Holidaying with Kids and other things

Have just spent a lovely week in Cornwall Geri and Catrina came but the rest of the kids didn't for various reasons. Geri beat David at go-karting which has always been on her wish list a bonus to beat him as well lol. Before I went I had a go at dying my eyelashes myself made a bit of a boob in not putting enough mixture in but it was noticable enough for a friend and Geri to comment so will do this again. Wore makeup when we went out so am putting this in as once for this task.
There was a lovely spa at the hotel so this counts as a spa visit and it was so lovely and warm that I was able to continue my swimming challenge and have now completed 24700 metres which is actually 16.5 miles out of 21 whoopee do.
For August and September I set myself a challenge not to buy any clothes and amazed myself by being able to do it for two months instead of one. I also find myself shopping in a different more thoughtful way not just mindlessly buying yet another top or skirt. May think about having one month of being allowed to buy and then one month not, it was cetainly very interesting to note how I felt differntly about shopping after not doing it for a fairly short space of time. Am also looking at ways of looking at my own wardrobe as a "shop" by putting some away or in a different wardrobe, just out of interest. We all need to be a bit more frugal these days so no harm to buy less, Am looking forward to the belly dancing class tomorrow, shoud be fun.

September update- mostly swimming and auction

Have been to Turkey on holiday so was lucky enough to be able to carry on with my swimming challenge. Was glad to find it wasn't as far as I thought and have gone from swimming 15.000 metres to a grand total now of 24,000 metres so am well over half way there as it is only 33,880 metres or 21 miles. Am hoping to join a swimming club in October so may even get to complete it by the end of this year.

While in Turkey we went to a charity dinner and at the dinner there was an auction. David bid on a dinner for two in the Istanbul Restaurant on second beach and we won the bid so am cheekily counting this as going to an auction and bidding but if I get to go to a real auction will do so.

We had a lovely meal in the restaurant and if you are ever in altinkum would highly recommend it.

July August- things I am working on

Feel like I am doing pretty well with my list so am usual am working on a good few things this month.

Have been to the library and got out 3 books found it hard to choose as had to make sure they weren't too heavy to hold- sounds silly really but thats the reality.
Am going to definitely start filling out the gratitiude journal because I promised Danielle I would so they will keep me on my toes.
Atill working on chucking out stuff need help from Geri as she is quite routhless need to get to 50 might try to do it all in one day and take a pic it might be an interesting pile of stuff.

Have got the moulds for soap but not ingredients think will start with easier pouring method before messing about with chemicals.

On the make up front am going to get my elelashes dyed at the same time as going for weekend make up wearing. I wonder if anyone will notice.

Have gotta get on and do the recipe book so will start an email for that now and hope to get it out to people maybe for extra Christmas pressie if it takes too long but hopefully before.

Continuing with taking some good photos and get back to freerice for a few more grains and thats it for this month now onto other blog updates.

Update on lots of things

Feel like have got way behind with this so for a bit of catch up will write what have worked on and what will work on this month in one long post. Hope it is not too long.

Will be able to carry on with swimming as have found warm pool to join only in Wimbledon and reasonable membership so will be able to carry on with swimming the channel. Was very glad to find that it is not 380,000 yards wide!!!
Couldn't go to the flower show as had very painful feet tired and hip pain but hope to be up for it next year unless I can find one on between now and then.
Tried reiki and pain machine for a month, think pain machine has been more successful but still use Reiki for facial pain when it is bad and it seems to help.

Have sent a video of Catrina doing pressups to you've been framed although it was taken with a camera phone and may not be good enough quality. Will try to have camera at ready to video her doing other funny things.

Have started taking some pictures to have enlarged taking some on my spoon theme and also will take some good family ones to have framed to use in Turkey.

My friend Kym takes some lovely phots so will try to have good look at hers to give ideas and techniques to use for future.

Have been listening to songs on ipod while swimming but the ipod crashed so now I don't know where I am and have lost about 1000 songs so will have to update it from whoevers itunes library I used before.

Listening to Ipod songs

Found this was much easier to do if I was swimming along at the same time. Dooing one helped the other so to speak. of course not only was i swimming mostly I was singing along too.

Was happily singing to myself when a Turkish workman came to see what all the noise was about but gave me a smile and a thumbs up so hopefully he didn't think it was too bad.
Was on B when I arrived- breaking uo is hard to do then went through Christmas ia all around- bit strange to listen to that in 30 degrees in Turkey.
on to Crazy Love with Van Morrison then do you love me.
heard on a song with the word- discombobulated in it - wish I could remember which one it was now.
Went through E with El Divo and have stopped on Fernando with Abba.

When I had family staying with me they were not keen on listening A to Z so had to have a few breaks but still managed to get up to 900 songs listened to from 347 when I arrived in Turkey.

Can't count the singing as karoake but can say it is a bit of practice for it.

Am back from Turkey - Swimming targets

Hi All
I have been back from Turkey for about a week now but was unable to post as have been a bit poorly but I have updated my list to show more of the ones I have completed. I had a lovely time in Turkey and made full use of the pool to help complete some of my targets.

So i was able to swim every other day and in fact probably swam most days as when the pool is just there outside your door and it is so hot , we,, it is just so inviting.

I got into a bit of a muddle about swimming the channel in a pool as I had made my target in yards them measured the pool in metres and then someone convinced me that the channel must be 380,000 yards.

Well this seemend very daunting so I set myself smaller targets starting with 1000 metres then 2 then 4, 5 and so-on.
In the end I managed to swim 15,000 metres over the six weeks.
I was really happy when I came home to find that the channel at its smallest point is 21 miles or 34,000 metres so hope that I will be able to achieve this within the two year period. Yippee.

I also went a little better than riding a tandem as i was feeling fairly well so bought a bike and was able to go round the block on it wowee