Spotty

Below are a couple of pictures of my Tammy with the chickin pops, as she calls it. Fortunately it has not turned out to be too serious, probably because she had her vaccinations, and at least now she's had it and won't get it again. Still, it's not been pleasant for her and she's quite had enough of it now. Yesterday at around 11.30 I got a call to go and fetch her from the school because her teachers said she had chicken pox. I remember sending her to school with 3 small spots on her face near her nose, which I assumed to be little mosquito bites. By the time I fetched her she was covered in spots. Despite appearances she was her usual cheerful self and quite excited about her "chickin pops".

Tonight Tammy is sleeping over at her granny Bev because Liezel and I are out early tomorrow morning to hike up Lions Head. We're looking forward to it as a great bit of exercise in the fresh air outside of the gym for a change, though if I have my way I'll probably pop to the gym for a session on the squash court anyway.

Yesterday morning I mentioned I'm going to get a new squash racquet. Well after Liezel came home to relieve me of chicken pox duty (because I haven't had the pox, she has, and I really don't want to get it now!) I headed down to Sportsmans Warehouse and purchased an awesome new Wilson racquet. Took me a good half hour to decide on the one I like, and I absolutely love this racquet. I went to the gym and spent a full 2 hours playing squash, this thing is like a cannon and I felt like Rambo with a squash racquet! Hell yes I was knackered afterwards, especially as I'd had a few tough games with some other old bloke along the way, but I thoroughly enjoyed playing with my new toy! It's light and flipping fast!

So this evening after we dropped Tammy off at Bev's, Liez and I went down to Canal walk to do some shopping. I invested in a whole new range of clothing including some smart shirts, trousers, jeans and T-shirts. It's going to be fun paying off my Edgars account over the next 6 months to pay this lot off, but at least I'll have some cool new clothes to go with my hot new bod!

Now I just need a sexy hair cut.

After shopping we stopped off at Ocean Basket for our weekly treat, a break from the diet. It was a reasonably healthy meal, we both had grilled fish and 6 prawns with stir fried vegetables instead of chips. It was actually a very tasty meal, and goddamn it felt so good to eat a decent hearty meal like that again instead of the meagre rations I've been limiting myself to over the last 10 days!

I'm having my doubts about dropping down to 95kg by this coming Friday, I seem to be hovering around 99kg the last 2 days, probably because I'm countering the lost fat with new muscle, but I'm hoping to at least drop another 2 kg by Friday. I'll gym every day this week but I'll stay off the weights and just play squash and possibly cycle just to do fat burn and not muscle gain. After next weekend I'm happy to drop 1 to 2 kg a week until I get to around 85kg at which point I'll change tactics to maintain not going over 85kg in the long term. If I can do that at 80kg even better, but I'm being realistic.