Hello October

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

Autumn is my favourite time of year. I love the spectacular show nature provides before the leaves begin to fall. I enjoy the last remnants warmth during the days before the chill takes over. The appearance of dragon’s breath as the darkness begins to take over the days.

There are only 3 months of the year left and I feel as though I have not achieved as much as I wanted to during 2023. It will soon be time to start planning 2024. I have a feeling I will be transferring some of my 2023 plans over to next year.

September Update

I have been sat here for 10 minutes trying to think of something I did September as I have gone completely brain-dead. I also have a really annoying head cold which descended on me on Wednesday and I cannot shake it off.

Myself and my daughter have been trying to go swimming at least once a week, which has been nice. We try to go when it is quiet and see how many laps of the pool we can achieve. Last Saturday we also took my two nephews swimming which was fun. I won’t be going swimming this week though due to my cold and then my daughter goes to on holiday to Spain. My daughter is 24 years old tomorrow. That makes me feel very old. Anyway a family friend is paying for her to go to Spain with them for a week, so at least she is going to have a holiday this year.

In Other News…

Myself and my daughter went to an Alpaca Farm and had a Meet the Meerkats experience which was a lot of fun. I had real Meerkats sitting on my lap, allowing me to feed them and pet them. They were so cute. It was a fun day out.

Plans

My Word for 2023: PRODUCTIVITY

Goals for 2023

Below are a five goals I have for this blog for 2023.

To post at least twice a week on Lulu-By-Place – I think I am just going to have to accept that this is not going to happen this year. lol!
Keep track of my fitness and (hopefully) weight loss in a monthly post – Had a September Post, need to plan Octobers.
Post my 50 Things before 50 List – Need to check the list and update it -still.
Do something interesting at least once a month – full disclosure, this will be of interest to me, so my interesting thing might not be that interesting – September – Met some very cute Meerkats.
Social Media Goal – To post at least once a week on Instagram (I keep forgetting) – Failing miserably!

Hope you all had a good September, and that you have great October. I do plan on being around a little more so hope to see you soon.

Toodles Lu x