Bye bye Facebook, hello jogging!

First day back wearing make-up and I thoroughly enjoyed it - but isn't it a pain in the butt taking it all back off?? Oh well, have to take the bad with the good I suppose!

November has rolled around in all it's nearly-summer glory and that partly inspires my "taking up" for this month: jogging. As for giving up it's bye-bye Facebook.

Giving up: Facebook
I LOVE Facebook. It really is a brilliant invention. In a time when many of us are too busy to socialise and by default lose touch with people from our past, it's a fantastic tool for leaving our mark on the world. It's our chance to say to our friends and family "Hey, see what I've achieved this week."


I thoroughly enjoy browsing through friend's photo albums and can happily spend hours doing so. Hubby considers this borderline stalking, but as I'd like to think people would browse through mine, I like to think "fairs fair."


Of course there are those people who insist on airing their dirty laundry, engaging in domestic disputes, drink-updating (the "new & improved" drink-dialling!) and let's not forget about those who seem to update every time they do something as mundane as cook breakfast, walk down the street and - I kid you not - have a bowel movement!

I'm also kind of argumentative - I love a good juicy debate on all manner of topics but I don't consider Facebook a good platform for that. People get too personal. You can't really voice an opinion in opposition of someone else in the course of a wall-post-discussion because then four-letter words get posted about like emoticons and next thing you know the argument reverts to something that happened ten years ago and people starting talking about AVOs...

But I do find sometimes that I spend a little TOO much time on there. When our alarms go off in the morning, hubby checks the weather and I check Facebook. In doing so, I have realised that more things are starting to annoy me than I actually like so it's a good vice to give-up this month.

I'm far too curious a being to give it up entirely, but a month will be a good challenge - and I've had hubby change my password to avoid temptation!

Taking-up: Jogging
Two reasons I hate jogging:

1. You never see a smiling jogger. They're ALWAYS grimacing or looking like they want to throw up. As someone who is happy and smiling 90% of the time, I find this disturbing
2. I'm rather - how to put this delicately - asset blessed and I hate anything that draws unnecessary  attention to the girls. 

This final point is bizarre for two reasons: I play competitive netball which involves both running and jumping; and I'll happily run on a treadmill facing a mirror in a crowded gym.

Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either.

Still, I can't deny the benefits of jogging, especially when I've seen the changes it has made in friends and colleagues who have taken it up.

I've actually decided my dislike of jogging is genetic. My parents were quality sportspeople and my brother is fairly adept at sport too yet I've never seen any of them jog off the court/pitch.

Not to fail at the start, I've been introduced to a program call c25k - Couch to 5km so think I'll use this as my guide.

Wish me luck!!