Year: 2008

Easter is a good time of year, it gives us an excuse to eat an unhealthy amount of chocolate. Here is my first naughty mistake of the year :

It’s especially naughty because Buttons are one of those things that while I’d quite happily eat them forever, they do make my heart beat strangely 🙂

Cricket’s starting up again, at least cricket I’ll be able to watch :-). There’s been cricket on telly from various parts of the world but :

Stanford 20/20 is painful to watch (a cricket addict turning off a cup final halfway in ?)
Games in Aussie have been starting at midnight.

But – we have NZ vs England starting tonight, with the first ball coming at 9.30pm local. So I’ll be able to chill out to the cricket while most likely reading a book and listening to iTunes. Yep – that means not actually paying that much attention to the cricket ! The best thing about cricket on the telly is all the replays, you know to start paying attention to the game when the commentators start getting excited. And when commentators get louder, something important has happened which means replays are sure to follow 🙂

There’s a couple of hours to go though, so I’m currently wiping things off the Skybox. At the moment it’s House season 2, with Michelle Trachtenberg being very sweet as a heart transplant girl having trouble.

Additional – incidental things show you the health of a culture. In England, the crowd is banned from straying on to the playing surface in cricket during internationals. It’s from wanting to protect the pitch from idiots mainly. It’s currently the lunch break in NZ and there’s all kinds of people having a wander around inside the boundary rope. None on the bit where the bowler bowls at the batsman but that’s the bit that gets protected by Pitchfork Wielding Groundsmen.

NZ – crowd has free rein. England – crowd is kept firmly under control. Which is the healthier culture ? Lots of good people over in England but the morons tend to spoil it.

hi there sleepypete 🙂

glad you got distracted since I completely relate to the energy flow – I’ve found just going outside and walking around a bit helps a lot.

I’m not big on martial arts so I wouldn’t have known what to say if you had stopped there – see – everything for a reason.

I came over from craziequeen’s place – uh – palace 🙂

Erm – this was kinda supposed to be mentioning films like Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven.

But I got distracted …

Just finished watching Seven Swords. We had the pleasure of watching this at the cinema a couple of years ago and it’s still pretty good now. It’s definitely one of the better martial arts type films to come out for the past few years, although it doesn’t have the visual style of House of Flying Daggers. It’s taken a bit of time to come onto Sky and dvd though.

Could well be a quiet week this one, NZ vs England test match starts tomorrow, so I could well be getting quite a decent amount of reading in while falling asleep to the cricket. Which won’t be a bad thing because I seem to have slipped back into a low energy mode. I switch between being hyperactive and what could probably be described as hypo-active.

I always struggle to understand the lack of energy, as I usually spot the signs early and go for countermeasures :-). Countermeasures that usually involve caffeine and other things that are laden with energy but also extremely bad for you. I’ve eaten enough to keep me going today but I’m still in the low energy mode. Must be all the driving over the weekend, although those countermeasures will cause problems of their own due to me crashing after the glucose boost has worn off.

I’ve gotten used to my high energy/low energy cycles. I’ve learned to enjoy the hyperactive sessions when I get them, it can be a rush as long as I don’t get carried away, forget myself and upset the wrong people by not thinking what I’m saying or doing. The low energy times are tougher, because I have less energy available to kick me back into being active. Kinda like a vicious circle … However, I’m learning a few tricks to give me a mental incentive to get back to a more active mode 🙂

PS Starting to get twitchier again already – talking about problems and talking through them can help to get you on the way to solving those problems. Which has been the most useful thing about this blog 🙂 Plus there’s also knowing that I’ve made a special couple of people very happy this weekend 🙂

Sent over from CQ’s blog. Sounds like you made her day 🙂

Dropping by from cq’s place to wish you a happy day 🙂
Love the flowers you sent to her, how kind of you!!

Going to have to visit that shop again sometime soon, not been back there for ages. It’s in an awkward location :

Park in town – gotta walk plus the car parks are a rip off
Park at Borders – gotta go down and up a hill

Trip back from mum’s and dad’s place was pretty easy. 3 hours to do 180 miles, without too much moron annoyance. Now watching an episode of Space 1999, which is another series that passed me by when it was originally on. So I’m catching up with it being shown on ITV4. They’ve got to the end of season 1, so the next ones to come on will have a treat in the shape of the giggling Catherine Schell. Still playing “Spot the continuity error”. We’ve had Eagle 1 try to take off and fail, with a different centre pod to the one it took off with a few minutes later. They mean well though. It’s not up to the standards of shows like Farscape and Babylon 5 but has a very good try considering what they had available when making it.

A workmate and I used to try and keep up with some hobbyists who are keen on Space 1999 but we’ve been driven away by their policy with non-registered users. Which is to only allow them to view a highly limited number of posts before they get locked out. Not particularly interested in giving a username, password and email to people who use a policy like that … A shame cos there’s a few people in there that are amusing.

Seven Swords will be taping soon, we watched that in the cinemas a couple of years ago and it’ll be well worth watching again. Not tonight though – I’m pretty tired after the weekend.

The flowers you sent Crazie Queen are georgeous!
What a guy….!

Oh – dinner last night was good. And the dog enjoyed the remnants of my steak.

He didn’t gobble them down, he INHALED them.

Yey 🙂 Both deliveries came through ok. I was getting jittery when I was ordering because Lastminute.com were having arguments with my credit cards …

May have to fire them again next year and go back to Flowergram 🙂