10 positive steps a day challenge - 2012

Giggles86

Evening all :-) Hope it's been a good day for you and you're all managing to relax a bit to watch the Olympic closing ceremony!
It's been a more productive day than I anticipated today :-D
I have:

• Finished my book (after forcing myself to put it down and go to sleep at half 2!)
• helped my brother to choose a pond for his garden (then sat and watched him dig - I would have helped but he only has one spade!)
• Sold some uni books to my SIL for £30 It's been so long since I've made any money it felt great!
• Had a lovely Sunday dinner
• Arranged to meet my mum for lunch tomorrow after I've been to the Job Centre
• Found my certificates and everything I need for applying for jobs after tidying it into a safe place!
• Tried to show my Gran how to use iPlayer on the wii so she could watch a Proms thing she missed the other day
• Set my alarm for bright and early so I can have a productive day tomorrow

Now having a sit down to watch the Olympic Closing Ceremony. Not sure what I'll do with out them! I've been hooked!!

Giggles86

Morning! It's a new day and the sun is shining...and my stomach is in knots!
Appointment at the job centre today and I'm not looking forward to it at all. But I shall not let it get me down (somehow!) and if it does I'll not let it stop me being productive! Today I shall...
1. Finish this cuppa and have a shower.done
2. Work out why our printer won't print as I need some copies of my CVdone
3. Go to the job centre done and not as bad as I expected!
4. Put some washing on
5. Hang the washing out
6. Go meet my mum for lunch done
7. Drop a book off for my SIL (after writing a list of other books I have she can borrow if she needs them) half done
8. Hope some application forms arrive in the post to start filling in. received one late by email so will fill in tomorrow
9. Finish a cross stitch card
10. Look on the local council websites for teaching jobs to apply for.
11. Try and contact a school about visiting during their summer schooldone but no answer so job for tomorrow.:)
12. Dust off the wii fit board and maybe go for a bike ride.done
13. Find L plates that I'm sure must be floating around somewhere.done
14. Wash up.done

And if I get all that done I'll easily fall asleep tonight (I hope!)
Hope everyone has a good day :-)

Xandersmum

Morning Gang!

My turn on the weepy step today - hope everyone else is feeling more positive!!

• Update Diary
• Get Script request to doctors
• Hospital with Xan
• Move some toys to his new toy box
• overpay CC
• 5 new ebay
• parcel and post ebay
• DY review
• Some form of exercise walked the mile back from the hospital
• Contact V about starters

princesst84

Glad the job centre appt went well Giggles. I always find that things are never as bad as we imagine they will be...i make it worse in my own head

We really are sharing the weepy step around at the moment arent we. Hope you are feeling abit better today Xandersmum.

So the Usain Bolt syle stepping has certainly gone now I am back at work

Yesterday i did manage a few steps:
Took own lunch to work
Packed work bag as was going out for a meal after work with colleagues
Made it through the evening

And today I have:
Washed up
Stood up for myself at work
Had a friend drop in and had a nice chat
Chatted with brother on phone

So little steps for me at the moment but i will keep on plodding

Giggles86

Hope you're feeling better today Xandersmum

Well done on standing up for yourself at work. I wish I'd had the guts to do that before I left!

Today has been a pretty good day really. I was a bit stressed this morning as I had an appointment at the bank (nothing like everything happening at once!) but like the job centre, it wasn't as bad as I anticipated and the adviser I spoke to was really lovely. Managed quite a few things today, and am now closer to being ready for Christmas having finished cross stitching 2 cards now!

Been to the bank
Finished making a Christmas card (hoping to make most of them this year so needed to get started early!
2 loads of washing washed and hung out
Spent the afternoon with a friend
Received 2 job applications in the post
Proofread my boyfriend's website
Bought a new baby card kit ready to make for a friend
Bought wool to have a go at making a cool scarf
Washed up

I probably won't get many steps completed tomorrow as I'm helping out at a local day centre but still hoping for a few little things!

princesst84

Hey everyone
Better late than never!

Today I have:
Got told what and when my bonus will be
Chatted with friend and sister
Put washing up away
Put a load on
Put a load in dryer, chucking it down here
Tidied round dining room

I would also like to:
Get a bath had a nice long soak and read my book
Do 2 hours of work
Tidy bedroom
Write a work to do list
Cleaned bathroom

Giggles86

How annoying! I'm wide awake again now after being exhausted about 4ish!
Today I have:
Helped out at a local day centre serving meals and being a general dogsbody (this included surprising a couple of the ladies there who thought I was still at school!...I'm 26!
Completed an application form
Walked to the day centre to save money (Had to catch the bus home because it was pouring down though!)
Had a bath
Washed up
Arranged to pop down to my Gran's tomorrow for some crafty advice so I can start making a couple of Christmas presents
Aiming for an early morning (if I get to sleep at a reasonable time!) so I can have a really productive day!

Xandersmum

Thanks Guys! feeling a bit brighter, but still in a self-loathing mood! Weight hasn't gone up but it hasn't gone down either, so feel like a Hungary Hippo!:wall:
Had quite a positive meeting at the hospital today who said my sugars are generally looking a bit better and gave me some ideas of fruit I can eat that shouldn't affect my sugars so much! Apparently cherries are sweet but have no detrimental affect on sugars so treated myself to a small punnet which I am going to munch once Xan is in bed!!

Bit late now so will do a list for today and tomorrow:

• DY review
• Catch up on Surveys
• Wash up and wipe down sides
• 5 new ebay
• Inventory and rejig 2 boxes of stock
• Buy new stock book
• Parcel and post ebay
• More toys moved to the upstairs toy box
• Make Jelly
• Pasta Bake for Hubs nights

Giggles86

Been another reasonably productive day today though I've been feeling tired all day!

I have:
-Been to the job centre and was in their a grand total of 5minutes!
-Walked to and from the job centre
-Done 2 loads of washing and hung them outside
-Made a lovely curry for tea with enough left for supper tomorrow
-Knitted a very short scarf (ideally needs another ball of wool but will know that next time!)
-Been to bells practice though didn't concentrate brilliantly due to heat/tired so made lots of silly mistakes!
-Been to see my Gran to get my dressing gown which she was fixing
-Organised to go to Blackpool on Saturday with my boyfriend (would have been Whitby if it wasn't for the regatta being on this weekend apparently!)
-Washed up (and cleaned the kitchen after spilling some of the curry sauce on the cooker!)
-Learned how to purl so I can now (in theory) knit something a bit more exciting than a plain scarf!
-Started to make my next Christmas card

Xandersmum

Happy Weekend everyone - hope it is as glorious where you are as it is here!!

Plan to have a housework and ebay weekend! My steps this weekend are:

• Rejig and Inventory 5 boxes of stock
• 10 new ebay
• Upload shop n scan
• Overpay CC
• DY review
• Wash up and clean sides
• Catch up on the washing
• Cut grass
• Wash car
• Stick to diet
• Type up new Stock