Monthly Archives: March 2009
freaky eaters – addicted to yorkshire puddings…
ok another freaky eaters that is similar to myself also, last week we met Katy Walker who was addicted to diet coke, and this week the guy is addicted to yorkshire puddings! christ i really sould be on that program, and should really consider my diet!
more diet stuff
lately I have been noticing my diet has been getting worse, and from time to time I hate what I eat….so why do I do it? Is it because I am drawn to the simplicity of just ordering something over the phone and having it delivered? more simple just going through a drivethrough? no pots to wash or load in the dishwasher? Maybe I am just lazy, but after this week my diet is taking a whole new part in my life, im going to start eating more healthier, only eat when I am hungry and at set times, try new things, don’t turn my nose up at things that I dont think I like but have never tried. I am also going to be keeping an online diary of what I have had to eat everyday for two months, this way I can keep track and look back and tell if I have noticed a difference, if I lapse and have a takeaway it will be logged, along with any drinks, whether it be water etc, It is all going to be written down for the world to see.
Cutting the Caffeine Addiction
Recently…well the last couple of days I have given up my biggest addiction caffeine. So far so good, but really starting to feel it today, its all fine and dandy but caffeine for me is really part of my life, sad I know but ever since I can remember I dont think there has been a day where I have had no caffeine.
I’ve not cut it out altogether but have seriously cut down, I have only had two cups of coffee today, and seeing as though I have been up and at work since 5:15am I dont think I am doing too badly.
The drinks that I used to have to get my caffeine fix has always been coca cola, it’s been known of me to have at least 5 cans a day at work, and then some more when I get home. This is the hardest part, who would have thought a fizzy drink could fetch so much pleasure?
As I sit writing this I am looking at a vending machine, and thinking it’s only 60p and one can isn’t going to hurt is it? In my case it would, I am weak and one can would start me back up again, eventually in time I am going to stop having the dreaded stuff altogether and cut coffee out of the equasion as well, god help my wife when I do, I can feel a mood swing building up just at the thought of it.
I have cut out the fizzy drinks altogether after watching “Freaky Eaters” where Katy Walker was addicted to Diet Cola, watching that program really did open my eyes as to what all the sugar was doing to my teeth and also other parts of my body. I have substitued all the fizzy drinks I used to have for…and I cant quite believe it myself, but some tesco “cheap” cordials, they cost 59p each and they taste great, I bought three flavours, lemon, Blackcurrent and apple, and also orange. I find myself not drinking as much at hope, and hopefully will help me shift the 3pounds I have put on since I came off the Atkins diet back in December.
Surge Stix?
Just been browsing the web and come across these Surge Stix at thinkgeek!
This is what the desription says about it…
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Puff Away to Keep Sleep at Bay!
Tobacco has always been an important part of human civilization, and the smoking of tobacco (let’s stick to legal “herbs”) has helped unite mankind. Then the movies came and smoking was cool; then the cancer came and smoking was uncool. Well, it’s time to make smoking cool again – by waking your tired butt up. “What?” you ask confused. We reply, quite simply, SurgeStix! SurgeStix are created to look like cigarettes (and take the place of cigarettes), but that’s where the similarities end. For now.
You don’t actually light SurgeStix, that’s too 1990, instead you bend them (like a glow stick) until you hear a snap. This will send the caffeine solution flowing into the filter-looking end. Wait five seconds for the “filter” to absorb the solution. You will notice a slight temperature increase as the solution reacts with the harmless chemicals in the “filter” which causes the caffeine to vaporize. Then, take a drag. Each “puff” will suck roughly 18mg of caffeine into your lungs (and right into your bloodstream!) With about 10 “tokes” per SurgeStix, you’ll get 180mg of caffeine in just a few breaths. That’s more caffeine than a really strong cup of coffee just by breathing. Ouch.
SurgeStix are only slightly habit forming and do not contain Nicotine. Sort of. But they are cool. And, in the end, that’s the only thing that matters. Being cool, right? Especially when you use Surge Stix Mint Madness from ThinkGeek. That’s totally Cool. All your friends love Surge Stix, everybody knows they are cool. and they are laughing at you for not buying some. Come on. Try them. We won’t tell anybody. And we guarantee you won’t succeed in life without them.”
Wow how cool, maybe I should have to give them a try…although I guess that is kinda beating the point of cutting caffeine out of my life….Hmmm well.
How I am feeling at the moment….
- Not as tired as I used to be
- More Awake
- Less Bloated
- Keep Getting Dizzy Spells and need to sit down
- Lightheaded
- A headache coming every now and then
Hmm seems more trouble than what it’s worth but I will be there eventually.
People can always tell when I have been on the caffeine because it always make me:
- wind people up
- loud
- restless
- annoying
- and just basically a PAIN IN THE ARSE!
Fingers crossed I succeed this time round….2nd time lucky!
Tiredness hitting home hard.
Lately I have been working some pretty silly hours and when it comes to being at home all I want to do is sleep! I know you can’t beat a good sleep, but it really takes it out of you, don’t get me wrong I do have a choice to work these hours, I am not being forced in anyway shape or form. In a way working the hours I have currently being working really does work better for me, this is a short example of how my life has been over the last few months:
- Wake up at 4:15am
- Snooze until 4:30am
- Get up & ready for work
- Set off to work at around 4:40am
- Drive the 35 minutes to work (usually takes well over an hour at normal times)
- Get to work and get a coffee
- Work through lunch, just snack through the day while working
- 3:00pm set off walking to my car
- Drive the 1hr 10 minutes home
- arrive home at 4:10pm
- Tidy up flutters and prepare tea for when my wife gets home
- Get a shower, and prepare work clothes for next morning
- Sit down and watch TV until 9pm
- Go to bed at 9pm and watch TV while generally drifting off while watching
Then I follow that routine everyday of the week, so come the weekend I am totally shattered. Surely this isn’t a good way to live?
Even when I am not at work, I always have my BlackBerry by my side and everytime I hear that “Bing Bing Bing” I always look and check who the email is from, what it is about & reply if its a straight forward answer, I just cant seem to switch off from work.
Recent time off from work
Just had four great days off from work, and now feeling totally refreshed, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday really has made a big difference to the way I am feeling, turned off the work mobile, didn’t check work emails, didn’t even think about anything work…apart from that I have to go to the Leeds office on April 1st for an office move. Sometimes it’s just really nice to put that BIG FAT sign on your door….the one being “Do Not Disturb”
It really is great to switch off, I’ve have a fantastic few days off, where the house has been cleaned top to bottom, Living room decorated which means me and my wife have had the whole weekend to do what “We” want to do. I’ve spent time doing:
- Browsing the internet
- Updating my blog
- Pottering around the house
- Played on the PS3
- Twittering
- Hoovering (this is a big thing for me to do without being asked, but due to me not been as tired, it just came natural)
- Spending time with my wife
- Spending time with my two Miniature Schnauzer’s (recently just had their “manhood” removed so cannot walk them due to stitches.
Those are just a few things I have got done this weekend, I can honestly say it was one of the best weekends I have had in along time, even though its just been a lazy one!
Funnily enough, I never seem to be tired while I am at work, and it doesn’t effect my performance throughout the day, buy I do start to feel tired bang on 3PM.
Working these hours allows me to get much more done throughout the week then I would usually working the standard 9am – 5pm.
During work hours I have been working my nuts off to try and get everything done in time, catch up on things that have slipped and keep on top of the work load, due to me covering various sites across the North (on my own) it has been a hard year for me.
I have a new colleague starting the 6th April when I will return to working normal Business Hours, if you asked me if I am looking forward to working the usual 9 – 5 work day, my answer would be a solid NO. The hours I have been working, yeah they are pretty long hours, knackered at the end of everday, but the fact of the matter is, I do enjoy it? I am not sure why but I just do…work should become much easier over the next few months, and I will be able to enjoy work again, maybe my answer will change over the coming weeks? Hmm early morning lie in…that does sound good doesnt it?
Then it will be back to the good old traffic jams that we all love, and without would make our lives very…very….more less STRESSFULL!
Setting off at 7am to get to work for 8:30am something doesn’t seem right about that, you may ask why don’t I get the train into work? The reason for that is from my home town to my place of work, there is one train every hour, this train stops at 13 different stops, often breaks down, always full of loud students (too much for me first thing in a morning), dirty trains, never get seated, takes 1hr 10 minutes to get to the destination, and basically – the train ride is a different story…I think I just have my next blog post, yes slagging off public transport.
If you have gotton to the bottom of this post and are reading this message, give yourself a pat of the back from rhodzy, this was just a generally insight of my day to day routine.
If you work a similar sort of day, or have the same issues as me in this post, please feel free to comment.
Yellow Dog Linux on PS3
I am just in the process of downloading Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 DVD, I am going to attempt to install it on my PS3 as many people have done already, there is nothing new to this but will post how I get on during the installation.
The download should take around 1HR due to it being a 4GB dowload.
More to come…
restoration begins on rhodzy.co.uk
I have made the decision today I will spend a couple of hours restoring the best of a bad job when it comes to my blog, this will be no quick task nor an easy one, but I am attempting to fix the mess I have created over the past couple of years. I already made the decision late last year that I should move from my old hosting company Powweb to a more local hosting company in the UK. That caused me some issues, but eventually I got there and move all ten of my sites across successfully.
I have made a few changes already this morning, some behind the scenes changes, which have made a big change from an admin point of view.
The contact form on the “contact” has also been updated which allows me to customize the form in lots of different ways, e.g add file upload boxes, password boxes, comment boxes and lots of other options, for now I have just left it as the default contact page, until I have in my mind 100% what I want from a contact form and what information I want from my readers.
I will also be taking some of the hints and tips from Jamie Harrop a local blogging guru from my area who seems to be doing well with it, check out http://www.bloggingzest.com for more information on what he does and what he can offer you!
I know I whine and whine and go on about my theme for the site, but have decided for the time being I am actually going to stick with the one selected until I have the funds to pay for a developer to customise me one!
I will keep updating this post with a list of the changes I have made, the ones that are staying and the ones I have tried but have left the building.
Any ideas would be great?
CHANGES
>Replaced my old contact form with a much more customisable one, cforms II is provided by deliciousdays
>>All posts that are now made from my BlackBerry or Mobile Device will be added to the BlackBerry Posts category, they will also appear in the centre of the main page listed as ASIDES.
>>>About me page has changed, this is now a more personal page so you the readers can get to know a little about me, a little more than you could before.
>>>>NoSpamNX installed – fingers crossed this will work better than WP-SPAMFREE and stop spam bots from posting and filling out my contact forms.WP-SPAMFREE disabled for now, it seems spammers were finding new ways around this app and still getting through.
>>>>>Mail On Update plugin installed, this is a neat little plugin I have just stumbled across that will email me when a update is avaliable for a plugin that is in use for my site, this way I will always stay on top of keeping plugins upto date on my site.
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So far so good, everything I have tried has worked and happy with the outcome…Time to log off and go play on PS3 for a while.