What I did today 30/8/10...working on a bank holiday fail...

• Woke up at 6am as I had to work o_O, one of the only mugs doing so.
• Put Goldeneye on pause and headed down for some breakfast, had 2 bits of toast and a smoothie..didn't go down well.
• Caught the bus and watched The Wire season 3 on the way to work.
• Got there 8.20 for my 8.30 start..turns out we got a new person starting so took them on a tour of the building.
• Work went by super quick, was only working from 8.30 to 12 so it was bound to, but I literally felt like I just started.
• Left work at 12, smooth journey home, not TOO much waiting around for buses, especially for a bank holiday.
• Got home and turned into chill mode, loads of PS3, loads of Jersey Shore
• Probably should have made use of the bank holiday but lost motivation, no Carnival for me.
• Headed off to be semi early to watch the rest of Goldeneye, need to be up mega early...
  

What I did today 28/8/10...

• Woke up around 10ish, no stomach ache which was good, made the docs advice worked.
• Got out of bed and came downstairs to have some breakfast, went for toast, a banana and a cup of tea.
• Watched some of the stuff I had sky+'D, nothing to exciting.
• checked fb and twitter..saw my mate saying he was going to see Scott Pilgrim vs The world later, so I said I would tag along.
• Watched the first half of the Arsenal game, good to see my boy Diouf score.
• Played a bit of guitar hero 4, a game I bought many moons ago and played once.
• Had me some dinner while watching the Man United game..Flying Fish and Salad FTW + Man united FTW..3-0 to be exact.
• After dinner headed off to Stratford to meet my mate to see the film.
• OMG..the film was awesome..check my review in the post below.
• Got in from the cinema, watched x-Factor..pretty lame again, then some of match of the day..got bored after the man united game.
• REALLY wanna stay up to watch UFC 118, but I know I am just gonna fall asleep, so I have set it to tape and shall watch in the morning :D
  

What I did today 27/8/10...#SickTimes

• Woke up 5.45 as I had work at 8am.
• Again felt that morning sickness, not ideal..couldn't handle another day of this.
• Called up the doctors at 8.30, got an appointment for 8.45.
• Saw good old Dr Ahmed, he did loads of tests and his diagnosis was thats its gastroenteritis. Told me not to eat for the day and gave me some sachets of horrible tasting stuff to put in my drink.
• Came home and chilled out all day, watched the CSI Triology which was pretty good.
• Watched A-Team which was AWESOME..so so good.
• Nowt much exciting happened throughout the day..just sat infront of the tv on the lappy watching crap tv..although big brother was pretty fun with Mr Snuggles scaring the pants off Nikki.
• Hit the sack and watched the rest of Once Upon a time in China 2.
  

What I did today 26/8/10...bad start..good end...

• Woke up early again, 5.45 as I had a 8am start at work.
• I've been feeling ill for the last 2 weeks in the morning, so tried to change up my breakfast and had 2 bits of toast and a cup of tea.
• Didn't seem to work, as half way on my journey I felt very bad. Hate stomach aches and this was a bad one, felt like I was gonna vomit also. Last thing you wanna do is vommit on a bus, thats just nasty..where do you look.
• So I struggled my way to work, had a long sit down and tried to make it pass...to be honest it hurt most of the day, but towards the end the pain died down a bit.
• Work was ok, not ideal as someone else called in sick, which meant I was on my jack jones, but it weren't to bad.
• Finished work at 4 and was going Westfields after, but had to be there for 6, so killed some time in the cafe watching the wire on my podcast.
• Got to Shepherds Bush station and saw how tragic the weather was outside, nasty nasty rain..not ideal.
• Did a bit of shopping with Parrot..then we headed off to Spaghetti House..had a nice mushroom and pineapple pizza, which at the end made my stomach hurt, I assume for eating sooo much. But it was yum.
• checked out a few more shops, was happy to see some shops in there I didn't know they had..defo need to come back again.
• Left there, watched the last couple mins of the wire season 2 on the train, all in all a pretty good season.
• Got home, watched the end of Big Bro..glad to see Josie has gone, she can be funny..but she can be annoying..was good to see everyone airing out that cock John James.
• Now i'm in bed heading off to la la land while watching Once upon a Time in China 2.
  

What I did today 25/8/10...

• Woke up 5.30
• Went back to sleep
• Woke up at 5.45
• Had some Cheerios
• Made me tuna and sweetcorn sammich for lunch
• Got washed and dressed and ran out the house.
• Bus came right on time and I got to work 6.55..perfect
• Was on one of the boring shifts at work, but it seemed to go pretty quickly
• Finish at 1 and went to play some squash, solo dolo, really tough on your own, got tired quick. Technique seems to have improved a lil though.
• Went to the gym to do a lil back workout, before my last exercise i noticed the trampolines had been set up downstairs so I had to go and have a go. MAYNE I suck now, backflipped right onto my face.
• Headed home, and had summat to watch while watching tv
• The delivery man was a prick and didn't take my phone, so I had to sort it out and get it all ready for them to collect tomorrow.
• Watched Spurs vs Young Boys..pretty good game, Bale and Huddlestone are top draw.
• Now watching Big Bro then heading to bed.
  

What I did today 24/8/10...

• Woke up 9ish
• Got out of bed and had some cheerios
• Turned on the lappy, browsed the usual set of blogs and stuff and watched some WWE Raw
• Headed to the gym for my legs day..dayum that was painful
• Had some toast when I got in and got ready for work.
• Buses all came on time, managed to get to work well on time.
• Pretty dead day again at work, just not many people coming into the center..there does seem to be this one weirdo who keeps coming in and I feel like he is just trying to get one over me.
• Finished at 8, headed home, for once didn't miss the bus on the walk to the bus stop..funny moment on the bus was when the driver shut the door on the old lady.
• Got in, had me din dins and watched big bro..not happy Josie won, but not THAT sad..also TRAGIC who got brought into Ultimate Big Brother...
  

What I did today: 22/8/10...

• Woke up, looked to my right, smiled, then went back to la la land.
• Eventually woke up proper and listened to some music, mainly Dupstep.
• Wasn't till 1ish that I actually had a shower and got dressed.
• Had some breakfast/ lunch/ dinner lol..beef sausages, mushrooms, red onions and noodles..kinda random, but very nice.
• Watched the finale of Americas Got Talent..LAME!!
• Watched some of the womens Rugby from Friday, trying to understand the game a bit, had someone walking me through it, still a lil lost.
• Watched the Yantied vs Fulham game, did NOT go to plan, but I wasn't at all surprised..after seeing Giggs and Owen come on, and seeing Nani miss the penalty, which I knew he would, I could see a nasty draw coming. Was also watching the game with a Fulham fan which was interesting, I guess it was the best result considering the scenario.
• Watched a Sister Act, got a lil distracted but still that films a classic. Watched a few other random things like the program about Horsepower..was actually pretty interesting.
• Headed back to my crib around 10.40..was a bit of a shock when I saw the weather, WTF...some hardcore rain coming down out there..lucky for me I brought my umbrella ella ella and lucky for me I've got The Wire on my iPod to help pass the time on the bus..Season 2 isn't as bad as I remember it to be.
• Got in just after 12, now chilln.
  

Big Brother?????????????

Short and sweet blog post...WTF!! why do I always watch this god damn show? Since the first series which was so new and awesome I have either hated it or had my mind totally BLOWN by the fans who vote out the good people early. How hard is it to realise that the people you say you hate are the people that made the show enjoyable? Its sooooo fn obvious but time after time the good people early doors.

The people who have won every season since the second series, again makes no sense. Brian Dowling? Really? Kate Lawler? Really when Jade was there? Cameron? Who the fuck voted for that loser? Nadia? The chick with the dick? Anthony? Not to bad tbf..Pete? WTF was that Kem-head even doing on tv? Brian Belo? He wet the bed, he has blue eyes, he has FUCKED upp relaxed hair, he can't string a sentence together,I could go on forever on this clown..Rachel Reade? The boring welsh chick? WTF...Sophie Reade? Dogface? tbf she weren't to bad.

I just don't get the show and I don't get why I ALWAYS end up watching it..to be fair the last few years its been on in the background while i'm on the lappy or something, but still I'm bloody watching it.

The current series has been one of the worst, not as bad as number 2 which was shocking, but its been pretty darn poor. Didn't really get interesting until Sam Pepper came in and started airing people out. Somehow he isn't in the final, but freaky boring geeky Andrew is? o_O How does this happen.

As my bro always says, why didn't they just make it like the Big Brother US show? Its 10 times better..people are 'allowed' to talk about nominations and can form alliances with other housemates. This makes so much sense, how can you have a show where you can't say who you are gonna vote..it ends up making everyone look like a backstabber.

People in the US show play 'the game'..it is a game show after all, people are trying to win this shit..they aren't in there for 'the experience'. You get anyone in the UK show trying to win and they get dissed for that, when they showed get praised. no wonder the show is in its last season, here is hoping they can finish with a bang with this kind of reunion show with all the best old housemates. But GOD knows what there best housemates will look like.

GOD..WHY DID I EVEN BOTHER WRITE ALL THIS? I'm going to bed...

Sooooo it unfortunately happened again..the one Sickness of the year...

So it seems at least once a year I get a big illness. My last big one was last April when I had Strep Throat.

To be honest, this wasn't as bad, not near as bad..Strep is probably the worst thing thats happened to me, the pain everytime I swallowed was soooooooo bad..and if i didn't go docs it would never have gone.

My lil illness I have now started last night, went to bed super early considering my normal sleeping pattern. Was supposed to be working at 6.30 today and usually would hit the hay at 11-12, but went to bed at 9.30 as I wasn't feeling the best. Got into bed, put on Crocodile Dundee 2 (as you do lol) and try to sit up and watch.

I nodded off 20 mins later, and kept waking up like every 30 mins to stupid dreams and a pain in my stomach. Couldn't figure out which way to lay down so it wouldn't hurt and I was getting annoyed by the stupid dreams. Kept dreaming that customers from work were ringing me and saying hurry up and get here I need to go gym..I'd look at my ipod to see the time (1.30am) and say fuck off...then realise oh wait I'm in bed wtf. Really random and really annoying.

Woke up this morning at 4.30, struggled downstairs to have some breakfast, then thought to myself..how about I go and get a bucket incase..I sit down and have a bite, 30 second later bluuurgghhhhh..it all came out..dunno why but I can't help but look at it when it comes out. Its horrible, like a bloody car crash, have to take a peak. From then on i knew it was a rapski for my stomach this morning. The worst thing is how tensed your abs go when your about to be sick, freaking hurts. Feels like I've done a thousand crunches.

It lasted to about 10am, started to eat some crackers and break about 3pm and it actually stayed down. Wasn't gonna eat the whole day as I got to the point where there was no food to throw up in me and God knows what was coming out of my mouth lol. But it seems to have died down, managed to have a lovely dinner tonight and it stayed down (flying fish and salad..woop woop.

So here is hoping I can have a good nights sleep and make it to work this time...wish me luck and I hope this is the last one for the year.

Yes I know I'm such a baby, its only a bit of sick :-(

Happy Born Day to MYSELF!!!

I always wondered what age it is when you start getting embarrassed about your age, I think 26 might be that mark. To be honest, I'm not embarrassed about it, but it does seem to be that mark when people go 'WOW your getting on a bit'. When you turn 25, people talk about it being a milestone, when its 26, people are like o_O.

Sooooooooooo I am 26 today and I feel diffe...oh no I don't. I feel the bloody same. Since I turned 18 I feel like I haven't aged at all. One reason being people always assume I look younger then I am and the majority of that probably has to do with how I act lol. I don't think I act like a kid...BUT...when I think about how much I would have respected someone who was 26, I can't imagine someone feeling that way with me.

But I have always been about adapting to my surroundings and being able to fit in with most people. E.g. my lil cousin who is like 7-8 years younger then me, I have always been able to get on with him and fit in with whatever he is talking about. I think most people who were that much older then him probably wouldn't have been able to do that. But again thats probably because I am a big kid at heart. I watch wrestling and have a ridiculous computer games collection for God sake. I have to be a big kid to be into all that still.

I still don't feel 26 though, I look in the mirror and see the same dude as always. One thing I have kind of noticed is my body sure aint what it used to be. And I don't mean muscles or anything but the wear and tear is starting to show. Before last football season I never got injured, maybe the odd freak thing, but now if I haven't had a good stretch its game over for me. I used to pride myself on just turning up and going fully into it, but not anymore. I recall my bro thinking I was a mad man practising hard shooting before a 5 a side game when he was jogging up and down, now its caught up with me :( booooooo.

Never been much of a birthday celebrator, for one reason or another (which I don't want to go into, don't feel like telling all right now)...can't think of many times since I was a lil kid that I did anything for my birthday really. Last year was pretty cool actually, one of the better days I have had in recent times for sure. I defo need to get into the going out spirit more and organising shit for my bday. Speaking to some dude at work who crazy enough is born on the same day as me, I asked what he is up to and it sounded like he had 4 parties planned lol...I'm slacking.

Birthday Presents??? Another thing that hasn't changed for a while. When your a kid birthdays are SUPER exciting because you get that thing you have wanted that you never think your parents will get you, or it would take months of saving to get. In my case I wouldn't ever ask for anything crazy, would rather save a pound from my lunch money and save it that way lol. But anywhooo...I've been asked by a friend 'soooo what do you want for your bday' and I 'honestly' had no idea what to say. I think about the things I am into and:

A) I already bought it for myself.

B) Would rather someone didn't get it for me as they wouldn't no what to get.

C) It would annoy me they bought it from a shop and paid more then I would have if I bough it.

So I dunno what to say. I love computer games and sneakers, I just got some games and I just got 2 pairs of Supra's so i am kind of set for now lol.

Anywhooo thats enough of a rant for now...this has been fun, writing this blog post while listening to Rainymood and the Final Fantasy X/X-2 soundtrack (I couldn't be more relaxed right now)..anywho WWE is on now, so let me get back to being a geek and watch some of that before I head off to bed...Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday deeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar ASHLEY!!!!!!!! happy birthday to ME!!

Gym Day 55..Back and Biceps..

Again worked out at my gym at work, so not the ideal setting, but I got the job done.

Back

2 set of upper back rows, seemed to work my rear delts mostly.

5 set of seated rows, 25 kgs for 15 reps, 25 kgs for 15 reps, 70 kgs for 10 reps, 75 kgs for 10 reps, 70 kgs for 8 reps.

3 sets of pulldowns, 70 kgs for 10 reps, 75 kgs for 6 reps, 65 kgs for 10 reps.

3 sets of bent over rows, 26 kgs dumbbells for 10 reps.

3 sets on the lower back machine (really good exercise).

Biceps

2 sets of cable curls, 20 kgs for 15 reps.

3 sets of dumbbell curls, 18 kg dumbbells for 10 reps, followed by hammer curls with 8 kg dumbbells.

2 sets of cable curls, not sure of the weight as the machines are weird.

3 sets of high cable double bicep cables, 20 kgs for 10 reps.

2 sets of machine curls, 45 kgs for 8 reps

2 sets of hammer curls with 14 kg dumbbells for 8 reps.

Gym Day 54...Chest, Shoulders and Triceps...

Went to the gym at work today, not the biggest fan of it when working chest as it doesn't have alot of the stuff I usually use, but it did a job.

Chest

5 sets of chest press, first 2 sets 15 reps, last 3 10 reps 65-75 kgs.

3 sets of incline dumbbell presses, 20 kgs for 15 reps, 24 kgs for 10 reps, 24 kgs for 8 reps

3 sets of incline dumbbell flys, 10 kgs dumbells for 10 reps

3 sets of cable crossovers, 8-12 reps

Shoulders

3 sets of arnold press, 14 kg for 8-12 reps

3 sets of shoulder raises, 10 kg dumbbells for 10 reps

3 sets of cable upright rows, 25 kgs for 10 reps.

Triceps

5 sets of machine tricep extensions, not sure of weight

2 sets of kickback with 10kg dumbells for 10 reps

3 sets of pushdowns, not sure of weight

Gym Day 53...Arms day...

Yesterday I worked me guns...again I stumbled across a workout on youtube the day of my workout. Was a Bicep routine by Kevin Levrone which I tried to follow as much as I could.

Triceps

2 sets of standing ez-bar tricep extensions, 15 kgs for 15 reps.

3 sets of skull crushers, 20 kgs for 15 reps for 2 sets, 30 kgs for 12 reps, 35 kgs for 10 reps, 35 kgs for 8 reps.

3 sets of kickbacks, 10 kg for 15 reps, 12.5 kgs for 12 reps, 12.5 kgs for 10 reps.

3 sets of pushdowns, 70 kgs for 10 reps, 75 for 10 reps, 75 kgs for 6 reps.

1 set of over head cable extentions, 35 kgs

Biceps

5 sets of ez-bar curls, 2 sets with 20 kgs for 12-15 reps, 30 kgs for 12 reps, 35 kgs for 10 reps, 35 kgs for 8 reps.

3 sets of concentration curls, 10 kgs for 10 kgs for 15 reps, 12.5 kgs for 10 reps, 16 kgs for 8 reps.

3 sets of preacher curls, 40 kgs for 10 reps, 40 kgs for 8 reps, 35 kgs for 10 reps.

Gym Day 52...BACK!!

Sooo..today..well yesterday again technically..I worked my back. Planned on doing legs also today, but after football training yesterday was pure running, I figured I would give them a rest this week.

Back

5 sets of pulls, 8-10 reps using different grips

3 sets of high rows, 80 kgs for 12 reps, 90 kgs for 10 reps and 100 kgs for 8 reps

3 sets of pulldowns, 70 kgs for 10 reps, 77 kgs for 10 reps and then 56 for 12 reps

2 sets of seated rows, 56 kgs for 12 reps, 63 kgs for 10 reps

Gym Day 51..Chest and Shoulders...

So today...well technically yesterday I hit the gym and worked Chest and Shoulders. Chest being one of my fav body parts to work these days as it's the only one where I notice gains in how much I can lift. Anywho after stumbling across a Jay Cutler video

that pop'D up on youtube as a suggested vid yesterday, I decided to try out some of the stuff he did for his Chest routine. He said summat about starting with the upper chest press machine to get the blood flowing throughout all of the chest and the shoulders. So I gave it a try and it felt pretty good, anywho onto the work out...

Chest

Started with 5 sets of upper chest presses, 20 kgs for 30 reps, 30 kgs for 15 reps, 50 kgs for 10 reps, 70 kgs for 8 reps and 80 kgs for 6 reps.

3 sets of incline dumbbell presses, superset with dumbbell flys, 20 kgs for 12 reps followed by 6kg dumbbell flys for 10 reps. 24 kgs for 10 reps followed by 8kg flys for 7 reps, 24 kgs for 8 reps followed by 8 kg flys for 6 reps.

3 sets of dips, 8-10 reps

3 sets of pec dec, 56 kgs for 12 reps, 70 kgs for 10 reps, 77 kgs for 8 reps.

Shoulders

3 sets of arnold presses, 20 kg dumbbells for 6-10 reps.

2 sets of single arm lateral dumbbell raises, 10 kg for 10 reps

2 ses of upright rows with 30 kgs for 10 reps

3 sets of shrugs with 30kgs dumbbells

All in all a pretty solid workout, I can only imagine the pain in my chest when I wake up tomorrow, hopefully hit the gym and work back, possibly legs tomorrow.

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Gym day 50..Arms Day...

Worked Biceps and Triceps on Thursday...

Triceps
5 sets of skull crushers, 2 warm up sets with 20 kgs for 15 reps, then went up to 30kgs for 10 reps.
2 sets of push downs, 70 and 77 kilos for 8 reps then 85 kilos for 10 cheating reps.
2 sets of overhead cable extensions, 50 kgs for 10 reps
2 sets of kickbacks with 10 kg dumbbells for 8-12 reps

Biceps
5 sets of preacher curls, 2 sets of 20 kgs to warm up, went up to 50 kgs for 8 reps.
2 sets of forearm bar curls, 20 kgs for 10 reps.
3 sets of high cable double arm bicep curls, 20-25 kgs each arm.
1 set of ez-bar curls, 35 kgs for 10 reps.

Gym Day 48 and 49...

Day 48 which was Monday the 1st of Feb I worked Chest and Shoulders...

Chest

Started with 5 sets of incline dumbbell press (2 warm ups)

3 sets of chest press

3 sets of pec dec

3 sets of cable crossovers

Shoulders

3 sets of lateral raises

3 sets of shoulder presses

3 sets of front raises

Day 49 was today, working Back and Legs

Back

3 sets of pull ups

3 sets of pulldowns, max weight 84 kgs

3 sets of high rows, max weight 90 kgs

3 sets of low cable rows, max weigh 100 kgs

2 sets of seated rows, max weight 63 kgs

Legs

5 sets of squats, 40 kgs for 20 reps, 50 kgs for 15 reps, 60 kgs for 10 reps, 80 kgs for 10 reps 100 kgs for 10 reps

3 sets of hamstring curls

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Gym Day 46...Chest and Triceps...

So I worked out for the first time in 2010 today. After my last workout late December I had an elbow injury and haven't been able to do anything, even if I wanted to. so today finally got in the gym and it was pretty fun. After the long break I decided to ease my way in so I did some light work.

Started with chest:

4 sets of incline bench press, 30 kgs for 20 reps, 40 kgs for 10 reps, 50 kgs for 10 reps then 60 kgs for 10 reps.

2 sets of cable crossovers, 20 kgs for 10 reps, then 25 kgs for 10 reps.

Pec Dec, 49 kgs for 10 reps, 56 kgs for 10 reps.

Triceps:

3 sets of skull crushers, 20 kgs for 10 reps, 25 kgs for 10 reps, 25 kgs for 10 reps.

3 sets of kickbacks, 10 kgs dumbbells for 10 reps.