30 Days of Lists - Day Twenty Nine

I've tried to write a variation on today's list before but I never completed it because I didn't specify a timescale so trying to write a gratitude list for my entire life is just too big to think about. I was more successful with today's list because it was just asking for what I'm grateful for this week. So here it is:

This week I'm grateful for...

• The sun coming out today after all the cold weather and snow we've had
• The fact that my employer allows us to have such a long Easter break (6 days)
• Having nice colleagues that I get on with
• My job that I enjoy doing
• Grace being happy at the childminders so I don't have to worry about her all day
• My husband for looking after Grace while I went out for a work's night out

30 Days of Lists - Day Twenty Eight

I can't believe I only have a few more days of this challenge. Although it has been quite difficult at times to compile a list each day and even harder to post about it on my blog every day, I've thoroughly enjoyed doing it. Today's list is as follows:

This week I chose to...

• Invite my family round for Easter Sunday dinner
• Go to the Hobbycraft show on Sunday instead of Saturday because of the snow
• Start reading Victoria Coren's autobiography
• Buy too many pieces of scrapbook paper at the show (whoops!)
• Have the liver when we went out for dinner on Monday with JC and Fiona
• Only fast for one day rather than two. Must try harder next week

30 Days of Lists - Day Twenty Six

Today's list is looking back to this time last year. I can't believe what a difference a year makes.

This time last year I was....

• Still on Maternity leave
• Buying new leather sofas
• Trying to get Grace to sleep more in the day in the hope of getting her to sleep more at night
• Warmer - it was a brief heatwave compared to this year's unexpected cold spell
• Signing contracts with the childminder ready for her to start going in May

and here's a photo of the warmer weather to prove it:

Liz

30 Days of Lists - Day Twenty Five

I struggled again with today's list. Maybe because it doesn't require much imagination and I always prefer those ones. So here is today's list, in no particular order.

When faced with a tough decision I...

• Speak to my husband
• Speak to my mum and dad
• Consider all my options
• Try to think of all sides of the story/situation
• Sleep on it

I haven't had many tough decisions to make in my life so far and for that I'm grateful.

Liz

30 Days of Lists - Day Twenty Four

So finally some photos to go with today's post.

Pets past and present...

• Perky - budgie
• Michael - fish
• Bubble and Squeak - gerbils
• Pedro - budgie
• Frankenstein - budgie
• Rory - Rabbit

Unfortunately I cannot find any photos of the first 3 pets but here is one of Pedro (on the left) and Frankenstein in their respective cages. Taken Christmas 2006:

And here's our most recent pet Rory:

All of them except Rory have left us now and are buried in my parents back garden, under the statue of the white lady. There can't be that much more room for any other pets!

Liz

30 Days of Lists - Day Twenty three

Today's list is looking at past injuries. This is quite an unusual list because we usually concentrate on happy memories and while most of these are not unhappy memories, they aren't the ones I would usually think of to document in a scrapbook. So here's my list...

• Ripped off half of my right big toe nail on the corner of the bed (age 28)
• Weak right knee from landing on it during a netball game at school (est. age 13)
• Compressed disc in my back (est. age 27)
• Small chunk dug out of shoulder from the corner of a rusty firebox in Tenerife (est. age 14)
• Thumb nail on right hand half ripped off twice (ages 16 and 25)
• Teeth pushed back as a result of running into the coffee table as a child (est. age 1)
• Electrocuted by some exposed wiring above the bed while staying in the Hotel Fenecia in Benidorm (age 1)

Not surprisingly, I don't have any photos of these injuries but perhaps that's a good thing.

Liz

30 Days of Lists - Day Eighteen to Day Twenty Two

So it's been five days since my last post so I'm going to roll that last five days worth of lists into one post. Here goes.

Day Eighteen

So far this year I...

• Have changed my hair and now have a fringe
• Have moved office at work
• Have read 6 out of the 62 books that I'm aiming to read this year
• Have created 6 scrapbook pages
• Have volunteered for my first Nearly New Sale with the Loughborough branch of the NCT
• Have spring cleaned the whole house and sorted the Kitchen drawers
• Started saving £2 coins

Day Nineteen

In the next year I will...

• Read more books
• Use up the scrapbook stash that I already have before I buy some more
• Get more organised with birthdays
• Make more of an effort to make time for my friends

Day Twenty

I do not regret...

• Doing a BTEC National Diploma in Media rather than doing A levels
• Deciding not to do journalism at Lincoln University in favour of taking a gap year and doing American Studies at the University of Leicester instead
• Doing a degree in American Studies even though some people see it as a 'Mickey Mouse' degree
• Moving in with my then boyfriend after only 6 months

Day Twenty One

Today's weather reminds me of...

• Winter and it's supposed to be spring
• Saturday mornings when I was a child and going shopping in Arnold with my Mum and Dad

Day Twenty Two

Roadtrip playlist....

• Every album by The Killers
• Country Superstar by Dolly Parton
• There you'll be by Faith Hill
• Flight of the Conchords
• Anything by Jack Johnson
• The Best of James Taylor
• Breathe In by Lucie Silvas
• All Michael Buble's albums
• Anything by Michael Jackson
• Paul Simon's Greatest Hits
• Seasons of my Soul by Rumer
• Alan Jackson Greatest Hits