I’m being all hipster in Starbucks with some healthy juice and my Mac, so I thought I’d make it even more hipster and write a blog post.

I slept in this morning (very unusual for me), and then spent a good few hours cleaning the house with Joe’s help. It’s almost all done – with the exception of the living room table, a slightly broken washing machine, and three loads of laundry – and I feel a lot happier for it.

Everyone else seems to be ill, getting ill, or just getting over being ill, but I’m so jacked up on vitamins I’ve not even had any symptoms of a cold, even though I’ve spent a lot of time travelling and being around children and various plague-y people. And I’m quite enjoying having my life back, and being able to do things (and, more importantly, enjoy them) without being crippled by anxiety and depression :D I’m using 5-HTP as my absolute fall back ’emergency button’. A couple of my friends have expressed concerns that it’s not been tested for long-term use, and I’ve found that dosing up on B vitamins instead (at around 500%-1000% of the RDA) weirdly helps me manage pretty well. I don’t know if my body’s just really inefficient at processing/using vitamins or I just need more generally, but it finally seems to be getting what it needs and it’s happy. It hasn’t hurt that December, traditionally one of the most difficult months for me, has been one of the best times ever. I’ve spent a lot of time with people I care about and I feel pretty loved right now. And that’s all I’m saying :)

Another reason why I’m in a good mood is because of yesterday. If I had the freedom to do what I wanted all the time, yesterday would have been a fairly standard day I think. Nothing massively exciting, but a lot of little happy moments.

The gym I normally go to is closed until after new year, so I made the 2 mile semi-uphill trek to the big modern one. I felt like I was the only person in the whole world for most of the walk there and back, and it was liberating. And a beautiful walk.

(The photos are all awful quality because camera phone. Sorry).

The gym was pretty dead too, and for some reason I was really energised when I started working out and ended up doing around two hours of cardio. I burned about 1000 calories in total, including the walk, which is quite extreme considering I’m trying to stick to 1280 calories a day in total anyway. I ate most of them back later on though ;)

Normally my gym sessions are squeezed in between other things – work and socialising, or work and dinner – so it was amazing to just be able to have as much time in there as I wanted without having to rush to the next thing to cram everything in.

After the gym, I went to the pub with Joe for lunch and had chicken fajitas. We came back from Christmas in Sussex with no food in the house, and we haven’t done a particularly good job at improving that situation. Which means more excuses to eat out.

We got back to the cats having a lazy day, and decided to do the same. So we caught up on Downton Abbey and MasterChef on the sofa.

I did intend to do some work and cleaning, but it never actually happened. Oops. But it’s fine, because I caught up a lot today, and I was pretty tired after the gym.

The day ended peacefully with a book I’m quite enjoying at the moment.

A pretty laid back day, but a good way to spend a holiday day between Christmas and New Year, I feel. This evening I need to write another blog post, clear the living room table, try to fish out some vegetables to go with chicken and either noodles or rice for dinner, and have a lovely hot chocolate in front of some trashy TV. Bliss :)

How have your holidays been?