Removed broken tent and part of broken washing rack from shed. And spent some quality time with Mrs B and the kids which is what it's all really about anyway. And found my running shoes. Think I might take a different route tomorrow morning - just in case.

I thought I'd explained the early morning thing before - but for the benefit of newer viewers it goes a little something like this...
4.30 - 5.00am is my favourite time of the day - I'm at my peak energy and spirit-wise. I haven't polluted my body with caffeine or eaten anything that would mean I get a stitch once running. But much much more important than that is this - there's hardly anyone around (except for this morning) - the clubbers are all partied out and the labourers aren't on the street corners waiting for their lifts, no kids are around and neither are the ****ing dog walkers and their ****ing dogs. I don't like dogs - I'm not wild about people in general, but people with dogs just annoy me. Go out for a run at 6.00am and there are the dogwalkers and the spry pensioners and the paperboys and the milkmen and the shift workers from the care home and the buses are getting busier and it's just a mess. The streets aren't mine. Plus I also like being around for when my kids wake up - I don't want the burden to fall solely onto Mrs B. So by getting home by 5.30 I've usually ticked all the boxes and then the rest of the day is mine.

peaceandfreedom

MrBloater wrote: »

I thought I'd explained the early morning thing before - but for the benefit of newer viewers it goes a little something like this...
4.30 - 5.00am is my favourite time of the day - I'm at my peak energy and spirit-wise. I haven't polluted my body with caffeine or eaten anything that would mean I get a stitch once running. But much much more important than that is this - there's hardly anyone around (except for this morning) - the clubbers are all partied out and the labourers aren't on the street corners waiting for their lifts, no kids are around and neither are the ****ing dog walkers and their ****ing dogs. I don't like dogs - I'm not wild about people in general, but people with dogs just annoy me. Go out for a run at 6.00am and there are the dogwalkers and the spry pensioners and the paperboys and the milkmen and the shift workers from the care home and the buses are getting busier and it's just a mess. The streets aren't mine. Plus I also like being around for when my kids wake up - I don't want the burden to fall solely onto Mrs B. So by getting home by 5.30 I've usually ticked all the boxes and then the rest of the day is mine.

Thanks for the explanation Mr B, all makes sense when you explain it that way. As I live out in the country, there wouldn't be a soul around at 6am and as we have no street lights it is generally pitch black at 4:30am.

Have to laugh reading your people-and-dogs comment. Around here it's people and horses - on-road or off-road, you end up stuck behind a big-ar**d horse at some point.

I can see why you want to go running first thing when your motivation is high. I eventually gave up running when I finally acknowledged that I hated it and spent a lot of time trying to dodge actually doing it. I'd definitely like to get up earlier but 4:30am :eek: I mean, that's something else.

Good luck with it, looking forward to following your progress.

MrBloater

Woke at 4.30 to the reassuring sound of torrential rain stripping more pebbledash off the side of the house. Whilst I do love wet conditions as the they further lessen the chances of psychoes, dogs, psychoes with dogs or psychoes with psycho dogs sharing the same streets as me, my trainers have little grip on them and me taking a tumble so early on in my refound saintly regime might have really veered me off course into the arms of Gin. So I hooked up the Wii Fit and done a quite respectable 7.5k in 30 minutes. Obviously nowhere near as effective as real running but considerably better than nothing.

Have also been continuing to plough through the mountain of paperwork that has been sitting neatly ignored in piles in drawers for years. Best finds so far have been the Child Trust Fund details, both my littles have some money coming to them on their 18th, a National Savings book with twenty quid in it and the receipt for the Calor Gas canister that is sitting angrily in my shed. Will take that back to B&Q and get some refund. Go me, all moneysaving and that.

Oh, and mandragora - get on with tidying up.