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Not posted for a while. Back at work now after 6 weeks off. This is my typical work diet!! Must do something about this to make it healthier. Trouble is I can't be bothered sometimes to make an meal on a work day!! Too knackered.

I'm toying with the idea of posting a photo and a comment here every day that sums up my day or my thoughts and feelings at that moment in time. I wonder if it would work.

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This is the modern world

Living in an "always on world"
My life in 140 words or less
An identity spelt out in a profile
You know me but don't know for real.
Millions made on electrical pulses
Those same millions lost instantly.
A 2nd life more fun than the 1st
Knowing a person 2000 miles away better than my own neighbour!
This is the modern world
Stay connected or you're no-body!
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Time to quit my moaning and get on with it!!

Reading back I realise that most of my entries on here seem really negative. Usually they consist of me moaning about how much my life/job/financial situation sucks. Well, I've decided that from now on I am going to quit my moaning and actually do something about my life.

The first thing to address is my fitness level. This has been concerning me for over a year now and it is probably the easiest part of my life to change and I hope will inspire me to tackle the other sucky areas of my life.

Being off with a bad back for so long has severely limited what little exercise I was already doing. The first thing to do is to get out in the daylight and get fresh air, so I am going to find time for a daily 30 min dog walk. Then I am going to start back with going swimming on my days off work.
my son also wants to join a gym so I will join with him. Going together will give us both the encouragement we will need to keep up with this.

I intend to start all this on monday. I will write on here about my progress, good and bad. Let see how this goes! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Dreaming of a simpler life

So, I want to be a writer. But I'll never be a writer unless I actually write something!  I seem to waste most of my time reading other people's blogs and thinking that I could never do that. I'm too lazy, not talented enough or that I don't actually have anything that I can write about.

 

Well, the only way I'm going to find out if I'm any good at writing is to actually write. Merely thinking about it will get me nowhere. So, here is my 1st serious attempt at writing a blog entry with the hope that other people may be interested enough to read it.  Ok, so my grammar sucks, my spelling is a bit lousy (I hope that by the time you read this I will have caught all the typos) and my subject matter isn't going to rock the world.

 

What exactly is my subject matter for this blog going to be?  I haven't decided yet. I don't want to become another "self-improvement" blog. Becoming a diary blog won't attract any new readers. At the moment this posterous blog is used for  random ramblings and photos that reflect my current mood.  They may bit a bit too random for most readers I guess.

 

 I  could blog about my wish to completely change my lifestyle. At the moment I am in a dark place regarding my life. There are quite a few things I want to change. We have a big house that soaks up the majority of money our household earns each month. I work in a relatively well paid job, but I absolutely hate it, however, I am trapped in it because of the mortgage we have to pay each month.

 

God, that sounds really negative!! But to understand where I am coming from you need to know it. Here is our plan for 2010:

 

  • To sell up and move somewhere less costly to run
  • To quit our jobs and "drop out" of the rat race
  • To be debt free by this time next year

 

Now, we have a few plans. 

  • We would like to find a small-holding and be as self-sufficient as possible.
  • My wife Claire would like to open a tea shop where she can spend all her time cooking for people using produce from our small-holding. (She is of Irish descent and you know how much they love their food!!)
  • I would like to make a go of becoming a professional writer
  • I would also like to make a go at becoming a PC repair tech (self employed)

 

Our ultimate aim is to life a life that is as stress free as possible while allowing ourselves time to actually be with one another.

 

I guess many of my blog posts will be concerning the steps we are making towards our dreams. Perhaps you have already done what we are dreaming of doing. Any tips? 

 

Anyway, if you haven't fallen asleep reading this post then well done and thank you!!  Please comment on it, even if it is only to say hi.

 

New year resolutions

2010 a new year and a new decade. Time for a new start I think.

Every new year I make resolutions and every year I fail to achieve any of them.

The reasons for my failings are many and varied but often fall down to my resolutions simply being too ambitious and, therefore too difficult for me to achieve.

At the beginning of the last decade I was overweight and unhealthy from too many years of lorry driving and drinking excessively during the 1990’s. In the first 3 years of the 2000’s I took some steps to improve my health. I stopped drinking alcohol completely, I changed to a more physical job and I started to exercise. I became the fittest I have ever been in my life and stayed that way for a good few years. Over the last 2 years I have let myself go quite a lot. Some of this I can put down to my return to lorry driving and the hours associated with such a job. The rest is my loss of motivation. Most of my resolutions stem from this situation, here’s the list:

This year then I have set myself some simpler goals that I think I can achieve or come close to achieving:

1. To lose weight and get fit.  I have already cut alcohol out. I took my last drink at midnight to see in the New Year. My short-term goal is to make it through to my birthday in March without drinking any alcohol.  Next week I am joining the gym with my son and today I will start my regular exercise by taking the dogs out for a longish walk.
2. To change my job. I know that my job is not good for me. I don’t enjoy it anymore and the long hours and lack of quality time with my family is beginning to have consequences on my health and the relationship I have with my family. This may be a difficult one to achieve but I’m going to try my hardest to be in a better job by the end of the year.
3. To get paid for my writing and/or my photography. This is a completely new area to me even though I have always written and taken photos, this has been on a purely hobby basis. This is taking me out of my comfort zone, let’s have some fun and see what happens!!

Ok, that’s about it. I have other goals for 2010 but they involve other people. What I have outlined above are my personal goals for this New Year.