Time for a little joy ...

I caught all the advertisements on TV last night, and could barely sleep for wanting to be awake early for this.

The Mail on Sunday, a rag I never read, nevertheless carried a special freebie with it today.

A CD of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene.

So I went out, and I bought it, and now I have the first Jarre album I ever bought, on CD for the first time. :D *doubleplus chuffed*

I got the latest album, Teo & Tea, for Christmas. Listen to Track 3, "Beautiful Agony", and you'll be thinking some very shocked thoughts - that's his wife, Anne Parillaud (who played the eponymous assassin in Luc Besson's original film Nikita), on "vocals"!

I'm still short a few albums (Alba?) on CD, namely:-

- Metamorphoses

- Jarre Hong Kong Live

- Jarre Live

- Les Concerts en Chine (The Concerts in China - Jarre was the first Westerner to be allowed to stage a concert in the People's Republic of China).

... but right now, I'm no longer missing Oxygene, and I am seriously stoked.

Some good news, for a change. :)

Oh, also look here.

( If you don't want to linky, behind the cut )

So okay, they're all tinned, but ...

Sunday luncheon for me was a platter of mixed beans, peas and carrots, served with half a tin of butter beans in lieu of spuds, one thin slice of beef and a single ladling of gravy.

The gravy was a bit of an emergency, because the first gravy we tried had this dreadful rancid aftertaste to it, so we chucked it away. Gravy Mk 2 today was, sadly, gravy granules. The beans were a bit too sugary for me, and the gravy just a touch too salty, but I prepared it.

I didn't eat too much, so I'm still maintaining a continuous rolling hunger, without too much of an edge to it.

And it would seem to be having an effect.

The item below is a length of chain, about one metre long (39 inches).



I wear it as a trouser belt.

Until Friday, I was wearing it out to its full length, carabiners at both ends and all. However on Saturday, I shortened it by taking away the unattached D ring (bottom part of picture). It still wasn't enough, so I took in a link at the top end as well. At that point, the belt was a snug fit, as it had been when I'd first made it.

This morning, I realised that the belt was, once again, loose fitting around my waist. It won't be long before I'm having to take it in another notch.

If I carry on like this, I might just be able to shorten this length of chain permanently by taking bolt cutters to links. I'm looking forward now to warmer days, when I can show off the improvements to my body and compare and contrast with the photos taken of me last August.

Image Post From Flickr

Taken with Lucy, my ZD710 digital camera:-