Bern has had a nasty bout of conjunctivitis recently, and it’s been rather warm, and therefore bright, so Bern has been wearing here sunglasses more than usual. This morning Liz told mummy to “Put her cold glasses on” and it was a few seconds before Bern twigged that Liz meant her normal, prescription glasses. Cold is opposite to sun, so if one pair were sun glasses, the other must be cold glasses.
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Lizzie is in the process of giving up her daytime sleep. Some days she manages without it, some days she asks to go to bed, and some days she just crashes out. Bern and I found Lizzie like this this afternoon. She fell sound asleep standing up at the drawing table in the middle of a drawing. Even when Bern picked her up to lay her on the couch she was still out to it.
Things have slowed down rather a bit already. I pulled a hamstring (again) playing tennis on Tuesday night. I really need to find some way to warm my hamstrings up better before and during the sets, or possibly just go for the deep heat.
I will do my best to go for a quiet walk on the treadmill later this morning, just to stretch it out a bit.
13 minutes on the treadmill mainly at 7Km/hr with 2 x 1-1.5 minute bursts at 9Ks (1.5km total)
2 minutes doing ab and shoulder excercises
3 minutes in the excercise bike
I managed to do all of that with Bec milling around and wanting to use all the equipment and chatting the whole time.
I\’m still too short of bandwidth for the month, so I can\’t watch any of the video podcasts.
The time has come to start looking at how I live some parts of my life and to make some healthy decisions while I\’m younger and it is a bit easier.
Over the last 2 years or so, I\’ve really let my fitness slide. Doing Tae Kwon Do in my teens, through playing Indoor Cricket, Basketball, Netball, Soccer, Tennis and Volleyball in my twenties, I was pretty fit and rather healthy. I never ate really well, with a fair bit of junk food, but you can\’t have everything.
Since hitting thirty, I seem to have let the busyness of life get in the way of playing sport and staying fit, though I\’ve recently started playing tennis again to kick the process off. To really kick things into higher gear though, we\’ve set up a gym at home in the guest room (never fear, there is still room for guests).
We have a new treadmill we bought off ebay, a Totalgym 1000 that I bought out of the Trading Post 4 years ago (and have hardly used) and an old Exercise bike given to us by Bernie\’s brother Paul. The other thing in the room is an old PC to watch and listen to stuff on while we excercise. One of the reasons I\’ve never been interested in things like the excercise bike or a treadmill is the complete waste of brain power while the body is working.
I\’ve solved that problem in the car by burning CDs of podcasts and getting a fill of tech news as I drive, so I figured I\’d do the same with excercise, but instead use all those video podcasts I never get time to sit and watch. At this point I should say a special thanks to Wil Harris for this week choosing to launch Channel Flip, a series of 5 minute daily video casts aimed at males 18-30 something.
The new plan is:
Drink 1 litre of water every day before I drink any alcohol.
Excercise 4 times a week:
3 x 20 minute session (works out to 2 episodes each of Play:Digital and Unwired)
1 x 60 minute session (The average length of an episode of diggnation)
A conversation I had with Liz at 7:30 this morning.
Liz: Where’s Mummy
Me: Out
Liz: Where, at Tennis?
Me: No at the gym.
Liz: Oh getting littler.
How cute is that!
Bern (to Mark): How do I find who our upper and lower house representatives are?
slight pause while I try and remember which department is in charge of elections..
Bec (from the Peanut Gallery): Look it up on a website!
we had a good laugh. The final answer was to look at www.aec.gov.au
Who knew it was so hard to die? Today was my second attempt at acting (the first attempt was to play Jesus, and that was 33 years ago in a nativity play) and it is hard work. I had a tiny bit part in a scene that runs for about 40-50 seconds.
The scene involved my witnessing then attempting to stop a kidnapping and getting a knife through the chest for my troubles.
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I think there were about 6-7 shots I was in, some of them we did up to 8 or 9 takes, plus 4-5 rehearsals.
There were also two other scenes shot on the day (in other locations) In total we worked for about 10 hours (7am – 5pm) for a total of about 2 – 2.5 minutes of finished film. It will get better as we get into the heavier dialogue scenes.
Today is the first shoot day for the movie, and the first scene involves me playing a bystander who gets stabbed in the chest.
We then head to the back of Lilydale Lake and Coldstream Airport to round out a full day of shooting.
Liz is getting her 2 year old molars, so it’s been time to drag out the good old Bonjela. Lizzie is a bit confused with the name though, and keeps calling it John-Bella, which is so cute.