+365 Day 22

Today's positive is a little personal and I wasn't sure if I was going to post it or go with something else instead.

Anyways at the age of 33 I recently discovered a lump in my boob. Being a chunky monkey I figured it was a fatty lump and for the last 5 weeks or so have been gingerly checking myself everyday to see if its a. gone b. gone smaller, c got bigger. The answer has been none of the above. It's remained the same grape sized lump it has been since I first discovered it.

I figured it was time to go see the GP just in case.

Now believe it or not despite having the same figure as a neanderthal goddess I have no problem with whipping everything off at the Dr's - having been diagnosed with poly-cystic ovaries at 16 & being on a 6 monthly recall for smears means that they have seen plenty of my bits which I dont usually display in public so having a Dr look at and play with my boob wasn't something that bothered me - I was just grateful that her hands were warm.

Turns out she agrees with me that its highly unlikely to be nothing sinister and is probably just a bit of damage from a huge bruise I had there. I'm to keep an eye on it and if it gets bigger or stays the same go back in 4 weeks and if it gets smaller or disappears to forget about it.

So the positive for today is being confident enough in myself to go get something like this checked out. So many women are embarrassed or afraid to go see the Dr when something doesn't feel right - I have a good friend who has one boob significantly smaller than the other (we are talking D cup and B cup) who ended up hospitalised with pneumonia because she wouldn't go to the Dr's with her severe cough because she didn't want them to go anywhere near her chest - madness

I'll leave you with this pic - it's not my pic I copied it from google but it's something every woman should know :)

+ 365 Day 21

Today's positive is really easy PAYDAY PAYDAY PAYDAY and being a lowly NHS worker in Wales I got a one off bonus of £187 woohoo sadly after the taxman, pensions, student loan etc took their cut it actually works out at around £110 more but hey that's still pretty awesome to get in January when your still recovering from Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas here's a photo of Mister Leopard Belly aka Leo aka Big Daddy in his rather fabulous Christmas hat and bow tie - he drinks his milk shaken not stirred

+365 Day 19 & 20

Day 19 - Monday

Today's positive is I managed to get on twitter and semi-understand it. As I am comping quite a lot I thought I should make a twitter account so I could enter the comps on there too but I kept putting it off and putting it off as I really didn't understand how the darn thing works but I am doing okay and already have loads of followers. I have even worked out how to tweet, message people and tag people in tweets - GO ME! Now I just need to work out how to do the comps on there and start winning hehe

Day 20 - Tuesday

Today I am happy because I weighed myself and I have lost in 2 weeks like 1.8kgs - I am the sort of person who gets disheartened and gives up quite quickly but knowing I have lost the weight is making me really happy - now just another 20 or so kgs to go and I will be nearly at my 'ideal' weight.

I worked out that 1.8 I lost equates to the amount I put on over Christmas so it might slow down but I know it's achievable :D

+ 365 day 18

A short one today because well I did pretty much nothing all day - took a few photos and loaded some items onto ebay and to freecycle and put some stuff in the attic and thats it.

Sometimes a lazy do nothing day is the best kind of Sunday :)

Today's positive is lazy sundays, comfy pjs and chill out time *yawn*

+365 Day 17

Today I made curtains :) well that's not 100% true - today I altered curtains I got off freecycle about 4 months ago for the kitchen - they were too wide and too long so needed to be cut to size and hemmed and whatever the technical term is for doing the side of them too. I'm pretty darn impressed with myself because they are actually the same length and almost the same width - the one is about 1cm wider than the other.

This may not seem like a big deal but I give you exhibit A B & C - my current curtains.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

You will notice the uneven / wonky lengths and widths - I did that - oops and I was really proud of them too but they are definitely looking pretty shabby now!

The new ones are a VAST improvement but they wont be going up until they have been washed (the cats slept on them whilst I was waiting to alter them and they are now decorated in a multitude of fur)

I also managed to work out how to load the bobbin with red thread to do them - I'm not sure if that's what it's called actually but it involved transferring the cotton from the reel onto the bobbin that fits in the bottom of the sewing machine so that all the stitches were the same colour.

So today's positive is achievement - or in my case setting myself realistic goals. Once I have washed and put the new curtains up I will try to remember to take a photo of my amazing achievement :D

Oh and I also managed to change the bobbin and reel on the sewing machine back over to white so I can continue with the kitty project I am working on which is going pretty slowly eep.

And one final positive - Lady's trial of the food is going really well and it's for delicate tummies and so far so good no nasty wind (thank god as she sleeps on my pillow!) or stinky litter trays yay

I'm going to finish today with another picture of one of my lovely Lady - this time with Mister Leopard Belly aka Leo aka big daddy (he weighs around 8 kgs at the moment!) I love this picture or them sleeping cwtched together - it looks like one body with 2 kitty heads :)

+ 365 Day 16 - post number 2

I didn't realise how difficult it would be to actually post to this blog daily - finding the positive in the every day is easy - getting the time to come online/getting my laptop/tablet/internet to work isnt!

I am hoping to get back on top of things soon as I have decided to close down my other blog account and just concentrate on this one (my other blog is about disney and stuff) so I will be posting some of the stuff I would have posted there on here instead so I am going to post this stuff but without the + 365 label in the front :)

Anyways... following on from the massive post earlier today's positive is trying something new - in this case it's my kitty trying something new not me but happy kitties = happy me

+365 Day 16 - Purina ProPlan Trial

Lady and I have been selected to partake in some market research on Purina ProPlan - well Lady is going to test it and I'm going to do the paperwork :)

We had an e-mail yesterday saying our pack was dispatched and it arrived today - Lady was very impressed with it all

Oooh a box a beautiful box - how did you know I wanted one????...what do you mean this isn't the best part?

Mine...all mine mwahahahameow

 Included in the box is:

2 x 10 pack of sensitive pouches
1 x 5kg back of sensitive dry kibbles
1 x 10 pack regular proplan pouches (to give as samples)
4 x sample pack of regular kibbles
1 x sample pack of dental kibbles
1 x sample pack of steralised kitty kibbles
5 x discount coupons (£3 off wet/£5 off dry)
1 x questionnaire pad
6 x 2 product leaflets
1 x research book
1 x kibble roll

 So for Lady we have the sensitive food - Lady has a bit of a dodgy tummy so if she eats regular kitty food she gets diarrhea and wind - neither of which are pleasant for her or for us either!

Lady normally gets 1/2 a pouch of wet in the morning and night and then kibble/dry is left down throughout the day for her to munch on along with plenty of fresh water.

mmm my pouches

I gave Lady half a pouch of food this morning and she was super keen to get into it. She really enjoyed the food and found it easy to eat off the plate and licked the plate clean too.

nom nom nom

Anything left on my whiskers?

 I put the kibble roll together with some kibble bits but Lady didn't really understand the concept - being a special (she has a little bit of brain damage-was starved of oxygen a bit at birth due to an emergency c-section) My other cat Morticia was very interested in the kibble and stole a few pieces too!

Kibble Roll

Filled kibble roll

Morticia discovering the kibbles  

mm delicious kibble

Lady getting stuck into the kibble too

 As my kitties have given aPAWroval of the food I will be passing on some of it to my kitty owned friends too.

I spent a few minutes scanning through the information that came with the pack and put together 5 sample packs for friends which will have 2 x pouches of food, a sample of kibble, information sheets and the money off vouchers

 We will continue the trial with Lady and I'll update on how good the sensitive food is too (once she's used the litter tray yuck)

So far we are impressed :D