Hot & Humid

Cor, what a scorcher! It's 31 degrees here today and I think the humidity is off the scale, it's a bit like living in the tropics but with the disadvantage of council tax and VAT. Seriously it's roasting again today, but thankfully the forecast predicts a drop in the temperature and invisible water circulating in the air when a few nice thunderstorms head our way in the next day or so - what a relief, something to clear the air.

I've been good today despite the weather and I've been to the gym. I've taken a slightly different tact however because of the weather and modified my routine so that it is primarily a fat burning one instead of intensive cardio - at the moment I can't manage more than 10 mins on the treadmill without feeling badly broken and ready to pull the emergency rip cord from the "don't panic" receptacle. I'm glad I made the choice to do a longer but less frisky session too since it paid off in calorie burn (856 in total) with 45% of that being fat used up. So I'm chuffed and I didn't kill myself in the process.

Another thing that I'm pretty proud of (and should have mentioned yesterday) is that I lost 7 lbs last week after being on the South Beach for 7 days - the best bit is I'm pretty sure it's not water loss either because I've been hydrating like crazy. So back on the downward scale for now, I just hope it keeps up.

Not much else going on really today except I get a phone call from one of the vet surgeries who rang me for an interview. I decided to glean some more information out of them about the job and after hearing that they were only going to pay minimum wage (and not even the right bracket of such for my age) and wanted me to work 47 hours a week (excluding the 2 hours commuting every day) I thought that it might be best if I didn't go for that particular interview. Nevermind I have another one tomorrow for a PA job, so we'll see how it goes.

The evening was very quite too, what with this blasted football being on tv prime time and the BBC taking entire chucks of the schedule to show people kicking a ball its has, quite literally ballsed up everyone elses viewing who perhaps are not fans of the beautiful game. I could say the same for Sundays when we are blitzed with religious stuff too of which I have absolutely no interest whatsoever, but I won't get political about that - don't want to be hot listed on some government secret anti terrorist SWAT team for speaking my mind about such sensitive matters now do I?

Posted by Abi on the June 12, 2006 9:36 PM