The last two Sunday evenings haven’t been too good to me.. I’ve ended up feeling like I’m coming down with something both times. Last Monday I woke up feeling fine, but unfortunately this morning I have not been so lucky. Sore, swollen throat, achy feeling bones, headache and a slightly stuffy nose. I wish I had some Buckley’s, but unfortunately I forgot to pick some up when I was in Canada in June, and since I haven’t been sick, I haven’t thought to ask my Mom to send some.

We had a really good weekend. Friday night we went out for dinner at the Thai Orchid with friends, although in my opinion it was less than stellar. They brought out the the wrong dishes, forgot to cook one of our friend’s salmon dish and so had to cook it very quickly while we had the rest of the dishes sat on the table. I ordered spring rolls to start, and the sauce that came with them was very gelatinous - not my cup of tea. I ordered pad thai, which was listed on the menu as “with chicken and prawns” and requested no prawns - it arrived with prawns. And the portion size was half the size of the pad thai at Oxford Thai, for pretty much the same price. So needless to say, I will be avoiding that one and sticking to Oxford Thai. They are A+ there, we’ve eaten there many times and it’s amazing and the service is really good.

Saturday we were supposed to be getting up early to go to London, but our plans were thwarted by Tim having an upset stomach (I’m convinced that the thai was to blame.. haha).. so we didn’t end up leaving until the early afternoon. It was a really nice day, and we got to London pretty quick and parked under Hyde Park. I love driving down Park Lane and seeing the Corvette dealership :) Anyways, we headed to Selfridges, where I got some new moisturiser from Clinique, and Diorshow Blackout mascara from the Dior counter. Then we headed to the Dior boutique in “The Wonder Room”, where I tried on a bunch of bracelets before I decided on one and Tim bought it for me :) It’s a silver chain, with “Dior” in Swarovski crystals. I loooooooove it! We went to a few more shops down Oxford Street, and I bought some new flat boots :) I also tried on a jacket, because I have been looking for a nice winter jacket. I didn’t buy it though, so I ended up ordering it online last night!

Saturday evening we had tickets for The Dark Knight at the Imax, so we got on the tube to Waterloo station. We walked around for a while trying to find something to eat, but nothing seemed appealing.. so we finally ended up going to Pizza Express. I enjoyed it, because I ordered extra cheese and tomato sauce on my pizza - I always feel like the pizza over here doesn’t have enough of either of those! Then we headed back to the Imax, which is oddly in the middle of a roundabout - you have to go into a tunnel that goes underneath the road in order to get inside! TDK was really good, and I’m really glad we went and saw it at the Imax instead of seeing it in a regular theatre. Some of the city shots that were filmed with the Imax cameras really made my stomach do flipflops.

Sunday we went to a buffet lunch with a bunch of friends. I could only eat two plates, which I guess is a good thing because I need to lose some weight. They were mostly starters that I ate as well! It was nice to see everyone and have a day out, instead of spending Sunday cleaning and grocery shopping like we usually do. I talked to the girls about going to Birmingham to go shopping on a Sunday, so I am looking forward to planning that!!

We’ll be back to London next Sunday, with Tim’s Dad and his Dad’s wife to see Chelsea play.. they day before Tim’s birthday :) Then the next Saturday is Tim’s birthday shindig. October is looking to be a busy month.. so I think before I know it, it will be November. That’s one month till Canada :)

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.