10 august

10 aug - went swimming, hour and a half, and running. Diet good.
11th aug, went running, can of redbull.
12 aug - pack of hula hoops. Aim to go running.

excerise

Ran 6km today, did sit ups and weights.

Food: Some spag bol, the veg was going of so chucked it in with tomatos and quorn, ate with a salad. At a guess about 600 cals? Unsure. Had a yoghurt for breakfast, 88 cals, 0.1g fat. Unsure fat content of spagetti.

Cals eaten: 688. Burned: lost track. Wouldn't say I was too far off though hopefully.

Skin Deep?

Diet rubbish. Ignore this post if you're not mind numbingly bored.

• Woke up at 6am. Well, I said "woke," that would be a loose term. I suffer with insomnia and have had a partifcularly bad bout of it lately. So at 6am I get out of bed and decided I might as well start the day. Which went as follows.
• 40 minute walk. about -100 cals I'd say.
• 200g of chickpea and spinach. +200 cals.
• 1 Quorn sausage and tin of beans, +200 cals.
• I piece of white bread, 107 cals
• Three glasses of orange squash, about 300cals
• About to go do my evening workout, must burn off around 800 cals. Urgh. Will report back with my findings!

Things I would like to do before I'm 30

• It's my 20th birthday soon. I don't like the term birthday, if it merely informs everyone that I am now getting old. I figure next year, my 21st birthday, is the last good one I've got left in me. After that it's 30. When I start to get noticeable wrinkles. When I have no choice but to dye my hair and since every attempt I make always results in my becomming ginger, combined with my terrible exercise regime and late onset of puberty meaning I'm covered in spots, this is not a point in my life I am looking forward to. And after 30? I honestly don't dare to think about it.
  
• In lieu of this, knowing my life is soon coming to an end, I thought I might share with you the things that I would like to do before that dreadful day arrives.
  

Things I would like to do before I am dead/30...

1) Sit in a bath full of custard.

2) Eat the bath of custard. Might rethink that one though upon completition of #1.

3) Go to China and Japan.

4) Go to India. (Will hopefully be completing this in the next month!)

5) Take a zero gravity flight in Florida

6) See an eclipse from the best view.

7) See the Grand Canyon.

8) Stay awake for 24 hours of daylight, and watch the sun as it circles in the sky above the Arctic Circle during the summer solstice. Best locations apparently are Hammerfest, Norway; Fairbanks, Alaska; and Inuvik, Canada.

9) See the Northern Lights.

"When I was a lad, a tiny wee lad, My mother said to me, ‘Come see the Northern Lights my boy, They’re bright as they can be!’ She called them the heavenly dancers, dancers in the sky, I’ll never forget, that wonderful sight. They made the heavens bright!"

10) Go whale watching.

11) Canopying in Costa Rica.

12) Eat underwater. I'm not really sure why I want to do this, but I'm really interested in finding out how I'll go about it. I think it's going to be the easiest for me to achieve at this point, as I don't have any Wales or Grand Canyons to hand.

13) See a volcano erupt. I don't feel I've ever had to legitimately run for my life other than the odd blind crossing of the street then realising a car is coming. This should be apt enough though.

14) Take the Ozbus.

15) See an elephant. Will try and get this one down whilst in India, but unsure whether that's going to be possible so it can stay black for now.

16) See gorillas in their natural habitat.

17) Learn to play the saxophone. Or at least the guitar.

18) Learn to speak Spanish. Semi properly will do.

19) Go to Rio during Carnival, and go wild. obvs :)

20) Write a tv script. I know I'm lame and not funny in the slightest but it's just something I've always wanted to do but never been good enough to have a go at. Maybe I'll save it for after I turn thirty and become officially lame though? Undecided at present time.

21) Drive along Route 66. On a Harley. Naturally.

22) Get something published. That would be really amazing for me, since most of what I write is bollocks. It'd be nice to actually come up with something worthy of other people reading and enjoying.

23) Walk the Inca trail in Peru.

24) Ride in a hot air balloon. This is probably up there with easy to do ones.

2nd Aug 2009, Living Room, 21.09

Ten Things you should Know About Me
10. I make a lot of lists.
9. I'm a student.
8. I drive a fancy car. That probably doesn't really suit my personality. I am compensating.

7. I have one eye bigger than the other. I think.
6. I've kept a diary since I was around seven. It appears I have always been this geeky.

5. I love writing and sketching and my aim this year is to improve vastly in both.
4. Someone said I have the potential to have good taste in things but I am generally not interested in them. I'd say this is fairly accurate. I have terrible taste.

3. I am a petsitter.

2. I'm a vegetarian and like to consider myself to have traditional morals.

1. I have a slight problem when it comes to shoes. And food. OK, it's a big problem.

• I suppose down on paper I sound quite normal. I've got a nice car, run my own business, I'm not entirely hopeless at small talk. It all sounds good until someone asks me from I'm from. I mumble something that sounds like "Maesteg." This is often followed by a baffled look, promting me to further explain my geographical location five months of the year. I am from the county of Bridgend, the suicidal town, I explain. Nervous smile. Most will at this point make pleasantries and excuse themselves. The half that stay I find are usually a little too interested in my morbid little town and I find myself slowly backing away from them. Arms raised in the air.

• I probably drink more than I should. I definately eat more than I should. And some days, I look in my shoe cupboard and wonder how much I've actually spent over the years on the little gems. I don't really have much of a job either. Financially I'm a bit of a mess and always have been. While dog watching can be very amusing we are in the middle of a recession, and people definately seem more concerned with the luxuries like buying new shoes than putting fluffy up in a doggy hotel for the night. Natch.

• I guess my aim of this first blog was to give a bit of a background of myself. I'm trying to think of some sordid secrets I have. Other than my weird eye thing I'm kinda coming up short. I can't add up but that isn't much of a secret I guess. People often laugh, but I find it a very serious issue. A handicap if you might. I have never understood how, if someone owes you £4.40, when they say "Here's the 40p!" and look at me as if they've helped me a great deal. They bloody well haven't. I'm confused to no end and have no idea how much I'm now supposed to give them. Many people have tried to explain but I figure I just give them an extra pound now and don't ask why, that's just what experience has taught me. Either that, or someone's been seriously ripping me off for the last few years. Come to think of it maybe that's where my financial problems arose from. I'm pretty sure I don't have that many shoes.