Hello February

Well, it's good to be back.
Having done nearly two months of daily blogging, I ran out of steam just before Christmas, and that, as they say, was that.

For the record, Christmas was fairly hard work, and a wee bit depressing. The bright spot, as ever, was parkrun (quite a lot of parkrun) and the fact that it's over now. (Christmas, not parkrun!)

January sucked a bit as well - again, it almost always does - the month when getting out of bed is a major achievement... a little bit of an iron deficiency didn't help, weirdly, having a needle stuck in my backside every other day, does! (Iron injections rock!) It's taken a while, and I'm still anemic, but I've been trying to get to bed before midnight, and to eat actual food that isn't chocolate, and it seems as if I may have survived!

Jen and I saw January out in style - with day 1 of a 'couch to 5k' program. It wasn't difficult, but it was cold, and muddy, on the Downs.

In an attempt to do penance for my Janathon fail, I am going to do a low key 'febathon' - I don't promise daily blogging, but am intending to do some daily exercise, which I will report in the blog when posting.

Today, I left the house at 6.50 (argh!) expecting to have to de-ice the ka, however, temperatures had obviously come up, as all was clear - so to school, and to the gym...
28 mins of cardio followed - may possibly have accidentally reset the cross-trainer timer - on the bike and the elliptical trainer, and so far, I feel pretty good, as it goes... Tomorrow evening will be day 2 of the C25k, and friday will be back to the gym...


So far, I'm liking February.

Not dead yet...

... possibly!

I'm still here, Janathon fail is nearly over, and 'normal service will resume in February - which is tomorrow!
Yippee!

Festve Photo Frenzy - Day 22

For a grinch, I have a remarkable amount of Festive head-gear!

Festive Photo Frenzy - Day 21

Kaye's Tree. Pretty!

Festive Photo - Day 20

The 3 faces of the Christmas Revue: Ellie, head of tech crew and stage-manager, being an overworked and tired elf; Westie, proving that age and staff parties do eventually take their toll - backstage, pre rock-god moment; K, dancing like there's nobody watching, and getting her Christmas on! 

AND NOW IT IS THE END OF TERM..... whoop whoop!

Festive Photo Frenzy - Day 19

Contrary to popular rumour, sometimes teachers don't get the longest holidays - it doesn't seem entirely fair that every other school in the land has broken up, and we still have 2 days left.

The photo shows a tired and pale Ms Clark after some light rigging and late night rehearsals. Note the streak of white in my hair, and the tinsel behind me - old and festive all at once!

Festive Photo Frenzy - Day 18

Tee hee.

Google have done a cool thing - if you search 'let it snow' it does - all over the screen, and I had a druggrd up moment of festiveness... here 'tis.