July Update

Wow, posting has been a bit slow recently, I can attribute that mainly to being busy and a tiny addiction to a game on Facebook (if I don't say its name it can't get me)

Right, so where am I with the list?

8 - Read as many of the books from the Book List Challenge
Unsurprisingly, this is the one item I'm not having problems completing. I'm nearly a third of the way through the books and have travelled across a wide variety of genres. I'm hoping to take some of the French authored books away with me on our road trip, maybe a little Madam Bovary n'est-ce pas?

16 - Turn off my mobile for a week
I am dying to do this, but at the moment my cousin is 9 days overdue with her first - and I won't turn off my phone until she pops. I want to get this done this month though.

21 - Stick a pin in the map and go on a road trip to get there
Not long now until our mini epic road trip! So excited, I've nearly got all my clothes (the important bits I know). I've already posted a little about it before but will unleash the full set of photos and itinerary when we get back.

25 - Relearn to speak French
I found a brilliant program on the BBC website which I am working my way through and after having a random conversation about blue cats with my Sexy Foreign Woman in French, I think we should be alright for our impending French road trip. I've even learned how to ask that my photos be put onto CD so I can keep the hundreds of pictures I'll be taking of our adventure.

I think that's enough to be getting on with for now, some of the other items on the list are still works in progress so once they're completed I'll let you know.

Catching up

Sorry I've been absent, between the Bank Holiday and Space School I've not been able to look at a computer.

So what's been happening this week?

Firstly, we spent Bank Holiday not relaxing but busy, busy, busy. In preparation for seeing our friends and their new baby, I "Japlac'd" my hands. Note to self, read instructions before covering hands (accidentally) in high gloss paint. Three hours of scrubbing and soaking and my hands are now no longer white. Hindsight, I should have had a picture taken but we were too busy worrying it wasn't going to come off!

We then went to see said friends and their baby - who's a big ball of noms with not so tiny feet.

And then Bank Holiday Monday was spent tidying the house, glamorous I know but it had to be done. Our spare room now has an ensuite - ie the new bathroom pieces are in there as there isn't anywhere else to put them, no plumbing involved so Padz? - please don't use them when you come over!

I've knocked another two books off the list this week which I'll post reviews of tonight.

I was looking at the list the other day and realised that I haven't really hacked into it all that much yet so I put it to you readers (few and valued as you are) which of these should I do next :

1. Make and properly ice a cake
2. Spend an evening on Chat Roulette
3. Make the perfect batch of cookies
4. Create your family tree
5. Turn off my mobile for a week
6. Smile at 100 strangers
7. Get Christmas and birthdays organised
8. Tie a note to a balloon and let it go

Answer in the comments below!

Thanks