Is it me or does time speed by much more quickly as you get older?

This last month has zipped by - how can it be June already? It was only a couple of weeks ago I changed jobs! ( On the job front all is well...Collapse )

Other than work my life seems to revolve around training, gardening and dejunking the casa.

Still training with the lovely PPTP three times a week - boxing on Friday nights plus full body workouts the rest of the time. He's been talking to me about supplements - particularly creatine and ZMAs - and I'm giving them a whirl. He totally wiped the floor with me at Friday night's boxing session and then I was back in the gym for a free session yesterday which was a killer legs workout. I also bought myself a Fitbit Charge on Friday - I forsee fun with monitoring. PPTP was well impressed when I told him my resting heart rate was 49-52 bpm. \o/

I've more or less whipped the back and tiny front garden into shape again. A bit of a tidy up next weekend should see me finally able to sit out there and enjoy brekkie in the back garden in the mornings. And the window boxes are starting to look good. I'm still behind on the allotment but getting there. Have time to get some quick summer crops in and in the next two weeks will be getting the autumn and winder veg in place.

Dejunking the casa had stalled until yesterday when I had a bit of a blitz. This afternoon is all about trips to the charity shop and recycling plant and - if the showers hold off - maybe a hour or two in the garden/allotment.

Then I hope to pop down to the gym this evening to get a quick treadmill run in - because I'm still messing up pacing when I run outside - something I intent to tackle next week.

Hardly a life full of thrills but I'm enjoying myself. My fitness and strength have improved massively over the last 6 months, I've dropped a couple of stone (and a lot of inches) and now, after a few moths of stasis, it looks like I may be starting to drop weight again. I'm also eating much more healthily. So virtuous cycle of activity - food - exercise FTW!

Fannishly I'm not really engaged with anything at the moment. Can't say I've got any interest in the soon to start showing new season of Teen Wolf. Of the summer shows Killjoys is eminently watchable and I really, really loved Sense8. Still have Orphan Black, Penny Dreadful, Hannibal, Game of Thrones and Banshee to catch up on. Must see if I can rig the laptop up to the attic so I can dejunk the cases whilst viewing stuff!

Because the weather in good old Blightly is bouncing around a bit (stunningly hot and humid one day chilly and grey the next) the rapid shifts in barometric pressure have triggered a few nasty migraines. UGH. But not for the last week or so!

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• Tuesday night meet up with the usual suspects (London & Cambridge contingent) for a fab meal in a somewhat overheated restaurant and then the Best Ice Cream In The World Evah from Scoop in Covent Garden.  Usual suspects all OK clinging tenaciously to life, health and jobs. Lovely evening out with much chat and gossip.

• Came home and watched Sherlock which rivals NCIS:Gay for the Gay, was brilliantly acted (Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are rocking the whole Holmes/Watson thang and Rupert Graves has to be my favourite Lestrade ever). It's also eminently quotable thanks to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Betcha'  I could spot the Gatiss lines. *G* My fave still has to be "I'm a high functioning sociopath.  Do your research" followed by the whole "I'm in shock, look I've got a blanket" scene.  Can't wait for episode 2. does anyone know who's playing Mycroft? He wasn't given a check in the credits or on IMDB.

• My garden has gone insane and is riddled with blackfly.  I intend to get out there this afternoon with spray and tools and prune, dig, tie in and spray for dear life.

• The ants attempted a foothold situation in a kitchen cupboard which I discovered late on Tuesday night. Genocide in the kitchen and I am resolved on Sunday to break out the Die Die Die chemicals and spray at source (which is by the rosebed at the front door).  I've fought a brave resistance against using the noxious stuff (in line with my permaculture tree hugging credentials) but I will not have them invading cupboards and all other forms of persuasion have failed.

• I have an interview with the Job Centre people at 1pm this afternoon wherein I must convince them I am actively attempting to become a tax paying member of society again (and not just living the life of Reily on the extremely generous £65 quid a week Jobseekers Allowance they are paying me -  see what riches 17 years of unbroken tax and NI contributions entitles me to)!  I am armed with my CV and a list of jobs I have been applying for. Wish me luck!

• But!....a few interesting jobs have surfaced which I shall be applying for tonight.

• Tomorrow evening is final (I think) leaving do for ex-colleagues.  Great chance to network and....drink!  Must buy leaving pressies and cards x 2.

• I have plans for the next few days which involve (a) laundry, (b) finish sorting out the attic (currently half done), (c) finish  paperwork downstairs and then deep store rest in (now cleaned) attic, (d) see if I can unearth large box of stuff brought back from ex-office and scan/archive/chuck, (e) see if bike is ready for collection post service. Car is booked for Monday to do what will hopefully be final trips to tip/recycling/charity places for a while.

• Must get passport and Council tax statements photocopied tonight as have to send to agents selling house to prove I am not evil mob mastermind laundering money for drugs, guns or other nefarious purposes.  House goes on market on 2nd August - keeping everything crossed for fast sale at asking price.

My life - she is so exciting! Now to get dressed and try to look professional (ish).

Seriously people. I rely on you to tell me things. I was aware that Watchmen had made quite a splash when it came out but why, for the love of god and little green apples, did none of you tell me how utterly awesome it is?

You fail...all of you.

*scowls*

I mean come on! I would have wrapped it up, petted it, taken it home and called it George based on the strength of the music choices for the sound track. There were two Leonard Cohen songs in there. Plus Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel and Nena. Come on the sountrack was totally inspired.

Then there was the awesome story and fab acting and masked superheros who were not quite so super.

Why were you not dragging me to the cinema to see it?

Bah, I say. BAH!

Instead I've had to watch the director's cut on a teeny tiny little computer screen and it is still awesome. But, you know, it would have been better on a big screen.

Fail I say. Fail. I expected so much better of you.

Never quite made it to the wine on Friday night but at least I was hangover free on Saturday. Lunchtime saw a meet up with ravurian, parthenia14 and little E for a viewing of Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince. To be honest I thought it was overly long, lagged in the middle and left me curiously unmoved but then again HP has never been one of my core fandoms.

Then met up with rhade_rad, f4f3 and his partner who's handle I do not know for late lunch (and drinks) and gossip before toddling down to Trafalgar Square. rhade_rad and ravurian bailed whilst parthenia14, little E and I waited for 7pm for f4f3 to take his place on the plinth. Yes! He is one of those mad fools who has scared an hour to be "Public Art" and he was much more entertaining and interactive than the previous occupant. Then again a jovial Scotsman in a genuine kilt with a flash in his sporran and an aptitude for toasting onlookers is always going to be more entertaining than a grey little man sitting reading. I had to bail about 7:15 as I was tired, cold and damp (it rained)! I made it to bed at a decent time and got up at a decent time but being sociable yesterday left me tired. I've spent most of the afternoon on the counch reading fic.

I need to start pulling together my ST Reboot fic rec list - which will help with my half thought out composition for Reboot!Mccoy/Reboot!Kirk ship_manifesto.

For now though I really need to go do some ironing and paperwork.

Why does it have to be Monday tomorrow? Bah.

Much much much love.

And possibly even a little bit of squee.

Must go see again.

Yes indeedy.

That is all.

*beams*

...as I've spent the best part of the last 4 days in my jammies sleeping or nodding off on the couch, too tired to even haul ass outside to return the hire car let alone drag myself into work.

The upside is that I have managed to squeeze several hours of half watching/half dozing through Space: Above and Beyond.

Hawkes, how much do I love your confusion, bemusement and lack of social skills; Vansen and Damphousse both kick ass girls, West's idealism and Wang's vulnerabilities. Tyrus Cassius McQueen, you were one of my first fandom loves and you still are.

"Well, I don't think our maker wants to hear from me right now. Because he knows I'm going to go out in this plane and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe. And when I get back, I'm going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it was his blood and celebrate his death."

Years later and I still get a shiver from several episodes - in particular Who Monitors the Birds - because this was brave and innovative telly, which set out to break rules long before the Joss years.

Oddly enough the image that stuck with me from the show in the barren years when we waited patiently for the DVD's was the end scene from "Ray Butt's" of the pancakes flipping end over end into the depths of space as Johnny Cash's "Walk the Line" blasted out.

Funny old world.

Speaking of which? You are all sacked! Why did no-one tell me Rod Rowland is in Veronica Mars? Huh? Huh? Come on people - I *rely* on you for this kind of news!

Also?

azewewish has written a couple of incredibly hot little 'timestamp' snippet fics HERE with links to the earlier, longer pieces.

Am now very hot. Must be a temperature. I'm feverish - right? *g*

ITV have just run a trailer for "Sharpe's Challenge."

A new Sharpe. Sean Bean. Sharpe. Green Pants. And Harper's back too! I say again SQUUUUUEEEEEEEEE!

And it will be released on DVD on 1st May. Two x 90 minute mini-series.

*fans self*

Excellent article from the compleatseanbean here and OMG pictures pictures pictures here.

Tight. Green. Pants! Linen swishy coats....

*dies*