just keep swimming...

.....more moisturising.........more motivating.........

feeling a bit down generally..........but gritting teeth and listening to what the motivational messages say each day.....

Haven't heard back from Gail, it's only a couple of days, I'm guessing she isn't as surgically attached to her email as I am! Well, I hope that's the reason I haven't heard from her.

Did another task from Learning to Love You More. I did 'list 5 important events from 1984'........I included stuff like taking my school options, having a boyfriend for 6 months....not world important stuff but things I remember.

Haven't managed a No Spend Day yet, £7 on the 1st and 90p today (what a waste of a No Spend Day today!) but am determined to have 15 of them.

my Russian furry hat hasn't arrived yet. Could do with it at the moment as there has been snow.

More moisturising of ankles, read motivational message for the day and I've emailed Gail and it hasn't bounced back, so I must have the right email addy now. I've turned 'find Gail' red as i've contacted her......hopefully it will go purple with a reply in return!

I've mopped the kitchen floor - well, way hey you think! My house is very tidy, but I tend to 'ignore' stuff like mopping floors, big scale dusting - far too much like hard work! However, it needs to be done more regularly than......whenever.....so I've started on mop the kitchen floor monthly for the next 6 months..........it broke my mop however, so being Miss Housework 2009 is now going to cost me the price of a new mop...........sheesh........

More moisturising and motivational reading done. Thought of something to go on my new list last night and now I've forgotten!

Number 21: To find and speak to Gail.......

Gail was my best friend at school and even stayed with me each weekend at Uni as she took a year out. We lost contact when she went to University and I've tried for years to find her to get back in contact. I managed to find out she had been teaching in London, then possibly went abroad for a few years. Apart from that, absolute blank. I'd looked on all social networking sites and put shouts out on 'looking for' forums, but to no avail and I guessed she just didn't want to be found or wasn't very into the internet.......

imagine my surprise when yesterday, her younger sister found me on Facebook! I nearly fell off my chair!

I have found out Gail has 2 children and her younger sister is going to pass on my email address and try to get her to join Facebook. After all these years of searching, it's great that something has suddenly happened as I had thoughts of after 1001 days me not ever finding her.

I've decided on the next task to tackle on Learning to Live Yourself More. I've gone for 'saying goodbye'........basically it's about writing a goodbye note to someone or something and really meaning it. I will probably do it over the next couple of days. I know what I am ready to say goodbye to - and mean it.

More moisurising (almost forgot!) and more motivational reading.

Today's piece starts

"Make a promise to yourself and keep it. There's something that you've always desired, and now is the time to make it real." It then goes on to say that you must choose something that challenges you and has eluded you in the past. My instant promise is to lose weight and keep it off, but I thought - well, my 101 in 1001 is a series of promises, so my promise is to complete the 101 challenge in the 1001 days. Some of the list is easy to complete, some is time consuming, some will really test me in a number of ways.

But I promise to complete my list.

Well, I'm moisturised, motivated and I've picked up the Tandy electronics kit I bought from Ebay so it's a bit of progress! I don't think I'll have time to look at the kit until the weekend but it's here at least.

Planning ahead for next month, I'm definitely going to tackle 15 NSD's (No Spend Days) in February. NSD's are where, apart from any bills on direct debit, you don't spend 1 penny on anything. I had my finances in really good shape after paying off debt and then getting a redundancy and a grievance payout, but life has meant the savings are reducing and some debt is creeping back into my life. Having a month of being very conscious about what I spend and when should help me start to re-focus.

No motivational piece today as it's Sunday.

Started a month of moisturising the dry bit on my ankles - not exactly earth shattering, but it's something I need to do.

I don't really take much care of myself beauty routine wise - I'm a wash face with soap kind of gal, maybe my next 101 in 1001 list should include more 'me' pampering stuff.