Kentucky Woman

I can't believe how long it has been since I posted a blog on here, it's over three weeks which is shocking as I do like to try and update once a week. I haven't been around much the last couple of weeks because I got ill, I came down with tonsilitis and then I got a heavy cold and was so ill. I felt so dreadful when I was ill, it really wasn't a nice feeling and as I sit here now I still don't feel 100% better but I do feel much better than I did a week ago which is something.

So I don't really have too much to say about the last two or so weeks because I was ill so couldn't really do anything. I did finish reading Morrigan's Cross which is an amazing book, it's part of a trilogy and I plan to read the other two books when I have read some more books off my list. I also read an amazing book called "The Bad Mothers Handbook", that was such an amazing book. I loved it from start to finish and could barely put it down, I think I read it in less than two days because it was such a wonderful book I was wanting to find out what was going to happen next. Once I finished that book I picked up "Memoirs of a Geisha" that I started to read a while ago and I finished the last 350 pages in three days. I loved that book too, I am so glad that I finished reading that book because it was just the most amazing book. I finished the book and then I watched the film. The film was good but it was a let down after reading the book, the book had so much more to offer and was so much more enjoyable. There is so much more they could of put in the film and made it better. Don't get me wrong, it was a great film and if I wouldn't of read the book it would of stood out more to me but because I read the book the film wasn't as good.

Well with being ill I haven't had much time to do any study so I am too far behind that it is stressing me out a little because I know how much I have to do and how little time I have to do it in. I have so much to do, it's behind me on the table and it is so scary to see the massive pile of books I have to get through. I know the deadlines for everything and they will be here before I know it so this week I need to do 5-7 hours study everyday to try and help me get through it. I normally do 3-5 hours a day (5-6 days a week) but after being away from course work for so long I find it hard to get back into it. I managed five hours yesterday and that was so hard, it was hard to push myself into the routine but I really have no choice. The good news about it is the fact that one of my courses finish in three weeks so I have a load of course work to do and then the end of course assesment and then it's done. That will probably take me to the deadline to do but I will be so happy when I finally finish that course, my business studies course, because I haven't enjoyed it as much as I thougth I would do which is a shame as I did think I would love it. I do start another course in May but that is a short course and it shouldn't take much of my time up which is great, a few weeks after I start that I finish one of my other courses. That course, technology, i have enjoyed so I will miss it when it has finished, it has been such a great course to do, I have enjoyed it so much so I will be sad when it is over but once again it gives me some more free time which I am pleased about because from October I will have a few busy months before having a quiet month at the beginning of next years before a tough ten months but it will all be worth it in the end.

So with me getting sick it came at a bad time because I was doing my first assignment for my new religion course. I started the assignment the day before and had managed 500 words and those words I thought were the best 500 words I had ever written for an assignment. I had worked so hard on working on the assignment up to that point, I spent about 25 hours going through my course books and materials taking notes for the assignment the week before and had worked a 100 times harder than before. Then I start to get ill and I came down with the illness so fast and wasn't feeling totally with it and I made myself sit down at this computer and type another 1000 words because I couldn't ask for an extension because it was due the next day and also because I have so much other course work to get through that I didn't have time to spend on it after the day it was due. I am affriad to say the rest of my assignment, from my point of view, is rubbish and made no sense and it didn't say what I wanted it to say. I know if I hadn't got ill it would of been so much more better than it was so I am not one bit pleased about getting ill at that point. I still haven't got my assignment score back and i am worried about it because I want to get above a certain mark on all my assignments for this course and I think I may have blown it and getting a bad mark might make me want to quit the course so I don't even know if I want to find out my mark.

I don't know if I have mentioned before but I am doing a 5K race on the 5th June at Witton Park. It's the Race for Life race and I am really looking forward to it although of course I haven't done any training because of being ill. I am so unfit too and haven't run since school which is a long time ago now so I have my work cut out for me. I plan on doing walking at first and building it up from that, I plan to maybe walk for 60 seconds and then jog for 10 seconds and keep doing that for maybe half an hour and then build it up to an hour and then when I can do that I think I will walk for 30 seconds and then run for 10 seconds and do that for 30 minutes till I can do an hour and then walk for 30 seconds and run for 15 seconds and walk for 30 seconds and run for 15 seconds and build that up as I go along and then run for 10 seconds and walk for 10 seconds and so on until I can run non stop for at least 30 minutes. I don't know if I will manage this by 5th June but I will see how things go. I will be running the race with my dads female friend Madeline who offered to help me with my training too which I thought was nice of her.

So I thought I might as well get into running a bit more because I am unfit and I need to lose weight and exercise is good for you. So in October I am going to Amsterdam to do a 5K race although I think I might now do the half marathon and push myself hard. I think if I stick to my training and get out running 3-4 times a week I can manage it. I have booked my flights and paid for my accomodation and I am very much looking forward to it, it isn't till the third week of October but there is a lot of training I need to do so I better get a move on with it.

Well that's it really for now, if I remember anything I will try and find time to write about it.