I'm tired and I wanna go home

This week and last I have been attempting to get back into my gym programme and dieting. So far the getting to the gym is coming along nicely, while the dieting seems to have died a horrible death and I can't resuscitate it. Every time I think I'm doing ok, out comes a burger and some fries! Damn Burger Fuel and their divine tofu burgers (I'm a recovering meat eater that keeps falling off the wagon).

Talking of meat eating, I have been an almost-vegetarian for over a year now (I only became almost after the year was up, before that i think I ate meat once and wasn't that impressed). The whole quitting meat thing came about after a traumatic experience when we were given some live crayfish by Simon's boss for dinner (he caught them himself and all). I can't handle things dying. I don't mind killing flies and wasps etc, but only if they die quickly I really can't handle suffering. So when Simon had the dubious honour of having to kill the little critters, not only could I not help him, but once I had heard them flapping I couldn't eat them and stopped eating meat. I cried so much that Simon couldn't eat them either as he felt so terrible! Reasonably pathetic of me I know, but that's me. I can deal with human suffering fine (not to say that it's ok), but critters are another story. If my husband falls back into his lawyerly 'working all daylight hours and many more that aren't' schedule I'm thinking I will spend my time volunteering at the SPCA, although I am worried that I will then bring every second animal home with me. I'm sure the flatmates would be SO pleased!

Poor otters - gonna be hard to get everyone to keep their cats indoors though...

Otters

Interesting snippet picked up at work today - apparently more uncircumcised men contract HIV than circumcised.

CROI-2006

My stomach has a life of its own

today my IBS seems to have returned. It's like my stomach has been inflated with air and the air is being chased around my insides. I also look like I'm pregnant, and while I have put on some weight recently, I'm not. I would like to be. My husband is not so keen.

Pole lantern

Pole lantern
Originally uploaded by grublet.

Two red lanterns

Two red lanterns

Finally it's Friday again - I know I've had a short week (with Waitangi day on Monday), but it feels like I've been at work forever. I need to get out in the sunshine and fresh air... This weekend is the lantern festival, which marks the end of the Chinese new year. I love the lantern festival. I'm gonna take my camera along and get a few more pictures. I drove past Albert Park last night where the festival is held, and this year they have monkey lanterns. I can't wait. Hopefully it's a nice evening so we can have dinner in the park. Simon doesn't like it much coz there are too many people, but tough! The boy needs to learn! ;)

I came across this in my flickr travels. Makes ya feel good and bad and terrible and happy all at the same time. Good that there are people in the world that still sacrifice for the good of other creatures, bad that I'm not out there doing it with them, terrible for the creatures and what they've been put through and happy that some of them get through it ok. I'm feeling the need to do something worthwhile with my life. It will involve animals.

Danakay