I am actually attempting to properly write a blog, like I used to. It’s been ages since I actually kept up with one, a far cry from when I was updating on an almost daily basis. It doesn’t particularly have a subject, which is why I struggled to come up with a tagline for a good few hours before deciding on “confessions of a girlgeek”. I guess that one can pretty much sum it up. :) I used to have a few friends who kept up with my escapades via this blog, so a few comments from people reading would be nice. :)

I had an awesome weekend. One of the main reasons is because I got a good workout each day. And also because it was sunny both days, which is a rarity around here. Friday it poured rain from about noon till.. well.. I was probably asleep in bed when it stopped. The sun on Saturday morning made me determined to ride into Oxford, so we did. It’s a good ride, along the Thames River path for about an hour. It was full of puddles from Friday’s rain, so we got a bit dirty, but it was fun nonetheless. We even rode right through a field of cows! Once in Oxford, we did a tiny bit of shopping, then headed home through the city. We stopped at Halford’s where I finally got a bike bell - it’s purple and pink and it has Winnie the Pooh on it! I can’t wait to put it on my bike. yes, I got it from the little kid’s section… :D

Sunday, we did our weekly grocery shopping trip to Tesco, which was insane. Sunday afternoon grocery shopping has got to be one of my worst ideas ever. After we came home and put the groceries away, Tim suggested that we head to Shotover Hill to go for a nice leisurely walk after the killer leg workout we got the day before. Well, it was more of a workout than I expected! We headed off on a trail that went down a huge hill.. and once I got to the bottom I realised that we were going to have to climb all the way back up!! We walked the trails for a good hour and a half, and I was definitely sweating when we got back to the car - it was awesome :)

I watched an old episode of X-Weighted today, one that really inspires me but I don’t know that I could do what this girl did - at least not now. She was doing cardio 6 times a week, weight training 4 times a week, oatmeal for breakfast, 6 meals a day of brown rice, chicken, peas and carrots.. like, I WISH I could do that. I probably could have when I was living with my parents and eating most of my dinners alone, but now that Tim and I eat together, I don’t really think I could stick to something like that. I’m having a hard enough time motivating myself to do workout videos - I’m feeling depressed lately and not motivated at all. I hit a high of 174lbs last week - a major WTF. Anyways, this girl was about 170 when she started, and finished somewhere around 140, and she looked really good. She wanted to look fit, lean, and healthy - that’s totally how I feel as well. About a year and a half ago I was eating healthy and going to the gym a lot, working with a personal trainer, and I got down to 147lbs. I’m kicking myself for screwing that up, but it was so easy to fill my face with doritos and chocolate to make myself fell better about being in a new country, away from family, and friends, and the dance studio.