We're Havin' A Heatwave...

...a tropical heatwaaaave... the temperature's risin', it isn't surprisin', I certainly caaaannn...

Ahem.

Sorry.  But this weather's making everything seem a bit weird.  Good GRIEF it's warm.  I mean, 28 degrees Celsius before noon is just ridiculous.  And no, I have no idea what that is in Farenheit!!

I'm sorry for my lack of postings.  It's been one of those weeks.  It's been too hot for anything and my brain really doesn't function too well in hot weather.  I am, after all, English.  I'm not used to May being hot.  It isn't meant to get hot until mid-June for about five days, then constant rain until mid-July, then miserable but hot weather with no air for three or four weeks, then more rain... then a sort of picking up again in September, before a rather nippy Autumn and a bloomin' freezing winter.  This is how Britain works, weather!  Get it right!!

So, anyway, weather aside, I got a little closer to my halfway mark this week by losing 2lbs.  This was a lovely result and I was really pleased with it, but due to the weather it would've simply been cruel of me to ask the llamas to put on a fiesta in celebration.  So I sent them to the local swimming pool armed with armbands, goggles and matching towels for a bit of a frolic and a cool down.  Enrique convinced himself that he came back home with verrucas and athletes hoof, but after a (very brief) examination his hooves all seem fine.  Ricardo made friends with the lifeguard on duty who had never heard of a dancing troupe of llamas before.  Miguel discovered aqua-aerobics.  Everyone had a lovely time.  I stayed in (I can't swim and nobody will ever see me in a swimming costume, ever, not even when I get to a size 14!  Just because I'm not fat still doesn't mean anyone wants to see any more of me than is absolutely necessary and unavoidable!) and had a celebratory brandy or two.  It might've even ben three.  Yes, I think it was.  So, everyone really was happy!

I probably won't hit my halfway target by this Thursday, but that's no big deal really.  It's officially too hot to care about stuff like that!  I should get closer to it, though, and that's the main thing. 

I wore a dress on Sunday.  I admit it probably wasn't the most fashionable thing out there, but the main thing was it wasn't that godawful black maxi dress I'd worn for months when I had need to wear a dress.  It was my mum's, and before you start rolling your eyes, I'd coveted it for quite some time, it's really nice.  I tell you a really weird thing that I may never get used to.  I actually felt really feminine.  I mean I know I'm a girl (the bosoms are quite a giveaway), but being of the larger persuasion the only clothes really available to a person are ones that just cover you and make you look as unobtrusive as possible.  In short, clothes have never made me feel anything other than a sexless blob of nothingness.  But on Sunday I looked in the mirror and even though I probably still looked a fat scruffbag, I actually felt like a woman for the first time actually ever. With curves, as opposed to being one continual curve.  It's a really peculiar feeling, but I liked it.  Probably one I'll never get used to, but it's really helped me to feel even more focussed than ever about getting to the goal.  It's totally going to happen.  This time next year during an unprecedented heatwave I might even have summer clothes in my wardrobe to go to!!  Who knows!!!

Join me again on... well, I'd say Wednesday.  Hopefully Wednesday, but certainly later on in the week.  Dunno what I'll talk about but I'll always find SOMEthing to ramble about!!