Curry and Quiz Eve

There is still so much to do….. I am a list person so naturally there is a list with all my outstanding jobs the only problem is that I am not sure where I put it, so I keep creating new ones!  So if you do happen upon a list that says; ring club, check curry, raffle prizes, WRITE QUIZ, helium for balloons it’s mine.

Well it will be tomorrow before I know it and it only dawned on my run yesterday that I am going to have to say a short speech eeeekkkk. Now this is quite difficult for me as I’m such a wallflower, you know the shy and retiring type, wouldn’t say boo to a goose ….no honestly it is……no seriously it is….

I take it I am not convincing you, well I wouldn’t blame you I LOVE to talk! And always have plenty to say, but I am going to have to try and keep it concise and relevant and also try not to cry. The last time I had to give a speech it sort of went; "would just like to say wahhhhh wahhhh, no no in a minute; I’m fine honest wahhh wahhh"

I couldn’t do anything for crying, you see I am normally quite emotionally reserved but at the most inopportune moments an emotional ninja strikes and I can’t string a coherent sentence together. 

So on my run tomorrow I am going to gather my thoughts and make sure that I rehearse it a couple of times, to get it just right, I know I will write it on the back of my latest list to make sure I have it with me all day…….what could go wrong with that  

I will let you know who tomorrow night goes, wish me luck!

Curry and Quiz is on!

Feeling down in the dumps and want to do something to cheer yourself up, then buy yourself a ticket the hottest event this side of the spring. 

I am holding a fundraising curry, quiz night, raffle and much more on Friday 1st March 2013, raising money for MacMillan Cancer Support. If you don’t like curry then not to worry, there will be an alternative or two you can have instead.

I would love it is you were able to come along, it will be held at Hem Heath Cricket Club, Trentham Lakes, Stoke on Trent. Tickets are £13.00 per person and includes poppadum, choice of starter and a choice of curry with rice and naan bread and an evening’s worth of entertainment.  There will be a vegetarian option available and if you don’t like curry there will be at least one other option, but please inbox me so I can collect the numbers to cater for.

There are two ways to buy your tickets; either in person with me (drop me an email) or the easiest option would be to go to my fundraising page and add the cost of the tickets as a donation and the comments box type in curry and quiz and the number of tickets you would like.  Also if you can make your email address visible then I can email you your tickets. My page is http://www.justgiving.com/KirstenJOwen

Thanks everyone for your support and here’s to a great night

Not so quick post

Just a quickie tonight; things are going well busy as ever well who isn’t these days.  Training is going well for Virgin London Marathon; I am keeping up with the cross training – strength on Mondays and yoga on Fridays (well most Fridays) I think for February I am going to double up on the strength training, I’ll let you know if I manage it. 

Fundraising efforts are going well; I now have a venue and date for my Charity Curry and Quiz night…drum roll please “Friday 1^st March at Hem Heath Cricket Club, Stoke”.  The Hem Heath Cricket Club have been great and provided the venue free of charge, however I still trying to sort out the food but I hope to get that finalised by the end of the week so I can announce my ticket price.  The next BIG thing I need to sort out is a quiz and a (free) disco/karaoke for the evening, but I am sure I will get that sorted (if you know anyone who might be able to help give me a shout). The cake sale at work is now also been arranged and I am hoping from both events I can raise around £1,000 so I am keeping my fingers crossed.  

College is going well I still have 3 outstanding assignments but I only have a bit more to do on one of them and other two are due the end of February, so plenty of time.  We have just started our new semester and two new models; Training and fitness for sport and exercise and Physical activity, lifestyle and wellbeing both seem fun and it looks like our assignment will be less wordy but I still think that they are going to be as challenging.  So watch this space

I am really happy the snow has gone, it was nice for a while but running in it was such hard work, I felt exhausted every time and there was no point looking at your watch as you just felt demoralised, anyway it is gone and the paths are clear again and I am start to try and get my speed up.

The things I am looking forward to over the next few weeks is:

• Saturday I am at the Virgin London Marathon meeting the experts (and maybe a little shopping)
• Sunday is the 1^st race of the season which is Alsager 5 then a couple of use from club are running back to Trentham for our Sunday long run 
• 1^st half of the year at Brigthon Half on Sunday 17^th February, hopefully it won’t run long this year.

Take care everyone and remember 

run like you stole something