Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Back in the Big Smoke

Back in London after a wonderful weekend in Stockholm. It was the first time all the girls were in the same place at the same time for I don't know how many years!! It was sooo nice to see them all again. I've got 3 childhood friends who I'm still very close to, but we've all managed to scatter across the planet (Germany, UK, Sweden and Australia) so our chinwagging sessions are few and far between. But this weekend it was time for Johanna's graduation so we all managed to get to Stockholm for the event. We're all quite different and pursue completely different paths in life so it's always great to get their various perspectives on things. I came back to London feeling inspired and revived. Altho seeing my friend's complete bliss over the carreer path she is on, makes me wonder what I'm doing with my time! I also want to feel like pinching myself everytime I go to work, of sheer disbelief that I get to do what I do for a living! That's very far from where I am right now...

I think in general this weekend has made it clear to me that I need to inject a bit more pure, childish joy in to my life. It's all to much work and too little play at the moment. I used to do a lot of music related stuff in my free time when I was back in Sweden, but since moving to London I've just let that all disappear. Time to get a bit creative again I think. Saw (or heard rather) a fantasic choir perform while in Stockholm, and that made me miss the old singing days...I'm so rusty now tho, I wonder if I'd find a choir that would have me!

No exercise whatsoever this weekend, and been drinking and eating whatever I've felt like. But as the week before was pretty good I wasn't sure what to expect on the scales. I was extremely surprised to see that I've gone down to 71.7 kgs, which makes the total weightloss 5kgs! I'm back on track it seems! :D

Tonight I will try to go to yoga - depends a bit on work as I was away from the office yesterday and will be travelling tomorrow. Would be great to some form of exercise though. 

This morning didn't start very well from a points perspective - was in a meeting where we were served pain au chocolat and croissants. I had one of each (it was a 4 hour meeting...) and it added up to 17.5 points!!!!!! So I'm barely allowed to eat for the rest of the day....yay....

And on that note, it's time for lunch. Hmmm I  think today I will have an air and dust omelette with water and gravel...

4 comments:

  1. Ooh, sounds like you had a great time in Sweden, so glad you enjoyed your weekend!

    I always thought croissants were 5 and pain au chocolat 6 points... they must have been really big ones, lol!

    SO, what are you doing for a living right now? Any ideas which career path might be the one for you? I started my part-time today (just got in the office now, really relaxed and energised, it's great!) so I need to think seriously about what comes next...

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  2. Well they were M&S all butter ones, says they were something like 8-9 points each!!! Shocking...live and learn ;)

    I'm a mobile marketing producer...it's probably as wanky as it sounds...my company builds websites for mobile phones, and mobile games etc, for brands. So I coordinate the work between the techies and the creatives and (try to) keep the client happy in the process.

    I quite like what I do altho I'm not keen on the business I'm in. Marketing isn't exactly the good guys on this earth...and I'm still young enough to be a bit idealistic ;) So still searching for my calling...something within the environmental sector perhaps??

    Wow it must be so nice to work part time...what luxury to have more time for yourself! Hope you're really enjoying it!!

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  3. Oh, then we're almost in the same business. I'm an Account Manager in an advertising company. Also persuaded I am still to find my calling :) And in the meantime, I am enjoying my part-time immensely!

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  4. Ah there you go, you're in advertising as well! How long have you been doing that?

    And where does one go to acquire a calling? I went to London to find mine but accidentally ended up in marketing...well at least it's convinced me it's not where I want to be... ;)

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