Not much

Soo I havent been able to post for a while. Not that I havent completed any tasks but for some reason things have just got very very busy. Thing is I'm not sure what I've got busy with, nothing has really changed at all Im still doing the same things every day.

Every time I finish a task though I'm reluctant to post it up. A lot of them I think are silly like when I finish a book I just think I will update once I have finished but I want to be able to write a good review.

I am getting prepared to get all of my christmas presents for next month and am saving £100 this month to start shopping and another £100 from when i get paid next month. I dont think it should be to hard as pre-planning is paying off and I have so many ideas for every one. The pain is choosing which idea :D books will be uploaded later tonight as I dont have the photos here.  I will also try and upload a photo of my new hair cut hopefully :D

Officially insane!

I have now officially signed up to do the half marathon. Didnt really realise when i originally signed up just how far this would require running. Apparently its like running from shoebury to pitsea (for anyone local) for those who arn't I would have to walk from the tower of london to the london eye 5 times and still have to walk a little further :(.

Thing is Im not walking this half marathon, Im supposed to be running it!!

Better start training eh?!?

Bake sale complete

I cant believe how well the bake sale went!!!

Myself, friends, relatives and co-workers all made cakes (totalling about 100) which eventually raised £220 for the Essex Air Ambulance!

I was so thrilled because I thought that I was only going to raise £70!

I have now set up my just giving website http://www.justgiving.com/Sammyschallenge now so people can go on there and check what is being planned and if they want to donate money.

New tasks in progress

I am in the progress of organising my bake sale for this Thursday 26th May.  We are organising a competition were people pay £1 to enter and we are also selling the cakes cookies e.c.t off to raise money for the essex air ambulance.  Hopefully this event will turn out ok and we will have raised quite a bit of money by the end of the day.

Tasks 49, 73 & 80

Other tasks that I have completed are :

Task 49 - Cancel Love Film subscription - after having the account but not receiving any DVD's for almost a year I cancelled my subscription to Love Film.  They were very kind and said that we didnt need to pay for the films as we had spent so long looking for them.

Task 73 - Picnic & 80 - Walk along the beach were completed on the same day. We drove down to Clacton in Poppy to give her, her first outing and took a picnic with us and ate it on the beach.  We then took a walk down to the Peir and played some of the games and won over 800 tickets.

Lots to update

Right I have lots of completed tasks to update so lets get on:

Task 48. - Completely wash and clean car- I completed this about 2 weeks ago when I bought my new car (Poppy) I cleaned and emptied my KA and made her look all pretty so that I would get top money for her.  Unfortunately because i had lost one of the keys I only got £1,000 for her but still thats not bad.  My new car Poppy is a red Seat Ibiza Copa and she is beautiful!

Diet begins tomorrow

Well I have decided after much persuasion that probably the best diet for me would be the slim fast diet.

I replace 2 of the meals that I eat a day with a Slim Fast milk shake.  It doesn't matter what meal so if i know that I'm going out for a friends birthday or go out for a meal I can make sure that i have my shakes for Breakfast and lunch.  Im also able to have 3 snacks over the course of the day of fruit veg or slim fast snack.

Hopefully this will really help get me down to a size 10/12 soon as im getting fed up!

Go to a Spa completed

Although I havent posted in a while I have now completed another of my 101 things.  Go to a Spa. On Friday last week my mum, her friend Ann and I all set off at 7 in the morning on a 3 hour trip up to Warwick to go to Ardencote Mannor Spa and Country club.  The location was lovely and we were so glad to be staying over night.

This ment that we could enjoy the complimentry re-new me massage that came with the trip and also book another treatment for the next day.  We also took full advantage of the sunny weather lounging around the Hot tub while soaking up as much sun as possible and even in my case getting a little burnt.

All in all a brilliant time, so much so that we have decided to make it a more permenant feature in our lives!

25. & 39.

 Today has been a productive day.  Not only have I made a start of my Aerobics weeking by spending most of my Saturday in the gym with Darren but I have also completed 2 more tasks.  25. Try Sushi and 39. Randomly drive somewhere.

Although we didnt have a specific location when we had the idea to drive somewhere Chris came to the decision that we would drive round the M25 to see how long it would take us and to see what it was like.  After getting back from the gym and making a CD that would hopefully last the whole way round we invited Steve to come along.

While we were going round I also decided that I was going to have Sushi for dinner.  It was alright my favourite was the rice with Salmon on top.  The rest was a bit weird but its good to know there is something that I like!!

Am going to the gym tomorrow with my mum which will complete my weekend of Aerobics.  In total I have completed 4 tasks this weekend!! Not to shabby!!

87. Get a Pen Pal

Well I have completed another task.  87. Get a Pen Pal. 

I receieved my first letter from Sherene yesterday telling me all about herself and her husband Wayne. It was really interesting and we do like alot of the same things.


Chris and I are also completing another task today.  We are going on a random road trip as it is random we are not where we are going yet but I know it will be fun.  Am going to make up some CD's to take with us to sing along to and will bring some photos back to upload :D

The Mistress finished.

Another book that I have just finished.  Not sure how far that has put me ahead but it was a really good book.  I picked it up on Monday thinking that it wouldnt be that great and that it would be a stuggle to get through.  Turned out that I couldnt put it down I was reading on the train at work on lunch and when I got home completely shutting myself out and becoming immersed in the plot.

Written by Martin McCutcheon, The Mistress is a story of Mady a girl whos life motto, 'Why be somebodys Silver when I should always be there Gold', was dramatically changed on her 30th birthday after meeting Jake in a bar.

 The book then goes through the trials that Mady and her family face over the course of a year.

I loved the fact that she was so into fashion and her love for shoes is what I think seal the deal for this being one of the best books I have ready this year. 

Another picture and Casino

I have coloured another picture from my colouring book today.  Although there are still a lot left to colour!

Chris and I also went out to a friends 21st birthday last night to Maxims Casino.  It was really good they had a deal where you pay £10 for food and a drink with entertainment throughout the night.  Once we finished our dinner got our chance to go into the casino and take a look at what was going on.  I only place one bet at the end of the night as I didn't really understand any of it.  I also managed to get a 50p chip from Chris to bring home as a souvenir.

Will hopefull have started a new book as well by the middle of the week.  Just need to remember which ones I have read before.

Another book completed.

Been a bit of a busy girl this week, quite a few to say that I have started/ completed. Also some progress on those that I have started.

I have just finished my 3rd book so I am still ahead of schedual :D This was called coming home.  It was about a girl who was making a journey during some bad weather and ends up in an accident and loses her memory.  She is taken in by a family who after some startling discoveries dont want her to leave.  Safe to say it was a bit of a tear jerker but a great read.  Couldnt put it down once I had started it.

During this week I have also been painting my new room to get it all ready for when we move in. Chris and his cousin Steve came round to help, so I started a paint fight luckily didnt end up to covered in paint!  Pictures will be uploaded soon.

I have got Rollo signed up with pet insurance and am also due to go back so that she can have another one of her jabs today.  Thats another thing we found out Rollo is a she and not a he!!

Finally an update on the 'Raise Money for Charity' I have managed to find a venue for the football tournament and am now looking for teams and donations for the raffle.  Hopefully (fingers crossed) Virgin Active will be sponsering the event so it looks like this should go well!  Am still holding my breath though.  Lots of other things planned to raise money. Bake Sale at work, Car wash (Need Volunteers for this), Quiz night and hopefully sponsorship for a Grand Canyon walk although everytime I ring to try and sign up the woman is on annual leave.

V for Vacation

Have finally thought up what i should have for my Alphabet weekends V.


VACATION :D

Getting back to a size 12

Am on the way to starting this.  Thanks to Chris I have joined a Gym today although also thanks to Chris I also had KFC (some of which was worked off from the exercise I did today) This does give me an excuse to go shopping and get some new gym stuff like trainers which are needed.  Its the Tracksuit bottoms, plain tops and bag that isnt a necessity but will make me feel so much better!!

Have now also got nicely painted finger and toe nails in the colours that I bought at the weekend with Katy.  Brown fingers, lilac toes! Very cold toes too!!! Cant wait till we move out!

To do list

Right I am struggling a little with organising the Football tournament fundraiser.  I need to get organised and get my head back into it otherwise this is never going to happen!

1.  Try and contact other venues via details that have not yet responded to me. 
2. See if we can get a price confirmation from Maria
3. Ask Ging if Virgin will sponser us

Once all this is done I will be able to start thinking about advertising and getting the teams enrolling. 

Cook book

I have made a first draft of a few recipes that I want to include.  Chris made a really nice dinner and it tasted gorgeous so I asked him if I could include it in my cook book.  I also wanna include Hana's Italian pastie.  Not sure how many recipes that I will need to include but they are definitely going in there!!

Also finished another picture!

Task 87 - Get a Pen Pal

As I said last night I signed up to the website interpals hoping to get myself a pen pal.  When I got back from shopping today I found that there was a lovely lady called Sherene from Wales who has said she would like to write to me.  Hopefully will be hearing from her soon!!



Also on a separate note bought this really cool nail polish today.  Its black and you paint it over the top of another colour nail polish and then it changes so you can see the colour underneith. Am still unsure if it looks ok on but the concept is very cool!!

Am on the look out for a pen pal

Have just set myself up with a log in for Interpal its a website to help me find a pen pal to complete another one of the tasks on my list and hopefully make a friend or two in the process. Wish me luck!!!

Another 2 pages coloured

Another page coloured :)

Colouring book started!!

Went to Sainsburys with Katy to get my Colouring book and make a start on colouring every page.  I have 2 done already.


I have helped Katy set up a list and also spent the day tidying her room with her and although she say otherwise we still need to continue tomorrow. I think this definately constitutes helping someone else with there list so I have now crossed this off. 

Have also got a note book to start my draft cook book. Cant believe its going so quick now!

Catching up.

So while I was in New York I completed so many of my 101 things that I havent been able to upload the photos onto here.

I will add the photos that need to be added once I have got them from my mum and Hazel. 

2 more done

 Here is my proof that i have completed 2 of my tasks. 





I have visited a zoo                                                                        ----->

And been to a Museum                                                                ----->

In New York

Another thing crossed off the list!! Am now in New York writing to you. I am also going to a Museum and a Zoo today so that will be able to be crossed off the list to :D

Cant believe how lucky I was though that dad got a Limo to pick me up from the airport and bring us all to the Hotel in TimeSquare!!!! Its so busy outside and we have a hotel looking right over the square.

Its amazing they have this random massive set of stairs to just sit on and look everything is bright lights.

TBH I havent yet realised that I am not in a dream ...... or am I???

Will upload the photos soon!!!

1st One completed!!

I have completed my first task on 101 things in 1001 days!!!! Its the one that I thought would take the longest to complete. Drum roll please.......

I BEAT CHRIS AT COD!!!!!!!!

I also have a photo to prove this which will be uploaded once I am able to find Chris' Blackberry cable.  It was only by one kill but still lets not take anything away from me.

Another task started.

I have managed to start another task by completing my first book out of the 33 that I need to ready before Nov 2013.

It was the most interesting of books but it was still enough to keep me reading to the end.  Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani was the book, if it was a book that I had got from the library I wouldnt be to put out but the fact that I paid for it was a little bit :( Not really worth it to be honest. 

Oh well at least that is 1 down 32 to go.

Choosing a Charity

One of my tasks requires me to raise a substantial amount of money for charity.  Didnt realise how hard it would be to actually pick a charity.  There are so many out there and I wish I could help all of them.

 I have decided that I want the charity to be a local one as the money will make more of a difference to them than a larger organisation.

At the moment I think that I have decided to choose the Essex Air Ambulance.

Now that I have chose the charity that I want to donate the money to I have started brain storming what I can do to raise the minimum £3,000 that I want to give to them by the time the 1001 days are up.

At the moment I have 4 ideas at the moment.  Hopefully all of them will pan out!


1. Host a bake sale - this should be easy enough (she says).  Bake some cupcakes, brownies, caramel short bread etc and then take them to work to sell. Let friends know so they can get some if they want.

2. Have another quiz night - this would be similar to the one that I held before for my mum.

3. 5' a side football tornament - this is where I am starting to struggle.  Although there are many people willing to help so I dont think it would be to much of a mountain

4. Sponsership - for running the Brentwood half marathon (not definate yet)

Any other ideas I would be more than happy to hear because I dont think that this will be enough. Also on other news does anyone know where any where that would let me use 8 5 a-side football pitches for the football tornament.

So it begins

It has taken me 3 days and a fair bit of hard work to get this blog set up and list sorted but I have finally got all 101 tasks listed and have even made a start on one of the tasks.

I will be keeping track of everything on here and making sure I upload photographical evidence (where possible) to ensure that you will all know I have completed every task.

Wish me luck and lets begin.  Otherwise its alot of money that I will need to be giving to charity.