Month: July 2013

There was a time…

One of the things I do remember the most about my time working at a certain retail store was the customers. I didn’t particularly like being a shop assistant. I liked being a shoe responsible a bit better, but it was more of the same really. I didn’t like my manager. My workmates were generally fine, except a couple of exceptions. The customers… Ah, that’s another story. I used to work in a posh area in London, and there were many ladies around during the week that thought we were there to be their servants. They would treat us like we were nothing, and we couldn’t say anything about it. I remember this lady coming into the store at 11am on a Tuesday morning, stinking of alcohol. They might have had more money than us, but they had pitiful lives that needed alcohol first thing in the morning. Many of these ladies were rude and dismissive. I didn’t like them one bit. I was usually polite and cheerful, despite their behaviour, but I hated when …

Why am I always so busy?

The last week or so has been madness. Feeble excuse, I know, but I haven’t had the energy to post. I wonder how people manage to publish every single day, I’m guessing that’s their main job? OK, fine, I’ve been on holidays, so I can’t use work as an excuse, but seriously. I have just checked and wow, it’s been 15 days since my last entry. I get it now why you’re upset. I even get that you barely remember me!! OK, so here’s the update for the last 15 days! Saturday 13th July. The day started well. I went to my guitar class and it was great. This time, I arrived with plenty of time, so I managed to get my guitar tuned by the teacher. Also, my nails were perfectly clipped so I had a better grip! We practised some blues basic notes, as well as more chord changing (A to D to A to E to D…) which I still suck at, but I did pretty well considering I hadn’t had any …

The Ultimate Challenge

It’s there, always there, sort of out of the corner of my eye. I can see its shadow, yet when I turn around to look straight into it, it’s gone. Recently, a couple of people have told me they believe I can do anything and everything. I challenged that claim in both cases, but they were adamant about it. It’s awesome when people have faith in you… faith you don’t even have in yourself. I can’t fly, I replied, trying to be clever. Yet, one of them answered. Simply awesome. For a while now, I’ve been thinking about the ultimate challenge. If you’ve been coming around here for a while, then you’ll know I’m all about challenging myself, becoming a better, improved version of myself, all that. I couldn’t run, so I started running. I’m scared of heights, so I decided to try abseiling. Things like that (I’m still scared of heights, by the way) My day to day is filled with small challenges, very much like when we were kids and someone said I dare you …

Fitness weekend!

It seems that you guys like certain topics around here… My photos, my lunchtime read posts and everything about all my fitness activities. Well, I hope you will like today’s post – which was supposed to be written and published yesterday, but I was too exhausted to think! So, last week I decided to give running another try. As you might know, I hurt myself a bit a few weeks ago and when running the Race For Life I injured it. I know the word “injury” sounds terrible. As far as I know, it’s not broken or permanently damaged (I say as far as I know because I haven’t gone to the doctor… More on that in a minute), it’s just painful when I run. Anyway, I decided it wasn’t worth it going to the GP because they would tell me to take painkillers and rest it, and if it kept hurting for a while, then they would refer me somewhere, or tell me to go to A&E; so I took painkillers, and it didn’t go away, …