challenge met and overcome.

As mentioned in earlier posts, I've gotten ahead in my running schedual. But today I were debating my progress with some collegues that, where one is a seasoned runner and marathon man.
And he thought I could progress a whole lot faster than I am right now and he suggested that I might be holding back by aherding to my schedual to closely.
Intrigued by this another collegue suggested I tried to run the 6 kilomters that are my goal, just to see how far I could take it. and so I did.
I had a date with Eri afterwork, going shopping and having a hotdog, cozy seeing her.
But it'd started snowing and gotten dark when I was finally home, so some prep work was in order =3

ready to go running in windy, snow freezing dark weather ^_^ three layers of pants, three layers of tshirts and sweat shirt, + safty vest. scarf, cap, socks, ankel warmers and fingerless gloves.
Ready to run.
So I ventured into the snow and had a brilliant run =) I took a new route, just to make the experience completly original and went through the local bog, where I even managed to scale the hill at the local architect school for a private rocky moment.
ofcause the route through the bog presented a few challenges of it's own, for one thing it was gloomy twillight, which made the muddy slicks hard to see and the pools of water even harder and those I did see presented a challenge in and of the selves as I had to leap across them.
But got through the bog okay. other traps I encountered; boobytrap streetwalks. turns out the frost had eroded the gravel underneith the sidewalk stones, so they'd tip when you stepped on them a couple of place salong my route. suprised the hell out of me the first time, but luckily I didn't slip or twist anything =)
In the end I clocked a nice 6½ kilometers, where I only had a break of 100m walk up a particular nasty hill.
Real proud of myself ^^

other than that I've been postponing writting again by surfing on 4chan XD

how to find time and kill it.

Havn't written in a while, been meaning to, but just havn't gotten around to it. So since I have declared that tonight should be writting night and I'm a lazy bugger putting it off, I've decided writting on my blog instead XD
So, not much going on lately. Car still broke, most likely gonna get it fixed next month.
Spare time these days are divided between friends, training and hobbies.

Training is progressing nicely, I'm running a measly 3½ kilometers right now, but that leaves me over three months to reach the 6, that's my benchmark in June.
Getting a decent diet going too, dinners light and I've recently figured out the reason I've been so tired lately is cause, running seriously busts the muscles in your legs (well duh) and since I don't eat too much meat in the evening, my body drains everything else to try and fix up the damage I've done to it.
so hence forth, more lean meat on the dinner menu and thus, a side of Salmon is roasting in barbeque in the kitchen ^_^
NOMMAGE!

As for the spare time and I how I get rid of it. Written should check a large sum, sadly still not quite as much as I'd like. Inspiration is getting better, with the super cozy storytellers gettogethers I've hosted a few times. But I should write more, got ideas comming out the ears and nose, but it's just hard to get focused enough to sit down and write'em. something to work on I think.
maybe I should set a bench mark to myself, like with training. By June I must have finished atleast ONE story. That gives me a nice leeway.... why do I see myself luck up a week from June, typing like a madman XD
Other than that, I've picked up watching Anime again ^^ which has widdled away a whole lot time.

First and formost: Zero no Tsukaima AKA Familiar of Zero.
It's rather lighthearted romantic comedy. sorta like Ranma ½ meeting harry potter. The magic school not talent witch summons a boy from our world as her familar and the story writes itself from there.
First there's fustration, demeaning punishments and fights. then there's friendship, demeaning punishments and fights and finally love blooms... and demeaning punishments and fights.
Louise's (the witch) tendcy to find Saito at fault, whether it actually is his fault or not, gets a little stale at times. But generally the series is rather sweet and the various characters grown on you and develope nicely over the three seasons (some 36 episodes)
and I must admit, there's been few series that actually had been shouting loudly at the screen, fistpumping in glee at cool stuff or hiding my head when it gets to embarresing.
So light, romantic comedy your thing? then give this a try.
.... and there's a shitload of fanservice as well ^^;

Also been taking swings at Elfen Lied. which is just as gory as rumoured. But the blatant fanservice and slapstick humor clashes with the otherwise grim and serious mood of the series.
But only a few episodes in, so not entire put off yet.

Recently started on Sacred Blacksmith. only four episodes into it, so I'm still maybe/maybe not. But the focus on sword craft and smithing of weapons is interesting.

On the gaming front. while eagerly awaiting Dragon Age 2. I'm piling in the hours in Assasins creed: Brotherhood.
It's gotten som improvements from AC2, but the learning curve on the main missions is balisitic ^^; One mission, I had to do over 14 times before I got it right. killing three guys on alert in 30 seconds, within 10 meters of each other. tricky buisness >_<
But the addition of assasin henchmen is a nice touch, though I'd have liked to be able to give them gear, difference appearences and join them on their missions around europe. But hey, there's a detail for the next one =3

Ton of games I look forward to playing this year, but that'll have to wait for another blog post.

Emperor Protects

achs and pains

Been a while since I last updated. mainly because I've been busy and not terribly much has happened really.
However, damn near had a heart attack today, slipped on the iced sidewalk and my right knee made a really nasty cracking sound and hurt like hell. made me go icecold inside, cause sounded very like what Marie described to me when she snapped a ligament in her knee a few years back.
As luck would have it, my leg would carry me and a few minuts later, the pain subsided and disappeared, and now can just feel that some of the tendons are a tad sore. But damn, that almost scared the damn pants of me ^^;

The other aspect of pain I'm dealing with is not quite as physical, but no then less stressful. My private economy last month and this month is utterly shot to hell. (complicated story about vacation I had to take, but could get covered finacially. damn annoying)
I havn't had a budget this tight while actually having a job since I was a bloody apprentice >_< and that's 10 years back.
Just more wood on the "get rid of the car" fire =/

so I dull my finacial angst with chocolate, but as I'm trying tog in shape I just make due with one piece per day.

well not really, it's a bit of kid brothers christmas present. a giant chocolate bar. thought the oversize hilarious =3 (yep, my hand. no, not shopped)

But I still managed to get hold of Assasins creed Brotherhood this weekend though =3 damn entertaining game and very addicting XD

oversprings handling galore =P

Allrighty then =) Been super busy today or not really, but still got a ton of stuff done ^^
Elfie visited last night and spent the night, things been really tense between us for a couple of months, but we got good talk and more or less settled our differences. Long story short, we properly should have had an actual talk earlier, instead of growling at each other for percieved slights.
Not entirely sure we're out of the woods yet, but the things are alot more clear now.

Afterwards I saw a few episodes of Freakzoid, christmas present from Elfie (she got the Going Postal movie.) and then head down to do groceries and was confronted by one of my character traits I tend to percieve as a positive thing, but occationally also strike out as quite the draw back.
I'm stubborn, like REALLY stubborn. To the point of openly laughing as something silly like common sense ^^; Frost has a private joke that it requires blunt force head trauma to change my mind or breasts XD
Got a story gettogether tomorrow, me and some other writters hanging out, dinning and talking about writting, stories and characters etc. etc.
well I'd gotten it in my head, that I wanted a particular sort of Lemon pudding (citronfromage) for desserts, sadly they didn't have the first place, neither the second store nor the third. After having looked for more than two hours after the bloody thing and still didn't find it.
Ah well, atleast I got some decent walking done =3

Also took out a few hours to clean up this dump. vacum, floorwash and hosed down the bathroom (blatantly putting off doing the dishes though)

In other news, I'm trying my hand at growing a beard or moustache or... well I'm trying to grow facial hair ^^;

 as you can see, with mixed results. it's not quite as sparse as it looks. problem is a good part of the hairs are blond, so they hardly stand out ^^;
which generally just leaves me looking shaggy. I think I'll give it another week and see how it turns out. Then most likely shave =)

Also, got this reall cool picture from my little brother for my birthday =) (the one in the middle incidently)

Not quite sure I'm all up for the positioning, but looks good ^^d

piece of shit rust bucket

oh I really should learn not to jinx things >_<
oh the irony of it, after my little post yesterday with the pros and cons of a car, I discover today that the exhaust is rust through, meaning it sounds like my car has an engine twice the actual size it has -_-; sigh.

in other news. training is gaining momentum. width of my wast is down to 100 cms and I'm doing 50 pushups every evening. will add situps soon, possibly this weeek.
the trick is not overdoing, so I slowly edge into the good training rythme again =)

well then. 29... or was it 31

31 years and 14 hours and 45 minuts. that's the time I've been around, give or take a few minuts.
birthday today and as usual, I more or less would have forgot myself, if people didn't ask occationally up till the day ^^;
dunno why, I know my birthday is the 11 of january, but it just slips my mind in the fuss of it all.

That's me, 31 one years. can't tell if the mileage shows ^^; I'll let others be the judge of that.

I'm am seriously considering the pros of a car, versus the cons. Sure a car gives me alot a freedom and possibilities. But it's also a very large resource consumer and it shows in my budget.
so I've more or less decided to keep my current rusty ricecooker and drive it till it comes apart, only really reparing/replacing anything that's not too expensive/what I can do myself. then scrap it and then see how my life looks,don't really think I'll get a new one the way I live today.
A car is a nice convenience to have, but I don't NEED it.
I did fine without a car before, pretty sure I will again come to that. But if I get a new one, I'm getting something smaller and a lot less thirsty. The way my little Kia chugs it, you'd think it was cola ^^;

Also, some of you might have noticed that I'm a little fuzzy on the picture up above, I've let my facial hair run rampant (something akin to a pack of hamster stampeeding XD ) just to see, just how much it can grow.
seriously, I think I have too much oestogen considering my lack of beard compared to the rest of people (the males) in my family ^^;

That brings me right next to next rumbling wagon on my train of thought. I've been giving thought to just HOW much plasic I suround myself with, cursory nod to the "plastic planet" movie, not going overboard with deeming plastic and rubber forbidden.
But I plan to exchange everything in my kitchen with glass, wood, metal, cheramics or clay (or is that the same thing??)
Anyway. my point is this, plastic isn't good for you. well wooden splinters in your digestive system arn't that good either, but atleast they're bio degradable =3 so atleast I wanna keep it out of my kitchen.
only problem is at work, where I usually walk around with a bottle of water, trouble is that a glass one is heavier and more lightly to break. hmmm maybe a waterskin or something...

take care of yourself =)

and I have returned!

So despite the best efforts of the vilianous corp TDC and their black ops teams, I emerged triumphant and has returned to the internets.
short story, TDC has lost their monopol on the fiber connection that supply my block with internet and tv, in november I recieved a letter asking me to chose a new provider, so I did. December I received another letter, telling me I had yet to tell TDC which new internet provider I would like (so I logging into their website and chose a provider... again)
thinking all was well I continued my merry way through december until the dark day of 1st january, where I quite hung over to my chargin realized my internet was down.
So monday I called a provid (bolignet) and had them hook me up.
So wensday, they called me to verify my address and explained to me there was a slight hiccup. they had my connection ready, but TDC had forbade them to hook me (or anyone else) up before, they'd had a service man out to change my fiberbox. it was painfully obvious they were acting like a moody child ruining the game for everyone cause they couldn't have it their way.
Luckily, the fine men and women of Bolignet A/S are stout rebels of pure hard and large balls, or at least their boss is.
this friday I got a call, where the dude who'd sadly explained to me that I couldn't get my internet wensdays explained that their box had had enough of TDC's shit and say "LET THE PEOPLE HAVE INTERNETS!" I also imagine him rugged, bleeding, slightly shot up and holding a ragged banner waving in the wind, but unbroken.
now you just gotta liberally sprinkle this series of events with exhilarating car chases, awesome fightscenes, awesome shootout battles and slimy CEO's, black up corp mercenaries, beautiful woman and brave rebels.
Think I'll drop by them with a bottle of wine, cause that was awesome =D

what else...
oh yeah. Training, I plan to get into shape this summer and actually starting in good time I've... well already started.
I've completly cut off soda, got some wicket shakes, but it's 6 days without my personal no1 vice (went on bit of a bender saturday to deal with my hangover)
my success criteria is january without any soda, at all ^^; gonna be a bitch.

my more plausible goals that I plan to have reached by the first of June are these:
6km. Gonna start running again, weather permitting. gotta be able to run that distance without pause.
myself. gotta be able to benchpress my own body weight atleast 6 times. (80kg should anyone care)
96cm. my waistline gotta get back to that ATLEAST. I got really fat during the holidays T_T

you are allowed to taunt me should I fail all of these goals ^^