You know the saying. Another day, another year….
No that’s not right is it?
It’s the 4th of January 2013 were 4 days into the new year. 2012 came and went without so much as an apocalypse. This is not to say that the past year has not had any amazing occurrences to write home about; I got engaged 🙂 … oh yeah and there was some other stuff like the Olympics and the Queens Jubilee 😉
Now to some people things such as my engagement or the Olympics are not big deals. And more often than not during the summer months did I hear at least 1 person complain and about all the aerobics and swimming etc that was taking over the nation as well as the televisions. This ‘ disdain’ was magnified during the Queen’s Jubilee where an infinite amount of people could not come to terms with the fact that England is ‘ruled’ by a monarch and has a hierarchy of royals and did not understand why we should be celebrating our Queens reign to date.
I would just like to point out briefly that I think most of these people forget that without a monarchy we would consequently be run much like a lot of the other countries of the world in that there is one man (or woman?) making the decisions, a president if you will, however the candidates for a president of England would be no where near the caliber needed to fulfill such a task, no where near the caliber of Obama.
We would have David Cameron or Nick Griffin, and lets not forget that our very own previous Prime Minister Tony Blair spent the majority of time in post making friends with an utterly stupid and incompetent George Bush whilst making England and other countries of Europe join together to make one ‘country’ – only so that once his tenancy as PM finished he could then attempt to run for President of Europe (I’m not kidding, you can Google that!)
Have you made any resolutions? I remember last year when I made some at the end of my first blog of 2012 –
… although I do want to give up smoking and get more definition to my body.
I’m going to take more pictures (too many pictures) listen to more music, get fitter, eat healthier, write more, draw more and go on holiday abroad.
Lets evaluate these a little; I didn’t give up smoking, I got slightly more definition but no where near what I wanted, if anything I bulked up a little and the definition was on my chest and arms. I started taking a lot more pictures – thanks to my Camera (thanks Dannii), I listened to music – but then I do constantly anyway, I ate healthy for a time however like the smoking I just didn’t stick to it. I went through a period where my Blog and Tumblr was updated quite regularly, I doodled but nothing major and at the beginning of September me and my beautiful fiancée went abroad to North Africa – Tunisia to be precise.
So like a 65% conversion rate I would say, that’s not bad considering that statistically New Year Resolutions are done away with within the first 3 days of January.
I just haven’t been able to kick the smokes!
I found that to be far more difficult than I expected it to be and I guess I was obviously too naive to think that I wasn’t that addicted to the sweet release of nicotine. I did manage to cut down considerably, although when I went on holiday I pushed the boat out smoked loads and drank loads! But hey I was on holiday so who cares?
Which brings me to here: I am again attempting to give up smoking and potentially get fit. My friend has given me the Insanity work out and I completed the fit test the other day, then Day 2 yesterday and tonight I tackle Day 3. I must add that I am not necessarily doing Insanity to get shredded or ripped etc my main focus for this is to generally increase fitness, increase my vertical jump and explosiveness – which is good as the baseline and majority of the exercises are plyometric formed. I am not following a specific diet, rather cutting down on snacks and eating at a more appropriate time(s). My thinking? I can play 4 full quarters of basketball, go to the gym, complete Insanity fit test etc and that’s on current diet and smoking etc so cutting out the smoking and snacks etc is going to be enough of a change I need. Insanity is a 60 day program; 2 months; so on the 2nd March I should feel considerably different and be able to dunk a basketball far more proficiently! Haha we’ll see, ill keep you posted.
Updating you on what I got for Christmas because I know you all want to know! I got thoroughly, well and truly spoilt – My fiancée got me a Desktop Computer with Windows 8, a computer desk, Hitman: Absolution and some Strategy Guides, my mum got me some Millenium Silver cufflinks and a Real Leather office chair. My bestie got me a Kinect with Kinect Adventures which i’ve also been rocking whilst playing NBA 2K13 and 3 Point Contest. So yeah a good haul!
Christmas day was gooood I had offered to cook Christmas Dinner as my mother and little brother were not doing anything and neither was my mother in-law so they came over to us – for my first attempt at Christmas Dinner its safe to say I nailed it! If I do say so myself.
New Years was a pretty awesome night, had a pretty good turn out and some good people came and enjoyed themselves;
I got hella drunk and saw out the end of 2012 and in the start of 2013 with some of my nearest and dearest.
In total I have published 49 blogs (50 including this one) since the middle of 2010. I don’t have a particular number or quota that I need to meet but I do think I need to be more consistent with my writing so after today I will endeavor to publish a blog every Friday, sure if I think of something that I feel I need to share and its say Tuesday? then I’ll still blog it. I wont limit myself; rather set a minimum for myself, so at the very least there should be a blog a week, so lets see if during the first blog of 2014 I mention that I have increased my blog by 52!. Content will still be the same infact the content will likely become more diverse as the weeks go on; as I will talk about my week and my Thoughts and Ideals on some of the worlds (near and far) goings on.
See you in a few days.
Holla
Ell Himself
The Thoughts and Ideals of Ell Himself 