February 2012
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"My butt just hit a whole new level of OWWW..."
I promised a while back to make my blog less about reading and training.
Apparently I lied, because here comes an update on my training! [Feel free to close your eyes and scroll on…]
So far, this week has been a nasty catch-up from last week’s measly schedule.
Tuesday: 30 mins core, 30 mins cardio, 45 mins Sh’Bam Wednesday: 60 mins ViPR Thursday: 60 mins NTC get Strong!
Every...
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February blues...
I can breathe out again, the overly-long Stockholm post has finally been written up and posted. It took me much longer than I thought it would…
LOOK OUT, rant ahead.
I’ve been so caught up with everything since I came back, I still have my luggage to unpack and books everywhere. My room is in chaos right now, and I don’t have the energy to deal with it.
I suspect I have a case...
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Stockholm weekend
I’ve been so tired and busy since I came back from Stockholm so I haven’t had the energy or time to recap my latest weekend shenanigans, but I’ll type until I eventually fall asleep here at my keyboard. [Great compromise, no?]
So I left for Stockholm on Friday evening, in the day I actually had a quick lunch [Caesar salad seen below]] with FRIDA who is a busy busy bee studying...
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Week #8: Kill procrastination.
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Get strong...
I tried out a new class at the gym today, known as NTC Get Strong. The choreography was developed by Nike, and is part of Nike Training Club.
Saying that my butt has been really sore ever since I left the gym, would be a huge understatement. I’m not sure I’ll be able to walk like a normal person tomorrow, but that’s fine since I won’t be heading into Lund either way as we...
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Socially-acceptable-to-eat-chocolate-and-cry-day!
I’m all for positivity and love and spreading joy and all that pink fluffy crap.
But there’s just something of a thorn with Valentine’s Day. Apart from it being an eyesore when running around town…Hence why I’ve been avoiding any and all city centres…I had no choice but to follow Sofia to town yesterday, and it was almost more than I could handle.
I’m...
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Our flaws and imperfections
“My legs are too short, my arms are too long, my breasts are too small, my butt is too big, my nose is too high, my lips are too thin, my hair is just awful…”
Why do we have to keep beating ourselves up over these things?
Who do we allow to set the standards these days?
A friend of mine asked me the other day what I found attractive in the opposite sex and seemed to be...
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Week #7: Not getting mad at the bus drivers...
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A night of Piggie
Good morning,
Good morning indeed.
I’ve just woken up and my body is aching all over from yesterday’s 10 AM bodypump. I don’t know why my body still aches from bodypump, it’s not like I’ve increased my weights in the past week… Maybe I’m actually lifting the weights properly nowadays….Or not. Either way, achy achy.
On Friday, I was out with...
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Back in time...
Before going to bed, I went back in time to see what went on two years ago today, to a much younger Ashley.
[Blog post from Feb 8th 2010]
I can’t stop laughing, for so many reasons.
How times change.
How things never turned out the way you planned..
How blunt I sound and how I can read my own panic in the last paragraph.
Oh maturity, when will you ever catch up to me?
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A trip to faraway Stockholm-land...?
Today has been a tipsy-turvy day.
I woke up, got to Lund for a lunch meeting with D-Chip, got on the bus to get back to Malmo. Initially planning on going to the library to study until it was time for training but missed my bus stop in town and decided to go home anyway.
Once I got home, I opened my programming books and fell asleep on the couch.
When I woke up again, I felt horrible- and...
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Taking walks in the cold...
I write this, wrapped in my warm fuzzy blanket I got the other week. It’s such a life-saver these cold days.
School wasn’t too intense today, and I left at 2:30 PM. I spontaneously met up with Piggie at her building [the Health Science Centre] after her lecture ended at 3 PM. It takes about 20 minutes for one of us to walk to the other’s building, but in this cold it felt like...
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Week #6: Before getting angry or agitated: Close...
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In with the new, out with the old!
I’m so tired.
After being with Piggie for most of the day, Friday- I went straight to the gym for the usual bodybalance and bodypump classes. After that, I spent a few hours playing Team Fortress 2, and when it was time to sleep I went out like a lightbulb.
I got up at 8 AM Saturday morning, running errands and training at 10:30 AM.
After a quick lunch and change, I reached Lund at 3 PM...
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Reality vs The Sims vs ...?
I’m feeling a little light-headed at the moment.
That may be blamed on the icy winds that try to pierce through our clothes and skin, chilling us down to the bone every since second we spend outdoors these days…. Or it could be due to the fact that I just played two hours of Team Fortress 2 with a friend from school and laughed til my sides hurt…… Or it could be due to the...
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Ouchie
Yesterday, I dragged Sofia with me to the gym. I brought her in as a guest and she got to tag along on sh’bam and bodypump. I pushed myself beyond any limits and came home with aching muscles, wobbly knees, and of course a smug smile of pride.
We didn’t have lectures today so Sofia got to stay over and we took our time going to school this morning. All we had was a lunch meeting and...
January 2012
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First world problems...Because we take the world...
I’ve been so bi-polar today, I almost caught myself by surprise, and that says quite a lot.
Being sleep-deprived and stressed does not help one attain a stable mentality, so I discovered.
I was really tired after a whole weekend of playing games, jumping around, disturbing people playing games, and just having fun in general. It’s a good thing we don’t have these LAN-parties...
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Week #5: Ask myself "do I need this" at least 5...
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Peace of mind
Here I am, bright and early…Well 9 AM isn’t that early I guess…
I’m in the newly-renovated part of our building, and I can’t express [nerd-alert] how much I love being in here. It’s quiet for the most part, and if people make too much noise, you can slip away into one of the small rooms that have sliding glass doors…I’ll have to include a picture of...
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Pushing on...
My plans went a little askew anyway.
I ended up waking up at 6:30 on Tuesday morning, giving me 5 minutes to eat breakfast, pack my bag and drive to the gym. Needless to say, I didn’t go- and ended up sleeping in till 8 AM- that wasn’t too bad, if I’m to be honest.
I finished Catching Fire yesterday, and have made my way through a third of Mockingjay. I definitely understand...
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Post-ranting
Now that I’m over that little rant I had going on earlier…
I overslept by an entire hour this morning, which is of course, never a good thing. [I seriously need a new alarm clock, the radio is NOT enough]- But despite flinging myself out of bed at 7 AM, I managed to throw on my clothes, pat my face with whatever I could get hold of, throw in my books into my bag and head out the door...
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January issues...
People can be so aggressive these days.
Either I’ve been out of Malmo for too long, like not being in town too often anymore as I spend the majority of my waking time in Lund… But coming back always seems to surprise me in a way. Especially on buses. People aren’t friendly, they snap at you, especially when the bus is jam-packed. I understand their annoyance, I’m annoyed...
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Week #4: Snacking healthy.
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Year of the Dragon
Gong xi fa cai!
It’s Chinese New Year’s eve today! And even if I hadn’t known that before today, I’d have understood it after logging on to facebook. My news feed is completely spammed in Chinese and pictures of big new years dinners from relatives and friends.
Considering how little sleep I got on Friday night, I was going to take it easy today. Mummy and I cleaned the...
Weekend adventures in Lund
A quick weekend recap headed your way!
Yesterday was such a long and eventful day - it felt like it spanned over three separate days, or more. In fact, this whole week has been so long and eventful…. I think the break was as uneventful as it could get, that everything is such a contrast in comparison.
And even though I said I wasn’t going training on Thursday, I went anyway. I do not...
Anonymous asked: why my hand feeling cold and shaking and cramp
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Confidence..?
It’s a little past 6 AM, and I’m slowly chewing through my bowl of müsli.
Going to sleep last night was no easy task. I kept fidgeting, tossing and turning and thought I’d never be able to sleep again, ever. I think I managed to slip into sleep by midnight, landing on barely 6 hours of sleep. I find it odd how I can force myself up despite minimal sleep, but can’t for...
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Pat on the back
Day one of school for this year started yesterday with a math lecture at 8 AM followed by a lecture in the follow-up course in programming at 10 AM. After lunch, Sofia and I sat down in a quiet room and did our math exercises, without talking, for two whole hours. We took breaks, walked around and worked through questions we were stuck on, together- and I was so glad we finally found a study...
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Lost in Lund
My night ended rather late, but I forced myself up after a measly 6 hours of sleep.
After a quick breakfast, I threw my things to whisk off to the gym for 45 minutes of shape. The instructor was one I hadn’t had before and I was really disappointed. She was terrible at instructing us on what was coming up next, didn’t correct anyone if they did the exercise incorrectly, and...
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Girl's night home
I’ve been everywhere this weekend, or so it feels. And now I have a brief 30 minutes of typing it all away before I go to bed, it’s all in this week’s new goal to sleep before midnight, and I of course need my half hour of reading before I can doze off. I’ve decided it’s all about managing your time properly- and in that I’m going to be the absolute best....
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Week #3: Go to bed before midnight
Edit: Amazingly enough I managed to stick to this goal all week, apart from Friday night’s lapse. I think I’ll try to keep it going as regular as possible.
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Friday nights
I finished watching Dead Poets Society an hour or so ago, and had an immense lunch. There’s something about waking up after 10 AM…. Everything becomes so unbalanced, the day shifts by a few hours and by the time you’ve really woken up, it’s dark outside your window.
Yesterday, I spent all afternoon reading, and spent a maximum of 20 minutes on my computer. [This rarely...
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Stop being boring Ashley.
As I was finishing up my latest rant last night, I realised that all I’ve been writing about this past week [or longer], has been training and reading. And the occasional cleaning-post.
And after dinner, mummy pointed it out to me. “All you write about is your training and reading. It’s really boring to read your blog nowadays. Training, reading, training, training, reading....
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Way back when books still existed...
Earlier today as I was passing my time in town, on my own- I was browsing shops at random. Like an arrow, I shot to the nearest bookstore in sight. Even though I do 90% of my book-reading on my kindle nowadays, doesn’t mean I still don’t enjoy the occasional bookshop browsing.
I was a little shocked when I stepped in.
There was one section of the store that set up different...
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A day by foot
I haven’t been on my feet this much in a long time. Today was definitely a lot of walking, particularly- walking in boots that were a little too tight for my feet, and this I noticed already in the beginning of my walking spree. Not so fun.
I left my exam in Lund at 10 AM, my morning started at 5:40 AM when I was resolute on not oversleeping AGAIN. As a small comfort I made a quick...
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I hope stupidity isn't a contagious thing...
So, my maths exam was this morning. I would tell you how it went but as I would actually have had to do it to tell you, I guess I can’t.
I woke up a full hour later than I was supposed to, just in time to miss the last bus I could take to get there in time for the exam, and so cursing myself repeatedly, I went back to sleep. What else could I do by then?
This means I’ll have to take...
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Week #2: See the bright side of everything...
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And here we go again...
Doing my last bit of cramming for tomorrow’s math exam. I am having zero confidence about it at this point, and my brain is turned to mush so I really can’t bring myself to worry about it any longer. If I walk in there with the hopes that maths has come to befriend me again, I’ll walk out with a smile. Otherwise, I’ll just go to the gym and take out my aggressions in a...
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