Now something totally different: Lent. Not a believer in any god or
religion but full of belief that too much of one thing doesn’t do you any
good, I am giving up chocolate and crisps for lent. For the last I don’t
know how long Marion and I have been eating too much sweet food. We watch a
film and have some chocolate, we feel like baking and make some chocolate
chip chocolate muffins or brownies or something sweet, we go to visit a
town and what’s the number one priority: find some cafe with a good
selection of cakes hot chocolate and sweets. Not good if you do it all the
time! So we’re giving up chocolate from today until Easter Sunday (40 days
away). Marion is giving up chocolate, having alcohol except on special occasions.
I am giving up chocolate and crisps, and having sweet deserts except on special
occasions. Check back for more updates!
Kidderminster. Tonight I take the train to Kidderminster for the next part
of my Masters CIW training course. I am now on CIW Foundations (part 3 out
of 5) which deals with the basics of web-design, re-covers networking, and
introduces project management. Hopefully I will arrive in time to see some
football in a pub. A couple of days away from work, it seems as though all
my holiday has been taken away by going on these IT courses in
Kidderminster, will be good and nice to relax on the train and get some
reading done.
Football. It’s Champions League week this week (quarter finals first leg)
and last night ManU drew with Inter in Milan. It was a great game but ManU
should have taken a few goals back to Manchester for the return leg in two
weeks. The first half was a lot better in terms of possession and chances
for ManU (how did they not score?) but then in the second-half Inter got
back into the game and had a few chances themselves. ManU, however, should
have scorred with the final kick of the game from a free-kick from Ronaldo
which (luckily for the keeper who hadn’t seen the flight of the ball) was
at the keeper. I watched it round my friend Cesar’s house, cheers Cesar for
the beer and pizza!
Tonight it’s:
Chelsea v Juventus
Villarreal v Panathinaikos
Sporting Lisbon v Bayern Munich
Real Madrid v Liverpool
Running. I’ve not been running in a couple of weeks. Lazy me. But I will go
running soon I promise. It’s a viscious cycle when you stop running. You
want to go and you feel that you need to go but you feel that the days
since you went running last are counting against you in some mad crazy way.
Plus it’s sometimes easier just to stay inside and not go running. Now it’s
getting lighter and lighter in the evenings the excuse or reason that I was
too tired at work to go running is becoming non-valid so I can go running
along the river in my evenings after work. I much prefer going running in
clean air along a river, than along a canal and along roads (as I do at
work). We’ll see how I get on in the next few weeks!