Keeping Mum

Realised that as my eating habits change and less treats become normal less money is going towards the charity. In such dire situations it is only right to shout "Mummmmmmm" and ask if she wants to join with my dad on the starvation diet too. Its a bit tricky for them because they have started to eat a lot less treats due to health stuff so their starting point is already pretty healthy. Mum tells me however that she resisted buying a chocolate Rabbit in Wilkos yesterday and that there is already 60p in the pot. I think she planned to eat the rabbit rather than keep it as a pet. Never know with my family though, my sister once kept some jellied gecko sweets in a mock zoo enclosure until one of them spent too long in the water feature and its head fell off leaving my sister to mourn their passing. I digress. If anybody else wants to join in and spare me the shame of being a 35 year old running to her parents, resist and give the saved dosh here:

http://www.justgiving.com/Beth-Barlow

Or at another starvation preventing charity of your choice.

A time to wear my practical action T shirt

This Saturday (27th March 2010) practical action are staging a No Tech Day.
http://www.notechday.org/

I'm going to refrain from turning on my laptop and go do some knitting in Manchester with a friend instead. I may even leave my mobile at home. How might that feel?

If its not nice don't eat it

How often do I find myself eating a mediocre biscuit, chomping my way through a dry piece of cake? How often do I find myself stood in the shop looking for something for a treat, finding nothing that great and settling for something a bit rubbish? I think I shall stop eating things unless they are really nice.

Chocolate rice crispy cakes and cookies

Don't even have either of these things in the house. They whisper at you from the biscuit barrel and at times of stress they pounce and scuttle down your gullet before you even notice. Luckily by the time I got home yesterday my son had eaten half of his cooking class crispy cakes. That only leaves 6 more to eat. I would feed them to the birds but I fear that with all the chocolate and peanut butter in them the poor birds may never fly again. The cookies were, I told myself for my son after a good parents evening report. But If this was true why were they co-op finest toffee and pecan and not kidie jaffa cakes or the like. I think I may have tricked myself there.

Choke and rope update

First measurements:
Neck 34
Waist 82.5
Hips invalid Because I measured at the wrong place.


Second measurements
Neck 33
Waist 81.5
Hips 101

Hip to waist ratio is 0.79
Women with hip to waist ratio in the 0.7 band are said to be most attractive to European men and that's on wikepedia so it must be true.

Practical Action T Shirt

Michaela from Practical Action very Kindly sent me a Practical Action T shirt. I told her my current size (14) and asked her to choose me a size she thought I could slim into. She sent me a medium. I tried it on for the first time today and I think I may have already slimed into it a bit. It fits. And its orange which is great. I need to think of a thing I must do in it at least once a week for the project. Any ideas anybody?

Just giving

I'm not just saying this but it feels really good to be able to give the money I save so easily. To know that it just goes straight and direct from my efforts to others. This lets giving page is great if you are trying to raise money for stuff or redirect some of your own money. It takes away all the excuses.
http://www.justgiving.com/default.aspx