Today I'm......

Hunting for accommodation for when I do my Ben Nevis Mountain Challenge
Totalling up my sponsorship monies (£270 + cash match)
Working out what I need to buy (fleece, waterproofs, maps, survival bag)
Thinking I must be a nutter to have voluntered to do all this in the first place

PS I didn't see 5:30 but I made 6am!

Don't Panic.....

All is well in the world of the Ben Nevis Mountain Challenge, you will be pleased to know after yesterday's scary message. It seems they merely wanted my sister's name, so they could put us in the same team (they had split the application forms up and filed them alphabetically and as we now have different surnames....). So, gulp, it means I'd better get some more training underway, as things have gone a little astray just lately in that department. I'm even, gulp, thinking about getting up at 5:30 tomorrow to do some exercise before work. Yes, I know, I'm mad.......!

I Hope It's not bad news......

I received a message from Marie Curie re the Ben Nevis mountain climb, apparently there's a problem with my application, which doesn't bode well. Unfortunately they were closed by the time I picked up the message, so I will have to wait until tomorrow, to find out what the problem is. I think I will hang off booking my accommodation, until I speak to them!

PS Why do people leave messages at 5:10 to tell you that they're closing at 5:30, when they've had all day to ring???

Normal Service Will Be Resumed Soon!

This week I've been taking a break and doing nothing whatsoever to do with the blog, my novel etc, etc, which has just included a weekend away in Wales, where I bought a bookmark made from sheep poo (see told you it had nothing to do with the blog). Next week I will be writing furiously to catch up with my 500 word a day novel writing and planning my upcoming events on my task list.....honest!

Today I Will Be.......

Spreading the good word of my blog at the Big UK Flickr meet in Nottingham.......

Something Missing ......

I've felt really strange this week and I couldn't quite put my finger on why. I've checked my bank statements, paid my credit card bill, stepped up my exercise routine, but still didn't feel right. Then I realised what it was ............. I haven't written any of my novel for the last four days and I'm having withdrawal symptoms. A marathon writing session at the weekend beckons, me thinks!

That's What Friends Are For.....

I met my friend Heather tonight for a bite to eat and general girlie gossip.

After we had finished catching up on all our news, Heather casually drops into the conversation

"By the way, did I tell you I'm going to Wimbledon?"

"Mmm, no you didn't, but did you know that's on my list of things to do?" I replied hopefully.

Unfortunately Heather did not take the hint, but if anyone else has spare tickets .............

Maybe Baby

So the conversation went like this.

"Mmm, kids are playing out in the street again"

"Yep"

"It's about time we started to think about kids"

"Mmmm"

"Cos neither of us, is getting any younger"

The cheek!

But it made me think.....If I am fortunate to have children, then I am going to be an old Mum, I have no choice in that, but and it's a big but, I want just do a few more things off my list before I do. I want to go and work in Africa and tour America. I want to stand in Times Square on New Years Eve and I want to go to Ayres Rock on a Harley Davidson. It's that wrong to want to do this?

Stop Press

I received a package yesterday at work - one of those really annoying ones that someone had sellotaped all the way round, so you couldn't get in it. I never usually receive anything interesting at work, so I got a little excited and then I managed to get into the parcel ........

I'm now the proud owner of a cap and t-shirt from my place of work, as well as receiving confirmation that they will cash match my Ben Nevis sponsorship and no I couldn't contain myself either when I saw what was inside the package!

Guess What?

My evil twin won! I am now the proud owner of a Ferrari experience, well at least I will be when the paperwork comes through the post.

It's also my blog birthday today - this blog is officially one year old today! Just think this time last year, I'd not appeared on Radio Nottingham, I wasn't married and this blog was just a small project that I thought I would get bored with very quickly!

Hope you've enjoyed the show so far - there's plenty more to come!