It's all blue skies and gusty winds in Teesside today, refreshing and rejuvenating. There's a new, spring like energy in the air and it's creeping up on me too. I know it's early days but I feel more positive this week than I have in a long time with regards to sorting my life out.

I do a lot better with everything when I take the time to disentangle my thoughts and structure them a little better - I might be a bit of a control freak but I know for sure that if I write down in advance what I'm going to do with my day and include what I plan to eat, then I end up getting a lot more done than if I just muddle about aimlessly.

I imagine it won't make terribly interesting reading but it's really helped me in the past and perhaps it could inspire someone else who thinks along the same lines as I do. So, with that in mind, here's how I sort myself out on my good days. Firstly, I figure out my to-do list for the day and today it goes as follows:

* Phone the university regarding my council tax exemption certificate
* Tidy computer room
* Formulate an essay plan for my Renaissance Literature module
* Go to the doctors to order repeat prescription (and, if I can summon the confidence, book a smear test)
* Go to the hospital exercise class
* Go to cinema with Alex, Eamonn and Eken to see the Damned United

Ok, so those are my aims for the day. My diet is a priority at the moment and as such, I want to try and plan my meals too:

Breakfast - had cereal and semi skimmed milk (3 pts)
Snack - an apple (1/2 point)
Lunch - omelette with 2 eggs (3pts), cheese (1.5pts), mushrooms, ham and salad (2 pts for dressing)
Tea - salmon and prawn tagliatelle made with tagliatelle (5pts), prawns (1.5pts), smoked salmon (2pts), WW soft cheese (1.5pts) and garlic bread (4pts)


Next, I allocate times for everything - although it's important for me to be flexible (I'm not completely OCD, haha). It's 11am now so:

11.15 - Phone university, have snack

12.00 - Lunch

1.00 - Exercise class at hospital

2.00 - Go to doctors to get prescription sorted

3.00 - Home, chill out for half an hour, then tidy computer room

4.00 - Ren Lit essay plan

6.00 - Cook tea

8.00 - Go to cinema

I've made sure to not fill up my day completely - I still have plenty of time to just sit around and do nothing if the mood strikes!

In other news, my anti-establishment blood is boiling this morning after viewing this horrific video: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/07/ian-tomlinson-g20-death-video . How any action like this can ever be justified is beyond me but I'm sure the ranks will close and we'll be fed some bullshit story about the need to eliminate terror or something. Bastards.