chris dixons blog
Archive for January, 2005
Jan 30th
Still detoxin..
I have so far lost about 9 pounds, which ain’t half bad and am feeling pretty good about it. Just two days to go now, so I’m fairly sure I can make it. The only thing then is keping it off!
Have been experimenting with my camera today, it’s all complicated. I tried to take a really long exposure shot of a clock, so that the hands could move round, but the clock would stay put but the results were very poor. Will play some more and let you know.
The house is a tip! I have done not much tidying and it is all bad. Perhaps it is time to hire a cleaner (as we used to have one).
You may remember me saying we were going to New wine in July this year and we need to think about where to stay. It’s going to be trickey with James as well. I has thought we could hire a caravan or motor home and stay on a local site, but I’ve yet to be impressed with the prices. I have a list of B&B’s and hotels so I will try and look through that this week.
James is ace. He is smiling, laughing and being cute. I am going to take a few days off, because, apart from the weekends I dont get to see him as his best. Ah well.. got to cook my very small tea. See you the other side of detoxing
Jan 26th
Still on the detox. Feeling ok, enjoyed my tea! Not feeling as hungry as I thought, still, theres always tomorrow.
Jan 26th
Well, the big Detox has started.
Start Weight: 14st 1lb
Current Weight: 14st 1lb
I feel ok, not to hungry at the moment. I hate cellery (which I had as a snack) and I’m not looking forward to my tomatoes and tuna for lunch, especially as the portion is thimble sized. Someone said that I would feel crap for the first few days, then full of energy… we will see.
Jan 25th
Finished…. 9100 words, which is within acceptable tollerances.
Thats a relief (for a bit). I feel a bit bad not pulling my weight with James tonight, but I guess I took this path!
Emma has been shopping and bought most of the food for my detox. It had better work becuase some of it is flipping expensive. I will have to make some soups and things tomorrow night to get started. I will keep you posted on my progress.
Sometimes I wonder why I am doing all of this. There are other careers I would be much better and happier at. I guess once you get past a certain point, it’s harder to turn back.
Jan 24th
Disaster… very tired and this assignment is rubbish. I’m sure if there was an award for the worst 10,000 words ever then this would come close. Mind you, I’ve said that before! Still plenty of work to do. I think I will be quite tired tomorrow.
Jan 23rd
Wow.. its been some time has it not?
I guess I have just been really busy with James and also my academic work. As I write this I take a break from writing my Msc end of year assignment which is a 10,000 word epic (depending on how you define epic!) I have 7800 words down at the moment which is’nt all that bad although I know I will probabbly get little sleep tomorrow!
James is doing realy well. He is often grumpy and cries a lot, but I think that the main issue is that he finds it difficult to get to sleep. At night he has been doing fine, and wakes only once in the night for a feed. I look foward to the time when he can go for a lot longer without waking, infact I have a bottle of champaign ready for when he sleeps through.
I have finally bought a digital camera, and after a lot of looking decided on a Fufifilm S7000. It is a 6 mega pixel camera but can interpolate to 12 mega pixels for if you are printing poster size! It is really good and I’m sure that when I have learned all the settings will produce excellent results. Even on the automatic setting the pictures seem bright and clear which is good.
Here is what the camera looks like.
You can see some of the results I have taken in my gellery (click link on LHS). Some of the images have been re-sized a bit to make them fit on the website.
I mentioned my quest to loose some weight and to that end I am starting a detox on Wednesday for 7 days. I will keep up updated online as to what I am eating and how I am progressing, but I think it will be tough. The idea is that the detox gets your digestive system working well and reduces your dependace on sugar based foods. I do seem to eat far to much and get cravings for chocolate and sweet things. The downside of the detox is that at first it can make you have spots (which given my current crop could be an issue!), bad breath, free bowel movements and feel tired. Don’t worry though, after 7 days you will feel like a new person (the book proclaims). Well, watch this space from Wednesday onward to find out.
Jan 3rd
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Things are still going ok at the Dixon household. It feels as though 2004 has been a real race and we have not stopped. Thats probabbly because we hav’nt! James is doing ok, but still testing our sanity at night-time. It’s great to look back through my entries since I started doing this in April! It’s good to see what a freak I am and how my thoughts have panned out.
On the whole I don’t think that we have done to badly. I guess that my MSc has taken up a great deal of time and stress and it still continues to do so. It’s even harder to find time now, as it is amazing how much James takes up. I have done 170 words out of 10,000 so I guess I still have some way to go. We have had seceral nice breaks. The snowboarding trip in January when I tore a ligament in my leg and missed most of the action. A nice weekend in Chester, a long weekend in Cornwall in May to see the Eden project and lost gardens of Helligan, and we must not forget Corfu in August, so I guess we can’t complain! I think among the busy schedule we have had some time to relax.
So whats planned for 2005. I guess I can’t help being busy, which is a weekness of mine. Hopefully I will complete my MSc in June / July which will be a massive relief. We also have a holiday planned to the Christian event of New Wine which I am helping run the radio station at. This means that I have to work quite hard, but get in free!
My main plan is to get fit, and remove some fat. Several people have said that I am looking portly, which is polite for fat, and at 14stone 3pounds I really have put on lots of weight over the last year. I think seing myself in our holiday video was a revelation and make me want to do something. The only problem is that I love food to much. However, I have taken some steps to start doing something about it. The first being to purchase a diet book. The second it to pledge to start excercising again. When I was running the marathon I was able to eat all I wanted and hot put on weight which was ideal. Hopefully 2005 will bring a welcome return to normality in this area.
I am also raising funds for the purchase of a digital camera which I think I will find a lot more useful than the things I am selling to finance it! I am also having a de-clutter at home and I plan to have a “Big Giveaway” at work to get rid of some old books and things.
Finally I found this gem on the web. It is the song with all the chemical elements in it, and I think it is brillent. I might even try and learn it, could be a nice party piece. All the best to all for 2005.
Recent Comments