So this is the goal update for this week and October! The goal setting will happen in a post later on this afternoon.

As ever, if you’re not interested in my monthly goals, avoid the blog on Saturday and come back tomorrow for Sunday Music!

How this week has been

It’s not been a fabulous week, it’s seems like if it could go wrong it did go wrong. Nothing major, I just haven’t been 100 per cent and little things have been dreadful. However, the perspective police (my mother, Michael and godchild 2 – who was also having a bad week!) reminded me that no-one died and I wasn’t in a superstorm, so it wasn’t all that terrible. I am however glad that I’m done with it!

Let’s get to it…

1) Cook a new recipe each week (I’m not making it specifically vegetarian but I will try for three out of four)

I made the cod and tomato thingie and it was great.

I’m done for the month, with a perfect record! Pass!

2) Exercise twice a week.

I ‘ran’ on Sunday (6k), was at the gym on Wednesday and Thursday. Done under trying circumstances but done!

Again that’s a pass for the month. Yay for exercise!

3) Clean floors and hoover once a week

Done, done, done. Another pass I’m giving myself!

4) 10pm school night bed time.

Done. Pass for the month!

5) Walk 10k four times in October.

Fail for the week, 25% for the month. Not good.

6) Tidy the cupboard. I have a store/junk cupboard off the bathroom that really needs some organising.

100% fail. Didn’t get to it, just didn’t have the time.

7) Cheerfulness. I’m going to find something that makes me happy every day and will list them as part of the Saturday goal progress report.

Saturday – Time with Lis and Lincoln.

Sunday – Sunday afternoon, movie, dinner, whisky, time with my Ma and James Bond!

Monday – I didn’t feel well, I went to bed early and got some sleep – it was lovely

Tuesday – The sun was shining, it made me happier.

Wednesday – Cake in the office, the company won an award.

Thursday – I was in the gym on Thursday, doing my walk uphill, run on the flat bits and it was feeling tough. I was surrounded by people on the treadmills going fast and feeling that I would never get there. Then a women who had been running really fast got off the treadmill and her shirt said ‘Run Your Own Race’. Words I really needed to hear/see at that moment.

Friday – Friday Sushi. I normally take my lunch into work but today wasn’t feeling it and got sushi instead. Glad to have that option sometimes.

8) Forward planning. It’s Christmas in three months and before that Ben, Oli, Christelle and Ma have birthdays. By the end of this month I would like to have their birthday presents sorted out!

All done! I am prepared for the birthday season (with the small exception of working out what I’m doing for Oli’s cake, he wants a rocket, he wants Mickey Mouse – I’d like a nice simply number 3). Just have to sort myself out for Christmas now!