Einar Stray - Teppet Faller

CURRENT BOOK(S)

Two For Sorrow by Nicola Upson
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

CURRENT MUSIC

Lots of classical stuff
The Offspring
DAGADANA
Power ballads

CURRENT FILMS

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Black Swan 

CURRENT SHAME-INDUCING GUILTY PLEASURE

Sleeping in too late
Playing air guitar whilst driving
Reading a book whilst at work

CURRENT COLOR

Pillarbox red

CURRENT TRIUMPH

Being organised enough to be up to date with two Open Uni courses
Keeping The Doom at bay! 

CURRENT FETISH

That's for me and The Mister to know and you to never find out!

CURENT ANNOYANCE

Clouds.

CURRENT DRINK

Lady Grey tea
Fruity cider
Peppermint latte
Apple and mango juice

CURRENT FOOD

Chicken, crinkle cut chips, peas and gravy
Terry's Chocolate Orange
Cinnamon Grahams

CURRENT WISH LIST

Lots and lots of sunshine.

CURRENT INDULGENCE

Online window shopping at Asos, Topshop, Waterstones and ditzy makes jewellery.

CURRENT OUTFIT

White tunic dress with blossom, black leggings, red nails.

Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run

Day 5 : Calf sprain

So, I have been a good little lazy-arse!

Here’s my exercise record from the past 5 days:

Tuesday - 2 miles in 30 minutes

Wednesday - 3 miles in 50 minutes

Thursday - *coughsplutterIwastoolazyandtotallychickenedout*

Friday - 4 miles in 67 minutes

Saturday - 2.6 miles in 37 minutes

Today I experienced my first calf strain. But! I haz teh mega proudz! 11.6 miles in 5 days. Previously, I reckon I would walk about 11 miles in a month, so I am quite impressed with myself!

My aim is to briskly walk for 2 weeks and then build up to jogging.

WOO!

I started my go-for-a-run playlist today for my phone (I’ve also added the Cardio Trainer app for Android which is awesommme!) because I was listening to music on my phone whilst I was out today and stumbled over some songs which are really *not* conducive to exercise such as:

Debussy - Clair de Lune
Beach Boys - Don’t Worry Baby
Evanescence - Bring Me to Life

A song that went surprisingly well with my POWERWALK! was Die in the Summertime by Manic Street Preachers. I felt totally badass marching along to that, for some reason, picking up my pace and trying to ignore the fact that my legs were about to fall off meaning I would have to surgically attach myself to a spacehopper to enable me to move about.

The only annoying thing about it is that my ponytail swishes from side to side like an annoying metronome. And I don’t own a sports bra. FML.

monzano - Yes, We Can't

Helloey,

Sorry for the delay in posting, I've been getting addicted to Tumblr (shame on me, haha!) - emmylou1602.tumblr.com

I've been listening to my recommendations on last.fm today and there is some awesome music about that never seems to get any recognition. (My last.fm profile is www.last.fm/user/emmylou1602 )

So I've compiled a short playlist of some of the "twee"-ish type songs that I was recommended:-

The Sunshine Underground - Put You In Your Place

Dear Nora - Springtime Fall

The Rifles - Peace and Quiet

monzano - Yes, We Can't

Gaze - Portrait

Slow Down Tallahassee - Electric Sun

Allo Darlin' - Heartbeat Chilli

Strawberry Fair - Give Up

Honeybunch - Hey Blue Sky

Marine Girls - Don't Come Back

Language of Flowers - Where You Belong

If my brainspace was a genre of music, it would be twee-indie-swirlyness.

Adele - Hometown Glory

Dear Shoppers,

You think I can't hear you singing along to the songs on the tannoy, but I can.

And it fills me with delight every time, no matter how tone deaf you are. The more dramatic, the better.

Go for it, you giant freaks, feel the music!

love,
Emmy.

Jamie Woon - Lady Luck

Yesterday I Did A Cry.

But today, Chloedog found a hedgehog in the garden and we fed her raisins, water, peanuts and Pedigree Chum Schmackos. Chloe kept looking for the hedgehog every time she went out into the garden, she was sniffing everywhere for her. I took some photos, wrote some non-scary post and it was sunny.

Every now and again, I get overwhelmed by the amount of music there is in the world that I like, and that I can't possibly listen to All The Songs at the same time. This happened today.

I also want to travel to All The Places, but I can't and that is sad.

So instead, I have just spent hours looking at them on Flickr. I have come up with some ideas of stuff round here that I'd like to take photos of, which is good I guess. My photography course starts in 6 weeks but I've already got the DVD through.

Tomorrow I begin my last week of working 21 hours and I will drop back down to 9 hours again. Which gives me lots of time to do All The Things, but not so much money. Swings and roundabouts. Oooh, maybe I will go to the park and take pictures of swings and roundabouts.

This is not a very linear entry.

I have "Heavyweight Champion of the World" by Reverend and the Makers going round in my head. Be like everybody else, be like everybody else, be like everybody else,  just be like everybody else.

Daniel Powter - Bad Day

 

Bad Day by Daniel Powter is just one of the many stupid song choices that come over the tannoy of the shopping village I work at. Others include :

The Bangles - Manic Monday

Celine Dion - All by Myself

That guy (what's his name?) - All by Myself (yes, they play 2 versions!)

Westlife - Let Me Go Home

 

Ridiculous, aren't they? How do those songs encourage people to think they're having a fantastic time and think they should buy All The Things?!

 

Other inappropriate songs I think they should choose are:

 

Engelbert Humperdinck - Please Release Me

The Animals - We've Gotta Get Out of this Place

Pink Floyd - Money

Beach Boys - Sloop John B (complete with the lyrics "let me go home/why wonxt you let me go home?/this is the worst trip I've ever been on)