Healed.

Healed, completely, plus an extra day just in case. The awful part of this is that there is no longer any excuse for avoiding the gym 😂

I have been doing some heavy-duty thinking about what I'd like to achieve in the long term and have made some decisions. Not all of it is new, but I think I was deluding myself if I thought that simply wanting something would make it happen. So...

• My weight down by 11kg by end of year, to get BMI under 30. Ideally even better, but I will aim for that and maybe shoot the moon.
• Visit my Aussie family within six months. Yeowch, expensive. But it's important to me.
• Get my bathroom replaced by the end of 2023.
• Visit Spain or France for a week, by end of 2023.
• Have partition walls built in my flat to make it 1 bedroom, by end of 2023.
• Refinance to a mortgage by end of 2023! This is not really dependent on me but on how the management of the building goes, but here's hoping.
• New carpet by mid-2024.
• Visit Finland again by mid-2024.
• Buy a campervan by end of 2024.
• Own a camping plot by mid-2025. Not too fussed on what, just a small plot somewhere that I can camp on and disconnect for a weekend.
• 2026-onwards, think about upsizing to a bigger flat... and then think about fostering.

These are all things that I daydream about alllll the time, but mostly people get caught up in the day-to-day and it's not a real surprise that nothing happens if all I do is dream. For the first two, at least I have made some moves towards them. I also saw a plot I wanted last week (£8,000 starting bid) and it has fallen through at 10k, and is back on offer again next week. Even though I know the time isn't right, you can bet I'll be watching that auction.

A lot of the expensive things depend on refinancing, because right now I pay a lot off on borrowing, and a mortgage would dramatically free up cash. It's a road block. I know that people will be shocked by the fostering idea, but I have been thinking about it for years and haven't had the space or finances. There's a kid out there who needs a home, and after upsizing, I could do that. But we will see.

Winner: Neighbour #8 fitted a new tap near my plants 😍 I can now actually fill my watering can OUTSIDE! This is brilliant. They've invited me for drinks on the weekend and now the challenge is to think of something I can buy them as a thank you gift. I might just default to chocolates.