A Windy Day!

Woke up this morning to a howling wind and my first thought was 'I'm not running in this' there's only one thing worse than running in the wind and that's running in the wind and the rain!. Andrew managed to manoeuvre the running machine in front of the TV and I ran to A Place in the Sun, home or away. It worked quite well and I managed to do a total of 65 minutes. I walked for nearly 3 minutes, then I ran until 50 minutes, walked for 5 and then ran for another 10. In total I did 6.7 km - just over 4 miles. I know, you can walk faster, I don't care, it really doesn't matter. I have to build up the stamina then surely I will get a little bit quicker!.

I have just finished a couple of hours of ironing and could very easily fall asleep right now, I'm shattered. I have to make a start on the Christmas Shopping though but I'm struggling to get into it, oh, and I'm going to make a cake for Charlie, he's 21 on Tuesday - where in the world did that go?.

I am getting just a little concerned at our fund raising task too. So far we have raised around £330.00 of our £3400.00 total. I haven't even managed to sell all 50 squares of my bodyshop fundraiser and I'm going to have to draw it soon and accept only half the amount I was hoping to raise for Shelter. Since launching my new cover not a single ebook has sold. The trouble is that if you are like me every failure simply confirms what you always thought you knew about yourself and the way other people feel about you. It gets harder and harder to get out there and try because every time you do you simply endorse your worst fears. I need to get beyond the groups of people that I know, but how? how do you do that when you don't have huge funds to invest. I guess that's the question every business grapples with daily. Maybe over Christmas we'll come up with some idea's possibly away from Diss, maybe I'll have a bit more luck somewhere else, or maybe I need something really dramatic to get noticed - I could shave off my hair, walk over burning coals or throw myself off a tall building in one of those flying suits - do you think that might do it? ..... no, me neither!.

Anyway, off to do a bit of baking, this is becoming a bit of a habit!