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Monday, June 17, 2013

My Week in Review!

Another week drifted on by!
  • Wrote about my testimonial for the Amazing Biz and Life Academy appearing in the latest newsletter.  Read the blog post here!
  • Welcomed a new family member - Bunny!
  • Had coffee with Jenfriend!
  • Went FREE Kindle book shopping on Amazon (Just a little bit of a book buying frenzy!)
  • Tweaked my blog and Facebook Page, and wrote about it
  • Got my shimmy on at Belly Dancing class!  (Where did my coordination go? I only missed a week!)
  • Made pikelets.
  • Collected a sick boy from school... (SIGH)
  • Had a sick boy at home from school for a day
  • Exercised my wordsmithing abilities helping a friend advertise her business
  • Spent time with Bunny
  • Signed up for STEP UP FOR MS 2014!  (Can't freakin' wait! And if you feel the love, don't hesitate to donate!)
  • Watched a webinar while folding laundry! (A whole lot of laundry!)
  • Completed Day 1 of Couch to 5km's
  • Made chocolate chip pikelets
  • Wrote a blog post about my 2014 Step Up for MS Challenge
  • Cleaned out the Daisybug's bedroom!
  • Supervised Rob's tree lopping of the dead tree in our yard
And onto the next!!!  :-)

Friday, June 14, 2013

Stepping Up in 2014!

Well I enjoyed it so much last time, that I am already, just 2 months later, signed up and committed to doing the Step Up For MS Challenge for 2014!

I'm actually so excited I started training today!  My rationale being, it should be easier to regain my muscles now, rather than leave them to atrophy until January - when I started training last time! Plus I will be more likely to achieve my goal of shaving 10 minutes, at least, off of my time for this year!

I have downloaded and begun the Couch 2 5km program.  I never in a million years imagined I'd climb stairs or run!  But here I am LOL  The running will be great, not only for my cardio health, but it will also mean I can participate in a few more events that interest me, sometime in the future!  I just have to survive doing it and get better at it first...

It is a good kind of pain.  LOL

It really is a good kind of pain!  :-)

So, if you're called to do so, please go to my new Step UP Participant Page and donate.  Help me get off on the right fundraising foot please! Remember all donations over $2 are tax deductible in Australia.  Cash donations are welcome too and I will be able to issue you with a receipt just as soon as I get my receipt book!  Far more savvy than 2013! :-)

I loved seeing the fundraising tally grow and grow last time around I look forward to being humbled, overwhelmed by generosity and feeling the gratitude once again!  It was simply amazing and inspiring!

Bring on the 4th of May 2014!
I will be up that tower in under 20 minutes and I will have $3000 (or more) donation dollars behind me to spur me upward!  These are my goals!

Wish me luck!!!

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Looking All Sparkling and New!

Well I'm getting fancy now!!!  :-)

What do you think of my new blog design?

The image and header are the beautiful work of Coralie from Rainbow Farm Photography.  I love that photograph of the sunset over the Indian Ocean!  It makes me drift off to my happy place and dream.

She even created me a custom cover photo for my facebook page for this blog! Click here to see it in the flesh!  I like seeing it all pretty!


So here's the harder bit, because I'm doing some of the work LOL...  Creating Social Media and Contact Buttons for the sidebar... GULP.  But with the help of a tutorial, just about anything can be achieved!

Two for starters...  More to come.



Sunday, June 9, 2013

I am a SPARKLING SUCCESS STORY!

I love that title... It makes me laugh.  :-)

I'm not actually a SPARKLING SUCCESS STORY in my own mind.  But I'm certainly a work in progress.

Yesterday afternoon my gorgeous friend Coralie (Check out her photography webpage!) spotted little old me, sitting there as a testimonial in Leonie Dawson's Amazing Biz and Life Academy newsletter!


I couldn't work out what she was on about at first.  LOL I thought she'd gone nuts! How did I get in there?  

Then it clicked...

I remember writing that!!! Waaaaaaay back in January!  

I had forgotten all about it.  I saw the request for testimonials, wrote it, lodged it and promptly forgot I'd even done it.  

Here is the part that interests me though...  The timing!  (Timing is a concept that is intriguing me lately...  Synchronicity everywhere!)

I have been feeling very lack lustre for the past 2 or 3 weeks.  My health hasn't been so good.  My children's health hasn't been good.  Our sleep, as a consequence has not been good.  Less than nothing has been done around my house - what a sty!  Life has tossed a few hot potatoes in my direction and I've been grappling with those...  And then, as always, my head and heart work overtime on 'things' sometimes and I have felt the need to retreat into my cave and stay there for a while, to hurt, to discover, to heal.  (Yet another blog post to write! I need to make a list!)  

I have just been laying low and waiting for the mojo to find me again.

Then Coralie saw the testimonial and I got to read my own words.

Boy, can I kick my own ass back into the 'Sparkle Zone!' or what?

When I wrote that testimonial I was feeling so filled with a colourful life for the first time in years.  I'd found enough get-up-and-go and some wonderful tools to help me, and had a reality check from life that I didn't ignore for the first time.  It was awesome and I really was feeling a buzz through my veins as I found my wings.

But yep, life isn't always easy.  I found my flat spot recently.  And then - timing!  My own words reminding me of how I felt and how I can feel again if I just pull up my saggy socks and get back on the horse!

So, here I am... :-)  The first day of a new week and I'm going to leave that lull I've been having in a flurry of sparkle-dust. 

Coming along for the ride?

If you want to read the testimonial I wrote click here!  

Enjoy!

My Week in Review

This week's underlying thread... Connection!  It is a blog post in itself!
  • Sleeping
  • Wading through laundry in an effort to catch up again - sigh
  • Listened to a podcast
  • Reconnected with a couple of friends (far from caught up, but we made contact!)
  • Earned $7 by selling 2 bags of baby stuff on Gumtree!  (Go me!)
  • More podcast listening (and jigsaw puzzling)
  • Arranged a coffee date with a lovely online friend who is coming to town soon! (Exciting!)
  • Got myself an eye infection - ouch! Got myself some drops and ointment to cure it - ahhhh!
  • Made some new friends
  • Reconnected with more old friends
  • Tending to sick babies
  • Went clothes shopping! (2 pair pants, 2 skirts and various other bits and pieces!) 
  • Acquired a rabbit hutch!!!  (No bunnies yet!)
  • Baked carrot cup cakes
  • Dinner partying with friends.  AMAZING food, WONDERFUL company!
  • Reached a deeper understanding and relationship mending
  • Found out that Leonie Dawson of the AMAZING BIZ & LIFE ACADEMY featured a testimonial I had written forever ago, in the latest newsletter!  Read it here. What a treat!
It has been a difficult couple of weeks for me.  The mojo has been low, the learning curve has been in overdrive.  My health has been faltering.  But I feel like I'm getting back on top now... I hope I am! :-)

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

My Week in Review

Cough... That sums up this week just passed!
  • Recovering from bugs = sleep, hot baths, hot drinks + lots of tissues
  • Put in a Nutrimetics order. :-)
  • Filled in school paperwork for excursions
  • Listed 1 item on Gumtree!
  • Belly dancing class!
  • Listened to a podcast and did a jigsaw puzzle, then completed the associated worksheet to the podcast.
  • Meditation
  • Got my new coin belt in the mail!  <SHIMMMMY>
  • Wrote a blog post about 100 Things to do This Year
  • Worked on a couple of draft posts
  • Kept 2 boys busy as they were home from school - 1 sick, 1 with an injured foot
  • Read "The Desire Map"
  • Did jigsaw puzzles online
  • Watched Mitchell's school assembly! Proud of my boy-person!
  • Baked a cake
  • Watched Dirty Dancing and folded laundry
  • Friendship malfunction... sigh
  • Slept, coughed, slept, woke, coughed, slept some more.
  • Had coffee with Jenfriend
So happy to see the back end of this week.  Bring on a new, healthy energetic one!