The last week has gone by in a blur, four Body Attack classes within the space of five days almost killed me (but it didn’t!!)

But, thankfully it didn’t.  Not only did I endure all four hours of high impact cardio – while nursing a pretty badly injured calf muscle, I enjoyed it *gasp* I know! Me, enjoying exercise, who’da thunk?!

After talking to a personal trainer friend of mine (Sharon) about my injury, she agreed that perhaps my footwear wasn’t the most supportive or the best kind of footwear for the kind of exercise that I’ve been doing…

I mean, it’s not like Body Attack is a lot of jumping up and down or running around or anything…oh…wait…and it’s not as though my trainers are years old and so worn down that I can feel the ground through them…oh…wait…

In short, we needed to go shopping for new trainers.  I’d done a little shopping on my own, but with limited results.  I had an idea of the shoes I wanted, but they were out of my price-range (I mean, I didn’t want to pay $130 for a pair of shoes that I may not put to good ‘use’, you know what I mean?)

Instead, Col suggested we check out Katy Mills to see what we could find.  After a lap around the shops (and a momentary pit-stop at the 75% off sale in Bath and Body Works)

We found a shop where I picked up a couple of pairs of trainers (they were B1G1 50% off, the best deal we’d seen on our rounds!).

So far, I’ve only tried the GT2160’s at a few Body Attack classes – and I love them!

Ok, they didn’t magically make my calf any better, but they did help (and, from what I can tell, have stopped my right calf muscle getting buggered too!) and they are seriously comfortable.  More than that, they have also enabled me to be more active in class, I can now bounce around a little more without the impact of slamming my feet on the ground, hurting as much or being as ‘body shaking’ as it was before.

Lesson here – ensure you have correct footwear on when attempting to exercise.  Trainers DO have a shelf-life and you can do more harm than good, wearing trainers that are ‘past it’.

Aside from my Body Attacking, last week was filled with lots of baby shower planning – with only two weeks left to go til the ‘big day’, I’ve been using most of my free time to doing bits and pieces for the shower.  I can’t share much of it with y’all at this stage, but I’m excited that it’s now so close.

I can’t wait to host the party for the Maddens, I’ve had a lot of fun planning this shower for them – as I’ve said before, it’s my first time.  Though, I’m pretty sure, when it’s all over and done with, giraffes will be the last thing I want to see 😉

Heather’s shower, in October, will give me a rest from giraffes and hopefully make me sick of the sight of elephants – however, one baby shower at a time, eh?

I also started a Christmas list last week, yes, you can all say I’m crazy, but those of you who know me well, know I started shopping for this Christmas, on Boxing day (26th December), last year!

I’m an organised person, what can I say?

Aside from the exercising, crafting, planning and organising, the only other points of interest last week are two lovely lunches I had out with some friends.

Wednesday, I met the lovely Deb for a tasty French style lunch at La Madeline.  La Madeline is a restaurant that my friend Amee (who’s just moved to Singapore) loves! It was a lovely wee catch-up, I’ve not seen her for ages!!

Thursday morning, Col dropped me off at Magz’s house on his way to work, from there, Magz and I went up to the Trotter Rd YMCA for our workout, and then it was off to Kenny and Ziggi’s for a lovely lunch with Tracy.

Kenny and Ziggi’s is a New York style deli, phew! it took two days to read through the menu alone!

Gordon Ramsay would have a fit!! It’s huge!!

The portions are HUGE, which would be a great thing, though the food isn’t particularly impressive – at least what the 3 of us had wasn’t great.  I had the fish sandwich – and, although the bread roll was delicious, the fries were good, the fish tasted like it came out of a bag in the freezer and it wasn’t, even half the size of the huge roll that I got – so, for the most part, I just ate bread.

Maybe I chose the wrong option from the ENORMOUS and overwhelming menu…but how would I know given that the thing’s huge!

After lunch, we picked up some Crave Cupcakes.  If you haven’t tasted these cupcakes – go, today!! They are DELICIOUS!! Magz got me a box of them for my birthday and they are simply DIVINE!

We were picking up a few for us to share with the lovely Heather, when we went to her house for the afternoon.  The three of us played with her dogs, ate cupcakes (washed down with a tall glass of cold milk) and watched The Devil Wears Prada.  It was a fun afternoon!

Col picked me up and we had, what turned out to be, a disgusting Chinese for dinner, we’ll definitely not be going back to Spicy China – which makes me sad, cause that’s where we get curry from (and they’re the only place we’ve found that sells chips!) But their awful service was unforgivable.

Col’s meal was clearly microwaved, it was tough and chewy (so chewy, in fact, that it was impossible to chew!!), he called them and they ‘cooked’ a replacement order which he had to go and pick up, and they gave it to him with no rice.  The replacement was no better.  GRRR! It was gross! What a disappointment!

The only other thing that’s happened in the last few days, was that Col booked our flights to Singapore! yay! I’m excited!!!

I got an email on Friday from Airfare Watchdog, it contained a great price for flights to Singapore.  Col did some research, turns out it was over $1000 cheaper than the flights we were looking at, and he made it happen!

We leave on September 15th and we can’t wait!!!