February in review

I know February is the shortest month of the year, but in 2014 the whole thing felt like no more than a week! It just flew by faster than a bullet train. So much so that I'm a bit at a loss for what say about it...

Job-wise it was great! I love, love, love my job and even though lately there's been a mammoth-sized amount of work to be done and I've been running around like a headless chicken, I still love going to work everyday and time just seems to fly faster than I can catch it. It's still quite a new feeling, this thrilling new found love for my profession and I'm just over the moon with it. If I were a morning person I'd jump out of bed every day with a smile on my face... as it is I get up, drag myself around the house, have my beloved first dose of caffeine and will be smiling by the time I leave the house. Not bad indeed!

Besides my busy work life, the rest of my time has been for housework and chilling indoors, preferably in a sitting or fully horizontal position. Or working out. Yes, that has been happening! By the end of the first week of February I began to feel increasingly sluggish, since the vast majority of my day was now spent sitting down in front of a computer. It got to a point where my metabolism had slowed down so much that most days I didn't have dinner because at 7pm I was still full from lunch at 1pm. So I decided to give my body the shock treatment and make it work every single day to perk my metabolism up. Hence I came to Jillian Michael's 30 day body shred. And my does it hurt! And by hurt I mean work. And hurt. I have noticed some minor changes (the minor part due to not doing it every single day like a should, bad meerkat!) and will continue with this for the whole of March.

Then there was my birthday! I love celebrating my birthday! Not so much because of the presents I get, but mostly because I get in touch with so many people that wish me well. Some of whom I don't have much opportunity to catch up with for most of the year. And I love being pampered. And so it was that on the eve of my birthday (because the real thing fell on a saturday) I arrived at work and my desk was filled with goodies - balloons, cake, cupcakes, flowers, a card and a present, the whole nine yards! Oh, and my favourite touch, a youtube video of Happy Birthday being sung in Portuguese. My office is the best! On the day itself me and the boyfriend treated ourselves to a day trip to London. This time for a shopping spree in Portobello market and a taste of Portuguese pastries. I forgot to take the pedometer with me, which was a shame because the overall distance we walked was worthy of note!

The rest is in-between bits. The housework stuff, the commute, the spending quality time with the boyfriend, the saturday strolls around Birmingham, the night reads before turning off the lights, etc, etc. And now onwards to March!