Not So Secret Journal

 January is notably a time for fresh starts, full resets, and the dreaded D word, as well as having 365 days in one whole long arse month.  Its known as the longest month since records began, and most of all its dubbed as the most dreaded month of the year as voted for by the readers digest team.

I mean who’s crazy enough to start dieting in January, there’s still tins of sweets left over and don’t get me started on the countless boxes of “nice” biscuits from auntie Jean.

We also have Dry January, so the piss heads from Christmas can try and save their liver’s, because we all know you’ve been drinking since the works Christmas party in December, all in the name of Christmas.

 We have the endless emails and Instagram special offers from Gym’s and PT’s alike trying to sell us our dream bodies, but only if we start in the coldest month of the year, we might just be summer body ready, when it finally arrives for that one week in august that’s nice enough to venture out without a hoodie.

Every shop on the planet seems to have a sale on, in the one month you don’t have any money, because we all have £10.50 to last us for the full 365 days that are January, and you were only paid 4 days before Christmas too.

And don’t get me started on January Birthdays, yes, we have just had one and there’s another one to come at the end of the month.  I’m considering moving them to July when we have no birthdays and a bit of cash.

For me January is just another month, but not one to feel left out I wanted to set myself a little challenge, because we all know that I am challenging at times.

So, for me, I don’t drink, and I already watch what I eat, but I’ve been doing that for about 6 months now. So how could I better my life in January, I mean I could volunteer somewhere, but I already have such a busy life, I don’t have time to pee most days let alone, help someone out.

The one thing I could try and give up in January is actually one of my biggest bad habits, and it’s not eating sugar and sweets, although I did give that up for 4 weeks and then Christmas arrived (so that’s the next mission)

My biggest and worst habit is saying bad words, its honestly not my fault. I grew up with 4 big uncles and sometimes I heard these bad words and I may have repeated them.

My gramps always used to say I had a gob a sailor would have been proud of, I mean it’s the worst habit to have and it’s not like I do it all the time, but sometimes it’s at inappropriate moments.

Like in the car, when someone forgets to indicate, or when you have that Audi driver who wants to reduce their fuel consumption and sits in your boot, or there’s the man in Asda that can’t reverse park, and then there’s the referees at footy matches that aren’t watching the same game as you are , and I have been known to be a bit sweary on here too.

But hey if I can give up sugar for 4 weeks, I can totally do this, but I do have to make an exception to this rule, I can actually still call the ref’s at Everton games a useless pile of S***e.

One of my best mates Nicky has given me until Monday before I break this habit, which show she has such little faith in me because that’s less than 24 hours.

If I manage to get through this next week without swearing at anyone, then I will be so proud of me, but hey if I fail, it’s not like the world will end, and besides I know some people who take my sweary rants as compliments.

So here goes. Someone has got to have faith in me right?