Long Time.......

Wow I haven't wrote anything on here since the first and now it's the 20th.
I have had a busy month so far and have been ill twice now. I am still getting over the second illness but I am sure that I will be back to myself again this time next week if not sooner.

I have been doing so much and I have so much coming up that I don't think I have enough time to go into it all right now.

First of all I have been spending the last few weeks decorating the house. I really love decorating but I have taken on such a big job and I want to have it all finish this time next week.
To have it all finished this time next week is going to be a push as I have so much left to do but I am going to work as hard as I can with hope that it is finished by Wednesday next week.

I am really enjoying the decorating, it is very therapeutic and great for the mind as it gives me a chance to think and I also find it very relaxing, it's great. I get lost in my own little world everytime that I paint and I never get bored painting, in fact I find that time flys by whilst I am painting.

So I won't be able to write much in my blog over the next week and beyond that.

Next Friday James is coming down to visit me and I really can't wait. I have been looking forward to it for ages now and next Friday can't come any sooner as far as I am concerned.

He'll be here at about 1pm next Friday after his journey down from Scotland and then we will be bringing his stuff back to here before we go and visit my mum as he's going to meet her before he meets all the family on the Saturday.

On Saturday the 30th October we will be going over to Clayton Le Moor's and will be staying here: http://www.maplelodgehotel.co.uk/
Then on the Saturday nite we will be going down to my step Dad's 60th Birthday party which is 5 minutes away from Maple Lodge. I am really looking forward to the party as I will be seeing people that I haven't seen for a long time. I will also be meeting members of my family that I have never met before. There is about 100 people coming and I think I know 20 of them.

I'll tell you who I know who is definitely coming to the party.
I will know:
My mum, My step Dad, My Dad, my brother Barry, My brother Duncan, Shellie who is Barry's long term partner, Barry's and Shellie's children who are Katie and Marc, Shirley who is my mum's best friend, Mark Hill who is Shirley's boyfriend, Lauren who is Shirley's and Mark's daughter, Dill who is one of the artist's who is booked to sing and play guitar at the party and who I have known since I was about 7, Tracey who is my stp sister, Norma who is my step Dad's ex wife. I think that's all that I know. If there are anymore that I know then I can't remember them right now. I know some others that have been invited but haven't said whether or not they are coming or not.
It should be a fun night as they are having karekoe as well.

Then on the Sunday me and James will be staying in another hotel, I don't know which one it is as James hasn't told me yet as he wants it to be a surprise so I will have to wait and see.

Then on the Monday (which is my 22nd birthday) I will be going to another hotel till Friday. James hasn't told me where I am going on the Monday but he said that it isn't in Lancashire and it is a city north of Birmingham. I am guessing that it is Manchester as I love Manchester. I use to live in the Manchester area for about 7 years of my life so it'll be great to go to Manchester. I really love it there. I am just said that I won't be able to go shopping as I don't have any money :O( so I am going to be a little sad about that. I don't know what he has got planned for us to do when we get where ever we are going but just as long as he has things planned I will be very happy. Just as long as we are not doing what I hate with a vengeance then I will be more than happy. What I hate with a vengeance is walking round shops for hours and not buy anything. I really hate that. I don't mind window shopping but I can not stand walking round all day in shops and nothing getting bought because I hate that and it drives me mad.
Manchester is a cool place and I hadn't been into the city for a long time till last summer when I went to UMIST for my Summer School. UMIST is right in the centre on Manchester and it's only two minutes walk until you are in the centre and I managed to go in to the centre of Manchester on the last morning of Summer School and I was mesmerized by the size of it all. It's fantastic and it's so close to where I live as well. When I went down to Summer School with my Dad it took us 35 minutes to get there which was fantastic. And the trafford centre is about 25 minutes away from me yet I have only been there once and I went into the entertainment building that time but I am hoping to go to the main trafford centre this time if I am going but just as long as we are not walking aroung for hours buying nothing.

We are away till the Friday and then coming back home. James might be going back up to Scotland then which I am not very happy about as he told me that he wanted to stay up until the day he had to go back to work on the Monday so that meant he was going to go back on the Sunday. I even managed to find him a cheap train ticket for the Sunday but he has changed his mind about staying and that has upset me a little as I was hoping that we could go and see a firework display on the Friday night as it'll be bonfire night. He said he might stay and that we will have to see but I know what he is like and that he will probably go home on the Friday.

So I am looking forward to all of that and I can't wait for James to come down here but up until then I will be very busy decorating the house. In fact I am now off to go and strip the paper off my ceiling so that it can be painted.

Got back late Saturday night

As you know I went to Scotland early Friday morning on the 24th September. I will tell you all about that another time when I can be bothod to go into it all.
I finally got off the train in Preston at 8:30pm on Saturday night and I was so glad to get off that train as it was a journey and a half.
I was so shaky from the experience that I was more than happy to be stepping off the train.
I then had to stand around waiting for my dad to arrive for about 15 minutes but I was glad of the fresh air outside.
My dad pulled up with Lucky sat beside him in the front seat and I thought that was so cute.
Then I had to go to Blackburn from Preston in the car which seemed to take forever but I think only took 20 minutes but as I had been sat still for nearly 3 hours that extra 20 minutes seemed like a life time.
When I finally arrived home just after 9pm I was more than ready for bed but I didn't want to go to bed. So I made myself something to eat and I sat down to watch some TV but I just couldn't concentrate. I think that I finally gave up at trying to concentrate at about 11pm and went to bed.
I was still awake at midnight because I wasn't feeling too well and I had lots going through my mind. I think I finally managed to fall asleep about 1am and I slept till lunch time the next day but I was still extremely tired when I woke up.