fringe benefits?

its been a while since my last post, mostly because my mum has been unplugging various plugs from the pc in an effort to reduce the near-astronomical electricity bill and thus i've been having trouble getting the internet going. luckily my brother was home over the weekend and all the plugs are now where they should be again. and in case you couldn't tell from the photos have been busy catching up with the girls. met up with some old friends, made some new ones. good times.

have been doing the usual workouts. had an appointment with the specialist regarding my knee on friday. he says he's 90% sure the pain i still experience sometimes is due to cartilage damage and doesn't feel an MRI scan is necessary at the moment since the pain's not getting any worse. he's given me some glucasamine(?) to try and says that i need to avoid high impact exercises. i remember when my knee first started hurting last august, it used to be constant and i cldn't work out at all. it's considerably better now and occurs only when i've overworked my knee for an extended period of time. i can even run and go on the stairmaster for a while with minimal pain. its tiny steps but in the right direction no less. i just find it hugely ironic that i had to wait to be plagued with knee pains after having lost 25 kilos. God certainly oprates with a sense of humour.

i haven't seen 64 on the scale all this week. it's been 65.5 most days. i have been having my period tho so it may be the usual water retention. bought a book on resisance training yesterday, and hopefully it'll help provide some variation to my regular routine. i still find it hard to get thru all the exercises that i used to do with din in an hr, it usually takes me 1 1/2 hrs. i waste a lot of time between machines as i've been working out during peak time where most of the machines i need are taken up. thus the need to learn other exercises to work the same muscle groups, preferably using free-weights, which i find much less intimidating.

i've been saying i want to get bangs for a while now and i finally did it today....excuse the sans-make-up-haven't-slept-enough look....

i can't decide as yet whether i like it or not. but its different that's for sure. maybe it'll grow on me, or at the very least to just grow, so its all good. have a good week ya'all!