Month: February 2012

Oh you're definitely missing out if you don't try the :

Hannah Peel and
Lene Marlin (think you got me a couple of her cd's)

And The Incidentals is one of the best songs I have …

Don't know half of those!
One of my fave songs was on Jack on the journey home.
Rat Trap by the Boomtown Rats 🙂

After saying what I thought of the commercial side of 14th Feb (and threatened soppy music), here we go.

To my readers : I love you all !

That goes for the regulars (you know who you are !), the occasionals, the ones I have to cajole into having a look and all the random people who come here via “Next Blog” or google searches. Every hit logged makes me smile, especially those who know I have a Wall Of Text tendency yet still come back for more 🙂

On to the music – soppy stuff in a semi-random order :

Let’s Do It (Fall In Love) sung by that total legend, Ella Fitzgerald. Who’s not singing along to that classic yet ?

Only Exception by Paramore. Quite possibly my favourite from all they’ve come out with so far. Another one I can sing along to ! And Hayley looks adorable in that video.

Valentine by T’Pau. Carol Decker and co were due for far more than just the 2 albums …

Eyes Closed by Lene Marlin. Talking of putting out albums … Lene Marlin has 4 out there already and I’m hoping for many more from this Norwegian lady with a fantastic voice. (that just happens to use a range I can harmonise with !)

Your Song from Moulin Rouge, sung by Ewan MacGregor. Need to watch that movie some time …

Oh Boy by Duffy. Wow. And this didn’t make the main album ?

Under Your Spell from the Buffy musical episode. Total magic. This scene is probably the highlight from the entire 7 series of Buffy.

Almond Tree by Hannah Peel. If you watch any of the videos here, watch this one. She’s special. (Ok, maybe not strictly valentines theme but I adore her style)

Beautiful One by the Cardigans. This is from their early cute phase before their music got somewhat darker. Same enchanting Swedish voice (another I can sing along to!).

Incidentals by Alisha’s Attic. Oh if I had a pound for every time I’d linked this stunner, I’d be able to afford my lunch tomorrow. Ok, dinner too and pizza on Thursday.

That’s it for today 🙂 Hope you all enjoy what you’ve been getting up to today.

Thanks, tell your friends and family about my Blog if you don't mind. I am trying to get the word out to people to make it a hit. If you discipline yourself, put your mind into it, and allow for cheat days, you can accomplish any goal weight. Motivation is power! The winter months I tend to bulk up a bit, but I recommend eating small healthy meals throughout the day 4-5, and don't eat a lot at night.I studied Health & P.E. so I know somewhat, I am not cert. dietitian or anything.

Another one from the “Facebook made me lol” collection :

Definite lol from that one.

(Aside – now watching the cricket highlights and thinking “when did bowlers throwing the ball become an accepted part of the game ?”)

It’s getting close to that time of year when I need to start thinking about getting ready for the season. Previously, I’d rely on a combination of :
Natural Fitness (I’m a fattie but can still pull my weight around with little preparation)
Pre season nets
Running around at lunchtimes at school

These days the running around at lunchtimes and pre season nets don’t happen. Plus I’d be challenged to get as much quality training in with nets because of the shoulder issues. I used to be one of the first to turn up and I’d be bowling all through the session (except when it came my turn to bat). I’d get full value out of the nets time, it let me try new things out or groove my bowling action until it was ready for matches. I found my away swinger by accident but nets let me learn how to bowl it properly. I was literally one of the first to turn up and the last one to leave. (Half the team didn’t know where the light switches were)

I can’t rely on the natural fitness so much now, I used to be in Much Pain for about 2 days after the first game of the season. Much Pain time was closer to a week last year … even without doing a full allocation of bowling overs.

So what I need to do is to start getting miles into my legs. I have a good training circuit available for that, with a set of roads near my place set into a triangular pattern. I think that it’s maybe about a mile and a half. It should serve first as me walking around it, followed by jogging when more conditioning is back in my legs.

That’s what it needs really, the power is still there in my legs plus I can really feel the benefit of being a stone lighter. But … what’s cursed me over the years is lack of stamina and being prone to cramp. The diet has caused a bit of an imbalance that’s increased that proneness to cramp too. (It’s settling and going away)

But most of all – it’s motivation.

And the Pink Hat Project for the summer may well be the key to unlocking that motivation. Can’t rely on being chased by dinosaurs any more !

Hi Myxercise – welcome to blogging 🙂

Hopefully when I hit the lower limit of weight that I can get from just being disciplined with what I eat, I can learn stuff from you to help push the weight down & prep for summer cricket better 🙂

I agree Valentines Day is a Hallmark holiday. I am single, but when in a relationship, everyday should be considered special! Follow my blogs please! My blogs focus on nutrition and health, and I just started blogging. THX!

Can't remember the card thing at my old school … But then again, it was an all-boy school so having lots of valentines cards might have drawn it's own fire 😉

I hated it as a teen as the mean girls at school made you feel like a total loser if you didn't get loads of cards, however as I have got older I do the same as with Christmas. I blow a raspberry at the commercialism and do it my way.

I got very drunk last year – so much so that I had to have the next day off work to recover. NOT good!