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LJ's positive challenge 3rd of June

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  • OliveOyl_2
    OliveOyl_2 Posts: 3,506 Forumite
    This thread is really good.
    It seems to have motivated my OH.:rotfl: The contents of the futility room have been emptied into the garden for a sort out. Some of the things would be better stored in the overcrowded shed, so the shed's contents have joined the stuff on the lawn (patch of grass really). And he is really working hard sorting stuff out.

    I've wandered out occasionally to make positive encouraging remarks such as "I wouldn't store the paint in the shed it'll go off" I'm really supposed to be sorting our spreadsheets and writing a script for a competition, but I had to pass on Lennys motivational remarks to help the OH
  • lynsayjane
    lynsayjane Posts: 3,547 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Xmas Saver!
    I know. Is it possible to develop Big Brother-related Tourettes for an hour a night. And then it disappears?

    I think that sounds like a genuine medical problem to me mins. Some people put it on at work on the day it started which got me kinda hooked. Am trying really hard to avoid watching it as I can't stand it!!!

    Tonight however is a very very sad night, it's the last night of 24, think I'm gonna cry *sniff sniff* am thinking of getting myself a chinese to cheer me up and say goodbye to jack
  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    I think the reason I like watching big brother is that it makes me feel sort of sane and intelligent! Not sane and intelligent as in you have to be sane and intelligent to watch BB, but sane and intelligent in comparison to those daft enough to enter the house!
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • lynsayjane
    lynsayjane Posts: 3,547 Forumite
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    hypno06 wrote: »
    I think the reason I like watching big brother is that it makes me feel sort of sane and intelligent! Not sane and intelligent as in you have to be sane and intelligent to watch BB, but sane and intelligent in comparison to those daft enough to enter the house!

    i can see how that works. they all make me want to scream! those twins are totally annoying, the pink haired hippy fell out the ugly tree (ouch!), the asian looking and black girl make me go :eek: saw them talking the other day and one was saying 'I think I'm the queen of my street, I walk like I own it....' what the f***???

    I think I just blew mins' be good to people thing! :rotfl:
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    My nice thing might be to NOT watch BB so that I can't come out with too many offensive comments when people talk about it tomorrow at work!
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • LookingAhead
    LookingAhead Posts: 4,633 Forumite
    GirlRacer wrote: »
    This is a fab idea LJ, I'll joint in. I'm going to answer 3 questions tonight from my assignment and also decided to make myself feel better each day I'm going to make an effort with my appearance. No more throwing on whatevers at hand and pulling my hair back in a bobble.



    Good luck with your assignment G_R and also, I agree with LJ. Although sometimes I despair of myself (i.e. I spend a lot of hair products and try to buy nice clothes yet sometimes, it just all goes wrong and I still end up looking like a scarecrow!) most of the time I feel better for making the effort.

    You'll have to keep us posted on what you do/how it makes you feel! I will be interested anyway :)

    LA x
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  • LookingAhead
    LookingAhead Posts: 4,633 Forumite
    My positive step will be..........believing my sunburn *will* be better by next weekend when I have to wear a red dress. I will *not* look like a lobster.
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  • lynsayjane
    lynsayjane Posts: 3,547 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Xmas Saver!
    My positive step will be..........believing my sunburn *will* be better by next weekend when I have to wear a red dress. I will *not* look like a lobster.

    ooooooooppps!
  • LookingAhead
    LookingAhead Posts: 4,633 Forumite
    Indeed....
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  • Gemmzie
    Gemmzie Posts: 14,876 Forumite
    I will limit my revision to two hours per subject per day, any more and I'll get burnt out and overly stressed.
    No longer using this account for new posts from 2013
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