Sorry for the lazyness but I love it

This weekend has been our long deserved mid-course break...and hasn't it felt a long time coming.

I have to admit that when I am rarely given time off I always waste it entirely.

I meant for this long weekend to see me complete a barrage of backed up work, a mountain of follow-ups and an absolute avalanche of shorthand. Instead, I have admittedly done some work, but I have mostly spent it moping about, watching endless episodes of things I have been too busy to watch on I player, eating far too much food, and slobbing about on the sofa with my increasingly gorgeous (should I call him) boyfriend.

The problem is the nearer I get to the end of the course, and the closer the exam looms, the harder I am finding it to keep motivated. I think it is the dark weather, but all I want to do is take winter strolls through the beautiful leaves and lie under a comfy duvet watching rom coms and drinking steaming hot mulled wine.

Anyone with me?

Ok, so this is still me. I haven't been possessed by a lazy romantically minded squirrel, I am still working my little bum off, but I have started to get a little lazy.

Yes I spent all of today with my head in a politics book, trying, without success, to get my head round the weird workings of the government....but I have taken my foot off the pedal. It's cold outside, there is frost on my windows, I haven't had to go to work, and that makes me shockingly lazy. I didn't get up at 5am today, but a ashamedly late half eight, better than Sunday when I didn't get out of bed at all (which was acceptable, you wouldn't have either).

Its just life feels so good right now.

 I know I'm getting podgy - I become a squirrel of a weekend (I eat nothing all week and then stuff my face with food all weekend as if I am storing up for the long wintry week ahead) - I need to join the gym. I realised this when my boyfriend (I am just going to call him that) seemed to be looking much more macho this week, and I felt more like a post-Christmas santa clause, not a good look.

SOOOOO come tomorrow I will be cutting back on the carbs, walking everywhere and going to the gym. But life has never been better. I think that I will even hit the Turkish baths in Newcastle City Pool tomorrow before attending the art exhibition I promised to go to - need to refresh my winter skin.