Hmmm…the blogging every other day thing isn’t going so well, looking at the dates. It’s kind of averaging out though…?

So far the new year is going pretty well. I’ve lost about a pound or so (the scales are telling me 3 but I think that’s to do with differing times of day), I’m eating lots of fruit and veg and less processed food, so my skin’s feeling (and probably looking) somewhat better and fresher too. I need to up the exercise more, and I haven’t quite cracked the getting up early thing – but hey, half 7 is better than 8am.

I also realised I forgot to mention one of my new year’s resolutions, which is to do something helpful for charity every month. I imagine this will be mainly donating money, but if I can find other ways to help by volunteering and helping out with things then I can. I already have a few ideas of places I’ll be donating to, but if you have any suggestions they’re more than welcome. I’m also trying to make my life more eco-friendly. I don’t have a car and I recycle as much as I can, use cloth bags and some environmentally friendly cleaners, but I’ve been looking into soapnuts recently and I want to try them out when I run out of washing powder. I’m also thinking of buying some e-cloths and an e-mop this weekend, because using Flash floor cleaner seems to make the cats a bit sick, and it’s also very expensive for what it is. Just plain water and good microfibre should do the job better, because the Flash mop isn’t very effective anyway. Wow my life is exciting…

Budget-wise, I’m doing okay. I’ve spent maybe £60, but a big chunk of that was food. I would have liked it to be less – I’m finding it amazing how much I spend – but I’m fairly on track. I’m going shopping and having lunch with Bethany tomorrow, and then on Sunday I’m going to Birmingham with Joe to see the IMAX version of Avatar, so it’s going to be a fairly expensive weekend. Not sure when I’m going to have time for food shopping either.
I still have a massive to do list of things to sort out, and it seems never ending. It’s still snowy and icy outside, which doesn’t exactly help. For the past few days I’ve been getting home absolutely freezing and rushing to make myself a mug of hot chocolate. Curling up in bed with a book or my laptop (or watching Come Dine With Me) on the sofa completes my middle-aged style life. It doesn’t help that I only get about an hour of sunlight a day either!

I’ve been focusing on review writing over the past week or so, and I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the money yet. Part of me wants to save up for the £50 cheque, and part of me thinks I should cash out for Amazon vouchers at £20. I have a massive 5 page wishlist of things, but I’ve got lots of time to decide anyway.
Site-wise, I want a free weekend to do a complete fresh install of WordPress. As much as I love it, I think this old version has been hacked and modified to pieces, and hopefully doing this will solve the two main problems I currently have – weird page referrals and 404s appearing where pages exist. The site itself is such a big job I don’t even know where to start really, particularly as I’m so short of time. Why is it that by the time I finish one thing there are at least three more to do?!