Day 88: Yakult lady made my day

I am so glad that Patrick said get lots of sleep as I have been doing that almost every day in anticipation of the start of school for the kids when I get into action very early, go all day and get a lot less sleep than I have this summer. So, as it is Saturday I was lying in bed reading, putting off skipping as long as I could, but not before I fell over from hunger. Anticipation of my cup of coffee got me out of bed. So off down the road I go.......

About 3/4 of the way through, after having met and greeted no end of neighbours, who all seem to be outside, our local Yakult lady comes up behind me on her snazzy Yakult 3-wheeler scooter. Her first words were " Wow, you have lost a tonne of weight". She even said that whilst she was driving up she thought to herself "moshikashite......." ("is it?"). I checked through my blogs and the last time I had met the Yakult lady was on the 19th of June. Apparently my body shape has changed so much that she didn't recognise me. Since there are not that many blonde non-Japanese women wearing bright pink T-shirts skipping along the road in an area where there are not an overwhelming amount of foreigners, it wasn't a facetious "is it?". I am so very, very pleased. This lovely lady whom I see once in a while and always chat to (I told her I couldn't stop for long as I had to keep skipping), in just a few words managed to light a fire under me that had already been simmering. The ignition to the fire had been before I got on my skipping gear when I tried on my old jeans which I hadn't done since June. Another BIG surprise.

Am putting together some photo ideas. Only just realised that Day 90 is Monday not Tuesday as I had mentally been calculating. This means that the kids can take some photos on Day 90 as they only have a short orientation at school on Monday before the near academic year starts with a vengeance on Tuesday as does the next phase of my life post-PCP.

This is the kind of scooter my Yakult lady drives.....

Day 87: My teammate

I really like my teammates who blog. I do not like my teammate pain. I also don't like pain's little friends, one of whom resides in my previously dislocated shoulder and the other in my calf.

20 floor jumps seemed like a breeze today after 40 creeps. I never thought that I would say that. The shoulder exercises however felled me, due mainly to my teammates friend who now resides constantly in my left shoulder. My shoulder has been troubling me most of the day now for a while, and feels very weak strangely. I couldn't hold open a door in the supermarket today. I was unable to get even one full set out of any of the exercises for the shoulder today. It was accompanied by not only pain, but also nausea and dizziness as well as the total absence of any of the previous panache with which I might have done any of these exercises. Abs not great either. Abject failure was quick to the draw but that was also due to residing dizziness.

I will need to have a special bonding session with my friend pain. Wish I could have a nice chat over a glass of wine and hope that pain got so drunk it fell over and was past resuscitation. Chance would be a fine thing.