I am conscious that it's getting on for the middle of February and I'm now 14 weeks pregnant. It's nearly a month since I wrote my mission and time to revisit it to see how I'm getting on (before I start pretending I never wrote it)...

My top priority was to concentrate on being healthy and happy. I think I'm doing pretty well on this (apart from chocolate gate at the weekend), which is probably due to the life of luxury and unemployment I'm currently enjoying.

I'm exercising for at least 30 minutes about 5 or 6 days a week;

I am doing something I like most days, although I'm so shit at actually sitting down to do the pampering things like paint my nails - I've been meaning to do my fingers for the past couple of nights but have ended up doing my blog late. And, my toe nails? I'm too ashamed

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I decided yesterday it was finally time to get started on streamlining my wardrobe (point c in mission) as I'd been putting it off (due to the scale of the task) and beginning to moan to Mike 'I've got nothing to wear'. After he got cross with me, he instructed me to throw loads of things out ('you know all the things you brought here 2 years ago and I've never seen you wear') and go buy some new clothes that I will wear. I had a sulk and then realised this is music to my ears!

I got started and soon realised that this was going to be an all day job - most of my stuff was, well, stuffed into my 'wardrobe', which is more a falling to bits ikea rack. But I also have boxes with sports clothes (including a 9 year old argentina sweater that I might

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