End of the week

It's Friday. Obvious, I know.

Plans for the weekend... get a haircut... go shopping for a dress... meet my sister Mel at Healesville... go see the Bombers play Brisbane...

Play tennis tonight. We've got a new lady joining us, which could be cool. It's a different dynamic with an extra person.

We're trying to set up a friendly tennis match with two people James works with. And we're also trying to drum up enthusiasm and people to join us white water rafting.

Bag, the guy I work with, is jumping out of a plane tomorrow. I think that's going a tad too far, but I'd like to go paragliding one day. I know you can in Bright.

Oh well, I've got to make a cup of tea, then get into my work. I've got tons to do, and want to try and get the list down.

Enjoy your weekend. Cristy.

Weird week

Well we said goodbye to Alex on Sunday. James helped pack the truck, while Julia and I cleaned the walls. Alex smoked inside, and therefore all the nicotine and tar were dribbling down the wall in brown streaks. Siiiiccckk.You'd wash it all down, and then come back and the wall was brown again where more had leaked out. After that we had a barbeque at James' parents house.

I got a $100 myer voucher from work today, as an incentive - don't have plans for it as yet, but might go towards buying a new frock. We've got the end of financial year party in 2 weeks, and it'd be cool to get something new.

Uni started officially yesterday, but I still haven't received half of my notes. I'll just make do with what I've got.

Cool, that's it for now.
Cristy

Almost the weekend

It's weird, everything I do during the week is about getting to this point. Friday, and the weekend. I ran on the tready last night, but it's not easy to run 7.5 km after dinner, so I only did 6km. I have to always run before dinner from now on.

I've found that I'm more tired these days, my body is repairing itself everyday, using more energy, for less energy going in. It makes it harder to get up in the morning.

Don't know what's on for the weekend. We have tennis tonight, maybe a farewell for Alex, maybe we'll see a movie. I have to go shopping for a dress soon, for our end of financial year work cocktail party.

Have a great weekend, hope I do too!

Cristy

Hump Day

It's Wednesday, hump day, the middle of the week, it's all down hill to the weekend!

Exercise is going great, I did another 7.5 km run last night and weights training on Monday night. I'm glad I'm not as sore today as I was on Monday after the run.

Just found out James' brother has a job in Alice Springs... a massive change, but I guess he's at the age to do it.

Work is good. I've got a few things happening. Have a voice over coming in at 9 this morning, and a long list of stuff to do.

Uni starts soon. I don't have exams this semester for any subject, so James and I might be able to take a well deserved holiday. (Usually I use all my holidays for exams.)

Kelli found a new flat. She and Josh got the keys last night.

Anyway, that's about all for today, hump day.

Cheers, Cristy

Mon-dee

I'm sore this morning. Yesterday I ran 7.5km on the treadmill, in training for the 7.5km fun run. It took 50 minutes, and I ran the whole thing... now I need to add some incline and up my speed a bit. But tonight I'll do weight training because I'm too sore to run.

James has the day off today, he has a day in lieu for working the other weekend. At work I'm fairly quiet. In the process of refocusing my role, and therefore removing a great deal of my workload, which I'm not sure the creative department appreciates.

I spoke to Mum last night, she sounds busy... always busy.

Ok, have to do some work now, have a good week

ck

Rainy Saturday

Woke up this morning to lots of rain... it's great because we need it, but no so good because we can't do the 1000 steps Kokoda Memorial. James is still in bed, he stayed up last night to watch the Tour de France, and didn't get to bed until 5am.

We played tennis last night. We changed courts, and now have to put up with loud trains, car traffic and helicopters flying over... not so good when you're trying to concentrate. Plus some of the lights were out so it was really hard to see the tennis balls.

Well what's on the agenda for today... I'm going to do my weights for an hour this morning, go for a run on the treadmill this afternoon, and babysit Claudia, Annika and Claire tonight. Maybe clean up the house a bit, enjoy having no Uni or freelance work to do, and enjoy the sound of the rain.

I might walk around to the shop in a sec and buy a nice coffee.

But first, here's a picture of James and I at the zoo...

Here's a pic of our cat, Sooty

And here's a picture of our favourite camping spot...

I wish it was spring...

Cheers, Cristy

The story's intro

This isn't the first time I've blogged. In fact, I've started plenty of blogs, but never really continued them. But my sister's blog inspired me, so I started this one. I guess it's a way of keeping in touch with what's going on. And I always write better than I speak, so people are more likely to understand what I'm on about if they read it.

So, the intro... My name's Cristy. I live in Richmond, Victoria, Australia... right near the famous MCG. Close to the Yarra, and the perfect distance from the city. I live there with my partner James, and our cat, Sooty.

I work in St Kilda, as a creative strategist for a radio network. That means that I'm part of network revenue generation and client strategy - or getting new clients onto the station by impressing their agencies. Basically I'm the idea generation, scripting and packaging part of it.

I also study a Uni degree part time, majoring in marketing, and I just got last semesters results today! I've got a year and a half to go, but it's easy when you can see the light at the end.

Ok, I'm going to continue this blog, I'll put a reminder in my calender to post again on Monday - it only takes 21 days to start a habit... "Must keep blogging"!

Have a great weekend! James and I are babysitting for his sister Micaela on Saturday night, we'll do the 1000 steps Kokoda memorial walk in the Dandenongs sometime over the weekend too. We've got it down to 25 minutes up, and are hoping to smash that time. We're still embarrassed by Ron Barassi making it up and back, twice, in the time it took us to do it once... and he's like 70.

We've also got our sights set on the Melbourne Marathon 7.5km fun run, in October.

All the best

Cristy