HelenP

Urgh. Stop cut and pasting shit from X on here. I came here to get away from that. Urgh.

In the process of ditching Google.

Yesterday we factory reset then switched off all our Google Home devices.

We've already switched from Gmail (that was A Big Thing, I had that address since it's birth).

Turned off Gemini on my phone.

The house is quiet today. I'm going out for a walk.

Yes yes yes yes yes! Politics of HOPE and UNITY! Well done Hannah!

In fact I will literally burst into tears if you make me do that stuff, without any form of additional input to distract my brain from the sheer boredom.

With this in mind, I'm going to try and do 30 minutes on Zwift with a podcast.

I'll take sandbag carries or throws over nonsense like the elliptical trainer, the Stairbastard, or the treadmill or suchlike.

I can't do the slow steady HR zone 2 stuff at all because it's sooooooooo dull. My head will not allow it. 5 minutes and I'm mentally climbing the walls.

Yep. We're going to use my car for the strong woman competition at the end of March so it was practice for that. I got 6 reps in 60 seconds!

Yesterday I deadlifted my car for reps and today I've taught myself how to play the chords to Wish You Were Here on the guitar.

These are two things I couldn't have done this time last year.

I saw this a few days ago and it broke me.

Yesterday I had a session with the 50 kg atlas stone and today, all four limbs hurt. Ow.

... the perfect person to cleverly blend the style & menace of the first film with the plot & characters of the book including the ending. Fabulous.

Thanks, Mr King, again, for many hours of late night reading.

Finally read 'The Shining'. Loved it. The film? Other than the look of The Overlook & the camera work, it didn't stick close enough to the book to be the characters & plot that I loved.

Then I read Doctor Sleep. Loved it. The film? Excellent. I knew I would love it because Mike Flanagan was...

Gym this morning. Log lifts, 2 sets of 12 light then 2 sets of 3 heavy. Ow my shoulders.

Gym today. Didn't meet any newbies 😕 but did get to deadlift and do sandbag over yoke nonsense with my buddies 😊

Surprised that the 50kg sandbag just flew over the yoke today.

Stop asking me to review stuff! Stop it! Stop it now!

It's only January and it looks like the whole world has gone to shit already.

I'm not one of the New Year New Me people.

New Year Same Me just doing my thing throughout the year as I always do.

If you're new to the gym, nice to meet you and how can I help make your experience a positive one?

Everyone starts here and I want you to love it as much as I do.

Happy New Year! Let's hope for peace in 2026.

Heh it will be a while yet! I'm still learning to play. I started with an acoustic last May and I practice every other day but it's a slow (and awesome) process.

I do that too!

Yes! I got a practice amp too!

I think it's the loveliest present that I have ever had 💙

My husband & son made me an electric guitar! It was my Xmas gift from them & they had been working on it secretly for months.

It's absolutely stunning.

Yesterday went really well in the end. A mad day with family and lots of excitement and good food followed by cricket in bed with my love.

The test match! Get your mind out of the gutter!

We thought getting the deaf, non verbal, non-reading teen into VR might be tricky on several fronts.

But it really wasn't!

First game he tried? Angry Birds VR. Absolutely hilarious 😂

And you know that weird crystalline feeling you get in your muscles when you're about to come down with the flu but you're trying to convince yourself it's just fatigue?

Yeah. I've got that. Probably just tired, right?

Well, 1 of us has been down with the sickness for 3 days, the other (me) is knackered from doing all the things & the teen is so excited about Xmas that he was up at 4am.

Don't think we are going to make it to the in-laws for Xmas day tomorrow. Worst case I have to take Z for the day without M.

Can we reschedule Christmas Day for a week on Thursday instead? Might give everyone a chance to get over this flu?

Yeah? Anyone with me?

Solstice dinner is done. Time for a festive nap. Ha ha. No chance.

Right, well, that's all the non-familial Xmas obligations done.

Tomorrow the tree goes up.

I've just unfollowed a podcast because they are giving away a haunted doll with the spirit of a disabled child in it, as a prize in a competition.

WTAF? Where do I even start with that? I can't even. So I won't.