I'm a very lucky woman
Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 22:24:13
I like London, in that I love going there but wouldn't want to do it every day. I love racing in London, although admittedly I've only done it twice and wouldn't want to do the London Marathon (oh no, running marathons is just silly). The second time I went running in London was last Thursday night, when I ran the Crisis Square Mile run: 6k around narrow streets with 2699 other runners.
It was cool because the run started at St Paul's Cathedral, and then went across the Thames and along the South Bank – through the crowds of tourists and londoners that you always get there – then back along the river, crossing the Thames another three times before finishing back at St. Paul's. It was pretty crowded and we had to queue to get up and down the several flights of stairs during the run, hence the terrible time of 40 minutes. But the important thing was that it was a fun run that actually was a lot of fun to run in. May do it next year...
My girl was working on Saturday morning, so I went to see a friend in London before heading over to my babe's place in the evening. We had a really chilled out evening, and a quiet Sunday: we only got dressed in the afternoon so that we could go out running. We'd been planning some 3.5 mile run, but got lost somewhere and ended up doing 5 or so, something like that, and getting caught in the rain.
Winnie the Terrapin. My crazy friend Graham called us up on Saturday night and asked for a picture of all of babefriend's animals. He is totally nuts.
Booked flights and hotels for Euro 2009 last night. I'm hostelling it for most of the stay, but my sweetheart is coming out for the last week so we looked at hotels. It's woman's football and I was hoping the hoteliers wouldn't notice it, but the cost of the hotels drops dramatically after the day of the finals!! We have plans for the future already so we are trying not to spend too much, and gf agreed that a twin room in a hostel was fine for the first half of the week – may even head up to Oulu then and not stay in the hostel at all. How awesome is my girlfriend though – not only will she come all the way out to Finland, she'll also go and watch soccer – a sport she has no interest in at all* – and stay in a hostel for half the week.
'Tikru' the Cyclosternum fasciatum. Tikru is mine, but lives at GF's house as tarantulas are not welcome in my house - housemate restrictions. Its legs are about an inch and a half total diameter, but it moves slowly, like it's bigger than it is.
See now, I worry about this blog. Maybe a year ago it was full of misery and despair, now it is all full of love, happiness and creatures. I liked it when it was dark, but I didn't like life that much at the time. Oh well.
*My girl is a big ice-hockey fan. We have to have some things in common...
It was cool because the run started at St Paul's Cathedral, and then went across the Thames and along the South Bank – through the crowds of tourists and londoners that you always get there – then back along the river, crossing the Thames another three times before finishing back at St. Paul's. It was pretty crowded and we had to queue to get up and down the several flights of stairs during the run, hence the terrible time of 40 minutes. But the important thing was that it was a fun run that actually was a lot of fun to run in. May do it next year...
My girl was working on Saturday morning, so I went to see a friend in London before heading over to my babe's place in the evening. We had a really chilled out evening, and a quiet Sunday: we only got dressed in the afternoon so that we could go out running. We'd been planning some 3.5 mile run, but got lost somewhere and ended up doing 5 or so, something like that, and getting caught in the rain.
Winnie the Terrapin. My crazy friend Graham called us up on Saturday night and asked for a picture of all of babefriend's animals. He is totally nuts.
Booked flights and hotels for Euro 2009 last night. I'm hostelling it for most of the stay, but my sweetheart is coming out for the last week so we looked at hotels. It's woman's football and I was hoping the hoteliers wouldn't notice it, but the cost of the hotels drops dramatically after the day of the finals!! We have plans for the future already so we are trying not to spend too much, and gf agreed that a twin room in a hostel was fine for the first half of the week – may even head up to Oulu then and not stay in the hostel at all. How awesome is my girlfriend though – not only will she come all the way out to Finland, she'll also go and watch soccer – a sport she has no interest in at all* – and stay in a hostel for half the week.
'Tikru' the Cyclosternum fasciatum. Tikru is mine, but lives at GF's house as tarantulas are not welcome in my house - housemate restrictions. Its legs are about an inch and a half total diameter, but it moves slowly, like it's bigger than it is.
See now, I worry about this blog. Maybe a year ago it was full of misery and despair, now it is all full of love, happiness and creatures. I liked it when it was dark, but I didn't like life that much at the time. Oh well.
*My girl is a big ice-hockey fan. We have to have some things in common...
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