19/01/2013-20/01/2013

Didn't get up too much yesterday but hopefully that should be picking up soon, so anyway, like I say I didn't do much except watch 8 hours of rugby and then a bit of cricket, so that was pretty good, for me anyway. One other positive occurred which was me and my parents are known for not getting on too well and for the first time in around 6 months, we actually managed to talk without, shouting or getting annoyed or someone walking off annoyed. Today was pretty standard for a sunday waking up to a nice cooked breakfast, then watching a bit of the football, then we visited my step-dads parents, who I get on with but can't be with them for more than a couple of hours, for selfish reasons that they're attitude toward others annoys me with their racist remarks and always talking dirt on people. Finally we all had a nice team effort roast dinner for the first time since christmas because we all work all strange hours even with me being off work for so long. So anyway until tomorrow night, stay positive and click follow @BePositiveAday.

18/01/2013

There was heavy snowfall all through the night so we awoke to find the garden covered in snow, which allowed my niece to play and make snowballs, it also allowed me to attempt to make a snowman but unfortunately I get bored very easily and made what resembled a soccer ball then proceeded in kicking it around the garden to see if it would collect more snow, unsuprisingly, it didn't it just broke so that ended that. Fortunately to warm us up we had moussaka for tea, but my mothers diet version. Also I decided on going back to college to redo my A-levels and spent most of the day e-mailing colleges to arrange meetings with various subject teachers. Remember to check again later for today's entry, stay positive and follow @BePositiveAday on twitter.

16/01-17/01/2013

Finally got better from whatever it was I did have meaning thankfully it wasn't Weil's, so I've been a bit more active the past couple of day's, managing to finally get all my washing and cleaning done, and I've gone back to eating properly today and will probably be able to go back to my supplements and the gym soon as my knee isn't in as much pain at the minute. Looks like I'm going to get some deep snow tonight so in case the power gets knocked out by the snow, like it has done every year, stay positive.

13/01-15/01

Apologies again for my lack of activity but for over 48 hours I've been either permanently asleep or unable to move with what is at best the flu but I've been told by the doctor to keep an eye on it as there's a chance with me capsizing on the river on saturday that it could be a disease worst feared by watersport enthusiasts known as Weils disease which has symptoms at lot like flu but could have serious consequences, so sunday was the last day where I was not permanently under my duvet and to be honest i can't really remember much about it, yesterday I finally managed to catch up on all the sleep i've not been getting as I slept for almost 24 hours and today i've been feeling slightly better but still not my usual self and managed to finally eat some food, I'll try to keep his and the twitter as up to date as I can but it could be a couple of days between posts depending on how i feel so don't think i've given up and remember to stay positive

12/01/2013

Seeing what happened yesterday and with me being out all day today I thought I'll do today's post now as I'm still awake, I've been looking forward for today since I heard about it, my first time in almost 2 years canoeing. To some people that might not seem big or important, but I live for watersports, the only bad thing about them is It's always an early start (early for me). Even though I was in a Canadian Canoe instead of my playboat as my knees won't bend as much yet as they need to to get into my kayak, I managed to have fun and even have a bit of a play. The first part was the hardest for me because of how technical canoe strokes are to kayak strokes, well you've only got a single-bladed paddle, and getting back into my rhythm, once I got that sorted I was fine. The first fun was a weir just downstream of put in, and even though It's nothing like ones I've been down in my kayak I've never done weirs in an open before, but a 50cm weir you were over it before you knew what happened, the second weir was when everyone had a laugh as I wasn't sitting just right in the canoe went down the weir and went for a swim, but in true style of mine I swam to the bank, looked at my audience (sorry, fellow paddlers) and couldn't help but say 'They could've ran the hot water for a bit longer' and after that I was like I'd never been away, found a nice small rapid to practise my ferry-gliding and breaking in/out and even managed to do the unthinkable and surfed a standing wave in a 16 foot open boat. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as fun but less tiring, if you've never been kayaking/canoeing before and didn't have a clue what I was on about I apologise but I seriously recommend trying it, so until tomorrow check out the twitter @BePositiveAday and stay positive.

11/01/2013

Just realised that I hadn't done a post for yesterday so, apologies for that, so yesterday was just my typical friday, woken up early by my niece as normal, I went back to the doctor to see if he could give me anything to help me sleep at night and he said he would'nt want to but did give me some tips for how to sleep better so I'm going to start trying them out, also the youth group that I help out with has started again and it went as could be expected when we only had 3 staff members there and around 15 kids all running around in different rooms but i did get told about aome more canoeing/kayaking weekends and also that they are going to start encouraging them to do some more music so I was asked unless I was in work could I help them out with that as I'm the only one who's musical. Today's post will either be up later or early tomorrow as I've been out all day so quite a bit to write, until then check out @BePositiveAday on twitter and remember to stay positive.

10/01/2013

First of all I can't believe it's over a week since I started doing this and it's still going, so today was a bit of a chillout day and a chance for me to check all my canoeing gear for the weekend, fortunately I'm not using my kayak but using someone else's canadian canoe as I'm going for my intermediate qualifications in an open boat and although I've done a couple of big trips already in one (almost 200 miles the biggest) I need more practice on moving water, so I haven't had to do my usual checks on my own boat to make sure my airbags are fine, my foam footrest is still in place and my backrest ratchets arent cracked, one piece of good news is that my new surfing wetsuit can be used all year round so hopefully I won't have to wear too much over it to stay warm and I'm not planning on swimming on such a small river as the mersey canoe trail so it should be all good, and it will be the first time I've been on a river in almost 2 years so hopefully won't take that long to get back into it. Anyway make sure to check us out on twitter @BePositiveAday and on facebook at facebook.com/1PositiveEveryDay and stay positive.