Sunday Smile Sermon - 6th July

A massive thank you to all the people who brought me into Glastonbury in style! Thank you guys! 

As you may have noticed, last week I didn't mention Glastonbury at all, that was because it upset me to have been missing it, the first time I have ever missed it since I was like 16 or something, and of course last year when I was in hospital. So it was very upsetting. This is a sermon of the things that made me smile, and that wasn't one of them last week, so i didn't mention it. But now, I did get there in some way, my website has been graffitied all over the place! This made me smile!

What a glorious day, sat outside in the garden today having my breakfast. very lovely! Not so lovely was my return into the house for a spoonful of cocoanut oil! Yuk! It's suppose to be good for the brain so I thought I should start making it a daily spoon routine, God, it is hideous!

Anyway, that moan is out of the way, now onto my smiles for the week. Well Monday I woke up in my little bedroom at my Nanny & Granddad Durkin's. I had a lovely weekend with them, I enjoyed going to mass with them too, it was nice to see a few familiar faces from the parish.

So I gathered all my things up ready to go and nan kindly bandaged my leg a bit, I had a sore patch on it from grazing at the top of Leonard. I can not wait to get my new leg, where it is much easier to walk on and isn't rubbing into me, it will be a bit prettier too, hopefully, I think Leonard's being replaced with a new sexy lady leg, he will be so jealous! haha Granddad dropped me home once I was bandaged up and ready to hit the road.

On Tuesday, at 11am I went swimming with Anna. It was quite busy, loads of people there, some sitting outside in the sunshine. The sun shining in on the pool really made me feel like I was on holiday. I had a lovely chat with Matt Kirby, talked about a running blade, I'll be talking to my prosthesist next week about it.  I really want one! ASAP! I will go for a leisurely jog in the sunshine, with that leg and my healthy eating, my fitness will increase and I will be back to normal in no time!

So on Wednesday, with the running blade leg on my mimd, I tried to call The Maltings to talk to my prosthetist about it, no joys though, I will have to have some patience and just wait to talk face to face next week. Theres no stopping me there though, I emailed Ottobock about the new leg with a good knee. One that I saw on their Facebook page, I am constantly looking for improvements and I like having my mind set on things and then seeing them through. At 2pm I went swimming with Anna again, it's addictive after a while.

Thursday, Anna woke me up around 11ish, we went shopping in Waitrose, I got loads and loads of fish! :) With the weekly swimming and healthy eating I feel myself getting fitter and healthier day by day. We then had a lovely smoked mackerel dinner. Then at 2pm went swimming again! 

Spoke to a lovely girl Jemimah, who contacted me on FB, she messaged me saying;

"I am a journalist and write for women's magazines. I am looking for someone to put forward for the Cosmo Woman of the Year award, and your friend Meegan Walker mentioned you! I don't know anything about your story, but if you are interested you might be able to email me a little bit about yourself and then we can go from there? Many thanks! Jemimah"

I had a chat with her on the phone and she will be doing a piece about me in the mags. I'm looking 
forward to it, although Anna wasn't so eager. I think it's all very exciting, and with this along with the documentary I'll be doing for Michelle's Masters, and the book I will be starting to write soon, hopefully. I will be palling with the likes of Simon Cowell in no time hehe.

I'm joking, that's not my aim in life! I just want to get better and help anyone else out there, who may be down and who needs a smile on their face. If I can smile, then why shouldn't you. This is all very interesting and it will be good for me to have a look back at in a few years when I'm much better, just to see how far I have come and how well I have grown into my old self.

Friday, Anna and I left the house early in the morning to drive to Manchester and pick dad up from the airport. I had really missed him! Bearing in mind, a week feels like a year to me at the moment, for him to have been away for 3 weeks, it really has felt like 3 years since I'd seen him last. When we got home, Anna and I went for a lovely massage! :)

Saturday was a quite day, we went for a swim again, of course, but apart from that, it was pretty quiet. I have been playing on my iPad, doing the memory games and exercising that big muscle as well as the fitness and healthy eating, my brain is the most important muscle in my body and that needs plently of exercise too. There are loads of good memory games that my friend Lauren downloaded for me a while ago. I am getting into these daily now, although I am ridiculously competitive, even with myself, so I'm nearly at the Gold medal stage with most of the games now. I would love to download some more games, although I have to put Lauren's itunes password in to download them, and the woman is a workaholic! She is hardly ever free, if you are reading this, please get back to me woman! 

Fitness! GREAT! Swimming 3x this week, intend on doing the same next week too. Eating healthier, getting healthier, working all the muscles in my body. even the brain, with iPad games for memory fitness.

So that's my week, very busy with lots going on. Healthy eating, healthy living. Everything is improving and it can only do more so. Next week I will have seen my Prosthetist and nagged at him for a running blade, I will have seen Michelle and be given the documentary camera. I will have eaten 7 hideous spoonfuls of coconut oil, YUK! and eaten lots of fresh fish. That is my plan for the week. I'll let you know how I got on in my next sermon of smiles. Keep smiling people!

Peace be with… Amen.