Barrybran

[Barrybran]

I've had a pretty good day so far. It's been a bit of a "me" day. I woke before my wife went to work but didn't get out of bed until after she left. We didn't have the kids today so I could afford a lie in before getting my day started. My home gym was due to arrive today and I had a list of things I wanted to do.

That quickly fell apart as my home gym was delivered to a location in town and being 180kg (~400lb) I couldn't just go and pick it up. My wife's friend's partner works at the place it was dropped off and offered to put it on the back of his ute and bring it round for me. A short while later, one of the girls from work asked if I could do her shift tonight as she has tonsilitis so I agreed and went about organising having the kids looked after. On top of that, I was expecting a phone call from my boss to go down to the store as we had an inspection today and she wanted me to meet the inspector.

So I waited... the guy with my home gym hadn't shown up, I couldn't get hold of the family friend who had our kids and my boss didn't call. An hour and a half had passed and I felt that I needed to get things organised as I'd committed to go to work. I went into town and Murphy's Law kicked into place. The family friend called me back and agreed to look after the kids until my wife got home. The guy who was bringing my home gym to my place got his ute loaded and came around. That left my boss. As it was approaching lunch time, I figured she was busy (it's school holidays here) and went on with my day.

As part of my original plan for today, I decided to get a haircut as it was getting quite messy. I wanted a new look and with visible signs of receding hair and my new home gym I did some research and one person's image kept popping up... Jason Statham! He's not the best actor but he's in some good films and he's a good looking guy for a balding guy. I'd admired his image several years ago and it was an image I wanted to emulate in the future if I ever got off my butt and worked out. Well, now the hair is going and I've got my home gym. I went to the barber and asked for a #3. He took a step back and was impressed. He's in his 50's, bald himself and he's been the town barber for three decades I believe. He's done my hair since I've been in town and it's the first time I've asked for a buzz cut. I got it and I must say, I like it! It's actually a little too long to be honest.

I had a bit of time up my sleeve and went to the nursery to find flowers for the garden I'm working on. The lady helped me with some ideas so now I have some research to do. I came home and got ready for work. I spiced things up a bit by shaping up my facial hair for the beginnings of a stubble beard... my facial hair is patchy though so it's more like a chinstrap with moustache and flavour-savour. I'm happy with it though. I sprayed on some cologne and donned the lime green work shirt I have instead of the black everyone else and I usually go for. I'm feeling pretty good about myself today.

So I'll be heading to work in 10 minutes and earning five hours worth of money I didn't previous have. I haven't done any cleaning today so hopefully my wife doesn't freak out. I can do it tonight though. My kids won't get to see me until tomorrow afternoon and then they're off again for the weekend so I'll spend a couple of hours playing with them after work before setting up my gym and working out with it for the first time.

Oh, and half of town will see my new haircut before my wife does... mwahahahaha :p