Weekly Wishes #6

LAST WEEK'S WISHES

Ok so maybe technically not last week's wishes as I had an unplanned blogging hiatus. I had a lot I need to get back on track including submitting my essay, work, the gym and friends including celebrating a new job and spending time with my sister but if I had of wished last week to sort the above would definitely have been top of my list.

1. I went to the gym and upped the difficulty of what I was doing thanks to my new gym buddy. I started the Couch to 5k challenge and honestly found the first week one of the most difficult things I have done.

2. I watched the first two episodes of Season Two of Game of Thrones and there were a lot of new characters introduced - confused!

3. I made these Rhubarb & Ginger scones which were lovely (must cut ginger into smaller pieces next time)

THIS WEEK'S WISHES

1. Read some blogs - As my blog has suffered so has reading the, This week I aim to read, comment and write another BLOG LOVE entry (and if you have any posts/blogs to recommend - including you own! - then send me the links)

2. Keep a food diary - I want to keep track of what goes in my mouth (so hopefully less goes into it!)

3. Have a smoothie three times - I don't eat enough fruit, hopefully this wish will help.

Weekly Wishes #5

I'm a little bit late today as for once I have a life. My best friend has a job interview tomorrow so a pep talk is in order!

LAST WEEK'S WISHES

1. Go to the gym three times - Three times? How about zero times? Big fat fail!

2. Get back on track with my Open University course - I am still a bit behind but after spending Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday evening and all day Saturday beavering my way through my text book I am pretty much all the way through Chartism.

3. Pick a book and stick with it - I have a book and will be reviewing in the next couple of weeks. I like it.

THIS WEEK'S WISHES

1. Go to the gym - OK so a bit of a downsize wish from last week but you shouldn't run before you walk so I need to get to the gym!

2. Start Game of Thrones Season Two - A wish I am looking forward to. 

3. Do some baking - I have so many recipes on Pinterest and I really would like to make some of them - and yeah cake!

Weekly Wishes #4

LAST WEEK'S WISHES

1. Enjoy my Saturday - What could be more enjoyable than stuffing my face with cake will having a gossip with one of my besties and exchanging smiles with her little boy? The weather was rather changeable on Saturday so no walks for me but there is always today! Although massive heavy DIY is happening at mine at the moment so I am on cooking duty.

2. Update my Blog Love - Instead of having list of blogs I love which I don't think would be very interesting I decided to catalogue together all my posts about blogs/blog posts I really enjoy reading. Currently it's still a bit empty but I have some posts planned so if you are looking for new things to read definitely check out here

P.S I used this really great tutorial on how to do this but if you need any help at all then please ask! I also managed to get the whole gif thing working which explains this post.

3. Clean my car - Another big check on this one. I found a ridiculous amount of glitter and my own hair in my boot, maybe I was kidnapped by Kesha?

THIS WEEK'S WISHES

1. Go to the gym three times - My good friend gym got put to one side this week. Working 11 hour days is not conducive to wanting to work out but shoving my face with flapjacks and Chinese is! I still managed to lose weight this week but it was a miracle and to be honest I have missed it. Who am I?!?

2. Get back on track with my Open University course - Yeah I am blaming work again but I am maybe a couple of days behind where I should be on this. I have a tutorial on Wednesday so I need to have made a bit more of an effort.

3. Pick a book and stick with it - Started my fourth book yesterday and yeah that's pretty much a no go too. I started it a year or so ago and got a good half way through and gave up so yeah probably a book I am never destined to finish. Where are all the good books?!?!?

Weekly Wishes #3

It's been quiet around these parts recently due to the most part the fact that we left IT support to my mother who turned the router off and it failed to come back on! Tried it again yesterday by turning off at the plug and back on again and bingo internet.

LAST WEEK'S WISHES

1. Clean my car - So I grabbed a carrier bag full of crap out of my car but didn't manage to take the biscuit tins and carrier bag of assorted foreign money out of my boot or give my car the hoover and wash it deserved. A wish for another week

2. Update my Blog Love - Due to aforementioned lack of internet this has been another failure. It is something I really need to do

3. Don't cry at work - I am very pleased to say that I have coped. Things have got a bit hairy at some points but I haven't cried. That doesn't mean that there hasn't been a lot of stress and a lot of stress to come

THIS WEEK'S WISHES

1. Enjoy my Saturday - These two weeks will have been pretty full on and instead of wasting my Saturday watching Homeland, I am actually going to get out and do something, maybe go for a walk and use my camera.

2. Update my Blog Love - A repeat from last week but an important one

3. Clean my car - or get someone else to clean it for me... now there's an idea!

Weekly Wishes #2

I really enjoyed Weekly Wishes last week - thanks for all your lovely comments. It was nice to have some direction in my goals this week rather than just meandering along hoping to get stuff done! Hope you had a good week.

LAST WEEK'S WISHES

1. Clean my room - it may have taken me a whole week to actually get this completed and may have had me pulling a half eaten rabbit from under my bed (thanks Felix!) but my bedroom is pretty much spotless. Ok so my desk is still a bit of a mess but its relatively organised for me.

2. Buy one piece of grown up makeup - I actually decided against this one. Looking at what is available on the market and how much it costs and how much I actually care about makeup I decided it ultimately wasn't worth it. I need to pay my Dad back for my car and need to start saving for a house not spending £30 on a foundation.

3. Enjoy my first yoga class - I enjoyed the first class, it was the stressful journey home that I didn't enjoy (see this post). I may have laughed every time there was a group exhale for the first twenty minutes (these people can breathe like dragons, they have massive lungs!) but I actually found it good fun. The class already looks to be fully booked for next week - teaches me to be slow to book - but will definitely go again.

THIS WEEK'S WISHES

1. Clean my car - I have started my cleaning binge and hope to continue you it this week by cleaning all the crap I have accumulated out of my car. Maybe it will hate me less!

2. Update my Blog Love page - This was meant to be all about the blogs I love and like all good intentions I just really didn't know where to start so it sits there empty and people must think that I don't love any blogs but seriously I do!

3. Don't cry at work - I'm not planning on it but next week I am looking after a colleague's work while he is on holiday which ultimately is increased pressure (mainly from myself) so basically this wish is just to try not to stress myself out and just keep doing what I know I can do.

Weekly Wishes #1

I loved the A-Z challenge last month. It made me feel part of something which I really enjoyed so I decided that I wanted to do something. Something that celebrated the every day and acknowledged my need to achieve but also my new found need for community. And I settled on Melyssa from the Nectar Collective's "Weekly Wishes". In it you set out what you want to achieve in a week and review how you got on with last week's wishes or as Melyssa much more eloquently describes it "for people who like to get shit done" It's something I really enjoy reading on other people's blogs and it's nice to hear about the everyday in a world of blogging perfection.

THIS WEEK'S WISHES

1. Clean my room - I hate putting clothes away and hate ordering my everyday stuff. I don't want to put my makeup away - it needs to be randomly strewn all over the place. I need that random pile of gift wrap and that other random bag of generic stuff. SAID NO ONE EVER!! (apart from hoarders that get buried under a pile of falling junk and then get eaten by their pet cats)

2. Buy one piece of grown up makeup - Natural collection/ dream matt mousse - it's all a bit thirteen years old. I'm not sure what yet as I need to have a little research but I'm thinking MAC shop here I come!

3. Enjoy my first yoga class - I've been thinking I should try yoga for a few years but I don't know - I keep putting myself off. Thanks to a certain Essex person and my gym changing their class timetable, I am giving it a go.

Wish me luck guys