it's a rollover, this could be the one!

so did i do it that one thing just one thing?

oh i did, with the help of him indoors or at least with the chrissy pressie he got me.

a fresher, shinier, brighter and better version of myself is on its way, i am booked into a new gym it's taken 10 months for me to get off the sofa and i was a little reluctant to make the move. i'd been building myself up for it all week in my head and i got up this morning feeling it might not be the day.  anyway just to ease me in i checked in with my membership to start next weekend, it gives me some more time to get my head round it. it may seem a little dramatic but i have been out of fitness levels for over 2 years, last year i thought i would drip feed myself into it with some yoga and it was working until it all came a little non-zen for me and became a discussion of money. i stopped as mentally the whole thing just upset my mind set.

so the lovely hubby bought me 10 personal training sessions at the local gym for christmas, with all good intentions, we are going skiing in march and with the issues i have had with my knee and back in the past it would be crazy not to be fit before we go. 

so with voucher in hand, (i even dressed for the part this morning to make me feel like i had to get down there)

Me today, ready for the shinier self (Jan 2016)

i descended on said gym to start my membership and book my first pt session. lovely folks at the reception advised that i get myself comfortable with gym team before i choose my pt as its an expensive gift that may go wrong if i choose the wrong pt.. i agreed it seemed very sensible advice, i want this to work, anyway it would seem you get 3 free personal sessions with the membership, i booked myself in with the lovely lady at the reception nadine, so lets see how that goes!

feeling lucky i dropped in on the petrol station for two lucky dips for today's lottery , so hey that may be one more thing that puts 2016 into a better place... now that would just be too funny, so fingers crossed it's a roll over and we have as much chance as anyone, you have to be in it to win it!  the independent gives you a couple of tips to boost ones chances but being in it is the biggest one tip one should listen to ;)

one more year on

last year i thought it would be good to not let the year slip away and do one thing each week for me.

i failed miserably on that front and indeed 2015 slipped away into a year which was full of ups and downs.  i felt i was constantly drowning in everything else but something for me.  i spent most of it internalised and i stopped doing most of the things i enjoyed. i do wonder looking back on it at the start of a new year, that it may have been me counteracting the emotional year i had in 2014 with my mum and dad.  instead of getting out there and making something i locked myself away from everything, i seriously can't do that this year i live now in a beautiful part of the world, i have a fab hubby and anipals and i need to split my cocoon and do that one thing for me each week. i need to stop feeling that i am nowhere.

my hubby bought me 10 personal training sessions for christmas (the expectations are they are to help me to get ski fit for march) and considering the total lack of exercise and get up and go i exhibited last year (i spent most of my free time on my couch) it may be the kick start i need to do one thing for me each week at least for 10 weeks and then i may have enough endorphins pumping through my system i will be motivated enough to do it myself the exercise thing.  i will simply feel better and hopefully look better and more importantly be doing something for me.   

it's important for me in 2016 to feel good, i know for sure my dad would be telling me to get on with things and stop making excuses. 

so if for anyone i will do it for him as well as for me.

Photo courtesy of Emma Case Photography

just one thing a week for me... 2016 your on!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS

one

so it's the weekend and we are really into the new year aren't we? so while relaxing in the tub tonight i came to realise that last year was pretty much over before it started. yes a few lovely things happened, we got milo our crazy hound, we bought our forever home up north, tim stopped work, i finally was allowed although temporary initially, to work 4 days instead of 5 and most importantly we got my little dad into a nice place he could call home, where he will be safe, cared and looked after and my little mum could finally breath. but bar those milestones the year flashed by and all i can remember was that i spent a large part of it in work and not doing stuff really for me or my family/friends.

so with the one more day i have snatched back for me i have decided i should do one thing each week for me.  at the end of each week i will share what i chose to do for me and share on here as a post entitled:

to make it easy for myself i think it maybe good that i list the seven of those one things that i could do:

number 1 - take one photo of myself or something that makes me smile that week

number 2 - change one thing 

number 3 - watch one new film

number 4 - finish one book

number 5 - learn one new thing

number 6 - start one form of exercise 

number 7 - do one thing together with either of my fellas and little lady 

i really want to remember 2015, i don't want to feel that it slipped through my fingers, we do have a lot happening this year with plans to move up north so a good time to record a few of those changes.

i think this could be really a new start for the blog too, one thing is for sure that i will have to make time for it and you never know i may just get a few more followers also.  may be not quite so many as these guys:

the things you are passionate about are not random, but your calling