October is an exciting month as Mr Fitz celebrates his 60th Birthday. A milestone birthday and I cannot believe that lovely boy I married is now this age. Time really does fly when you’re enjoying yourself. My main goal is to ensure he has a great day and plenty of other celebrations.
Celebrations
The main part of Mr Fitz’s Birthday Present was our first cruise holiday last month with P and O Cruises. John is not one for expensive possessions and gadgets, preferring experiences that make memories. Because of that I paid for the cruise as my gift to him. He also does not like to be the centre of attention so we have no party plans but I have arranged a night away for him on the night of his birthday. he knows I have booked somewhere but doesn’t know where. My main goal is that I can keep the venue a surprise and make his birthday celebrations special.
Cheers – here’s to 60 years!
Organisation and Admin
I did not manage to complete my HMRC self assessment last month, therefore I really must get it done in October amongst all the birthday celebrations.
My organisational goal is to begin to streamline my wardrobe. I aim to develop a capsule or minimalistic wardrobe. I won’t manage to complete this in one moth but to satrt I am going to sort through my coats and jackets this month and decide which items to keep. The remaining I will either donate to charity, the homeless or sell on ebay.
Fitness
I have been intending to start Yoga classes for a while and I took the opportunity of taking a class on board our Cruise. This sparked me on to take a yoga class as part of my gym membership. I loved both classes so my goal in October is to attend a class once a week in October.
Blogging
This year for the first time I am taking part in Blogtober, a moth where I publish a post every day and engage with other bloggers. Read more about my plans and schedule here
Again, I’m keeping them short and sweet again because of Birthday celebrations.
September Update
Just before I go I’ll provide a quick update of what I achieved from my September goals.
Holiday
Well firstly I cannot speak highly enough of how much we enjoyed our Cruise Holiday with P and O Cruises on the Oceana. It was so enjoyable that we have booked a further two with them! I will let you know much more about our experiences in a series of blog posts to come!
Enjoying a Tropical themed evening on board Oceana
Fitness
I have continued to attend the gym for a mixture of cardio and weights 3 times a week. Also as you can see from my September goals I attended a Yoga session on the cruise ship and really enjoyed it, from this I plan to continue with a class a week. I hope as well as fitness it will help my chronic back problem.
Admin
The quest to complete my HMRC self assessment continues, the less said the better – onwards and upwards!
Celebrate
We had a very enjoyable afternoon and evening celebrating our 33rd Wedding Anniversary, it was helped by a prize win of a £50 bar tab at a local cocktail venue!
Blogging
I have managed to post once a week apart from the week I was on the ship – not yet got the hang of scheduling or got far enough in front with writing post! I also mostly managed to post on Instagram daily from this and my sister blog – beespiesandrainyskies.info
That’s it for now so I’m off to prepare and write content for my very ambitious plan of joining in with Blogtober. Also take a look at other bloggers who are also involved and I am collaborating with
Please let me know what you have achieved or are planning or any hints and tips you may have to help me achieve mine, especially the dreaded HMRC self assessment. I love to hear from you, I love to read your comments or you can always contact me by email
How exciting! Happy birthday to Mr Fitz!
It sounds like you have some great plans for the month.
Im super organised and am always ready to do mine on 6th April but there’s normally blips on the system so I waited a few days after this year – the anxiety killed me, lol
Wow! I am so impressed that you are always prepared and ready. You must give us some hints and tips on how you manage this
Welcome to Blogtober! I have yet to fill in my tax either, every year when it gets to May I promise myself I will get it done nice and early, but every year I am still doing it in December! Looking forward to reading more about you during October
Thanks Man do- it’s great to be here after a couple of years faffing around with my blog! Yes last year it was mid January before I submitted it. Looking forward to the rest of the month x
Thank you Mandi! I’m so glad there are others like me who drag their feet completing and submitting their self assessment. Thank you for reading, hopefully I can produce some more content that you will like. Good luck with your Blogtober campaign too!
Same as Mindi, I always promise myself I’ll do my tax return at the start of the tax year and I never manage to do it before January starts!
My husband is 60 this year and like your husband, he doesn’t like to be the centre of attention either so we’re just going out for a meal with his children and parents :o)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s late submitting to HMRC! Wishing your husband a Happy 60th Birthday
Sounds like you have a great month of birthday celebrations, it must be the month for them as it is my mother in laws 70th next week. #Blogtober18
Happy 70th Birthday to your MIL. Strangely I know of so many other birthdays too in October!
Congratulations on your 33rd anniversary, and Happy 60th to Mr Fitz. Nice to meet you #Blogtober18
Thanks Rachel, I will pass on your best wishes to Mr Fitz
Fab goals post Elaine! I’m just the same with my tax return, I still need to finish my accounts off never mind complete the actual return! The cruise looked amazing, congrats on booking a further 2, you must be so excited! I can’t wait to see the posts about the one you’ve just been one chuck x
Thanks Sarah I’m glad it’s not just me! I think it takes real discipline to keep on top of them something I don’t have!