Wriggler

This little one is wriggling around loads and it is just amazing! Due date is exactly 4 months today, maybe I should possibly sit down and start thinking about baby things.

Hopefully that ticker doo dah has some pink on it somewhere due to the fact that Haribo Skittle Scholes is going to be of the girl variety! :)

Life is very exciting at the moment, good news ahoy and I can now officially look forward to Christmas seeing as today is Guy Fawkes so no more events before then woohoo! Roll on all the parties! 3 nights out planned so far, two are right after each other! Thank goodness I am starting to have a little more energy again :)

Well that's it for now I thinks.

xx

Countdown

Thought I would post this here to maybe make me realise I need to start thinking about the fact that I have a baby on the way haha.

Still in triple figures of days for countdown, no need to worry yet :)

3 months on

So I guess I should update as it has been a very long time, almost three months!!

Well the last post I was hoping for three things that weekend they were, time off, lotto win and a BFP. I knew I would get one and I said three would be greedy but I was lucky enough to get two and I’m not millionaire :)

Friday 19th June I tested as I was going out that night and got a negative result, I kept the fact I tested to myself as it was nice to try and ignore it. I had a few drinkies after work to cheer myself up although it was a slight disappointment as the girls could not make mojitos! Bah, next day we popped to see Miss Mainey at a BBQ and had a few drinks but again not much as I was tired. I cried myself to sleep that night as I had cramps and was certain the next day I was going to come on.

Woke up Sunday and no monthly friend, I was a little surprised I tended to start during my sleep (I am sharing aren’t I haha) trying to fool myself on TTC with my symptoms that had vanished a few days earlier but I thought what the hell lets POAS. I didn’t wake Tom up didn’t really see the point. A line kinda of sort off appeared but not really. Thus lots of shouting from downstairs trying to get Tom, he had his ipod on so couldn’t hear me. He agreed that there was almost a line and said “maybe it means you’re almost pregnant” haha. We went along to tesco but I couldn’t buy a digital test there as I was convinced I would run into one of our partners so went to boots that afternoon and tested and I was rather shocked to read the word pregnant.

That day was Father’s Day! :)

I never posted after that as I didn’t want to jinx anything! Seeing as I am now almost 16 weeks I though that I should do an update.

Pregnancy wise it has been an eye opener. No matter how often you hear about symptoms and what may happen, I really wasn’t expecting the level of sleepiness that I had. Seriously, I would get in from work and sit down and I would be a gone for two hours, wake up and eat my tea and then in bed by 9 until the alarm at 7! Weekends consisted of loooong afternoon naps. Sickness didn’t really kick in until about 10 weeks and was a weird kind of comfort. Obviously being sick isn’t nice but it was reassuring to know that there was obviously something going on inside me to make me feel that way heh.

Sickness has settled down and although I am still sick every couple of days I don’t feel sick constantly and now it is kind of “uh oh feel sick, uh oh am sick ahhh right what was I doing haha

I am at a stage now were my clothes are getting tight and I am trying to decide whether I have the start of a bump or its too much cake haha.

So life the past few months has been sleep, work, sleep, food, sleep and a little more sleep.

Work wise things are twenty million times better!! I kind of had a mini breakdown when I was getting taken in to see the managing partner about things that I felt totally unable to control. I decided that stress and snide comments were a bad combination for me and asked for a role change. I am now back in Liverpool as a secretary. A comment was made that I would be begging for my old job back after a week of typing for one partner but I really could not be happier.

It is fab to be back with Vicki and Ellie and the other girls and lovely to see Gem all the time as she spends more time in Court than in her office which is great for us :)

It is so nice to go in and know that comments will not be made that I finish on time. This was a huge bug bear with people in work as most of us would get into work an hour early and eat lunch at our desk but it was always comments about us leaving at 5. If we went in at 9 and had our lunch and stayed until 7 it would have made them happier but were did it matter when we worked the extra time.

I was so ready to just walk out which would have been sad as I have worked with the company for 9 years and I do like most of the people there but thankfully it has all worked out well.

This week in particular has been really nice as the partner I am working for this week is just lovely and is a rare breed in knowing how to say thank you and actually mean it. I am enjoying the work sitting and typing and not actually having to think about things is lovely.

No doubt in time I will miss my old role and I will be keeping my practising certificate going for a while so the option is still there but it was nice that as far as my cases went I finished on a high. A case that had me stressing at the mention of it stayed with me after my move as it was listed for a final hearing. The barrister for the other side can be a horror and was patronising at most of the hearings and my confidence was knocked a fair but due to all the extra stress. It went to final hearing and I spent hooooooooours preparing for it and hoorah it paid off as we got what we were looking for.

In family cases we always say that no one is a winner, which I true especially in children’s cases, but some of the things that happened in this case really annoyed me and I really started to take the whole thing far too personally in the end and I am soooo glad that the outcome was a good one (for the child as well not just my client!)

So this getting to be a rather long post and I am getting tired. Liverpool have just won against Debenhams (OK I have no idea who they were playing but it said Deb) so it will be a happy office.

I will have to keep up to date with this again now effort this mammoth effort :)

TTFN :)

Nearing the end...

... of this cycle and for some reason I have gone crackers making up random symptoms haha

I am just looking for an excuse to have an extended period of time off work as it is rather sucky at present, so a focus on getting away from it is good.

Plus I post on a baby talk forum who have a daily thread for people who are TTC and they are all nutter (in the nicest way) but they are having a bad influence on me.

So the countdown to Saturday is really on for a few reasons firstly af is due so I'll have an answer, secondly NO WORK whoop whoop and finally I am going to get the winning six numbers on the lottery haha. Well I know that there will be a definite 1 out 3 and as meatloaf said two out of three ain't bad and I'd be happy with either of the other two. Getting all three would probably just be greedy hehe

Tomorrow is Julia's 30th I've been remembering this fact for a week and I hope that I remember tomorrow so that I can send her a text. if I put it on here it will be a reminder :)

There was something else that I was supposed to blog about, I remember sitting at my desk thinking "aah I am going to blog that" but I have forgotten, I really should write things down.

Right I am going in search of some chocolate, I know that there must be some in my bag!!

Take care lovelies xx

June Update

Me & Tom at ESB
Originally uploaded by digitalskittles

Well it really is time for an update as it has been a month!!

Well obviously the best thing about May was our trip to New York for our anniversary. It is such a crazy city unlike any other. It is fast and fun with so much to do.

I was glad to see that the people aren’t as angry as I have heard. There are so real crazies but most are really nice.

We did so much in our week but there is still so much that we didn’t get a chance to do. We walk so so much and ached every night when we got back to our hotel.

We did the major things like Empire State Building, Top of the Rock and some museums. We took a ferry ride to Liberty Island. Saw Avenue Q on Broadway (which was ace) and went to a comedy show. We took tours around NBC and around Maddison Square Garden. We walked around Central Park and to Central park Zoo (aka schitzu hehe). We went to Ground Zero which really is just a building site at present but the plans look good. We also walked along Fifth Avenue looking at all the shops. We also dropped into Madam Tossauds.

My favourite was TOTR, we went later in the evening and stayed up there whilst it was getting dark. Fantastic views over the whole city. Plus they have this crazy light room where the lights have sensors and follow you around. Tom has put some embarrassing vids on YouTube of me.

I also loved walking across Brooklyn Bridge, it was a nice day and we just talked all eh way across. When we got to the other side we went to The Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory for some delicious ice cream!

There is so much more that we did but I don’t want to bore everyone hehe

The day after we got back I went to see Girls Aloud with the girls and Chris. It was a lovely day so we met in the pub at 4.30 and had a few glasses of vino collapso before we went to eat and then onto the show.

I had a fab time and it was a fab show and sang our favourite songs. Sadly Vicki couldn’t go as the mean university made her sit exams on the day of the concert and the morning after. I did ring her though so that she could have a listen and a dance hehe

Then it was back to work, nuff said! :(

Then it was Al’s birthday so the boys went for a night out and I had a lovely evening with Skip, Nich and Logan. We sat in a cooed over gorgeous Logan, ate biscuits and sweets and watched Mama Mia which was fab :)

There is no update on the baby front boo, I’m trying not to let it get to me but I have to be patient, I’m not very good at being patient hehe!

We went to see Terminator on Saturday. It was very loud, I love going to the cinema and watching loud movies. It was fun but there is just something about Christian Bale, I don’t not like him I just don’t particularly like him. Tom thinks it’s because he can’t talk. He is either shouting or uses the stupid gruff voice. TALK MAN! He seems the same for most characters he plays. Apart from American Psycho, I have to say he was very good in that though saying someone is a good psycho may not be the best compliment hehe

I bought myself a new toy yesterday as well. A Sony Reader which I am loving. I have transferred a lot of my books from my laptop to it so now I can keep reading when I am on the bus or at dinner. It came with 100 classic books so I am going to work my way through that. I am going to read The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide, we call one of the people in work that so I am going to read the book!! It also has War and Peace and there is something in me that actually fancies reading that.

Still no job for Thomas which is a little worrying as he only has two weeks left at this one. He was an interview set up for 29th June so I am just going to keep my fingers crossed for that.

I also have to say that I love lolcats, it really cheers me to just sit and scroll through the pictures. I did that before typing this as Sunday evenings are the second most depressing time of the week, Monday morning being the first.

Well that is all for now so I shall sign off and decide what to watch tonight. Tomorrow is Monday and therefore the countdown to the weekend :) nothing planned for this week other than stinky boo work

Have a goodun folks xx

Waaaaaah it's monday again

Audity stresshead

AaAaarrrRrrRgGggGGggGhHhHhhhh STRESS!

We are being audited in work and apparently the powers that be aren't looking too happy so we're all scaring ourselves that it is going badly and we'll all be out of a job by Friday hehe!

As well as being audited we're having our computer systems updated so we keep getting kicked off the servers or our PCs keep freezing, its a pain in the arse.

Also in a shocking turn around clients are actually turning up for appointments. In the past three days I have had 10 clients booked in and 9 have turned up!

I am soooo tired due to weekend madness and soo much work. I also think I am coming down with something as my throat is hurty.

I am a moaner today haha

I had a look on lol cats as it is always good to make me smile. I chose this one in honour of our pants computers in work today :)

Beeeeautiful Baby and an update

So let’s have a little update then.

I have to post a few pics of the lovely Logan Alan Parsons Kelly (Skip hope you don’t mind, only you and Nich seem to read my blog anyway! Hehe)

He is absolutely gorgeous little one! I sat looking through the photos and started crying and couldn’t stop. Tears of joy for Skip and Al. I’ve been a little emotional today and it was just the release my mind seemed to need.

I am looking forward to when they are all settled in and ready for visitors. I need to go a squidge his knees. I love baby legs when they’re cute and squishy hehe

No news on out baby front. We’re onto cycle 7, let’s hope it is lucky for us :) This cycle is due to end as we’re off to NY so there are two options we have. The first half of the holiday I will be crampy though probably not miserable considering I am away hehe or we have to call out baby Brooklyn :)

I was considering packing a pg test but that is probably just asking for a negative result at the end of the cycle.

So New York is only two weeks and two ½ sleeps away!! I am sooo giddy but feel unprepared for it. I’m a planning freak and would normally have everything planned out or at least have some sort of idea of what we’re doing but I don’t! I keep thinking I will do it at the weekend but I won’t have time, I need to focus on it at some point preferably not Saturday before we fly on the Sunday hehe

So this weekend is going to be a busy one.

Tomorrow night I am doing a 9k walk around Liverpool docks. It starts at midnight!! I was excited about it when we signed up months ago but not so much now as the person who got us involved has backed out. Gayle and I are doing it and hoping that we can get it done in a respectable time and get home to bed hehe

The walk is to raise funds for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation who we have been supporting in the woolton office. We went a fashion show they organised in Debenhams last week and I really enjoyed it. If they do another one I am going to get a gang of girls together and make a night of it :)

Sunday we are throwing ourselves off the police HQ in town. I am actually really looking forward to this. I want to get some good snaps from the top of the building showing the city. This one is to raise money for Bradbury Fields who support blind and partially sighted people and also towards Red Balloon (I think?) who are settling up a school for children who have been bullied and in memory of Jamie Bulger.

I am hoping that I’m not too tired on Monday morning, someone has booked a client in for me at 9.15 waaaah that is too early to try and focus on a Monday!!

Work is quite depressing at the moment. I am still hoping for that lottery win though it is never going to come! Jo and I say in work the other day deciding what we were going to do with the money. Dreaming is good and hopefully one day it will come true!

So the random babbling means that it is probably time to sign off for now. Hopefully post middle of next week with some photos from the weekend.

Tatty byes for now blogfolks :)

PS I had to add one last photo as I love Logan's eyes and his face and his hair - oooh so cute and ooooooh so broody hehe

Just because it made me smile

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Logan Alan Parsons Kelly

I was so supposed to do a decent post but as I am having a really thick day I forgot. I will do a good update tomorrow but at least had to to a post to mark the day that Skip finally popped :)

Logan was born today weighing 9lb 15!!

Looking forward to lots of piccis!

Update tomorrow (or Wednesday!)
xxx

Update on nothing much

I have been meaning to post on my blog each day for a while. I keep thinking of things that I want to say but when I turn my laptop on I check the usual websites and then I start reading my eBooks.

I posted today as I wanted to add a picture of the daily dose I got today. Each morning I get these funny emails and they do brighten up my mornings. A lot of them are about work which makes me smile even more. I like to print them off and leave them on random peoples desks to spread the joy. The past ones are heeeeere. You can sign up to the daily emails to add a nice touch to your weekday mornings.



I wanted to blog this one as it is about writing. I want to read a lot more before I write and as I have either posted here or said in my head I aim to submit before I am 30. I like the way I lose myself in a book the first time I read it and then re-read it with a different view.

I also said that I wanted to be a Domestic Goddess by the time I am 30 as well. That is two good goals. I might go and look for one of those 30 things to do before you’re 30 lists see what I can tick off.

For the life of me I can’t remember what I was going to post about. I might find out how to blog from my mobile so that I can keep track of my thoughts as I go along.

Well for now I shall leave it at that and go and figure out what to cook my lovely hubbly for tea when he gets home, see a domestic goddess in the making hehe

The Children’s Tooth Fairy (Shillings Under the Pillow) Regulations 2009

Well I seem to spend a lot of time whinging about work lately so though I would say that I had a fun day today.

I started off in work actually going to concentrate until I got talked into going to town for a course and to spend the afternoon in the Liverpool office.

The course although at parts was quite interesting it was interesting for the wrong reasons. It was all about DNA testing, I thought I was going to learn about drugs testing and alcohol testing. It was a science lesson in reality and had feck all to do with family law apart from the last 2 minutes when he told us how fast they can get results if need be and tried to talk us all into using their company and not the one the is normally used.

There was a mild form of amusement by way of questions about contamination of samples by taking a mouth swab after naughtiness and about paternity on twins were there were two fertilised eggs and two dads as mum had been rather busy. It got us out the office and 2 CPD points at least :)

At least it got me into town were we just laughed so much about things that if I wrote here would not be funny. I think it is a case of you had to be there but our talks went from the cross contamination above, when Cadburys was founded. The best answer to that was well it had to be after Willy Wonka, hehe. It was so funny explaining that Willy Wonka wasn’t real.

There was also discussion of The Children’s Tooth fairy (Shilling Under the Pillow) Regulations 2009 and how the implementation of these regulations affected the Children Act 1989 giving special consideration to children in the care of the local authority. Although the regulations are rather genius to a legal geek someone had waaaaaaaay to much time on their hands. I might add it to this post of I can find them online. I love that they are signed off by Tinkerbell M.P :) and are only valid in England and Never Never land hehe

Due to the amusement of this afternoon I sadly got very little work done, whoops. I will get lots done tomorrow and even more on Thursday as I am on my own on Thursday as Jo is on holiday so think I will shut the door, but the phone on voicemail for a few hours and sit on the floor and go through my filing cabinet.

Ah bollards Chelsea have come back after half time like a new team and have scored two goals, grrr. Might turn over and watch All the small things, love this programme and I get to sing along.

Well tomorrow is half way through the week woohoo :)

TTFN

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Ahh due to the layout of the blog it was hard to read so I am linking someone else' blog with it. Clicky Click

Plenty of reading.

Aah so the end of the long weekend is upon us, how sad :(

I think I mentioned a few posts ago that I had bought the new Kelly Clarkson CD. I have to say I really, really like it. I have spent so much time singing and dancing away to it. Normally when I grab my MP3 player I click random play but I realised today that I set it up to play “All I ever wanted”.

I have also done lots of reading this weekend.

After having been led to H-I-A-T I was reading Anne McAllister’s blog and saw a post with a rather captivating picture of Sebastian Savas. It is nice to have an image in my head already rather than just drawing one up so I bought Savas’ Defiant Mistress which I really enjoyed. Great characters, fab story and I fell in love with harm, the dog.

I also found The Wanton Bride by Mary Brendan. I had been looking for it as after reading A Practical Mistress as I needed to know the story of Emily and Mark. I did enjoy APM more but it was a good read. This is a historical romance, I am expanding my romance reading hehe

Another book that I was waiting to be released was Blind-Date baby by Fiona Harper. This is one of a three book collection called blind date brides. The first book was nine-to-five bride by Jennie Adams which I enjoyed. The collection is about three woman who join a dating website and become online friends who help each other through the road of dating.

I want to keep reading good books rather than reading crappy statements and stupid senseless letters in work. I really need to pick myself up in work and not let it get to me. I will love work I will love work haha at least the boss isn’t in this week.

I was supposed to consider doing some tidying today I forgot and it is too late now hehe I have done some ironing though so that is actually some effort being made. I really have spent the weekend just reading and eating chocolate hehe

Right I am going to leave it at the as I want to update a few links so I can just log on here and navigate the internet much easier.

Hugh in a towel

I have spent the weekend quite excited about reading and writing. It is so nice to have a passion about reading again. I was forever reading as a child, I would read EVERYTHING! I think at times I drove my mother mad by constantly jabbering away reading anything close to hand and if there weren’t any books the back of a cereal box would do hehe.

I was ahead of my reading age and would devour books. I was constantly being encouraged by a teacher Miss Fozzard to let my imagination run riot and get ideas on paper. I remember crying when she left school. Before she left to called my mum into a meeting about me and asked if she could take some of my work with her.

I was trying to remember when my reading stopped. It certainly slowed right down as teenage years began and it seemed much better to rebel against everything and go a little crazy than read. Though I do have to admit that I did have some good friends and at times sitting on chaffers running fields drinking Mad Dog 20/20 was the best place in the word. I also have to chuckle when the police turned up one dark night and gang of teenagers started running around the track pretending we were all well behaved and there for a purpose of running haha

Ooh I have digressed somewhat haven’t I? Excited about my reignited love of reading to mad dog 20 20!

As well as reading books I have started to follow a number of blogs by some authors like. I have also been enjoying the threads on the M&B forum. I am very grateful for the blogs and the forums as I have been pointed towards Hugh Jackman in a towel.

I was talking to Tom yesterday about going to see Wolverine as it is the kind of film he likes and I can perve over Hugh. This picture has made me smile and will ensure that we go the cinema to see it. It has also made me add Swordfish to our dvd rental list.

Anne McAllister and Kate Walker may get me in trouble as I think I shall have to put this picture somewhere in my office for me and Jo to get distracted by when clients, files and work in general gets too much.

There was something else I was supposed to blog about today but for the life of me I can not remember. Time for a little bit more chocolate and looking at pictures of Hugh :)

Dancing, stripping and 9 years of romance :)

So time for a little update then.

Well I did it, the hair has gone!! Almost a foot of it gone and this week has been weird trying to get used to it but I am sure it’ll be all good soon.

Today is mine on Tom’s anniversary of being together for 9 years, that is reeeeeeally long :) We’re not doing anything because having two anniversaries is just greedy hehe We’ve spent the day buying nice things from the supermarket and stripping the bathroom.

We are so nearly there! It is taking sooo long as there are about 6 layers of paper and we have no idea what some of the paper is stuck on with. The steamer is fab though, and I got bored and had sore arms and started giving myself a mini facial with it. I think Tom saw that and realised he was tired and we gave up hehe

It’s been a good week this week. The weekend we went to the swan for a few drinkies for H’s birthday. It was nice to have a catch up with folks.

Monday went to a pub quiz with Nich, Jill and Jill’s friend Alex. It was fun and we came second which is good.

Last night we decided to go for Easter drinks. This was a good chance for us to go out and catch up with Gem and Renu. People were busy this weekend so we agreed to go for tea and have a couple of drinks in the restaurant and then go home.

The plan then evolved to eat and then grab a few cocktails and aim to be home for 9 – 9.30. When I got to work yesterday it had changed again to we’re going to get the last train home, this way we get to go and have a dance, yay dancing!

It’s funny how plans never work out that way as I stumbled through the door at 3.10, whoopsies!! It was such a fun night though all though my feet don’t quite agree with that. I couldn’t find my good work shoes yesterday morning, they need reheeling so I have put them somewhere to remind me to do it… well after running around like a loon I had to give up and put some new shiny shoes on that I hadn’t quite managed to break in yet so youch I have cut feet and the balls off my feet still hurt.

I hate hurting feet, I’m normally very good at breaking my shoes in so I can spend the night dancing away without things being too bad the morning after! I’ll have to get my thick bed socks out and wear the shoes more around the house.

Well I got quite excited this week as Mills & Boons now have a forum haha. It’ll be nice to chat to people who are hopeless romantics like myself and I’ve already got some great tips from published authors and there a specific section for people who are aspiring authors, it has given me a new spurt of encouragement for the book. It is a little odd talking with people thinking ooh I have a few of your books!

I have been thinking back to things that I loved when growing up in particular songs and films. I used to watch “Heathers” all the time and loved it so much, someone mentioned it this week so I have had to order it, I am rather giddy waiting for it to arrive. I hope it is as fun as I remembered. I was so in love with Christian Slater back then hehe

I’ve also got the urge to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer again. Part of me is rather tempted to buy the complete box set. I loved it to bits but kind of lost track of it when I no longer had the luxury of skyone. I have my sickness bonus coming to me in April as I think I have only been off sick for two half days so that should be good. I think I really might buy it! I love it for introducing me to the wonderful person that is Seth Green.

So this should be a nice relaxing weekend as four days off work, woooo. However I am working tomorrow, boooo. I have also agreed to make some cakes today. Hmm I should probably get a move on with that. I’m only doing crispie cakes with mini eggs on top so won’t take too long. Really wish I didn’t have to! At least I can eat all the left over cakes YAY haha.

The diet starts Tuesday!

o0o Skip have you have the baby yet?? Hehe. I’m betting Tuesday weight of 7lb 9. I’m rubbish at guessing games but it’s very exciting!!

CHOCOLATE MELTING TIME!!

Goodbye Hair?

Well I am going to the hairdressers today. I am thinking that a new doo will a great confidence boost and be a refreshing change. I spent so long growing my hair and now I want to chop it hehe, not too short mind as I don't want shorter hair than Thomas.

I am looking at getting somewhere between 6 - 9 inches chopped off, eeeek.

This is not an easy thing for me as I am a weird phobia of hairdressers due to the many many hack jobs I have had.

Vicki offered to chop 5 inches off yesterday so that I wouldn't chicken out, I wish she had done now as I have a fear that I will sit in the chair and the words "just a trim" will fall out of my mouth! I might write it down that I want a lot chopped and no matter what I say don't only give me a trim hehe

Well I guess I better go and get dressed and head into town to find something for H, what to buy I don't know. I am going to get stressed in town as I will need to rush about to get back for the stupid hair cut.

Is it just me or does the result show for Dancing with the Stars seem to draaaaaag? maybe its the adverts as well, long live BBC free of ads.

I might post pictures this afternoon :)

Meh

Cycle 6 booo period pains suck. Being a woman is crap at times.

Work is crap and I can't wait until next Tuesday when one boss goes on holiday and I can relaz mentally and actually concentrate on work hehe

So one day until the weekend time to relax then saturday head to the swan for some birthday drinkies for H. Ah feck just realised still not got a present!

RrrrRRRRrRRrRrrRRRrRRrRrRAaaAaaAAaaaAaAaAAAaAarrRRrrRRrRRrrRrrRRRrrRrrrRRrrRRrr

I wish

I wish that I could go to work and tell some people exactly what I thought of them without there being any consequences! Today wasn't actually that bad I just saw my clients and got on with my work as the boss was out.

I have to do some bills tomorrow and work really hard and just keep my head down. It is the end of the financial year which is such a hellish time so I am going to treat myself on Friday if I manage not to crack!! o0o I wonder what that can be!

Also need to think of what to get H for her birthday. I have no clue and my head is just frazzled I am hoping that inspiration hits at some point between the bills, clients and crap hehe

This weekend is also the end of cycle 5 and for some reason I am really nervous about it though there is not rational explanation. I think it is just the stress I have at the moment it just one more thing rather than a week were I keep making pg symptoms up heh

I've just cried at the thought that Leanne the wabbit had died in Corrie but phew she is OK! ANTM time to zone out.

I am hoping normal cheery self will be resumed on Friday at 5.15!

Feeling a bit sick.

I'm actually feeling a bit sick at the moment. As me and Tom were going to Tesco there was a crash at the end of the road. A double decker bus went straight into the back of a car that was turning into our road. There were two kids in the back of the car and the little girl was crying her eyes out along with her mum who was driving.

There was glass and bits of the car everywhere. We went over the help and everyone was fine. Mum was in utter shock which upset the children more than the actual crash. Thankfully it was a big car or I dread to think what would have happened.

I helped Dad call an ambulance / police and then played with the little boy whilst Dad looked after his daughter and mum went to get her friend who she was visiting.

I was fine and we left when everything was under control, went to tesco, came back and made lunch as I've just sat down and been hit with a horrible sick sensation. The noise was horrendous followed by the screams and crying from mum and the children but I know that they are all OK so I'm being silly!

I hate that road when having to turn into our road because you can't actually see that there is a right turn until you are right up to it and cars and buses are always right behind cars in front.

I think I will go in search of something sweet to settle me down! If I fail I can just sit and look at the pictures in my last thread!

mmmmmmm Ewan and Johnny

Well this weekend has been a repeat of most weekends, catching up on my TV. Getting a little stuck on Gossip Girl, it’s bad hehe

Grey’s Anatomy is good this week, I was sobbing hehe The I watched Private Practice which didn’t have me sobbing but introduced me to a fab song Jackie Greene - I Don't Live In A Dream from the comments I’m not the only one that heard it and went searching for it :)

Right now I need to confess to watching Hannah Montana, WTF? I went searching for something to watch and failed badly and for some reason stopped on Disney haha Good grief I need to get a life!!!

I’ve been doing a little more prep on the book getting my characters back story so I had a play on goggle looking for pictures that could be the male main character. I used to have a major thing for Ewan McGregor I may have to have a look at pictures of him inspiration haha

Hmmm why did I ever go off Ewan? Surely there is enough room in my life for Johnny and Ewan? mmmm Johnny



I should also mention that clearly Thomas is the most important man in my life hehe

Argh I just laughed out loud at Hannah Montana – maybe I am more tired that I first thought.

Well this weekend the clock go forward – I hate this weekend each year were we lose an hour of our lives and have to wait six months to get it back! It means 60 minutes closer to work! I was considering going in at 10 on Monday and pretending that I forgot hehe

Well I’m not sure I have anuything of interest to say so I am just going to pretend it’s past midnight and go to bed. I should grab a DVD and not be watching HM haha

(I had fnished typing this post about 20 minutes ago abut got lost looking at pictures of Ewan and Johnny to add to the post hehe)

Happy Flowers

26.03.09 - Flowers
Originally uploaded by digitalskittles

Well I have been complaining that work is rather depressing lately. Nich you're so nice for just listening to me whinge hehe

Today I got a gorgeous bouquet of flowers from a lady I did a divorce for. It really did cheer up my day. I love it when someone appreciates the help!

Only one more day and then it is the weekend! Now do I clean and iron or waste it away again and read and watch more TV?

I say waste I don't mean waste I mean have a mental health break haha

I am sleepy so I am going to watch ER and then go to bed and catch some zzZZzz

YaY The X Box returns!

Well Thomas is happy as his X Box came home today hooray. He was a right misery when he got home from work as he is fed up of going there and then spending his evening looking for something else. When we got in he had an email to say the x box had been delivered but we didn’t know the name and no note saying what house number.

We normally have one lovely neighbour who takes in all our crap but it wasn’t her so Tom sulked a little more and tried to find a number to call UPS. It turns out is was at number 6 haha. We only know Dad and sons name I can’t remember mum’s name. Tom calls her loud mouth and I call her psycho and they call me Jill hehe

As we found out it was next door they had just arrived home so Tom has set it up and actually managed to crack a smile.

I’m cooking the new whilst typing this and I am finding it hard to concentrate as the smell of garlic is just so yummy mmm the fact I can smell it means I should go and check it as it may well be cooked….

…mmm food…

All fed now and feeling good :) I love food, it is a wonderful thing. I wish I could eat whatever I wanted and be a size 10 and not have to pay for the food. Lots of fresh fruit for brekkie, tasty wraps for lunch and lots of splendid tastiness for tea followed by lots of CAKE and ice cream hehe

Now that was a bit of a tangent.

Don’t they say things come in threes? Three bad things 1, X obix broke, 2. lost wedding ring 3. Tom will have no job does that mean we are due to have three good things? We have had 2, 1. Wedding ring found (even though it was because of a murer attempt!) and 2 x box is back and all better. I only think that the third good thing is that we win the roll over tonight.

That would be super bliss! Go to work and hand in my notice, buy a nice house at Calderstones and then travel the planet, first class so Thomas has room for his legs! I have spent so much time lately wishing that we would win the lottery, it would be a very welcome means to an end, ah well fingers crossed for tonight!

Well I am watching Corrie, Tony is creepy, I wonder when his naughtiness will be discovered. It’s been going on for ages. I need closure on this now! Uuuurgh Ken is smooching it’s not good.

The Apprentice starts again tonight, I hope they have some good candidates this year. I rather than this programme but Sir Alan does scare me a little.

Ah well I don’t think I have anything else to say so I shall sign off :)

Sperm, Holby and a yay to ma twinner

Well I got in from work today after sitting there working hard but achieving nothing I hate days like that!! When I got in I decided to watch The Great Sperm Race that was on Channel 4 last night.

Well I sat there and my gob was smacked. I have read about how hard it is to get pregnant and know that it takes time but good grief watching that programme it is a wonder anyone gets pregnant!! Sperm getting attacked, getting lost down random tunnels and climbing ladders into the sky! It was fascinating but rather daunting.

At the end I did notice that there is a game of the programme on the channel 4 wesbite, I might go and have a little play later hehe

I am rather sleepy but it is only early yet so I can’t go to sleep. I might have a nosey at what albums I can buy.

I bought Kelly Clarkson’s new album on Sunday and have spent a couple of days dancing around to it, I think it is fab. I’ll have to learn the lyrics though and then deafen poor Tom with my singing.

I am sure that there was something else I wanted to talk about today but for the life of me I can’t remember. Ah well time to waste the next couple of hours watching rubbish telly and watch Holby (not the same now Sam has gone boohoo) and then Coleen’s real Women, I do like Coleen and I love playing the “How many time will she say yous” game hehe

Oh yes I remember now! Just wanted to say a little YAY for Katie who will hopefully get herself a spangly new place to live now that the man has finally called hehe I shall pack a case for a weekend at yours then in the summer hehe

Now to Holby. Hmm I don’t think they actually have any drool worthy men in this now, why of why do I watch it??

March Update

So time for an update, I did say on the 8th March I was going to blog later that day and never did.

Well that weekend was Skippy’s Baby Shower. After a couple of weeks of sorting between us it was a fun night, shame we didn’t get to play that bunny game (what was it Nich?) I was looking forward to shoving my face full of marshmallows hehe Games, nibbles, prezzies and CAKE mmm cake it was a lovely evening and was chilled.

Work is rubbish – it is all figures and bills and targets. I love my job but hate the fact I can’t just concentrate on doing the job and have to deal with all the stupid red tape! I would love to just quit at the moment but can’t afford too.

Tom has also been told he is being made redundant in June which is a blow. I am hoping that given his experience he will get a new job fairly easily, just need to keep an eye on the pennies. This also means no spending sprees in New York, boo hiss! I’m still going to Tiffany’s to buy something.

No news of baby front, I was a little nervous with the thought of job issues but what the hell there will always be a reason to possibly hold out. If parents on income support can do it we can, also there is no guarantee that this will be the month.

I’m getting a little excited about my book, I have my plot pretty much down now. I have written things in the past but very much in the narrative and dealing with conversation writing is strange. I find I am listening to more people talking to see what I can get for my book.

I’m also reading soooo much, it’s fab. I used to have a real passion for reading but it stopped for some reason. Adobe Reader is one of the best inventions ever I have a library of books without taking up space in the house.

I’m going to take my time writing this as I know that the chances of it going anywhere are slim to none but it is fun having a go. I am doing lots of research whilst writing and hopefully get a good enough manuscript by Christmas so I can submit it in January to a critique group. I am aiming to send it to a publisher by the time I am 30 hehe so plenty of time to fit my writing and re-writing before then.

Also lots of time for reading other peoples blogs, I am so fascinated by other peoples lives, maybe I should try getting one of my own hehe

Time to get a drink and avoid the temptation of eating the easter eggs we have for Tom’s family :)

o0o I really wanted to sign off, you know you love me xoxo – started watching Gossip Girl yesterday I think that I will lose next weekend to watching more episodes of it!

farrrrrk

As the title says faaaaarrrrrrrk, I have really painful cramps and feel ick, booo.

Cycle 5 begins today, double boo.

Will do a proper update later or tomorrow, going to curl up on teh sofa eating left over cake watching Queet Eye for the Straight Guy.

PAD Scavanger Hunt

I want to try adn complete the PAD scavanger hunt this month so I am writing down my ideas so I'm not getting to 30th March and panicing!

1. Red - Phone Box at Town Hall
2. Orange - Bouncy ball
3. Yellow - Super Lamb banan
4. Green -
5. Blue - My right eye
6. Indigo
7. Violet - Parma Violets
8. Pink - My Shoes
9. Black - My Sketchers
10. White
11. Rainbow - Skittles (teste the rainbow)
12. Monochrome (shades of just one colour)
13. Selective colouring
14. B&W
15. Sepia

ANy ideas for the rest much appreciated. Plus how do I do the selective colouring thing ??

Slobbage

So today I have had a wonderful slobby day to go with the rest of my weekend!!

I feel kind of bad as I was supposed to at least do some ironing but no I have sat and watched ten tonnes more Private Practice, I have watched 15 episodes haha. There are only 17 on the website! i am naughty and feel great for it.

I have also been playing with the new phone and the camera is going to be great and I should maybe have gone for a walk and played with it. I did leave the house at about 2.30 but only because I realised there wasn't any lunch type food.

So there about two hours until Thomas is due home and maybe I should use the last part of the day to do some of the things I was supposed to, or maybe I could just put my music on full blast and dance around the front room. I like the latter and the fact that larger than Life is playing by Backstreet Boys means I will probably just dance.

Aah everyone should have time to just sit and forget the world is actually going on around them, it was been wonderful for the soul.

Back to work tomorrow which is pants but at least when I get home I know I can have Pancakes om nom nom :)

also to add a note that Beth is pregnant, sooo happy for her. There really is something in the water lately with the number of pregnancies! A little bro or sis for gorgeous Blake will be fab.

Right time to daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaance :)



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Now playing: Vic Reeves - Dizzy
via FoxyTunes

31 out of 100

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?

Well 31 isn't brilliant but it is much better than 6 :)

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you love.
3) Star * those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total in the subject heading

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X+)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series (X+)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwel
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X+)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Romeo & Juliet - Shakespeare (X)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (X)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (X)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X+)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X) I really don't like this book
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 The Awakening – Kate Chopin
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X+)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (X)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (X)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X+)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold *
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (X)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (X)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (X)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (X)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X+)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Sunday night and I'm not feeling down!

Only because I have tomorrow off :)

I have spent the weekend baking cookies, reading books and watching Private Practice. I would be doing the latter right now except the site is down! I am most disappointed, I need to see how Cooper is hehe

Sitting and relaxing has done wonders for me and tomorrow is going to be wonderful. More PP and more reading. Thought I should possibly do a spot of ironing. I think I may fail at the ironing and just keep reading.

If I ever want to write that book I need to read a million before hand :)

I'm not sure I have mentioned my book on here before. granted only two people read this blog and Nich already knows haha i am going to write a romance. It always makes me laugh to say that but what can I say I am going to throw my hands up and say I love them.

It's a guilty pleasure I get downloading them to Adobe Reader (one the best inventions ever!) and just sitting and reading books.

In the run up to World Book Day there is a section on Guilty Reading Secrets and I voted fro Mills & Boons hehe The fact that there is a chance to win £100 book tokens is a bonus! Clicky here to have a go.

I did get some fresh air this weekend. There was the shop around Tesco which was quick and as such I ended up buying rubbish food, whoops.

I also popped out and got an upgrade on my phone yay. After two months of trying to pick a phone, i got it down to the Samsung Tocco and the Sony Erikson Csomething or other. I ended up with a Samsung Pixon. its really funky, I love it!

There ar some funky gadgets, I love the fact that if you are listening to the radio adn you don't know what the song is or any music on your phone in fact the phone listens to a bit and then searches for the song. i tried it today and it got the band, song title and album. i am so very easily impressed hehe

The camera is fab as well. 8 megapixel and I should find it easy enough to use as it is pretty much like the camera Tom bought being a samsung.

This means I have no excuses now when it comes to PAD. I love looking at other peoples photos. I LOVE this one by Safari Photogirl from the Hitched PAD group. I love looking at her shots. I also love tigers so this shot had to be a winner.

If only I could figure out how to get my emails to download to the damn thing it would be perfect, maybe I might have to read the manual (shudder)

Well this will do for now. An hour before I head upstairs and watch a DVD so i think I will start another book :)

Waaaah

I have terrible cramps today and I hate them. So cycle 4 has begun.

I am still hating work everyone is still stressing out and the partners are being fucktards. I really want to tell thm to stick their figures up their arses but I've not had that lottery win yet.

I am so sleepy and miserable tonight and not even ANTM is cheering me up pffft.

SOCKS!

hahaha I have the silly giggles now.

Today I am mostly full of snot and in need off professional help as I have to admit to downloading two songs by Miley Cyrus haha

I need to get a grip and shake myself!

I am in a funny place at the moment. I wasn’t going to obsess over the whole baby thing as in reality I wasn’t expecting Thomas to agree to babies until possibly this coming summer if then even.

Things in work are weird. I was so looking forward to the challenge of going to build up family in woolton, get out their and be a marketing whore but the atmosphere is horrible in all of the offices at the moment.

The partners keep having meetings and changing the goal posts for people. It is hard to know what is going on when it feels like the partners themselves have no idea what to do. They are blaming the credit crunch which is fair as we all know what it is like at the moment but looking at our figures we’re not actually too far behind and if people pull their socks up hitting target is quite doable.

Though the problem is no one has the motivation to pull their socks up. It is actually enough to try and find the motivation to get up and go to work at the moment. Each day there seems to be something new, no hot chocolate, no tissues, cancelling the water coolers daft little things which in the long run aren’t going to help at all. I mean how much can not buying hot chocolate actually save?

Everyone is getting itchy feet as well. With the constant moaning about figures and “motivational” speeches from the office manager which basically say “suck it up and be grateful you have a job” people are sticking two fingers up and saying stick your job yup your arse and looking else were. Despite what they want us to think there does appear to be jobs out there.

Renu has left us. I was really quite sad about that. I worked for her as a clerk for about 18 months or so and I don’t think I appreciated at the time that she gave me a lot more confidence in myself, something I have always seemed to lack. Even though she wasn’t my boss I would always pop into her room with my stupid questions that I can’t ask anyone else.

Her leaving do was great fun with the office manager and IT manager getting so horrendously drunk. IT manager threw up all over the table, it was vile! She later said I knew I was going to sick and didn’t think I would make it to the toilet so was just sick on the table. The office manager was then shouting everywhere she’s my best mate. If that was one of us we would have probably had a lecture about inappropriate behaviour haha.

So this week has been weird without Renu but she will do great in her new role.

Thursday Gemma told us that she was also leaving at the end of February. I feel kind of bad because we do spend a lot of time talking about how at times she can rub us all up the wrong way but we’ve been good friends. She is so funny with the crazy things she comes out with and I can see myself being a bit of a gibbering wreck at the end of her night out.

Ah well I am going to make sure that it is the best party the firm has seen.

So that takes me back to what I was actually going to say way up there. I really feel like I want a change but the timing is all wrong if I go about looking for a new job now I would have to put all the baby plans on hold and that is something that I am not prepared to do. It is just the thought that getting pregnant is not as easy as some of the stories and films would have you believe.

It also makes me hate most of our care clients who get pregnant at the drop of the hat, spends months and months in court having the child removed from them and going through the adoption process and then get pregnant again. This happens so so much. We have one care client who has been a client for 7 years, one fro 8 and one for 11 years! 21 different matters in her name.

My brain and fingers keep going off track which maybe is a good thing stops be focusing on how unbelievably broody I am. I really need something to occupy my mind.

I have spent time trying to find a hobby or distraction. The photo a day actually lasted three weeks so that is quite good haha I should start that again as it was fun but I just don’t have an eye for it, though it has made me look around me more and notice some of the lovely things that I miss simply walking from A to B without looking.

I then came up with the crazy idea of writing a book. It is nice to get my brain working something other than work and I have had loads of ideas but I have this stupid pessimistic voice in my head saying what is the point it is too hard to get published it will be a waste of time. Maybe that is just a realistic voice not a pessimistic one.

In any event I appear to be in a funk which is damned annoying. I decided a few years ago that I was no longer going to be a miserable oik and it has faired well. Life is so much easier when you let things slide by and simply smile but sometimes smiling take effort.

Good grief what do I sound like haha

The only way to get out of a funk is to get up and move so we’re off to the cinema tonight and then if Thomas is lucky I will him buy me a meal. Hopefully this weird mood will shift sharpish and normal service with be resumed.

Load of nonesense...

I went to a spiritulist woman tonight with girls from work and she told me I was pregnant, this is going to be the weirdest two week wait ever!!

I have neglected my little blog and will have to do a good update very soon. How am I supposed to write a book if I can't even keep a blog?? haha

Eggcellent

Just a small thing. For the first time in my 26 years on this planet I fried an egg hehe that is all :)

Happy New Year

So this year seems to have flown by! 2008 ended the same way as it started, with my wonderful friends save for a couple (damn that lurgy)!

It was a very eventful year and was most certainly the year for weddings! I order if I get this correct there was:

1. Karen and Craig - It was sooo funny with quiet Craig singing don't stop me now by queen on the mic :)
2. Gem and Paul - We had a lovely time and were sat on the best table obviously :)
3. Terri and Kevin - although I couldn't make it I was thinking of them. he pictures look lovely.
4. Caz and Craig - Loads of fun doing the conga and I smile every time Sweet Caroline is played.
5. ME AND TOM WOOHOO - more about us below :)
6. Jayne and Leon - I couldn't go as I was in Florida but by all accounts it was a lovely day.
7. Kelly and Paul - they flew off to the Dominican Republic and it looked so lovely.
8. Kirsty and Dwaynne - The do was at Aintree Racecourse and me and Carol had so much fun with the chocolate fountain heehee
9. Julie and Gary - faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous do better than Wayne and Colleen beeeeeeeautiful chuuuuuurch charted an amaaaaaaazing yaght. Julie is one of our partners who rubs everyone the wrong way but hey ho box ticked and to be fair she did look lovely on her day.
10. Darren and Kerry - Well this was a fun night although it seemed to turn into the works Christmas party as the bride and groom had vanished by 10.30 and most guests left by 11. Hey ho we had fun getting the DJ to play the music we wanted and then stealing his microphone :)

That is a lot of weddings for one girl. At teh moment there is only two weddings on the lst. May bank holiday one of the solicitors in work is getting married. The most important wedding though is Ellie and Jon. I am so excited. They are getting married in a castle and Jon wants to get dressed up as Henry VIII at the moment Ellie is saying no but here's hoping she changes her mind :)

Well Friday 30th May was the day I became Mrs Scholes and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Out of the works weddings and I can say that I was the most chilled out bride :) I'm not sure people believe me when I say I wasn't nervous, I was pacing at one point but that's because I was bored waiting for the flower girl hehe

It was a wonderful day filled with the people there that I wanted and it was nice to giggle and dance my way through the day. I still can't believe that it was 7 months ago!

Following that were the most amazing 2 weeks! I so need to win the lottery and go and live in Celebration Orlando Florida :) Orlando is just so amazing and soooo much fun I was almost crying when I had to pack my case to come home.

It got off to a bit of a wobbly start when our flight was delayed by 24 hours. Thank you to Nich and Joe who came to the hotel and gave me a hug when the lack of sleep and over tiredness hit me when the other passengers started shouting at the travel people. I walked out the hotel and burst into tears as i knew it wasn't their fault and that they shouldn't be told off. Thankfully I got a well needed hug of Nic and a trip to tesco and matalan :)

I am initially worried about Tom in the heat as he's not normally very good with it but Florida heat is so different to UK heat. As long as we kept well hydrated it was manageable :) I even came home with a tan woohoo! Well I say tan, I was still whiter than everyone in work but I wasn't as white as the milk in the fridge :)

I have three fabulous albums of the wedding and honeymoon which I love to just look at when I am bored.

So after that was over I was left with time on my hands as i had spent four years studying and then when I passed my exams I was planning the wedding. I wanted to go to uni for my degree but work said no. I was initially gutted and was looking at paying for it myself and studying at home but now I have a new work project.

I will now be based in our Woolton office. With this credit crunch malarkey all firms are suffering so the plan is over the next 12 months get out there and get marketing and build it up. It is going to be so much fun. I am now being treated as I should be as I have now qualified (that is still so scary!) but the challenge is there and there is a great team of people there.

Two girls in work had their babies this year and they are gorgeous, so so broody :) Skippy and Alan will also be parents in April - cue even more broodiness. Fingers crossed that we can share some good news on the baby front some time in 2009.

I know that 2008 has been brilliant for me and there have been awfully sad times and times that made me worry. I initially wasn't going to put them in my blog but I twink writing and remembering the sad times make you appreciate life and how lucky I really am.

The start of the year I was really worried for my mum. My mum has always been a member of the walking wounded and I'm not sure I've known a time when she wasn't ill with one thing or another. I love my mum to bits but at times it was very trying but for the first time ever I was actually scared for her as they found tumours in her gullet and around her stomach. Thankfully there is nothing to worry about at the moment but she has to go the hospital regularly to get them checked.

I know of two people this year who have lost new born babies. I could never imagine how people would cope with that feeling. A girl from hitched also lost her baby this year and her beautiful words say it all "most people can only dream of angels, I have held one in my arms".

My friend Jo also went through a terrible miscarriage. A miscarriage must be hard to deal with and my heart went out to her for what she had to deal with afterwards.

If this year has taught me anything it is that life is too short and I need to make the most of it really. There is the sensible part of my head that says that obviously I need to make sure that we have money to live and so on but I can't let things hold me back. This year I am going to be confident in myself and not let my nerves hold me back. With that in mind all this credit crunch on the news is something that needs to be kept in mind but not to be used as an excuse not to do things.

I'm not making sensible resolutions this year as there isn't any real point all this diet nonsense if i want to eat well then i will if not I will eat 6 bags of crisps in a day (mmm I want crisps) so my New years Resolutions are as follows:

1. Find a match for the odd socks or just throw them in the bin!
2. Sell all the jumble in the spare room or take it to a charity shop
3. Go to New York and eat a pretzel mmmm pretzel
4. Work hard in work
5. Play hard at home

2009 is going to be a year of fun and realising that growing up isn't actually that scary :)

A very happy, healthy and wonderful 2009 to everyone :)