La Vie en Crepe

[motherinferior]

And a new door opens...

BD, excellent news about your DB!

Step aerobics, oh I loved that back in the day. I still love my circuits classes, but I was nearly sick on the mat last night when we were doing HIIT. Bleargh. I hated the HIIT when we started doing it last year, but I quite enjoy the challenge now. Although I did start to fear for my health and well-being about halfway through last night.

Step aerobics is coming round again as "Step fit" - dd does this at the leisure centre, when she's not doing "Body Burn".

In other news, the hideous job from before Crimbo is raising its ugly head again. Got an edit back on the little add-on and then a general comment about the main job which bodes ill. Going through the edit of the add-on has given me a throbbing headache and I'm not a headachey person. The worst is, I'm not dealing with the end-client but an intermediary and the end-client is beyond unreasonable. And all other parties are non-native but consider their English perfect.

Am trying to calm myself after another time-wasting meeting with a clueless SW

What is HIIT? It sounds awful!

High Intensity Interval Training. Or as we know it: The Fifteen Minute Fat-Burner.

Oh Stropps that sounds rubbish.... I really do need to get to a gym or going running or something don't I?

Here the team member who caused me so much grief last year continues to be an arse. I just want to shout 'You are bloody unreasonable and self centred. Now get on with your bloody job' but it's hardly a controlled approach is it?!

Aahh, that's sort of what we do on a Tuesday!

I would like it on record that I have just had a successful client meeting

That's it for the year then

MI - how about these? here

Yep, MI, that's your lot.

BD - sometimes the UNcontrolled approach pays dividends.

I'm surprisingly un-stiff this morning (but maybe it will hit tomorrow). I quite like an aerobics class with a dance-y element to it - I've always fancied Zumba. This Fierce one was led by a high-energy Beyonce-alike, wearing a tribal feather head-dress.

I'm not sure how often I will make it to the gym - my evenings are so busy, which is why the early-morning running succeeded where previous endeavours had failed. But I shall persevere. It is free, after all.

Sounds very 80's The headdress, I mean!

I go to the gym in the mornings (some earlier than others!) DS will only run in the dark!

I've seen those Dune boots in JL and they are not all that nice. Thin leather and not v. good quality. Although they might be worth a punt for the sale price.

I'm beginning to think I need to apply for jobs as an ... um ... damn. Can't think of anything I can actually do. The trouble is, the market I was working in and enjoying 10 years ago has more or less disappeared for a variety of reasons. I keep trying to convince myself I can somehow develop a new skill and obtain new clients, but I think actually I'm going to have to admit defeat. Trouble is, this is where living in a small town in the country suddenly seems really limiting. I have no clue what to do about work. I could get new clients if I was based in my source language country, but I'm not.

Time to find something else to do, but, er, what?

BD - so pleased to hear about DB. Stropp's that sounds really frustrating. I have met French people who consider their English fluent. I sometimes wonder if it's me going mad or them. Mind you, I've been here so long now that my spelling is definitely going a bit wonky.

I restarted aerobics but my gym is full of crepeys in baggy t shirts and trackie bottoms so I'm perfectly happy there, even if I go left when everybody else goes right. Beware of zumba - not good for crepey knees.

I am pyrolysing my oven. It's smelling a bit burnt. I'm crossing my fingers it's not going to burst into flames.

That's another fifty quid saved, then. I was all poised to order. Sounds as if sticking with a basic DM paradigm is best...

So MI we've saved you about £90 between us!!

Where did you get your boots you were wearing the other night?

Those are DMs. Lined workmen's boots (snigger) bought on sale.

I did ponder these but suspect what I should do is just save up and blow £125 on a pair of Timberlands...which I've just seen on sale. Ahem. [http://www.timberlandonline.co.uk/en/womens-nellie-pullon-winter-boot-8302R.html?dwvar_8302R_color=242&catID=women_footwear_boots&dwvar_8302R_footwearDimension=040#start=31&cgid=women_footwear_boots Like these.]]

Go for the Timberlands MI. My DD wants low navy DM's. She already has a high black pair. Haven't dared take the plunge myself yet. Feel too crepey to pull it off.

Just seen everyone else is enouraging you to save MI and I'm saying splurge . Well you can splurge with the cash you've saved on lesser quality boots.

Embarrassing moment today. Colleague wanted to complain about manager. Discussed it with me, I said I'd support her.

She sent me the gist of her complaint in an incoherent, mis-spelt, ungrammatical e-mail with rogue apostrophe. I dutifully corrected errors & suggested clearer wording.

She replied that she'd already sent it. Was just sending a copy to me for information . She's a highly-paid professional whose first language is English.

Oh, well.

Oh Auriga, I feel your pain. And Stropps too.

Hatty, according to Another Parisian Poster nobody in Paris ever goes to exercise classes, at least not anyone French. Is she wrong?

Ha, Auriga, that's funny. I am the resident grammar policeman at work. Our MD is fond of massive sentences and apparently allergic to punctuation, and our H&S Manager sprinkles random capitals everywhere.

Herbs, I meant to say earlier, save your pennies and forget the padded parka for a few months. Tis nearly the end of winter, Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, innit?

I just found out our MD goes to the same gym as me. I am fervently hoping we won't find ourselves cross-training side by side.

Or in the shower.

Auriga .

MI - I can assure you my exercise class is full - although I am just outside Paris - hmm - need to check with Bonsoir who's in the centre and consequently a true Parisian - I'm more Shepherd's Bush

And more boots...

Oh like them MI!!

Think they'd fit over my calves? I've had kids' boots before...

The Inferiorettes hate them