New Years resolutions.
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silver_sunSo I think this year I'll post some New Year's resolutions, as I actually have some.
Real life
Eat healtier and get fit.
So after using some proper weighing scales and finding I weigh 11st 7lb (161lb or 73kg) rather than the 10st 7lb (147lb or 66.6kg) that I thought I did, I've decided to change what I eat.
Not a diet as such, just less sweets, bread and pasta and more veg, fruits and dairy. I'm also going to rejoin the gym after an absence of ten years.
I guess it's realising that I'm basically mid thiries now (34 in May) and things are starting to slow down a little bit. Okay not much, but better to get in good habits early, as I seem to be following the same pattern as my nan, mum and auntie (and by the accounts of my nan and mum by great gran as well - as with regards to womens health my mum and nan don't seem to get TMI.). Which is basically you hit mid/late thirties, weight goes on, bra size goes silly (It's already hit 34DD and don't want bigger) and then you hit the menopause at about 42 plus or minus a year or two.
Now it doesn't seem to have done them any harm (great gran lived to 94 and nan will be 98 next week and still going strong). So it may end up being something of a genetic inevitibilty, but I'm going to try to not pile the weight on, as with (currently very mild) asthma and joints that creak (from spending a number of years digging as an archaeologist), putting on too much weight isn't a good idea.
I'm also going to join the gym down at the university as they have reduced rates for people who graduated from there. As it works out at about £4.50 a week for use of pretty much all the equipment (but not the pool) it's looking like a pretty good deal.
Read more books
I'm going to try to read one book a week for 2013. So 52/3 books in all.
I'll post each week to say which one I'm reading.
Sort out the garden
Get the fence between my house and the neighbours put up.
Keep the grass cut to a sensible level.
Plant some pots of herbs.
Compost kitchen waste rather than bin it.
Family things
Visit my family again.
Have a holiday not at a relatives house for at least 2 days. (Because we haven't managed one since 2005, I'm thinking maybe 2/3 days at the seaside in summer because Alexander would like it.)
Get swimming lessons for Alexander. He's 3 now and could really do with learning.
Go out for more walks/picnics with Alexander up on the moors/countryside around Bradford.
Fic and writing related.
Finish A Different Path.
Write and post 2013 words per month.
Post last year's Nanowrimo original fic.
Take part in Nanowrimo again.
Real life
Eat healtier and get fit.
So after using some proper weighing scales and finding I weigh 11st 7lb (161lb or 73kg) rather than the 10st 7lb (147lb or 66.6kg) that I thought I did, I've decided to change what I eat.
Not a diet as such, just less sweets, bread and pasta and more veg, fruits and dairy. I'm also going to rejoin the gym after an absence of ten years.
I guess it's realising that I'm basically mid thiries now (34 in May) and things are starting to slow down a little bit. Okay not much, but better to get in good habits early, as I seem to be following the same pattern as my nan, mum and auntie (and by the accounts of my nan and mum by great gran as well - as with regards to womens health my mum and nan don't seem to get TMI.). Which is basically you hit mid/late thirties, weight goes on, bra size goes silly (It's already hit 34DD and don't want bigger) and then you hit the menopause at about 42 plus or minus a year or two.
Now it doesn't seem to have done them any harm (great gran lived to 94 and nan will be 98 next week and still going strong). So it may end up being something of a genetic inevitibilty, but I'm going to try to not pile the weight on, as with (currently very mild) asthma and joints that creak (from spending a number of years digging as an archaeologist), putting on too much weight isn't a good idea.
I'm also going to join the gym down at the university as they have reduced rates for people who graduated from there. As it works out at about £4.50 a week for use of pretty much all the equipment (but not the pool) it's looking like a pretty good deal.
Read more books
I'm going to try to read one book a week for 2013. So 52/3 books in all.
I'll post each week to say which one I'm reading.
Sort out the garden
Get the fence between my house and the neighbours put up.
Keep the grass cut to a sensible level.
Plant some pots of herbs.
Compost kitchen waste rather than bin it.
Family things
Visit my family again.
Have a holiday not at a relatives house for at least 2 days. (Because we haven't managed one since 2005, I'm thinking maybe 2/3 days at the seaside in summer because Alexander would like it.)
Get swimming lessons for Alexander. He's 3 now and could really do with learning.
Go out for more walks/picnics with Alexander up on the moors/countryside around Bradford.
Fic and writing related.
Finish A Different Path.
Write and post 2013 words per month.
Post last year's Nanowrimo original fic.
Take part in Nanowrimo again.
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Date: 2013-01-04 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-05 04:30 am (UTC)What sort of books do you usually reach for? I am a voracious reader and a bookseller to boot. Any day I can have an exchange with someone about a book is a day made better.
best wishes for a good year
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Date: 2013-01-05 08:39 pm (UTC)I don't generally read Mill and Boon Harlequin type books or what tends to get referred to as 'chick-lit' or romance driven stories.
I suppose it can really be condensed down to - Action, adventure, mysteries, historical/pseudo-historical settings.
I'm currently reading The Water Room by Christopher Fowler, which is about two old detectives who've been working together for years in what is called the Peculiar Crimes Unit (a fictional dept of the London Met Police) - they basically investigate odd cases - which may or may not have a paranormal angle. It's the second in a series. The first being Full Dark House.
The next one after that I've got lined up to read is Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch. Which is the third in a series following Peter Grant a junior police officer who learns magic is real. Set in present day London.
Not sure after that I've got a couple of Steampunk stories that I want to read, there's the sequel to The Water Room. I might also give 'The Hunger Games' a try to see what it's so popular. And I've not read the two most resent Discworlds either, so there's going to be plenty to read.