the_vulture

After having developing a bit of a yen for fruit smoothies, I bought a blender on Friday. Nothing spectacular, as I'll be moving soon enough, but, so far, £20 well spent! I've enjoyed a couple varieties of fruit and yoghurt smoothies that not only taste damn fine, but seem to agree very well with the gastronomics. And, hey, as filling as they are, they don't seem to do as much damage to my bodyweight as my typical fare seems to. Bonus!

But that's not the real joy, no! Right now, I am enjoying an incredible American style milkshake blended from Ben and Jerry's Vanilla ice cream and *sigh* Irish cream. Bliss! Yes, Irish cream milkshake! You just can't get that in a restaurant (at least not in any I'VE been in).

I think I will sleep well tonight.

I also had a good run today, about five miles to and through some lovely woods on a hill near home. Got an excellent work out in! I still have to do more regular runs, though. 5 miles or not, once week just isn't enough cardio. I really need to get more yoga in, too. I actually found that it seemed to do well to tone my upper body; I'm getting definition in my upper arms (kewl!).

During the next three months, I HAVE to try and get in a trip to Europe, just to say that, in the damn near four months I've been in living in the UK, I at least made it to the continent ONCE. I've checked out some fairly cheap weekend getaways. I have to decide between Paris, Amsterdam, and various bits of Germany. Hmmm.... Sadly, I do not think I can really afford to do more than one. I'll still need cash for the move back to Canada and to do last bits of puttering around the UK (and maybe Ireland: gotta visit the motherland and all that).

In the next week or so, I'm thinking of checking out the Terracotta Soldiers exhibit at the British Museum. Anyone interested in joining me? I also have to do a photoshoot of famous London landmarks featuring this little guy (seen here in front of the Toronto City Hall):

Can you believe it? All the times I've been shooting in London and I haven't got any with Teddy in them! Must rectify that!

And there's friends I'm going to have to see before I go (saying 'goodbye' to them is going to be the hard part ).