Tying My Shoes

So my list is up for this year and some things on there are exceptionally small for most people, I however never learned how to tie my shoe laces. I can do bunny ears but the whole loop, swoop and pull thing just boggles my mind. Turns out everyone might be doing it wrong, maybe not as wrong as me but still.

Thanks Jaiden for this, I might be able to tick something off my list already.

New Lists

Last year I did a list 23 before 24 and not failed but just didn't succeed in many of them. I could give you a thousand excuses of why, like it was a year from hell, I hated life, um or some other true but depressing excuse but I am not going to. I am just going to do a new list.

24 Things to do before I'm 25

1. Get a drivers license!
2. Do a Photography course.
3. Do the Soweto 10km run in November.
4. Make Eleventh Hour successful.
5. Do the Magaliesburg  Canopy Tours.
6. Do the  train ride  to Magaliesburg (separate trips)
7. Keep smiling, everyday.
8. Take Aiden to the beach.
9. Meet Dreamscaper.
10. Learn to whistle.
11. Let go of the sides when I ice-skate.
12. Bake unburnt cookies.
13. Throw Aiden the most gorgeous first birthday.
14. Learn how to tie my shoelaces.
15. Become more forgiving.
16. Go on a roller-coaster.
17. Make lots of dresses out of the tons of fabric I have.
18. Kiss someone when the clock strikes 12 on New Years.
19. Drink way to much with Claire & Kay Van Dyk.
20. Become a regular volunteer at a charity organisation.
21. Dance in the rain. (Corny maybe but have you done it)
22. Go camping.
23. Stop smoking.
24. Have one hell of a 25th Birthday (it counts as a big one right?)

Some good things

Life has been really crappy for a while now, sometimes I try recall someone in my family breaking a mirror or something because it's been a few years now. Every time we get over one tragedy or at least learn how to manage it, another lemon gets thrown at us and hits us slap bang in the middle of our forehead.

I was in a really dark place a few weeks ago, I was crying all the time, and at everything. You know those unexplained tears when you pregnant, exactly like those, except I'm not pregnant.

I was driving with my mom and we listed all the bad things that have happened over the last two years, the list was long, very long. It made me stop though and think why are we listing the bad things, we should be focusing on the good things.

So here's a list of good things, great things, things I am focusing on.

1. I have a beautiful, healthy and happy son (this could start and finish every list)
2. I am doing a Digital Marketing course through Quirk Education
3. Mine and my mom's business is being registered and the name has been approved so Eleventh Hour is almost up and running.
4. A great brand has contacted me about my blog.
5. A very kind lady that follows my blog and we talk on twitter bought me a year subscription to 'Your Baby' magazine.
6. We just got in our first job for our business.
7. My granny is still in remission.
8. I have signed up for a 10km Marathon in November.

Okay I now it's not a very long list and I could write a killer list of all the shit in my life and what's happened but I am trying here. Baby steps. 

A Photo A Day

I was going to do the March one but failed before I even begun, I have been seeing these go around for months and have always wanted to give it a go but it really does take more time and energy than you might think. I am going to really try do this one, I can't promise loading the pictures everyday but will definitely do recaps at least once a week of all my images. If you care to join please leave a comment with a link of where I can find you and you're pictures. Small things like this excite me, yes I was a geek at school and proud.

Making a list and checking it Twice

So last year I made this list of 23 things I want to do before I am 24, I am 24 on Saturday and I already know I have failed at most of these and I haven't even read through them yet. So here it goes to openly telling you which ones I accomplished, which ones I tried and which ones I completely and miserably failed.


23 Things to do before I'm 24...

1. Get a drivers licence - I tried 3 times last year
2. Finish (start) baby's room - Booya Accomplished and it is AMAZING!
3. Start up Baby and maternity label - I can say I have researched but this year it's a must
4. Do not become a smoker again - Hahahahahahahaha HA
5. Loose baby weight - What I was thinking here I don't know, I am about 5kg's down but FAIL
6. Finish atleast one book I've started this year - I finished 5
7. Unpack my boxes from Cape Town - Halfway there
8. Recycle my wardrobe - I can't even remember what I meant here, I did give away some stuff
9. Sew up summer dresses and sell them - I am busy making my sewing room
10. Learn Photoshop - Slowly but surely
11. Get a new Christmas tree - It was beautiful
12. Organise my baby shower - That was an awesome party
13. Finish putting up photos and frames - Moved rooms but getting there, this I might get done.
14. Survive child birth - Had a Caesar got a Liver infection from op but I am alive and kicking.
15. Get involved in a charity - Stayed in a township and am involved in a soup kitchen in town
16. Find a good nursery school/ Nanny - Got a nanny, not over joyed by her progress
17. Go on holiday to Cape Town - Loved it, going again this year.
18. Choose a surname for my Peanut - Aiden Mckay Smith but he goes by Aiden Mckay
19. Make a baby blanket - FAIL
20. Learn more about type-setting and Graphic design - I am starting a company
21. Enroll for a Marketing course - Researched, need to register
22. Look into seeing a shrink - Saw one, need to keep going I think.
23. Catch up with friends (long list) - For the most part

24. Party the night away - I was planning on this big night, my actual birthday I will be on a Youth camp and last Saturday I had a braai with my closest friends and I don't feel I missed out on anything, It was perfect.

Running a Marathon

If you know me you will know my athletic ability is below zero. Anything containing a bat, a ball or balance is a no go zone in my life. I hated PT so much my mom used to let me skip those days of school or I would always be the student with a sick note.

It's not laziness as some people quite quickly tell me, I am just absolutely, terrible at it. 

I am however determined to get my body back that pregnancy stole from me and maybe even have a better one.

So I have committed myself to the Soweto Run 10km in November, I say committed as official sign up is not ready yet but I have joined a whole lot of awesome ladies from twitter and the blog world to doing it. I have dragged my mother and sister a long for the ride.

Hopefully I am not one of those people who look spastic when they run.