Powered by a mango smoothie

I don’t usually eat before I go running in the morning but today decided to have a mango smoothie and hurrah, I actually managed to run to the gym and back without stopping today. First time for everything, yah!

The gym’s still quite busy with new year resolution people (grr, bloody new year resolution people are filling up my body pump class so I can’t book myself onto it) and yoga lady was in there as usual doing strange things on the rowing machine again so when she got on the cross-trainer I wondered if she was going to use it differently to how everyone else does and yes, she went on it backwards without holding on to the sticks. She did it without falling off too.

I found out last week that the flats opposite the gym cost from £220k. Eek, £220k (when they were built, so must be about £300k now) for a two-bedroom flat where you’d have to keep the curtains closed all the time as it overlooks the gym and you’ve got everyone looking at you. You’d need the gym though if you lived there as the gym’s next to Pizza Hut (mmm, pizza!), which is next to KFC (I think, or is it Burger King?) and also it’s opposite the supermarket and the tube, so the furthest you’d ever have to walk is about 100 yards.

B&Q update
Jackie from the installation centre rang on Friday and said the electrician will be round at 8 on Monday and also a plumber will come and replace the toilet seat and fix the squeak then, fingers crossed, it will be all finished.

Aah, a life without B&Q, could it happen? Will Monday be the end of this saga? I still need to write my long letter of complaint though and get some compensation and I still need to get a quote for a replacement kitchen floor that the tossers ripped.

Stats:
Miles: 4.26
Total time: 45:68
Average pace: 10:44 minute/mile
Total calories: 358
Weather: 51F
Weekends without alcohol: 2
Music:
Cardiacs – Eden On The Air
Bjork – Violently Happy
Divine Comedy – Songs Of Love
Daisy Chainsaw – Everything Is Weird
Babes In Toyland – Laugh My Head Off
The Cult – Speed Of Light
The Cure – The Walk
Courtney Love – Zeplin Song
Citizen Fish – Over The Fence
Boomtown Rats – Looking After Number One
The Beta Band – Quiet
Ash – Orpheus
Arctic Monkeys – When The Sun Goes Down
Air – Sex Born Poison
Baby Bird – Eyes In The Back Of Your Head
Cribs – Another Number
Hard-Fi – Cash Machine
Half Man Half Biscuit – See That My Bike’s Kept Clean
Ian Brown – Lions
Kula Shaker – Guitar Man
Stero Total – I Love You Ono
New Model Army – Poison Street
Soft Cell – Fun City
The Young Knives – The Night
Sultans of Ping – Veronica
Straw – Moving To California