New years and healthy eating

That's right, it's March.

And not very early march at that, and here i am talking about new years. To make matters clearer, i am actually talking about New Years day gone, not the one to come, so i am a little closer to the mark already.

Had this New Years Resolution there which didn't go according to plan at all. Come to think of it, they never do... but this year i was determined. After all, how hard can it be to keep ones room clean, ESPECIALLY when the room is only one and a bit times the lenght of your full body, and about as wide as as i am tall as well. Ok, ok, i'm a tall individual, coming in a fair bit over the 6 foot mark, but still, when most of your room is taken up with Bed, a good proportion of the remainder with inbuilt closet and and a decent fraction of the left over floorspace with bed-side cabinet (in this room, just about everything is bed side...apart from the study desk that miraculously fits at the foot of the bed) then you would imagine that it would be no hard task to keep the square of blue carpet... well, blue!

But as i said, it didn't work out so well. As it is, I'm pretty sure my carpet is blue, though I'll get back to you on that one.

Inspiration came in the form of an e-mail i got recently from a good friend of mine. The title was "how do you like those apples".
Now, i don't eat a whole lot of apples.. or fruit in general, but this made me think. It's March, and since I've kept my room about as tidy as the number of apples i have eaten so far this year, then i should be able to switch resolutions without causing any hassle, as I've done as much of one as i have of the other. and so 'poof', now my resolution is to eat healthier, starting with a daily dose (or tri-weekly) of Vitamin apple.
Day one, i ventured into Tesco's on the way home from work and got a punnet (6) of apples saying that i would have one on the way to work as often as i remembered. Sounds good... work is a good 20 minute walk, surely i could polish an apple off in that time.
Great, good start. but so far I've only done half the work so.
we are now 2 weeks into this new and improved resolution, designed to create a new and improved me and i have eaten a total of 2 apples. Still, take that room!!

On a general grocery shop recently, i stopped into tesco's again and told myself it was Apple day (the others gone, not from eating, but from lapse of time) and what did i see there... 5 bars of crunchies for 1.50???? I love those things. They remind me of Fridays, which it was incidentally.

Oh all right, some quick mental arithmetic later i realised that it was about 30 cent a bar, and no one but no one could pass that up. well, no one but someone who had the discipline to eat apples as they had promised themselves.
So i put them in my basket and was about to continue to the interesting sauces for chicken isle, when what did i see.... 5 Bars of Double Deckers for 1.50????? i love those things. They don't even have to remind me of Fridays, holidays, Christmas or anything. And at 15 cent a Deck I'd be crazy not to pop them in.
It's probably a good thing there was no similar deal for those 'Trio' bars i used to love. I don't think that my mind could have taken the simultaneous excitement and strain from the mental arithmetic that would be enevitibly involved

Hmm, basket was a bit full after the interesting sauce for chicken and the plethora of other things i had to get (including a beer not intended for my own consumption, i lost a bet I'm afraid), I'm not sure what cash i have on me, so i better play it safe and not burden myself with 6 whole apples.

And off home to start the weekend.

I'm always a bit nervous at check-out's, I'm trying to think what i would think if i was the cashier and someone came to me with those items. 10 bars of chocolate, a beer and a pretty rudimentary dinner potential... sounds like a pretty wild Friday night, would you like the number of a taxi with that?

Well, even though I've just consumed a Crunchie bar during the typing of this (not to mind, loads left, and the deal is until 10th of this month.. plenty time to stock up) I'm still sure that I'll get this apple thing down.

Wish me luck.

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