Brrrrrraaaaaiiiiinnnnnnsssss!
10/30/2011
10/28/2011
Boot camp
I just had my first boot camp class today.
Besides the fact that we stood the whole spinning class doing climbing and high speed and increasing the resistance constantly, I started off with military class now.
Gosh, that was interesting, hard as hell and at the same time great fun - totally enjoyable.
In the beginning of the class we just jogged around and warmed ourselves. There were some tires and we had to push them around, then run around with two tires, lift tractor tires off the ground one side and flip them around, sit on the tire when another person pulls you and then change, go down on the tire with your toes touching the tire from one end and knees leaning on the tire and pull yourself around the room, do 10 squats with 20kg, 17 kg, 15kg and 9 kg weights, lifting car tires above your head etc. All of that in high speed. And it was a circuit training. I was swearing hard during the whole class, sweating as a pig but laughing at the same time.
I will do it again next week (and the one after that and so on until I come home).
And after the Boot Camp I had yoga and I already started hurting by the end of that class. Dunno, how I will feel tomorrow. Hope I'll be able to move around without hurting with every move. I think that might be a possibility.
Who doesn't know, then Boot camp classes are based on military circuit training and the instructors are from military and it's probably one of the hardest instructed classes that I know of. But the instructors are good and they push you and tell you to move not to crawl around like a slug. It's a bit like the thing you see in the movies, just easier. But still very hard.
And sooooo damn good.
Besides the fact that we stood the whole spinning class doing climbing and high speed and increasing the resistance constantly, I started off with military class now.
Gosh, that was interesting, hard as hell and at the same time great fun - totally enjoyable.
In the beginning of the class we just jogged around and warmed ourselves. There were some tires and we had to push them around, then run around with two tires, lift tractor tires off the ground one side and flip them around, sit on the tire when another person pulls you and then change, go down on the tire with your toes touching the tire from one end and knees leaning on the tire and pull yourself around the room, do 10 squats with 20kg, 17 kg, 15kg and 9 kg weights, lifting car tires above your head etc. All of that in high speed. And it was a circuit training. I was swearing hard during the whole class, sweating as a pig but laughing at the same time.
I will do it again next week (and the one after that and so on until I come home).
And after the Boot Camp I had yoga and I already started hurting by the end of that class. Dunno, how I will feel tomorrow. Hope I'll be able to move around without hurting with every move. I think that might be a possibility.
Who doesn't know, then Boot camp classes are based on military circuit training and the instructors are from military and it's probably one of the hardest instructed classes that I know of. But the instructors are good and they push you and tell you to move not to crawl around like a slug. It's a bit like the thing you see in the movies, just easier. But still very hard.
And sooooo damn good.
10/26/2011
"High flying birds" and "Mylo Xyloto"
I have now managed to listen to Noel Gallagher's and Coldplay's new albums.
About NG- his album sounds a lot like Oasis but its completely enjoyable. The songs are similar as well- or what I mean is that when I listened to it for the first time, it all sounded the same. But, it's Oasis style and I could mistake some songs for the Oasis songs if I dind't know it was NG.
About Coldplay- I have listened to the album once. I could say I was a bit disappointed. They have gone mainstream. The songs sound like pop and they have made one song with Rihanna. I liked only two songs from the album because they sounded a bit more like Coldplay that I know. But well, I heard also some elements of traditional Irish music in the songs. So, it's an interesting mixture and I have to listen to it again to have proper opinion. I already hear some the song "Paradise" in the radios all the time.
In the meanwhile....... BRRRRRRRAAAAAIIIIINNNNSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
;)
About NG- his album sounds a lot like Oasis but its completely enjoyable. The songs are similar as well- or what I mean is that when I listened to it for the first time, it all sounded the same. But, it's Oasis style and I could mistake some songs for the Oasis songs if I dind't know it was NG.
About Coldplay- I have listened to the album once. I could say I was a bit disappointed. They have gone mainstream. The songs sound like pop and they have made one song with Rihanna. I liked only two songs from the album because they sounded a bit more like Coldplay that I know. But well, I heard also some elements of traditional Irish music in the songs. So, it's an interesting mixture and I have to listen to it again to have proper opinion. I already hear some the song "Paradise" in the radios all the time.
In the meanwhile....... BRRRRRRRAAAAAIIIIINNNNSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
;)
10/22/2011
A little bit more about locked-in syndrome
I just found this article about a man living in the UK who has had the locked-in syndrome for 6 years and wants the government to have the law which would allow him to die. To die through someone else's hands, through an injection. Because he himself is not capable of doing it...
Click here to read the news
I have just managed to get myself a book called "The diving bell and the butterfly" and will receive it in couple of weeks time. If anyone wants to lend it from me when I get back home, then you're more than welcome. It should be a very interesting and thought-provoking book.
More about locked in syndrome in one of my posts from the archive
Click here to read the news
I have just managed to get myself a book called "The diving bell and the butterfly" and will receive it in couple of weeks time. If anyone wants to lend it from me when I get back home, then you're more than welcome. It should be a very interesting and thought-provoking book.
More about locked in syndrome in one of my posts from the archive
10/16/2011
If I only understood myself
Sorry for not posting anything informative in the past couple of weeks. I've just been lazy or not motivated enough to do anything useful. Even right now I'm actually forcing myself to do something instead of just sitting in the facebook and staring at people's updates and pictures hoping there will be something interesting or someone will start talking to me. Complete waste of time, I know.
So. I haven't done much in the past couple of weeks. I went to Cardiff to see G the last weekend. Had a Monday off, so I stayed in Cardiff a little longer. Wanted to see the folk museum and go to the bay again, but as the weather was so miserable, I didn't do either of them. It was really windy and drizzling.
Went to pub a lot, ate spicy food, watched telly and just relaxed and enjoyed a weekend outside Somerset. Stayed up late. Had fun.
On Sunday, when we were in the pub then at one point when I was ordering some Guinness, there was "While my guitar gently weeps" playing in the speakers and I started singing along to it. Then a man next to me asked me if I could play guitar and I replied that I can. So he started talking about himself and the fact that he has a tutor and has some trouble with getting the F chord. And then told me to practice 15mins every day and "get that little finger going" and once I would get the F I'd get all the other positions as well. I got my beers and went back to the place I sat and told G about that strange man.
Then the pub closed the section we were sitting in and we had to go downstairs and suprise surprise - the man was still sitting there. Then after a while he noticed me and G and started telling me about the F again. He was pretty loud so the whole pub started listening to our
conversation. And then... The joke began... G knew what the man was talking about but then asked him if he has read the book about Kamasutra. And the whole conversation got the whole different meaning. Probably the audience didn't understand a thing we were talking about until Kamasutra was mentioned. Everybody were rolling in laughter, I had tears in my eyes. The man was still talking about the guitar, G about Kamasutra. About position 1, position to, to practice f with the little finger every day 15 mins. The bar attendant tried to quiet us down but eve
ntually gave up as he was laughing so hard. Oh, I still laugh my head off when I think about it. Brilliant conversation. When we left the pub I told in a very loud voice to the man to practice the F because I am already pretty good at it and my little finger works good. And then we left, leaving behind bursts of laughter.
Besides that trip to Cardiff, I haven't done anything else basically. Just work, leisure centre. I watch Torchwood now so this takes away a big amount of my free time.
The thing with me right now is that I'm so confused about everything. It feels like bip
olar and a very intense one. I mean, on stage in bipolar is supposed to last for days, even weeks, but my mood changes every couple of hours. I miss home, I don't miss it, I'm happy to be here, I'm happy that it's only about 3 months left 'til I go home, I'm happy not to travel around much, I want to have some action in my life, I'm scared of going home and setteling down there again, I'm scared of leaving this country, I want to talk to people, I don't want to. I dont' understand myself any more at all. And it is so tiring.
I just try to keep myself busy with all the activities and just look happy so that no-one would ask me anything.
I've taken some pictures in the area and will upload them here now.
In about 30 mins time I'll go to hunt some pictures of the Moon. Let's see how good my digital camera is :)
Oh, and what's more- it seems that as the weekend comes we ain't got no heating and warm water. It's happened for two weekends now. Starts to piss me off already.
So. I haven't done much in the past couple of weeks. I went to Cardiff to see G the last weekend. Had a Monday off, so I stayed in Cardiff a little longer. Wanted to see the folk museum and go to the bay again, but as the weather was so miserable, I didn't do either of them. It was really windy and drizzling.
Went to pub a lot, ate spicy food, watched telly and just relaxed and enjoyed a weekend outside Somerset. Stayed up late. Had fun.
On Sunday, when we were in the pub then at one point when I was ordering some Guinness, there was "While my guitar gently weeps" playing in the speakers and I started singing along to it. Then a man next to me asked me if I could play guitar and I replied that I can. So he started talking about himself and the fact that he has a tutor and has some trouble with getting the F chord. And then told me to practice 15mins every day and "get that little finger going" and once I would get the F I'd get all the other positions as well. I got my beers and went back to the place I sat and told G about that strange man.
Then the pub closed the section we were sitting in and we had to go downstairs and suprise surprise - the man was still sitting there. Then after a while he noticed me and G and started telling me about the F again. He was pretty loud so the whole pub started listening to our
conversation. And then... The joke began... G knew what the man was talking about but then asked him if he has read the book about Kamasutra. And the whole conversation got the whole different meaning. Probably the audience didn't understand a thing we were talking about until Kamasutra was mentioned. Everybody were rolling in laughter, I had tears in my eyes. The man was still talking about the guitar, G about Kamasutra. About position 1, position to, to practice f with the little finger every day 15 mins. The bar attendant tried to quiet us down but eve
ntually gave up as he was laughing so hard. Oh, I still laugh my head off when I think about it. Brilliant conversation. When we left the pub I told in a very loud voice to the man to practice the F because I am already pretty good at it and my little finger works good. And then we left, leaving behind bursts of laughter.Besides that trip to Cardiff, I haven't done anything else basically. Just work, leisure centre. I watch Torchwood now so this takes away a big amount of my free time.
The thing with me right now is that I'm so confused about everything. It feels like bip
olar and a very intense one. I mean, on stage in bipolar is supposed to last for days, even weeks, but my mood changes every couple of hours. I miss home, I don't miss it, I'm happy to be here, I'm happy that it's only about 3 months left 'til I go home, I'm happy not to travel around much, I want to have some action in my life, I'm scared of going home and setteling down there again, I'm scared of leaving this country, I want to talk to people, I don't want to. I dont' understand myself any more at all. And it is so tiring.I just try to keep myself busy with all the activities and just look happy so that no-one would ask me anything.
I've taken some pictures in the area and will upload them here now.
In about 30 mins time I'll go to hunt some pictures of the Moon. Let's see how good my digital camera is :)
Oh, and what's more- it seems that as the weekend comes we ain't got no heating and warm water. It's happened for two weekends now. Starts to piss me off already.
10/15/2011
Get out of the car!
The following is supposedly a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida.
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!"
The four men didn't wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition.
She tried and tried and then she realized, why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat.
A few minutes later, she found her own car parken four or five spaces farther down.
She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake.
The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing.
He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun.
No charges were filed.
Moral of the story? If you're going to have a senior moment.... make it memorable!
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!"
The four men didn't wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition.
She tried and tried and then she realized, why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat.
A few minutes later, she found her own car parken four or five spaces farther down.
She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake.
The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing.
He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun.
No charges were filed.
Moral of the story? If you're going to have a senior moment.... make it memorable!
10/04/2011
9/30/2011
Oh those sweet memories...
Although this one seems to be a lot easier, I remember when I had my sporty welcome to NRG.
Wake up at 5am, some exercises, then school, then some more sports. Then 2 weeks of pain in the legs....
Oh, sweet sweet memories. Wish someone had taken videos of our Sports day.
9/28/2011
Am I going slightly mad?
It's altogether 20 classes for the next 15 days.
PS: We have got summer now! It's more than 20 degrees (68 in Fahrenheit) here now. And they are promising 28 degrees (82,4 degrees in Fahrenheit). Yeah, as they told today- it's the hottest end of September since 1895. And it was the biggest storm since 1996 and the coldest summer in the last 18 years. Now thats the country to come to.
9/27/2011
Happy, happy, happy, happy!
I was in the leisure centre today and in Aqua Fit class. There are some people with learning disabilities occasionally attending the class. And they were there today. With them was one new girl who looked at me during the whole class and then, as the class was nearly over, she came and told me her name. And then she just stood next to me and continued with the class. Then we did some swimming around and she went and talked to the only guy in the room- the lifeguard and then came back to me. And when she got to me, she told "Here you are! The second person I like here!".
There were about 20 people attending the class altogether....
It's the second time some person with learning disabilities has approached me out of all the people surrounding them.
I seem to be some kind of a magnet!
But I love it!
Im so so so happy right now! I can't believe how couple of sentences could make me so happy!
But it's definetely one of the happiest moments I have had here for a long time.
I just want to sing and jump and cheer around now!
Wiii!
There were about 20 people attending the class altogether....
It's the second time some person with learning disabilities has approached me out of all the people surrounding them.
I seem to be some kind of a magnet!
But I love it!
Im so so so happy right now! I can't believe how couple of sentences could make me so happy!
But it's definetely one of the happiest moments I have had here for a long time.
I just want to sing and jump and cheer around now!
Wiii!
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