Fundraising for Cancer Research UK

Katrina Neighbour is fundraising for Cancer Research UK

I would really appreciate it if people could take the time to have a look at the above link :)

If you would like to donate thankyou, even just a pound would be appreciated :)

365

Ok Just having my 365 photos on the blog every day is slightly boring, so I will make a link on my lovely blog the next few days for my FB 365 album. Which will be viewable to all. Unless anyone particularly likes my daily photo on here? But I think I will just stick to facebook 365 photos from now on :)

EDIT - I've also taken off the old 365 posts from my blog, but click on the link on the sidebar to access all the 365 photos

The Pyramids. New soft play in Southsea

On Monday we got the new sofa and it was all very hectic so Matt kicked me out for the afternoon! So me and Jared ventured out in the cold and windy weather and headed towards the seafront. I knew The Pyramids soft play centre had just opened and new its opening hours from seeing info on Twitter & Facebook. So we walked down to there to have a look.They charged me £3.50 for an hour and a half. I think over 5's are different price to under 5's.

I was expecting something a bit bigger when I first saw it. But once we got in I realised it wasn't tiny just compact! Was about the right size for Jared's age :)

Jared went straight for the ball pit and got stuck in. This was in the younger toddler baby section at the bottom of the play area.

We were the only people there and a

nice lifegaurd/staff lady had to sit in the play area room while we were there for health and safety reasons, so I had a chat with her about how it had been over the weekend.

Jared then realised there was a slide and explored that. I then suggested we go up a level and find the bigger slide.

I wasn't prepared for how worn out it would make me!

The junior area was recommended for 0ver 5's but we went anyway I was with Jared I just got to be a big kid and we just went all the way up to the top. I had to help him up some of the bigger climbing steps but overall I didn't need to help him too much except directing him which way to go!

Got to the top and we could watch

over the main pools which Jared loved. He told me wants to go swimming and wants mickey mouse

swimming trunks (the ones he saw me

looking at on ebay a few days before! and now I have brought!).

At the top there was a plastic tunnel

to crawl through and some massive bouncy balls and other things to balance on run through etc. There was also a bigger slide which Jared made me go down a few times!

He loved it :D

We stayed for about an hour then headed home as it was getting dark. I would definitely recommend going. Its a nice size but not overwhelmingly big that you cant find your child if you turn your back for a second!

It is very warm though so be prepared to get hot if you are chasing after a lil 'un as its next to the pools in a room to the side, which means it shares the same heating system as the rest of the facility (as the nice lifeguard/staff lady told me).

Anyway we are going again tommorow with Hannah (Metal Mummy) and her lovely daughter Freyja. So will prob update about how it is there with more than 1 child haha.

3 reasons to be cheerful

Found this through one friend Metal Mummy who had linked this from another Mummy blogger Mummy from the Heart

Just to list 3 reasons why I am happy.

1. I'm extremely happy with my weeks workouts. I've always been a bit lazy with exercise and since having the Wii fit I've not really done enough on it to break into a sweat. This week however I have done a lot more than usual and it leaves me feeling really good that I've done that exercise

2. I'm happy because I'm managing to keep up with my blogging and my 365 project. Really enjoying having something to focus on each day and update each evening.

3. Jared. Simply Jared. Although he can be a terror a lot of the time he can also make me so happy. Just the way he says things and does things is all so cute. I want to bottle the feeling he gives me when he does something new by himself for the first time, I feel like I could burst with pride sometimes.

101 in 1001 (Day Zero list)

Start Date 3rd January 2011
End Date 30th September 2013

A day zero list or also known at 101 in 1001. Basically is a list of 101 things I would like to achieve over 1001 days.
Maybe it will get me off my butt more often. I'm finding it hard just to think of 101 things so just the list is going to be a challenge to start with!
I hope to blog about the things I do and link them back to this post with links and pictures etc so I can keep track, and there may be times when the things on the list turn out to be a bit harder than I planned and I will notate when I feel I cant finish that goal.

Also these are in a random order! I just am writing them as I think of them!

1. Lose 10lbs
2. Take Jared to the Blue Reef Aquarium
3. Take Jared to the zoo (Matts parents have done this but I want to take him too)
4. Give away/sell some of Jareds old toys
5. Get Jared into a nursery/pre school and sort school applications out
6. Move into a bigger house
7. Teach Jared to draw a face
8. Start only having one sugar in my tea and actually like it! 08/01/11 - Not had more than one sugar in my tea all week. Doing well so crossed it off :D
9. Get married
10. Toilet train Jared to wee on the big toilet and standing up He wee's on the big loo, but not standing yet 06/02/11
11. Go to the cinema with Matt (ive not been for years!)
12. Put my photos in photo albums
13. Put photos in photo frame clock Done this and its on the wall thanks to Matt (06/01/11)
14. Explore more shops along Albert Road
15. Buy a dining table and chairs
16. Eat food at the table as a family once a week
17. Keep up with my 365 photo project every year (8/365)
18. Go on the Wii Fit for 2 hours (total over the week) at least every week
19. Drink more water - have a week off tea and just drink water all week
20. Have a nice garden and plant some nice flowers
21. Have a car boot sale
22. Sell something on Ebay
23. Go to the science museum (London) with Matt and Jared
24. Have a family holiday with Matt and Jared (in the UK)
25. Get a passport
26. Have a holiday abroad
27. Teach Jared his ABC's (he knows some)
28. Teach Jared to count to 20 (he can count to ten)
29. Get a decent mobile phone! Something touchscreen! Got a HTC Hero from my lovely Fiancé as he got a brand new HD Desire
30. Buy a new house phone
31. Cook a homemade meal for the family with plenty left to freeze once a fortnight
32. Get a DVD/Blu-ray/games stand/rack
33. Get several decent bookcases
34. Donate blood
35. Go on a picnic
36. Get my legs and other parts waxed
37. Pay to have my haircut at a salon
38. Write a list of 100 things that make me happy
39. Go to Cornwall and sit on a sandy beach
40. Finish listening to my Lord of The Rings audiobook
41. Bake a cake (not just fairy cakes)
42. Get promoted at work or apply for something else that's not what I currently do!
43. Spend a more days out with friends that have children so Jared can socialise (and me)!
44. Go and visit my older brother
45. Take Jared for a walk in some woods
46. Go swimming
47. Go to story time or song time with Jared at the library once a month
48. Have a professionally family photo taken and purchased
49. Do all my Christmas 2011 shopping before December
50. Get a bike and go on bike rides with Jared and Matt
51. Run the Race for life (or walk it) Have signed up for this!
52. Raise money for charity
53. Teach Jared to read
54. Register with a dentist
55. Buy some wellington boots
56. Let my natural hair colour grow out
57. Have a day out with my younger brothers
58. Wear an earring in my 2nd pierced hole
59. Finish Jareds babybook
60. Have a night every fortnight with Matt with no computers on, just watching a film together
61. Go to Petersfield Lake
62. Go to Porchester castle
63. Have a day out at the Isle of Wight
64. Go on a hovercraft
65. Have our carpets cleaned
66. Take Jared to play football on Southsea Common
67. Take Jared to a soft play centre again at least 5 times
68. Have a nice meal out with Matt
69. Do something special for mine and Matt's 5 year anniversary
70. Throw Jared a birthday party
71. Draw a picture once a month
72. Get photos printed every month
73. Tell Matt I love him everyday
74. Display Jared's artwork somewhere at home
75. Have a night out with friends once every 3 months
76. Buy a new coat
77. Fly a kite with Jared
78. Take Jared to the fairground
79. Teach Jared to write his name
80. Paint my nails once every fortnight - Failing this one
81. Design my tattoo
82. Get a tattoo
83. Walk from Eastney to Clarence Pier with Jared in the summer
84. Upload Jared's photos he takes with his camera
85. Don't turn on my laptop for one whole week
86. have a day out shopping with my best friend Leigh in Brighton
87. Get my bra size properly measured at a bra shop rather than just guessing
88. Take vitamins everyday FAILED!
89. Go to the pub with just my mum
90. Spend more time with my dad
91. Get to the bottom of the never ending laundry
92. Get rid/sell the big pushchair and have Jared walk everywhere
93. Sort out the cupboard of stuff in the hallway (mine and Matt's years of hoarding)
94. Take Jared to a panto
95. Reorganize the living room
96. Give some clothes to charity
97. Only have chip shop chips once a month
98. Only have one other takeaway once a month
99. Own a dishwasher
100. Visit natural history museum (London)
101. Go to a festival (been too many years since I have)

Food and exercise

I'm fed up with the crap way I'm eating again. I know being the holidays I have let myself have what I want, but even before that I have slipped. Although I'm not putting on any weight (according to Wii Fit I've not been losing any either, and I've not been exercising much either)

I did lose about a stone after doing some low-carb dieting. It felt good to shift that, but I do need to tone up and eat a bit healthier, all I crave is chocolate and crisps and chips and bread! I'm much better than I used to be with bread. I could go through half a loaf of bread of an evening just by eating toast.

So cutting out carbs my biggest challenge is sugar! Sugar in my tea mainly. And I need to put away all the chocolate in the house too. boooo. I love chocolate.

So the plan is to cut down on sugar (I seriously can't drink tea with no sugar, and don't get me started on sweeteners they taste horrid) Cut out potatoes (no chips boo) No chocolate. No pasta, rice or floury products (so no more home made Toad in the Hole)

Wholemeal bread and wholemeal flour is ok from time to time, I just need to be careful.

I need to stock up on loads of veg and loads of meat, and tons of eggs! I love eggs anyway so its not too bad.

The main thing I really need to do is get on with a decent amount of exercise and stop sitting on my bum every night watching tv. Doesn't help I just brought The Sims 3 for Xbox, but I think I may have to limit when I play on it so I don't get lazy again like I have been over the holidays.

In my old blog I wrote a very similar post about eating better and exercise and I know I can do it, just through eating healthier I lost a stone, and I can do it better now I have found a fun way to exercise (wii fit) so I can tone up as I lose the flab :) That's the plan anyway!