Hello, lovely people! How’s it going?
I for one, am totally and utterly done in right now – meaning, I’m exhausted! I started today (Sunday) with a 12.6mile / 1hr45minute run, which was super – ZERO pain! Although the latter half of the run was tough, because I was running directly into incredibly strong winds. Winds + Freya = a drop of 15 secs/per mile! Sheesh. Talk about blustery. At least I survived. But yeah, the wind – and hills – have taken it out of me, and now I want to curl up in front of a fire, with a Rabbit-shaped kitten on my lap, a mug of hot cocoa, and Ryan Gosling stroking my face. #bliss
Alas.
I might have time to do that later, but first I want to write this post, do some child-primary-school-development-related research, study the primary curriculum in a bit more detail, and do general prep for my Very Important Interview coming up in one week’s time!!
So anyway, here are some random musings because my mind is frazzled and I can’t think of a cool theme….
1) Coco and Ralph – the ginger twins – now have collars with BELLS! They seem to have become masters at bird-catching, which is not ideal, because we like pretty birds over my way. The other day, I walked into the bathroom, and the bath was full of blood, feathers everywhere, and a bird with a head and a shredded (yes, shredded) body. It was like a scene out of some horrific horror film!
2) I started my teaching assistant course, which is good – it’s nice to engage my mind a bit – but it’s tiring! I get home on Thursdays at about 9pm, having not had dinner or anything. The first week it happened, I had nothing prepped, so ended up with this:
Chocolate banana oats with extra soy milk, and some tempeh, which was super quickly fried in soy sauce and then covered in nooch.
Random.
3) Talking of random: when I uploaded the photos from my camera onto here, I had this bowl of oats amongst the mix:
I have no idea when I ate it, what I made it out of, or why I thought it was worthy of a picture. Maybe it was because it’s in a square bowl…? Who knows, it’s a mystery. But either way, I obviously went through the trouble of taking the photo, loading it onto the laptop, making the sharpness better, and then waiting half a small lifetime for it to upload onto here – so I darn well was gonna put it in this post! Hurrump.
4) I got woken up multiple times last night by jingling outside my room. I guess that’s the cat way of getting me back for wrapping bells around their necks.
5) I really really like pinning things on Pinterest, and I really really wanted to put a picture in here of something I pinned recently, but I really really can’t work out how to do it. Anyone care to shed some light, or am I doomed to spend the rest of this post showing you pictures of oats?
6) Oats it is.
But, oats with crumbled cookie, coconut, chocolate chips and a side of Coco!
7) The second time I went to my TA course, I had dinner prepped for when I got home:
That, my dears, would be carrot-red lentil-peanut butter soup! My mum once made a carrot soup, and she added in a few tbsps of peanut butter into it – took it to a whooole new level, I’m telling ya! But for me and my runner ways, vegetable soup wouldn’t do it for dinner – hence the red lentils too. Protein, carb, fat, vegetable? Check check check annnnnd check.
I have a 3 x 10min threshold run on Tuesday! Holy smokes! 10 minutes is a long time to be running at threshold…but gosh darnnit, that run is going to be my bitch and I will attack it with a fury! Much like the fury I had today, during the windy run – do you know, at mile 10 today, I literally stopped and screamed like a caveman into the wind? That’s what frustration does to you. And I guess a hefty chunk of Emotional Woman too.
9) That’s a socca pancake.
Covered in delicious noochified scrambled tofu!
Yumm.
Gosh it’s been a while since I’ve done good ol’ proper socca, with no crazy additions (grated carrot, millet flakes, raisins, walnuts, coconut etc etc..). I’ve missed it 
10) I had a job interview last Friday!
To give you an idea of just how competitive the job market is now: 130 people applied for this job! 130!! And they gave under 30 an interview, so even if I don’t get a second interview, at least I got one in the first place! That in itself is an achievement!
11) I played with my pony this weekend
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We were playing Tag…
I also played with Tig:
And those Tig photos are on the blog purely so my dear sister (HI HANNAH!) can nick them! She misses her boy now she’s living up the teacher lifestyle in some corner of London.
12) The OLYMPICS will be here soon!!! I have a predicament. I don’t have tickets to anything, but I do believe that the marathon is a free-for-all – ie, if you can get to London and find a space [amongst the billion or so other folk] then you can watch. Now, I’d LOVE to watch, because at what other time in my life will the Olympic games be a mere 2hr train journey away? BUT. If I do watch the marathon, chances are I’ll see a blurry 2 second flurry of super-fast men running past, and that’s it. I’ll miss the racing finish and all the blood, sweat and pain that will inevitably happen before – the bits which would be shown on TV. Soo…what to do? Go and watch, just so I’ve done something Olympic-y, or watch at home? Decisions, decisions….
13) I dreamt about my super-cute physio the other night….remember, the one who treated me for shin splints a year ago? Yeah, he’s still on my lovesick mind. OH, he was so beautiful….woe is me! Maybe I shall feign injury just so I can go and say ‘ello ‘ello to him ;-p
14) That’s it, I’m done, post over! I’m tired!
xo
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