Thursday's Trio of Blessings

This is yet another post I lost touch with a couple of months back. Seems I am swinging back into a few old, enjoyable habits lately. 

I was supposed to publish this yesterday.. you know, being Thursday and all... but I stupidly left my MacBook Pro at work. Damnit.

Blessing One:

I had a look outside at my herb garden yesterday morning after losing ALL of my chili plants to the torrential downpour of rain recently.... and  ONE little plant seems to have survived which I will be tending to with every ounce of love I have in me now to ensure it makes it. 

Lesson learnt: Make sure you pot your seeds properly. I didn't have any holes in my pots so the poor baby chili plants all drowned. Whoops.

Trial and error.

To help me and my budding green fingers out - my handsome bearded fellow has offered to make me this:

How unbelievably cute is that?! 

Of course I can't let him have all the fun... I can't wait to get my hands dirty and do some home DIY with him. 

Blessing Two:

"To write, you must read."

I wrote some absolutely amazing pages for my second novel, The Other Woman.

I find that it really helps both my motivation to write and my writing when I read novels. It gets me excited for other people to hold my book in their hands, the way that I am holding someone else's work in mine.
It is such a deep and personal part of someone and takes so much to let your words grow their own wings and fly.

I cannot begin to express how wonderful it is to have so much inspiration to put pen to paper these days. The saddening part is that I hardly ever have the time to do so... sometimes (okay no, all of the time,) I wish I could just jet off to a beautiful tropical island, shack up in a quaint beach bungalow and pour my heart out onto my typewriter for an uncountable number of months; that would be a dream come true for me...

But I squeeze my creative juices out when I can... and when I do; it puts me on cloud 9...
...and that is exactly where I am today...

Blessing Three:

Lastly, after hearing all these bloody CrossFit stories and realizing that I am developing a wee bit of a 'pouch' around my tummy... I have kicked myself into gear and went for a run yesterday evening.

To motivate myself, I packed my gym clothes (or what I like to pass off as 'gym clothes,') in my car and banned myself from heading home until I successfully shoved on my trainers and went for a run.

Furthermore, I then completed 50 sit-ups back home . . . after that, I declared it Wine O-Clock, quickly seared a steak, mashed up some potatoes, drizzled some balsamic reduction on my plate and topped everything with a handful of rocket. After a delicious meal... I got merry on a bottle of Chardonnay while uncannily relating a little too much with the likes of Bridget Jones.

Oh yes, regarding my exercise:
I've never weighed as much as I do now and I don't like it. I'm by no means big - but my aim is to get back to being fit and healthy, toned and develop some muscle. 

Puny? Me?

Never.

Haley over at: 

Truth Be Told

ALWAYS inspires me to get my butt into action and break out a sweat. 

Check out her awesome blog for loads of entertaining life stories from a young mum, a doting wife, a fitness enthusiast (for the most part) and just an overall freaking awesome person.

I hope you all had a stunning Thursday bloggeroonies - I'll catch up with ya'll soon.

Word.