Half way!

Well, another immensley busy week down. It's now 83 days since I started this blog and at the end of my very first post I had a tongue twister I was going to master (master criteria being able to say it three times reasonably quickly) during my training walks....I still can't spit it out! In case you're just joining me on my journey, here it is again:
A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thought the skunk stunk, the skunk thought the stump stunk. So which one stunk, the stump or the skunk?
Funny enough, I couldn't even type it just then, no wonder I can't say it yet!

So back to it being 83 days since I started, it's also 84 days till I fly out....I'm half way! Positives are that I made the August fundraising target, my iron has increased and I'm getting stronger. Negatives are that I'm only at 11% of my goal fundraising total, but I do have my two major initiatives to go. First up is the Degustation at the Green Herring on September 10th with wines matched and donated by Granitevale Estate (bookings at dego.fundraiser@mail.com, tickets are $100) - it's set to be a huge night and bookings are rolling in. Then, I have this Monday as an annual leave day to drum up the vouchers for the 100 Club and then I can register it with the ACT Government as a raffle (disappointed it's going to cost $111 for the registration, but I wanted to give blow out prizes). Tickets for that are $50 and limited to 100 tickets, so even if I have to buy all the prizes it will still be a huge boost to my fundraising.

Wednesday night I finally got to use the Gym at work - I got access a little while ago but couldn't find it! Turns out it's in the sub-basement not the basement.....Anyway, my friend Alex kindly held my hand navigating the corridors and we had a good little work out while it rained and blew a gale outside. My hip is settling so I gave it a little work out and focussed on my upper body instead. My Biceps are still killing but when I tried flexing them to see what the looked like, nothing seemed to happen! Although it was flexed, I had to use the fingers of my other hand to feel out the muscle they are so tiny!! Steve at Clinic 88 just laughed when I showed him, but as a boxer he has well defined arms anyway so I he was always going to giggle himself silly.

So that's it for today! I'm working all weekend this weekend so training will be light again, but the cash all goes to paying for my trip so that is important too. Next mission on that front is to seek out a corporate sponsor - running out of time to get a new job before I go and desperately worried I might have to borrow the money to pay for my travel & have a bit of spare cash!