Gratitude Journal

Have been working on this for the last month and cannot tell you how much better it makes you feel to concentrate on all the good things that have happened during the day and forgot about any little thing that might have gone a bit wrong.

i am going to post the journal entries one each day for the month of March although they will really be for February. I will i think continue to do the gratitude journal though as it makes me feel happy happy happy.

Sorry will post again soon

Sorry not to have posted for so long. Its not that I haven't been working on my 101 list just life happened and this went to one side. Will get back into regular posting NOW

Free Rice Scam?

Logged on to free rice and completed 4000 grains but another link sent me to a whole list of articles saying it was a scam!! Although "some" rice is being donated and it is under written by the World Health Organisation it seems that it is not a charity and is mostly a money making enterprise for the owners of the site who have made over a million from it already. not sure about continuing with the project - will have to think about it, check it out a bit more and if it is definitely a scam choose a different 101 instead of it but am debating whether it should be a charitable one or just something really fun.

Ukelele and Learning Turkish

Was very lucky to get a ukelele for Christmas as well as a book and CD for learning Turkish, thanks to Sue and Terry and Linda. They must have been peeking at my 101 list. So now i know whqat to concentrate on in January and all the way up to May when I have my next trip planned to Turkey.
Have a DVD with the ukelele as well as the loan of a CD and DVD from Joy. So will give it a good go. Utube here I come lol.
Forgot all about the free rice so did 4,000 today.

Free Rice

Haven't had a go on this in a while but realise will need to get a wiggle on if am going to reach my target of 1000.000 grains. Am going to try to do 2000 a day for a while to see if can get my figure up. May do calculation to see how long that will take. Its something to do in the winter anyway. Some of the words are very hard too. Ig you don't know what it is it is a word game and for every one you get right you donate 10 grains of rice to hungry people in the third world.
Its multiple choice with one word sand four possible meanings. I believe a man made it up for his children to play but decided it could be used to make money for charity at the same time. Have done my 2000 for the day.

Making Cards

Have had a go at making cards and have made 2 Christmas cards and 7 birthday cards. Could do with a bit of help and advice on this but maybe taking my bits next week to lunch with Joy and Joyce.

Ordered lots of fairly cheap items from mad about cards some for as little as 25p but still managed to spend 17 pound, hopefully will be able to make at least fifty cards from that though. Tried some with stickers, painted a few and some with stamps. Think they look better if stickers are used for Happy Birthday/ Merry Christmas etc and stamps better used for inside the card.

Will do a bit of research on internet for ideas but enjoyed the session and something to do on a cold wet snowy day.

Talking Books

Have now managed to put 13 talking books onto itunes and only have to look at the instructions fleetingly ;-).
Am really enjoying listening to them but am going to try and read a few more books as I think that only listening to books has made me less aware of the strucutre of books and I think I will need this skill when I get around to editing the book "what I wrote"