For Lack of a Better Title...

So. Feeling a bit better than I was last week (which was quite awful to say the least!) I've started Balance for Life, which for me is 20 reps on several machines such as leg curl, leg extension, abdominal crunch, etc (with a break every 10 reps, thankfully!) I also have to do lots of walking on the treadmill as well as cycling. I don't mind it, to be honest, sure it's hard and the cycling keeps pinching a nerve at my hip (making various parts numb!) and the walking makes me feel light headed, but I want to keep at it. I can do a lot more than I initially thought I could, however once I am finished my routine, I feel like I do after I've been working. So I might be able to manage going twice a week on a good week/at a push. Who knows after two or three sessions, it might get easier. If it doesn't I'll have to look into seeing if it's worth while or not. I've been twice now, both times were supervised and I can say the second time (when I knew what was coming) was much harder.

In nerdalicious news, my AppleTV has shipped! Which means it made its "shipped by September" deadline, just. I'm quite excited about the AppleTV, I think I'll be more excited when I actually have it, but we'll see. I can't wait to be able to watch these movies I've bought from iTunes on my TV though, how I've longed to do that! Also in two weeks, my phone contract goes for renewal so it's back to iOS from Android and a shiny glass iPhone for me. It's not that I don't like Android anymore, it just needs a lot of work doing to it before it's acceptable, plus each new version needs something more, hardware wise and I'm sick of trying to keep up with it. Simple fact is: iOS is simple, it works and I have lots of apps for it already, I like syncing my phone with my Mac and what better to do that with than an iPhone? Fair enough, iPhones aren't for everyone and I tried the alternative and now after two years I've decided that I loved my iPhone, just not the network it was on. Thankfully, I changed network when I ditched my Generation 1 iPhone and I quite like the one I'm with now.

Games! I can't forget about those, now, can I? Sonic Adventure came out on PSN last week and! I've been neglecting it because of Minecraft oh, how I both love and hate Minecraft. It's so addictive and frustrating at the same time, and for the same reasons too. I love building on it and I love adventuring, but I hate having to adventure to build at the same time. Silly, I know. I managed an amazing feat, spending a lot of time down with the bedrock (which is almost at the bottom of the map) getting diamond ore and making diamonds to make diamond tools so I could mine copious amounts of obsidian. I spent my time building a monstrous tower made entirely of obsidian and glass and I have now started on a glass sky corridor system to try and link up other obsidian towers. Quite a challenge, but an interesting one, maybe I should set myself an obsidian forge... I think this afternoon I will give Minecraft a miss and I'll give Sonic Adventure the love it deserves.

On the Magic the Gathering front, I've not been able to play much, but my decks are constantly changing and evolving as I get better at understanding mechanics and combos of the cards themselves. The game is quite special in that one card can make all the difference in a deck and mean you need to use a completely different strategy to use it effectively. I can't wait for the next expansion to be released as it focuses mainly on Artifacts and I love Artifacts! Not just because they are colourless, but because if a game is drawn out, it can make a huge difference having say a Darksteel Reactor ticking away like a subtle Doom Clock, especially when you have charge counter manipulation cards! What I want to do when I get my Scars of Mirrodin collection (as I have the common and uncommon sets coming) is make a Myr deck, because Myr are awesome! The only problem I have is that my main White/Artifact deck is starting to become overrun with Artifacts and the White cards are suffering as a result. It's all about keeping a balance and keeping not only the useful cards, but ones that work well together.

I felt a bit naughty today, as I ordered a Dominos lunch special (large pizza for half price) and had a thin crust double pepperoni, double bacon, double sauce and low fat cheese (as it seems to sit better with my stomach) pizza with a bottle of Orange Fanta (which will last me the whole day if not tomorrow as well) and much to my surprise, there was an incredible amount of topping on it! I had to piece what I wanted onto a plate and eat it with a knife and fork because there was so much sauce and bacon. I've never seen anything like it! I should've taken pictures, but I was hungry and photos of a pizza missing 3 slices wouldn't be as good (or have the same "omfg, topping" effect) it was incredibly tasty! What I didn't notice was that the topping had leaked out of the pizza box and found it's way down my t-shirt (typical, I was wearing a white one too...) which was doubly annoying as I had changed my t-shirt from the sweaty one I had done my Balance for Life session in earlier... Bah! Not to worry though.

This week, I want to try and get another Balance for Life session in (I'm thinking Thursday morning maybe) and then on Friday I need to go to the local crazy house psychiatry centre to have my psychological assessment done. I'm not sure what I'm hoping for, because it could mean that I'm emotionally unstable (but we know that anyway, right?), it could mean that too much is going on for me at the moment and I can't cope! Or, of course, it could mean that my current array of pills is wrong and I need to have them adjusted to something a bit different. Honestly, I hope it's the pills that are at fault, because I feel that they don't work, even after they've been doubled. Then next week, I have a medical for my Employment and Support Allowance, I have no idea what it'll consist of and it worries me. I hate not knowing what they're going to do, because it might mean that I'll be suffering for the next week or so. I've just gotten over a flare up, I don't want to have another, forced one...

Anyway, that's me done for another week/whenever I decide to update next. I'm now going to lay down on my bed (rather than sit on it) and have a sleep to shake off these exercise aches and then I might tackle Sonic Adventure!