20

Going for dinner in London tonight with Da Hubs, Father-in-Law and Step Mother-in-Law.
Not totally looking forward to it.

Last time I saw the SMiL, she asked if I was pregnant.
This was while we were sitting at dinner on our wedding day. We had all our parents surrounding us. If we had been pregnant - which we are not, and not even trying - and been at the stage of telling people we would certainly have told our parents already. If we weren't ready to tell people then she had just put us in a very difficult position. Not very nice to sit and lie to all your parents, then turn round a few weeks later and admit it.
We have also told them several times prior to the wedding that we want to wait a couple of years after being married before trying to get pregnant.

So yeah, with my recent weight gain I am fully expecting to be asked again tonight. If they do ask i might have to say something quite blunt.

We really want to have our own home before we start trying, and be a bit more secure in our jobs ie full-time hours and no risk of redundancy. DH would like a bit more of a salary and I would quite like to be in a firm that offers more than statuatory maternity pay. Would probably be an idea to have a car too. So there is quite a lot we need to do before we can start trying.

And we won't be telling people when we do start. (well I might write it here so ssssshhhhhh.)
From what I have heard once people know you are trying to get pregnant your personal life becomes pretty fair game. And I can totally imagine the SMiL calling every other day to check on progress and offer far too personal advice.

And if we do get pregnant I will be getting a "Do Not Touch" t-shirt.

19

Oh Dear!
After being healthy and exercising well for the wedding I got my weight to 10st, and my fat ratio was down.
We bought a set of bathroom scales at the weekend.
Now I know i stuffed myself on honeymoon, and I have had to cancel my gym membership as a cost cutting exercise and I haven't been quite as healthy in planning our meals.
But seriously, 11st 8lbs!
I walk for over 30 mins everyday, at a bloody good pace and half that time up a HUGE hill. I don't eat excessively (except fajitas and lemon chicken), don't eat a ton of chocolate or crisps and I barely drink alcohol.
So how the hell have I put on over a stone and a half in under 5 months?
So i am back to improving the healthiness of my meals, and have to figure out a way to get plenty of exercise without joining a gym or buying any equipment.
Guess married life agrees with me.

18

I need a new job. My current one has cut my hours to 4 days a week for 5 of the 9 months so far this year, and it is not likely to change anytime soon.
I really cannot stand one of my workmates. She seems to think I am there to run after her - she is incapable of addressing an envelope and yesterday asked me to shred her personal cheques!
I have so very little to do in the office, my role has changed so much from when I first started here. Compared to my last role which challenged me and kept my brain working this one just seems to be killing me off slowly.
Last night I was at the point of handing in my notice despite not having anything to go to and this morning I was dreading coming into work.

17

I am very disappointed in the decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the Lockerbie bombing. He has been released on compassionate grounds.
If someone can show no compassion and kill over 250 people then they do not deserve to be released from the prison sentance for that crime, and sent home to their native country to die.

16

I hate spiders.

When i see one i scream and jump and run for Da Hubs. He is not their biggest fan, but he will get rid of them for me, mostly by my preferred method of squishing, but occasionally by taking them outside.

But the ones we have been having this weekend are just not funny. After internet research we think they are house spiders. Doesn't sound too bad you may think.

NO! they are friggin HUGE!!!!! Seriously they are about 10 cm across, and that's with the legs bent, not stretched out. I really did not think that spiders came that big in the UK.

We can't figure out where they are coming from, just too many options, but we have had 2 in the kitchen and one in the bedroom. I almost touched 2 of them by accident. We just keep hoping that there will be no more. But we jump whenever something moves in the corner of our eyeline. And we sort of poke things before lifting them, and scan a room before entering. This has been a very stressful weekend.

Kind of surprised that the neighbours haven't called the police, cause it must sound like I am being pretty badly hurt whenever we find a new one.

15

I have decided to start a new fitness regime - again. I have cancelled my gym membership as I just wasn't going, I think because I had to haul my kit all the way to work and back to go after work.

So I bought a book, "The Official British Army Fitness Guide", and i am going to try and follow it over the next few months. It obviously tells you how the Army gets their soldiers fit, and it does not need a full gym or very much equipment at all. Uses a lot of personal body weight as the resistence. They give you full instructions on how to do the exercises, and a warm up and cool down programme, then 3 levels of full exercise programmes which take 12 weeks each. I am so starting on the easiest level. Apparently by the end of the 3rd level you are at the same level as a trained soldier.

It may take me longer than the 36 weeks to get there. I tried some of the tests they suggest to check your fitness level before beginning. 1 of them was as many press ups as possible in 2 minutes, rests in between are fine. So 25 press ups later and I am totally done in. And today I am in pain. Sore arms, sore shoulders and even sore down my sides. This is just a test?! how the heck am I going to manage the whole programme?

Today I wore my pedometer to work to see how much exercise I am getting daily. Just walking to the station, between trains and then to the office took me to over 3500 steps. Pretty good. it also tells me that is approx 2.6km, and I burned 233 calories. Not sure if it can tell the difference of walking up hill cause I must use more energy going up that evil hill on the way home from work.

Tonight I have to try and complete the tests, as many sit ups in 2 minutes and a 2.4km run. Wonder if I will survive?

14

I think I have broken another toe!
Did it yesterday afternoon, just whacked it off the side of the shower, and it is still sore and cannot bend properly. This is something I do on a regular basis and it never teaches me. I think I have broken all my toes at some point in my life, and some more than once :)
Such a klutz!