More from Oz

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Gosh its been a while since I’ve written, I did start writing a post about how my trip to the blue mountains went but that’s a couple of weeks old now and the brain fog has already set in. Its enough to say that they’re absolutely stunning and well worth a couple of hours spent hiking around the trails and board walks.

I’m still in Sydney but this is my third visit here (in 4 weeks). This is likely to be my last one as well for a while. I came in last night, and work had put me up at Sofitel in the city instead.

I was most disappointed to walk into my room and see two single beds, and tried to exchange rooms to no avail. But once I actually did manage to get to sleep last night I slept pretty well. Its been years since I’ve slept in a single bed (apart from the occasional drunken night) but it wasn’t so bad.

The sofitel isn’t up the same standards as the crown plaza, the room is a hell of a lot smaller and I think the bathroom is less than half the size but at least theres a different room service menu to order from.

I’m hopefully going to go out and find a supermarket tonight to buy some muesli bars and a razor. Damn forgot mine.

I also want to hit the gym, unfortunately its not part of my hotel fees so might have to fork out for it myself. I walked past it this morning on the way to pickup the car and all the gym equipment looks mega squashed in, I hope they have a tv for me to watch. Ahhh so shallow and pathetic am I!.

Had a pretty good wkend, work was crazy busy on Friday as workmates were sick/away so I was the (only) hero of the day. It did mean I didn’t get to Thames till around 8. G was at the pub with some mates, so he was already half pissed by the time I got there. I think we left around 10. Slept till 11am the next day! I spent the whole wkend feeling absolutely shattered so that sleep was good. We had a very unproductive afternoon working on the bikes, then went out for dinner and to the hot pools with a bunch of mates, good fun.

Sunday I watched home and away, I already know what happens cos Oz are ahead and I can’t help but see the captions in the paper but it was still very exciting.

Then I had to leave to drive home, pack and catch my taxi to the airport. At least I’m building up some airpoints.

On the weight front, despite upping my exercise I’ve been putting on weight and my pants are getting tight around my thighs, not good!! Damn alchohol keeps calling my name too which doesn’t help. Must remind myself how many calories it has and ignore all wishful thinking it’ll be so tasty.