Chicken Soup for the Soul

Mmmm mmm, got me some chicken soup - for the soul, if you will.

I've been craving this fantastic chicken noodle soup for the past couple of days from the Japanese shop round the corner from work. So now I'm sitting here at my desk trying to elegantly slurp down my big bowl of soup. It's not happening. But man is the soup good.

I think we all need some chicken soup for our soul every now and then. I think I'm definitely a closet 'mind, body and soul' person. The other day I was thinking about how important it is to exercise both your mind and your body (hmm kind of reminds of the little 'debate' I had with my best friend's boyfriend a while back). I would say that I probably exercise my mind enough...I enjoy reading, keeping up with current affairs, arguing *ahem* debating on differences of opinions, I'm stimulated in the work I do...etc etc.

In fact sometimes my head is just so busy that I can't even get to sleep. This is obviously NOT GOOD and results in a cranky me for the rest of the day - like today for example. Humph. Anyway.

So yes, I think that my mind is probably a little bit too active and probably a little bit OCD! (is it possible to truly be just a little bit OCD?) But my body on the other hand...I would say it's quite accurate to describe me as a fat person in a skinny persons body. I eat loads but I never put on weight - you know, one of those people that people on diets hate. And just for the record, I equally hate those people on diets who hate skinny people for being skinny, back (phew!). It's quite common to get comments from such people like, 'OMG you're SO skinny!', 'go on, eat something!', 'get some meat on your bones!'. And everyone just accepts this as a perfectly fine thing to say. Well it isn't. I don't go up to larger people and say, 'OMG you're SO fat!', 'I really don't think you should be eating that!', 'who ate all the pies?!'. Some people just are naturally bigger or smaller than the perceived 'norm' and there's not really much we can do about it.

I digress (see what I mean about my erratic mind).

Basically, I really need to exercise some more. I bought a bike at the end of 2006 and have used it about 3 times to date - bad bookworm. I think if I exercise my body more, I will feel both physically and mentally tired and the end of the day - and hopefully will be able to sleep a bit better! And maybe I should try to exercise my mind a bit less while I'm at it.

So I think I'll add one more resolution to my New Year's list:

5. Buy a crash helmet and get cycling!

Ok, back to my chicken soup...

The Big Freeze

Oh yeah forgot to mention. London's running a bit behind, a week behind in fact. So instead of having a sparkling white Christmas, it's snowing tomorrow instead.

Come on TFL, we've got all our fingers crossed!!!

...and a happy New Year!

Wowzer, how fast did 2007 fly by? I expect 2008 will zoom past even quicker - I think this is what happens when you start getting old (I've already discovered 4, yes FOUR, white hairs...sniff).

So hip hip hooray, 2008 is here. 2007 wasn't particularly amazing for me - so here's hoping that 2008's a winner. Although saying that, I did do my fair bit of travelling last year - Dublin, Prague, Barcelona, Seychelles. But in between there've been lots of changes and upheavals and general craziness. So now I say, enough of the crazy, bring on 2008!

My New Year's resolutions are to:

1. do some link building so that people actually might read this blog


2. actually post book reviews once I've read a book, instead of putting it on my 'to do' list*


3. grow my hair


4. travel to the Far East or South America (or both!)

*I have read a few good books the last couple of months. Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland and The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. At the moment I'm reading two books (I seem to be getting bored easily), How The Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland and The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. Book reviews to follow shortly!

Anyhoo, Happy New Year to all!