A Singularly Lonely Christmas

paulineb_2

calicocat wrote: »

Paulineb...

The music that you buy from a company to instruct to...

Is it music created and written by people for this company? Or do they 'borrow' Latin music from original artists?...just curious with you not being allowed to use it.


I'm going to have to google 'thump boxing'.....quite like the sound of that.


Huffington Post is great, lots of good articles.

Enjoy the walk LB.x

Some of the music is original artists, some of it they do themselves.
Its just very much the case that you cant get a proper answer from zumba hq as to whether you can use the music if you decide to leave ZIN which is the zumba instructor network as to whether you can use the music if you decide to teach latin cardio classes.
My view is, its my music, I paid for it and I think I should be able to use it in a class, but at the moment I dont want to risk it. A lot of the songs are also on Itunes, so the ridiculous situation would be that I could buy the song from Itunes, what I mean is, the non zumba version which is in some cases identical and Id be able to play that in a Latin cardio class, but not the version I bought from zumba.

You can use it for your own personal use, as if Im going to sit around the house and listen to my back collection of zumba material.

Thump boxing is really good, its very similar to boxercise, its a freestyle class so you wont ever get two classes the same. I did make it to thump this morning, I ended up being paired with the instructor so had the gloves on all class, usually you swap the pads and the gloves every other round, so did twice as much punching as everyone else.

Anyway thats it done. Its now 72 hours since I had an alcoholic drink and yes I am counting. I think my mum is on her way down to me with some becks blue, shes finishing off painting my spare bedroom and I'll cook her some dinner

Managed to get to farmfoods and they have 3 for 2 on frozen veg so I ended up getting 9 bags of veg for 6 quid, 3 spinach, 3 leeks and 3 roasted veg with tatties.

calicocat

Paulineb.....

I googled the thump boxing......looks like a me king of thing (except that i'm SO unfit right now it would probably kill me). definitely my kind of thing though, although what I did love about the kick boxing was the kicking. All classes of this I have seen since that one closed seem very serious though, and we all did it for a laugh so it was very lighthearted.

The problem I also have with classes is that often I can't attend due to work shifts so don't ever build up a good profile of turning up and getting into it. Something to look at though as I punching and/or kicking things is also a brilliant mood lifter, i'm not interested in the actual sparring though. One of the blokes I used to work with asked me to go to his club when he found out I did kick boxing..........he used to come in with black eyes and various cuts and bruises.....so I gave that one a miss...!!!...lol.

.....but my instructor did used to call me Lara Croft.....lol.

Well done to those who have motivated themselves to get up and out and have a walk. I'm off now to deliver a pressie to a friend, she doesn't live far from me in 'crow'fly' terms, but i'm not sure how I would get there through the estate so could end up lost for hours so i'm going to drive. When we are both off next and she walks to me I shall walk back with her so I know the route for other times.


Boiler:....no further freaky noises thank god, so i'm going to leave it on when out for the hour or so I will be out soon.

Asbo......is still sometimes ignoring cat-gym and using stair carpet.....bad cat.....may have to look at getting other scratch options, or just go and get a sisal carpet when needed, except I don't really want to encourage the behaviour. When i'm in she is stopping when I scream at her. On some things she is quite trainable as she was so young when I got her...on one hand i'm seen as 'mum', also she used to copy the dog training when I had the dog.


No stirrings on the seed front, but expect it is way too early for that....and possibly way too cold to be successful.


Right....off to see the 'mad Malteser'....maltese friend , with her birthday pressie for an hour. I won't be staying long as still tired from lack of proper sleep. Fingers crossed boiler is ok (which i'm sure it will be as been on for ages now today and I haven't been blown up or woken by clanking)

Need2bthrifty

Hope you all enjoyed your walks – today for me has been tackling the unsavoury jobs on my “to do” list = PAPERWORK - a bit like Byatt I was surrounded by reams and reams of it.

Annual budget review and planning = check
Filing = check
Shredding = check
A little de-cluttering = check

I forgot to keep a copy of my own resolutions so had to go searching the thread and print off a copy – now stuck up on my notice board.

GQ – your last huffington post link was useful and just confirmed my thinking following a budget review. Jan & Feb are going to be really tight months money-wise so there are some things I will have to postpone until the spring but that’s okay I’ve got all year and I can focus more on activities that don’t cost me money.

LavenderBees wrote: »

I like your suggestion, NTBT, so maybe something like "OS Single Life - We do it our way!" ?? :T

Have a good day, everyone!

LB xx

Like you’re thinking LB.

calicocat

MummyBobble....

I think when you are used to coping on your own it takes time and small steps to adjust to thinking differently. It becomes alien to even think of relying on someone else, which is silly, as we all need to do that from time to time...it is human nature to do so, and those that don't I think suppress that basic function. .....but we get used to doing it.


In my book you get a woop woop for even thinking about it and knowing that you'd like to change things, as that is the first step and what takes everything forward.

You also shouldn't build reasons in your head as to why people invite you to events, the one thing that has hit me in the face about this thread is the lack of confidence on here (me included socially)...and from very capable people who are good at what they are doing in life but just seem 'stuck' or overwhelmed at the time with something.(apologies if i'm wrong its how it has come across to me).

SO.....next time you get an invite, don't assume it is for the reasons you think, as to be honest....you don't know, and are probably way off the mark. Go into it assuming you have been invited because they want you there.........


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...then kick them up the aris by doing something different and surprise them.....(wink face).

LavenderBees

We should all be called Pollyanna..... how good are we, tackling grot jobs and exercising right, left and centre? :beer: em, oh no...not :beer:, this instead :j

I, too, must be very frugal for at least the next few months and at least walking is free...once you get there... and once you get the waterproof gear....We were so lucky that the weather held off here until we'd finished...but it was so muddy, honestly, I was 6" taller by the time I got back to my car, and one poor bloke went down in the deepest, muddiest, most full of cow poo puddle he could ever have chosen....:o

Lots of people rushed to help him, but I hung back desperately trying not to laugh. I KNOW. You don't have to tell me how horrible I am...I have to live with myself so I KNOW HOW HORRIBLE I AM :eek:

:rotfl:

Gawd, sorry...the laughter burst out again :rotfl:

I bet none of you speak to me again, now. Too honest for my own good...but I betcha you're all as bad about some things. Come on fess up!

So, I've managed a no spend weekend, achieved loads, no choc, no alcohol, had good company and feel loads better. Have made roasted pepper/tomato soup for lunches, and a huge tuna pasta bake with leftover bits and bobs for dinners.

Shame it's the start of a grot working and studying week tomorrow. . I could very happily potter on in this way for ever.

Thanks for your company, folks! Have a great week, whatever you are doing...

LB xx

calicocat

LavenderBees wrote: »

We should all be called Pollyanna..... how good are we, tackling grot jobs and exercising right, left and centre? :beer: em, oh no...not :beer:, this instead :j

I, too, must be very frugal for at least the next few months and at least walking is free...once you get there... and once you get the waterproof gear....We were so lucky that the weather held off here until we'd finished...but it was so muddy, honestly, I was 6" taller by the time I got back to my car, and one poor bloke went down in the deepest, muddiest, most full of cow poo puddle he could ever have chosen....:o

Lots of people rushed to help him, but I hung back desperately trying not to laugh. I KNOW. You don't have to tell me how horrible I am...I have to live with myself so I KNOW HOW HORRIBLE I AM :eek:

:rotfl:

Gawd, sorry...the laughter burst out again :rotfl:

I bet none of you speak to me again, now. Too honest for my own good...but I betcha you're all as bad about some things. Come on fess up!

So, I've managed a no spend weekend, achieved loads, no choc, no alcohol, had good company and feel loads better. Have made roasted pepper/tomato soup for lunches, and a huge tuna pasta bake with leftover bits and bobs for dinners.

Shame it's the start of a grot working and studying week tomorrow. . I could very happily potter on in this way for ever.

Thanks for your company, folks! Have a great week, whatever you are doing...

LB xx

Laughing is most certainly allowed, and in fact to be encouraged as good for the soul, plus he would have done the same......we all know this if we are honest.


Gotta go and check on seeds again.....just call me Charles, or HRH, as have now gone to checking soil every hour.

This whole seed thing isn't all its cracked up to be as quite stressful waiting for something...!...lol...it will be like a royal birth if it happens.

Byatt

Calico, I have lack of confidence, and natural shyness, which in social situations can strike, even though work wise, I could talk the hind legs off a donkey, is something I definitely feel, and you'd think at 60 I would be much more confident.

One potential friend (she keeps trying I keep stalling), said I could go along to a concert with her and her husband, I said, that's so kind...she said, I'm not being kind, I would like you to come.

Anyway, I'm going to join the U3A! :T I will, I will...I've chosen the one I want to join after much persuing of the clubs, and hopefully will fit in well with them. They do lots of stuff, including outings to ballet and opera. terrified and excited in equal measure. This is way out of my comfort zone! :eek:

LB, stop laughing...:rotfl: did anyone else laugh? Secretly?

paulineb_2

Well, my small bedroom is done. I have two bedrooms, one a big one thats full of stuff and my box room that I sleep in, long story, saga with a floor repair and kitchen thats not yet installed, been in this flat 18 years and my landlord has done minimal upgrading to it, so it was starting to resemble the house that jack built. Im not the first tenant so some of the stuff has probably been here for about 25 years before that, as I found out when my kitchen tap came off in my hands, was like a scene from something I never want to experience again.

I had a washing machine flood last summer and the flooring had to be lifted and underneath the floorboards were starting to rot so I put in for a repair and 7 months later its still not done, because the joiner wouldnt do it unless the kitchen units were ripped out, the kitchen company installing the new one wouldnt do it as it wasnt their job

I am very happy to be getting a new kitchen, but its now 5 months overdue due to no one wanting to sort the floor, so I had to get an MP on the case. It also had massive repercussions for me thanks to incidents with my neighbours due to water going downstairs, about 7 weeks ago my ancient kitchen tap came off in my hand and I flooded them (thankfully no damage and it actually sorted out matters between us, its two male friends who live downstairs from me)

But Ive had so much stress over it all, so much red tape, official dom and so much cheek from people. In writing, on the phone and by email. I also found out that my housing office gave emails I sent them about an anti social incident that happened to me last summer to a third party without my permission and they are refusing to tell me why or how that happened.

My mum actually works for the local council and has done for 40 years and was there when people came out to see me (again long story, and something that happened due to one of the kitchen staff turning up at my door without warning which set off a huge chain of events that involved people turning up at my door and demanding entry and emailing me and being patronising to me, people cant seem to understand that Im not responsible for the fact that my kitchen floor doesnt look pristine) and was so upset by the way I was being spoken to by one of the senior housing staff that she had to walk out of the room, at one point she said, just get the floor fixed and I'll get her a new kitchen. There have been days Ive been so stressed by it all Ive actually been able to feel my blood pressure rising, but I was determined to have a good christmas and my philosophy is now, if other people want to play silly beggars and I dont get the kitchen installed, big deal, just get the floor sorted so I can pay to get proper flooring down, no one would install lino on my floor the way it looks just now, its terrible looking, holes everywhere.

(I was always on the list to get one, the entire area is being done, just that no one wanted to repair the floor, it would be a two hour job, tops).

Anyway, thats why my other bedroom is a bit messy as its got all my white goods in, including a replacement fridge as my fridge hasnt been able to be defrosted for so long, its now goosed.

2012 was a really bad year for me and mine due to a number of things and 2013 was better but I never thought Id have to spend 7 months trying to get a repair done and have to involve an MP, if I hadnt contacted her, Id still be sitting now being ignored by everyone involved in this situation, including my landlord.

Hopefully it will be in in a few weeks, Ive also been ordered to remove the cats for the duration, other people havent been, my life is just being made difficult because I complained.

But the good thing is, having to clear things for them coming in, its meant Ive tackled the cupboard of doom, which is no longer looking like a cupboard of doom. Ive decluttered to within an inch of my life. My mum is also decluttering like a demon just now, her own place, she has no problem helping me sort my tat out but when it comes to your own its sometimes harder.

She has a recycle bin and a brown bin for twigs, glass and even a food bin. But no glass recycle bin. Where as I have nothing apart from a bin chute I can chuck stuff down, but theres a communal bin about 10 mins walk away, I live in the kind of area where if there were communal bins on every corner they'd be set on fire, thats housings excuse for not giving us more. Anyway, we made the walk to get all my recycle out, in biting winds, really horrible weather today

Just one more room to go and thats my entire flat painted, thanks to my mum, shes great at DIY, Im rubbish. We did it with eco paint which is a bit more expensive than ordinary, but no paint smell, the stuff is fantastic
My living room is lime green and violet, kitchen is violet, hall is lilac and my bedroom is one wall lilac and one wall violet. Made the use of all the paint I had, just as well I like my purples.

I made her pasta with leek and spinach, some fancy cherry peppers and a bit of chilli and garlic sauce. I managed to buy 5kg of macaroni from approved foods last year and its still being worked its way through, I even feed it to the crows, it only cost me a fiver.

And once I get my new washing machine finally plumbed in, Im going to go through all the clothes that are sitting in bags and get a ton of them off to a charity shop, for sale and for rag.

Im also aiming to make a food bank donation once a month for the next 12, with the money I save from not drinking alcohol.

So many pawn shops opening in my area, my mum says she hasnt seen the like since the 1960s.

calicocat

Byatt wrote: »

Calico, I have lack of confidence, and natural shyness, which in social situations can strike, even though work wise, I could talk the hind legs off a donkey, is something I definitely feel, and you'd think at 60 I would be much more confident.

One potential friend (she keeps trying I keep stalling), said I could go along to a concert with her and her husband, I said, that's so kind...she said, I'm not being kind, I would like you to come.

Anyway, I'm going to join the U3A! :T I will, I will...I've chosen the one I want to join after much persuing of the clubs, and hopefully will fit in well with them. They do lots of stuff, including outings to ballet and opera. terrified and excited in equal measure. This is way out of my comfort zone! :eek:

LB, stop laughing...:rotfl: did anyone else laugh? Secretly?

Fab, I am going to be honest here and just say......Go , and enjoy, they have invited you for a reason, they didn't have to, they would like you to join them. as this is a good friend i'm sure they will both understand if you feel out of your normal zone for a while.

I am like you and lots of others in that we can be the life and sole in our normal bubble. What this thread has highlighted though,amongst other things, is if that bubble isn't fulfilling, then somehow we need to shift and change a pattern of behaviour.

I don't know too much about U3A except my mum is in it and has been for years...language would be my problem in that I only speak 2....northern and English. apparently U3A have their own subgroups that speak various languages?? . But I will say my mum has enjoyed the lectures hugely, and the ones I was interested in attending with her so far I have been on shift.

MummyBobble

Thanks Calicocat.

Not really anything to do with the thread (I hope this isn't going to be huge and clog everyone's feed), but I just thought I'd share a drawing my (I think) very talented 16yo daughter drew this afternoon. Feeling very proud



PS LB, I'd have to laugh if anyone fell in cow poo! (Well, unless it was me :rotfl:)