March has come to an end and spring is certainly here, proof of the fact is that in writing this at 8pm it is still light outside and even more is that its a full month into my 28th year, which has flown by very rapidly but first onto the weekly summary.
Tuesday began well with an email off West Lancs Media proposing a future meeting to discuss my articles so that's something to look forward to I guess with the afternoon featuring a collation of the last four weeks sleep data and the printing and re-designing of the sheets for the coming month. The Evening saw me watch the Manchester derby while doing an extensive job search and checking on the progress of current applications.
Wednesday began with more job searching but on a wider scale than the previous night and I began the quest of watching all the DVD's I own that are unseen since purchase and did so with the Brookside 30 year Memorable Moments which was brilliant to watch and did bring back a lot of memories of the 90's and 00's.
The evening saw me take in Liverpool v Sunderland which was a win for the Reds despite a nervy finish at 2-1 with some PvZ Garden Warfare to end the night.
Thursday began with another DVD series this time it was Phoenix Nights which was a brilliant comedy and hard to believe it was so long since it finished on TV and the trend of good news this week continued as I got an email off Will who had orchestrated 'The Hub' project I had taken part in and offered me the chance to take part in another project in the coming weeks which adds to my list of things to look forward to.
This was joined by a trip to Dewsbury on April 4th as I managed to book my ticket and travel for the bargain price of £22 for Wigan's Challenge Cup game while later on I put on the Fonejacker boxset, another good series that ended on Channel 4 a long time ago with the evening seeing a blogging catch-up and the weekly edition of Junior Paramedics on BBC3.
Friday began with an early order as tickets for the Good Friday trip to St Helens went on sale and at a decent price too so that joins the list and will be the first time I will have gone to a Good Friday away from Wigan which will be nice. On the subject of Wigan, the evening saw a trip to Wigan for the home game against Catalan and an exciting game saw a last gasp win courtesy of a try from Matt Bowen who ran full length to complete a 22-16 win.
Saturday began with the writing and sending off of my Wigan match report and during the day with Skem playing away, I watched the United v Villa game, Soccer Saturday and Arsenal v Man City with Skem drawing 3-3 away to King's Lynn after coming back from 3-1 down. The evening saw me reach the final stages of my Lego Simpsons build while going further on PvZ Garden Warfare.
Sunday began with the completion of the Lego Simpsons build which can be seen in the adjacent images and it was a brilliant project to do and I look forward to the additional figures that are released in May. An early wake up for the F1 in Malaysia which was a strange one with only 15 finishers but an exciting race all the same with Hamilton winning and in the afternoon a spectacular 4-0 win for Liverpool at home to Tottenham made for a great way to end the weekend with the RL round up ending the day.
Monday saw two letters arrive which contained my tickets for Dewsbury and my travel for St Helens with the match ticket still on the way and an afternoon of writing and preparation for the weeks blogs with the evening featuring the usual Monday night TV but with a twist as The Walking Dead came to the season's end. A cliffhanger with a lot of open ends makes for a long wait until the next season in October.
A fairly mixed week to end the month but the month as a whole has been pretty good compared to this time last year with the exception of the work issue of course but I will go into that in the following monthly summary.
Fitness wise, Runkeeper saw and Nike saw an improvement on February with the former seeing 27.3 miles for the month with the latter collecting 35.564 fuel which included reaching my goal of 2.5 million overall which came on the 8th as another fitness goal of 2000 miles overall on Runkeeper.
The Xbox achievement chase saw a new record month for 2014 with a haul of 164 unlocks which is amazing but not enough to become the best ever as the record of 183 from 2011 still stands but the run of centuries this year extends to three with the hope of a full year now a quarter fulfilled.
The achievement haul was accompanied by 4182 TA points and a total of 2790G with an official total of only 134 unlocks needed for my long time goal of 5000 with the goal of 100,000G now within 10,000 at 9535. The average month improved to 2550 meaning a likely goal completion of August/September which would be easily ahead of schedule.
A massive goal was reached on the 17th as I breached the target of 125,000 TA points as seen in the adjacent image while also getting closer to the goal of 40% completion by reaching 38% on the 20th.
Sports wise, it has been a mixed month for my trio of teams, the main positive is that Liverpool end the month on top of the Premier League with a 100% record with wins over Southampton, Manchester United, Cardiff, Sunderland and Tottenham. Wigan have done well with wins over Hull KR,Warrington and Catalan ending the month after a mixed opening with a victory over Wakefield followed by a late loss at Castleford.
The biggest negative has been Skem who have been unrecognisable from their form in the majority of the season with only two wins (Trafford in the league and Carlton in the Doodson cup) but have lost five and drawn one which included the unbeaten home record ending spectacularly with three defeats in a row.
On the subject of my goals for 2014, to reach five this month was amazing with the only one not mentioned above being that I attended my seventh Skem game of the year which came in the visit of Trafford and reached ten in the defeat to FC United which saw a huge crowd for the first time in a while.
So overall a good month with more positives than negatives and there is hope for even more joy in April etc....
Tuesday began well with an email off West Lancs Media proposing a future meeting to discuss my articles so that's something to look forward to I guess with the afternoon featuring a collation of the last four weeks sleep data and the printing and re-designing of the sheets for the coming month. The Evening saw me watch the Manchester derby while doing an extensive job search and checking on the progress of current applications.
Wednesday began with more job searching but on a wider scale than the previous night and I began the quest of watching all the DVD's I own that are unseen since purchase and did so with the Brookside 30 year Memorable Moments which was brilliant to watch and did bring back a lot of memories of the 90's and 00's.
The evening saw me take in Liverpool v Sunderland which was a win for the Reds despite a nervy finish at 2-1 with some PvZ Garden Warfare to end the night.
Thursday began with another DVD series this time it was Phoenix Nights which was a brilliant comedy and hard to believe it was so long since it finished on TV and the trend of good news this week continued as I got an email off Will who had orchestrated 'The Hub' project I had taken part in and offered me the chance to take part in another project in the coming weeks which adds to my list of things to look forward to.
Friday began with an early order as tickets for the Good Friday trip to St Helens went on sale and at a decent price too so that joins the list and will be the first time I will have gone to a Good Friday away from Wigan which will be nice. On the subject of Wigan, the evening saw a trip to Wigan for the home game against Catalan and an exciting game saw a last gasp win courtesy of a try from Matt Bowen who ran full length to complete a 22-16 win.
Saturday began with the writing and sending off of my Wigan match report and during the day with Skem playing away, I watched the United v Villa game, Soccer Saturday and Arsenal v Man City with Skem drawing 3-3 away to King's Lynn after coming back from 3-1 down. The evening saw me reach the final stages of my Lego Simpsons build while going further on PvZ Garden Warfare.
Sunday began with the completion of the Lego Simpsons build which can be seen in the adjacent images and it was a brilliant project to do and I look forward to the additional figures that are released in May. An early wake up for the F1 in Malaysia which was a strange one with only 15 finishers but an exciting race all the same with Hamilton winning and in the afternoon a spectacular 4-0 win for Liverpool at home to Tottenham made for a great way to end the weekend with the RL round up ending the day.Monday saw two letters arrive which contained my tickets for Dewsbury and my travel for St Helens with the match ticket still on the way and an afternoon of writing and preparation for the weeks blogs with the evening featuring the usual Monday night TV but with a twist as The Walking Dead came to the season's end. A cliffhanger with a lot of open ends makes for a long wait until the next season in October.
A fairly mixed week to end the month but the month as a whole has been pretty good compared to this time last year with the exception of the work issue of course but I will go into that in the following monthly summary.
Fitness wise, Runkeeper saw and Nike saw an improvement on February with the former seeing 27.3 miles for the month with the latter collecting 35.564 fuel which included reaching my goal of 2.5 million overall which came on the 8th as another fitness goal of 2000 miles overall on Runkeeper.
The Xbox achievement chase saw a new record month for 2014 with a haul of 164 unlocks which is amazing but not enough to become the best ever as the record of 183 from 2011 still stands but the run of centuries this year extends to three with the hope of a full year now a quarter fulfilled.The achievement haul was accompanied by 4182 TA points and a total of 2790G with an official total of only 134 unlocks needed for my long time goal of 5000 with the goal of 100,000G now within 10,000 at 9535. The average month improved to 2550 meaning a likely goal completion of August/September which would be easily ahead of schedule.
A massive goal was reached on the 17th as I breached the target of 125,000 TA points as seen in the adjacent image while also getting closer to the goal of 40% completion by reaching 38% on the 20th.Sports wise, it has been a mixed month for my trio of teams, the main positive is that Liverpool end the month on top of the Premier League with a 100% record with wins over Southampton, Manchester United, Cardiff, Sunderland and Tottenham. Wigan have done well with wins over Hull KR,Warrington and Catalan ending the month after a mixed opening with a victory over Wakefield followed by a late loss at Castleford.
The biggest negative has been Skem who have been unrecognisable from their form in the majority of the season with only two wins (Trafford in the league and Carlton in the Doodson cup) but have lost five and drawn one which included the unbeaten home record ending spectacularly with three defeats in a row.
On the subject of my goals for 2014, to reach five this month was amazing with the only one not mentioned above being that I attended my seventh Skem game of the year which came in the visit of Trafford and reached ten in the defeat to FC United which saw a huge crowd for the first time in a while.
So overall a good month with more positives than negatives and there is hope for even more joy in April etc....
- Trips to Dewsbury and St Helens with Wigan with another depending on the next round of the CC.
- A new project to do via 'The Hub'
- Liverpool hopefully edging to a first Premier League title with Skem improving in the NPL.
- Some concrete progress on the career front - please?
- An improvement in my weight loss and general fitness.
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