Friday, where do you go?

Rain, grey sky, unsuccessful try for a new apple pie recipe (I should have known better - there was way too little of butter and sugar on the recipe, yak). Doesn't feel like Friday. Anyway, I'll make a plan towards this lousy mood right now. It will contain some sports, sweet desserts, baking and going back to the carefree honeymoon in Europe. Also I need vitamins, so lots of fruits and things that are good for me to eat. Everything made by myself is OK but no candy, it makes me smile for 3 minutes and afterwards it feels like selling my soul. I've tried it many times this week and it hasn't helped. So I'll take the way of feeling good inside and hoping it will show on my moods too.

About in half an hour I'll pack my bag and head home. Change my clothes and go to the gym. I'll do some medium workout in indoor cycling and then RVP. I don't want to grind away too much in IC, it's supposed to be a warm-up for the muscle toning - and more importantly I don't want a feel of not coping. I need feelings of success! I'll go home and if I feel like it I'll prepare some fresh apple pie to serve for my dad, his lady friend and my brother. Then we'll drink coffee and watch the rest of our honeymoon pictures together. I will relax and get back to the feelings of freedom the trip gave us. Later I will bake for tomorrow, we have a birthday brunch to attend to! Such a nice idea to have a brunch on birthday, I'm so excited to go there for hours - to eat, catch up and enjoy. Then I might fell asleep on the couch and move to bed during the night. Yes.

Reschedule me

This week has been all about running to places and feeling really stressed out. The bad news are that it hasn't been really that busy week, just a couple of longer days. So why am I so exhausted? Every little thing irritates me, someone smacking while eating, radio connection braking up, someone talking to me when I'm trying to concentrate on something and the most me myself for being on this lousy mood. At the moment I partly blame the business school evaluation meeting on Monday. The training is either accepted or failed. I blame autumn too, it doesn't matter I've tried to convince myself that I like autumn. Well maybe I don't at the moment. I don't like cold and wet mornings.

I want to change into pyjamas and do nothing. It annoys me I can't do it whenever I want to. I have nothing but fun and such nice things to do and I feel fed up. Meditation this way please! Tonight I'll meditate. Yes. That'll get my shit together.

My make-up for the PRD photo shoot

An apple a day...

My boss brought me a basket full of apples from his trees. The basket is on my table and the scent of fresh apples is delicious. I can't wait to get home to make some apple pies. One for work, some into the freezer for sad and cold days when I need loads of sugar to cheer me up. Addiction? Yes. Always remember to make enough dough so I can have some of it too.

I have missed BODYPUMP so much. I missed out only for one week and felt empty. I was so energetic in the lesson yesterday that I even surprised myself. I did every rep super clean and did all the reps to the end, even push-ups which usually kill me in the end of the hour. Also I felt how my thighs have actually gotten bigger from my week 1. Oh dear it's week 4 already! Well it was about time then. I always gain some weight when I get into my workout routine but it's mostly just muscles toning, not the apple pie. Well the more hips to check with, the better!

Today we are having off skates practice where we do checks. (EDIT 26.9.2012) So this is where I left yesterday. I had such a busy day, not one of those usual busy days, but those that require a glass of wine in the evening. I made plenty of apple pies, baked cookies with Musta Hurma #27 and hurried off to practice. It must be the cold autumn digging into me 'cause I feel ill tempered quite often. Blanket in the bed is calling for me to cuddle up under it. It's amazing how fast I learn to be dissatisfied - only just on Friday I was happier than ever about everything and now I'm again griping.

Practice was good though! As always it made me feel better. We did different checks and it was nice to notice how much we've actually improved from our previous off skates checks practice. Still a lot to do for me though, it really got clear I need to be careful when checking shorter girls. A couple of times I hit someones jaw or couldn't even reach the thigh 'cause the girl was two heads shorter than I am. And as I try going super low I still haven't learned the right way to do it. Sometimes average size would be easier, but nevertheless I'm gonna find my own nieche! Hopefully I'll then surprise everyone, mmm, another dream to caress.

We skated to improve our stamina and boy did I feel my thighs. Yes, thank you, I already knew you guys exist. Also many of us felt our backs aching which probably means we did something wrong and I have no idea what it was. Or was it just the different drill? It was tough for sure, really a good workout. I went home, drank the glass of wine I needed, some cola too and fell to laziness on the couch.

Then I dreamed about zombies all night and it was horrible. I tried to erase the dream by waking up but it came back every time. I decided to hate zombies for the rest of the day and comfort myself with apple pie. 

Apples turned into apple pie pieces

Nice party though

Last week went almost like planned... I hurried to the Girya on Monday, practiced the Brawlers RVP both on Monday and Tuesday, did the moves again on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday went like planned. Normally I go stretching on Saturday but now I did it on Friday. Unfortunately I couldn't skate at the practice yesterday. Yes, I was having a day after from the crayfish party - it's no myth that it involves quite a lot of shots! And all the different kinds too. I went anyway, we had an hour of open skate for people still wanting to join our fresh meat training period. I helped two guys with the gear and I was actually in a great mood - too bad I couldn't skate! Then after the open skates our girls started scrimmage and I held the penalty box. It was a good experience! As a skater there's also things we should know.

Eat me!

Monday
practicing for the off skate 45
Girya 30

Tuesday
practicing for the off skate 30 
PRD off skate practice 45
PRD on skate practice 60

Wednesday
PRD on skate practice 2 hours

Thursday
squats x 65

Friday
RVP 30
stretching 30

Saturday
jogging 30
RVP 30
Stretching 30

Sunday
sit-ups x 50
PRD on skate practice 2 hours
squats x 150

We had quite few people doing the scrimmage and just talked at the car if Sunday is the best day for it. There's at least one girl who can never attend on Sundays and often the teams are really small and we have no benchwarmers. It can take the fun part away from the game completely and sometimes it's just fine: we need to learn to cope with that kind of situations too. But we also need the amount of fun to keep us motivated! I already know I'm going to miss out on two Sundays in the near future, one for the birthday of Lupus and another because of work. Well missing out on a couple is not bad, that's just life. But having so little participants is a bummer.

What about this week? Once again I've got couple of days that have open schedules. We are having a PRD photo shoot on Wednesday and it can take 4-7 hours so I can only plan on skating in between photo shoots and doing some squats on my breaks. I'm having another photo shoot on Thursday that's probably taking only two hours or so and I'm planning on going jogging either out or on a treadmill. If I have time I'll also do sit-ups and buttocks in addition to squats. On Friday I'll go to RVP and if I feel like it also to indoor cycling as well. It's only 30 minutes so it would be a nice warm-up for RVP. Now I'm about to break my routine on Saturday and I'll only go jogging 'cause I've got an early birthday to attend to and don't wanna miss a second! On Sunday I want to do some RVP because I missed out on Saturday and of course attend to our on skate practice.

Monday
BODYPUMP 60

Tuesday
PRD off skate practice 60
PRD on skate practice 60

Wednesday
PRD promo photo shooting all night long
(some skating allowed in between your own photo shoots)
squats 2 x 65

Thursday
jogging 30
squats 2 x 65

Friday
RVP

Saturday
jogging 30

Sunday
RVP at home
PRD on skate practice 2 hours

Crayfish party!

Get up in the morning

I'm drinking wine and preparing myself for a party. We are going to a crayfish party at my friends parents and it's also gonna be the first time I eat crayfish. It's gonna be so much fun, some friends, food and one of the most awesome parents I know.

I woke up as early as I did yesterday because I fell asleep so early yesterday. And even though I'm no early bird I still like to have a long morning so I can do all the chores I don't have time to do during the week. There's also some workouts to do on Saturday mornings if you remember already my Saturday routine. I went to jog on a treadmill. I thought about jogging out but then time was running out so I had my 30 minutes run on a treadmill before RVP. It was actually pretty good because it was super easy to have 2 minutes intervals. Why two minutes? Anyone remember how long does a jam last on its maximum length? Well two minutes! And it was cool to notice that my running skills haven't got lost during my summer vacation break. I can still do jogging at a good pace. It was also wonderful to go work my thighs, abs and buttock when I was already well warmed up. I skipped the stretching though because I still had some proofreading to do at home before the party. But no panic! I still stretched the muscles I used :).

Now our cat is sleeping on my dear ones lap while he's working on a picture. It's a nice easygoing afternoon before a party. I have no idea how to eat crayfish or if I even like them but all that is going to clear up today.

Power play day

All this energy from just having a day that I can honestly schedule myself! I've done loads. Work too and in a more inspired mood. I woke up later than usually, oh dear, I slept till 7.30 am. I made a big half a liter mug of coffee and drank it while I started on the presentation. Like I said to my boss I need to impress with the presentation because my actual cases aren't that strong. Then he asked me if it means I'm going shopping for clothes. Hahaha, what an awesome idea! Well I've got a nice presentation going on, long live remote work.

I took a brake at nine and went to RVP to work with my thighs, abs and buttocks. I also attended stretching class, it did good for my back that has been aching for a couple of days now. Darn it felt evil in my muscles right in the morning, oh it was lovely. Then again I changed back to my pyjamas and continued with the presentation. My precious Vincent took advantage of me being at home and he fell a sleep on my lap. The only moments a demonic cat can look cute and fluffy. After some hours I started baking mushroom baguettes which turned out to be a real treat with the actual meal: mushroom sauce with smashed potatoes. Life has been so sweet today I could cry from all the happy feelings. There's no surprise this thought came after talking about food, I'm a food lover. And talk about sweet, we even had dessert: a cream doughnut and a vanilla bun. And more coffee.

My next step was finally putting some real clothes on at 1.30 pm. I went to the flea market with my dear Musta Hurma #27. Sadly I couldn't find anything to wear on a particular photo shoot, but it's still always nice to get time to check out all the funny things people sell second hand. Like a pair of slippers stolen from the hotel. Then came Kewtrikaze with two longboards... I had my helmet, my knee pads and bracers so I was ready to hop on it! Almost. Soon we were off to the streets of Porvoo, one smooth cruiser and another quite hazardous cruiser. It was so cool, just to strike yourself to speed and roll. It was also so much easier to steer a longboard compared to normal skateboard. I didn't feel like a complete loser but really enjoyed it, felt the breeze and even took two downhills on my first time on a longboard. Now I need to have one to myself.

I came back home, ate a little (the baguette is super yummy) and worked a little more. Now I'm writing this feeling full of life and wanting to get back to school so I can have these super cool days more often. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT! It's freaking FRIDAY! It means I still have two days to myself. It means I'm now off to see the sea in Emäsalo with the person my heart mostly belongs to. Still, there's lot to share in my heart, so here's a little piece of it to ya'll:

Shortys day offs!

So long office. I'm leaving early today to catch up with some dear friends in Helsinki. Tomorrow I'll sleep long because I can work in my pyjamas, I'm having a remote work day. I really need to brush up my business school material and make a presentation of it too. The evaluation is only a week away, so it's now or never. I've tried to start it at the office and failed day after day. Now I'm gonna do it! In my pyjamas! Having coffee the whole day, not only on my breaks! Oh dear it really is like getting back to school- it sounds like my regular day at University of Applied Sciences. And... it's awesome!

We had a great on skates practice yesterday, although I was a bit tired. Love it love it love it. Could have been skating all night long. Laughing and fooling around. I wish we could have night school but night derby school, overnight camping at some place where we could skate and hang out.

I also have a proposition to make to our team. I'd love if sometimes at the practice we could take pairs and watch how our pair works trough the practice. Then at the end of the practice we could give out what was good and what could be done better. Or other feedback, just anything! I would so much appreciate some feedback.