5 months to emerge as a butterfly

pixiechick99

I found mine on Tinder😉😍

benbenandme

Yep, Pixie found a hottie on there and is all loved up A male friend of mine found his missus on there and they're getting married in November, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there are some good ones. To be honest, even if I don't find any more it was worth joining just for Thursday nights guy  

Drawingaline

Glad you had a fun time 😉😁

juliejim

benbenandme said:

Hi JulieJim ... I normally go for an earliy morning walk, that tends to be for about an hour - 2 hours. (I walk about 6,500 steps an hour). Then I will pootle around, food shopping / housework etc which adds on a few more thousand over the course of the day, then a couple of walks with the dog during the day and that normally gets me to my 20,000 steps.
If I go for one of my long morning walks then that takes me about 2.5 hours and gets in about 16,000 steps, then I don't need to worry for the rest of the day as I will reach 20,000 over the course of the day.
On average I do about 1,000 steps in 10 minutes, so I do try to make myself get up and move about if I've been sat too long. I also always walk around if I'm on the phone as I am so busy chatting that I don't notice it

You must walk a lot faster than me! I've been on a 2.5 hour walk this morning although it is quite hilly where we go so it's up and down and I go with my bestie so we are talking but that was only about 11.5k! That why I was asking because I would struggle to do that many in a day.

juliejim

Sounds good benben - hopefully you'll see him again!

benbenandme

Well he messaged a very sweet message saying it was lovely but he doesn't want to take it any further ... bless him, I was fully aware it wasn't gonna end in marriage, it was a lot of fun but that was it and I'm fine with that We will still keep in touch but that's about it, I thought it was nice he messaged and was lovely about it though, lots on online dating don't do that
In other news, ds has got himself a new job yesterday It's part-time at KFC (less than a 5 minute walk from here), so am very pleased for him. I messaged Mr S and asked him if he'd mind not going in there for a couple of weeks, just to let ds settle in as he hasn't seen him since he left and I wouldn't want him to be in a new job and Mr S walks in ... anyway, he replied saying that's fine and he understood, then a few minutes later sent a ranting message saying he doesn't need my drama and doesn't think we should be friends and blocked me on Whatsapp?? I replied (on facebook messenger) saying I thought it was a bit ridiculous, we argued for a bit and then I have blocked him on that so he can't contact me. The guy is so pathetic it's madness, but I really don't have the time or the room in my life for crap like that any more I've had one of the best weeks of my life and I am not going to let him spoil that
Today I am meeting a couple of friends for a walk and a coffee in the forest, yesterday was a good steps day (26,000), hopefully it will be good again today. Yesterday I also hit the halfway point in my virtual walk, 850,000 done, 850,000 to go

benbenandme

Yesterdays walk was lovely, today I have met up with two other friends that I went to college with 20 odd years ago - we meet up once a year and it's lovely, we just pick back up where we were
Steps are nearly done for today, I still need to go to Mums for a bit and have a shower (still waiting for mine to be fixed), go and get some milk and do dinner, but other than that the day is mine. I'm planning on spending this evening doing some planning stuff for my cards - August is normally the start of Christmas season for us, but all the events I'd usually go to have been cancelled so it will be online mainly this year. I need to start planning some facebook promotions etc, we have some lovely product coming out and this year I think there will be an increase in people sending cards as they won't be able to see people so much still. I ordered my Christmas brochures today, they should be here in a couple of weeks. If anyone on here would like one please let me know and I'll post it to you, all I'd ask is that once you're done with it please could you pass it on to a friend (the more people that get to see them the better) Or I can send you the link to the online brochure x

benbenandme

Morning, I've just got back from my morning walk, absolutely soaked through to the bone but its the first 7,000 steps of the day done Dry clothes are on and coffee is made
This week I have gone through the 1 million steps barrier - 700,000 more to go ... I've also lost a bit more weight which is good
Tonight I am meeting someone for a coffee, he looks nice, we'll see
I've got just over a week until we go back to school, I am looking forward to seeing my kids but I will miss having lots of time at home. I need to make sure I stick to a routine when I'm back there and not throw away all the hard work I've done so far. 

beanielou

How is DS’s new job going? 

benbenandme

He's been in and done all the paperwork, he's waiting to hear when his training is, it's meant to be this week but they don't seem very organised