Positive Steps Challenge 2013

his_missus

Morning,

A day off work for me waiting in for a man to come and insulate my loft ands the cavity walls so going to spend the day doing some crafting for Hubby's 40th birthday whilst he's out of the house. Order some photos for a scrapbook I'm making and make a start on his card, found a x-stitch I'm going to do.

Better get on with it really

Xandersmum

Evening!

Decided to have a miserly May, and try and make and save as much money as poss at least until half term!

Right, here is my list for the week!

• Cash out on TCB
• Do some DY reviews to cash out for amazon before some of my points expire
• Start Child development homework module for college
• Clean Oven
• Get suitcases back in the loft
• Pay monster in law Mays loan payment
• Sent payslips to carers
• renew Xan's congestion charge pass
• get ebay shop to over 100 (from 68)
• find hubbies new earring backs to stop him moaning
• change quidco payments to bank account
• Go to the gym at least once

Right that should do me for now! Weighed in this morning - 14st 10 :eek:

fairyclicks

Lovely to see you back with us Xansmum and welcome to the support/diet challenge!

I have to admit to being AWOL for the past few days basically because i had a major melt down I won't go into it but it wasn't pretty! my levels of paranoia, shame and worthlessness are extremely high. I'm struggling with the thought of leaving the house at all. unfortunately i have several ebay parcels to deal with and post so i'm not sure how i'm going to manage that today - its the only thing i am going to work on today in the hope i can get it done! Little steps:

Gather all sold items
Sort Envelopes
Address Envelopes
mark off ebay dispatch
send email to buyers

will think about posting later

his_missus

Hi Fairy, baby steps all the way. The sun is shining, get a bit of vitamin D on your skin and make that trip to the PO. FIngers crossed for you xxx

Made a start on Hubby's x-stitch yesterday then thought..."when am I going to finish it?" as the footy season ends this weekend (and it's an away match so he won't be going) D'oh! May need to cram a few craft nights in at a friend's.

Big job tonight is to sort through all the stuff we brought down from the loft and put back up there what we're keeping.

fairyclicks

Morning

Well i am very pleased to say i did manage to get to the post office yesterday with the help of my lovely man And he took me to a cafe as well (a nice quiet one). It was really really difficult and i was shaking like a leaf for the whole time i was out but just having him there made a massive difference! Its funny how he does it, its like he won't let me not go out but does it in a way that i don't feel pressured - i'm not quite sure how LOL!

Today i am still rather fragile but wanting to step

I would like to basically just work on the room of doom - its starting to look like a bedroom again I have lots of boxes of stuff to sell sorted which i'm going to store in the caravan soooooo

steps are:

move as many boxes of selling stuff into the caravan as i can (but at least 5) - 7 moved
sort out 2 boxes of the other stuff - done
sort out 9 more things to list on ebay to max account
take photos of said items
list them
check gumtree/ebay for bookcase - done

other bits to do:

check bank accounts - done
put bin out - done
free bingo - done
app trailers to 500 - done
one poll - done

think that will do for now

fairyclicks

Good Afternoon! Guess who has just woke up lol! I have been exhausted and getting little sleep so am pleased to have clocked up about 11hrs sleep :rotfl:

I am pleased to have got everything done exept my ebaying yesterday as well

Today i would like to:

wash the dishes - done
tidy living room
do a wash
one poll - done now at £33
swaggers daily target
ebay listings
sort another box from room of doom
free bingo - done
pay rent - done
pay mortgage - done
check debt balance

think that will keep me busy enough today

support/weight challenge

i weighed myself this morning and i have lost another 1lb now 10st 8.4 am so chuffed - next target is 10st 7lb - i have wanted to be down to 10st 7lb for ages and can't believe i'm so close to it then it will be 10st i want to be LOL! For the majority of my adult life i was 8st 3 then with the menopause, health problems and mediation i ended up over 11st - now i would be happy to be around 9st 7lbs but it seems a log way off at the minute - still, little steps seem to be working so far

his_missus

Hello Fairy,

Hope you're sitting down for what I'm about to say/type...this morning I actually tried running...well, jogging...well, staggering like a drunkard to be honest Decided to coax Hubby into trying the couch 2 5K running programme, boy am I unfit! Gotta kick start my health challenge though.

Not much stepping to report. Have kept on top of the washing and ironing, we sorted through all the loft junk, need to try and get crafty over the weekend now my craft room is no longer full of the loft junk.

Weigh in tomorrow morning, here's hoping it's good news

fairyclicks

hahahahaha his missus i know exactly what you mean about staggering like a drunkard LOL! I used to run at least 10 miles a day and now i couldn't run round the house :o. The sofa to 5k thing sounds brilliant - i wish i could do it with you! My other half used to run a lot too and now can't for health reasons either - it drives us both mad! We are trying to find something that we can both do - but with 2 ole crocs its hard to find something lol! I'll be really interested to hear how you and your OH get on

I'm also getting a bit motivated by your cross stitching - i have some half finished and i really should try to get them out again - its hard to pick them up again though and figure out where you are i think - any tips???

fairyclicks

Morning no big sleep for me today so hopefully will get a bit more done lol! Yesterday just disappeared on me....

So funny enough i have some rollies:

tidy living room - done
do a wash - done
swaggers daily target
ebay listings
sort another box from room of doom - 2 done
check debt balance

and i would also like to do:

one poll - done
app trailers - done
ring shop and scan - done but still no answer!
check bank accounts - done still no random millions in there LOL!
look for something i sold on ebay and can't find - done but not a sign of it, i think i must have relisted by accident refund sent to buyer!
clean camera
read some more of my book - done
decide if i'm going to go car booting this weekend - am a bit scared after last weeks melt down but trying to talk myself into it! Have now decided to go to a different car boot tomorrow and have everything ready to go - taking a smaller amount of things than usual just to get me there
check ebay - done 1 item with a bid
update blog - done
post on fb page
do some work on web design course
do a monthly review of progress
check forecast - done
back up some more photos from lappy - done

that should keep me out of mischief today

Phew its been a busy kinda day got loads done and am now knackered again lol! heading to bed shortly as it will be an early start tomorrow

fairyclicks

I seem to be having an aversion to ebay listing this week lol! really struggling to motivate myself in that direction, and swaggers for some reason

so yes they are rolling over yet again - i should add 1 to my item list for each day i don't list lol!

So today i would like to:

do ebay listings - ummmm no
swaggers daily target - uuuuuum no
check debt balance - ummmmm no - pattern emerging here lol!
one poll
app trailers - done
get jam
clean camera
update blog - done
post on fb page
do some work on web design course
do a monthly review of progress
check zopa
back up remainder of photos
hang up washing - done
read some more of book - done

think that will do me today - went to car boot and was frozen and sold hardly anything so feeling a bit grumpy atm - will be better once i can feel my toes again!