Sent packing

Well that time is almost upon us. Out come the suitcases and the sorting of clothes. Yes its holiday time. It is all very well when one only has to pack for oneself but as I have to pack for him and her it all gets a bit fraught. As a bloke its simple, is it warm? Yes, well then t-shirts, shorts and trainers and he and his carrier bag are ready. Of course it now involves her as well. It's not just the amount but the difference between daytime and evening each requiring their separate outfits and one just cannot wear the same thing twice can one. Oh dear me no.
We do of course have all the little extras to include, the makeup, the hair and various other sundry items. It is not until one undertakes this sort of adventure the you realise how much room is taken up by things such as shoes. You just can't have one pair can you and the room that a handbag takes up is ridiculous. Thankfully having my time split between him and her will cut down on the outfits required and of course I do have advice close to hand, outfits she likes to see me in. Indeed it simplifies life and if she picks them then I might be able to squeeze more her time in than his. I have, needless to say, sneaked in a couple of things but as to whether they see the light of day let alone manage to escape the confines of our room is another matter.
All this presupposes that it all will fit and be within our weight allowance !

Mechanical or digital?

So I get on my Wii today and it said I had put on less than a pound. Odd I thought. So I do the body check again and now it says I have put on a pound! Without moving?! Still not satisfied I go upstairs and hop on the mechanical scales, ah the same weight as last time, so I have neither gained or lost. Idiot machine.

A hot loss and a chance to curry favour at the hairdressers

Of course after the initial weight off rush it has slowed to a crawl but as always I am in far too much of a hurry and therefore get very impatient. I must admit last night was the first meal in ten days that I actually felt I had eaten enough, a rather delish homemade vegetable curry. Oh how our tastes change over time. There was a time that even vegetables were viewed as the devils food. I mean who would want to eat green food, green means something has gone off! As for spicy food, my, my you'd be lucky to get me to eat that but now... I suppose the only food I dislike is Thai. Too hot and too watery, all that semi-clear anemic liquid with a nice slick of oil floating on the top, oh how yum, not! I suppose it is coming from an age when such things were unavailable, well almost unheard of.

It always intrigues me, how one can be so wrapped up in something until you give it a miss one day, that day turns into another and so on. Time was I would spend ages on Flickr, posting pictures, looking at the statistics, having a nose round and now its been over a fortnight since I logged in and realised what a waste of time it was, a very similar feeling I got when I left Fastbuck. I just post pictures to Ipernity and log off again. One might say even that is a waste of time but it does both give me something to do with the pictures I take and a reason to take more. I know some people think comments on their pictures almost give them a reason for living but to me they are just opinions especially when I used to see some of the comments put against utterly dire pictures. Not just esthetically dire but out of focus snaps that would have been deleted at first glance by me. I wouldn't even want people to know I'd taken them, that my level of skill had sunk so low. Mind you this place is not much better. Having received hits from some 'odd' places I investigated. Seems some porn sites hit blogging sites just so you trace them back as they get paid per click. Well the discussions over this are amazing, people placing so much importance on how many times they are getting hit and how they really need accurate statistics. Oh get a life.

Well the internet comes to the rescue yet again. Sally's the hairdressing supply company no longer sell 12%/40 volume bleach to the general public only that weaker useless stuff, so a quick look on Amazon and no end of people wanted me to buy it and cheaper. Ordered Friday and got here yesterday, brilliant. Lets hope the 100 blank DVD's I ordered yesterday get here as quickly.