Sitting with my daughter in the doctor's waiting room last night, I picked up Psychologies magazine and I got thinking about my life and the things I can do to improve it. So this is what needs to be done:

1. Give up smoking (financially imperative and physically essential: I am starting to look like a old crone).
2. Find a decently paid job two/three days a week.
3. Send my second novel out to agents (I have been saying this since August 2008)
4. Adapt my first novel into a screenplay and send out (ditto above, only longer)
5. Start writing novel 3.
6. Get my house organised. It's such a messs. I don't know how long we will be able to stay living here, but while we are it should be a lovely place to be and not a complete dump.
7. Be a better and more organised mother in terms of making children do homework, ensuring they always have clean uniform, are de-nitted etc.
8. Carve out time to enjoy myself sometimes, both with and without the children. Not easy on no disposable income whatsoever, but not impossible either.
9. Find a way to have some kind of holiday with the children this summer.
10. Eat better - stop subsisting on coffee, cigarettes and biscuits, like some neurotic basket case.
11. Grow herbs in the garden this summer to make our food more enjoyable and interesting.
12. Stop going to bed so ridiculously late every night to avoid being in a perpetual state of exhaustion each day.
13. Cherish my friends, my brother and his family and pay more attention to them.
14. Be a better aunt to my little niece.

Not such a long list. Definitely attainable.