Movie: The Hobbit

We'd been down in London for some sale shopping, as is our new tradition after Boxing Day. After about five hours of shopping we weren't quite ready to go back to the hotel and stay in all afternoon/evening, so instead we used our time to watch a movie. We had been watching the second LOTR movie in the hotel the night before so it was already on our minds and probably the only thing we wanted to see that was playing in Stratford - we chose The Hobbit.

I had started to read the book years ago when the first of the LOTR movies came out, I remember my dad bought me the book - he never bought me anything all by himself, so that memory always sticks out. I didn't finish the book (shock) but had some gist of the story before going into the movie. I did my best to prepare James by telling him it was about Gandalf taking Bilbo out on an adventure with a bunch of dwarves to fight a dragon, meanwhile Bilbo picks up 'The Ring' on a meeting with Gollum. That's pretty much the first film summed up, I can't believe it's one book into three movies but I'm looking forward to the rest of the series - I forgot how much I loved the LOTR movies (the third one is on TV this weekend, I'll be watching!).

019. Be in the audience of a TV show

It wasn't the kind of TV show I had in mind, but we were in the audience for the Robbie Williams O2 concert broadcast live on Sky One back in November. It counts!

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097. Do something amazing for our 10 year anniversary

We went to the London 2012 Olympic Games for our 10 year anniversary celebrations back in July this year. It's taken me a long time to write about it, but I'll let the pictures tell the story - we had the best time!


001. Welcome to London; 002. View from our hotel room;
003. Chinese noodles for dinner at Leceister Square; 004. Les Mis showtime;


005. London Excel by our hotel; 006. Disney World style maps!;
007. Olympic face; 008. Empty seats?;


009. Arriving at Olympic Park; 010. Tickets for the Orbit viewing tower;
011. Views inside the Olympic Stadium; 012. Team USA in the Basketball Arena;

Yearly Review 02

Two years on and I'm still working on completing my list of 101 things, slow and steady. I've come to terms with the fact that I won't complete them all and this yearly review cannot be me changing the whole list just so I can complete all 101. For this review I'm not going to remove/replace very much, instead I'm just going to tweak some that might actually be achievable. 

Just like last year, those that are replaced or changed count as incomplete with my money to charity pledge still standing - although this one itself will change to a lesser amount per incomplete (who knew I'd have so many incomplete, I can't afford all that! Sorry, charity...).

All of the below will be getting slight tweaks:

001. Donate £5 to charity for each mission I don’t complete

021. Read all the books that I own but haven’t read yet
031. Order grocery shopping online 50 times
044. Lose 50lbs, 10lbs at a time
051. Take a photo of the same place every month for a year
054. Do 'A Day In The Life' 10 times
060. Have 12 'No-Buy' months
062. Save £100 a month
063. Buy 20 lucky dip Lotto tickets
079. Buy five sets of matching underwear
092. Bake brownies for someone who’s having a bad day
100. List 5 things I'm grateful for once a month

And these ones are gone to be replaced by something when the inspiration strikes me:

038. Run a 5K

053. Make my own Christmas cards to send out

055. Make my own Christmas decorations

069. Spend Christmas in a different country
074. Go to a Christmas market in Germany
080. Have electrolysis treatment at the salon twice a month

With only 9 months to go, I wonder if I'll even make it to half this list completed? Who knows, but at least I know I tried.