I wish I was big

I weigh 152 lbs. 6 months ago I weighed the same. But I cut back on my weight because I saw a fat belly forming. But I'm supposed to be getting bigger as part of my training programme. This time I gonna push through until February and then concern myself with toning up. I hit the gym four times a week and love the whole process. It must take the muscle heads years to get that big and ripped. 

God, I'd like to be big just once. 

Trump time.

Donald Trump, tv show host, is now the president of the USA. Now I'm not political at all but this whole mess does intrigue me. 

This is a historic moment in err , history. 

In other news, we woke up to snow today in England. The cold was quite a nasty surprise but the ghost of Xmas has come early. It's only a week into November for heavens sake. 

I worked over last night for the first time in ages, until 8:45pm. But with podcasts in my ears, it was pleasurable. I'm a little tired today but it's fine. I missed my Tuesday gym session because of it unfortunately. I'm currently 150 lbs. my goal is 160 lbs and I'm on the fence between wanting to trim belly fat and chasing the heavier body weight. This is the struggle of the bulk. 

I'm loving the gym though and going four times a week. 

I had my son over for five days whilst his mum went away to Rome for her 40th. That was special for us both. Bonfire night, watching the fireworks, eating pie and peas and then a trip to the freezing MAGNA at Sheffield. Seeing him curled up in his onesie on my couch was amazingly cute. 

It's hibernation time now though. 

T-shirt surprise

My son received his limited edition t-shirt from preordered DanTDM's upcoming book. He was very happy. It's so great to see him smile and the thing is, he's always happy. He played a little Skylanders Swap Force last night before I had to take him home and then I headed to the gym. At 10pm I was the last customer in. That made me feel dedicated. 

I realised the Minecraft Story Mode chapter 8 was finally released and so I'm itching to make that YouTube series but also had plans to go to the cinema tonight to see Don't Breathe. We'll see how I feel post gym. 

* it turns out I went to see Don't Breathe at cineworld instead. It made a change to be there and I enjoyed myself. Straight to bed when I got home though. 

Hot September days

A night with my son as he watched  YouTube on the iPad. He did take a break so we could record us killing the ender dragon though. The hours go too quickly when we're together. He read to me then I read to him and he went to bed as I started to quietly record YouTube vids. 

Today is another hot day as I await gym time at 4pm. 

God I love the gym. 

I'm happy in my little world but my breakthrough is that I'm on tinder. 

But I only LIKE the best blond girls of my type. Those who would never look favourably at me. But it's Astro in the right direction. 

I don't see much of friends these days and I so miss that I must say. 

Lives are pulled in different directions and everyone can't be arsed meeting up. 

Storms and YouTube

Huge storms blew in last night for a good ten minutes after record breaking temperatures for September. I decided the roads would be quiet for me to go to the supermarket. I felt of made an error of judgement as I pushed a metal trolled through an open empty car park under lightening. 

My body felt ripped from the gym session and my tight t shirt showed off my recent gains. Only I noticed. The gym is going much better now I'm four times a week and having Saturday and Sunday off is a bonus. 

I decided to swap my sofa and armchair around in my living room and that seemed to cause a domino effect of cleaning. I later sat down and recorded an episode for YouTube with my young friend in the U.S. 

Scarborough 2016

Scarborough 1/8/2016

My son and I arrived at 10:30am and plonked ourselves in our room. He asked for the wifi code first and watched YouTube on his bed. A nice walk took us to the beach and we made our map of Abarat in the sand. 

We ate our tea in Pizza Hut which was surprisingly good value. 

My son had his first ride on a Ferris wheel and the two goes on The Twister as he loved it. 

Memories made. 

Our second day was spent in Alpamare water park which was just four days old. 35 degrees C in the outside pool. 

July 2016

It's the middle of July 2016 and summer is....oh it's raining.again. 

But at least it's Friday and I'm picking up my wonderful son once more from school. We have a couple of Youtube gaming videos to record and our plans also include watching Ice Age 5. Now he's 8 I feel our playing is on borrowed time. Playing in the sense of his childlike imagination that is. He seems happier In front  of his favourite you tubers. 

My back pain from my gym injury is no longer a problem for me. The way I lift has greatly improved. I'm doing a 5 X 5 programme still and have just swung into personal bests which hopefully reflect my muscle gains. I am slowly switching gears into a cutting phase as I reduce my calories by 100 cals per day. I'm still loving the gym though and that's a great feeling. 

My free time is reduced due to my Sunday working hours at my local cinema but cash is cash. 

Last night my ghost team had a very quiet investigation in Glusburn which is just the way it goes sometimes. But we are keeping busy and have a growing number of followers. 

Today I booked tickets for The Gruffalo Child theatre show in Halifax. We enjoyed the pirate dinosaur one last time and yet again it feels like these childish ones are limited before he outgrows them. 

I'm in a happy place and yet a busy one. But that gives me the confidence that I'm embracing life to a good extent. 

Five years ago I had my last alcohol and I'm amazed I managed that long. I do feel I've earned a try of it again at least. 

I think everyone has their vices but I feel pretty clean living right now. 

I'm still single. I'm not truly looking to change that plus I don't go out enough to meet new people. 

The bottom line is 'I'm happy.' 

There's nothing more important than that. 

 

Check in

Yet again it's been much longer than acceptable between blog entires. My roll at my local cinema has been made into an every Sunday role or about 9 hours. This brings a wonderful extra bit of cash every week. 

This reduces my cineworld Sunday time but money is more important. 

The pleasure is in projecting films to an audience. It gives me such a buzz. 

I'm currently intermittent fasting everyday by only eating my calories between 12pm and 8pm. One week in and I've lost an inch from my belly. 

It's Friday and I'm waiting for my boy to come out so we can watch Civil War. Plus eating the lovely ice creams. 

So all things are going just swell. 

My reappearance in 2016

Hello the future. I've been expecting you. There's been a gap since my last blog. Obviously there's much to tell and it would be overwhelming to write it all out. Instead I'm going to start telling about the present day each time and you'll get to grips with it. 

I sit outside my son's school on a Friday while the overnight snow melts into currents for the drains to swallow. The painkillers for my month old sciatic gym injury are quieting the fact that I'm sitting. I seriously look forward to getting officially back into training. 

I haven't seen my son mid week due to van breaks having no fluid. But I'm back on wheels now and I'm excited to have him back at my side. 

After getting mentioned twice in the second Anytimepodcast episode, I look forward to being in episode 3. This is because they hardly get emails. 

Today we have no plans for our evening outside of buying my son new wellies. 

 

There's new things to talk about in my life these days but they just haven't come up today. Most importantly, I am good. Trying to be careful with money and keeping spirits up. 

CW