I don't usually keep a diary. This year is going to be different though. This year is special. Next December, God Willing, my Darling Husband and I will celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary (surely not, you are clearly so youthful, I hear you cry. Yeh, yeh, I was a child bride. Kidnapped by West Bromwich Albion fans at the age of 12 and sold into marital labour for a cheese bap and a Firkins mock cream chocolate eclair, brainwashed and hypnotised into thinking I was 10 years older!)
Anyway, I don't want to miss the moment so have decided to big it up and have 'A Year of the Silver Wedding'. This entails forcing DH to take me out lots, attempting to reduce my vast girth so that I can go on a cruise up the Fjords without the Captain insisting I stand stock still in the middle of the ship to save overturning it, to look back at our journey so far and to record the coming year together. I hope this will be a time of reflection, of taking time to really appreciate each other and sharing a new level of physical and spiritual togetherness as we embark on a new stage of or relationship.
Or I might just tell him to f*@! Off!
I'll record our year, and my attempts at finding a greater sense of personal well being here. I'll be inspired by the 365 Day Challenge set by Anna Louise Bowkis. Anna will provide prompts and challenges for photographs and journalling each day this year.
So here goes...
Prompts 01.01.2008: "A day without laughter is a day wasted" - Charles Chaplain
What are your goals for 2008?
My Goals.
I aim to :
* Look younger,feel fitter and be healthier on 01.01.2009 than I do today
* Get rid of the huge amount of blubber I'm dragging around with me once and for all ( see A-Z Of Dieting)
* To be creative, rather than just thinking about being creative. This will entail using some of that precious stash which in turn may require some sort of therapy if the resulting trauma of cutting up my beautiful papers (as opposed to just stroking them) proves too much to handle.
* Sort out my flaming finances
* To appreciate each day
* To get our house in order and make it truly my home
* To give time to nurturing my marriage
* To celebrate our marriage in a significant way
* To find inner peace and recognise me as the woman I once was
Well- can't be sitting here all day. Need to get going on the above
xxxxx
Prompt 2- 01.2008
It's been a good day today. Quiet, with family relaxed all around. If I could just stay here, listening to the laughter, and not looking at the undusted surfaces and shut out the demands of real life everything would be alright. I can pinpoint the exact moment I became so scared. The milisecond when my life changed forever and I knew that it's not always alright in the end. Even so, 6 years on- it really is time I pulled myself together.
Peace and hope
-Gabby xxx
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Oh I wish i had read this yesterday, you did make me laugh...great blog
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